Strider

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A strider is a passive mob found in the Nether. It can walk on lava and be saddled by the player, being directed via a warped fungus on a stick. They can be fed warped fungus to breed, and act as a source of string.

Striders can spawn in every Nether biome. Groups of 2 to 4 striders spawn on spaces of lava that have an air block above. In Java Edition, striders are the only passive mob in the Nether, so spawning attempts are made every 400 game ticks. In Bedrock Edition, striders share the animal population cap with hoglins, and their spawn rate depends on the biome, being impacted by the ability of other mobs to spawn at a given coordinate.

For every strider that spawns, there is a 1 in 10 chance for an additional baby strider to spawn riding on top of the previous strider. This behavior is limited to one strider.^[1] A baby strider on the adult strider continues to grow, although it does not dismount the adult strider once it has grown up.

In Java Edition^[2], adult striders also have a 1 in 30 chance of spawning being ridden by a zombified piglin, forming a strider jockey. When this happens, the strider spawns with a saddle and the zombified piglin spawns wielding a warped fungus on a stick instead of a golden sword or spear. The zombified piglin does not despawn naturally and does not count toward the mob cap. On Peaceful difficulty, the zombified piglin despawns immediately, leaving a saddled strider.^[3]

If a strider spawns under lava, it rises out of the lava. In Bedrock Edition, baby striders spawn more commonly than adult striders do, including when spawned by a spawn egg.

• 👁 An adult strider that spawned with a baby strider riding it.
  
  An adult strider that spawned with a baby strider riding it.
• 👁 A strider jockey.
  
  A strider jockey.
• 👁 Adult shivering strider riding an adult warm strider.
  
  Adult shivering strider riding an adult warm strider.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Striders wearing a saddle always drop the saddle upon death, regardless of if they spawn wearing it or if a player puts it on them. The saddle can be removed by using shears on the strider. When an adult strider is killed by a player or tamed wolf, 1–3XP experience is dropped. Killing a baby strider yields no items or experience.

Lava does not damage striders, and they can walk on top of it without sinking.

Upon being harmed by another mob, striders attempt to flee for a few seconds while making "retreat" noises.

Striders are damaged by water, rain, and splash water bottles, which deal damage by 1HP👁 💔
per splash water bottle or half-second in water or rain. While in water, they slowly sink while taking damage. Striders still take damage from rain even if they are in lava. However, they are not harmed when standing in a filled cauldron as a baby. They also cannot be harmed by snowfall or snowballs. They take extra damage from freezing in powder snow.

Unlike piglins and hoglins, striders can exist safely in the Overworld, as long as they are kept away from water and rain. Striders outside of lava change to a dull purple color, change their expression to more of a frown, shiver, and their legs become slightly shorter. They also move slower when outside of lava.^[4]

If a strider has the 👁 Image
Speed effect applied to it, it moves faster on both land and lava (though its land speed is still considerably slower). If a zombified piglin is riding a strider, the strider pursues the player if the zombified piglin is angered.

Due to a bug,^[5] striders that fall from a height take fall damage when landing in lava.‌^{[JE only]}

A baby strider on an adult strider still grows into an adult. Apart from this, adult striders riding other adult striders do not spawn naturally. Baby striders not riding on an adult follow the closest adult strider.

• 👁 A strider walking.
  
  A strider walking.
• 👁 A strider shivering and slowed down on land.
  
  A strider shivering and slowed down on land.

The player can ride on an adult strider using a saddle.

Similar to how pigs are controlled using a carrot on a stick, striders move forward automatically while their direction is influenced using a warped fungus on a stick, at a speed of 4.24 m/s‌^{[JE only]} / 3.71 m/s‌^{[BE only]} if on a flat lava surface (such as the Nether lava sea) or 1.78 m/s‌^{[JE only]} / 1.64 m/s‌^{[BE only]} if on land. They walk especially slowly against the lava flow direction.

When a warped fungus on a stick is used, the strider enters a boost for a random duration between 140 to 980 game ticks (7 to 49 seconds)‌^{[JE only]} / 320 game ticks (16 seconds)‌^{[BE only]}. Each boost takes 1 point of durability from the warped fungus on a stick. If the durability of the warped fungus on a stick reaches 0, it turns into a fishing rod.

While boosted, the strider gradually accelerates to its peak speed of 9.12 m/s ‌^{[JE only]} / 7.98 m/s‌^{[BE only]} until halfway through the boost, and then decelerates to its default speed by the end of the boost. Specifically, the speed of the strider increases by times the original speed, where is the time already passed since the start of the boost, and is the total duration of the boost. No matter how many ticks the boost lasts, the average speed of the strider during a full boost cycle is roughly 7.34 m/s ‌^{[JE only]} / 6.42 m/s‌^{[BE only]}.

Striders also follow players holding a warped fungus or a warped fungus on a stick.

Unlike underwater boats, players riding striders are not dismounted if the strider submerges in lava, and striders rise back up to the surface if this happens. However, players risk getting burned by the lava while submerged. In Bedrock Edition, players can start riding a strider that is fully submerged in lava.

A strider ridden into flowing lava slowly rises to the top. Fall damage does not affect striders that have dropped onto flowing lava, unlike the bug^[5] for lava source blocks. When ridden over land, striders automatically walk up any one block high slope. They also cross any 1-wide block gap or air space that is only one block higher - diagonally up - when ridden directly upward and not completely sideways to the slope.

To safely dismount from a strider, a player who does not have Fire Resistance may face a solid block within reach before dismounting to dismount onto that block,^[6] instead of at the strider's location (which is usually in lava^[7]).‌^{[JE only][8]}

A strider can still be equipped with a saddle while another mob is riding it.

If striders are given warped fungus, they breed to create baby striders, granting the player 1–7 experience orbs. The parent striders have a cooldown of about 5 minutes before they can breed again. All babies obtained through breeding take 20 minutes to grow up. The growth of baby striders can be accelerated using warped fungus; each use takes 10% off of the remaining time to grow up.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Striders have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements that apply to all mobs:

Advancements that apply to all mobs:

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

• Striders previously had a fin in their texture file. The fin was not visible in-game and was removed in 20w15a.
• If commands are used to saddle a baby strider, and the player rides the baby strider in lava, the player takes fire damage due to not being high enough to avoid the lava.
• Mojang added striders to the game as the solution to the community request for lava boats.^[12] Prior to this, actual lava boats made of obsidian were briefly added as an April Fools prank.
• At one point in the strider's development, before it was added to the game, a strider out of lava would retract its legs and start to take damage while bouncing around until it died, similar to how fish suffocate when out of water. This feature was discarded for being "kind of sad".^[13]
• Striders were planned to have their own unique armor and saddle, but this was decided against.^[14]
• Striders were initially going to have a long tongue with which they could eat things, similar to frogs. The different items would all have various effects, such as swords hurting the strider, and TNT exploding.^[14]
• Part of the reason that striders drop string (from their bristles) was to answer the question of "how do piglins make crossbows?".^[13] In Minecraft Legends: Return of the Piglins, striders shed the strings that piglins used to make crossbows.^[15]
• The bobbing animation that the strider makes while walking was initially an accident. However, the developers thought it was "quirky and fun", so it was added as a feature.^[13]
• Internally the strider was originally referred to as the derp-a-tron.^[16]
• In a video summarizing the Tiny Takeover drop, Mojang developer Slicedlime refers to baby Striders as "Striderlings" before adding that he made up this word.^[17]

• 👁 Idle
  
  Idle
• 👁 A strider walking
  
  A strider walking
• 👁 A strider shivering
  
  A strider shivering
• 👁 A saddled strider idling
  
  A saddled strider idling
• 👁 A saddled strider shivering
  
  A saddled strider shivering
• 👁 A cold strider shivering
  
  A cold strider shivering
• 👁 A cold strider walking while shivering
  
  A cold strider walking while shivering
• 👁 A saddled cold strider shivering
  
  A saddled cold strider shivering
• 👁 Idle
  
  Idle
• 👁 A baby strider walking
  
  A baby strider walking
• 👁 A baby strider shivering
  
  A baby strider shivering
• 👁 A baby strider shivering and walking
  
  A baby strider shivering and walking

• 👁 Image
  
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• 👁 Strider teaser 1
  
  Strider teaser 1
• 👁 Strider teaser 2
  
  Strider teaser 2
• 👁 Strider teaser 3
  
  Strider teaser 3
• 👁 Kingbdogz riding a strider
  
  Kingbdogz riding a strider
• 👁 Kingbdogz reveals Strider information on Discord
  
  Kingbdogz reveals Strider information on Discord
• 👁 A cold strider in a warped forest
  
  A cold strider in a warped forest
• 👁 Upside down striders
  
  Upside down striders
• 👁 Adult and baby striders
  
  Adult and baby striders
• 👁 A strider with a jockey
  
  A strider with a jockey
• 👁 Striders in love
  
  Striders in love
• 👁 Dismounting a strider into lava
  
  Dismounting a strider into lava
• 👁 Riding a strider over lava
  
  Riding a strider over lava
• 👁 Several striders on a lava sea. Note the blue shivering striders and the hoglins riding striders.
  
  Several striders on a lava sea. Note the blue shivering striders and the hoglins riding striders.

• 👁 Concept art of an early design of the strider
  
  Concept art of an early design of the strider
• 👁 An early design of the strider by Jasper Boerstra, similar in appearance to a tardigrade
  
  An early design of the strider by Jasper Boerstra, similar in appearance to a tardigrade
• 👁 An early, ghast-like design of the strider. Notice that there is no hair and one has six legs, while the other has nine.
  
  An early, ghast-like design of the strider. Notice that there is no hair and one has six legs, while the other has nine.
• 👁 Ditto
  
  Ditto
• 👁 Concept art of Alex riding a strider. Notice the carrot on a stick instead of warped fungus on a stick.
  
  Concept art of Alex riding a strider. Notice the carrot on a stick instead of warped fungus on a stick.

Recreations

• 👁 A recreation of the latter
  
  A recreation of the latter
• 👁 A recreation of a pre-release shivering strider[18]
  
  A recreation of a pre-release shivering strider^[18]

• 👁 Baby strider riding on an adult strider
  
  Baby strider riding on an adult strider
• 👁 Striders are occasionally ridden by a zombified piglin when spawned.
  
  Striders are occasionally ridden by a zombified piglin when spawned.
• 👁 Striders can be ridden by baby zombified piglins too.
  
  Striders can be ridden by baby zombified piglins too.
• 👁 Three striders riding one another before 20w18a
  
  Three striders riding one another before 20w18a
• 👁 Strider out of the lava
  
  Strider out of the lava
• 👁 A comparison image of model differences between Java and Bedrock editions
  
  A comparison image of model differences between Java and Bedrock editions
• 👁 Player riding a strider riding a strider, with nearby striders looking on
  
  Player riding a strider riding a strider, with nearby striders looking on
• 👁 Three baby striders stacked on top of an adult
  
  Three baby striders stacked on top of an adult
• 👁 A baby strider riding an adult
  
  A baby strider riding an adult
• 👁 Several striders on a lava sea
  
  Several striders on a lava sea
• 👁 Piglin and a shivering strider
  
  Piglin and a shivering strider
• 👁 A player attracting multiple striders using a warped fungus on a stick
  
  A player attracting multiple striders using a warped fungus on a stick

• 👁 Strider texture file.
  
  Strider texture file.
• 👁 Cold strider texture file.
  
  Cold strider texture file.
• 👁 Baby strider texture file.
  
  Baby strider texture file.
• 👁 Baby cold strider texture file.
  
  Baby cold strider texture file.

• 👁 A camel looking at striders
  
  A camel looking at striders
• 👁 Strider Warrior, a hero dressed as a strider featured in Minecraft Dungeons.
  
  Strider Warrior, a hero dressed as a strider featured in Minecraft Dungeons.
• 👁 Lego Minecraft Strider
  
  Lego Minecraft Strider
• 👁 An official strider action figure
  
  An official strider action figure
• 👁 A strider as it appears on the cover of Minecraft Legends: Return of the Piglins
  
  A strider as it appears on the cover of Minecraft Legends: Return of the Piglins
• 👁 Several striders on the cover of Minecraft: The Manga
  
  Several striders on the cover of Minecraft: The Manga
• 👁 A strider in the Plastic Texture Pack
  
  A strider in the Plastic Texture Pack

• "Meet the Strider" by Per Landin – Minecraft.net, July 7, 2020.

• "Mob Menagerie: Strider" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, January 16, 2023.