Spawn Events for Shulker in Minecraft

This Minecraft tutorial explains the spawn events that you can use for a shulker in Minecraft Bedrock Edition (PE, Win10, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch) and Education Edition.

Background

In the latest version of Minecraft Bedrock Edition and Education Edition, the entity value for a shulker is shulker. The shulker entity has a unique set of spawn events that can be used in Minecraft commands such as: /summon and /event. (The spawn event parameter is called spawnEvent in the Minecraft help for the /summon command and eventName in the Minecraft help for the /event command.)

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What is a Spawn Event?

Spawn events allow you to trigger certain in-game events for an entity in Bedrock Edition (PE, Win10, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch) and Education Edition. Currently, you can only trigger one spawn event at a time when you use the /summon or /event commands.

List of Spawn Events

Here is a list of the spawn events that you can use for a shulker in Minecraft Bedrock Edition (PE, Win10, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch) and Minecraft Education Edition:

Minecraft ID Description Bedrock Edition
(Added in)
minecraft:turn_black Shulker is black in color 1.12.0
minecraft:turn_blue Shulker is blue in color 1.12.0
minecraft:turn_brown Shulker is brown in color 1.12.0
minecraft:turn_cyan Shulker is cyan in color 1.12.0
minecraft:turn_gray Shulker is gray in color 1.12.0
minecraft:turn_green Shulker is green in color 1.12.0
minecraft:turn_light_blue Shulker is light blue in color 1.12.0
minecraft:turn_lime Shulker is lime in color 1.12.0
minecraft:turn_magenta Shulker is magenta in color 1.12.0
minecraft:turn_orange Shulker is orange in color 1.12.0
minecraft:turn_pink Shulker is pink in color 1.12.0
minecraft:turn_purple Shulker is purple in color 1.12.0
minecraft:turn_red Shulker is red in color 1.12.0
minecraft:turn_silver Shulker is light gray in color 1.12.0
minecraft:turn_white Shulker is white in color 1.12.0
minecraft:turn_yellow Shulker is yellow in color 1.12.0
minecraft:entity_spawned Shulker has spawned 1.12.0

Spawn Event Example

To summon a black shulker in Bedrock Edition (PE, Win10, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch) or Education Edition:

/summon shulker ~ ~ ~ minecraft:turn_black

Next, learn how to use the game commands in Minecraft.

Command Examples

Here are some game command examples for a shulker in Minecraft:

Command Generators

If you need help, you can use these tools to automatically generate commands for you: