Husk

Husk

• Idle
• Targeting (JE)

Adult

Baby

Adult

Baby

Health points	20HP × 10
Armor points	2 ()
Behavior	Hostile
Mob type	Undead, Monster
Attack strength	Easy: 2.5HP × 1.25 Normal: 3HP Hard: 4.5HP × 2.25 Inflicts Hunger based on regional difficulty.
Hitbox size	In Java Edition: Adult: Height: 1.95 blocks Width: 0.6 blocks Baby: Height: 0.975 blocks Width: 0.3 blocks In Bedrock Edition: Adult: Height: 1.9 blocks Width: 0.6 blocks Baby: Height: 0.95 blocks Width: 0.3 blocks
Knockback resistance	0%–5%
Spawn	Desert Trial Chambers: from trial spawners.
Natural equipment	Iron Sword (occasionally, may be enchanted) Iron Shovel (occasionally, may be enchanted) Armor (occasionally, may be enchanted) Carved Pumpkin (22.5% chance, only during Halloween) ‌ Jack o'Lantern (2.5% chance, only during Halloween) ‌

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A husk is a variant of zombie that spawns in deserts. They function similarly to zombies, except they do not burn in sunlight, and they inflict Hunger with their unarmed attacks.

Spawning

Husks spawn at a light level of 0 in the desert, mostly replacing zombies in these biomes.

In Java Edition, husks spawn directly under the sky in groups of 4 in place of 80% of all zombies spawned in desert biomes.

In Bedrock Edition, husks spawn on the surface in groups of 2-4 in place of 70% of all zombies spawned in desert biomes.

Trial spawners

Husks have a ¹⁄₃ chance to be selected as the "melee" mob for trial spawners in trial chambers.

Reinforcements

On Hard difficulty, husks have a 5% chance to spawn as leaders. Leader husks spawn other husks as reinforcements.

Variants

Baby husks and chicken jockeys

Three adult husks and one baby husk.

All mobs that can be ridden by baby husks in Bedrock Edition.

In Java Edition, there is a 5% chance for husks to spawn as babies, and baby husks have a chance to spawn as a chicken jockey.

In Bedrock Edition, 15% of naturally spawned baby husks can start riding a mob and become a jockey when it tries attacking a villager, player, or golem. They can ride:

• Adult chickens
• Untamed ocelots
• Untamed cats
• Untamed wolves
• Adult zombies
• Adult husks
• Adult zombie villagers
• Adult zombified piglins
• Cows
• Adult unsaddled pigs
• Sheep
• Adult untamed horses
• Adult untamed donkeys
• Adult untamed mules
• Adult skeleton horses
• Adult zombie horses
• Mooshrooms
• Spiders that were not spawned as a jockey mount
• Cave spiders that were not spawned as a jockey mount
• Pandas

Husks spawn with random values of knockback resistance between 0% and 5%.

Behavior

A husk that drowns converts to a zombie (which can convert to a drowned).

Like zombies, husks are hostile toward the player, iron golems, villagers, baby turtles, and wandering traders. They pursue these mobs on sight from up to 40 blocks away, as opposed to 16 blocks like most other hostile mobs. If any other mob attacks a husk on purpose, all other husks and zombie variants (except zombified piglins) within a 67×67×21 to 111×111×21 area become hostile toward the attacker. They attempt to avoid obstacles, including sheer cliffs, water, and lava, and try to find the shortest path to the player.

Husks apply Hunger to any player or mob they hit using a melee attack, unless the husk is holding an item in its main hand or the player blocks the attack with a shield. This effect lasts for 7 × floor (regional difficulty) seconds.

Husks are one of the few undead mobs that are immune to burning in sunlight, which allows them to stay around during the day.

Husks have a chance to spawn with the ability to break down doors on Hard difficulty.

Husks seek out any nearby turtle eggs and trample them.

Husks can pick up items if the game rule mobGriefing is set to true, which prevents them from despawning.

Husks attempt to avoid water, only entering it when there is no other path to their target.

A husk that is fully submerged in water for 30 seconds begins converting to a normal zombie, which takes an additional 15 seconds and cannot be stopped even if the husk leaves water. Once this process finishes, the zombie that it becomes has full health even if the husk has been damaged, and may further convert into a drowned if it remains submerged.

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.
• unable to swim in water, but do not drown.
• a threat to armadillos, causing them to hide in their shell.

Drops

On death

Item		Roll Chance	Quantity (Roll Chance)
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Rotten Flesh	100%	0–2	0–3	0–4	0–5

Rare drops

Husks may also drop one of the following when killed by a player or tamed wolf:

Item		Roll Chance	Quantity (Roll Chance)
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Iron Ingot	0.83%–1.82%	1 (0.83%)	1 (1.16%)	1 (1.49%)	1 (1.82%)
	Carrot	0.83%–1.82%	1 (0.83%)	1 (1.16%)	1 (1.49%)	1 (1.82%)
	Potato	0.83%–1.82%	1 (0.83%)	1 (1.16%)	1 (1.49%)	1 (1.82%)

Taken equipment

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

Husk have an 8.5% chance of dropping their naturally-spawned equipment (other than Halloween pumpkins), with random durability. Each level of Looting increases the chance 1 percentage point (11.5% with Looting III). These items include:

• Iron Shovel
• Iron Sword
• Random Armor (sometimes enchanted, made from leather, gold, chainmail, iron or diamond)

Experience

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

Sounds

Java Edition:
Husks use the Hostile Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Husk groans	Hostile Creatures	Randomly	entity.husk.ambient	subtitles.entity.husk.ambient​	1.0	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)	16
	​Husk hurts	Hostile Creatures	When a husk is damaged	entity.husk.hurt	subtitles.entity.husk.hurt​	1.0	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)	16
	​Husk dies	Hostile Creatures	When a husk dies	entity.husk.death	subtitles.entity.husk.death​	1.0	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)	16
	​Footsteps	Hostile Creatures	While a husk is walking	entity.husk.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16
	​Zombie infects	Hostile Creatures	When a husk infects a villager	entity.zombie.infect	subtitles.entity.zombie.infect​	2.0	0.8-1.2	16
	​Door shakes	Hostile Creatures	While a husk is breaking a wooden door	entity.zombie.attack_wooden_door	subtitles.entity.zombie.attack_wooden_door​	2.0	0.8-1.2	16
	​Door breaks	Hostile Creatures	When a husk breaks a wooden door	entity.zombie.break_wooden_door	subtitles.entity.zombie.break_wooden_door​	2.0	0.8-1.2	16
	​Turtle Egg stomped	Hostile Creatures	When a husk is jumping on turtle eggs	entity.zombie.destroy_egg	subtitles.entity.zombie.destroy_egg​	0.5	0.9-1.1	16
	​Husk converts to Zombie	Hostile Creatures	When a husk is drowned, converting to a zombie	entity.husk.converted_to_zombie	subtitles.entity.husk.converted_to_zombie​	1.6	0.8-1.2	16
	​Block broken	?	Unused sound event	entity.zombie.attack_iron_door	subtitles.block.generic.break​​​	None	None	None

Bedrock Edition:

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Hostile Creatures	Randomly	mob.husk.ambient	1.0	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
	Hostile Creatures	When a husk is damaged	mob.husk.hurt	1.0	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
	Hostile Creatures	When a husk dies	mob.husk.death	1.0	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
	Hostile Creatures	While a husk is walking	mob.husk.step	0.35	1.0 (Baby: 1.5)
	Hostile Creatures	While a husk is breaking a wooden door	mob.zombie.wood	1.0	1.0
	Hostile Creatures	When a husk breaks a wooden door	mob.zombie.woodbreak	1.0	1.0
	Players	When a husk is jumping on turtle eggs	fall.egg	0.5	0.9-1.0
	Hostile Creatures	When a husk is drowned, converting to a zombie	mob.husk.convert_to_zombie	1.0	0.8-1.2

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Entity tags	[hide]Translation key
Husk	husk	can_breathe_under_water ignores_poison_and_regen inverted_healing_and_harm no_anger_from_wind_charge undead wither_friends zombies	entity.minecraft.husk

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	[hide]Translation key
Husk	husk	47	entity.husk.name

Entity data

Husks have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

Java Edition:

• [NBT Compound / JSON Object] Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template[show]
  • Tags common to all mobs see Template:Nbt inherit/mob/template[show]
  • Tags common to all zombies see Template:Nbt inherit/zombie/template[show]

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements

[hide]
Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		It Spreads	Kill a mob next to a catalyst	—	10	Bronze
		Monster Hunter	Attack and destroy a monster.	Kill a hostile mob or one of the following neutral mobs: an enderman, a piglin, a zombified piglin, a spider, or a cave spider.	15	Bronze
		Overkill	Deal nine hearts of damage in a single hit.	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have nine hearts of health overall.	30	Bronze
		Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	—	20	Silver

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	A Throwaway Joke	Throw a Trident at something. Note: Throwing away your only weapon is not a good idea.	Hit a mob with a thrown trident.
	Adventure	Adventure, exploration and combat	Kill any mob, or be killed by any living entity.
	Arbalistic	Kill five unique mobs with one crossbow shot	Armor Stand also counts for this advancement. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.
	How Did We Get Here?	Have every effect applied at the same time	Have all of these 33 status effects applied to the player at the same time:[hide] The source of the effects is irrelevant for the purposes of this advancement. Other status effects may be applied to the player, but are ignored for this advancement. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.
	It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Kill one of these 73 mobs near a sculk catalyst:[show] Mobs that drop no experience as well as the ender dragon are ignored for this advancement.
	Monster Hunter	Kill any hostile monster	Kill one of these 37 mobs:[hide] Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.
	Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Kill each of these 37 mobs:[hide] Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.
	Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	–
	Take Aim	Shoot something with an Arrow	Using a bow or a crossbow, shoot a mob with an arrow, tipped arrow, or spectral arrow.

History

[hide]Java Edition
1.10			16w20a				Added husks and baby husks.
							Added husk spawn eggs, which husks can be spawned from.
							Husks share the same entity ID as zombies.
			pre2				The husk spawn egg has 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 been re-added.
							Husks now avoid water.
							Husks can no longer spawn from zombie spawn eggs used in the desert.
1.13			18w19a				Husks now sink underwater.
							Husks no longer drown underwater.
			18w21b				Husks now convert into zombies when submerged for some time.
							Husks now have sounds when converting to zombies.
1.14			18w43a				The textures of husks and baby husks have been changed.
1.15			19w37a				Mobs that spawn wearing carved pumpkins or jack o'lanterns on Halloween no longer drop them.
			19w46a				Baby husks can now be spawned using their spawn egg on it.
1.17			21w13a				Husks drop baked potatoes instead of normal potatoes if on fire when killed or killed by a fire source.
1.17.1			Pre-release 1				Husks no longer pick up glow ink sacs.
1.20.3 Experiment Update 1.21			23w45a				Husks now spawn in trial chambers behind the "Update 1.21" experimental data pack.
1.20.5 Experiment Update 1.21			24w04a				Husks no longer retaliate against attacks from the breeze.
1.21.2			24w33a				Husks now spawn more husks as zombie reinforcements instead of regular zombies and can only do that in the overworld.
			24w36a				Zombies converted from husk now has equal percentage of health as the husk's before conversion.
			24w37a				The change in 24w36a has been reverted
[hide]Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.15.0			build 1				Added husks and baby husks.
v0.16.0			build 5				Husks now have their own sounds.
[hide]Pocket Edition
1.0.4			alpha 1.0.4.0				Husks are now slightly taller than zombies.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.5.0			beta 1.5.0.0				Husks now sink underwater.
							Husks now convert into zombies when submerged.
			beta 1.5.0.4				Husks now try to stomp turtle eggs.
1.8.0			beta 1.8.0.8				Baby husks can now ride adult stray cats and pandas.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The textures of husks and baby husks have been changed.
							Husks are now hostile toward wandering traders.
1.16.0			beta 1.16.0.51				Husks can now pick up items.
1.17.30			beta 1.17.30.20				Husks no longer pick up glow ink sacs.
1.20.30			Preview 1.20.30.21				Husks now have sounds when converting to zombies.
1.20.60 Experiment Update 1.21			Preview 1.20.60.20				Husks now spawn in trial chambers behind the "Update 1.21" experimental toggle.
1.20.70 Experiment Update 1.21			Preview 1.20.70.21				Husks no longer retaliate against attacks from breezes.
[hide]Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15	1.0.1	Added husks and baby husks.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Added husk spawn eggs, which husks can be spawned from.
							Husks can no longer spawn from zombie spawn eggs used in the desert.
TU60	CU51	1.64	1.64	1.64	Patch 30	1.0.11	Baby husks 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		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Husks now sink underwater.
							Husks now convert into zombies when submerged.
							Husks now try to stomp turtle eggs.
			1.83				Baby husks can now ride adult stray cats and pandas.
			1.91				Husks are now hostile toward wandering traders.
[hide]New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added husks and baby husks.

• 

  First image of husks in Bedrock Edition.

• 

  A husk wearing gold armor in Pocket Edition.

Data history

[hide]Java Edition
1.11			16w32a				Husks now have their own entity ID separate from zombies.
1.13			17w47a				Numeric IDs for entities were presumably deprecated in this version.​
1.20.3			23w40a				Husks are now part of the #can_breathe_under_water, #undead and #zombies tags.

Issues

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

Trivia

• The husk was created by Jason Mayer at a game jam and shown to Jens Bergensten.
• Husks are slightly taller than regular zombies.
• Their hitbox is ever so slightly higher than 2 meters in Bedrock Edition but is exactly 2 meters in Java Edition.

Gallery

Screenshots

• 

  Three adult husks and a baby husk.

• 

  A naturally spawned husk in a desert biome.

• 

  Zuri, zombie and husk size comparison.

• 

  A husk peering into a village building.

• 

  A baby zombie standing next to a baby husk.

• 

  Multiple husks wearing pumpkins on Halloween.

Mojang images

• 

  Alex fighting a husk with a mace.

• 

  Several husks in a trial chamber.

Textures

• 

  Husk texture file.

In other media

• 

  A husk sneezing on a magma cube.

• 

  Husks trying to overwhelm a camel.

• 

  Lego Minecraft husk.

• 

  A blanket for Minecraft Dungeons, featuring a husk.

• 

  Steve running from two husks.

• 

  Steve and Alex riding a camel fleeing from two husks.

• 

  Ari and Sunny fighting husks in a trial chamber.

• 

  Target of a husk in a cowboy hat from the Universal Studios Event.

• 

  Husks as they appear in the Timeless Trails DLC.

• 

  The poisonous potato husk from 24w14potato.

See also

• Zombie
• Drowned

External links

• Meet the Husk – Minecraft.net on August 14, 2017