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Vex

Mobs & entity

The Vex is an entity in Minecraft. A spawn egg exists for it, which players can use to summon one directly into the world.

Contents (9)
  1. Animations
  2. Gallery
  3. Sounds
  4. Stats
  5. Advancements
  6. History
  7. Registry entry
  8. Related items
  9. See also

Animations

5 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.

Vex, walking
WalkingDownload
Vex, running
RunningDownload
Vex, idle
IdleDownload
Vex, taking damage
Taking damageDownload
Vex, death
DeathDownload

1 variant of this mob, each animated. Rendered here from the game’s own model and textures.

Vex, charging
Charging

Sounds

4 sound events for this mob, 11 files in all. Where an event lists more than one file the game picks one at random.

EventSoundClosed captionIdentifierTranslation key
ambientVex vexesentity.vex.ambientsubtitles.entity.vex.ambient
chargeVex shrieksentity.vex.chargesubtitles.entity.vex.charge
deathVex diesentity.vex.deathsubtitles.entity.vex.death
hurtVex hurtsentity.vex.hurtsubtitles.entity.vex.hurt

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 points14
Attack strength3
Movement speed1
Hitbox size0.4 blocks wide, 0.8 blocks tall
Mob typevex, monster, mob
Immune to fireYes

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:vex
Registryminecraft:entity_type

See also