Silverfish

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Silverfish are small hostile arthropods found infesting stone and deepslate blocks in mountain caves and certain structures, such as strongholds, or spawned using potions of Infestation. They attack by biting, and attacking one can cause nearby silverfish to break out of their blocks to attack the aggressor.

Silverfish spawn from broken infested blocks, which generate in strongholds, underground in mountains and windswept hills biomes, in igloo basements, and in woodland mansion false portal rooms. Silverfish do not appear if the block is broken with the Silk Touch enchantment.^[1]

Silverfish monster spawners naturally generate in end portal rooms in strongholds. Silverfish can spawn from spawners at light level 11 or lower. In Java Edition, they can also spawn on stone types they can enter (stone, cobblestone, stone bricks, etc.) at any light level, and cannot spawn within a 5 block distance of any player^[verify].

Each trial chambers structure has a 25% chance to select silverfish as the "small melee" mob for its trial spawners.

During ominous trials, each ominous trial spawner has a ¹⁄₇ chance to be able to dispense lingering potions of Infestation, which spawns silverfish when an affected entity takes damage. Any type of trial spawner can dispense Infested potions, regardless of the mob type it spawns.

Silverfish have a 10% chance to spawn in groups of 1-2 when an entity with the Infested effect takes damage.

Silverfish have no drops other than 5XP experience points when killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Silverfish attack players and snow golems‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} and call other silverfish in the area upon being hit. Silverfish pathfind toward the player and can see the player through walls.

When they suffer Poison damage or damage inflicted by the player and survive, they cause other silverfish within a 21×11×21 area to break out of their infested blocks. The player can prevent other silverfish from appearing by killing them in one hit.^[2] If the game rule doTileDrops is set to false, the infested blocks are broken, but no silverfish spawn from them.

Silverfish, being arthropods, take extra damage from the Bane of Arthropods enchantment and receive Slowness IV upon being hit.

When idle, silverfish enter a nearby deepslate, stone, cobblestone, stone bricks, mossy stone bricks, cracked stone bricks, or chiseled stone bricks block, transforming it into the respective infested block if the game rule mobGriefing is set to true, as per default. They cannot infest mossy cobblestone,^[3] despite being capable of infesting both mossy blocks and cobblestone, and they also cannot infest slab or stairs of these blocks.^[4] They are also unable to infest andesite, diorite, granite, and smooth stone.^[5]

Silverfish are immune to the infested status effect.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

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

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements that apply to all mobs:

Advancements that apply to all mobs:

Issues relating to "Silverfish" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• In real life, silverfish are harmless, small, and wingless insects that are often found in dark areas in buildings and the wooden pilings of seaside piers and trees. They are infamous for damaging paper-based products.
• Silverfish appeared in the April Fools 2.0 update as the redstone bug.
• Silverfish are the only real-life animals to be fully hostile mobs.

• 👁 Two silverfish.
  
  Two silverfish.
• 👁 A swarm of silverfish.
  
  A swarm of silverfish.
• 👁 Silverfish spawner room in a stronghold.
  
  Silverfish spawner room in a stronghold.
• 👁 The same room, with a lit portal.
  
  The same room, with a lit portal.
• 👁 A silverfish riding a minecart.
  
  A silverfish riding a minecart.
• 👁 Many silverfish in a village (click for animation).
  
  Many silverfish in a village (click for animation).
• 👁 Silverfish as they appear in the Timeless Trails DLC, seemingly made out of sandstone.
  
  Silverfish as they appear in the Timeless Trails DLC, seemingly made out of sandstone.

• 👁 A silverfish crawling around.
  
  A silverfish crawling around.
• 👁 A giant stone silverfish as seen in the Java Edition 13w26a banner.
  
  A giant stone silverfish as seen in the Java Edition 13w26a banner.
• 👁 Too many silverfish.
  
  Too many silverfish.

• 👁 Silverfish texture file.
  
  Silverfish texture file.

• 👁 A silverfish as it appears in Minecraft Mash-Up
  
  A silverfish as it appears in Minecraft Mash-Up
• 👁 Artwork of a silverfish
  
  Artwork of a silverfish
• 👁 A silverfish as it appears in Minecraft Dungeons
  
  A silverfish as it appears in Minecraft Dungeons
• 👁 A silverfish as it appears in the City texture pack
  
  A silverfish as it appears in the City texture pack
• 👁 A silverfish as it appears in the Greek mash-up pack
  
  A silverfish as it appears in the Greek mash-up pack
• 👁 Lego silverfish
  
  Lego silverfish

• 👁 Image
  Endermite
• 👁 Image
  Infested block
• 👁 Image
  Infested

• Mob Menagerie: Silverfish – Minecraft.net on May 4, 2023