Silverfish: Difference between revisions

'''Silverfish''' are small [[hostile mob]]s that [[Infested Block|infest stone and deepslate blocks]] in [[mountains]], [[stronghold]]s, [[igloo]] basements, and [[woodland mansion]]s. They crawl at their targets to bite them, and attacking them incites other nearby silverfish to emerge from their blocks and attack the aggressor.

Silverfish spawn from broken [[infested block]]s, which generate in [[stronghold]]s, underground in [[mountains]] and [[windswept hills]] [[biome]]s, in [[igloo]] basements, and in [[woodland mansion]] false portal rooms. Silverfish do not appear if the block is broken with the [[Silk Touch]] enchantment.<ref>{{bug|MC-48184|||WAI}}</ref>

Silverfish [[monster spawner]]s naturally generate in [[end portal]] rooms in [[stronghold]]s. Silverfish can spawn from spawners at [[light level]] 11 or lower. {{IN|java}}, they can also spawn on stone types they can enter (stone, cobblestone, stone bricks, etc.) at any light level, and cannot spawn within a 5 block distance of any player{{verify}}.

Silverfish have a 10% chance to spawn in groups of 1-3 when an entity with the [[Infested]] effect takes damage.

When idle, silverfish enter a nearby [[deepslate]], [[stone]], [[cobblestone]], [[stone bricks]], [[mossy stone bricks]], [[cracked stone bricks]], or [[chiseled stone bricks]] block, transforming it into the respective [[infested block]] if the [[game rule]] {{cd|mobGriefing}} is set to {{cd|true}}, as per default. They cannot infest [[mossy cobblestone]],<ref>{{bug|MC-167357}}</ref> despite being capable of infesting both mossy blocks and cobblestone, and they also cannot infest [[slab]] and [[stairs]] of these blocks.<ref>{{bug|MC-167372}}</ref> They are also unable to infest [[andesite]], [[diorite]], [[granite]] or [[smooth stone]].<ref>{{bug|MC-189974}}</ref> Silverfish are also immune to the [[infested]] status effect.

|{{HistoryLine||1.8|dev=Pre-release|[[File:Silverfish JE1 BE1.gif|32px]] Added silverfish.}}

|{{HistoryLine||1.32.1|dev=12w26a1.2|Silverfish can now summoninfest silverfishthe fromnew nearbychiseled [[infestedstone block|monsterbricks eggs]]into whenever they takeinfested [[Poison]]stone damagebricks.}}

|{{HistoryLine||1.43.21|dev=12w38a12w26a|[[infestedSilverfish block|Monsternow eggs]] containingsummon silverfish canfrom nownearby generate[[monster undergroundegg]]s inwhenever they take [[extreme hillsPoison]] biomesdamage.}}

|{{HistoryLine||1.7.2|dev=?|Silverfish can now rarely spawn inside [[cobblestone]] or stone brick blocks.{{verify|what ones exactly?}}}}

|{{HistoryLine||1.9|dev=15w43a|Silverfish can now be spawned from broken [[infested block|monster eggs]] in the basements of [[igloo]]s.}}

|{{HistoryLine||1.20.317|dev=23w45a|exp=Update 1.2121w10a|Silverfish can now spawn ininfest [[trial chambers]] behind the "[[Java Edition 1.21|Update 1.21]]" [[experimental]] [[data packdeepslate]].}}