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
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.

A husk.

A husk and baby variant.

Spawning

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. 20% of husks will spawn as zombies instead. There is a 5% chance for baby husks to be spawned, and an additional 5% chance to spawn as a chicken jockey^{[Java Edition only]} .

Behavior

Husks will pursue the player 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 ends up in water, they will be converted to a normal zombie which then will be converted to drowned.^{[Java and Bedrock editions only][upcoming 1.13]}

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.

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:^{[upcoming 1.13]} 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:^{[upcoming 1.13]} 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

Official release
1.10			16w20a		Added husk variant, including baby form.
					Added husk spawn egg.
			pre2		Removed husk spawn egg.
					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		Re-added the husk spawn egg.
					Husks now avoid water.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.13			18w19a		Husks will now sink underwater.
					Husks will no longer drown underwater.
			18w21b		Husks now convert into zombies when drowning.
					Husks now have sounds when converting to zombies.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.15.0			build 1		Added husks.
0.16.0			build 5		Husks now have their own sounds.
Pocket Edition
1.0.4			alpha 1.0.4.0		Husks are now slightly taller than zombies.

Issues

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

Gallery

• 

  Several husks and a baby variant.

• 

  A naturally spawned Husk in a desert biome.

• 

  Size comparison between a husk and a normal zombie.

• 

  A husk wearing some gold armor.

• 

  A husk peering into a village building.

• 

  A baby zombie standing next to a baby husk. Note that neither of them burn in direct sunlight.^{[until 1.13]}

See also

• Zombie

References

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