Minecraft Vex guide: Spawning, behavior, and drops
In Minecraft, players encounter many hostile mobs. Mobs like zombies, skeletons, and spiders are common and easy to defeat, while evokers, ravagers, withers, and ender dragons are rare and can be extremely tough. One of the game's smallest and most annoying hostile mobs is called a vex, which is both dangerous and difficult to kill.
Here is everything to know about the pixie-like creature from Minecraft.
Everything to know about the vex in Minecraft
Spawning locations
The vex is a rare mob that is essentially part of Evokers – rare, hostile creatures that spawn in Woodland Mansions or village raids. They can spawn on the second or third floors of the mansion and will do so after the third wave in a raid.
Vexes are a type of attack evokers use against players, iron golems, and villagers. These small flying creatures spawn when evokers raise their hands, chant a spell, and particles appear near their hands.
Apart from that, vexes cannot spawn in a regular survival world. The game has spawn eggs and command lines to spawn the mob in creative mode.
Appearance and behavior
As the picture depicts, vexes are small flying creatures with white broken wings, white eyes, frowning eyebrows, and gray skin like other Illagers (evokers, vindicators, and ravagers).
One of the vex's most striking and deadly abilities is that it can phase through any solid block. This means that if a player blocks themselves in a hole, they can still be found and attacked. Hence, the only way to evade them is to kill them. Vexes attack players, villagers, wandering traders, iron golems, and snow golems.
While provoked, they will quickly fly around to evade attacks from a player while dealing heavy blows using their iron swords.
In easy mode, they can deal 2.7 hearts of damage. In normal mode, they can deal 4.5 hearts of damage, while in hard mode, they can deal 6.7 hearts of damage. This makes them one of the deadliest mobs in the game.
Item drops
In Minecraft, not all dangerous mobs drop important items or resources upon death. The same goes for vexes, as they only drop 5 XP points when killed. They will not drop their iron swords or any unique items that players can use.
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