Zombie Villager

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Zombie Villager

Health points	20 ( × 10)
Armor points	2 ()
Attack strength	Easy: 2 () Normal: 3 () Hard: 4 ()
Size	Adult: Height: 1.95 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks Baby: Height: 0.975 Blocks Width: 0.3 Blocks
Spawn	See Spawning
Drops	See Drops
Natural equipment	Iron Sword (occasionally)‌^{[Java and Legacy Console editions only]} Iron Shovel (occasionally)‌^{[Java and Legacy Console editions only]} Random Armor (occasionally)‌^{[Java and Legacy Console editions only]} Carved Pumpkin (22.5% chance; Halloween only)‌^{[Java Edition only]} Jack o'Lantern (2.5% chance; Halloween only)‌^{[Java Edition only]}
Experience	Adult: 5 Baby: 12
Sounds	Zombie Villager: Idle Hurt Die Infecting villager Curing Becoming villager Banging on door Baby Zombie Villager: Idle Hurt Die
Internal ID	JE: 27 BE: zombie_villager : 44 zombie_villager_v2 : 116
Namespaced ID	See Data values

This article is about the villager-variant of the zombie. For the villager, see Villager. For other variants, see Zombie (disambiguation).

“	Zombie Infection! The disease is spreading! "Uuuuhh, ooohhh"...	„
	— The Pretty Scary Update promo poster

Zombie villagers are variants of zombies that can be cured into normal villagers using golden apples and weakness potions.

Spawning[edit]

A zombie villager farmer with an enchanted iron sword.

Zombies which are not husks have a 5% chance of naturally spawning as zombie villagers.

Zombie villagers can also result from zombies killing villagers. If any type of zombie kills a villager, there is a chance that the villager will transform into a zombie villager.

Chance for villagers killed by zombies to turn into zombie villagers
Difficulty	Chance
Easy	0%
Normal	50%
Hard and Hardcore	100%

A priest zombie villager will appear alongside a priest villager in every igloo basement‌^{[Java and Legacy Console editions only]}. Zombie Villagers spawn also in zombie villages. Zombie villagers that spawn in zombie villages have the behavior to avoid direct sunlight and will never despawn.

Zombie villagers have their own spawn egg, which can be found inside the creative inventory. This spawn egg spawns a zombie villager when used.

Variants[edit]

Baby zombie villagers[edit]

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

They are 30% faster than the normal zombies, yet they have the same health as normal zombies. This makes the baby zombie villagers more dangerous than their bigger counterparts.
The noises they make are higher-pitched than adult zombie villager sound effects.
They can sometimes ride chickens. They can also ride‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}:
- Cows
- Ocelots
- Wolves
- Mooshroom
- Adult chickens
- Pigs
- Sheep
- Polar Bears
- Horses
- Donkeys
- Mules
- Zombie horses (unused jockey variant)
- Skeleton Horses
- Llamas
- Adult zombies
- Adult zombie villagers
- Pandas
- Adult husks
- Stray cats
- Spiders
- Cave spiders
  - It will use the baby zombie villager's speed, instead of the mob's speed.
  - If riding a neutral mob, it will become hostile, but won't anger any mobs nearby that are the same mob as they are.
  - If a baby zombie is riding a mob that is also rideable by a player, that mob will no longer be rideable by a player.
  - A baby zombie has a 15% chance to become a jockey when try attacking villagers, players or golems.
Baby zombie villagers will turn into baby villagers, if cured.
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 all other baby mobs in the game, they will stay as babies indefinitely and never grow into "adult" zombie villagers.
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 very low at 0.25% (or 1 in 400 chance) of all newly spawned zombies.

Armed zombie villagers[edit]

Along with skeletons and regular zombies, some zombie villagers are capable of picking up dropped items. These zombie villagers will automatically hold any item they come across (except that jack o'lanterns‌^{[Java Edition only]}, mob heads and pumpkins will be worn on their heads), but if those items happen to be armor, weapons or tools, the zombie villager will use them. If they encounter another similar item, they will 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 - 4% damage reduction from most sources.

Some zombie villagers, which can pick 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 will never be mismatched (i.e. all pieces will be 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]}
↑ ¹⁄₃ chance of an iron sword, ²⁄₃ chance of an iron shovel

If a zombie 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 it being of a particular material are:

Chances of different armor types
Armor Type	Chance
Leather	37.06%
Gold	48.73%
Chain	12.90%
Iron	1.27%
Diamond	0.04%

Any zombie villager that spawns with equipment (picked-up items don't count) will drop 1–3 extra experience per item.

Drops[edit]

When they die, zombie villagers drop 0–2 Rotten Flesh. The maximum drop is increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 0-5 with Looting III.

They can also drop an iron ingot, carrot, or potato when killed by a player or tamed wolf. This drop has a 2.5% chance of occurring, increasing by 1% per level of looting. Individual items have the following chances of dropping:

¹⁄₁₂₀ (about 0.83%)
¹¹⁄₆₀₀ (about 1.83%) with Looting I
¹⁷⁄₆₀₀ (about 2.83%) with Looting II
²³⁄₆₀₀ (about 3.83%) with Looting III

Any picked-up equipment has a 100% chance of dropping and will drop with the same damage level it had when picked up.

Naturally-spawned equipment[edit]

Carved Pumpkin ^{[note 1]}
Jack o'Lantern‌^{[Java Edition only]}^{[note 1]}
Iron Shovel
Iron Sword
Random Armor
Zombie villagers have an 8.5% chance of dropping their naturally-spawned equipment, and will drop it with a random durability. Each level of Looting will increase the chance 1 percentage point (11.5 % with Looting III).

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

Experience[edit]

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

Halloween[edit]

If a zombie villager wearing a carved pumpkin or jack o'lantern‌^{[Java Edition only]} is killed using a weapon that is enchanted with Looting, there will be a chance equivalent to the level of Looting used to drop the pumpkin or jack o'lantern, up to a maximum of a 3% chance of a drop.

Behavior[edit]

They behave as ordinary zombies, but their character model's head and face is reminiscent of that of a villager, shaded with a darker green hue. Zombie villagers retain their professions and clothes, which have a tattered appearance. Naturally spawned zombie villagers (or ones spawned with spawn eggs) will normally have a random profession outfit. They will not have this profession upon being cured, and they will instead become unemployed unless a job site block is nearby. Zombie villagers can also spawn with the unemployed outfit or the Nitwit outfit. Baby zombie villagers will always be unemployed.

Unlike regular zombies, zombie villagers cannot transform into drowned when they stay underwater for too long.

When they encounter turtle eggs they will jump on the eggs to destroy them.

Curing[edit]

For more information, click here.

Zombie villagers can be cured by using a golden apple (regular) on them while they are under the effects of Weakness, which can be applied by:

A splash potion of Weakness thrown by the player or a witch.
An area of effect of Weakness from lingering potion of Weakness or creeper explosions with the weakness effect.
A tipped arrow.

A loud sizzling sound will be heard if successful, and the zombie villager will have particles around it and begin to shudder. The curing process will take 2–5 minutes, during which time the zombie villager behaves as normal. Conversion can be sped up by around 4% by surrounding the zombie villager with iron bars and/or bed blocks within a 9×9×9 cube centered on the zombie villager.^[1] ConversionTime is determined by picking a random integer between 3600 and 6000, each game tick this ConversionTime will decrease by 1. Every tick there's a 1% chance for the game to look for iron bars and/or beds, within a 9x9x9 cube centered on the villager, and each one found has a 30% chance to decrease the ConversionTime by 1 more for that tick. When the ConversionTime reaches 0 the zombie villager will transform into a villager.

If the zombie villager is wearing any armor or wielding tools or weapons, those items will disappear when the villager is cured and are not dropped on the ground.

The newly-cured villager will offer a large discount on their trades to the player who cured them, along with any other villagers in the area.^{[more information needed]}^[2] It is also possible for cured villagers to become nitwits, meaning that they cannot offer discounted trades.

A zombie villager cannot be cured by switching from Easy, Normal or Hard difficulty to Peaceful; they will simply despawn like all other monsters.

Data values[edit]

ID[edit]

Java Edition:

Entity	Namespaced ID
Zombie Villager	`zombie_villager`

Bedrock Edition:

Entity	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID
Zombie Villager	`zombie_villager`	44
(New) Zombie Villager	`zombie_villager_v2`	116

Entity data[edit]

Zombie villager type

Main article: Zombie Villager/DV

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Zombie villager profession

Main article: Zombie Villager/DV2

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Achievements[edit]

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Availability				Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Xbox	PS	Bedrock	Nintendo	Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
	Monster Hunter	Attack and destroy a monster	Kill a hostile mob or one of the following neutral mobs: enderman, zombie pigman, spider, cave spider.	Xbox One	Yes	Yes	Yes	15G	Bronze
	Monster Hunter	Attack and destroy a monster		Xbox 360	Yes	Alt	Yes	20G	Bronze
	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)	Xbox One	Yes	Yes	Yes	40G	Gold
	Zombie Doctor	Cure a zombie villager.		Xbox 360	Yes	Alt	Yes	20G	Gold

Advancements[edit]

Main article: Advancements

Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Internal ID
Zombie Doctor	Weaken and then cure a Zombie Villager	We Need to Go Deeper	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), then wait for the villager to be cured.	`minecraft:story/cure_zombie_villager`
Adventure	Adventure, exploration, and combat	—	Kill any entity, or be killed by any entity.	`minecraft:adventure/root`
Monster Hunter	Kill any hostile monster	Adventure	Kill one of these 25 mobs. Other mobs are ignored for this advancement.	`minecraft:adventure/kill_a_mob`
Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Monster Hunter	Kill each of these 25 mobs. Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for the advancement.	`minecraft:adventure/kill_all_mobs`

Video[edit]

Note:this video is outdated as of village and pillage zombie villagers got a new texture.

History[edit]

Java Edition
1.4.2		12w32a		Added zombie villagers. 5% of zombies spawned are zombie villagers, and villagers will 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.
		12w32a		Zombie villagers under the effects of a potion of weakness can be cured by using a golden apple on them.
		12w34a		Zombie villagers will 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 will now drop the item they are holding.
				Zombie villagers can now survive in sunlight, if they are wearing a helmet or a pumpkin.^[3]
		?		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 will now cause more damage when their health is lower.
1.6.1		13w17a		When damaged, zombie villagers will now have a low chance to spawn more zombies.
		13w21a		Zombie villager damage increasing with decreasing health has now been removed.
		13w23b		Zombie villager AI and mechanics has now 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 will now spawn among regular ones.
1.6.2		pre		Baby zombie villagers will now have the same percentage of spawning as zombie villagers.
1.7.2		13w36a		Baby zombie villagers will 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 will now run away from creepers that are about to explode.
1.8		14w30a		Zombie villagers will now drop a zombie head when killed by a charged creeper.
1.8.1		pre1		Zombie villagers will now 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 now been adjusted, now 37.5% of the normal range.
		15w34a		Zombie villagers will now have an attack animation similar to the one they had in Survival Test, even without weapons.
		15w35a		Zombie villagers will 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.
		15w35a		A new `VillagerProfession` tag that determines what profession the zombie villager is, as well as what profession it will be when cured, has now been added.
		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 now been removed, due to the new `ZombieType` tag not allowing invalid villager professions.
1.10		pre1		Chance of a zombie villager setting the target on fire when burning, and the duration of the effect, will now depend on raw regional difficulty.
1.11		16w32a		Added a zombie villager spawn egg.
				Entity ID `Zombie` is now `zombie`, `zombie_villager` and `husk` for those respective mobs.
				Removed the `ZombieType` tag, added the `Profession` tag to `zombie_villager` only, and made `ConversionTime` apply to `zombie_villager` only.
				Setting the `Profession` tag to 5 will now make green-robed villagers.
				The zombie villager's in-game name is now "Zombie Villager" instead of "Zombie".
				Zombie villagers will now no longer drop zombie heads when killed by a charged creeper.
				Zombie villagers will now no longer spawn from zombie spawners.
		16w32b		Re-added generic zombie villagers, along with its normal counterpart.
		16w39a		Zombie villagers will now have their own sounds.
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		18w07a		Zombie villagers will now intentionally stomp on turtle eggs and attack turtles.
1.13		18w10d		Baby zombie villagers will now burn in the sun.
1.14		18w50a		Zombie Villagers now have new skins, corresponding to biome and profession.
1.14		18w50a		Cured Zombie Villagers now retain their trades.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.12.1		build 1		Added zombie villagers.
0.12.1		build 1		Zombie villagers will retain their professions and clothes, which have a tattered appearance.
0.14.0		build 1		Baby zombie villagers will now have a 15% chance of becoming be a jockey. Before becoming a jockey, upon nearing the player, they will 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.
0.15.0		build 1		Baby zombie villagers can now mount adult husks and horse variants.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.1		Baby zombie villagers can now mount polar bears.
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0		Baby zombie villagers can now mount llamas.
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.9		Zombie villagers will have their own sounds.
Bedrock Edition
?				Baby zombie villagers can now no longer mount adult zombie pigmen.
1.4.0		beta 1.2.20.1		Baby zombie villagers will now burn in daylight.
1.5.0		beta 1.5.0.0		Zombie villagers will now sink underwater.
1.5.0		beta 1.5.0.4		Zombie villagers will 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		beta 1.10.0.3		Zombie villagers are split into 2 different mobs, new zombie villagers now have new skins, coresponding to biome and profession.
				Added Nitwit, Mason, and Unemployed zombie villager profession.
				Zombie Villagers will now attack wandering traders.
				Cured Zombie Villagers now retain their trades.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.12.0		beta 1.12.0.2		New zombie villager have sounds.
Legacy Console Edition
TU14	CU1	1.04		Added zombie villagers.
TU14		1.04		Added baby zombie villagers. However, they can only be obtained by having a zombie kill a baby villager, as a zombie spawn egg will not spawn them, due to baby zombies not being in game.
TU15		1.05		The zombie villagers' rare loot drop have now been changed to be carrots, potatoes or iron ingots.
TU19	CU7	1.12		Zombie villagers can now pick up items and occasionally spawn with armor and/or weapons.
TU19	CU7	1.12		Baby zombie villagers can now be spawned with a zombie spawn egg.
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3	Baby zombie villagers will now drop experience.
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3	Zombie villagers will now drop a zombie head when killed by a charged creeper.
TU54	CU45	1.56	Patch 24	Zombie Villagers will now no longer spawn from zombie spawn eggs or spawners, since they now have their own spawn egg.
TU60	CU51	1.64	Patch 30	Baby zombie villagers will now have a 15% chance of becoming a jockey. Before becoming a jockey, upon nearing the player, they will 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	CU51	1.64	Patch 38	Zombie villagers now have their own sounds.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0				Added Zombie Villagers.