Zombie Villager

Zombie Villager

Health points	20 × 10
Armor points	2 ()
Attack strength	Easy: 2 - 3 Normal: 3 Hard: 4 - 5
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

A plains zombie villager with an enchanted iron sword.

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

In Bedrock Edition, old-version zombie villagers always spawn naturally, while version-2 zombie villagers spawn when villagers are killed by zombies, or from an igloo's basement.

Zombie villagers can also spawn from zombies killing villagers. If any type of zombie kills a villager, there is a chance for the villager to 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 cleric zombie villager appears alongside a cleric villager in every igloo basement. Zombie Villagers spawn also in zombie villages. Zombie villagers that spawn in zombie villages have the behavior to avoid direct sunlight and 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

Baby zombie villagers

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 moves at the baby zombie villager's speed, instead of the mob's speed.
    • If riding a neutral mob, it becomes 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 becomes non-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 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 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

Along with skeletons and regular zombies, some zombie villagers are capable of picking up dropped items. These zombie villagers automatically hold any item they come across (except that jack o'lanterns‌^{[Java Edition only]}, mob heads and pumpkins are worn on their heads), and use any armor, weapons, or tools picked up. If they encounter another similar item, they 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. Farmer Zombie villagers are immune to sunlight due to having a hat.^[verify]

Some zombie villagers capable of picking 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 is never mismatched (i.e. all pieces are 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%	6.875%-55%
Armor	0%	0%-15%	1.875%-15%
Armor Enchantment	0%	0-50%	6.25%-50%
Weapon	1%	1%	5%
Weapon Enchantment	0%	0%-25%	3.125%-25%

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) drop 1–3 extra experience per item.

Villager Variants

A zombie villager retains its biome and profession after conversion from a villager. They also retain their trades. Below is a table of the variant and what workstation it required before zombification.

Below is a table listing the various professions, along with the specific job site block that each profession requires:

Biome							Profession	Job Site Block
Desert	Jungle	Plains	Savanna	Snowy	Swamp	Taiga
							Unemployed	N/A
							Armorer	Blast furnace
							Butcher	Smoker
							Cartographer	Cartography table
							Cleric	Brewing stand
							Farmer	Composter
							Fisherman	Barrel
							Fletcher	Fletching table
							Leatherworker	Cauldron
							Librarian	Lectern
							Mason	Stonecutter
							Nitwit	N/A
							Shepherd	Loom
							Toolsmith	Smithing table
							Weaponsmith	Grindstone

Drops

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 drops with the same damage level it had when picked up.

Naturally-spawned equipment

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

Experience

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

Halloween

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 is 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

Zombie villagers 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) have a random profession that is not retained upon being cured; instead, they 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 are always unemployed.

Unlike regular zombies, zombie villagers do not drown, and remain unchanged from being submerged.

Like zombies, they trample turtle eggs to destroy them.

Curing

See also: Tutorials/Curing a zombie villager

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 is heard if successful, particles appear around the zombie villager, and it begins to shudder. The curing process takes 2–5 minutes, during which time the zombie villager behaves as a normal zombie. Conversion can be sped up approximately 4% by surrounding the zombie villager with iron bars and/or bed blocks within a 9×9×9 cube centered on the zombie villager. ConversionTime is determined by picking a random integer between 3600 and 6000, decreasing by 1 on each game tick. On 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 transforms into a villager, with the same biome and profession as the zombie villager (if it is an old-version zombie villager, the biome depends on where the curing takes place, and the profession is random).

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

The newly-cured villager offers a large discount on their trades to the player who cured them, along with any other villagers in the area. The discounts from curing a zombie villager persist depending on whether the player trades with the cured villager, 4 in-game days or longer.^{[more information needed]} It is also possible for cured villagers to become nitwits, meaning that they cannot offer discounted trades. In Java Edition, this spreads major_positive gossip part of the villager gossip system.

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

Data values

ID

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

See also: Chunk format

Zombie villagers have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the mob.

• Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
  • Tags common to all mobs see Template:Nbt inherit/mob/template
  •  IsBaby: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if this zombie is a baby. May be absent.
  •  CanBreakDoors: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if the zombie can break doors (default value is 0).
  •  DrownedConversionTime: The number of ticks until this zombie converts to a drowned, or husk to zombie. (default value is -1, when no conversion is under way).
  •  InWaterTime: The number of ticks this zombie or husk has been under water, used to start the drowning conversion. (default value is -1, when no conversion is under way).
  •  VillagerData: Information about the villager’s type, profession, and level.
    •  level: The current level of this villager's trading options. Influences the trading options generated by the villager; if it is greater than their career's maximum level, no new offers are generated. Increments when a trade causes offers to be refreshed. Also used for badge rendering.
    •  profession: A namespaced ID value indicating the villager's profession.
    •  type: A namespaced ID value indicating the villager's type.
  •  Gossips: Pieces of gossip that can be exchanged between villagers when they meet.
    • A piece of gossip.
      •  Type: An ID value indicating the type of gossip. The possible values are major_negative, minor_negative, major_positive, minor_positive, trading, and golem.
      •  Value: The strength of the gossip.
      •  TargetMost The most significant half of the target's UUID. Joined with TargetLeast to form the full UUID. For major_negative, minor_negative, major_positive, minor_positive, and trading, the target is the player who caused the gossip. For golem, the target is the villager who started the gossip.
      •  TargetLeast The least significant half of the target's UUID. Joined with TargetMost to form the full UUID.
  •  Offers: Is generated when the trading menu is opened for the first time.
    •  Recipes: List of trade options.
      • A trade option.
        •  rewardExp: 1 or 0 (true/false) - Whether this trade will provide XP orb drops. All trades from naturally-generated villagers in Java Edition reward XP orbs.
        •  maxUses: The maximum number of times this trade can be used before it is disabled. Increases by a random amount from 2 to 12 when offers are refreshed.
        •  uses: The number of times this trade has been used. The trade becomes disabled when this is greater or equal to maxUses.
        •  buy: The first 'cost' item, without the Slot tag.
          • Tags common to all items see Template:Nbt inherit/itemnoslot/template
        •  buyB: Optional. The second 'cost' item, without the Slot tag.
          • Tags common to all items see Template:Nbt inherit/itemnoslot/template
        •  sell: The item being sold for each set of cost items, without the Slot tag.
          • Tags common to all items see Template:Nbt inherit/itemnoslot/template
        •  xp: How much experience the villager gets from this trade.
        •  priceMultiplier: The multiplier on the  demand price adjuster; the final adjusted price will be added to the first 'cost' item's price.
        •  specialPrice: A modifier added to the original price of the first 'cost' item.
        •  demand: The price adjuster of the first 'cost' item based on demand. Updated when a villager resupply.
  •  ConversionTime: -1 when not being converted back to a villager, positive for the number of ticks until conversion back into a villager. The regeneration effect will parallel this.
  •  ConversionPlayerLeast: Least significant bits of the Universally Unique IDentifier of the player who started curing the zombie, to be joined with ConversionPlayerMost to form a unique ID.
  •  ConversionPlayerMost: Most significant bits of the Universally Unique IDentifier of the player who started curing the zombie, to be joined with ConversionPlayerLeast to form a unique ID.

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

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Availability				Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
				Xbox	PS	Bedrock	Nintendo
	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
				Xbox 360		Alt		20G
	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
				Xbox 360		Alt		20G

Advancements

Main article: Advancements

Icon	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

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

History

Java Edition
1.4.2		12w32a			Added zombie villagers. 5% of zombies spawned are zombie villagers, and villagers 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.
					Zombie villagers under the effects of a potion of weakness can be cured by using a golden apple on them.
		12w34a			Zombie villagers now have two new rare drops – carrots and potatoes.
		12w34b			Zombie villagers can now pick up and equip dropped items.
					If killed, zombie villagers now drop the item they are holding.
					Zombie villagers can now survive in sunlight, if they are wearing a helmet or a pumpkin.
		?			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 now cause more damage when their health is lower.
1.6.1		13w17a			When damaged, zombie villagers 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.
					Zombie villagers are now able to detect the player up to 40 blocks.
1.6.2		pre			Baby zombie villagers now spawn among regular ones.
					Baby zombie villagers now have the same percentage of spawning as zombie villagers.
1.7.2		13w36a			Baby zombie villagers 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 now run away from creepers that are about to explode.
		14w30a			Zombie villagers now drop a zombie head when killed by a charged creeper.
1.8.1		pre1			Zombie villagers 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 now have an attack animation similar to the one they had in Survival Test, even without weapons.
		15w35a			Zombie villagers 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.
					A new VillagerProfession tag that determines what profession the zombie villager is, as well its profession 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.
		pre1			Chance of a zombie villager setting the target on fire when burning, and the duration of the effect, 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 now makes green-robed villagers.
					The zombie villager's in-game name is now "Zombie Villager" instead of "Zombie".
					Zombie villagers no longer drop zombie heads when killed by a charged creeper.
					Zombie villagers no longer spawn from zombie spawners.
		16w32b			Re-added generic zombie villagers, along with its normal counterpart.
		16w39a			Zombie villagers 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 now intentionally stomp on turtle eggs and attack turtles.
		18w10d			Baby zombie villagers now burn in the sun.
1.14		18w50a			Zombie Villagers now have new skins, corresponding to biome and profession.
					Cured Zombie Villagers now retain their trades.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.12.1		build 1			Added zombie villagers.
					Zombie villagers retain their professions and clothes, which have a tattered appearance.
0.14.0		build 1			Baby zombie villagers now have a 15% chance of becoming be a jockey. Before becoming a jockey, upon nearing the player, they 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.
		alpha 1.1.0.9			Zombie villagers 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 now burn in daylight.
1.5.0		beta 1.5.0.0			Zombie villagers now sink underwater.
		beta 1.5.0.4			Zombie villagers 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 now attack wandering traders.
					Cured Zombie Villagers now retain their trades.
1.12.0		beta 1.12.0.2			New zombie villager have sounds.
Legacy Console Edition
TU14	CU1	1.04			Added zombie villagers.
					Added baby zombie villagers. However, they can be obtained only by having a zombie kill a baby villager, as a zombie spawn egg does 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.
					Baby zombie villagers can now be spawned with a zombie spawn egg.
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		Baby zombie villagers now drop experience.
					Zombie villagers now drop a zombie head when killed by a charged creeper.
TU54	CU45	1.56	Patch 24		Zombie Villagers 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 now have a 15% chance of becoming a jockey. Before becoming a jockey, upon nearing the player, they 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			Patch 38		Zombie villagers now have their own sounds.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added Zombie Villagers.

Issues

Issues relating to "Zombie Villager" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Gallery

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  The original zombie villager texture.

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  The zombie villager textures added in 15w35a.

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  A zombie villager wearing a wither skeleton skull.

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  A player-armored zombie villager.

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  The Zombie Villagers from 18w50a.

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  A glitch that occurs when baby villager zombie 'wears' a wither skeleton skull.

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  A zombie villager in a full set of golden armor.

Trivia

• Zombie villager never spawn with equipment in Bedrock Edition due having rendering issue with armor on them.
• In Bedrock Edition, old-version zombie villagers are the only mob, besides golems, that can spawn without the /summon command but cannot spawn from a spawn egg.

References

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