Ender Pearl

An ender pearl is an item that can be thrown and teleports the thrower to where it lands, and used to craft eyes of ender which are required to access the End.

Obtaining[]

Mob loot[]

An enderman has a 50% chance to drop 1 ender pearl when killed. The drop is increased by 1 per level of Looting, with a maximum of 4 with Looting III.

Chest loot[]

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Ender Pearl	Stronghold	Altar chest	1	23%
Bedrock Edition
Ender Pearl	Stronghold	Altar chest	1	22.4%

A trapped chest always containing 2 ender pearls can be found in the "fake end portal" room of woodland mansions.

Trading[]

In Java Edition, expert-level cleric villagers have a ²⁄₃ chance to sell an ender pearl for 5 emeralds.

In Bedrock Edition, expert-level cleric villagers sell one ender pearl for 5 emeralds.

Bartering[]

Piglins have a ¹⁰⁄₄₅₉ (4.27) chance to barter 3-4 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 5 fall damage. Wearing armor enchanted with Protection and/or Feather Falling reduces the damage taken from the ender pearl.

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 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, end crystals and nether portals, and travel through 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 will 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 player's spawn point.

Ender pearl teleportation makes no sound itself‌^{[Java Edition only]}, but does emit a "small fall" sound at the destination when applying teleportation damage to the player.

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.

Spawning endermites[]

An ender pearl has a 10% 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^{[Java Edition only]}, or at the pearl's landing site‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}.

Crafting ingredient[]

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Eye of Ender	Blaze Powder + Ender Pearl

Sounds[]

Java Edition:
Thrown ender pearls use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Ender Pearl flies	Friendly Creatures	When an ender pearl is thrown	entity.ender_pearl.throw	subtitles.entity.ender_pearl.throw	0.5	1⁄3-0.5	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Players	When an ender pearl is thrown	random.bow	0.5	0.33-0.5

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Item	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Ender Pearl	ender_pearl	Item	item.minecraft.ender_pearl

Entity	Identifier	Translation key
Thrown Ender Pearl	ender_pearl	entity.minecraft.ender_pearl

Bedrock Edition:

Item	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Ender Pearl	ender_pearl	422	Block & Giveable Item[i 1]	item.ender_pearl.name

Entity	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Ender Pearl	ender_pearl	87	entity.ender_pearl.name

Entity Data[]

Thrown ender pearls have entity data that define various properties of the entity.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements[]

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
PS4	Other
		Beam Me Up	Teleport over 100 meters from a single throw of an Ender Pearl	Throw an ender pearl 100 blocks in any direction	20G	Silver

Advancements[]

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	Remote Getaway	Escape the island	Free the End	Throw an ender pearl through, fly, or walk into an end gateway.	end/enter_end_gateway
	Bullseye	Hit the bullseye of a Target block from at least 30 meters away	Take Aim	Be at least 30 blocks away horizontally when the center of a target is shot with a projectile by the player.	adventure/bullseye

History[]

Java Edition Beta
1.8		Pre-release			Added ender pearls along with endermen.
					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 only 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			The texture of ender pearls has been changed.
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.
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 will land closer if the player is falling, and land farther if the player is ascending.
1.10		16w21a			Ender pearls can now teleport riders off their mounts.
1.11		16w32a			The entity ID of ender pearls has been changed from ThrownEnderpearl to ender_pearl.
		16w39a			Ender pearls can now be found in woodland mansions' fake portal room chests.
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 368.
1.14		18w43a			The texture of ender pearls has been changed.
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]
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.14.0		build 1			Added ender pearls.
					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			The texture of ender pearls has been changed.
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.
Legacy Console Edition
TU5	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added ender pearls.
TU7					A teleporting feature has been added to ender pearls.
		1.90			The texture of ender pearls has been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.7.10					Added ender pearls.

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Ender Pearl" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues 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.^[7][8]
• 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 and then dies before impact while the pearl is in a loaded chunk, the pearl disappears and the player is not teleported. Pearls in unloaded chunks do not disappear if their owner dies.
• 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.
• If a player dies from ender pearl teleportation, the death message says: "<player> hit the ground too hard".
• A thrown ender pearl faces toward the player in first-person view, while it appears rotated horizontal in third-person view. This is the case for all throwable items (ender pearl, egg, snowball, and all throwable potions).
• Ender pearls and snowballs have the exact same range when fired. Therefore, snowballs can be used to predict the trajectory of ender pearls, or simply for practicing ender pearl throwing. This can be very helpful when the player has to throw ender pearls in dangerous environments, such as the Nether or the End.
• Despite the fact that ender pearls deal no damage to anything they're thrown at, provokable mobs (such as iron golems and piglins) will be provoked by the player if one is thrown at them.

Gallery[]

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  The original suggestion image for teleporting with ender pearls.

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  Ender pearls were formerly found in water, however endermen now teleport out to prevent damage.

References[]

See also[]

• End Dimension
• Ender Dragon
• Ender Portal
• Enderman