Zombie Horse

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A zombie horse is an undead variant of the horse. It rarely spawns in dark areas as a hostile mob being ridden and controlled by a zombie horseman wielding an iron spear. It becomes passive once separated from the zombie rider.

Zombie horses can naturally spawn on grass blocks in savanna, savanna plateau, windswept savanna, plains, sunflower plains, and snowy plains biomes as zombie horsemen: a zombie wielding an iron spear riding a zombie horse. Like zombies themselves, zombie horsemen can only spawn at a light level of 0‌^{[Java Edition only]}, or light levels below 7‌^{[Bedrock Edition only][1]}, both above ground and underground. They will also burn in daylight. However, due to the lack of grass blocks underground in the Overworld, they are mostly found on the surface. The zombie horse never spawns as a baby. Other zombie variants such as husks and zombie villagers cannot spawn as horsemen. In Bedrock Edition, zombie horses are programmed to spawn in ice spikes biomes, but they fail to do so naturally, as the biome's surface is made of snow blocks instead of grass blocks, meaning they also cannot spawn underground in that biome.

Zombie horses count towards the "monster" mob cap and can despawn like most hostile mobs until the first time any player interacts with it. At that point it becomes persistent and no longer counts towards any mob cap either.

When using the zombie horse's spawn egg, 20% of spawned zombie horses will be the otherwise unused baby variant.

In Java Edition, zombie horses spawn in Peaceful difficulty, unlike other monsters.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

• 1–3XP when killed by a player or tamed wolf.

If equipped with a saddle or horse armor, the saddle and/or horse armor will be dropped upon death.

Baby zombie horses yield neither items nor experience.

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The zombie horse is an undead mob that spawns as a hostile mob with a zombie controlling it, as the rider controls its pathfinding, making the zombie horse target the player. On their own, zombie horses behave like normal horses, roaming idly and occasionally stopping to rear, swish their tails, or lower their heads as though eating the grass. Unlike sheep and like other horses, the eating animation does not cause any grass to be consumed.

Like other undead mobs, zombie horses can breathe in water. Unlike skeleton horses and other undead, they do not sink - they float - in or on water.

Zombie horses have a ¹⁄₉₀₀ chance to regenerate 1HP👁 💔
health point each game tick.^{[verify for Bedrock Edition]}

Zombie horses can safely fall 6 blocks before they begin to accumulate fall damage, unlike most mobs, which can only safely fall 3 blocks. Zombie horses also take half of the normal fall damage (rounded up) that most other mobs take (0.5HP👁 ❤️
× 0.25 damage per block over the safe distance instead of 1HP👁 💔
). If an entity is riding a zombie horse, they receive the same fall damage as the zombie horse.

Zombie horses cannot be bred.

Unlike most passive mobs, zombie horses don't panic when damaged.

If a player pulling a zombie horse with a lead enters a boat, the zombie horse follows by swimming the same speed as the boat. A player riding a zombie horse is dragged along if the zombie horse is being pulled by a lead, and can even be lifted up in the air in the same way.

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

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.

Like most other undead mobs, zombie horses burn in direct sunlight. They are protected from burning when wearing horse armor, similar to other undead mobs wearing helmets. As horse armor has no durability, it does not break from absorbing the damage like helmets do.

As they are monsters, zombie horses count towards the hostile mob cap.

Parrots can also imitate them like other hostile mobs.‌^{[JE only]}

As they are monsters, golden dandelions do not work on baby zombie horses.

As with regular horses, zombie horses can be tamed by riding them until they stop bucking the player off.

15% of nearby baby zombies, husks, or drowned may ride an adult untamed zombie horse to form a jockey.

All zombie horses have three "equine stats": health, (maximum) movement speed, and jump height. While health is the same for all zombie horses, movement speed and jump height vary from horse to horse.

Zombie horses are spawned with a constant health of 25HP👁 ❤️
× 12.5. The last half-heart is not shown in a zombie horse's health bar, which only displays 24HP👁 ❤️
× 12.

A zombie horse's movement speed is randomly assigned within certain ranges which vary between Java Edition and Bedrock Edition. In Java Edition, it ranges between ~0.21347 and ~0.28463 in internal units, with an average of ~0.24905. In Bedrock Edition, it ranges between 0.205 and 0.275, with an average of 0.24. The conversion factor between internal units and blocks/sec is roughly 43.17.

• Java Edition:
  • Minimum: 9.216 blocks/s
  • Average: 10.752 blocks/s
  • Maximum: 12.288 blocks/s

• Bedrock Edition:
  • Minimum: 8.85 blocks/s
  • Average: 10.361 blocks/s
  • Maximum: 11.872 blocks/s

Zombie horses' jump strength ranges from 0.5 to 0.7, with an average of 0.6 in internal units.

The minimum jump strength of 0.5 is enough to clear 1.7088 blocks, while the maximum of 0.7 is enough to clear 3.124 blocks. The average jump strength of 0.6 is enough to clear 2.3675 blocks.

Tamed and saddled zombie horses can be used as a means of transportation. They can also be used to climb hills and jump fences.

Red mushrooms can be fed to a zombie horse to heal it by 3HP👁 💔
👁 ❤️
. The zombie horse can also be tempted (or "led") with a red mushroom.

Tamed zombie horses have two equipment slots:

• 👁 SlotSprite Saddle.png: Sprite image for Saddle in Minecraft
  Saddle slot: For equipping a saddle.
• 👁 SlotSprite Horse Armor.png: Sprite image for Horse Armor in Minecraft
  Armor slot: For equipping horse armor.

Baby zombie horses cannot be equipped, as they cannot be ridden.

Equipment can be placed on a zombie horse by holding it and then using on the zombie horse, or by accessing its inventory. A zombie horse’s inventory can be accessed by mounting the horse and using inventory control, or by sneaking and then using or pressing the "open inventory" button‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} on the zombie horse. The player cannot open the inventory on an untamed zombie horse, though they can open containers.

The equipment can be removed by two methods:

• Removing the equipment from their slots in the zombie horse's inventory.
• Using shears on the zombie horse. If both a saddle and horse armor are equipped, they are removed one at a time. The first use removes the horse armor, and a second use removes the saddle.

Once a zombie horse is tamed and saddled, the player can control it with directional controls, jump, and the mouse. The player dismounts using the dismount control. Like when riding other entities, it is possible for a player to use a nether portal or end portal while on a zombie horse.

A ridden zombie horse automatically runs up any one-block-high slope. The horse and rider can safely fit through a space as low as 2.75 blocks high. Lower clearance risks suffocating the rider if the rider's head enters a non-transparent block. The zombie horse itself can enter gaps as low as 1.625 blocks high, but may itself take suffocation damage when clearance is less than 1.75 blocks. Like other horses, zombie horses cannot fit through a 1-block-wide gap.

Ridden zombie horses have the ability of "jump charging". When the player rides them, the experience bar on the HUD is replaced by a jump charging bar. The zombie horse is then able to jump, and holding the control charges for a higher leap. Zombie horses are not affected by the Jump Boost effect.

Despite being monsters, zombie horses use the "Friendly Mobs" sound category.^[2]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Zombie horses have entity data associated with them that contain various properties.

Achievements that apply to all mobs:

Advancements that apply to all mobs:

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

• DrZhark appears in the credits after the End Poem as the creator of horses, including zombie horses.
• In the Minecraft.net, zombie horses were referred to as neutral mobs, due to their behavior as a hostile mob when ridden by zombies.^[8]
• Before Mounts of Mayhem, zombie horses were unused in Survival, despite being featured in a Minecraft video showcasing every mob in the game at that time.^[9]
• A zombie horse was also hinted 2 months before their official announcement, in the 1.21.8 article's photo.^[10]

• 👁 A baby zombie horse
  
  A baby zombie horse
• 👁 A zombie horse with copper horse armor.
  
  A zombie horse with copper horse armor.
• 👁 A zombie horse with iron horse armor.
  
  A zombie horse with iron horse armor.
• 👁 A zombie horse with gold horse armor.
  
  A zombie horse with gold horse armor.
• 👁 A zombie horse with diamond horse armor.
  
  A zombie horse with diamond horse armor.
• 👁 A zombie horse with netherite horse armor.
  
  A zombie horse with netherite horse armor.
• 👁 A zombie horse before Mounts of Mayhem.
  
  A zombie horse before Mounts of Mayhem.
• 👁 A saddled zombie horse before Mounts of Mayhem.
  
  A saddled zombie horse before Mounts of Mayhem.

• 👁 A zombie horse in a badlands biome.
  
  A zombie horse in a badlands biome.
• 👁 A zombie horse and a baby zombie horse.
  
  A zombie horse and a baby zombie horse.
• 👁 A comparison between a horse, a zombie horse, and a skeleton horse.
  
  A comparison between a horse, a zombie horse, and a skeleton horse.
• 👁 A zombie horseman with a ruined portal behind it.
  
  A zombie horseman with a ruined portal behind it.
• 👁 A zombie horse in the end.
  
  A zombie horse in the end.
• 👁 A zombie horse next to a zombie nautilus and a camel husk.
  
  A zombie horse next to a zombie nautilus and a camel husk.

• 👁 Current zombie horse texture file.
  
  Current zombie horse texture file.
• 👁 Baby zombie horse texture file.
  
  Baby zombie horse texture file.
• 👁 Zombie horse texture file from before Mounts of Mayhem.
  
  Zombie horse texture file from before Mounts of Mayhem.

• 👁 An image divided into three different layers, depicting a drowned riding a zombie nautilus, two spears, and a zombie riding a zombie horse.
  
  An image divided into three different layers, depicting a drowned riding a zombie nautilus, two spears, and a zombie riding a zombie horse.
• 👁 Two characters each riding a mount, one underwater and one on land.
  
  Two characters each riding a mount, one underwater and one on land.
• 👁 A zombie riding a zombie horse at night while holding a spear.
  
  A zombie riding a zombie horse at night while holding a spear.
• 👁 A zombie horseman in Java Edition.
  
  A zombie horseman in Java Edition.
• 👁 Sunny riding a zombie horse near a nautilus and zombie nautilus.
  
  Sunny riding a zombie horse near a nautilus and zombie nautilus.
• 👁 Alex and several zombie horses.
  
  Alex and several zombie horses.
• 👁 A zombie horseman on an iceberg
  
  A zombie horseman on an iceberg
• 👁 Image
  

• 👁 A statue of a zombie horse at TwitchCon
  
  A statue of a zombie horse at TwitchCon
• 👁 Four zombie horses seen in the Mounts of Mayhem artwork.
  
  Four zombie horses seen in the Mounts of Mayhem artwork.
• 👁 A Mounts of Mayhem artwork used in a Minecraft Monthly episode.
  
  A Mounts of Mayhem artwork used in a Minecraft Monthly episode.
• 👁 Alternate colors version.
  
  Alternate colors version.
• 👁 Artwork used for the release date reveal showing zombie horses as enemies.
  
  Artwork used for the release date reveal showing zombie horses as enemies.
• 👁 Ditto.
  
  Ditto.
• 👁 Artwork of Efe battling a zombie horseman.
  
  Artwork of Efe battling a zombie horseman.

• 👁 Image
  Horse
• 👁 Image
  Donkey
• 👁 Image
  Mule
• 👁 Image
  Zombie
• 👁 Image
  Skeleton Horse

• "Meet the Horse" by Emily Richardson – Minecraft.net, October 2, 2017.