Ender Pearl

| Rarity tier |
Common |
|---|---|
| Renewable |
Yes |
| Stackable |
Yes (16) |
| Size |
Height: 0.25 blocks |
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An ender pearl is an item that can be thrown to teleport to where it lands, or used to craft eyes of ender, which are required to access the End.
Obtaining
Mob loot
| Mob | Quantity / Chance / Average | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Default | Looting I | Looting II | Looting III | ||||||||||
| Enderman | 0–1 | 50.00% | 0.50 | 0–2 | 75.00% | 1.00 | 0–3 | 87.50% | 1.50 | 0–4 | 91.67% | 2.00 | |
| Mob | Quantity / Chance / Average | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Default | Looting I | Looting II | Looting III | ||||||||||
| Enderman | 0–1 | 1⁄2 | 1⁄2 | 0–2 | 3⁄4 | 1 | 0–3 | 7⁄8 | 3⁄2 | 0–4 | 11⁄12 | 2 | |
| Mob | Amount | Probability | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Default | Looting I | Looting II | Looting III | |||
| Enderman | 0 | 1⁄2 (50.00%) | 1⁄4 (25.00%) | 1⁄8 (12.50%) | 1⁄12 (8.33%) | |
| 1 | 1⁄2 (50.00%) | 1⁄2 (50.00%) | 3⁄8 (37.50%) | 1⁄4 (25.00%) | ||
| 2 | 0 | 1⁄4 (25.00%) | 3⁄8 (37.50%) | 1⁄3 (33.33%) | ||
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 1⁄8 (12.50%) | 1⁄4 (25.00%) | ||
| 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1⁄12 (8.33%) | ||
| Average | 1⁄2 (0.50) | 1 (1.00) | 3⁄2 (1.50) | 2 (2.00) | ||
| Drops | 1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mob | Expected Number of Kill | ||||
| Default | Looting I | Looting II | Looting III | ||
| Enderman | 2.00 | 1.00 | 0.67 | 0.50 | |
| Mob | Quantity / Chance / Average | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Default | Looting I | Looting II | Looting III | ||||||||||
| Enderman | 0–1 | 50.00% | 0.50 | 0–2 | 50.00% | 0.75 | 0–3 | 50.00% | 1.00 | 0–4 | 50.00% | 1.25 | |
| Mob | Quantity / Chance / Average | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Default | Looting I | Looting II | Looting III | ||||||||||
| Enderman | 0–1 | 1⁄2 | 1⁄2 | 0–2 | 1⁄2 | 3⁄4 | 0–3 | 1⁄2 | 1 | 0–4 | 1⁄2 | 5⁄4 | |
| Mob | Amount | Probability | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Default | Looting I | Looting II | Looting III | |||
| Enderman | 0 | 1⁄2 (50.00%) | 1⁄2 (50.00%) | 1⁄2 (50.00%) | 1⁄2 (50.00%) | |
| 1 | 1⁄2 (50.00%) | 1⁄4 (25.00%) | 1⁄8 (12.50%) | 1⁄12 (8.33%) | ||
| 2 | 0 | 1⁄4 (25.00%) | 1⁄4 (25.00%) | 1⁄6 (16.67%) | ||
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 1⁄8 (12.50%) | 1⁄6 (16.67%) | ||
| 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1⁄12 (8.33%) | ||
| Average | 1⁄2 (0.50) | 3⁄4 (0.75) | 1 (1.00) | 5⁄4 (1.25) | ||
| Drops | 1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mob | Expected Number of Kill | ||||
| Default | Looting I | Looting II | Looting III | ||
| Enderman | 2.00 | 1.33 | 1.00 | 0.80 | |
Generated loot
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition | ||||
| Altar chest | 1 | 23%{ "item": "Ender Pearl", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.23049999999999993, "structure": "Stronghold", "container": "Altar chest" }
| ||
| Corridor chest | 1–2 | 19.6%{ "item": "Ender Pearl", "stacksize": "1–2", "chance": 0.19614132283617636, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Corridor chest" }
| ||
| Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Altar chest | 1 | 22.4%{ "item": "Ender Pearl", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.22392405816585448, "structure": "Stronghold", "container": "Altar chest" }
| ||
| Corridor chest | 1–2 | 19.6%{ "item": "Ender Pearl", "stacksize": "1–2", "chance": 0.19614132283617636, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Corridor chest" }
| ||
A trapped chest always containing 2 ender pearls can be found in the "fake end portal" room of woodland mansions.
Trading
| Villager | Probability | Villager wants | Player receives | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JE | BE | |||
| 67% | 100% | 5 × | ||
Bartering
Piglins have a 10⁄459 (2.18%) chance to barter 2–4 ender pearls when given a gold ingot.
Usage
Ender pearls can be thrown by pressing use. After it is thrown, the ender pearl is consumed, and the player teleports to where it lands, taking 5HP fall damage. This will work even if the ender pearl lands in another dimension. Wearing armor enchanted with Protection and/or Feather Falling reduces the damage taken from the ender pearl. If a player dies from fall damage due to throwing an ender pearl, the death message says "<player> hit the ground too hard".
Ender pearls have a small cone of travel; they do not all follow the same path when thrown in the same direction. The direction and velocity of ender pearl throws is slightly randomized. They can travel about 30 blocks/45 blocks when thrown straight up, and up to 54 blocks forward when thrown at an optimum launch angle of ~35° (on even ground).
The thrower's vertical velocity influences the throw. Hence timing a throw with a jump can increase the throwing range to 42 blocks when thrown straight up and 64 blocks forward at a 35° angle. Throwing while falling significantly decreases the range. Ender pearls collide with all minecart types, boats and end crystals, and travel through nether portals and end portals. Ender pearls that fall into the void disappear, and do not trigger the player to teleport. However, ender pearl entities (instead of dropped items) are not destroyed by lava and teleport the player to the bottom of lava pools/lava oceans.
Ender pearls have a cooldown of one second before they can be used again. The cooldown is shown in the hotbar by a white overlay on the ender pearl that shrinks and must disappear before the player can use it again. If there are other inventory or hotbar slots containing ender pearls, they are covered with the white overlay as well.[1]
Ender pearls can be thrown into end gateways to reach the outer islands of the End. They can also be thrown into the exit portal to reach the world spawn point.
If the player throws an ender pearl and then dies while the pearl is in a loaded chunk before impact, the pearl disappears and the player is not teleported; in Java Edition, the pearl does not vanish upon the player's death if the game rule enderPearlsVanishOnDeath is set to false.
Stasis chamber
Ender pearls are affected by bubble columns. An ender pearl can remain afloat on top of an upward bubble column, allowing it to be stored indefinitely. A mechanism can then be triggered to make the ender pearl hit a solid surface (e.g. by closing a trapdoor), teleporting the thrower back to the setup wherever they are.
Chunk loading
An ender pearl creates a ticket for chunk loading every time it moves into a new chunk, and also periodically almost every 2 seconds (39 ticks). It loads and ticks the chunk it is in with a ticket level of 31 as entity processing. It also loads a two-chunk wide ring (a 5×5 chunk area centered on the pearl's chunk) around it as lazy chunks, the first ring being block ticking and the second ring being border chunks. The ender pearl continues to load chunks as long as the player who threw it is online, even when that player is in a different dimension. The pearl stops loading chunks when the player logs off, and starts loading chunks again when the player logs in.
Spawning endermites
An ender pearl has a 5% chance to spawn an endermite when it lands. This is the only way through which endermites can spawn, without using cheats. The endermite spawns at the player's position when the pearl lands, or at the pearl's landing site.
Crafting ingredient
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Eye of Ender | Blaze Powder + |
Sounds
Java Edition:
Thrown ender pearls use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.
| Sounds | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
| Ender Pearl flies | Friendly Mobs | When an ender pearl is thrown | entity | subtitles | 0.5 | 1⁄3-0.5 | 16 | |
| Player teleports | Players | When an ender pearl teleports a player | entity | subtitles | 1.0 | 1.0 | 16 | |
| Sounds | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
| Players | When an ender pearl is thrown | random | 0.5 | 0.33-0.5 | |
| Players | When an ender pearl teleports a player | entity | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
Data values
ID
| Item | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
ender_pearl | Item | item |
| Entity | Identifier | Translation key |
|---|---|---|
ender_pearl | entity |
| Item | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
ender_pearl | 422 | Item | item |
| Entity | Identifier | Numeric ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
ender_pearl | 87 | entity |
Entity Data
Thrown ender pearls have entity data that define various properties of the entity.
- [NBT Compound / JSON Object] Entity data
- Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
- Tags common to all projectiles see Template:Nbt inherit/projectile/template
- [NBT Compound / JSON Object] Item: The item to render as, may be absent.
- A single item stack see Template:Nbt inherit/itemnoslot/template
Achievements
| Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Gamerscore earned | Trophy type (PS) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | Other | ||||||
| Beam Me Up | Teleport over 100 meters from a single throw of an . | Throw an ender pearl 100 blocks in any direction | 20 | Silver | |||
Advancements
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) |
|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Bullseye | Hit the bullseye of a Target block from at least 30 meters away | Be at least 30 blocks away horizontally when the center of a target is shot with a projectile by the player. |
![]() | Remote Getaway | Escape the island | Enter an end gateway |
History
| Java Edition Beta | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.8 | Pre-release | ||||||
| Ender pearls have no use, but can stack up to 64. | |||||||
| Java Edition | |||||||
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease | Ender pearls are now less commonly found near bodies of water since endermen now teleport away when in contact with water. Before this version, endermen didn't attempt to teleport and were damaged/killed from water much more frequently, causing numerous ender pearls to occur around bodies of water. | |||||
| Later, on a suggestion from Reddit user isJesus, Notch implemented the teleporting feature for ender pearls.[2][3][4] | |||||||
| Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2 | Added teleporting feature to ender pearls. | ||||||
| Using an ender pearl to teleport resulted in being kicked from servers for "hacking". This is due to a check triggering that was supposed to prevent modified clients from moving too quickly. | |||||||
| Ender pearls now stack up to 16. | |||||||
| Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3 | Ender pearls are now used to craft eyes of ender. | ||||||
| Ender pearls can now be found in the new stronghold altar chests. | |||||||
| 1.3.1 | 12w24a | ||||||
| 1.8 | 14w02a | As part of the revamp of the trading system, cleric villagers now buy ender pearls. | |||||
| 14w03a | Villager clerics no longer buy ender pearls. | ||||||
| 14w11b | Ender pearls have a 5% chance to spawn endermites when used. | ||||||
| 14w32a | Thrown ender pearls now vanish when their owner dies. | ||||||
| 1.9 | 15w31a | Ender pearls can now be thrown in Creative mode. | |||||
| 15w34c | Ender pearls now have a cooldown after using them. | ||||||
| 15w41a | Villager clerics now sell ender pearls for 4–7 emeralds, as one of their tier III trades. | ||||||
| 15w49a | Thrown ender pearls now take the user's motion into account. For example, an ender pearl thrown forward lands closer if the player is falling, and lands farther if the player is ascending. | ||||||
| 1.10 | 16w21a | Ender pearls can now teleport riders off their mounts. | |||||
| 1.11 | 16w39a | Ender pearls can now be found in woodland mansions' fake portal room chests. | |||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | ||||||
| 18w50a | Thrown ender pearls now have an optional Item tag that can specify a different item stack to render. | ||||||
| 19w11a | Cleric villagers now sell ender pearls for 5 emeralds. | ||||||
| 1.16 | 20w07a | Ender pearls have a 2⁄109 (~1.83%) chance of being offered by piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 2–4. | |||||
| 20w09a | Ender pearls now have a 10⁄226 (~4.42%) chance of being offered by piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 1–5. | ||||||
| 20w10a | Ender pearls now have a 20⁄411 (~4.87%) chance of being offered by piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 4–8. | ||||||
| 20w20a | Ender pearls now have a 20⁄423 (~4.73%) chance of being offered by piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 4–8. | ||||||
| 1.16.2 | 20w28a | Ender pearls now have a 10⁄459 (~2.18%) chance of being offered by piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 2–4. | |||||
| Pre-release 1 | Ender pearls are now affected by bubble columns.[5] | ||||||
| Ender pearls no longer get destroyed at contact with non-solid blocks.[6] | |||||||
| 1.20.2 | Pre-release 1 | Added the game rule enderPearlsVanishOnDeath. | |||||
| 1.20.3 | 23w43a | Thrown ender pearls produce a teleportation sound on impact. | |||||
| 1.20.3 Experiment | 23w45a | Ender pearls can now be found in corridor barrels in trial chambers. | |||||
| 1.21 | 24w19a | Ender pearls are no longer able to teleport the player in spectator mode.[7] | |||||
| 24w21a | Ender pearls are once again able to teleport the player in spectator mode.[8] | ||||||
| Pre-Release 1 | Ender pearls that are thrown through portals can now teleport players to a different dimension than the one they are currently in. | ||||||
| 1.21.2 | 24w34a | Thrown ender pearls no longer go through the world border if hit. | |||||
| 24w36a | Ender pearls now teleport the player following this formula: Teleport destination equals the current player coordinates plus the Ender pearl destination block coordinates. | ||||||
| 24w37a | Ender pearls now teleport the player where they land again, reverting previous snapshot changes. | ||||||
| Ender pearls now load the chunk around it when thrown and when landing. | |||||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||||
| v0.14.0 | build 1 | ||||||
| While fully implemented, ender pearls currently have no assigned ID and are currently unobtainable in-game. | |||||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||||
| 1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Ender pearls are now obtainable in-game. | |||||
| Ender pearls can now be used to craft eyes of ender. | |||||||
| alpha 1.0.0.0 | Ender pearls now require a 1-second cooldown. | ||||||
| alpha 1.0.0.1 | Ender pearl cooldown now has an animation. | ||||||
| 1.0.4 | alpha 1.0.4.0 | Ender pearls can now be bought from cleric villagers for 4-7 emeralds. | |||||
| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Ender pearls can now be found in woodland mansions' chests. | |||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | ||||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | Trading has been changed, expert-level cleric villagers now sell an ender pearl for 5 emeralds as part of their trade. | |||||
| 1.16.0 | beta 1.16.0.57 | Ender pearls can now be obtained from bartering with piglins. | |||||
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.54 | Ender pearls now have a 10⁄459 (~2.18%) chance of being offered by piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 2–4. | |||||
| 1.20.60 Experiment | Preview 1.20.60.20 | Ender pearls can now be found in corridor barrels in trial chambers. | |||||
| Upcoming Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.21.100 | Preview 1.21.100.20 | The sprite of ender pearls, when rendered in the world, now have the correct scaling and positional offset. | |||||
| They now match Java Edition, and also match better with their collider. | |||||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||||
| Xbox 360 | Xbox One | PS3 | PS4 | PS Vita | Wii U | Switch | |
| TU5 | CU1 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | |
| TU7 | Ender pearls can now be thrown in survival and creative mode, which teleports the player. | ||||||
| TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | 1.22 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | Ender pearls now have a chance to spawn endermites. | |
| TU46 | CU36 | 1.38 | 1.38 | 1.38 | Patch 15 | Villager clerics now sell ender pearls for 4–7 emeralds, as one of their tier III trades. | |
| Thrown ender pearls now take the user's motion into account. For example, an ender pearl thrown forward lands closer if the player is falling, and lands farther if the player is ascending. | |||||||
| TU54 | CU44 | 1.52 | 1.52 | 1.52 | Patch 24 | 1.0.4 | Ender pearls can now be found in woodland mansions' fake portal room chests. |
| TU57 | CU49 | 1.57 | 1.56 | 1.56 | Patch 27 | 1.0.7 | Ender pearls now have a cooldown after using them. |
| TU63 | CU53 | 1.67 | 1.67 | 1.67 | Patch 32 | 1.0.13 | Ender pearls that land above the nether ceiling no longer teleport the player. |
| TU72 | 1.81 | 1.81 | 1.81 | Patch 41 | Thrown ender pearls produce a teleportation sound on impact. | ||
| 1.90 | |||||||
| 1.91 | Trading has been changed, expert-level cleric villagers now sell an ender pearl for 5 emeralds as part of their trade. | ||||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||||
| 1.7.10 | |||||||
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Ender pearls were formerly found in water, however endermen now teleport out to prevent damage.
Data history
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.11 | 16w32a | The entity ID of ender pearls has been changed from ThrownEnderpearl to ender_pearl. | |||||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 368. | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Ender Pearl" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.
Trivia
- Ender pearls can be used to teleport/move through non-solid blocks without suffocation and solid blocks by pressing against the blocks and using the ender pearl at the player's feet until the player goes through.[9][10]
- In Java Edition, it is possible to spawn a thrown ender pearl using commands, but it does not teleport, unless it is assigned an owner.
- If the player throws an ender pearl in Survival mode and changes to Creative mode before the pearl lands, the player is still teleported.
- The player is still teleported by throwing an ender pearl and entering the Nether before it lands. The pearl is not lost if an ender pearl is thrown into a nether portal and the player travels through the portal; the pearl lands and teleports the player as usual.
- If multiple ender pearls are thrown in succession, the player can be hurt only once from fall damage within about a one-second span.
Gallery
Mojang screenshots
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A recipe using an Ender pearl.
In other media
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The original suggestion image for teleporting with ender pearls. -
Ender pearl in A Minecraft Movie.
References
- ↑ MC-88236 — resolved as "Works As Intended".
- ↑ http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/kpsay/eggsnowballender_pearl_suggestiongif/c2mabfj
- ↑ "Ender Pearls have a unique ability now. They're fun." – @notch (Markus Persson) on X (formerly Twitter), September 27, 2011
- ↑ http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/kss7n/twitter_ender_pearls_have_a_unique_ability_now/c2mwldd
- ↑ MC-125758 — resolved as "Fixed".
- ↑ MC-73884 — resolved as "Fixed".
- ↑ MC-267947
- ↑ MC-277750
- ↑ MC-2164
- ↑ https://youtube.com/watch?v=KA1UmxraeUg
See also
External links
- "Ender Pearl" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, February 18, 2025.
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