Drowned

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Drowned are common neutral underwater zombie variants that spawn in oceans, rivers, and dripstone caves, or when zombies drown. They primarily attack through melee attacks, but may also come armed with tridents that they can throw at range. A baby drowned is referred to as a gurgle.^[1]

Drowned spawn naturally at water blocks that emit light level of 0 and internal sky light level being 7 and below in all ocean biomes, aquifers in the dripstone caves biome, and river biomes. They spawn at higher rates in rivers and dripstone caves than in ocean biomes.

In Java Edition, drowned spawn individually inside flowing water or source water that is 2 blocks or taller (this can include waterlogged blocks or bubble columns). In ocean biomes and dripstone caves, drowned spawn at Y < 58; this restriction does not apply to rivers meaning they can also spawn during the day in that biome as long as it is deep enough for the sky light level to reach 7 and below.

In Bedrock Edition, drowned spawn in groups of 2-4 in oceans, frozen rivers, and dripstone caves while they spawn individually in rivers inside flowing water or source water of any depth, but they spawn at higher rates in water that is 2 blocks or taller.​^{[more information needed]} They spawn only on the surface that is on the highest spawnable block at any given X, Z coordinate. They count toward the monster population control cap and also have their own density caps of 5 in oceans and 2 in rivers. They can spawn during the day as long as the water is deep enough for the sky light level to reach 7 and below.

Drowned have a chance to spawn with either a trident or a fishing rod in their main hand, and occasionally with a nautilus shell in their offhand. In Java Edition, when spawned as a gurgle they also have a small chance to spawn riding a chicken, creating a drowned chicken jockey. They are the only Overworld zombie variant within the game that cannot spawn naturally with any armor.

Drowned spawn during the generation of certain ocean ruin structures. These drowned do not naturally despawn unless the world is set to Peaceful difficulty.

When spawning mounted on a zombie nautilus, the zombie nautilus is also persistent (does not despawn).

If a zombie's head (not the legs) is submerged in water continuously for 30 seconds, it begins the process of converting into a drowned. The zombie begins shaking, similar to the effect seen while a zombie villager is being cured. At this point, the process cannot be stopped, and 15 seconds later the zombie becomes a drowned. The drowned appears with full health even if the previous zombie did not.

In Bedrock Edition only, an item being held or worn by a zombie when it transforms into a drowned, whether it was picked up or naturally equipped, is automatically dropped with an 100% drop rate at full durability. In Java Edition, the converted drowned keeps the equipped items.

Only normal zombies can transform into drowned, while zombie villagers and zombified piglins cannot. For husks, they first transform into a regular zombie, and subsequently convert to a drowned in the usual fashion. The zombie that is converted from a husk always has full health even if converted from a damaged husk.

When an adult drowned spawns outside of (frozen) river biomes, either naturally or as part of a structure, and is wielding a trident in its main hand, it has a 50% chance to spawn riding a zombie nautilus, i.e. as a zombie nautilus jockey.

On Hard difficulty, all drowned have a 0-10% chance to spawn other drowned as reinforcements when receiving damage while targeting an entity. Additionally, up to 5% of drowned spawn as leaders, getting a 50-75% boost to that chance. Reinforcements can only spawn in at least 2 block tall water.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Adult drowned drop 5XP and an additional 1–3XP per naturally-spawned equipment if killed by a player, axolotl or tamed wolf. Gurgles drop 12XP and an additional 1–3XP per naturally-spawned equipment if killed by a player, axolotl or tamed wolf.

• 1 👁 Image
  Helmet, 👁 Image
  Chestplate, 👁 Image
  Leggings, and/or 👁 Image
  Boots.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Any picked-up equipment has a 100% chance of dropping, and drops without changing the damage that has accumulated on it.

Java Edition

For naturally-spawned drowned:

• In the main hand (mutually exclusive):
  • Each drowned has a 6.25% chance to spawn with a 👁 Image
    trident. May be enchanted.​^{[more information needed]}
  • Each drowned has a 3.75% chance to spawn with a 👁 Image
    fishing rod. May be enchanted.​^{[more information needed]}
• In the offhand:
  • Each drowned has a 3% chance to spawn with a 👁 Image
    nautilus shell.

A drowned holding a trident or fishing rod has an 8.5% chance to drop it when killed by a player or tamed wolf. The chance is increased by 1% per level of Looting, up to a max of 11.5% with Looting III. This means that killing 8 drowned with tridents without the Looting enchantment or 6 with Looting III, will have a greater than 50% chance of getting a trident.

A drowned holding a nautilus shell always drops it.

Zombies converted to drowned are never equipped with new items. They keep any equipment the zombie had before conversion.

On Halloween, a drowned may spawn wearing a carved pumpkin or jack o'lantern. However, they do not drop them, even when killed with Looting.

Bedrock Edition

For naturally-spawned drowned:

• In the main hand (mutually exclusive):
  • Each drowned has a 6.25% chance to spawn with a 👁 Image
    trident. May be enchanted.​^{[more information needed]}
  • Each drowned has a 3.75% chance to spawn with a 👁 Image
    fishing rod. May be enchanted.​^{[more information needed]}
• In the offhand:
  • Each drowned has an 8% chance to spawn with a 👁 Image
    nautilus shell.

A drowned holding a trident or fishing rod has a 25% chance to drop it when killed by a player or tamed wolf. This chance is increased by 1% per level of Looting, up to a max of 28% with Looting III. This means that killing 3 drowned with tridents without the Looting enchantment or 2 with Looting III, will have a greater than 50% chance of getting a trident.

For converted drowned:

• 1% spawn with a 👁 Image
  fishing rod in the main hand.
• 8% spawn with a 👁 Image
  nautilus shell in the offhand (same as naturally-spawned drowned).

Zombies converted to drowned are never equipped with tridents. Any equipment the zombie had before conversion is dropped.

Farms that convert zombies into drowned produce all of naturally-spawned equipment dropped by zombies, as well as fishing rods, copper ingots, and (in Bedrock Edition) nautilus shells.

A drowned farm must be designed to harvest naturally-spawned drowned to produce tridents in all game editions and nautilus shells in Java Edition.

During the day, drowned stay on the floor of the body of water they are in, unless provoked.

If on land during the daytime, drowned seek out nearby water or shade. They sometimes step onto land but quickly return to the water.

Drowned seek out turtle eggs within 10 blocks in Bedrock Edition and 24 blocks in Java Edition. They stomp on turtle eggs until the eggs break. Drowned can even jump over a 1-block gap to reach a turtle egg successfully, even if the egg is raised 1 block higher than the gap.

Drowned are passive‌^{[JE only]} or neutral‌^{[BE only]} during the day if no player in range is touching the water.

They are immune to guardians or elder guardians attacks. They also have a small chance to be immune to knockback when damaged.^[2]

Drowned can be damaged by a fully-powered conduit within a distance of 8 blocks.

In Bedrock Edition, drowned can mount and ride any untamed zombie nautilus that they collide with, but they do not actively search for zombie nautiluses to mount. However, 15% of gurgles can actively search for one.

Like spiders and endermen, drowned have eyes (in addition to their noses and mouths) that appear to glow in Bedrock Edition, although they do not produce light. With Vibrant Visuals, all bright parts in the first layer are emissive and glow in the dark.

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

They are always hostile toward axolotls. Like other zombie variants, they chase and attack villagers, wandering traders, snow golems,‌^{[BE only]} baby turtles, and iron golems, but only at night or in dark areas.

If a drowned kills a villager, either with a melee attack or with a trident, the villager has a chance of turning into a zombie villager (a 0% chance on Easy difficulty, a 50% chance on Normal, and a 100% chance on Hard).

During the day, drowned ignore players on land and in boats, only attacking if the player enters the water.

In Java Edition, a drowned is also neutral if it is equipped with a trident during the daytime, only attacking the player if provoked. During the night or in thunderstorms, they become hostile and attack any player or baby turtle they see, without provocation.

Every drowned has a melee attack, and if it spawns with a trident, the trident is used as a ranged weapon. A drowned with a trident can throw it every 1.5 seconds, sending it up to 20 blocks away. Thrown tridents cannot be picked up by the player, just like arrows shot by skeletons. In Bedrock Edition, a drowned with a trident also uses a melee attack if their target is within a 3 blocks distance.

A drowned's trident can be enchanted. The Loyalty, Impaling, and Channeling enchantments work the same as they would for a player, while Riptide has no effect for drowned.

A drowned equipped with a trident continues throwing it at the player even after the player leaves the water, or gets a long distance away.^[3] It also attacks any player that attacks it or another drowned. However, it is not provoked by a player killing another drowned in one hit.‌^{[JE only][4]}

If one drowned is hit by another drowned's thrown trident, the attacked drowned ignores it. ‌^{[JE only]}

Sometimes,​^{[more information needed]} drowned do not immediately become aggressive toward a player when the player first enters the water. However these are not "passive" drowned, but slow or non-movers which more-often will melee attack when the player draws closely.

Up to 10% of drowned spawn with the ability to break wooden and copper doors on Hard difficulty.

Some drowned spawn with the ability to pick up loot that is on the ground. That includes armor and weapons or tools just like regular zombies. Unlike zombies however, they can also pick up tridents, which they always prefer over anything else.

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.
• Threatening to armadillos, causing them to hide in their shell.

As they are monsters, golden dandelions do not work on gurgles.

Drowned use a swimming animation similar to the player. They use this animation whenever they try to pathfind to a player that is either below or above them; if the player is on the same ground level, the drowned simply walk toward them. Drowned also use this animation if they are tracking a player while they are not standing on a solid block. Their hitbox does not change when using this animation.

If they hold a nautilus shell or anything else in their offhand, their arms are in the same posture as a player's. When attacking, they use the player's attacking animation. Still, they use the same swimming animation when tracking a player underwater.

In Bedrock Edition, 15% of naturally spawned gurgles can start riding a mob and become a jockey when it tries attacking. A jockey mob ridden by a gurgle will adapt to the speed of its rider. A gurgle can ride:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Drowned 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 "Drowned" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• Drowned are not considered as aquatic mobs, instead, they are considered as undead and are therefore unaffected by the Impaling enchantment.‌^{[Java Edition only][21]}
• A gurgle chicken jockey that spawns underwater floats to the surface because the chicken it is riding floats, causing the gurgle riding it to burn in sunlight during the day, resulting in a chicken in the middle of the ocean or river where the gurgle chicken jockey spawned in.‌^{[Java Edition only]}
• In Bedrock Edition, drowned have a more inflated outer layers. This causes their heads and arms to look larger than in Java Edition and causes helmets to go inside their heads and their clothing goes off the sides of their leggings.
• The sounds for drowned were recorded by Samuel Åberg gurgling milk.^[22][23]

• 👁 A drowned with a trident in Java Edition
  
  A drowned with a trident in Java Edition
• 👁 A drowned with a trident in Bedrock Edition
  
  A drowned with a trident in Bedrock Edition
• 👁 A gurgle with a trident in Java Edition
  
  A gurgle with a trident in Java Edition
• 👁 A gurgle with a trident in Bedrock Edition
  
  A gurgle with a trident in Bedrock Edition
• 👁 An unarmed drowned pursuing a target in Java Edition
  
  An unarmed drowned pursuing a target in Java Edition
• 👁 An unarmed gurgle pursuing a target in Java Edition
  
  An unarmed gurgle pursuing a target in Java Edition
• 👁 A drowned brandishing its trident in Java Edition
  
  A drowned brandishing its trident in Java Edition
• 👁 A drowned brandishing its trident in Bedrock Edition
  
  A drowned brandishing its trident in Bedrock Edition
• 👁 A gurgle brandishing its trident in Java Edition
  
  A gurgle brandishing its trident in Java Edition
• 👁 A gurgle brandishing its trident in Bedrock Edition
  
  A gurgle brandishing its trident in Bedrock Edition
• 👁 A drowned with a fishing rod in Java Edition
  
  A drowned with a fishing rod in Java Edition
• 👁 A drowned with a fishing rod in Bedrock Edition
  
  A drowned with a fishing rod in Bedrock Edition
• 👁 A drowned holding both a trident and a nautilus shell in Java Edition
  
  A drowned holding both a trident and a nautilus shell in Java Edition
• 👁 A drowned holding both a trident and a nautilus shell in Bedrock Edition
  
  A drowned holding both a trident and a nautilus shell in Bedrock Edition
• 👁 A gurgle chicken jockey
  
  A gurgle chicken jockey
• 👁 A drowned without its second layer (this state cannot be seen in vanilla gameplay)
  
  A drowned without its second layer (this state cannot be seen in vanilla gameplay)
• 👁 A gurgle without its second layer (this state cannot be seen in vanilla gameplay)‌[JE only]
  
  A gurgle without its second layer (this state cannot be seen in vanilla gameplay)‌^{[JE only]}

• 👁 A passive drowned during the day, standing in the shade
  
  A passive drowned during the day, standing in the shade
• 👁 A group of drowned that spawned naturally in an ocean biome
  
  A group of drowned that spawned naturally in an ocean biome
• 👁 A group of drowned attacking the player
  
  A group of drowned attacking the player
• 👁 A drowned near an ocean ruin within a coral reef
  
  A drowned near an ocean ruin within a coral reef
• 👁 A drowned attacking a pufferfish after being attacked by it
  
  A drowned attacking a pufferfish after being attacked by it
• 👁 A drowned swimming in a river in Bedrock Edition
  
  A drowned swimming in a river in Bedrock Edition
• 👁 Drowned can sometimes spawn in ocean ruins in positions that they can't get out of.
  
  Drowned can sometimes spawn in ocean ruins in positions that they can't get out of.
• 👁 A drowned wearing armor. This occurs only on drowned converted from zombies, not naturally spawned drowned.‌[Java Edition only]
  
  A drowned wearing armor. This occurs only on drowned converted from zombies, not naturally spawned drowned.‌^{[Java Edition only]}
• 👁 A drowned with the same posture as a player, when holding a nautilus shell or anything else in their offhand‌[Bedrock Edition only]
  
  A drowned with the same posture as a player, when holding a nautilus shell or anything else in their offhand‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}
• 👁 Drowned wearing a pumpkin on Halloween
  
  Drowned wearing a pumpkin on Halloween
• 👁 A drowned chicken jockey
  
  A drowned chicken jockey
• 👁 A left-handed drowned holding its trident in the wrong direction
  
  A left-handed drowned holding its trident in the wrong direction
• 👁 Drowned with Loyalty trident gets swarmed by its own tridents
  
  Drowned with Loyalty trident gets swarmed by its own tridents
• 👁 A trident drowned in a savanna village
  
  A trident drowned in a savanna village
• 👁 A creeper and drowned mixed together
  
  A creeper and drowned mixed together
• 👁 A drowned chasing the player while holding a fishing rod
  
  A drowned chasing the player while holding a fishing rod

• 👁 An unreleased drowned texture
  
  An unreleased drowned texture
• 👁 Showcasing all of the baby zombie variants, piglins, and villagers
  
  Showcasing all of the baby zombie variants, piglins, and villagers
• 👁 A trident drowned and a gurgle in a cold ocean ruins
  
  A trident drowned and a gurgle in a cold ocean ruins

• 👁 Drowned outer layer texture file
  
  Drowned outer layer texture file
• 👁 Drowned texture file
  
  Drowned texture file
• 👁 Gurgle outer layer texture file
  
  Gurgle outer layer texture file
• 👁 Gurgle texture file
  
  Gurgle texture file

• 👁 Artwork of a Drowned with a fishing rod, used on the Minecraft 15th anniversary page[24]
  
  Artwork of a Drowned with a fishing rod, used on the Minecraft 15th anniversary page^[24]
• 👁 Mounts of Mayhem artwork featuring a drowned riding a zombie nautilus, shown in a Minecraft Monthly episode
  
  Mounts of Mayhem artwork featuring a drowned riding a zombie nautilus, shown in a Minecraft Monthly episode
• 👁 A drowned riding a zombie nautilus in artwork announcing the release for Mounts of Mayhem
  
  A drowned riding a zombie nautilus in artwork announcing the release for Mounts of Mayhem
• 👁 Artwork featuring Kai riding a nautilus and battling a drowned riding a zombie nautilus
  
  Artwork featuring Kai riding a nautilus and battling a drowned riding a zombie nautilus
• 👁 Efe fighting several drowned underwater
  
  Efe fighting several drowned underwater
• 👁 An enderman and drowned embrace on a floating door, parodying a shot in the film Titanic.[25]
  
  An enderman and drowned embrace on a floating door, parodying a shot in the film Titanic.^[25]
• 👁 Drowneds in a diving contest
  
  Drowneds in a diving contest
• An animation of a zombie converting into a drowned^[26]
• 👁 LEGO Minecraft Drowned
  
  LEGO Minecraft Drowned
• 👁 Acid Drowned, an official T-shirt design
  
  Acid Drowned, an official T-shirt design
• 👁 A drowned as seen in Minecraft Dungeons
  
  A drowned as seen in Minecraft Dungeons

• DANGER: SCARY MOB SPOTTED IN SEAS — Minecraft.net on July 2, 2018