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Enderman mob in Minecraft

The Enderman is the tall black mob that wanders the Overworld at night, the Nether and above all the End. It leaves you alone until you look at its head or hit it. Then it screams, teleports next to you and hits hard. It is also the only regular source of Ender Pearls, which you need to reach the End.

Health: 4020 hearts
Behavior: Neutral
Main drop: Ender Pearl
Found in: 62 biomes

Enderman stats

Health: 40 20 hearts
Behavior: Neutral
Main drop: Ender Pearl
Spawns in: 62 biomes
Size: 0.6 × 2.9 blocks
XP when killed: 5
Speed: 0.3
Detection range: 64 blocks

// Experience drops only when a player kills it. Speeds are the game’s internal values, not blocks per second.

How much damage Enderman deals

Damage to a player without armor, by world difficulty. 1 ♥ = 2 damage points.

Melee attack

Peaceful00 ♥

Easy4.52.25 ♥

Normal73.5 ♥

Hard10.55.25 ♥

// Armor, Protection and Resistance reduce these values. Base values read from the game code (26.3).

Where to find Enderman

Biomes where it spawns naturally, with its share of the spawns in each group.

All 62 biomes

Spawning

Group size: 1 to 41 to 4 · depends on the biome
Light level: Overworld: Block light 0and light 7 or less overallThe End: Block light 0Nether: Light 7 or less

Enderman drops

Enderman dropsFrom the loot table · chance per kill

Ender Pearl+1 per Looting level0–1

Carried items and gearDropped on death, outside the loot table (game code)

The block it is carryingDropped as if mined with Silk Touch100%

Health compared

Health vs other neutral mobshealth points

Iron Golem100

Enderman40

Llama15–30

Polar Bear30

Trader Llama15–30

Drowned20

Panda20

What you can do with Enderman

Items to use on it and what happens.

Look safelyCarved PumpkinWear a Carved Pumpkin and you can look at it without making it angry.

Advancements with Enderman

Advancements whose criteria involve this mob, from the game files.

Monster HunterKill any hostile monster Monsters HuntedKill one of every hostile monster

Command

Summon an Enderman/summon →

/summon minecraft:enderman ~ ~ ~

Why an Enderman attacks

An Enderman turns hostile in two cases: you attack it, or you look straight at its upper body from some distance. Glancing at its legs is safe. Once angry, it trembles, makes a loud noise and teleports toward you.

Wearing a carved pumpkin on your head stops your gaze from provoking it. This is the standard trick in the End, where dozens of Endermen stand around the island.

How to fight one safely

Stand under a low roof. An Enderman is about three blocks tall and cannot follow you into a two-block-high space. Dig in, then hit its legs.
Use water. Water hurts Endermen, rain included. Standing in water or pouring a water bucket at your feet makes it teleport away.
Forget the bow. Endermen teleport away from arrows and most other projectiles. Fight in melee.
Keep an eye on your blocks. Endermen pick up some natural blocks such as grass, dirt, sand, flowers or melons, and drop them somewhere else.

Ender Pearls and the Eye of Ender

An Enderman can drop an Ender Pearl, and Looting raises the number. Throw a pearl to teleport where it lands, at the cost of a little damage. Combined with blaze powder, it becomes an Eye of Ender, which leads you to the stronghold and activates the End portal.

Endermen are by far most common in the End, which makes it the best place to farm pearls once the dragon is beaten. In the Overworld, they are rare but present in almost every biome at night.