Nethereye

Nethereye
Type:	Hostile
Drops:	Nether brick

The nethereye is a hostile mob that spawns in both the Overworld and the Nether.

Spawning

Nethereyes spawn both in the Overworld at night, and the Nether, in which they more commonly spawn.

Drops

Nethereyes drop 1-2 Nether brick, or 1-3 extra with Looting. They may also drop obsidian and bedrock as rare drops, and will have a larger chance of dropping them with Looting.

Behavior

Nethereyes have 10 hearts, equal to the health of the player.

Nethereyes are one of the four mobs (the others being the Blaze, Ghast and Ender dragon) in the game with the capability to fly. When they are not attacking, they will float around randomly in any direction. When they are flying upwards, they will be forced down by gravity, so they usually do not fly too high. If they are targeting another mob or the player, they will fly towards it quite quickly.

Tasks

#	Task	Objective	Needs
19	Slay a Nethereye.	Kill a nethereye.	None

History

Version	Date	Changes
1.11(Probably)	Aug 5, 2011	Added the nethereye
1.23	Nov 13, 2015	Fixed a bug causing nethereyes to always go the wrong direction when attacking the player
1.26.5	Jul 3, 2014	Fixed nethereye not following the player correctly
1.27	Nov 13, 2015	Nethereyes have a chance to drop nether wart in the nether Nethereyes drop nether brick instead of netherrack
1.28	Oct 8, 2016	Nether eye movement and rotation is even less buggy Doubled size of the nether eye
1.29.0	Sep 27, 2019	Nethereyes can no longer drop nether warts if killed.

Bugs

• Sometimes Nethereyes glitch into or out of blocks.

Trivia

• Nethereyes were not based off of Terraria's similar mob, the Demon Eye
• Nethereyes are the only hostile mob that can spawn in more than one dimension.
• Nethereyes are said to have broken out of the the Nether, and this is why they drop nether brick in particular.
• Nethereyes used to have legs and walk around. They used to be called Nether Walkers, but their name was changed after their behavior was changed. Nethereyes are still named "Nether Walkers" in the game's code.
• Prior to the 1.23 update, Nethereyes had a problem with movement, causing them to always go the wrong direction when attacking the player. This made finding and killing them harder, but avoiding them very easy.

A nethereye in the overworld

Gallery

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  A Nethereye turning around to give chase to the player (Before the size of nethereyes was increased)

See Also

• Mobs
• Nether