Talk:Enderman

I just had bamboo mosaic block "stolen" from my base by, most likely, an enderman.Can someone see if it's a bug with enderman behavior or they legitematly can move more blocks in bedrock edition/list with blocks they can move outdated? Jincko Sizzle (talk) 04:40, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

I don't think this is possible, even in Bedrock Edition. Make sure your world is singleplayer and not modded (if it's multiplayer then maybe your friends stole it), and if something similar happens again, please file a report on the bug tracker. --MinecraftExp123^{(talk|contribs)} 12:17, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

I am in vanilla multiplayer, but none of my friends were playing (I basically play alone on that dedicated server), and I had endermen steal grass blocks and melons before, so I don't think my friend just broke one block in my base.

Probably gonna try setting up flatworld with only bamboo mosaic world to see what happens. Jincko Sizzle (talk) 12:26, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

Note that you can't customise flat worlds in Bedrock Edition. --MinecraftExp123^{(talk|contribs)} 12:20, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

i used mcbe essentials to generate custom flatworld.

They didn't pick up mosaic blocks. Also had a friend tell me a story how enderman stole his diamond block on dedicated server, so it might be issue with server? I'll test this later. Jincko Sizzle (talk) 03:31, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

In 1.21.2, the Enderman's texture in Java seems to be changed to the version that is used in Bedrock where its eyes are being more purple. The change seems to have happened in 24w39a but the change isn't listed. Thegameandtime (talk) 18:27, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

What? No they dont, at least in java 1.21

Can someone give context here? This feels like it was written in 2013 and never touched again Hoppp (talk) 23:24, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

Endermen AI generally tries to teleport it behind the player and prioritizes that before other locations. --MinecraftExp123^{(talk|contribs)} 10:05, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

I see. thank you. The way it was worded there made me thing it would, when atacking, try to move behind the player Hoppp (talk) 20:08, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

I don't know how why the drop rate is but it isn't 100% 62.216.211.226 08:01, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

You can get 0-1 pearls with a 100% chance 👁 Image
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According to a recent edit, endermen can spawn more frequently in the overworld if there's a nether portal connected to a warped forest biome nearby. This feels like false information, because it isn't mentioned in Nether portal or pretty much anywhere, and it might just be a coincidence. I added a verify tag because of that. Can somebody verify or test that? I'm not sure how I can objectively test without bias or other things messing with the spawn rate. --MinecraftExp123^{(talk|contribs)} 13:11, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

I could not verify the claim after a few hours of testing. Here's how I tested:

Platform: Java Edition, 1.21.4 Vanilla

World: Superflat, The Void preset, structures disabled, non-general mob spawns disabled, day/weather cycle disabled

I did two rounds of testing. Each one had a square stone platform, 5×5 chunks, one block thick, at Y 45. I used /fillbiome to change the biome five blocks above and below the platform to plains. Underneath it near the middle, it had a Nether portal. Only the Overworld side was kept loaded.

I would freeze the tick rate, afk ~30 blocks above the center at Y 73.5, set the time to midnight, and sprint ticks for 10 days with /tick sprint 10d. I also had a command block that would instantly teleport enderman to a kill chamber (a bit off to the side and slightly below the platform), which would be immediately killed with commands, and everything that was not a player, enderman, or item was teleported far into the void to instantly despawn. I would then count the ender pearls that were collected, add them to my sheet, throw them out, and begin the next test.

I have a video of my methods if that would make it easier to understand: https://youtu.be/JCG16-Tv_AU?t=28

I did this 10 times in two different locataions — one with a Nether portal that led to a soul sand valley, one that lead to a warped forest. Once at each location, I also tick sprinted for 100 days. Here's my results:

Soul Sand Valley:

10 days all/min/max/avg pearls = 9,083 / 870 / 968 / 908.3

100 days total pearls: 8,918

10 days list:

order achieved | low–high

1. 906 | 870

2. 871 | 871

3. 922 | 884

4. 911 | 899

5. 944 | 906

6. 968 | 908

7. 899 | 911

8. 870 | 922

9. 908 | 944

10.884 | 968

Warped Forest:

10 days all/min/max/avg pearls = 8,894 / 831 / 926 / 889.4

100 days total pearls: 9,000

10 days list:

order achieved | low–high

1. 892 | 831

2. 831 | 870

3. 910 | 871

4. 870 | 889

5. 900 | 892

6. 926 | 898

7. 907 | 900

8. 871 | 907

9. 889 | 910

10.898 | 926

The results came back without much difference between the two. The tests with the Warped Forest portal had a lower total, minimum, maximum, and average, but had slightly higher results on the 100-day sprint.

I tried to ensure that all factors were the same for both tests, but the local difficulty may have been higher for the SSV tests. I doubt that the biome the portal leads to changes anything. Maybe it could if both sides were loaded, but I don't think it's likely. Any tests done with both sides loaded would need to have extra precautions to make sure that mobs spawning on the other side and coming through the portal wouldn't affect the results.

I don't know if there's any procedure I should follow for removing other people's additions, but as the person who added it did not give any additional information other than being based on "recent observations," I'm going to remove it unless we get any other evidence for it. AugustShade (talk) 00:11, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

I think we should be checking the source code rather than trying to test by brute force. I'm not sure how to do it, but I'm sure that someone knows how. We could post this on the community portal for more attention if necessary. --MinecraftExp123^{(talk|contribs)} 08:53, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

I think what happened was that endermen went through the portal while the player was in the Nether, and when they came back through to the Overworld, they saw a bunch of endermen around and assumed that the endermen spawned in the Overworld. I checked the code for the nether portal block and only saw the code that makes zombified piglins occasionally spawn around the portal. Rampage455 (talk) 12:40, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

But why would the endermen go through the portal? It's not like the AI would make them go towards it, so there shouldn't be more than one or two endermen on the other side, which shouldn't be significant. I'd still asssume good faith though, and maybe some rare coincidence occured. --MinecraftExp123^{(talk|contribs)} 03:13, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

The teleportation section references the materials mechanic, which was removed in 1.20 and replaced with block properties. While the block properties page does not yet seem to be complete or up to date, I still think that it's worth having a notice to let people know that the materials mechanic has been removed/replaced, and that how an enderman chooses where it teleports to may not be completely accurate to how it works in modern or future versions. The materials page is likely accurate enough for the time being, but will become less useful as time goes on and more stuff get added. A notice also serves as a reminder that the section does need to be updated eventually and why, even if it's not urgent right now.

My edit adding an update notice was reverted, so I made this talk section instead to more easily discuss why the section should or shouldn't be updated or get a notice. There is also another topic in the 2015–2024 archive section about the material mechanic being removed, but seems to have been overlooked or forgotten about, and is not quite the same as what I'm proposing. AugustShade (talk) 19:43, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Not sure if this is new or exclusive to bedrock, but in pocket edition endermen can be hit by arrows and damaged while they are stuck in boats, both from skeletons and from the player Eitri (talk) 10:45, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

It also affects Java and it's stated in the article: "Endermen can be attacked with projectiles if they are in a boat or minecart." and "An enderman cannot teleport while it is in a minecart or boat, [...]". They used to teleport away in Bedrock, but it has been changed in 1.21.60 to match Java behavior.--Capopanzo (talk | contribs) 00:25, 15 March 2025 (UTC)

After seeing the Suspicious Gravel page (seemingly erroneously) state that Suspicious Gravel has the #enderman_holdable tag (which the F3 menu doesn't show in my 1.21.5) I summoned one holding it and killed it, just to see the Enderman not drop the Suspicious Gravel. The same happened for Suspicious Sand and Bedrock, though it does drop other blocks like Copper Bulbs and Stone. Do we know why some blocks aren't dropped and which those are? AutisticPlush (talk) 14:22, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

not sure but it is possible that survival unobtainable blocks like suspcious sand and gravel or bedrock have a tag or something that prevents them from dropping 👁 Image
BrandonEpicGamer (TALK) 21:28, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

When you kill an enderman, you receive the block's loot table, as if the enderman were breaking it, with a diamond axe enchanted by the enderman_loot_drop enchantment provider, and the block is in the Enderman's possession. Some blocks don't actually drop anything because they don't have a loot table, but for most, their drop depends on the loot table. In vanilla, this enchantment provider is Silk Touch, and since you gain the loot table directly, blocks like stone, which don't generate a loot table when broken with an axe, still drop them. Note that this makes it possible to break blocks taller than the maximum building height; in vanilla, this doesn't change anything, but with loot table editing, you could get a special drop. Aloi4 (talk) 22:38, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

As i don't want to create an edit war, here i make an post to talk about it:

So my edit was reverted, since accordingly the change did not make it modifiable, what i wanted to show is the change to the minecraft:behavior.enderman_take_block As the changelog said : ``` Removed the minecraft:behavior.enderman_take_block AI goal, it upgrades to the above goal ```

So it did in fact changed, but maybe doing some testing to see if minecraft:behavior.take_block is editable

So... feel free to add an until for minecraft:behavior.enderman_take_block, or maybe need to do some testing to be sure about the ability to change minecraft:behavior.take_block ElGrenier (talk) 19:37, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

Oh, that's my bad, I thought it wasn't mentioned. Pretty sure it was in fact made modifiable. 👁 Image
 Fixed. == Rout (talk/edits) 19:41, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

Welp that doesn't mean we shouldn't test if its actually really modifiable now xD

but since my knowledge of bedrock is fairly limited i won't be able to test it.. ElGrenier (talk) 19:44, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

Same here, I added {{verify}} just to be sure. == Rout (talk/edits) 19:47, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

I don't know much about Bedrock Edition, but 👁 Image
 FYI I know that man useful commands like /data and /attribute simply don't work or are very limited in Bedrock Edition, and you can't easily mess with NBT data with only commands, so it might be quite hard to do. --MinecraftExp123^{(talk|contribs)} 09:45, 19 June 2025 (UTC)

I have added a more info tag, so hopefully someone who knows will see it and specify, either in seconds or ticks
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What “more info tag”? 2603:6080:94F0:9190:791B:589:80AE:BD21 16:02, 23 December 2025 (UTC)

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I tested on Bedrock Edition, and Endermen only attacked Endermites after the latter attacked first. Is this a bug? DKRap064 (talk) 01:58, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

Cannot confirm in Java. For me, the enderman will even attack endermites with NoAI set to true.--MinecraftExp123^{(talk|contribs)} 03:27, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

If I know anything about Minecraft yes & they probably fized by the time I sent you this ~2026-ZombieChorusEvoker10990 (talk) 22:15, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

So have you confirmed in Bedrock Edition? ‑‑MinecraftExp123^{(talk|contribs)} 23:00, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

Well, there's a possibly related unresolved issue MCPE-161683, in which endermen take a long time to notice an endermite, which may seem like endermen don't attack endermites. And there's this youtube video from 3 years ago showing that endermen don't attack endermites spawned from an egg.

I haven't tested any of this. ~Anachronist (talk) 05:48, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

Can you provide a link to the citation? ‑‑MinecraftExp123^{(talk|contribs)} 07:47, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

The Enderman is a popular mob with products, movies, and just an ominous entity. Could the page be semi-protected and allow auto-comfirmed users and over to edit this page because of it’s popularity? SuperDeluxeFern (talk) 16:13, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

You can also do it temporarily if something bad happens to the page SuperDeluxeFern (talk) 16:14, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

We would only do it if strictly necessary, and right now there is no reason to do so. Gwen Stacy (talk) 16:34, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

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