What blocks can endermen not spawn on?

Just like all other mobs, Endermen need to spawn on a solid, opaque block. You can pave an area with half-slabs, stairs, or glass, among other things, to prevent them from spawning there.
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What can enderman spawn on?

Endermen spawn in an area with light level 7 or less (11 or less in the End) on any solid surface having at least 3 blocks of empty space above. They spawn in groups up to 4. Endermen and endermites are the only mob that naturally spawn in all 3 dimensions, including Overworld, Nether, and the End.
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Can enderman spawn on slabs?

No, mobs cannot spawn on single slabs. This wiki article explains in detail the requirements for any given mob to spawn. To prevent endermen from making holes in your grinder, make the spawning level only 2 blocks high, or set mobGriefing to false.
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Can enderman spawn on glass block?

In the End, endermen are spawning regardless of light level, and they are spawning on top of stained glass blocks.
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Can endermen spawn on carpet?

Mobs cannot spawn on carpets because they are not a full block. It also makes nice art. Snow layers of thicknesses 2 to 7 prevent hostile mobs from spawning. Mobs cannot spawn on buttons, levers, pressure plates, and all types of rails.
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What Blocks Can Mobs Not Spawn On? [1.17]



What can Endermen not to onto?

Endermen cannot place blocks onto bedrock or entities.
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Endermen pick up the following blocks:
  • Cactus.
  • Clay.
  • Coarse Dirt.
  • Rooted Dirt.
  • Dirt.
  • Flowers (short)
  • Fungi.
  • Roots.
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Can Endermen spawn on cobblestone?

Endermen spawn only on end stone & obsidian at End.
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What stops Enderman from spawning?

Endermen are 3 blocks tall, so:
  1. Make a moat full of water as jsnlxndrlv's answer suggests.
  2. Make your house interior shorter than 3 blocks. Not three blocks or less, but no higher than 2 blocks!
  3. Make your exterior walls from diamond blocks as chichiwauwa09's answer suggests.
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Can Enderman spawn on Endstone bricks?

Only endermen can spawn on Endstone regardless of where it's placed. Even in the overworld, a floor made of Endstone only spawns endermen. But to balance it so that too few mobs don't spawn, kick up the likelihood of the endermen to more or less what the total of all other mobs is on normal blocks.
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How do you Enderman proof your house?

Endermen hate water, so consider placing three lengths of water around your house. Make a bridge over the water so that you can get in and out. Also, use a glow stone inside your house instead of torches.
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Can enderman spawn on double carpet?

Cover the floor in double carpets - two layers of carpet. The endermen don't spawn on it, don't consider that a valid teleport destination and don't pathfind over it unless they happen to get there accidentally e.g. after dropping off ledges.
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Can endermen spawn on waterlogged blocks?

Description. Endermen usually do not teleport to any waterlogged blocks, to avoid teleporting into water.
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Can mobs spawn on Netherrack?

Regular mobs can't spawn on netherrack. The only exception are skeletons which can spawn - only in the nether - on netherbrick. And yes, all mobs which appear only in the nether can only spawn there, even if you place netherrack in the overworld, there won't spawn any mobs on it.
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Can Endermen spawn on Glowstone?

edit: to account for seeing endermen spawn in 3 high areas that were lit up, they were teleporting not actually spawning, all an enderman needs to teleport is a block with 3 air spaces above it within a 32 block range that isn't water, so endermen can teleport on half slabs (lower half), glass, leaves, glowstone etc.
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Can Endermen spawn on grass?

According to the Minecraft Wiki, they instead pickup blocks within a 4x4x3 area of where they are standing. Commands can be used to spawn them in holding a block, but other than that, if there is no dirt/grass for them to pickup, then they will never be holding said blocks.
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What Block do Endermen spawn on the most?

The Enderman in Minecraft is a neutral mob that only attacks the player when provoked. The Enderman is provoked by either looking at it directly or by attacking it first. The Enderman often picks up blocks, most often a grass block as it teleports around the world of Minecraft.
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Can Endermen pick up Blackstone?

Enderman can pick up any full block, except obsidian.
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Is Endstone stronger than obsidian?

End stone has a blast resistance stronger than most other stone variants, except bedrock and obsidian.
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Can torches stop Endermen from spawning?

Endermen will spawn in even though the area is covered with torches. Expected Results: The elevated light level should prevent mobs from spawning in.
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Can Endermen spawn on rails?

Mobs. Mobs can no longer spawn inside blocks that block movement but are transparent, such as leaves. Mobs can no longer spawn in blocks containing rails, powered rails, detector rails, or activator rails.
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Why do Endermen hate Endermites?

Because they're invasive.
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Is the White enderman real?

The White Enderman appears to be more of a legend than an actual mob in Minecraft. However, there are several players who claim that they have encountered the White Enderman. One of the most notable accounts shared on Creepypasta is also said to be one of the initial sightings of this spooky white colored Enderman.
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How do you befriend an enderman?

This Enderman may be befriended by giving it gifts (the equivalent of taming a pet). These gifts are pulled from the list of blocks an Enderman can pick up. A common block like dirt is very unlikely to befriend this Enderman, but rarer blocks like Melons, TNT, Podzol, and Red Sand are much more likely.
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Can mobs spawn on obsidian?

Monsters can spawn on obsidian if it's dark enough, but it isn't any more likely than any other block.
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Can mobs spawn on Amethyst?

Be aware also that a Geode is hollow and the light level generated by Amethyst Clusters is not enough to prevent hostile mobs from spawning inside it. The different layers of an Amethyst Geode in Minecraft.
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