Zombie Villager

A plains zombie villager with an enchanted iron sword

In Java Edition, when zombies spawn during the normal cycle, there is a 5% chance that one of them will be replaced with a zombie villager. This chance increases to 20% in old growth pine taiga biomes.

In Bedrock Edition, when zombies spawn during the normal cycle, there is a 5% chance that 2–4 of them will be replaced with zombie villagers.

Zombie Villager spawns in:

Category: Monster	Java Edition			Bedrock Edition
Spawn area	Spawn weight	Spawn chance	Group size	Spawn weight	Group size
👁 Image Old Growth Pine Taiga^{[spawn 1]}	²⁵⁄₅₄₀	4.63%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Sulfur Caves	⁵⁄₃₁₅	1.59%	1	4.95	2
👁 Image Frozen Peaks	⁵⁄₅₁₅	0.97%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Meadow	⁵⁄₅₁₅	0.97%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Grove	⁵⁄₅₁₅	0.97%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Bamboo Jungle	⁵⁄₅₁₅	0.97%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Jagged Peaks	⁵⁄₅₁₅	0.97%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Windswept Hills	⁵⁄₅₁₅	0.97%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Snowy Beach	⁵⁄₅₁₅	0.97%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Jungle	⁵⁄₅₁₅	0.97%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Eroded Badlands	⁵⁄₅₁₅	0.97%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Flower Forest	⁵⁄₅₁₅	0.97%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Sparse Jungle	⁵⁄₅₁₅	0.97%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Birch Forest	⁵⁄₅₁₅	0.97%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Stony Peaks	⁵⁄₅₁₅	0.97%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Beach	⁵⁄₅₁₅	0.97%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Taiga	⁵⁄₅₁₅	0.97%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Lush Caves	⁵⁄₅₁₅	0.97%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Snowy Slopes	⁵⁄₅₁₅	0.97%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Wooded Badlands	⁵⁄₅₁₅	0.97%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Dappled Forest	⁵⁄₅₁₅	0.97%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Snowy Taiga	⁵⁄₅₁₅	0.97%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Forest	⁵⁄₅₁₅	0.97%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Badlands	⁵⁄₅₁₅	0.97%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Ice Spikes	⁵⁄₅₁₅	0.97%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Pale Garden	⁵⁄₅₁₅	0.97%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Windswept Forest	⁵⁄₅₁₅	0.97%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Old Growth Birch Forest	⁵⁄₅₁₅	0.97%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Old Growth Spruce Taiga	⁵⁄₅₁₅	0.97%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Dark Forest	⁵⁄₅₁₅	0.97%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Windswept Gravelly Hills	⁵⁄₅₁₅	0.97%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Cherry Grove	⁵⁄₅₁₅	0.97%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Stony Shore	⁵⁄₅₁₅	0.97%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Swamp	⁵⁄₅₁₆	0.97%	1	5	4
👁 Image Frozen River	⁵⁄₅₁₆	0.97%	1	—	—
👁 Image Mangrove Swamp	⁵⁄₅₁₆	0.97%	1	5	1
👁 Image Sunflower Plains	⁵⁄₅₂₀	0.96%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Deep Cold Ocean	⁵⁄₅₂₀	0.96%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Lukewarm Ocean	⁵⁄₅₂₀	0.96%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Deep Frozen Ocean	⁵⁄₅₂₀	0.96%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Snowy Plains	⁵⁄₅₂₀	0.96%	1	—	—
👁 Image Ocean	⁵⁄₅₂₀	0.96%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Deep Lukewarm Ocean	⁵⁄₅₂₀	0.96%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Plains	⁵⁄₅₂₀	0.96%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Windswept Savanna	⁵⁄₅₂₀	0.96%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Savanna Plateau	⁵⁄₅₂₀	0.96%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Frozen Ocean	⁵⁄₅₂₀	0.96%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Deep Ocean	⁵⁄₅₂₀	0.96%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Warm Ocean	⁵⁄₅₂₀	0.96%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Savanna	⁵⁄₅₂₀	0.96%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Cold Ocean	⁵⁄₅₂₀	0.96%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image Dripstone Caves	⁵⁄₆₁₀	0.82%	1	5	2–4
👁 Image River	⁵⁄₆₁₅	0.81%	1	—	—
👁 Image Desert	¹⁄₅₁₅	0.19%	1	5	2–4

↑ Highest chance among all biomes.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Converting

Additionally, if a zombie, husk, drowned, zombie villager, or zombified piglin‌^{[JE only]} kills a villager, that villager has a chance of turning into a zombie villager depending on the game difficulty.

Difficulty	Chance
Easy	0%
Normal	50%
Hard	100%

In Java Edition, a converted zombie villager does not despawn if the player has traded with it at least once prior to its conversion, but unlike all other persistent mobs it still counts toward the hostile mob cap. If the zombie villager picks up any item however, it remains persistent but is excluded from the mob cap. In Bedrock Edition all converted zombie villagers are persistent.

Abandoned villages

Zombie villagers may also spawn as part of abandoned villages during world generation, the number of which depends on the buildings in that village, as some buildings generate zombie villagers inside and some do not. Like villagers, the zombie villagers’ biome outfits are based on the type of village. These zombie villagers are persistent and do not despawn. In Bedrock Edition^[verify], these zombie villagers can open doors instead of breaking them.

Igloo basements

A zombie villager appears alongside a cleric villager in every igloo basement (a normal zombie villager in Bedrock Edition and a cleric zombie villager in Java Edition), both locked in small cages behind iron bars. One of them transforms into a leatherworker, due to the workstation (a cauldron). The zombie villager is persistent and does not despawn.

Reinforcements

This feature is exclusive to Java Edition.

Main article: Zombie § Reinforcements

On Hard difficulty, all zombie villagers have a 0-10% chance to spawn other zombie villagers as reinforcements when receiving damage while targeting an entity. Additionally, up to 5% of zombie villagers spawn as leaders, getting a 50-75% boost to that chance.

Variants

Baby zombie villagers

Baby zombie villagers make up 5% of zombie villager spawns. They behave similarly to regular zombie villagers, with the following differences:

They are 30% faster than normal zombie villagers, yet they have the same health as normal zombies. This makes baby zombie villagers more dangerous than their bigger counterparts.
The noises they make are higher-pitched than adult zombie villager sound effects.
In Java Edition, baby zombie villagers have a chance to spawn as a chicken jockey.
In Bedrock Edition, baby zombie villagers have a 15% chance to spawn as a jockey, but cannot ride mobs due to MCPE-234690.
Baby zombie villagers can be cured back into baby villagers.
Worn armor shrinks to fit their body size.
They are able to fit through 1×1 block gaps.
They drop 12 experience when killed by the player instead of 5.
Unlike other baby mobs but like undead baby mobs, they stay as babies indefinitely and never grow into adult zombie villagers, therefore golden dandelions do not work.
They have a decreased hitbox size.

Baby zombie villagers are spawned when a zombie kills a baby villager, the chance of infection being the same as adult zombie villagers. Baby zombie villagers also spawn naturally, but the combined chance (5% villagers × 5% babies) is low at 0.25% (or 1 in 400 chance) of all newly spawned zombies.

Mounts

This feature is exclusive to Bedrock Edition, but is currently broken.

In Bedrock Edition, 15% of naturally spawned baby zombie villagers are supposed to start riding a mob and become a jockey when it tries attacking, but doesn't due to MCPE-234690.

This is due to the fact that in the zombie_villager_v2.json file, in the baby component group, it has the minecraft:type_family component, which has baby_undead, which makes the baby zombie villager able to ride mobs.

"baby":{
"minecraft:experience_reward":{
"on_death":{
"expression":"query.last_hit_by_player ? 12 + (query.equipment_count * Math.Random(1,3)) : 0",
"version":13
}
},
"minecraft:is_baby":{},
"minecraft:scale":{
"value":0.5
},
"minecraft:collision_box":{
"height":1.96,
"width":0.98
},
"minecraft:type_family":{
"family":[
"baby_undead",//Baby zombie villagers are supposed to be in this family, but they are not because of other component groups overiding this component, such as the one below
"zombie_villager",
"zombie",
"undead",
"monster",
"mob"
]
}
},
"unskilled":{//An example component group that has the "minecraft:type_family" component.
"minecraft:type_family":{
"family":[
"unskilled",
"zombie_villager",
"zombie",
"undead",
"monster",
"mob"
]
},
"minecraft:variant":{
"value":0
}
},

However, in the minecraft:entity_spawned event, there is an incorrect entity filter applied when a zombie villager spawns with a profession:

//This spawn event is applied when mobs spawn naturally
"minecraft:entity_spawned":{
"sequence":[
{
"filters":{"test":"has_component","operator":"not","value":"minecraft:variant"}//This filter has no effect on the zombie villagers that spawn
"randomize":[
{
"add":{
"component_groups":[
"adult"
]
},
"remove":{},
"weight":9500
},
{
"add":{
"component_groups":[
"baby"
]
},
"remove":{},
"weight":425
},
{
"add":{
"component_groups":[
"baby",
"jockey"
]
},
"remove":{},
"weight":75
}
]
},
{
"filters":{
"all_of":[
{"test":"has_component","operator":"not","value":"minecraft:variant"}
{"test":"has_component","operator":"not","value":"minecraft:is_baby"}//This filter is supposed to stop baby zombie villagers from gaining professions when they spawn, but this filter has no effect.
]
}
"randomize":[
{
"add":{
"component_groups":[
"unskilled"
]
},
"weight":1
},
{
"add":{
"component_groups":[
"nitwit"
]
},
"weight":1
},
{
"add":{
"component_groups":[
"farmer"
]
},
"remove":{},
"weight":1
},
{
"add":{
"component_groups":[
"fisherman"
]
},
"remove":{},
"weight":1
},
{
"add":{
"component_groups":[
"shepherd"
]
},
"remove":{},
"weight":1
},
{
"add":{
"component_groups":[
"fletcher"
]
},
"remove":{},
"weight":1
},
{
"add":{
"component_groups":[
"librarian"
]
},
"remove":{},
"weight":1
},
{
"add":{
"component_groups":[
"cartographer"
]
},
"remove":{},
"weight":1
},
{
"add":{
"component_groups":[
"cleric"
]
},
"remove":{},
"weight":1
},
{
"add":{
"component_groups":[
"armorer"
]
},
"remove":{},
"weight":1
},
{
"add":{
"component_groups":[
"weaponsmith"
]
},
"remove":{},
"weight":1
},
{
"add":{
"component_groups":[
"toolsmith"
]
},
"remove":{},
"weight":1
},
{
"add":{
"component_groups":[
"butcher"
]
},
"remove":{},
"weight":1
},
{
"add":{
"component_groups":[
"leatherworker"
]
},
"remove":{},
"weight":1
},
{
"add":{
"component_groups":[
"mason"
]
},
"remove":{},
"weight":1
}
]
},
{
"trigger":"minecraft:add_biome_and_skin"
},
{
"randomize":[
{
"add":{
"component_groups":[
"can_break_doors"
]
},
"weight":10
},
{
"weight":90
}
]
}
]
}

The second commented entity filter tries to prevent adding professions to babies, but filters like this only apply when in a "lifetime" event, not a spawning event. Thus, this filter has no effect on the baby zombie villagers that spawn. The component groups of the professions that zombie villagers have contain the minecraft:type_family components that override the baby component group's minecraft:type_family component, preventing baby zombie villagers being part of the baby_undead family, which prevents them from riding mobs. However, they are still part of the zombie family, and skeleton horses are rideable by mobs in said family, which means that baby zombie villager jockeys can only search for nearby skeleton horses to mount.

Using the /ride command, it is possible to make a "converted" baby zombie villager ride:

👁 EntitySprite chicken.png: Sprite image for chicken in Minecraft
Adult chickens
👁 Image
Cows
👁 EntitySprite pig.png: Sprite image for pig in Minecraft
Unsaddled adult pigs
👁 Image
Sheep
👁 Image
Mooshrooms
👁 EntitySprite ocelot.png: Sprite image for ocelot in Minecraft
Untrusting ocelots
👁 EntitySprite cat.png: Sprite image for cat in Minecraft
Untamed cats
👁 EntitySprite angry-wolf.png: Sprite image for angry-wolf in Minecraft
Untamed wolves
👁 EntitySprite horse.png: Sprite image for horse in Minecraft
Untamed adult horses
👁 EntitySprite donkey.png: Sprite image for donkey in Minecraft
Untamed adult donkeys
👁 EntitySprite mule.png: Sprite image for mule in Minecraft
Untamed adult mules
👁 EntitySprite skeleton-horse.png: Sprite image for skeleton-horse in Minecraft
Adult skeleton horses
👁 EntitySprite zombie-horse.png: Sprite image for zombie-horse in Minecraft
Adult zombie horses
👁 Image
Pandas
👁 EntitySprite zombie.png: Sprite image for zombie in Minecraft
Adult zombies
👁 EntitySprite husk.png: Sprite image for husk in Minecraft
Adult husks
👁 EntitySprite zombie-villager.png: Sprite image for zombie-villager in Minecraft
Adult zombie villagers
👁 EntitySprite zombified-piglin.png: Sprite image for zombified-piglin in Minecraft
Adult zombified piglins
👁 EntitySprite spider.png: Sprite image for spider in Minecraft
Spiders that were not spawned as a jockey mount
👁 EntitySprite cave-spider.png: Sprite image for cave-spider in Minecraft
Cave spiders that were not spawned as a jockey mount

Geared zombie villagers

Main article: Geared mobs

Along with skeletons and regular zombies, some zombie villagers are capable of picking up dropped items. These zombie villagers automatically pick up and hold any item that they come across (except jack o'lanterns‌^{[Java Edition only]}, mob heads and pumpkins, as these are worn on their heads), and use any armor, weapons, or tools picked up. If they encounter another similar item, they pick it up and drop their previous item:

if the new item is armor or a sword and the old item was not (for example, zombie villagers prefer swords to pickaxes and helmets to pumpkins),
if both items are armor/swords and the new item is better damage-wise (reduces more damage for armor, or inflicts more damage for swords),
if both items are armor/swords with the same damage reduction/infliction, the new item has NBT tags while the old does not or the new item is more damaged than the old item, or
if both items are bows and the new item has NBT tags while the old does not.

Items dropped by mobs in exchange for another cannot be picked up by players or mobs for 10 game ticks (0.5 seconds, barring lag), but can be picked up by hoppers.

Armor worn by zombie villagers is not damaged from most damage sources, which means it cannot "wear out" the way player armor does. Helmets (not blocks like pumpkins) on zombie villagers can wear away and break if the zombie villager is exposed to daylight, or has an anvil or other falling block dropped on its head. Zombie villagers also have a natural armor rating of 2 (👁 🛡
), which gives 1.6 - 8% damage reduction from most sources.

Some zombie villagers that are capable of picking up items spawn already in possession of such items, and those items may also be enchanted. The chances of that event are listed below. If a zombie villager spawns wearing multiple pieces of armor, the armor is never mismatched (i.e. all pieces are made of the same material).

Chances of zombie villagers wearing or picking up armor, per difficulty
	Easy	Normal	Hard
Can pick up loot	0%	0%-55%^{[note 1]}	6.875%-55%^{[note 1]}
Armor	0%	0%-15%^{[note 1]}	1.875%-15%^{[note 1]}
Armor enchantment^{[note 2]}	0%	0%-50%^{[note 1]}	6.25%-50%^{[note 1]}
Weapon^{[note 3]}	1%	1%	5%
Weapon enchantment^{[note 2]}	0%	0%-25%^{[note 1]}	3.125%-25%^{[note 1]}

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Value is based on the regional difficulty.
↑ ^a ^b Enchantment is the same as on an enchantment table at level 5–22.^{[note 1]}
↑ ¹⁄₆ chance of an iron sword, ¹⁄₆ chance of an iron spear, ²⁄₃ chance of an iron shovel

If a zombie villager does spawn with armor, the chances of specific armor are as follows:

Chances of different armor pieces, per difficulty
Armor	Easy & Normal	Hard
Helmet	100%	100%
Helmet & chestplate	75%	90%
Helmet & chestplate & leggings	56.25%	81%
Full set	42.19%	72.9%

The chances of particular materials are:

Chances of different armor types
Armor type	Chance
Leather	23.60%
Copper	32.23%
Gold	33.29%
Chain	9.73%
Iron	1.10%
Diamond	0.04%

Any zombie villager that spawns with equipment‌^{[Java Edition only]} (picked-up items don't count) drops 1–3 extra experience per item.

Villager variants

A zombie villager retains its biome outfit and profession after zombification from a villager. They also retain their trades. Zombie villagers with a profession cannot work at a job site block.

Below is a table listing the various biome outfits and professions, along with the specific job site block that each profession requires:

Profession	Job Site Block	Biome
Profession	Job Site Block	Desert	Jungle	Plains	Savanna	Snowy	Swamp	Taiga
Unemployed	N/A	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image
Armorer	👁 Image Blast furnace	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image
Butcher	👁 Image Smoker	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image
Cartographer	👁 Image Cartography table	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image
Cleric	👁 Image Brewing stand	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image
Farmer	👁 Image Composter	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image
Fisherman	👁 Image Barrel	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image
Fletcher	👁 Image Fletching table	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image
Leatherworker	👁 Image Cauldron	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image
Librarian	👁 Image Lectern	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image
Mason	👁 Image Stonecutter	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image
Nitwit	N/A	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image
Shepherd	👁 Image Loom	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image
Toolsmith	👁 Image Smithing table	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image
Weaponsmith	👁 Image Grindstone	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image	👁 Image

Variant spawning

A zombie villager has variants depending on what biome it had spawned in, a Plains variant spawning in Sunflower Plains is an example.

Plains variant

Taiga variant

Jungle variant

Savanna variant

Snowy variant

Swamp variant

Desert variant

Drops

On death

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
Item		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
👁 Image	Rotten Flesh	0–2	66.67%	1.00	0–3	83.33%	1.50	0–4	91.67%	2.00	0–5	94.44%	2.50
👁 Image	Iron Ingot^[A]	0–1	0.83%	0.01	0–1	1.17%	0.01	0–1	1.50%	0.01	0–1	1.83%	0.02
👁 Image	Carrot^[A]	0–1	0.83%	0.01	0–1	1.17%	0.01	0–1	1.50%	0.01	0–1	1.83%	0.02
👁 Image	Potato^[A]^[B]	0–1	0.83%	0.01	0–1	1.17%	0.01	0–1	1.50%	0.01	0–1	1.83%	0.02
👁 Image	Baked Potato^[A]^[C]	0–1	0.83%	0.01	0–1	1.17%	0.01	0–1	1.50%	0.01	0–1	1.83%	0.02

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
Item		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
👁 Image	Rotten Flesh	0–2	²⁄₃	1	0–3	⁵⁄₆	³⁄₂	0–4	¹¹⁄₁₂	2	0–5	¹⁷⁄₁₈	⁵⁄₂
👁 Image	Iron Ingot^[A]	0–1	¹⁄₁₂₀	¹⁄₁₂₀	0–1	⁷⁄₆₀₀	⁷⁄₆₀₀	0–1	³⁄₂₀₀	³⁄₂₀₀	0–1	¹¹⁄₆₀₀	¹¹⁄₆₀₀
👁 Image	Carrot^[A]	0–1	¹⁄₁₂₀	¹⁄₁₂₀	0–1	⁷⁄₆₀₀	⁷⁄₆₀₀	0–1	³⁄₂₀₀	³⁄₂₀₀	0–1	¹¹⁄₆₀₀	¹¹⁄₆₀₀
👁 Image	Potato^[A]^[B]	0–1	¹⁄₁₂₀	¹⁄₁₂₀	0–1	⁷⁄₆₀₀	⁷⁄₆₀₀	0–1	³⁄₂₀₀	³⁄₂₀₀	0–1	¹¹⁄₆₀₀	¹¹⁄₆₀₀
👁 Image	Baked Potato^[A]^[C]	0–1	¹⁄₁₂₀	¹⁄₁₂₀	0–1	⁷⁄₆₀₀	⁷⁄₆₀₀	0–1	³⁄₂₀₀	³⁄₂₀₀	0–1	¹¹⁄₆₀₀	¹¹⁄₆₀₀

Item		Amount	Probability
Item		Amount	Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
👁 Image	Rotten Flesh	0	¹⁄₃ (33.33%)	¹⁄₆ (16.67%)	¹⁄₁₂ (8.33%)	¹⁄₁₈ (5.56%)
		1	¹⁄₃ (33.33%)	¹⁄₃ (33.33%)	¹⁄₄ (25.00%)	¹⁄₆ (16.67%)
		2	¹⁄₃ (33.33%)	¹⁄₃ (33.33%)	¹⁄₃ (33.33%)	⁵⁄₁₈ (27.78%)
		3	0	¹⁄₆ (16.67%)	¹⁄₄ (25.00%)	⁵⁄₁₈ (27.78%)
		4	0	0	¹⁄₁₂ (8.33%)	¹⁄₆ (16.67%)
		5	0	0	0	¹⁄₁₈ (5.56%)
		Average	1 (1.00)	³⁄₂ (1.50)	2 (2.00)	⁵⁄₂ (2.50)
👁 Image	Iron Ingot^[A]	0	¹¹⁹⁄₁₂₀ (99.17%)	⁵⁹³⁄₆₀₀ (98.83%)	¹⁹⁷⁄₂₀₀ (98.50%)	⁵⁸⁹⁄₆₀₀ (98.17%)
		1	¹⁄₁₂₀ (0.83%)	⁷⁄₆₀₀ (1.17%)	³⁄₂₀₀ (1.50%)	¹¹⁄₆₀₀ (1.83%)
		Average	¹⁄₁₂₀ (0.01)	⁷⁄₆₀₀ (0.01)	³⁄₂₀₀ (0.01)	¹¹⁄₆₀₀ (0.02)
👁 Image	Carrot^[A]	0	¹¹⁹⁄₁₂₀ (99.17%)	⁵⁹³⁄₆₀₀ (98.83%)	¹⁹⁷⁄₂₀₀ (98.50%)	⁵⁸⁹⁄₆₀₀ (98.17%)
		1	¹⁄₁₂₀ (0.83%)	⁷⁄₆₀₀ (1.17%)	³⁄₂₀₀ (1.50%)	¹¹⁄₆₀₀ (1.83%)
		Average	¹⁄₁₂₀ (0.01)	⁷⁄₆₀₀ (0.01)	³⁄₂₀₀ (0.01)	¹¹⁄₆₀₀ (0.02)
👁 Image	Potato^[A]^[B]	0	¹¹⁹⁄₁₂₀ (99.17%)	⁵⁹³⁄₆₀₀ (98.83%)	¹⁹⁷⁄₂₀₀ (98.50%)	⁵⁸⁹⁄₆₀₀ (98.17%)
		1	¹⁄₁₂₀ (0.83%)	⁷⁄₆₀₀ (1.17%)	³⁄₂₀₀ (1.50%)	¹¹⁄₆₀₀ (1.83%)
		Average	¹⁄₁₂₀ (0.01)	⁷⁄₆₀₀ (0.01)	³⁄₂₀₀ (0.01)	¹¹⁄₆₀₀ (0.02)
👁 Image	Baked Potato^[A]^[C]	0	¹¹⁹⁄₁₂₀ (99.17%)	⁵⁹³⁄₆₀₀ (98.83%)	¹⁹⁷⁄₂₀₀ (98.50%)	⁵⁸⁹⁄₆₀₀ (98.17%)
		1	¹⁄₁₂₀ (0.83%)	⁷⁄₆₀₀ (1.17%)	³⁄₂₀₀ (1.50%)	¹¹⁄₆₀₀ (1.83%)
		Average	¹⁄₁₂₀ (0.01)	⁷⁄₆₀₀ (0.01)	³⁄₂₀₀ (0.01)	¹¹⁄₆₀₀ (0.02)

Item		Expected Drops
Killed		1
Item		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
👁 Image	Rotten Flesh	1.00	1.50	2.00	2.50
👁 Image	Iron Ingot^[A]	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.02
👁 Image	Carrot^[A]	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.02
👁 Image	Potato^[A]^[B]	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.02
👁 Image	Baked Potato^[A]^[C]	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.02

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Only when killed by a player or a tamed wolf.
↑ Only when not on fire and not killed with a weapon enchanted with Fire Aspect.
↑ Only when on fire or killed with a weapon enchanted with Fire Aspect.

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
Item		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
👁 Image	Rotten Flesh	0–2	66.67%	1.00	0–3	66.67%	1.33	0–4	66.67%	1.67	0–5	66.67%	2.00
👁 Image	Iron Ingot^[A]	0–1	0.83%	0.01	0–1	1.17%	0.01	0–1	1.50%	0.01	0–1	1.83%	0.02
👁 Image	Carrot^[A]	0–1	0.83%	0.01	0–1	1.17%	0.01	0–1	1.50%	0.01	0–1	1.83%	0.02
👁 Image	Potato^[A]	0–1	0.83%	0.01	0–1	1.17%	0.01	0–1	1.50%	0.01	0–1	1.83%	0.02
👁 Image	Music Disc Lava Chicken^[A]^[B]^[C]	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
Item		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
👁 Image	Rotten Flesh	0–2	²⁄₃	1	0–3	²⁄₃	⁴⁄₃	0–4	²⁄₃	⁵⁄₃	0–5	²⁄₃	2
👁 Image	Iron Ingot^[A]	0–1	¹⁄₁₂₀	¹⁄₁₂₀	0–1	⁷⁄₆₀₀	⁷⁄₆₀₀	0–1	³⁄₂₀₀	³⁄₂₀₀	0–1	¹¹⁄₆₀₀	¹¹⁄₆₀₀
👁 Image	Carrot^[A]	0–1	¹⁄₁₂₀	¹⁄₁₂₀	0–1	⁷⁄₆₀₀	⁷⁄₆₀₀	0–1	³⁄₂₀₀	³⁄₂₀₀	0–1	¹¹⁄₆₀₀	¹¹⁄₆₀₀
👁 Image	Potato^[A]	0–1	¹⁄₁₂₀	¹⁄₁₂₀	0–1	⁷⁄₆₀₀	⁷⁄₆₀₀	0–1	³⁄₂₀₀	³⁄₂₀₀	0–1	¹¹⁄₆₀₀	¹¹⁄₆₀₀
👁 Image	Music Disc Lava Chicken^[A]^[B]^[C]	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Item		Amount	Probability
Item		Amount	Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
👁 Image	Rotten Flesh	0	¹⁄₃ (33.33%)	¹⁄₃ (33.33%)	¹⁄₃ (33.33%)	¹⁄₃ (33.33%)
		1	¹⁄₃ (33.33%)	¹⁄₆ (16.67%)	¹⁄₁₂ (8.33%)	¹⁄₁₈ (5.56%)
		2	¹⁄₃ (33.33%)	¹⁄₃ (33.33%)	¹⁄₄ (25.00%)	¹⁄₆ (16.67%)
		3	0	¹⁄₆ (16.67%)	¹⁄₄ (25.00%)	²⁄₉ (22.22%)
		4	0	0	¹⁄₁₂ (8.33%)	¹⁄₆ (16.67%)
		5	0	0	0	¹⁄₁₈ (5.56%)
		Average	1 (1.00)	⁴⁄₃ (1.33)	⁵⁄₃ (1.67)	2 (2.00)
👁 Image	Iron Ingot^[A]	0	¹¹⁹⁄₁₂₀ (99.17%)	⁵⁹³⁄₆₀₀ (98.83%)	¹⁹⁷⁄₂₀₀ (98.50%)	⁵⁸⁹⁄₆₀₀ (98.17%)
		1	¹⁄₁₂₀ (0.83%)	⁷⁄₆₀₀ (1.17%)	³⁄₂₀₀ (1.50%)	¹¹⁄₆₀₀ (1.83%)
		Average	¹⁄₁₂₀ (0.01)	⁷⁄₆₀₀ (0.01)	³⁄₂₀₀ (0.01)	¹¹⁄₆₀₀ (0.02)
👁 Image	Carrot^[A]	0	¹¹⁹⁄₁₂₀ (99.17%)	⁵⁹³⁄₆₀₀ (98.83%)	¹⁹⁷⁄₂₀₀ (98.50%)	⁵⁸⁹⁄₆₀₀ (98.17%)
		1	¹⁄₁₂₀ (0.83%)	⁷⁄₆₀₀ (1.17%)	³⁄₂₀₀ (1.50%)	¹¹⁄₆₀₀ (1.83%)
		Average	¹⁄₁₂₀ (0.01)	⁷⁄₆₀₀ (0.01)	³⁄₂₀₀ (0.01)	¹¹⁄₆₀₀ (0.02)
👁 Image	Potato^[A]	0	¹¹⁹⁄₁₂₀ (99.17%)	⁵⁹³⁄₆₀₀ (98.83%)	¹⁹⁷⁄₂₀₀ (98.50%)	⁵⁸⁹⁄₆₀₀ (98.17%)
		1	¹⁄₁₂₀ (0.83%)	⁷⁄₆₀₀ (1.17%)	³⁄₂₀₀ (1.50%)	¹¹⁄₆₀₀ (1.83%)
		Average	¹⁄₁₂₀ (0.01)	⁷⁄₆₀₀ (0.01)	³⁄₂₀₀ (0.01)	¹¹⁄₆₀₀ (0.02)
👁 Image	Music Disc Lava Chicken^[A]^[B]^[C]	1	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)
👁 Image	Music Disc Lava Chicken^[A]^[B]^[C]	Average	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)

Item		Expected Drops
Killed		1
Item		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
👁 Image	Rotten Flesh	1.00	1.33	1.67	2.00
👁 Image	Iron Ingot^[A]	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.02
👁 Image	Carrot^[A]	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.02
👁 Image	Potato^[A]	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.02
👁 Image	Music Disc Lava Chicken^[A]^[B]^[C]	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Only when killed by a player or a tamed wolf.
↑ Only if it is a baby and is riding a chicken.
↑ Zombie villagers and husks unintentionally drop the Lava Chicken Music Disc due to MCPE-224103, as they use the zombie.json loot table.

Any picked-up equipment has a 100% chance of dropping on death or when cured and drops with the same damage level it had when picked up.

Naturally-spawned equipment

This feature is exclusive to Java Edition.

In Java Edition^[1], a zombie villager can spawn with any of the following:

Zombie villagers have an 8.5% chance of dropping their naturally-spawned equipment (other than Halloween pumpkins), and drop it with a random durability. Each level of Looting increases the chance by 1 percentage point (11.5% with Looting III). They cannot drop the diamond swords that they occasionally wield during ominous trials.

↑ ^a ^b Zombie villagers spawn with pumpkins and jack o'lanterns‌^{[Java Edition only]} only during Halloween.

Experience

Adult zombie villagers drop 5XP and an additional 1–3XP per naturally-spawned equipment. Baby zombie villagers drop 12XP experience.

Behavior

Main article: Zombie § Behavior

Zombie villagers behave as ordinary zombies, except that they do not convert to drowned when submerged.

Zombie villagers that were converted from villagers retain their professions and clothes, which gain a tattered appearance. Naturally spawned zombie villagers (or ones spawned with spawn eggs) have a random profession, and can also spawn with unemployed or nitwit outfits. In Bedrock Edition, due to a bug, baby zombie villagers can have professions.

In Java Edition, zombie villagers are never spawned as part of a zombie siege, but if a zombie villager naturally spawns nearby, it will join the siege and behave like all other zombies.

Using spears

Zombie villagers wielding spears have different attacking behavior. When attacking, they use the spear's charge attack while moving towards their target. They hold the charge through its full duration, using all 3 stages. Once the charge attack has ended or they get too close to their target, they walk away to increase the distance between them and their target before turning around to begin another charge.

Mob type

Being an undead mob, they are:

damaged by the status effect Instant Health and healed by the status effect Instant Damage.
unaffected by the status effects Regeneration and Poison.
ignored by the wither.
affected by the Smite enchantment.
a threat to armadillos, causing them to hide in their shell.

Curing

👁 Image
"Curing" redirects here. For the enchantment, see Mending.

👁 Image
There is a related tutorial page for this topic!

See Tutorial:Curing a zombie villager.

Zombie villagers can be cured (converted to normal villagers) by first giving them the Weakness effect, which can be applied by:

A splash potion of Weakness thrown by the player, a dispenser, or a witch.
A lingering potion of Weakness thrown by the player or a dispenser.
An arrow of Weakness shot by the player, a dispenser, or a parched.
An area effect cloud caused by the explosion of a creeper inflicted with Weakness.‌^{[Java Edition only]}
The /effect command, if cheats are enabled.

The weakened zombie villager must then be healed by using a (non-enchanted^[2]) golden apple on it. The zombie villager begins to shudder to signal that curing is in progress. Also, the Weakness effect is removed, replaced by Strength for the duration of the curing process. An internal countdown timer is then started, counting down the total time to cure.

Time to cure is initially a random integer between 3600 and 6000 ticks (180 to 300 seconds, 3 to 5 minutes). On each tick, there is a 1% chance for the game to look for cure accelerants. It checks each block within a 9×9×9 cube centered on the villager for either iron bars or a bed (either half of a bed, detected separately; copper bars are ignored). For each one found up to 14, there is a 30% chance of decreasing the countdown timer by 1 more tick. Therefore, having at least 14 half-beds and/or iron bars within range speeds up conversion by an average of 4.2%.^[3]

During the curing process, the zombie villager behaves like a normal zombie except that it gains Strength (with a potency that doesn't depend on the difficulty level). Thus, a zombie villager is more dangerous during curing than at other times.

At the end of the curing process, the zombie villager transforms into a villager and gains the Nausea effect for 10 seconds (which has no effect on the villager's behavior). If it was holding any item it picked up, that item is dropped (unless it was enchanted with Curse of Binding, in which case it remains in the villager's inventory but is not worn and does not drop if the villager is killed). If it was a baby before it was transformed into a zombie villager, it remains a baby after the cure. If it had traded with a player at least once, it recovers its former profession and inventory of trades. Otherwise, it recovers its profession but might immediately change it if it finds and claims a workstation block for a different profession.

A newly-cured villager, if it had a profession prior to being zombified, offers a trading discount to the player who administered the cure. These discounts are permanent. If a villager is cured more than once, no additional discounts are applied. Villagers near the cured villager are also affected but offer fewer, smaller discounts.

Zombie villagers that are in the process of converting do not despawn if the player moves far away from them, but like all monsters, they despawn if the difficulty is changed to Peaceful.

Specific to Java Edition

If a zombie villager spawned as a nitwit or was a nitwit before it was transformed into a zombie villager, it remains a nitwit if cured.
If cured, naturally spawned zombie villagers keep their profession for one tick then become unemployed.
A cured villager gains both the permanent and the temporary but spreadable type of positive gossip from curing.
There is a bug whereby if a zombie villager chicken jockey is recently cured, the baby villager will still ride the chicken. The rider will grow to a normal villager after 20 minutes and, if struck by lightning, can be turned into a witch jockey.

Specific to Bedrock Edition

A former nitwit zombie villager becomes an unemployed villager and can learn a profession after the cure.
Villagers in a range of 16 blocks in a cube surrounding the cured villager also offer a small discount proportional to the number of cured villagers (up to 10).
Saving and reloading the world causes the curing process to finish as soon as the chunk containing the villager is ticked. This does not happen if the player moves out of range, then returns: In that case, the countdown timer pauses until the player returns.
After the curing process, naturally spawned zombie villagers can gain a different profession from the one they had while zombified.

Jockey

This feature is exclusive to Bedrock Edition.

A butcher zombie villager ridden by a baby zombie

15% of nearby baby zombies, husks, or gurgles may ride an adult zombie villager to form a jockey.

Sounds

Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Zombie Villager groans	Hostile Mobs	Randomly	`entity.zombie_villager.ambient`	`subtitles.entity.zombie_villager.ambient`	1.0	0.8–1.2 (Baby: 1.8–2.2)	16
Zombie Villager hurts	Hostile Mobs	When a zombie villager is damaged	`entity.zombie_villager.hurt`	`subtitles.entity.zombie_villager.hurt`	1.0	0.8–1.2 (Baby: 1.8–2.2)	16
Zombie Villager dies	Hostile Mobs	When a zombie villager dies	`entity.zombie_villager.death`	`subtitles.entity.zombie_villager.death`	1.0	0.8–1.2 (Baby: 1.8–2.2)	16
Footsteps	Hostile Mobs	While a zombie villager is walking	`entity.zombie_villager.step`	`subtitles.entity.zombie_villager.step`	0.15	1.0	16
Zombie infects	Hostile Mobs	When a zombie villager infects a villager	`entity.zombie.infect`	`subtitles.entity.zombie.infect`	2.0	0.8–1.2	16
Door shakes	Hostile Mobs	While a zombie villager is breaking a wooden door	`entity.zombie.attack_wooden_door`	`subtitles.entity.zombie.attack_wooden_door`	2.0	0.8–1.2	16
Door breaks	Hostile Mobs	When a zombie villager breaks a wooden door	`entity.zombie.break_wooden_door`	`subtitles.entity.zombie.break_wooden_door`	2.0	0.8–1.2	16
Turtle Egg stomped	Hostile Mobs	When a zombie villager is jumping on turtle eggs	`entity.zombie.destroy_egg`	`subtitles.entity.zombie.destroy_egg`	0.5	0.9–1.1	16
Zombie Villager snuffles	Hostile Mobs	When a zombie villager begins curing	`entity.zombie_villager.cure`	`subtitles.entity.zombie_villager.cure`	1.0–2.0	0.3–1.0	16
Zombie Villager vociferates	Hostile Mobs	When a zombie villager finishes curing	`entity.zombie_villager.converted`	`subtitles.entity.zombie_villager.converted`	2.0	0.8–1.2	16
Block broken ^{[sound 1]}	?	Unused sound event^{[sound 2]}	`entity.zombie.attack_iron_door`	`subtitles.block.generic.break`^{[sound 1]}	None	None	None

↑ ^a ^b MC-226770
↑ MC-218122

Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
?	Hostile Mobs	Randomly	`mob.zombie_villager.say`	?	1.0	0.8–1.2 (Baby: 1.3–1.7)
?	Hostile Mobs	When a zombie villager is damaged	`mob.zombie_villager.hurt`	?	1.0	0.8–1.2 (Baby: 1.3–1.7)
?	Hostile Mobs	When a zombie villager dies	`mob.zombie_villager.death`	?	1.0	0.8–1.2 (Baby: 1.3–1.7)
?	Hostile Mobs	While a zombie villager is walking	`mob.zombie.step`	?	0.45	1.0 (Baby: 1.5)
?	Hostile Mobs	While a zombie villager is breaking a wooden door	`mob.zombie.wood`	?	1.0	1.0
?	Hostile Mobs	When a zombie villager breaks a wooden door	`mob.zombie.woodbreak`	?	1.0	1.0
?	Players	When a zombie villager is jumping on turtle eggs	`fall.egg`	?	0.5	0.9–1.0
?	Hostile Mobs	When a zombie villager begins curing	`mob.zombie.remedy`	?	1.0–2.0	0.3–1.0
?	Hostile Mobs	When a zombie villager finishes curing	`mob.zombie.unfect`	?	1.0–2.0	0.3–1.0

Data values

ID

Name	Identifier	Entity tags	Translation key
👁 EntitySprite zombie-villager.png: Sprite image for zombie-villager in Minecraft Zombie Villager	`zombie_villager`	`burn_in_daylight` `can_breathe_under_water` `ignores_poison_and_regen` `inverted_healing_and_harm` `undead` `wither_friends` `zombies` `sensitive_to_smite`	`entity.minecraft.zombie_villager`

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Family	Translation key
👁 EntitySprite zombie-villager-revision-1.png: Sprite image for zombie-villager-revision-1 in Minecraft Zombie Villager (old)	`zombie_villager`	`44`	`armorer` `butcher` `cartographer` `cleric` `farmer` `fisherman` `fletcher` `leatherworker` `librarian` `mob` `monster` `nitwit` `shepherd` `stone_mason` `toolsmith` `undead` `weaponsmith` `zombie` `zombie_villager`	`entity.zombie_villager.name`
👁 EntitySprite zombie-villager.png: Sprite image for zombie-villager in Minecraft Zombie Villager (new)	`zombie_villager_v2`	`116`	`armorer` `baby_undead` `butcher` `cartographer` `cleric` `farmer` `fisherman` `fletcher` `leatherworker` `librarian` `mob` `monster` `nitwit` `shepherd` `stone_mason` `toolsmith` `undead` `unskilled` `weaponsmith` `zombie` `zombie_villager`	`entity.zombie_villager_v2.name`

Entity data

Zombie villagers have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Main article: Entity format

[NBT Compound / JSON Object] Entity data
- Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
- Tags common to all mobs see Template:Nbt inherit/mob/template
- [NBT List / JSON Array] Gossips: Pieces of gossip that can be exchanged between villagers when they meet. Is not preserved when removed.
  - [NBT Compound / JSON Object] A piece of gossip.
    - [Int] Value: The strength of the gossip.
      - for major_negative: weight -5, max 100, +25 if the villager sees you kill another villager, -10 every 20min, -10 when shared
      - for minor_negative: weight -1, max 200, +25 when hit, -20 every 20min, -20 when shared
      - for major_positive: weight 5, max 20, +20 when cured, does not decrease and never shared
      - for minor_positive: weight 1, max 200, +25 when cured, -1 every 20min, -5 when shared
      - for trading: weight 1, max 25, +2 per trade, -2 every 20min, -20 when shared
    - [Int Array] Target The UUID of the player who caused the gossip, stored as four ints.
    - [String] Type: An ID value indicating the type of gossip. The possible values are major_negative, minor_negative, major_positive, minor_positive, and trading.
- [NBT Compound / JSON Object] Offers: Is generated when the trading menu is opened for the first time.
  - [NBT List / JSON Array] Recipes: List of trade options.
    - [NBT Compound / JSON Object] A trade option.
      - [NBT Compound / JSON Object] buy: The first 'cost' item, without the Slot tag.
        A single item stack see Template:Nbt inherit/itemnoslot/template
      - [NBT Compound / JSON Object] buyB: Optional. The second 'cost' item, without the Slot tag.
        A single item stack see Template:Nbt inherit/itemnoslot/template
      - [Int] demand: The price adjuster of the first 'cost' item based on demand. Updated when a villager resupply.
      - [Int] maxUses: The maximum number of times this trade can be used before it is disabled. Increases by a random amount from 2 to 12 when offers are refreshed.
      - [Float] priceMultiplier: The multiplier on the [Int] demand price adjuster; the final adjusted price is added to the first 'cost' item's price.
      - [Byte] rewardExp: 1 or 0 (true/false) – Whether this trade provides XP orb drops. All trades from naturally-generated villagers in Java Edition reward XP orbs.
      - [NBT Compound / JSON Object] sell: The item being sold for each set of cost items, without the Slot tag.
        A single item stack see Template:Nbt inherit/itemnoslot/template
      - [Int] specialPrice: A modifier added to the original price of the first 'cost' item.
      - [Int] uses: The number of times this trade has been used. The trade becomes disabled when this is greater or equal to maxUses.
      - [Int] xp: How much experience the villager gets from this trade.
- [NBT Compound / JSON Object] VillagerData: Information about the villager’s type, profession, and level.
  - [Int] level: The current level of this villager's profession. Influences the trading options generated by the villager. If it is greater than their profession's maximum level, no new offers are generated. Increments when the villager fills his trading xp bar. Also used for badge rendering.
    - 1: Novice
    - 2: Apprentice
    - 3: Journeyman
    - 4: Expert
    - 5: Master
  - [String] profession: A resource location indicating the villager's profession; see Villager § Professions.
  - [String] type: A resource location indicating the villager's type; see Villager § Appearance. Represents the minecraft:villager/variant component.
- [Int] Xp: How much experience the villager currently has, increases with trading in various amounts.
  - 0 to 9: Novice
  - 10 to 69: Apprentice
  - 70 to 149: Journeyman
  - 150 to 249: Expert
  - 250 and more: Master
- [Byte] CanBreakDoors: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if the zombie can break doors (default value is 0).
- [Int] DrownedConversionTime: The number of ticks until this zombie converts to a drowned, or husk to zombie. (default value is -1, when no conversion is under way).
- [Int] InWaterTime: The number of ticks this zombie or husk has been under water, used to start the drowning conversion. (default value is -1, when no conversion is under way).
- [Byte] IsBaby: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if this zombie is a baby. May be absent.
- [Int] ConversionTime: -1 when not being converted back to a villager, positive for the number of ticks until conversion back into a villager. The regeneration effect parallels this.
- [Int Array] ConversionPlayer: The UUID of the player who started curing the zombie, stored as four ints.

Type	Data value
👁 Image Desert	`minecraft:desert`
👁 Image Jungle	`minecraft:jungle`
👁 Image Plains	`minecraft:plains`
👁 Image Savanna	`minecraft:savanna`
👁 Image Snowy	`minecraft:snow`
👁 Image Swamp	`minecraft:swamp`
👁 Image Taiga	`minecraft:taiga`

Profession	Data value
👁 Image Armorer	`minecraft:armorer`
👁 Image Butcher	`minecraft:butcher`
👁 Image Cartographer	`minecraft:cartographer`
👁 Image Cleric	`minecraft:cleric`
👁 Image Farmer	`minecraft:farmer`
👁 Image Fisherman	`minecraft:fisherman`
👁 Image Fletcher	`minecraft:fletcher`
👁 Image Leatherworker	`minecraft:leatherworker`
👁 Image Librarian	`minecraft:librarian`
👁 Image Nitwit	`minecraft:nitwit`
👁 Image Unemployed	`minecraft:none`
👁 Image Mason	`minecraft:mason`
👁 Image Shepherd	`minecraft:shepherd`
👁 Image Toolsmith	`minecraft:toolsmith`
👁 Image Weaponsmith	`minecraft:weaponsmith`

Achievements


Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
👁 Image	👁 Image	Monster Hunter	Attack and destroy a monster.	Kill one of these 41 monsters: 👁 Image Blaze 👁 Image Bogged 👁 Image Breeze 👁 Image Camel Husk 👁 Image Cave Spider 👁 Image Creaking (by destroying its creaking heart) 👁 Image Creeper 👁 Image Drowned 👁 Image Elder Guardian 👁 Image Ender Dragon 👁 Image Enderman 👁 Image Endermite 👁 Image Evoker 👁 Image Ghast 👁 Image Guardian 👁 Image Hoglin 👁 Image Husk 👁 Image Magma Cube 👁 Image Parched 👁 Image Phantom 👁 Image Piglin 👁 Image Piglin Brute 👁 Image Pillager 👁 Image Ravager 👁 Image Shulker 👁 Image Silverfish 👁 Image Skeleton 👁 Image Slime 👁 Image Spider 👁 Image Stray 👁 Image Vex 👁 Image Vindicator 👁 Image Witch 👁 Image Wither 👁 Image Wither Skeleton 👁 Image Zoglin 👁 Image Zombie 👁 Image Zombie Horse 👁 Image Zombie Nautilus 👁 Image 👁 Image Zombified Piglin Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this achievement.	15	Bronze
👁 Image	👁 Image	Diamonds to you!	Throw diamonds at another player.	Drop a diamond. Another player or a zombie must then pick up this diamond.	15	Bronze
👁 Image	👁 Image	Zombie Doctor	Cure a zombie villager.	Throw a splash potion of weakness at a zombie villager and give it a golden apple (by facing the zombie and pressing the use key with a golden apple in your hand).	40	Gold
👁 Image	👁 Image	It Spreads	Kill a mob next to a catalyst	Kill any mob that drops experience near a sculk catalyst, with the sole exception of the ender dragon. Mobs that drop no experience are ignored for this achievement.	10	Bronze

Achievements that apply to all mobs:


Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
👁 Image	👁 Image	Overkill	Deal nine hearts of damage in a single hit.	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have nine hearts of health overall.	30	Bronze
👁 Image	👁 Image	Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.	20	Silver
👁 Image	👁 Image	Mob Kabob	Hit five mobs in the same Charge attack using the Spear.	Armor stands and players also count for this achievement as they are technically mobs.	10	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
👁 Image 👁 Image	Zombie Doctor	Weaken and then cure a Zombie Villager	Use a golden apple on a zombie villager under the Weakness effect; the advancement is granted when the zombie villager converts into a villager. In multiplayer, only the player that feeds the golden apple gets the advancement.
👁 Image 👁 Image	Monster Hunter	Kill any hostile monster	Kill one of these 41 monsters: 👁 Image Blaze 👁 Image Bogged 👁 Image Breeze 👁 Image Camel Husk 👁 Image Cave Spider 👁 Image Creaking (by destroying its creaking heart) 👁 Image Creeper 👁 Image Drowned 👁 Image Elder Guardian 👁 Image Ender Dragon 👁 Image Enderman 👁 Image Endermite 👁 Image Evoker 👁 Image Ghast 👁 Image Guardian 👁 Image Hoglin 👁 Image Husk 👁 Image Magma Cube 👁 Image Parched 👁 Image Phantom 👁 Image Piglin 👁 Image Piglin Brute 👁 Image Pillager 👁 Image Ravager 👁 Image Shulker 👁 Image Silverfish 👁 Image Skeleton 👁 Image Slime 👁 Image Spider 👁 Image Stray 👁 Image Vex 👁 Image Vindicator 👁 Image Witch 👁 Image Wither 👁 Image Wither Skeleton 👁 Image Zoglin 👁 Image Zombie 👁 Image Zombie Horse 👁 Image Zombie Nautilus 👁 Image 👁 Image Zombified Piglin Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.
👁 Image 👁 Image	It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Kill any mob that drops experience near a sculk catalyst, with the sole exception of the ender dragon. Mobs that drop no experience are ignored for this advancement.
👁 Image 👁 Image	Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Kill each of these 41 monsters: 👁 Image Blaze 👁 Image Bogged 👁 Image Breeze 👁 Image Camel Husk 👁 Image Cave Spider 👁 Image Creaking (by destroying its creaking heart) 👁 Image Creeper 👁 Image Drowned 👁 Image Elder Guardian 👁 Image Ender Dragon 👁 Image Enderman 👁 Image Endermite 👁 Image Evoker 👁 Image Ghast 👁 Image Guardian 👁 Image Hoglin 👁 Image Husk 👁 Image Magma Cube 👁 Image Parched 👁 Image Phantom 👁 Image Piglin 👁 Image Piglin Brute 👁 Image Pillager 👁 Image Ravager 👁 Image Shulker 👁 Image Silverfish 👁 Image Skeleton 👁 Image Slime 👁 Image Spider 👁 Image Stray 👁 Image Vex 👁 Image Vindicator 👁 Image Witch 👁 Image Wither 👁 Image Wither Skeleton 👁 Image Zoglin 👁 Image Zombie 👁 Image Zombie Horse 👁 Image Zombie Nautilus 👁 Image 👁 Image Zombified Piglin Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.

Advancements that apply to all mobs:

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
👁 Image 👁 Image	Adventure	Adventure, exploration and combat	Kill any mob, or be killed by any living entity.
👁 Image 👁 Image	A Throwaway Joke	Throw a Trident at something. Note: Throwing away your only weapon is not a good idea.	Hit a mob with a thrown trident.
👁 Image 👁 Image	Take Aim	Shoot something with an Arrow	Using a bow or a crossbow, shoot a mob with an arrow, tipped arrow, or spectral arrow.
👁 Image 👁 Image	Mob Kabob	Hit five mobs in the same Charge attack using the Spear.	👁 Image Armor Stand and 👁 Image Mannequin also count for this advancement.
👁 Image 👁 Image	Arbalistic	Kill five unique mobs with one crossbow shot	👁 Image Armor Stand and 👁 Image Mannequin also count for this advancement. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.
👁 Image 👁 Image	Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.

Videos

Note: Zombie villagers have new textures and sounds as of Village and Pillage.

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.4.2	12w32a	👁 Image Added zombie villagers.
		👁 Image Added baby zombie villagers.
		5% of zombies spawned are zombie villagers, and villagers now become infected when killed by a zombie. Infecting a baby villager creates a baby zombie villager, which is faster than a normal zombie and does not age.
		Zombie villagers under the effects of a potion of Weakness can be cured by using a golden apple on them.
	12w34a	Zombie villagers now have two new rare drops – carrots and potatoes.
	12w34b	Zombie villagers can now pick up and equip dropped items.^[4]^[5]
		If killed, zombie villagers now drop the item they are holding.
		Zombie villagers can now survive in sunlight, if they are wearing a helmet or a pumpkin.^[6]
	12w37a	👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image On Halloween, zombie villagers can now spawn wearing pumpkins or jack o'lanterns.
1.5	13w03a	Zombie villagers are now able to set the player on fire, if they are on fire and they attack the player.
		Zombie villagers can now call other zombies from the nearby area (radius dependent on difficulty) to attack the player, making packs of zombies approach shortly after damaging the zombie villager.
		Zombie villagers now cause more damage when their health is lower.
1.6.1	13w17a	When damaged, zombie villagers now have a low chance to spawn more zombies.
	13w21a	Zombie villager damage increasing with decreasing health has been removed.
	13w23b	Zombie villager AI and mechanics have been changed – this has now made them much more horde-like.
	13w23b	Zombie villagers are now able to detect the player up to 40 blocks.
1.6.2	pre	Baby zombie villagers now spawn among regular ones.
1.6.2	pre	Baby zombie villagers now have the same percentage of spawning as zombie villagers.
1.7.2	13w36a	Baby zombie villagers now drop loot and experience.
1.7.4	13w49a	Added zombie villager chicken jockeys – a rare version of the baby zombie villager.
1.8	14w11a	Zombie villagers now run away from creepers that are about to explode.
1.8	14w30a	Zombie villagers now drop a zombie head when killed by a charged creeper.
1.8.1	pre1	Zombie villagers no longer run away from creepers that are about to explode.
1.9	15w32a	The detection range of zombie villagers is now halved when the player is wearing a zombie mob head.
	15w33c	The zombie villager's detection range for players wearing the zombie head has been adjusted, now 37.5% of the normal range.
	15w34a	Zombie villagers now have an attack animation similar to the one they had in Survival Test, even without weapons.
	15w35a	👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image Zombie villagers now retain their professions and clothes, which have a tattered appearance. Before this version, the zombie villager's body texture shared the same texture as the regular zombie's, including Steve's clothes.
	15w35a	👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image Baby zombie villagers now retain their professions and clothes, which have a tattered appearance.
	15w36a	The zombie villager's detection range for players wearing the zombie head is now again 50% of the normal range.
	15w43a	A zombie villager priest can now be found caged in an igloo basement.
1.10	16w20a	"Generic" green-robed zombie villager has been removed, due to the new `ZombieType` tag not allowing invalid villager professions.
	16w20a	Zombie villagers now spawn in abandoned villages.
	pre1	The chance of a zombie villager setting the target on fire when burning, and the duration of the effect, now depends on raw regional difficulty.
	pre1	Zombie villagers that spawn as part of abandoned villages no longer despawn.
1.11	16w32a	Added a zombie villager spawn egg.
		The zombie villager's in-game name has been changed to "Zombie Villager" instead of "Zombie".
		Zombie villagers no longer drop zombie heads when killed by a charged creeper.
		Zombie villagers no longer spawn from zombie spawners.^[7]
		Zombie villagers can no longer spawn from normal zombie spawn eggs.
	16w32b	👁 Image 👁 Image Generic zombie villagers have been re-added, along with their normal villager counterpart.
	16w39a	Zombie villagers now have their own sounds.
1.13	18w07a	Zombie villagers now intentionally stomp on turtle eggs and attack turtles.
	18w10d	Baby zombie villagers now burn in the sun.
	18w19a	Zombie villagers now sink in water.
	18w19a	Zombie villagers no longer drown underwater.
1.14	18w50a	Zombie villagers now have new skins, corresponding to biome and profession.
		👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image Added desert zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for that biome. These zombie villagers also spawn in badlands biomes.
		👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image Added jungle zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for that biome.
		👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image Added plains zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for that biome.
		👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image Added savanna zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for that biome.
		👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image Added snowy zombie villagers, which all have unique textures in snowy biomes. These zombie villagers spawn in any snowy biome, including frozen rivers, frozen oceans (and their variants) and snowy beaches.
		👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image Added swamp zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for that biome.
		👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image Added taiga zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for the biome. These zombie villagers also spawn in giant tree taiga and mountains biomes.
		👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image Added baby zombie villagers to desert, jungle, plains, savanna, snowy, swamp and taiga biomes.
		Cured zombie villagers now retain their trades.
1.15	19w37a	Mobs that spawn wearing carved pumpkins or jack o'lanterns on Halloween no longer drop them.
	19w41a	Zombie villagers that were converted from villagers are supposed to no longer despawn. However, they still do.^[8]
	19w46a	Baby zombie villagers can now be spawned by using a zombie villager spawn egg on an existing zombie villager.^[9]
1.16	20w06a	Zombie villagers that were converted from villagers no longer despawn.^[8]
1.17	21w11a	👁 Image The overlay texture of the zombie librarian now have been changed. 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image
	21w13a	Legacy zombie villager texture^[10] have been removed.
	21w13a	Zombie villagers drop baked potatoes instead of normal potatoes if on fire when killed or killed by a fire source.
1.17.1	pre1	Zombie villagers no longer pick up glow ink sacs, to prevent them from persisting after picking up loot from a dead glow squid.
1.18	21w41a	The profession textures of Zombie Armorer and Zombie Weaponsmith have been changed. 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image
1.19	22w17a	The sole textures of the Jungle, Plains, Savannna, and Snowy and arms of Weaponsmith have been changed. 👁 Image 👁 Image
1.20.2	23w31a	Villagers no longer offer additional discounts after being cured more than once ^[11]
1.20.3	23w40a	Zombie villagers are now part of the `#can_breathe_under_water`, `#undead` and `#zombies` tags.
1.21.2	24w33a	Zombie villagers now spawn more zombie villagers as zombie reinforcements instead of regular zombies.^[12]
1.21.2	24w33a	Now naturally spawn with armor in the order of (most likely to least likely): helmet, chestplate, leggings, boots.^[13]
1.21.11	25w41a	Zombie villagers can now use spears.
26.1	snap1	Leader zombie villagers now spawn with their maximum health instead of 20 health.^[14]
26.1	snap7	👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image The model and textures of baby zombie villagers have been changed.
26.2	snap5	The heights of baby zombie villagers have been changed from 0.99 blocks to 0.98 blocks, to match Bedrock Edition.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.12.1	build 1	👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image Added zombie villagers.
		👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image Added baby zombie villagers.
		Zombie villagers retain their professions and clothes, which have a tattered appearance.
v0.14.0	build 1	Baby zombie villagers now have a 15% chance of becoming a jockey. Before becoming a jockey, upon nearing the player, they check for one of the following to mount prior attacking: adult chickens, adult ocelots, adult wolves, adult zombies, adult zombie villager, adult zombie pigmen, cows, pigs, sheep, cave spiders, or spiders.
v0.15.0	build 1	Baby zombie villagers can now mount adult husks and horse variants.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0	alpha 1.1.0.9	Zombie villagers now have their own sounds.
Bedrock Edition
?		Baby zombie villagers can no longer mount adult zombie pigmen.
1.4.0	beta 1.2.20.1	Baby zombie villagers now burn in daylight.
1.5.0	beta 1.5.0.0	Zombie villagers now sink underwater.
1.5.0	beta 1.5.0.4	Zombie villagers now attack baby turtles and stomp on turtle eggs.
1.8.0	beta 1.8.0.8	Baby zombie villagers can now mount pandas and stray cats.
1.10.0 Experiment Experimental Gameplay	beta 1.10.0.3	Zombie villagers are now split into 2 different mobs, new zombie villagers (which are only available behind Experimental Gameplay) now have new skins, coresponding to biome and profession.
		👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image Added desert zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for that biome. These zombie villagers also spawn in badlands biomes.
		👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image Added jungle zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for that biome.
		👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image Added plains zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for that biome.
		👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image Added savanna zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for that biome.
		👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image Added snowy zombie villagers, which all have unique textures in snowy biomes. These zombie villagers spawn in any snowy biome, including frozen rivers, frozen oceans (and their variants) and snowy beaches.
		👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image Added swamp zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for that biome.
		👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image Added taiga zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for the biome. These zombie villagers also spawn in giant tree taiga and mountains biomes.
		👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image Added baby zombie villagers to desert, jungle, plains, savanna, snowy, swamp and taiga biomes.
		Added nitwit, mason, and unemployed zombie villager professions.
		Zombie villagers now attack wandering traders.
		Cured zombie villagers can now retain their trades.
1.11.0	beta 1.11.0.3	The new zombie villagers are now available outside of Experimental Gameplay.
1.12.0	beta 1.12.0.2	The new zombie villagers now have sounds.
1.13.0	beta 1.13.0.1	The old zombie villagers no longer spawn naturally. However, they still exist.
1.16.0	beta 1.15.0.51	Zombie villagers can no longer break iron doors.^[15]
1.16.0	beta 1.16.0.51	Zombie villagers now have ability to pick up items.
1.17.30	beta 1.17.30.20	Zombie villagers no longer pick up glow ink sacs, to prevent them from persisting after picking up loot from a dead glow squid.
1.19.20	Preview 1.19.20.20	10% of zombie villagers that spawn can now break doors, instead of all of them.^[16]
1.20.30	Preview 1.20.30.21	Zombie villagers being cured back into villagers more than once no longer offer additional discounts after.
1.20.40	Preview 1.20.40.20	Zombie villager curing time is no longer a set value of 2000 ticks, and is instead a random value between 3600 and 6000 ticks.
1.21.60	Preview 1.21.60.21	Zombie villagers that spawn in mangrove swamps now use the swamp skin.
1.21.130	Preview 1.21.130.26	Baby zombie villagers can no longer mount other mobs as jockeys.
1.21.130	Preview 1.21.130.27	Zombie villagers can now pick up spears and use their charge attack. However, unlike Java Edition, they cannot spawn holding iron spears.
26.0	Preview 26.0.23	Zombie villagers are now part of the monster spawn category.
26.0	Preview 26.0.27	Due to a bug, baby zombie villagers can still not mount mobs as jockeys.^[17]
26.10	Preview 26.10.23	👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image The model and textures of baby zombie villagers have been changed.
26.10	Preview 26.10.24	Baby zombie villagers no longer raise their arms when holding items.^[18]
26.20	Preview 26.20.22	The hitboxes of baby zombie villagers have been changed, to closely match Java Edition.^[19]

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU14	CU1	1.04	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	👁 Image Added zombie villagers.
							👁 Image Added baby zombie villagers.
							Baby zombie villagers can be obtained only by having a zombie kill a baby villager, as a zombie spawn egg does not spawn them, due to baby zombies not being in game.
TU15		1.05					The rare loot of zombie villagers' drops have been changed to be carrots, potatoes or iron ingots.
TU19	CU7	1.12	1.12	1.12			Zombie villagers can now pick up items and occasionally spawn with armor and/or weapons.
							Baby zombie villagers can now be spawned with a zombie spawn egg.
							When damaged, zombie villagers now have a low chance to spawn more zombies.^[verify]
							👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image On Halloween, zombie villagers can now spawn wearing pumpkins or jack o'lanterns.^{[is this the correct version?]}
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Baby zombie villagers now drop experience.
							Added zombie villager chicken jockeys – a rare version of the baby zombie villager.
							Zombie villagers now drop a zombie head when killed by a charged creeper.
TU43	CU33	1.36	1.36	1.36	Patch 13		A zombie villager can now be found in igloo basements. Since the new zombie villager skins were not added yet, the zombie villager received a random profession when cured.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image Zombie villagers now retain their professions and clothes, which have a tattered appearance. Before this version, the zombie villager's body texture shared the same texture as the regular zombie's body.
							When the curing process of zombie villagers finishes, they now make the same sound as when the curing process starts.
							The zombie villager in igloo basements is now a cleric.
TU54	CU45	1.57	1.56	1.56	Patch 24	1.0.4	Zombie Villagers no longer spawn from zombie spawn eggs or spawners, since they now have their own spawn egg.
TU56	CU47	1.55	1.55	1.55	Patch 26	1.0.6	Zombie villagers now spawn in abandoned villages.
TU60	CU51	1.64	1.64	1.64	Patch 30	1.0.11	Baby zombie villagers now have a 15% chance of becoming a jockey. Before becoming a jockey, upon nearing the player, they check for one of the following to mount prior attacking: adult chickens, adult ocelots, adult wolves, adult zombies, cows, pigs, sheep, spiders or cave spiders.
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Zombie villagers now have their own sounds.
							Zombie villagers now sink in water.
							Zombie villagers no longer drown underwater.
			1.91				Zombie villagers now have new skins, corresponding to biome and profession.
							👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image Added desert zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for that biome. These zombie villagers also spawn in badlands biomes.
							👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image Added jungle zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for that biome. However, jungles do not contain villages, so these zombie villagers spawn only after the player has a jungle village.
							👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image Added plains zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for that biome.
							👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image Added savanna zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for that biome.
							👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image Added snowy zombie villagers, which all have unique textures in snowy biomes. These zombie villagers spawn in any snowy biome, including frozen rivers, frozen oceans (and their variants) and snowy beaches.
							👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image Added swamp zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for that biome. However, swamps do not contain villages, so these zombie villagers spawn only after the player has created a village in a swamp.
							👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image Added taiga zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for the biome. These zombie villagers also spawn in giant tree taiga and mountains biomes.
							👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image Added baby zombie villagers to desert, jungle, plains, savanna, snowy, swamp and taiga biomes. However, jungles and swamps do not contain villages, so these zombie villagers spawn only after the player has created a village in those biomes.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image Added zombie villagers.
0.1.0							👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image Added baby zombie villagers.

Data history

Java Edition
1.9	15w35a	A new `VillagerProfession` tag that determines what profession the zombie villager is, as well its profession when cured, has been added.
1.11	16w32a	The entity ID `Zombie` has been changed to `zombie`, `zombie_villager` and `husk` for those respective mobs.
		The `ZombieType, IsVillager` tag has been removed and the `Profession` tag to the `zombie_villager` has been added, and the `ConversionTime` has been made to apply to `zombie_villager` only.
		Setting the `Profession` tag to 5 now makes green-robed villagers.
1.12	17w14a	Added `ConversionPlayerLeast` and `ConversionPlayerMost` tags to the zombie villager, for the purpose of the `minecraft:cured_zombie_villager` trigger for advancements.
1.13	17w47a	Numeric IDs for entities were presumably deprecated in this version.^{[more information needed]}

Issues

Issues relating to "Zombie Villager" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

When a zombie villager wears a carved pumpkin or jack o'lantern, its head is so tall that it pokes out the top of the pumpkin.
In Java Edition, zombie villagers have a glitched design when using the programmer art resource pack.^[20]
In Bedrock Edition, when a zombie villager holds a trident, the hand that holds the trident lowers.
In Bedrock Edition, if a zombie villager is summoned using the /summon command with an invalid spawn event, a generic zombie villager spawns with the following issues.
- They are not in any family.
- They movement extremely fast.
In Bedrock Edition, the icon for the achievement "Zombie Doctor" uses the old zombie villager texture.
Curing a zombie villager chicken jockey is the only way to get a villager riding a chicken without the use of commands.^[21]‌^{[Java Edition only]}
Green-colored zombies are also present in Minicraft, a 2D Minecraft-inspired game also created by Markus Persson.
In Java Edition, the rarest mob is a baby zombie villager riding a chicken, with 3 pieces of enchanted diamond armor, an enchanted iron sword and a jack o' lantern on its head. It has approximately a 1 in 948 trillion (948,148,148,148,148) chance to spawn and can be found only during Halloween, as this is when mobs can spawn wearing jack o' lanterns.

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Targeting zombie villager

References

↑ MCPE-174944 – Zombie villagers never spawn with armor or weapon
↑ MC-107909 – Can't cure zombie villager with enchanted golden apple – resolved as "Works As Intended".
↑ https://youtube.com/watch?v=CYIAfv291k4
↑ https://twitter.com/jeb_/status/240381873480687616
↑ http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/yrjp8/zombies_can_pick_up_items_from_the_ground_in_the/c5y7uma
↑ https://twitter.com/Dinnerbone/status/243645556872855552
↑ MC-106146 – resolved as "Works As Intended".
↑ ^a ^b MC-159300
↑ MC-2871
↑ 👁 Image
/assets/minecraft/textures/entity/zombie/zombie_villager.png
↑ MC-181190
↑ MC-14800
↑ "[MC-182478] Mob armor generates starting with boots rather than helmet – Jira" – Mojira, May 5, 2020.
↑ MC-219981 – Leader zombie-type mobs spawn with 20 health despite having increased max health – resolved as "Fixed".
↑ MCPE-43725 – resolved as "Fixed".
↑ MCPE-79636 – resolved as "Fixed".
↑ MCPE-234690
↑ MCPE-236381 – resolved as "Works As Intended".
↑ MCPE-236077
↑ MC-140954 – Zombie villager fists render around the head while using Programmer Art texture pack
↑ MC-200418 – Cured baby zombie villagers stay as jockey variant
↑ "Minecraft LoFi: Laid back lutes for leading the charge" – Minecraft on YouTube, September 18, 2023

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