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Discovered in November 2021, the '''Enderman Torture Exploit''' exploit requires an enderman to be hit with a stacked instant damage potion. It simply abuses the enderman's teleportation algorithm when damaged to work. Basically, when an enderman is hit with the potion, it teleports. For example, a modified splash potion with about 1000 entries of instant damage would cause the enderman to teleport rapidly 1000 times, thus putting strain on the server. Repeating this with ''several'' endermen can enable the perpetrator to successfully crash the server. The exploit was often hard to detect because no obscure errors would be printed in the log. The easiest clue to detect the exploit was to look for someone spawning endermen right before the server crashed.