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

Command Examples

Here are some game command examples for a silverfish in Minecraft:

How to Summon a Silverfish

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:

NBT Tags for Silverfish

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:

Spawn Events for Silverfish

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
Wandering Trader
Warden
Witch
Wither Boss
 Wither Skeleton
Wolf
Zoglin
Zombie
Zombie Horse
Zombified Piglin (Zombie Pigman)
Zombie Villager
NPC