Silverfish
Silverfish — mob.
Natural spawning
Silverfish are found in strongholds and can also emerge from infested stone-family blocks. Their small size lets them move through tight spaces around underground structures. A natural spawn check rejects a nearby player within five blocks unless the source is a spawner, while a trial spawner can create them as a configured small-melee profile.
| Trial chamber source | Small-melee silverfish spawner |
|---|---|
| Normal simultaneous mobs | 3 + 0.5 per player |
| Ominous total | 12 mobs |
| Player exclusion radius | 5 blocks for natural spawning |
| Trial spawn interval | 20 ticks |
Drops
Silverfish do not provide a regular item drop. The encounter is mainly a hazard around infested blocks, so the useful links are the blocks that hide them and the spawn egg used for testing.
| Entity loot table | No item entries |
|---|---|
| Drop source | minecraft:entities/silverfish |
Sounds
The mob has separate ambient, hurt, death and step sounds.
| Ambient | `entity.silverfish.ambient` |
|---|---|
| Hurt | `entity.silverfish.hurt` |
| Death | `entity.silverfish.death` |
| Step | `entity.silverfish.step` |
Behavior
A silverfish is a small hostile arthropod associated with infested stone blocks. Breaking an infested block releases the hidden creature; striking a silverfish can call nearby silverfish from other infested blocks, turning a quiet corridor into a short swarm encounter. It can merge back into a compatible stone block when it finds one, which is why an unfinished underground room may hide more than one encounter.
| Category | hostile |
|---|---|
| Max health | 8 |
| Width | 0.4 |
| Height | 0.3 |
| Summonable | Yes |
| Fire immune | No |
| Entity tag | minecraft:arthropod |
| Infested immunity | minecraft:immune_to_infested |
| Trial spawner interval | 20 ticks |
| Movement speed | 0.25 |
| Attack damage | 1 |
| Size | 0.4 × 0.3 blocks |
| Goals | Float, climb powder snow, wake friends, melee, merge with stone |
Data values
The mob uses the stable minecraft:silverfish identifier exposed by the public snapshot API.
| Identifier | minecraft:silverfish |
|---|---|
| Version | Minecraft 26.2 |
| Entity ID | minecraft:silverfish |
| Entity type | Hostile arthropod |
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References
The entity source owns the merge-with-stone and wake-nearby-friends goals. The registry, loot table, and trial-chamber template describe identity, drops, and the configured small-melee encounter.
| Local source | Silverfishsilverfish |
|---|---|
| Entity implementation | net/minecraft/world/entity/monster/Silverfish.java |
| Entity registration | net/minecraft/world/entity/EntityTypes.java |
| Entity loot table | data/minecraft/loot_table/entities/silverfish.json |
| Trial spawner profile | data/minecraft/worldgen/template_pool/trial_chambers/spawner/small_melee/silverfish.json |
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Data and provenance
minecraft:silverfish
Snapshot digest verified.
Facts
| Category | hostile |
|---|---|
| Max health | 8 |
| Width | 0.4 |
| Height | 0.3 |
| Summonable | Yes |
| Fire immune | No |
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