How To Make A Mutant Enderman In Minecraft

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An enderman is a neutral mob constitute in all three dimensions. Endermen can teleport and pick upwards blocks.

Spawning [ ]

Endermen can spawn on any solid surface that has at least three empty spaces above, at the low-cal level of 0 in the Overworld and the Finish, or a light level of eleven or less in the Nether. They are the merely mob that spawns in all 3 dimensions.

Overworld [ ]

Endermen spawn exceptionally in the Overworld, in all biomes except mushroom fields and deep night. They often spawn in groups of two, and rarely in groups of three.

Nether [ ]

Endermen spawn rarely in soul sand valleys, uncommonly in nether wastes and most commonly in warped forests.

End [ ]

Endermen spawn commonly in groups of up to four, anywhere in the End dimension.

Drops [ ]

Endermen driblet:

0–1 ender pearl . The maximum is increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 0-4 with Annexation Three.‌^{[ Java Edition only ]} / 0-1 without looting or nothing with annexation ‌^{[ Bedrock Edition only ]} ^[1]
five when killed past a actor or a tamed wolf.
Whatever block being held (see § Moving blocks for more information)

Beliefs [ ]

An enderman can be provoked by a player or other mob attacking them. They tin can also be provoked by a player looking them in the optics from up to 64 blocks then looking abroad. Endermen open their mouths and begin to shake‌^{[ Java Edition only ]} angrily if provoked; they besides make loud and lengthy sounds while being stared at. If the player continues to maintain eye contact, the enderman does not motility, although it may teleport away. Once the role player stops looking at the enderman, information technology runs toward the back of the player to attack, although it ceases if striking by another player or mob.^[2] An aggravated enderman runs fast and often teleports to the location of a actor or mob up to 32 blocks away (orthogonally). Endermen are not provoked by a histrion viewing it through a transparent block or while wearing a carved pumpkin.

An aggravated enderman pursues the player until it is either killed or distracted by external elements, such equally pelting or fire. They do not take damage from sunlight like undead mobs, but teleport randomly around until finding a dark spot if not already pursuing a histrion. During rain or daybreak, they teleport away to underground locations, such as caves.

Endermen tin can be harmed by melee attacks, water, lava, fire, splash water bottles, or pelting. They are not damaged when standing in a filled cauldron‌^{[ Java Edition simply ]}. Endermen teleport abroad when they take damage from any of natural sources (1 ), continuing to practice and so until they find a dry location. They also teleport while taking damage from other sources, such equally suffocation, poisonous substance, or wither.

Ranged attacks are ineffective against endermen, as they teleport when hit by a projectile instead of taking damage. Arrows‌^{[ Java Edition only ]} and tridents appear to bounciness off an enderman who is unable to teleport. In Boulder Edition, arrows get straight through endermen that are unable to teleport (but the event still goes through if it's a tipped arrow).^{[ needs in-game testing ]}.

Endermen can step up i full block without having to jump.

Endermen are hostile to endermites inside 64 blocks but are passive with other mobs unless provoked.

An enderman in a histrion'south vicinity prevents the player from sleeping in a bed at night as if whatsoever hostile mob were nearby. If the player is already asleep in a bed, it is possible for an enderman to teleport on it and wake players.

The endermen's aggression range for being looked at is reduced when the player is sneaking, or under the Invisibility result depending on the number of armor pieces currently worn. The detection range in blocks for invisible players is shown in the following table:

Detection range for invisible players
Number of Armor Pieces	Sneaking	Normal
0	3	4
1	8	11
2	17	22
3	26	33
4	35	44

Teleportation [ ]

Endermen do not teleport in the daytime if on soul sand unless they are damaged.

They play a sound exclusively at the teleportation destination.^[3]

Each teleportation attempt chooses a random destination 32 blocks forth each axis (i.e. a 64×64×64 cube centered on the electric current position). It then seeks downward from the called destination until the block below is fabricated of a motility-blocking cloth. Exceptions be such as carpet that is not higher up a block fabricated of a movement-blocking material, lily pads, and snow layers stacked x blocks deep or more every bit their materials are not flagged equally blocking move even though the blocks themselves do. The teleportation attempt succeeds if no liquid or solid blocks prevent them from standing at the destination. Thus, endermen demand at least three non-solid blocks above the destination to successfully teleport. Endermen practice non teleport to waterlogged blocks unless there is a ceiling with a liquid above it.^[four]

Endermen always effort to teleport upon taking damage. Nigh melee attacks are successful, merely the enderman ordinarily teleports a few blocks behind the role player when hit, if at that place is infinite behind the player. Endermen can be attacked with projectiles if they are in a boat or minecart.‌^{[ Coffee Edition only ]} If all bachelor blocks within teleport altitude are removed or unavailable as a destination, it is possible to striking endermen in Java Edition with a projectile, although arrows may but bounce off, dealing no damage.^[5] When teleporting due to damage, it makes 64 attempts to teleport.

In Coffee Edition, an enderman cannot teleport while it is in a minecart or gunkhole, although in pelting and water it attempts to practise and so, e'er teleporting back repeatedly until death. This does not occur in Bedrock Edition.^[6]

Moving blocks [ ]

Unlike any other mobs, which cannot concur blocks except equally items, endermen have a unique ability to pick up, comport and set downward certain blocks. They silently^[7] pick up blocks in a iv×iii×4 (xyz) region horizontally centered on the enderman and vertically encompassing it. An enderman cannot choice up blocks in a completely flat expanse. Endermen drop the block they are holding upon death as an item, although they exercise not visually let become of the block when dying.^[8] ^[9] It does not despawn while holding a block. Endermen cannot place blocks onto bedrock or entities.

Endermen pick up the post-obit blocks:

Cactus
Clay
Fibroid Dirt
Rooted Dirt
Dirt
Flowers (brusque)
Fungi
Roots
Grass Block
Gravel
Melon
Moss Cake
Mud
Mushrooms
Mycelium
Nylium
Podzol
Pumpkins
Cherry-red Sand
Sand
TNT

Data packs from Java Edition can modify this list by modifying the minecraft:enderman_holdable cake tag.

Bedrock Edition behavior packs tin not change these as the list is hard-coded behind the minecraft:behavior.enderman_take_block method.

While carrying a block, the enderman sometimes silently^[10] identify information technology in a 2×2×2 region horizontally centered on the enderman and vertically at the same level every bit the enderman itself if the target location is air with a non-air block beneath and the cake is immune to be placed at the target location.

Endermen tin randomly breach walls, bridge fences, pause redstone circuitry, set off explosions and impale themselves if they place a block of TNT on a ability source and fifty-fifty construct golems by removing or placing blocks.

Endermen can selection up blocks even when angry.

In Coffee Edition, users can summon an enderman holding any block (including the ones not listed higher up) using the carriedBlockState NBT data. For example, to summon an enderman holding a grass block with no AI where the histrion is standing:

/summon minecraft:enderman ~ ~ ~ {NoAI:1,carriedBlockState:{Name:"grass_block"}}

Sounds [ ]

Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation cardinal	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation altitude
Enderman vwoops	Hostile Creatures	Idling	`entity.enderman.ambient`	`subtitles.entity.enderman.ambience`	?	?	xvi
Enderman dies	Hostile Creatures	Dying	`entity.enderman.expiry`	`subtitles.entity.enderman.death`	?	?	sixteen
Enderman hurts	Hostile Creatures	Getting Hit	`entity.enderman.hurt`	`subtitles.entity.enderman.hurt`	?	?	16
Enderman cries out	Hostile Creatures	Staring	`entity.enderman.stare`	`subtitles.entity.enderman.stare`	?	?	?
Enderman screams^{[sound ane]}	Hostile Creatures	Screaming after beingness looked in middle or attacked.	`entity.enderman.scream`	`subtitles.entity.enderman.ambience^{[audio 1]}`	?	?	16
Enderman teleports	Hostile Creatures	Teleporting	`entity.enderman.teleport`	`subtitles.entity.enderman.teleport`	?	?	16

↑ ^a ^b MC-177523

Data values [ ]

ID [ ]

Java Edition:

Proper name	Identifier	Translation fundamental
Enderman	`enderman`	`entity.minecraft.enderman`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Enderman	`enderman`	`38`	`entity.enderman.proper noun`

Entity information [ ]

Endermen take entity information associated with them that contains various properties.

Java Edition:

Entity data
- carriedBlockState: Optional. The block carried past the enderman.
  - Proper noun: The resource location of the block.
  - Properties: Optional. The cake states of the block.
    - Name : The block state proper noun and its value.

Boulder Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements [ ]

Icon		Accomplishment	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
PS4	Other platforms	Accomplishment	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
		Monster Hunter	Set on and impale a monster.	Kill a hostile mob or one of the post-obit neutral mobs: an enderman, a piglin, a zombified piglin, a spider, or a cavern spider.	15G	Bronze

Advancements [ ]

Advocacy	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
Chance	Adventure, exploration, and combat	—	Impale any entity, or be killed past any entity.	`chance/root`
Monster Hunter	Kill whatsoever hostile monster	Hazard	Kill 1 of these 34 mobs: Bonfire Cavern Spider Creeper Drowned Elderberry 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, if whatsoever, may exist killed, but are ignored for this advancement. Only the riders of the craven jockey due south and skeleton horsemen are counted in this advancement.	`hazard/kill_a_mob`
Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Monster Hunter	Kill each of these 34 mobs: Blaze Cavern 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, if any, may exist killed, but are ignored for this advancement. Simply the riders of the craven jockey s and skeleton horsemen are counted in this advancement.	`adventure/kill_all_mobs`

Video [ ]

History [ ]

Java Edition Beta
?					Sometime on or before July, 26 2011, Notch posts an image on his Google+ account showing planned "creepy mobs." 2 tin can exist seen holding a grass block and a sand block with their arms far outstrached. ^[eleven]
July 28, 2011					Notch described that endermen would be peaceful, unless you looked straight at them, and then they would rush in to attack whenever yous broke the gaze.^[12] ^[thirteen] ^[14] ^[15]
July 29, 2011					At start, when Notch was still designing the endermen, he thought they were non "creepy" enough, coming with the thought that having a situation that the player would want to avoid could make the enderman significantly more than scary. This gave Notch the thought to implement the staring feature, where aiming the crosshair at the enderman's face would cause a suspenseful moment in which breaking center contact would trigger an attack, as well as the enderman having the ability to teleport then that when the player has stared at the enderman, they would have to face up a issue for that action.
Baronial 26, 2011					In the Beta one.8 demo at PAX, endermen dropped diamonds as a placeholder for ender pearls.
1.8		Pre-release			The enderman has been officially introduced.
					Endermen are able to pick upwardly any full block, including bedrock and spawners. The angle of their arms have besides been lowered when holding a block.
					Endermen have green eyes and emit black smoke. They likewise have zombie sounds as a placeholder.
		Pre-release 2 ;)			The enderman centre color has been inverse from green to purple.
					Endermen now emit portal particles, rather than smoke.
					Endermen no longer pick upwardly unobtainable blocks including bedrock, double slabs, and spawners and likewise no longer pick upwards blocks with inventories including chests, dispensers, and furnaces but can still choice up any other full block.
		September twenty, 2011			Notch indicated the block carrying was horrible and needed to be nerfed.
Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.nine Prerelease			Earlier this update, endermen could be killed with the employ of a bow. Now, arrows, snowballs, eggs and other ranged attacks exercise not hit them due to the fact that they teleport away before impact.
					Enderman now teleport away and go neutral if they are in h2o.
					Endermen no longer pick up any cake; they are limited to certain blocks.
		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3			Notch stated "Endermen suck because they're annoying, and because I nerfed them and made them too easy. I shall set up this."^[16] Because of this, endermen have been modified in this update to have 20 hearts instead of 10.
		Beta one.ix Prerelease four			Endermen at present take a realm of their own: the End, where they spawn frequently.
		Beta one.ix Prerelease four			Endermen used to fire in sunlight, but equally of this update, they instead randomly teleport around until they find a night spot or despawn somewhen. This makes it extremely hard to get shut enough to kill them during daytime.
		RC1			Earlier the Audio Update, endermen used the sound furnishings of zombies equally a placeholder. And then, in Beta 1.nine, the zombie sounds for the enderman were removed. On Nov 13th, 2011 endermen received their own audio scheme, most notably a long moan overlaid with static for when they are triggered hostile past the player.
1.3.i		12w22a			The enderman's behavior has been modified slightly. At present, the enderman stops in front of the player. When the thespian swings their sword, the enderman now teleports behind the player.
1.3.i		12w22a			Enderman at present stalk the thespian when aggravated.
1.four.2		12w38a			The Enderman's sound now plays the full length sounds instead of shortened, at present if the player looks at them (or they open their jaw), a static sound plays, similar to Slenderman.
1.7.ii		1.7-pre			Endermen are no longer provoked when attacked by the histrion in creative mode.
1.viii		14w06a			Endermen now pathfind as a result of their update to the new AI organisation.
		14w06a			Endermen at present teleport subsequently being damaged by any impairment source, including suffocation harm.
		14w11a			Endermen now walk slightly faster.
					Endermen now spawn endermites when they teleport. The gamble of producing one is 15%, minus 1% for each endermite already spawned. This was reverted in 14w28a.
					Endermen are naturally aggressive toward endermites.
		14w17a			Endermen are no longer hostile to non-pearl spawned endermites.
		14w28a			Endermites are no longer spawned from endermen.
one.9		15w31a			Endermen now remain aggravated toward the player despite existence in contact with water.
					Endermen now driblet the cake they are property when killed.
					Endermen now have an animation when attacking.
1.10		16w20a			Endermen at present spawn in the Nether.
1.10		16w20a			Endermen now selection upwardly netherrack.
one.11		16w32a			The entity ID has been changed from `Enderman` to `enderman`.
one.11		16w35a			Endermen are now dealt ane harm by splash h2o bottles.
1.sixteen		20w06a			The sounds of endermen are now heard at a shorter range.
		20w06a			Endermen now spawn in soul sand valleys and warped forests.
		20w07a			Endermen at present pick up nylium, roots, and fungi variants.
		20w07a			Endermen no longer pick up netherrack.
		20w18a			Endermen forbid other endermen from spawning nearby in warped forests.
		20w22a			Endermen no longer despawn when belongings a block.^[17]
ane.xvi.2		Pre-release 1			Endermen no longer place their held blocks onto bedrock blocks.
		Pre-release ii			Endermen no longer place their held blocks on entities.
		Pre-release ii			Endermen no longer save cactus' `historic period` value when picking it up, instead it'south always set to 0.
one.17		20w46a			Endermen are now hostile toward all endermites, instead of just the ones spawned from ender pearls.
		21w13a			Endermen now pick up rooted dirt, flowering azaleas and flowering azalea leaves.
		Pre-release one			Endermen no longer pick upwardly flowering azaleas and flowering azalea leaves.
1.18		Experimental Snapshot ane			Endermen now merely spawn at calorie-free level 0.
1.18		21w37a			Endermen now take harm when hit by a splash h2o bottle.
1.nineteen		22w11a			Endermen now pick up mud.
1.nineteen		Pre-release 1			Endermen now spawn from low-cal level 0 to eleven in the Nether.
Pocket Edition Blastoff
v0.9.0		build i			Added endermen.
		build 2			Endermen now have sounds.
		build 2			Endermen now teleport out of the mode of projectiles.
		build eight			The enderman's assail strength is at present the aforementioned equally in Java.
v0.12.1		build 10			Endermen now avoid water.
v0.14.0		build i			Endermen now drop the cake they are holding when killed.
v0.15.0		build i			Endermen now spawn in the Nether.
v0.15.0		build i			Enderman at present pick upwards netherrack.
v0.sixteen.ii					Endermen are at present quicker, to lucifer the Java and Panel versions.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.i			Endermen now drop ender pearls when killed.
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.i			Endermen now spawn in the Stop.
Boulder Edition
1.2.0		?			Endermen no longer milkshake with rage while aggravated.
1.2.0		?			On death, endermen now drib the block they were holding.
i.16.0		beta 1.sixteen.0.51			Endermen now spawn in soul sand valleys and warped forests.
					Endermen now selection up nylium, roots, and fungi variants.
					Endermen no longer pick up netherrack.
1.16.220		beta ane.16.220.52			Endermen now pick up rooted dirt.
Legacy Console Edition
TU5	CU1	one.0	Patch ane	one.0.one	Added Endermen.
TU14		1.04			Endermen at present open their mouths and shake when provoked.
TU14		1.04			Endermen now cease in front end of the histrion. When the player swings their sword, they at present teleport backside the histrion.
TU43	CU33	1.36	Patch xiii		Endermen now spawn in the Nether, and now pick up netherrack.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added Endermen.

First image.
First paradigm but brightened.
Second image. Endermen near village image.
Second image only brightened.
A green-eyed enderman from the adventure update trailer.
A greenish-eyed enderman looking at the player.
A green-eyed enderman at dark.
A green-eyed enderman at dawn.
A preview of an enderman holding a warped nylium in the warped woods.

Issues [ ]

Issues relating to "Enderman" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report problems at that place.

Trivia [ ]

The developers have stated that the belief that enderman sounds are backward distortions is just speculation.^[xviii]
Notch claimed in public that the enderman is a "subtle reference" to the Slenderman, a similar-looking monster with a similar name. Given the later development of the End, information technology is possible he already had the name in mind, and did not choose it because of the Reddit thread in which their proper noun was revealed.^[19]
Dinnerbone suggested "a haunting of endermen" as the collective noun for Endermen.^[20] Additionally, in the third episode of Minecraft: Story Fashion, The Last Identify You lot Expect, a player is given the option to correct the grammar of other characters by specifying that the collective noun for a grouping of endermen is "a haunting of Endermen". In the fourth Minecraft novel Minecraft: The End, the collective term used by endermen themselves is "an End of Endermen".
Switching to spectator mode and taking an enderman's point of view adds a shader that inverts colors, suggesting that they run across the End as an island of bluish cobblestone (as end rock is a yellowish version of asphalt with inverted colors) in a white heaven, with white pillars, white endermen with green eyes and a white ender dragon, besides with green optics. They as well see cobblestone as finish stone.
The texture for an enderman's eyes is located in a different texture file than the torso, allowing their eyes to glow. Because the 2 textures do not line up perfectly, forcing an enderman to look straight up causes its optics to plough bare white.
- This also causes the enderman's eyes to be visible even when nether the Invisibility effect.
The enderman teleportation sound too plays when a player teleports using an ender pearl‌^{[ Boulder Edition only ]} or chorus fruit.
The enderman is a playable DLC grapheme in the crossover fighting game Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as an alternate costume for Steve, though with altered proportions to exist at Steve'south height. Additionally, there is an enderman "spirit" that makes the user vulnerable to damage by water, as are regular endermen.

Gallery [ ]

A grouping of endermen in a desert biome.
A group of endermen attacking a player.
An enderman under the furnishings of invisibility.
Through the eyes of the enderman. Notation that the "capsize" shader is existence used.
Enderman riding in a minecart.
Every bit long as user'south cursor does not land on an enderman'southward torso, a user tin get adequately close to the enderman without damage.
Group of endermen in a plains biome during the solar day.

In other media [ ]

Minecraft: Story Mode [ ]

A haunting of endermen.
Jesse disguised every bit an enderman.
Endermen damaged by water.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate [ ]

Official enderman render from Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
Enderman Spirit from Super Blast Bros. Ultimate.

LEGO Minecraft [ ]

Enderman micromobs.
Enderman minifigure.

Minecraft Trade [ ]

An official enderman action effigy sold by JINX.
An official enderman head cosmetic sold past JINX.
Official T-shirt artwork "Enderman Moving Company" by JINX.
An enderman plush sold by JINX. The design depicts a pre-release version of the enderman.
A baby enderman plush.

Other [ ]

An Enderman in promotional artwork for the second Caves & Cliffs update.
Artwork of an enderman.

References [ ]

↑ MCPE-35307
↑ "Did some tweaks to the Endermen, so ran domicile. Working on Minecraft again is so much fun!" – @notch (Markus Persson) on Twitter, September 13, 2011
↑ MC-94481
↑ MC-220319
↑ MC-79556
↑ MCPE-31761
↑ MC-167370
↑ MCPE-30144
↑ MC-221422
↑ MC-167369
↑ Original enderman screenshot.png
↑ "at least y'all can make them stop teleporting by looking directly at them now." – @notch (Markus Persson) on Twitter, July 28, 2011
↑ "The Endermen are peaceful. If you wait direct at them, they freeze and look at yous. When you expect away once again, they run fast. And teleport" – @notch (Markus Persson) on Twitter, July 28, 2011
↑ "They run TOWARDS you, not abroad. So if yous happen to await at one, do not wait away." – @notch (Markus Persson) on Twitter, July 28, 2011
↑ "(they end being peaceful if you await directly at them)" – @notch (Markus Persson) on Twitter, July 28, 2011
↑ "Endermen suck because they're annoying, and because I nerfed them and made them too piece of cake. I shall fix this." – @notch (Markus Persson) on Twitter, September 28, 2011
↑ MC-124812 – resolved every bit "Stock-still"
↑ "Enquire Mojang #v: Enderman jibber-jabber!" – Minecraft on YouTube, Dec vi, 2019
↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/j09ma/notch_posts_images_of_new_mob/c282dzr?context=i
↑ "@nirufe @notch Let's call it a haunting. A haunting of Endermen." – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on Twitter, March 11, 2014