Silverfish Mob – Wiki Guide
This Minecraft tutorial explains all about silverfish with screenshots and step-by-step instructions. Let’s learn about silverfish in Minecraft.
Background
The following is a picture of what a silverfish looks like in Minecraft:
| Hostility Level | Hostile Mob |
|---|---|
| Health Points | 8 health points x 4 |
| Where to Find | Near the End portal |
| Weapon | None |
| Attack Method | Runs towards you and tries to hit you |
| Drops | None |
| Experience Points | 5 experience points |
Hostility Level (Hostile)
A silverfish is a hostile mob. The term mob is short for mobile and is used to refer to all living, moving creatures in the game such as chickens, creepers, and silverfish. Because a silverfish is a hostile mob, it will attack you in Survival mode but not Creative mode.
Health Points
In Minecraft, a silverfish has 4 hearts for health. This gives a silverfish 8 health points (because 1 heart = 2 health points). To kill a silverfish, you need to inflict 8 points of damage to the silverfish.
Where to Find Silverfish
In Minecraft, you can find silverfish near the End Portal.
If you haven’t been to the End Portal, you can not build an End Portal. Instead, you need to find the End Portal in the game.
Silverfish are created from a silverfish spawner near the End Portal.
If you are having trouble finding a silverfish, you can also summon a silverfish using a cheat or you can use a spawn egg.
Weapon
A silverfish does not carry a weapon.
Attack Method
In Minecraft, a silverfish will move towards you and try to hit you when it attacks.
Drops
When you kill a silverfish in Minecraft, it will not drop anything. It is one of the few mobs that when killed, does not drop any items.
Experience Points
As you play the game, you will gain experience. The most common way to gain experience is by killing mobs. When a mob is killed you will see tiny green and yellow balls appear and move towards you.
These orbs represent experience points. When you kill a silverfish, you will gain 5 experience points.
Spawn Egg for Silverfish
You can spawn a silverfish using the following spawn egg:
Silverfish Spawn Egg
Silverfish Spawn EggCommand Examples
Here are some game command examples for a silverfish in Minecraft:
NBT Tags for Silverfish (Java Edition)
Here are the NBT tags (formerly called data tags) that you can use in game commands for a silverfish in Java Edition:
Spawn Events for Silverfish (Bedrock/Education)
Here are the spawn events that you can use in game commands for a silverfish in Bedrock Edition and Education Edition:
Other Mobs
Here are some of the other mobs in Minecraft:
Allay
Axolotl
Bat
Bee
Blaze
Camel
Cat
Cave Spider
Chicken
Cod
Cow
Creeper
Dolphin
Donkey
Drowned
Elder Guardian
Ender Dragon
Enderman
Endermite
Evoker
Fox
Frog
Ghast
Giant
Glow Squid
Goat
Guardian
Hoglin
Horse
Husk
Illusioner
Iron Golem
Killer Bunny
Llama
Magma Cube
Mooshroom
Mule
Ocelot
Panda
Parrot
Phantom
Pig
Piglin
Piglin Brute
Pillager
Polar Bear
Pufferfish
Rabbit
Ravager
Salmon
Sheep
Shulker
Skeleton
Skeleton Horse
Slime
Snow Golem
Spider
Squid
Stray
Strider
Tadpole
Trader Llama
Tropical Fish
Turtle
Vex
Villager
Vindicator
Warden
Witch
Wither Boss
Wither Skeleton
Wolf
Zoglin
Zombie Horse
Zombified Piglin (Zombie Pigman)
Zombie Villager
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