Shulker Mob – Wiki Guide
This Minecraft tutorial explains all about shulkers with screenshots and step-by-step instructions. Let’s learn about shulkers in Minecraft.
Background
The following is a picture of what a shulker looks like in Minecraft:
| Hostility Level | Hostile Mob |
|---|---|
| Health Points | 30 health points x 15 |
| Armor Points | 20 armor points when shell is closed x 10 |
| Where to Find | In the End dimension towards the End City |
| Weapon | Shulker bullets |
| Attack Method | Shoots shulker bullets. These bullets are guided and will follow you. When one hits, it will give you the Levitation effect and cause you to float upwards. |
| Drops |  1 Shulker Shell (sometimes) |
| Experience Points | 5 experience points |
| Special Skills | When a shulker is being attacked, it can teleport away and attach to another solid block close by. |
Hostility Level (Hostile)
A shulker is a hostile mob. The term mob is short for mobile and is used to refer to all living, moving creatures in the game such as chickens, endermen, and shulkers. Because a shulker is a hostile mob, it will attack you in Survival mode but not Creative mode.
Health Points
In Minecraft, a shulker has 15 hearts for health. This gives a shulker 30 health points (because 1 heart = 2 health points).
Armor Points
When a shulker closes its shell, it has 20 armor points ( x 10). It does not have this armor protection when the shell is open.
Where to Find Shulkers
In Minecraft, you can find shulkers in the End dimension in the End City (outer islands in the End). Here, you will find the shulker attached to a solid block. It will blend in with the purpur blocks around it when its shell is closed.
If you are having trouble finding a shulker, you can summon a shulker using a cheat or you can use a spawn egg.
Weapon
A shulker has shulker bullets as a weapon.
Attack Method
When a shulker attacks you, it will open its shell and shoot shulker bullets at you. These bullets will act like guided missiles and follow you. When you are struck by a bullet, it will cause damage and give you the Levitation effect. This will cause you to float up until the effect wears off.
Drops
When you kill a shulker in Minecraft, it may sometimes drop a shulker shell. If you don’t get a shulker shell after killing the first shulker, be patient, and try killing another.
Make sure you pick up any dropped items before they disappear. They are useful and should be kept in your inventory to be used later.
Experience Points
As you play the game, you will gain experience. The most common way to gain experience is by killing mobs. When a mob is killed you will see tiny green and yellow balls appear and move towards you.
These orbs represent experience points. When you kill a shulker, you will gain 5 experience points.
Special Skills
Shulkers will close their shell to blend in with the purpur blocks around them. When a shulker is being attacked, it can teleport away and attach to another solid block close by.
Spawn Egg for Shulker
You can spawn a shulker using the following spawn egg:
Shulker Spawn Egg
Shulker Spawn EggCommand Examples
Here are some game command examples for a shulker in Minecraft:
NBT Tags for Shulker (Java Edition)
Here are the NBT tags (formerly called data tags) that you can use in game commands for a shulker in Java Edition:
Spawn Events for Shulker (Bedrock/Education)
Here are the spawn events that you can use in game commands for a shulker in Bedrock Edition and Education Edition:
Other Mobs
Here are some of the other mobs in Minecraft:
Allay
Axolotl
Bat
Bee
Blaze
Camel
Cat
Cave Spider
Chicken
Cod
Cow
Creeper
Dolphin
Donkey
Drowned
Elder Guardian
Ender Dragon
Enderman
Endermite
Evoker
Fox
Frog
Ghast
Giant
Glow Squid
Goat
Guardian
Hoglin
Horse
Husk
Illusioner
Iron Golem
Killer Bunny
Llama
Magma Cube
Mooshroom
Mule
Ocelot
Panda
Parrot
Phantom
Pig
Piglin
Piglin Brute
Pillager
Polar Bear
Pufferfish
Rabbit
Ravager
Salmon
Sheep
Silverfish
Skeleton
Skeleton Horse
Slime
Snow Golem
Spider
Squid
Stray
Strider
Tadpole
Trader Llama
Tropical Fish
Turtle
Vex
Villager
Vindicator
Warden
Witch
Wither Boss
Wither Skeleton
Wolf
Zoglin
Zombie Horse
Zombified Piglin (Zombie Pigman)
Zombie Villager
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