Endermite

An endermite is the smallest hostile mob. An endermite may spawn when a player throws an ender pearl. They attack by biting the player. Endermen are hostile toward endermites.

Spawning[]

Endermites have a 5% chance to spawn when a player-thrown ender pearl lands. They spawn at the player's original position when the pearl lands‌^{[Java Edition only]}, or at the pearl's landing site‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}.

An endermite despawns within 2 minutes, regardless of the player's distance, except for when it has been named with a name tag.

Drops[]

Endermites drop 3 experience orbs when killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Behavior[]

Endermites attack players within 16 blocks and become hostile toward any mob if it attacks an endermite.

Endermen attack an endermite within 64 blocks.

Endermites attack iron golems and endermen in Bedrock Edition.

As arthropods, endermites are affected by the Bane of Arthropods enchantment.

Endermites are suffocated by the soul sand when stepped on.

Sounds[]

Java Edition:
Endermites use the Hostile Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Endermite scuttles	Hostile Creatures	Randomly	entity.endermite.ambient	subtitles.entity.endermite.ambient	1.0	0.8-1.2	16
	Endermite dies	Hostile Creatures	When an endermite dies	entity.endermite.death	subtitles.entity.endermite.death	1.0	0.8-1.2	16
	Endermite hurts	Hostile Creatures	When an endermite is damaged	entity.endermite.hurt	subtitles.entity.endermite.hurt	1.0	0.8-1.2	16
	Footsteps	Hostile Creatures	Unused sound event[sound 1]	entity.endermite.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Hostile Creatures	Randomly	mob.endermite.say	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Hostile Creatures	When an endermite dies	mob.endermite.kill	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Hostile Creatures	When an endermite is damaged	mob.endermite.hit	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Hostile Creatures	While an endermite is walking	mob.endermite.step	0.15	1.0

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Entity tags (JE)	Translation key
Endermite	endermite	powder_snow_walkable_mobs	entity.minecraft.endermite

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Endermite	endermite	55	entity.endermite.name

Entity data[]

Endermites have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Advancements[]

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	Monster Hunter	Kill any hostile monster	Adventure	Kill one of these 34 mobs: Blaze Cave Spider Creaking Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Only the riders of the chicken jockeys and skeleton horsemen are counted in this advancement. Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.	adventure/kill_a_mob
	It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Monster Hunter	Kill one of these 70 mobs near a sculk catalyst: Axolotl Bee Blaze Camel Cat Cave Spider Chicken Chicken Jockey Cod Cow Creeper Donkey Dolphin Drowned Elder Guardian Enderman Endermite Evoker Fox Frog Ghast Goat Glow Squid Guardian Hoglin Horse Husk Llama Magma Cube Mooshroom Ocelot Panda Parrot Phantom Pig Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Polar Bear Pufferfish Rabbit Ravager Salmon Sheep Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Skeleton Horse Skeleton Horseman Slime Sniffer Stray Spider Spider Jockey Squid Strider Trader Llama Tropical Fish Turtle Vex Vindicator Warden Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Wolf Zoglin Zombie Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Mobs that drop no experience are ignored for this advancement.	adventure/kill_mob_near_sculk_catalyst
	Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Monster Hunter	Kill each of these 36 mobs: Blaze Bogged Breeze Cave Spider Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement. Only the riders of the chicken jockeys and skeleton horsemen are counted in this advancement.	adventure/kill_all_mobs

History[]

Java Edition
1.8		14w11a			Added endermites.
					Endermen are hostile to endermites.
					Endermites have a 15% chance of spawning when an enderman teleports (with that chance decreasing by 1 percentage point per endermite spawn) and a 5% chance to spawn when a player uses an ender pearl.
					Endermites have a texture of a purple silverfish.
		14w11b			Endermites no longer despawn when named with a name tag.
		14w17a			Endermites now have a unique model.
					Endermen are no longer hostile to non-pearl-spawned endermites.
		14w28a			Endermites no longer spawn from endermen.
1.11		16w32a			The endermite's entity ID has been changed from Endermite to endermite.
1.15		Pre-Release 3			Endermites no longer suffocate in soul sand.
1.17		20w46a			Endermen are now again hostile to non-pearl-spawned endermites.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.1			Added endermites.
Legacy Console Edition
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		Added endermites.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.7.10					Added endermites.

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Endermite" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

See also[]

• Silverfish
• The End
• Enderman
• Ender pearl
• Spawn Egg

References[]