What is a shulker in minecraft

For other articles related to Shulkers, see Shulker (Disambiguation).

Shulkers (the portmanteau of shell and lurkers) are hostile mobs a player can encounter, as of the The Combat Update. They appear only in an End City, and don't spawn naturally again.

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What does a shulker box do?
What kills a shulker?
How do you tame a shulker in Minecraft?
What are shulkers made of?

Behavior

When a player gets close to the Shulker, its shell will then unscrew, revealing the Shulker. When it attacks, a white bullet will follow a player. Being hit by the Shulker will give a player a 10-second levitation effect and will do a little bit of damage. This effect is very useful, as it allows a player to fly up the End City if they keep getting hit. However, if the effect runs out on a player when they are in mid-flight, they can sustain heavy fall damage.
Shulkers can also teleport when at low health, or when pushed by a piston into another block. The teleport works up to around 5-10 blocks away. They will also teleport when all adjacent blocks to them are either filled with air or liquid.
When they die, they have a 50% chance of dropping a Shulker Shell, as of 1.11 release. These can be used to craft a Shulker Box.
Like Sheep and collars, shulkers can be Dyed.
Shulkers also open their shells once in a while to peek outside.
They can be bred when a shulker hits another shulker, making another one
Shulkers can stick to the sides, and upside down. If you break the block they are on, either they will teleport away (if no other block is available to stick to) or will stick to another adjacent block. However when squished bewteen two blocks, it will teleport away.

Combat

The best way to combat a Shulker is to just punch, or shoot the projectiles that it fires. It cannot be hit with projectiles (Thrown trident included) when its shell is shut, as they bounce off harmlessly, possibly recoiling back to a player. Destroy the projectiles and go for a bow first outside of a building, and just kill it with a sword, provided a ceiling is overhead.

Trivia

It is not strange that they can teleport much like Endermen can, the only other Mob who has such an ability, as they are both related to the End.
The name Shulker is a mix of Shell and Lurker confirmed by Jeb.
Players can stand on the Shulker mob, just like a solid block.
Shulkers do not despawn in peaceful mode; however, they do not attack.
If a shulker is on a team via /scoreboard, then it will attack all players and hostile mobs not on its own team.

If a player throws a splash potion of invisibility onto a Shulker, only the shell will disappear, leaving only the head visible.
When a Shulker generates sideways in respect to the block it's attached to, the player can clearly see a spiral shape on the underside of the Shulker
- This spiral is also visible in a Shulker Box.
As of 20w45a they can be bred by having a Shulker shoot another Shulker by accident.

Gallery

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Video

Shulkers - Minecraft Micro Guide

Mobs in Minecraft
Passive Mobs
Bat	Cat	Chicken	Cow
Fish (various)	Fox	Glow Squid	Horse
Mooshroom	Brown Mooshroom	Ocelot	Parrot
Pig	Rabbit	Sheep	Snow Golem
Squid	Strider	Turtle	Villager
Wandering Trader
Neutral Mobs
Axolotl	Bee	Dolphin	Enderman
Goat	Iron Golem	Llama	Panda
Piglin	Polar Bear	Spider	Cave Spider
Wolf	Zombified Piglin
Hostile Mobs
Blaze	Creeper	Drowned	Ender Dragon
Endermite	Evoker	Evoker Fang	Ghast
Guardian	Elder Guardian	Hoglin	Husk
Magma Cube	Phantom	Piglin Brute	Pillager
Ravager	Shulker	Silverfish	Skeleton
Slime	Spider Jockey	Stray	Vex
Vindicator	Warden	Witch	Wither
Wither Skeleton	Wither Skeleton Jockey	Zoglin	Zombie
Zombie Villager

What does a shulker box do?

Shulker boxes are portable chests: they keep their items when broken, which can be retrieved when placed again. This is different from other containers, which drop their contained items as item entities when broken. A shulker box drops itself as an item if pushed by pistons or destroyed by an explosion.

What kills a shulker?

An Iron Sword or above is recommended to fight the Shulker. However, when they have their shell closed, they receive 20 armor points, making them more difficult to kill. The Shulker will lose its armor points, once it opens its shell, making it easier to kill.

How do you tame a shulker in Minecraft?

If you use Ender Pearls and summon an Endermite within 5-8 blocks of an Shulker Box with a single Eye of Ender in it, it would burrow into the Shulker Box and become a "tamed" Shulker. This shulker simply attacks hostile mobs like a golem (except Endermen and other Shulkers).

What are shulkers made of?

To make a shulker box you will need two shulker shells that drop from shulker enemies and one regular chest. Head to a crafting table and place the chest in the centermost slot and arrange the shulker shells above and below it.