Shulker

Shulker

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Health points	30HP × 15
Armor points	Closed: 20 ( × 10) Opened: 0 ()
Behavior	Hostile
Mob type	Monster
Attack strength	Shulker Bullet: Easy: 3HP Normal: 4HP Hard: 6HP Levitation: Levitation for 10 seconds (9 Blocks)
Hitbox size	Closed: Height: 1 block Width: 1 block Peeking: Height: 1.2 blocks Width: 1 block Open: Height: 2 blocks Width: 1 block
Speed	0.7
Spawn	End city
Usable items	Dye ‌[Bedrock Edition only]

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A shulker is a box shaped hostile mob found only in End cities. It hides in its shell to protect itself and blend in with its surroundings, and attacks by shooting homing bullets that inflict Levitation. It is the only source of shulker shells, which are used to craft shulker boxes.

Spawning

Natural generation

Shulkers spawn during the generation of End cities, which are located on the outer islands of the End. They usually spawn on the walls of the city and on End ships. They do not despawn naturally, even in Peaceful difficulty.

Post-generation

There is a chance for a new shulker of the same color to spawn when a shulker is hit with a shulker bullet (including one of its own).

The following checks need to pass:

• The hit shulker must have its lid open. (Peeking is technically enough, but fully open is more practical for farming purposes.)
• The shulker needs to actually take damage and survive. (It just ignores the hit if it is invulnerable to that damage.)
• The shulker's health needs to be above 50% after taking damage from the hit, otherwise there is a 20% chance for it to attempt to just teleport away "for health reasons". If that happens, the shulker will not attempt to duplicate, even if the teleportation attempt somehow fails.
• The damage must be projectile damage and originate from a shulker bullet.
• The shulker will attempt to teleport away (see Teleportation below for details) and must succeed in doing so.
• A random chance check must pass. The chance to succeed is calculated as 100% minus 20% for each other shulker within 8 blocks of the hit shulker's pre-teleport position. (If there are at least 5 other shulkers this check can never pass.^[1])

If the attempt succeeds a new shulker spawns where the old shulker was before it teleported. The new shulker is a completely fresh entity and only copies the original shulker's color.

Drops

On death

Java Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Shulker Shell	0–1	50.00%	0.50	0–1	56.25%	0.56	0–1	62.50%	0.62	0–1	68.75%	0.69

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Shulker Shell	0–1	1⁄2	1⁄2	0–1	9⁄16	9⁄16	0–1	5⁄8	5⁄8	0–1	11⁄16	11⁄16

Item		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Shulker Shell	0	1⁄2 (50.00%)	7⁄16 (43.75%)	3⁄8 (37.50%)	5⁄16 (31.25%)
		1	1⁄2 (50.00%)	9⁄16 (56.25%)	5⁄8 (62.50%)	11⁄16 (68.75%)
		Average	1⁄2 (0.50)	9⁄16 (0.56)	5⁄8 (0.62)	11⁄16 (0.69)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drops
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Shulker Shell	0.50	0.56	0.62	0.69

Bedrock Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Shulker Shell	0–1	50.00%	0.50	0–2	50.00%	0.75	0–3	50.00%	1.00	0–4	50.00%	1.25

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Shulker Shell	0–1	1⁄2	1⁄2	0–2	1⁄2	3⁄4	0–3	1⁄2	1	0–4	1⁄2	5⁄4

Item		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Shulker Shell	0	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)
		1	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄8 (12.50%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)
		2	0	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		3	0	0	1⁄8 (12.50%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		4	0	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)
		Average	1⁄2 (0.50)	3⁄4 (0.75)	1 (1.00)	5⁄4 (1.25)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drops
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Shulker Shell	0.50	0.75	1.00	1.25

Shulkers also drop 5XP when killed by a player or a tamed wolf.

Behavior

A shulker's shell is similar in color to a purpur block. Inside the shell is a small yellow head with two eyes. Shulkers can be spawned with other colors using the /summon command, as detailed below.

Shulkers generally remain stationary, attached to an adjacent block with a full face.^[2] However, if the block the shulker occupies becomes something other than air or the shulker finds itself not adjacent to any full face, or the shell cannot fully open (due to solid blocks or entities such as boats or other shulkers), it attempts to teleport away.

Shulkers occasionally open their shell for 1–3 seconds. When a target comes within about 16 blocks, it opens fully and shoots guided projectiles that follow its target, called shulker bullets, moving only along the X, Y, or Z axes and leaving trails of white particles. The projectiles can be destroyed by attacking them or blocking them with a shield. If the projectile hits an entity, it does 4HP damage and inflicts the Levitation status effect for 10 seconds. This status effect has no effect underwater^[3]‌^{[Java Edition only]}, while in flight mode‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}, or while riding a mob. The shulker continues firing every 1–5.5 seconds while the target remains in range. If the shulker's target dies with projectiles still in flight, they fall to the ground.

Shulkers can attack each other, in which case they shoot fully guided bullets at each other, but are unaffected by Levitation when hit. The normal teleportation habits apply during these battles, and is likely to result in the duplication of more shulkers.

When its shell is closed, a shulker has 20 ( × 10) armor points and deflects arrows. When the shell opens, it loses this natural armor and takes damage as normal. When at less than half health, a shulker has a 25% chance of teleporting (as described above) after taking damage. When a shulker is attacked, other shulkers in the area target the attacker as well.

Shulkers do not take burning damage from lava or fire. They drown in water, but try to teleport away when water or lava flows into the block they occupy.

In Peaceful difficulty, shulkers still spawn but do not attack,^[4] like piglins and hoglins in Bedrock Edition.

Shulkers are treated differently than true blocks. For example, mobs are unable to pathfind around^[5] or jump over them,^[6] and falling on them from a height does not produce particles.^[7] Their spawn egg also does not destroy blocks such as grass.^[8]

Despite having a full block hitbox, their collision box is not a full block, allowing players to stand on the edge of a block with a shulker on top.

Gravity-affected blocks break when falling onto a shulker.

Teleportation

Shulkers can attempt to teleport away for several reasons:

• The shulker's position may no longer allow attaching to an adjacent block. In this case the shulker attempt s to teleport away every tick until it either succeeds or can attach at its current position again.
• The shulker took damage and is below half health. When taking damage to below half health, the shulker has a 20% chance to attempt to teleport away.
• The shulker was hit by a shulker bullet and its lid was open. (It might leave behind a new shulker if teleportation succeeds.)

When a shulker attempts to teleport away, it will make five attempts to find a position to teleport to. Each attempt checks a random position within a 17x17x17 cube centered on the shulker's current position. The position must satisfy the following criteria for the teleportation attempt to succeed:

• The position must be above the bottom build limit of the world and within the world border.
• The position must not contain any non-air block.
• The block space of the position must not overlap with any block's or entity's hit box.
• At least one of the adjacent blocks must provide an attachable surface such that the shulker could fully open from that attachment point, i.e. the shulker would not touch any block's or entity's hit box when fully open.

Shulkers evaluate the collision box of scaffolding based on their current position,^[9] which can result in the shulker teleporting to a position right above a scaffolding block, only to find it invalid and teleport again.

When trying to find an attachable surface, the shulker tests adjacent blocks in the following order: below, above, north, south, west, east. It also uses this order when looking for alternative attachment options before teleporting away form its current position if the previous attachment side became invalid.

Shulker bullet

Shulker bullet

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A shulker bullet is a guided projectile that is launched from shulkers. Its shape is similar to a Conduit's power structure, with End stone white coloring on the outside and purple mottling on the inside. As the bullet flies towards its target it spins randomly. It follows the targeted entity along the X, Y, or Z axis and leaves trails of white particles. A shulker bullet that hits a mob or player deals damage and affects it with Levitation for ten seconds. If a shulker bullet hits a neutral or hostile mob by accident, it retaliates against the shulker after its Levitation effect is removed.

The shulker's projectiles also have entity data that control its movement.

The bullet can be destroyed when it is hit with any item, shot with an arrow, or blocked with a shield. Specifically when attacked by a player using a melee attack, it has a larger hitbox than usual.‌^{[Java Edition only]} It is also destroyed upon contact with a block or lava.

Coloring

In Bedrock Edition, shulkers can be dyed in a similar fashion to sheep. Using a dye on a shulker gives it the color of the dye. They can be dyed only in Creative mode.

In Java Edition, the color of a shulker can be changed through commands using the color byte tag.

Transportation

Shulkers can be moved by boats or minecarts; pushing a boat/minecart into a shulker causes it to board. A boat's sides block some of a shulker's projectiles.

Shulkers can be teleported through End gateways. In Java Edition, they can be transported through the gateway and arrive on the obsidian platform while in a boat or a minecart. In Bedrock Edition, shulkers in a boat or a minecart cannot go through an End gateway, so they have to be dismounted before being teleported through.

A shulker that enters the exit portal in the End gets transported to the world spawn point in the Overworld. In Java Edition, entities with passengers can pass through the exit portal, so shulkers can be directly teleported to the Overworld while in a boat or a minecart.

In Bedrock Edition, entities with passengers cannot pass through the exit portal; therefore, the shulker has to be dismounted from the boat or minecart it is transported in. Since shulkers teleport when not adjacent to a solid block, they must be pushed down the central pillar of the exit portal (or a manually placed block directly above the portal) with a piston. Alternatively, if a shulker is in a boat that has been ridden into the exit portal, it is possible to break the boat, either with an arrow shot at the boat or otherwise. This causes the shulker to go through the exit portal.

Sounds

Shulker

Despite being a solid surface, walking on shulkers is completely silent and does not produce footstep sounds.^[10]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Shulker bullet

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Entity tags	Translation key
Shulker	shulker	fall_damage_immune	entity.minecraft.shulker
Shulker Bullet	shulker_bullet	None	entity.minecraft.shulker_bullet

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Shulker	shulker	54	entity.shulker.name
Shulker Bullet	shulker_bullet	76	entity.shulker_bullet.name

Entity data

Java Edition:

Shulkers have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

Color	Data value
White	0
Orange	1
Magenta	2
Light Blue	3
Yellow	4
Lime	5
Pink	6
Gray	7
Light Gray	8
Cyan	9
Purple	10
Blue	11
Brown	12
Green	13
Red	14
Black	15
Default	16

Shulker bullets have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Monster Hunter	Attack and destroy a monster.	Kill one of these 37/41​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] hostile monsters: Blaze Bogged Breeze Camel Husk​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] Cave Spider Creaking (by destroying its creaking heart) Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Parched​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Horse​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] Zombie Nautilus​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this achievement.	15	Bronze
		Overkill	Deal nine hearts of damage in a single hit.	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have nine hearts of health overall.	30	Bronze
		It Spreads	Kill a mob next to a catalyst	—	10	Bronze
		Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.	20	Silver
		Great View From Up Here	Levitate up 50 blocks from the attacks of a Shulker	Ascend at least 50 blocks while under the levitation effect from a shulker.	20	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Not Today, Thank You	Deflect a projectile with a Shield	Block any projectile with a shield.
	How Did We Get Here?	Have every effect applied at the same time	Have all of these 33/34​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] status effects applied to the player at the same time: Absorption Bad Omen Blindness Breath of the Nautilus​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] Conduit Power Darkness Dolphin's Grace Fire Resistance Glowing Haste Hero of the Village Hunger Infested Invisibility Jump Boost Levitation Mining Fatigue Nausea Night Vision Oozing Poison Raid Omen Regeneration Resistance Slow Falling Slowness Speed Strength Trial Omen Water Breathing Weakness Weaving Wind Charged Wither The source of the effects is irrelevant for the purposes of this advancement. Other status effects may be applied to the player, but are ignored for this advancement. See also: Tutorial:Advancement guide/Nether tab § How Did We Get Here? This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.
	Great View From Up Here	Levitate up 50 blocks from the attacks of a Shulker	Move a distance of 50 blocks vertically with the Levitation effect applied, regardless of direction or whether it is caused by the effect.
	Monster Hunter	Kill any hostile monster	Kill one of these 37/41​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] mobs: Blaze Bogged Breeze Camel Husk​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] Cave Spider Creaking (by destroying its creaking heart) Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Parched​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Horse​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] Zombie Nautilus​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.
	It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Kill any mob that drops experience near a sculk catalyst, with the sole exception of the ender dragon. Mobs that drop no experience are ignored for this advancement.
	Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Kill each of these 37/41​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] mobs: Blaze Bogged Breeze Camel Husk​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] Cave Spider Creaking (by destroying its creaking heart) Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Parched​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Horse​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] Zombie Nautilus​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.

Advancements that apply to all mobs:

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Adventure	Adventure, exploration and combat	Kill any mob, or be killed by any living entity.
	A Throwaway Joke	Throw a Trident at something. Note: Throwing away your only weapon is not a good idea.	Hit a mob with a thrown trident.
	Take Aim	Shoot something with an Arrow	Using a bow or a crossbow, shoot a mob with an arrow, tipped arrow, or spectral arrow.
	Mob Kabob​[upcoming JE 1.21.11]	Hit five mobs in the same Charge attack using the Spear.	Armor Stand and Mannequin also count for this advancement.
	Arbalistic	Kill five unique mobs with one crossbow shot	Armor Stand and Mannequin also count for this advancement. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.
	Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.

History

This section is missing information about: shulker textures from Legacy Console Edition - the terrain.png contained only a single white "shulker top" texture rather than a textue per color, so were color variants generated via a tint system?

 

Please expand the section to include this information. Further details may exist on the talk page.

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.9			15w31a				Added shulkers.
			15w32b				Shulkers no longer teleport by themselves if NoAI is set to 1.
							Shulkers can now be teleported using /tp or /spreadplayers.
			15w37a				Shulker bullets can now be blocked by shields, also preventing the player from getting the Levitation effect.[11]
			15w40a				Shulkers no longer target players or attack in Peaceful difficulty.
							Shulker bullets now despawn in Peaceful.
			15w45a				Added sounds for shulkers being damaged.
							Shulkers now only push entities if their hitbox intersects with the shulker's hitbox. Previously they also pushed entities that were very close.
			15w47a				Shulkers now drop experience.
			15w47b				Added ambient, aggravated and death sounds for shulkers, and added sounds for their bullets dealing and taking damage.
1.11			16w39a				Shulkers now drop shulker shells.
							The color of a shulker can now be changed through commands using a new byte tag Color.
			16w39c				Shulkers can now be spawned on the sides and bottoms of blocks through the usage of spawn eggs.
1.12			17w16a				Shulkers have been retextured, none of them are now like purpur blocks.
			17w17a				The purple shulker's color has been reverted to the previous color.
1.13			18w10b				Added a default shulker.
							The purple shulker texture has been changed to the one used in 17w16a.
1.17			20w45a				New shulkers now have a chance to spawn when one shulker hits another shulker with a shulker bullet.
			21w03a				Shulkers mounting boats and minecarts now sit upright if previousely attached to blocks sideways or upside down.
1.20.5			23w51a				Shulkers are no longer able to destroy armor stands.
			pre1				Shulkers bullets are now easier to hit with melee attacks, as they now have a larger hitbox specifically for melee player attacks.
1.21.2			24w33a				Shulkers under Invisibility effect are now completely invisible. Previously, only their shells become invisible.
			24w34a				Shulker bullets no longer go through the world border if hit.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition
1.0.0			alpha 0.17.0.1				Added shulkers.
							Shulkers can be dyed in Creative mode by long-tapping any dye on a shulker, or through an interact button.
			alpha 1.0.0.1				Shulkers now drop shulker shells.
1.0.4			alpha 1.0.4.0				The shulker's models can now be edited using add-ons.
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.9				The shulkers' textures have been changed.
			?				The purple shulker's color has been reverted to the previous color.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0			beta 1.2.0.2				Added a default shulker.
							The purple shulker color has been changed to the new palette.
1.18.30			Preview 1.18.30.23				New shulkers now have a chance to spawn when one shulker hits another shulker with a shulker bullet.
1.19.0			Preview 1.19.0.29				Shulkers no longer take burning damage from fire or lava.
1.19.10			Preview 1.19.10.23				Shulker bullets now give Levitation I instead of II.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		Added shulkers and spawn eggs for the shulkers.
TU53	CU43	1.49	1.50	1.49	Patch 23	1.0.3	Shulkers now drop shulker shells.
			1.90				Added shields, which can block shulker bullets and prevent players from getting the Levitation effect.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.7.10							Added shulkers.

Data history

Issues

Issues relating to "Shulker" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• Originally, shulkers were going to fully camouflage to look exactly like a nearby block. However, Jeb decided this was too difficult to code, so instead, they were simply made to be a similar shade of purple to purpur.^[12]
• The word "shulker" is a portmanteau of "shell lurker".^[13][14]
• A shulker named 'Dinnerbone' or 'Grumm' flips upside-down. This appears to also lift the shulker by the same height as a pressure plate.
• By using commands, they can be made to be part of a team to attack other teams and can be used as defense mobs. In that case, it does not attack its teammates but targets most hostile mobs without provocation.
• Walking toward a shulker at the same level as a player's head pushes the player down to the one-block crawling position if there is space beneath.
• In the game's texture files, the shulker bullet is named spark.png.
  • The shulker's texture file was named endergolem.png in version 1.9.4 and the shulker still extends AbstractGolem in the current game files.
• If a shulker in a boat or minecart is dropped into the void, the vehicle breaks but the shulker floats just above the void, taking no damage.
• While the scale attribute of a shulker can be set as high as 16, its actual size increases only up to 3 times its original size.

Gallery

Renders

Open

Closed

Screenshots

• 
  A shulker firing a bullet.
• 
  Close-up of the projectile shot by a shulker.
• 
  A shulker inside an End city. It is difficult to spot against the purpur blocks.
• 
  A shulker attacking another shulker.
• 
  The bottom of a shulker.
• 
  A shulker with Invisibility effect.
• 
  All 16 shulker colors from before Java Edition 1.16.4.
• 
  2 shulkers guarding entrance to the End city.
• 
  2 shulkers on End ship.

Mojang screenshots

• 
  An image released by Jeb_ of shulkers appearing to attack blazes in the Nether.
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  A player avoiding a shulker by using the Invisibility effect.

Textures

• 
  Shulker texture file.
• 
  White shulker texture file.
• 
  Light gray shulker texture file.
• 
  Gray shulker texture file.
• 
  Black shulker texture file.
• 
  Brown shulker texture file.
• 
  Red shulker texture file.
• 
  Orange shulker texture file.
• 
  Yellow shulker texture file.
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  Lime shulker texture file.
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  Green shulker texture file.
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  Cyan shulker texture file.
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  Light blue shulker texture file.
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  Blue shulker texture file.
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  Purple shulker texture file.
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  Magenta shulker texture file.
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  Pink shulker texture file.

In other media

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  Lego Minecraft shulker.
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  A shulker as it appears in Last Block Standing!

References

External links

• "Meet the Shulker" by Marsh Davies – Minecraft.net, January 30, 2017.

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