Stray

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A stray is a skeleton variant that spawns in various snow-covered biomes. They behave very similarly to skeletons, except they fire tipped arrows of Slowness from their bows and do not freeze in powder snow.

A stray may spawn directly under the sky in snowy plains, or ice spikes, replacing 80% of skeletons. Additionally, a stray may spawn in frozen rivers, frozen oceans, deep frozen oceans, legacy frozen oceans, snowy slopes, jagged peaks and frozen peaks in Bedrock Edition. Strays do not spawn naturally from monster spawners in Java Edition.

When a skeleton is kept inside powder snow for 7 seconds (140 game ticks), it begins shaking. After another 15 seconds (300 game ticks), it becomes a stray. A converted stray appears with full health even if the original skeleton did not have full health. Items being held or worn by a skeleton when it becomes a stray remain unchanged. Unlike regular skeletons, bogged and parched do not turn into strays, but take freezing damage instead.

Strays have a ¹⁄₃ chance to be selected as the "ranged" mob for trial spawners in trial chambers.

In Bedrock Edition, spiders and cave spiders spawned in biomes where strays can spawn (spiders cannot naturally spawn in snowy plains) have a 1% chance to spawn as a spider jockey, with an 80% chance of the rider being a stray. In Java Edition, stray spider jockeys cannot spawn naturally, but the skeleton rider can convert into a stray and continue as a stray spider jockey.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

• Any picked-up equipment has a 100% chance of dropping and drops with the same damage level it had when picked up.
• Any naturally spawned equipment, including the bow, has an 8.5% chance of dropping (9.5% with Looting I, 10.5% with Looting II and 11.5% with Looting III). It is damaged and may be enchanted.
• 5XP experience orbs when killed by a player or tamed wolf and an extra 1–3XP if the stray has armor.

Strays behave the same as normal skeletons but make noises with an echoing effect and shoot tipped arrows that inflict Slowness for 30 seconds on any target that they hit. In Bedrock Edition, strays that are underwater use a melee attack that inflicts Slowness. Strays do not take damage from freezing in powder snow, but they are not immune to Slowness. A stray holding a tipped arrow or spectral arrow in its off-hand always shoots that type of arrow instead, and the arrow held is not consumed.

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.
• Unable to swim in water, but do not drown.
• A threat to armadillos, causing them to hide in their shell.

As they are also under the "skeletons" entity type tag, if a stray kills a creeper, the creeper drops a music disc, randomly selected from 13, cat, blocks, chirp, far, mall, mellohi, stal, strad, ward, 11, and wait.

Like bogged and parched, the eyes of strays are emissive with Vibrant Visuals.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

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

• Strays and other skeleton variants do not know how to use a crossbow, despite the same using method as a bow.
• According to the Minecraft website, the slowness arrows represent frozen arrows that freeze on impact.^[1]
• The stray's fourth ambient sound is the skeleton's second ambient sound but partly edited.

• 👁 A stray aiming.
  
  A stray aiming.
• 👁 A sitting stray.
  
  A sitting stray.
• 👁 A stray spider jockey.
  
  A stray spider jockey.
• 👁 A stray cave spider jockey.‌[Bedrock Edition only]
  
  A stray cave spider jockey.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}
• 👁 A stray riding a skeleton horse.
  
  A stray riding a skeleton horse.

• 👁 A stray being compared to its variants in Java Edition.
  
  A stray being compared to its variants in Java Edition.
• 👁 A stray standing next to a normal skeleton.
  
  A stray standing next to a normal skeleton.
• 👁 Stray wearing a pumpkin on Halloween.
  
  Stray wearing a pumpkin on Halloween.
• 👁 Stray without a bow.
  
  Stray without a bow.
• 👁 A stray in a superflat world.
  
  A stray in a superflat world.
• 👁 Several strays spawned during an ominous trial
  
  Several strays spawned during an ominous trial

• 👁 One of the first images of strays, as tweeted by Jeb.
  
  One of the first images of strays, as tweeted by Jeb.
• 👁 Two strays, one in full gold armor. Note the old texture.
  
  Two strays, one in full gold armor. Note the old texture.
• 👁 First image of a stray in Bedrock Edition.
  
  First image of a stray in Bedrock Edition.

• 👁 Stray texture file.
  
  Stray texture file.
• 👁 Stray overlay texture file.
  
  Stray overlay texture file.

• 👁 Artwork of a stray.
  
  Artwork of a stray.
• 👁 Lego Minecraft stray.
  
  Lego Minecraft stray.
• 👁 The potato stray from 24w14potato.
  
  The potato stray from 24w14potato.
• 👁 An artwork from Minecraft.net
  
  An artwork from Minecraft.net
• 👁 Animation of a stray falling into powder snow.
  
  Animation of a stray falling into powder snow.
• 👁 Stray action figure.
  
  Stray action figure.
• 👁 A stray as it appears in Minecraft: Story Mode.
  
  A stray as it appears in Minecraft: Story Mode.
• 👁 A stray as it appears in Minecraft Dungeons.
  
  A stray as it appears in Minecraft Dungeons.

• Skeleton
• Husk
• Bogged
• Parched

• "Meet The Stray" by Marsh Davies – Minecraft.net, December 14, 2016.