While underground, they will teleport to a place where you can't hear them, and they are pretty much just lost forever. Teleport into caves directly under the character and stay there until morning. Teleport into water far away and become un-aggressive, making it hard to find them. Not THAT they teleport, but they tend to do annoying things like: Yeah I definately agree, I find that the main problem is the way they teleport. I have stacks of blaze rods that I got while waiting for my nether wart to grow. Now I just basically sit out there killing zombies and skeletons all night, and it gets kind of boring.īlazes: easy. At first I was hesitant to go out at night for fear of accidentally looking at a swarm of endermen, and that scared (read: excited) me quite a bit. Consistent pearl drops, for the reason stated above. Then, when I find one, I get super excited, only to find that it didn't drop a pearl. Sometimes I'm out of my base for an hour or more of IRL time, days and nights of Minecraft time, looking for endermen and don't find any. I play on hardcore mode and endermen are no problem. Try doing it on hard mode where Endermen deal 5 hearts and 2 shot you in about a second. A side entrance lets me in to collect loot as need be. For whatever reason this also seems to stop endermen teleporting away when they get close to me. My cavern uses an overhead ledge and some fences to prevent anything except spiders from getting through the main entrance (netherbrick fences and lots of obsidian, as it's pretty much impossible to stop creeper explosions in the long run). Mobs, including Endermen, seem to spawn in groups (or at least they did in 1.9.5, the latest build I've got installed thus far). Underground spawning rates drop overnight due to the influx of surface mobs, ditto when it's raining. Luckily it's easy to attract endermen's attention, and their eyes glow in the dark. The bigger the better - you want it to stretch back as far as you can see. In this case, you want to make a bigass cavern, deep enough that any endermen can't teleport up to the surface (if you discover any other caves near the entrance where you'll be fighting, you can either merge them into the main cavern or fill them with cobble). You didn't harvest all those other resources overnight, but you were able to start much earlier - the pearls are still a relatively new game feature.Īt the end of the day, the efficient way to do anything in MineCraft is to build something for the purpose. The difficulty in obtaining pearls probably wouldn't feel so bad if you'd only just started playing minecraft. I've looked in caves, and I find a few, but it seems like even less than outdoors. It's gotten so tedious that I don't play that much anymore, which makes it take even longer. I wish there was a bed that would let me sleep through the day so I could go out and look for pearls at night. Maybe 50% of the time I seem to get a pearl, which means it's going to take me something like 24 or so nights to get 12 pearls. Usually I kill him, unless it's too close to dawn and he disappears. I can usually find around one Enderman a night - going to the top of a mountain, running around to all the sides, looking down and staring at one until he ports nearby. The only thing I don't have is the pearls to activate it - I've got something like 4.

I've found and pretty much completely explored a stronghold with an Ender portal. I've got zillions of resources, crops, animal herds, houses, potions, tons of enchantmented stuff - everything I could want.

Ender pearl