Stop Enderman Picking Up Blocks
Stop Enderman Picking Up Blocks keeps endermen from carrying blocks away, while their other behavior stays as it is in vanilla.
What it does
Endermen cannot pick up moving blocks once this data pack is loaded. Apart from that change, everything else keeps working: endermen still spawn, still teleport away from attacks and still drop ender pearls when they die. The change is applied through a data pack, so it works on a server without any client-side install.
The pack is placed in the datapacks folder of a world, then reloaded in game or by loading the world again. Server owners can also remove the folder and reload to restore the default behavior. Config and commands are mentioned by the author, so the pack can be adjusted to fit a server's rules.
The mod is published for Fabric as a data pack for 26.1.2 – 26.3, with 1.0.2 for 26.3 as the latest file, released under the MIT License. It is not open source. The server must load the pack, while players may join without it, so clients can run unchanged.
Key features
Blocks stay in place
Endermen can no longer pick up blocks, so terrain they roam over is not stripped away.
Vanilla behavior kept
Endermen still spawn, teleport during attacks and drop ender pearls, so the mob's other traits are unchanged.
Simple to remove
Deleting the pack folder and running a reload returns endermen to their default behavior.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Protecting builds
Builders on survival servers can keep structures from losing blocks to roaming endermen.
Keeping terrain intact
Players exploring open landscapes keep the blocks they set down near endermen.
Who it’s for: Server owners and players who want endermen to stop taking blocks, while keeping the mob's combat and drop behavior. The mod suits servers where players run their own worlds and need a data pack rather than a mod on every client.
Questions
Does Stop Enderman Picking Up Blocks need Fabric?
How is the pack installed on a world?
Do endermen still drop ender pearls?
In the catalog
Stop Enderman Picking Up Blocks is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,189 Mobs mods for Fabric. 8,071 mods support Minecraft 26.3.
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What the author says
No config, no commands. Drop it in your world's datapack folder and run /reload.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/stop-enderman-picking-up-blocks
- Owner
- HarryTheeWizard
- Published
- 2026-05-21
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-09-28
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15