Husk

Husk

Health points	20 ()
Armor points	2 ()
Attack strength	Easy: 2 () Normal: 3 () Hard: 4 ()
Spawn	Desert, Desert Hills, Desert M
First appearances	See History
Drops	See Drops
Natural equipment	See #Naturally-spawned equipment
Experience	Adult: 5 Baby: 12
Sounds	Adult Husk: Idle Hurt Die Baby Husk: Idle Hurt Die
Internal ID	JE: 23 BE: 47
Entity ID	husk

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

	“	I remember the first time I had the pleasure of meeting a Husk. I had gotten myself trapped in a sandpit of my own creation (as you do). Then, looking up, I saw a silhouette towering over me, lit up against the burning desert sun. “At last, my savior!” I cried, doing a little jig for joy. But then I heard that awful zombie screech, and I was thumped over the head.	„
		— Emily Richardson

Husks are a dried-out variant of zombies that spawn in deserts.

Spawning

A husk.

Husks spawn directly under the sky in groups of 4 at a light level of 7 or less in desert, desert hills, and desert M biomes in place of 80% of all zombies spawned in these biomes.

Baby Husks and Chicken Jockeys

Three adult husks and one baby husk.

There is a 5% chance for husks to spawn as babies, and baby husks have a 5% chance to spawn as a chicken jockey^{[Java Edition only]}. In Bedrock Edition, baby husks have a 15% chance of wanting to become a jockey when attacking a target. They can mount:

• Adult chickens
• Adult ocelots
• Adult wild wolves
• Adult zombies
• Adult zombie villagers
• Adult husks
• Cows
• Pigs
• Sheep
• Horses
• Donkeys
• Mules
• Zombie horses
• Skeleton horses
• Mooshrooms
• Spiders
• Cave spiders
• Polar bears
• Llamas
• Adult pandas
• Adult Stray cats

Side notes about all jockeys from both Java and Bedrock editions:

• It will use the baby husk speed instead of the mob speed.
• If riding a neutral mob, it will become hostile, but won't anger any other nearby mobs of the same kind.
• If a baby husk is riding a mob that is also rideable by a player, that mob will no longer be rideable by a player.

Behavior

Husks will pursue the player, iron golems and villagers on sight from 40 blocks away, as opposed to 16 blocks in most other hostile mobs. They will attempt to avoid obstacles, including sheer cliffs, water and lava, and will try to find the shortest path towards the player.

Husks will apply
Hunger to any player or mob it hits using melee attack. This effect lasts for 7 × floor (regional difficulty) seconds.

Unlike zombies, husks won't burn in sunlight.

Picking up items

Husks can pick up items if the gamerule mobGriefing is set to true, and will not despawn if left alone.

Becoming zombies

If a Husk drowns in water, they will be converted to a normal zombie which, if it drowns, will be converted to drowned.

Drops

When they die, husks drop:

• 0–2
  Rotten Flesh.
• Iron ingots, carrots and potatoes (0.8% chance each, 1.2% chance with Looting I, 1.5% chance with Looting II and 1.8% chance with Looting III).
• Any picked-up equipment has 100% chance of dropping and will drop with the same damage level it had when picked up.

Naturally-spawned equipment

• 
  Pumpkin
• 
  Jack o'Lantern^{[Java Edition only]}
• 
  Iron Shovel
• 
  Iron Sword
• 
  Random Armor
• Husk 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).

Experience

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

Halloween

If a husk wearing a pumpkin or jack o'lantern^{[Java Edition only]} is killed using a weapon 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.

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

Advancements

Main article: Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Internal ID
	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 24 mobs. In 1.14,[upcoming] you can also earn this by killing one of these 2 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 24 mobs. In 1.14,[upcoming] also kill each of these 2 mobs. Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for the advancement.	minecraft:adventure/kill_all_mobs

Data values

See also: Chunk format

Husks have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the mob. Their entity ID is husk.

• 
  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).

History

Java Edition
1.10			16w20a		Added husks, including their baby form.
					Added husk spawn egg.
			pre2		The husk spawn egg has now been removed.
			release		Added exclusive sounds for husks: their sounds are a more raspy version of regular zombie sounds. Before this, husks used to sound like regular zombies.
1.11			16w32a		The husk spawn egg has now been re-added.
					Husks will now avoid water.
1.13			18w19a		Husks will now sink underwater.
					Husks will now no longer drown underwater.
			18w21b		Husks will now convert into zombies when drowning.
					Husks will now have sounds when converting to zombies.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.15.0			build 1		Added husks.
0.16.0			build 5		Husks will now have their own sounds.
Pocket Edition
1.0			alpha 0.17.0		Baby husks can now ride polar bears.
1.0.4			alpha 1.0.4.0		Husks are now slightly taller than zombies.
1.1			alpha 1.1.0.0		Baby husks can now ride llamas.
Bedrock Edition
1.5			beta 1.5.0.0		Husks will now sink underwater.
					Husks will now convert into zombies when drowning.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.8			beta 1.8.0.8		Baby husks can now ride adult pandas.

Issues

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

Gallery

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  Several husks and a baby variant.

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  A naturally spawned husk in a desert biome.

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  Size comparison between a husk and a normal zombie.

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  A husk wearing gold armor.

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  A husk peering into a village building.

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  A baby zombie standing next to a baby husk. At the time, they did not burn in sunlight, which is no longer true.

See also

• Zombie

References

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