IM Endermite — Invasion Mod

Combat profile

For Minecraft 26.3 / NeoForge, wave base values and supported behavior can be changed per registry entry: see health, damage and base armor and mob abilities. Tier, size and wave scaling still apply.

Health8 HP

Teleport radius50 blocks

Attempts16 per hit

Wave cost4

Behavior

It targets players and player-allied creatures. A successful melee action teleports the victim to a safe random position and kills the Endermite.

Infected hosts

When a host of the vanilla Enderman class carrying the permanent invmod.infected tag dies, it releases 1–4 IM Endermites instead of Silverfish. They inherit the host's Nexus binding, or use an active Nexus in the same dimension when the host has no binding.

This death release still occurs with enable-silverfish=false. It follows permanent IM Silverfish infection, not the temporary vanilla Infested effect. Released Endermites use their normal teleport and Nexus attacks.

Versus Infestation can mark eligible new Enderman hosts while Silverfish are enabled. Released Endermites follow that host’s Nexus binding; disabling the setting afterward still does not block an already marked Enderman-class host’s release.

Direct Nexus attack

In Minecraft 26.3 / NeoForge, an Endermite bound to an active Nexus switches to the Core when it has no living attack target. It looks toward the Nexus center and refreshes its ground path every 20 ticks while farther away.

Within 2 blocks of the Nexus center, it stops walking and requests 2 base Nexus damage every 20 ticks (one second at 20 TPS), after an initial 40-tick in-range delay. Losing this range pauses the attack countdown; restarting the Nexus goal resets the initial delay. Unlike its teleport attack on a living defender, hitting the Core does not kill the Endermite, so it can keep attacking.

Do not dismiss this mob as harmless support: protect low openings and defeat it before it reaches the Core. Actual Nexus damage can be scaled by the attacker’s configuration; a paused Nexus rejects this damage. The direct block attack does not damage a Player Nexus.

Living targets take priority and still receive the teleport attack. Up to 16 attempts search within 50 blocks horizontally, with candidate heights up to 16 blocks above or below the victim. Only a successful teleport kills the attacker; failed attempts leave it alive. Compare the flying Breeze Nexus attack.

Drops

Loot follows the vanilla Endermite table.

Vanilla replacement

An active Nexus converts vanilla Endermites at 30% maximum health.