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Silverfish

Mobs & entity

The silverfish is an entity in Minecraft. A spawn egg exists for it, which players can use to bring one into the world whenever they want.

Contents (8)
  1. Animations
  2. Sounds
  3. Stats
  4. Advancements
  5. History
  6. Registry entry
  7. Related items
  8. See also

Animations

3 of these were recorded inside the running game, so the movement is the animation Mojang shipped rather than an imitation of it. Transparent background, free to download.

Silverfish, walking
WalkingDownload
Silverfish, running
RunningDownload
Silverfish, idle
IdleDownload
Silverfish, taking damage
Taking damageDownload

Sounds

4 sound events for this mob, 12 files in all. Where an event lists more than one file the game picks one at random.

EventSoundClosed captionIdentifierTranslation key
ambientSilverfish hissesentity.silverfish.ambientsubtitles.entity.silverfish.ambient
deathSilverfish diesentity.silverfish.deathsubtitles.entity.silverfish.death
hurtSilverfish hurtsentity.silverfish.hurtsubtitles.entity.silverfish.hurt
stepFootstepsentity.silverfish.stepsubtitles.block.generic.footsteps

Stats

Mojang publishes these numbers in the Bedrock behaviour pack (bedrock-samples); the Java edition keeps them in code, not in any data file. Most values match across editions, but not all — treat them as the Bedrock figures.

Health points8
Attack strength1
Movement speed0.25
Hitbox size0.4 blocks wide, 0.3 blocks tall
Mob typesilverfish, monster, mob, arthropod

Advancements

Advancements whose own criteria name this entry. Recipe-unlock entries are left out — they never appear on the player’s Advancements screen.

History

Worked out by reading the registry of every Minecraft build Mojang has published, in release order.

VersionDateWhat the files show
before 18w50a—Already in the game when Mojang’s data generator first shipped, in 18w50a (12 December 2018). The files do not say which earlier version added it.

Registry entry

Identifierminecraft:silverfish
Registryminecraft:entity_type

See also