Chicken Jockey

Chicken Jockey

Health points	Baby Zombie: 20HP × 10 Chicken: 4HP
Armor points	Baby Zombie: 2 () Chicken: 0 ()
Attack strength	Chicken Jockey: Easy: 2HP Normal: 3HP Hard: 4HP Chicken Zombie Pigman Jockey: Easy: 5HP Normal: 8HP Hard: 12HP × 6
Spawn	Randomly spawns instead of a baby zombie, baby husk or baby zombie pigman Chicken Jockey: Light level of 7 or less Chicken Husk Jockey: Desert, Desert Hills, Desert M Chicken Zombie Pigman Jockey: Any 2 block high space in any light level in the Nether

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	“	It’s a zombie that rides a chicken. This was made by Nathan as a, well, I think it’s partly a joke. He thought it was funny. And they are quite scary because they’re very aggressive. We had a huge problem with, er, when the zombies, they spawn and despawn all the time in the game, but with the chickens, they always remain. So for a while we had a problem that they would just fill the caves with chickens. Because they would spawn chicken jockeys but then despawn the zombie, just leaving the chicken behind. But Nathan fixed that, so now the chicken despawns as well.	„
		— Jens Bergensten

Three chicken jockeys in a superflat world.

A chicken jockey is the rare appearance of a baby zombie, baby zombie pigman, baby zombie villager, baby husk, or baby drowned riding a chicken.

Spawning

Each baby zombie, baby husk, baby zombie villager or baby zombie pigman that spawns has a 5% chance to check for an existing chicken within a 10×6×10 box centered on the baby's spawn location, and it will spawn riding one of those chickens if there are any. If it fails that 5% chance to check for existing chickens, there is an additional 5% chance of the baby zombie spawning mounted on a new chicken. In a chicken-free environment, this gives each spawned zombie a 0.25% chance of becoming a chicken jockey; if chickens are present, the chance increases to 0.4875%.

Chicken jockeys may spawn with items equipped. Baby zombie pigmen versions of the chicken jockey will always have their golden sword equipped while baby drowned versions may have a Trident. Provoking the zombie pigman chicken jockey will cause it to attack, like a normal zombie pigman.

In Bedrock Edition and Legacy Console Edition, baby zombie, baby husk and baby zombie villagers have 15% chance to become jockey, which can ride:

• Adult chickens
• Adult ocelots
• Adult wild wolves
• Adult zombies and variants
• Cows
• Pigs
• Sheep
• Horses and variants
• Mooshrooms
• Spiders
• Cave spiders
• Polar bears
• Llamas
• Adult Pandas
• Adult Stray Cats
  • any rideable mob become unrideable when mounted by baby zombies
  • Tameable mob cannot be tamed when baby zombie riding it.

In Bedrock Edition, if a baby zombie has spawned on another type of mob (such as an Adult zombie), killing the chicken jockey's current ' mount ' in an area populated with chicken may result in the baby zombie jumping onto a chicken rather than attacking the player.

Using the summon command: /summon chicken ~ ~ ~ {Passengers:[{id:zombie,IsBaby:1}]} will yield a chicken jockey. ‌

Drops

Chicken

Chickens drop:

• 0–2 Feather
• 1 Raw Chicken, when not killed by fire
• 1 Cooked Chicken, when killed while on fire
• 1–3 experience if killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Baby zombie

Baby zombies drop:

• 0–2 Rotten Flesh, and rarely File:ItemSprite carrots.pngcarrots, potatoes and iron ingots.
• Baby zombies also have a 8.5% chance each of dropping their
  • Iron Shovel
  • Iron Sword
  • or any equipped armor that they spawned with. The chance of each can be increased by 1% per level of Looting, up to 11.5% chance. The equipment will usually be badly damaged, and may be enchanted.

If killed by a charged creeper, it drops a zombie head.

They drop 12 experience when killed by a player or tamed wolf, 1–3 extra experience is given if the zombie has equipment.

Baby drowned

Baby drowned drop:

• 0–2 Rotten Flesh
• (Rarely) a Gold Ingot.

Baby drowned also have an 8.5% chance each of dropping their.

• Trident
• Fishing Rod

The chance of each can be increased by 1% per level of Looting, up to 11.5% chance. It will usually be badly damaged and never enchanted. Baby drowned always drop their Nautilus Shell But only when held in their offhand.

Like baby zombies, they drop 12 experience when killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Baby zombie pigman

Baby zombie pigman drop:

• 0–1 Rotten Flesh
• 0-2 Gold Nugget
• (Rarely) a Gold Ingot.

Baby zombie pigmen also have an 8.5% chance each of dropping their golden sword. The chance of each can be increased by 1% per level of Looting, up to 11.5% chance. It will usually be badly damaged, and may be enchanted.

Like baby zombies, they drop 12 experience when killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Halloween

If a baby zombie or zombie pigman wearing a pumpkin or jack o'lantern is killed using a tool 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

• Chicken jockeys generally run around, behaving like the zombie, instead of using the chicken AI.
  • Bedrock Edition is an exception.
• Chicken jockeys fall slowly and do not take fall damage, like normal chickens.
• The chicken moves at the speed of the baby zombie, which is much faster than a normal chicken.
• The chicken will run through 1 block high gaps. If the above block is solid, the baby zombie will suffocate.
• Chicken jockeys can pick up/equip items.
• The chicken does not lay eggs. However, they can still be bred into regular chickens.
• The baby zombie and the chicken can be separated by using a bucket of water on them.
• In Creative mode, a chicken jockey that isn't already targeting a player will follow a player holding seeds, like a normal chicken, and can be fed. In Survival mode, the chicken jockey will target a player who attempts to do this, and the chicken cannot be fed.

Video

Note: This video is outdated, Chicken Jockeys no longer lay eggs since 1.8.

Chicken Jockey/video

History

[hide]Java Edition
November 29, 2013							A two-image gallery was uploaded to Imgur, and showed a baby zombie inside a chicken. It was also posted to Reddit. {"type": "java", "version": "November 29, 2013", "exp": "", "snap": "", "content": "A two-image gallery was uploaded to Imgur, and showed a baby zombie ''inside'' a chicken. It was also posted to Reddit."}
November 30, 2013							Dinnerbone tweeted the link to an image of chicken jockeys, after seeing the image on Reddit. {"type": "java", "version": "November 30, 2013", "exp": "", "snap": "", "content": "Dinnerbone tweeted the link to an image of chicken jockeys, after seeing the image on Reddit."}
1.7.4							Added chicken jockeys. {"type": "java", "version": "1.7.4", "exp": "", "snap": "", "content": "Added chicken jockeys."}
1.7.5							Chickens that are part of chicken jockeys can now despawn when no longer ridden. {"type": "java", "version": "1.7.5", "exp": "", "snap": "", "content": "Chickens that are part of chicken jockeys can now despawn when no longer ridden."}
1.8							Chicken jockeys no longer lay eggs. {"type": "java", "version": "1.8", "exp": "", "snap": "", "content": "Chicken jockeys no longer lay eggs."}
1.10							Added baby husk jockey variant. {"type": "java", "version": "1.10", "exp": "", "snap": "", "content": "Added baby husk jockey variant."}
1.13							Added baby drowned jockey variant. {"type": "java", "version": "1.13", "exp": "", "snap": "", "content": "Added baby drowned jockey variant."}
[hide]Pocket Edition Alpha
0.11.0							Added chicken jockeys. {"type": "pocket Alpha", "version": "0.11.0", "exp": "", "snap": "", "content": "Added chicken jockeys."}
0.14.0							Baby zombies variant have 15% chance to mount a chicken to become a jockey. {"type": "pocket Alpha", "version": "0.14.0", "exp": "", "snap": "", "content": "Baby zombies variant have 15% chance to mount a chicken to become a jockey."}
							Removed Pigman chicken jockey. {"type": "pocket Alpha", "version": "0.14.0", "exp": "", "snap": "", "content": "Removed Pigman chicken jockey."}
0.15.0							Baby husk have 15% chance to mount a chicken to become a jockey. {"type": "pocket Alpha", "version": "0.15.0", "exp": "", "snap": "", "content": "Baby husk have 15% chance to mount a chicken to become a jockey."}
							Baby zombie variants can ride adult husk. {"type": "pocket Alpha", "version": "0.15.0", "exp": "", "snap": "", "content": "Baby zombie variants can ride adult husk."}
							Baby zombie variants can ride horse variants. {"type": "pocket Alpha", "version": "0.15.0", "exp": "", "snap": "", "content": "Baby zombie variants can ride (link to horse article, displayed as horse) variants."}
[hide]Pocket Edition
1.0							baby zombie variants can ride polar bear. {"type": "pocket", "version": "1.0", "exp": "", "snap": "", "content": "baby zombie variants can ride (link to polar bear article, displayed as polar bear)."}
1.1							baby zombie variants can ride Llama. {"type": "pocket", "version": "1.1", "exp": "", "snap": "", "content": "baby zombie variants can ride (link to Llama article, displayed as Llama)."}
??							adult zombie pigman no longer rideable by baby zombie variants. {"type": "pocket", "version": "??", "exp": "", "snap": "", "content": "adult zombie pigman no longer rideable by baby zombie variants."}
[hide]Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.8							baby zombie variants can ride adult panda and stray cats. {"type": "bedrock upcoming", "version": "1.8", "exp": "", "snap": "", "content": "baby zombie variants can ride adult (link to panda article, displayed as panda) and stray (link to cat article, displayed as cats)."}
[hide]Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU31	CU19				Patch 3		Added chicken jockeys. {"type": "console", "xbox": "TU31", "xbone": "CU19", "ps3": "", "ps4": "", "psvita": "", "wiiu": "Patch 3", "switch": "", "content": "Added chicken jockeys."}

Issues

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

Trivia

• The baby zombie's hitbox is larger than the chicken's.
  • Attacking the chicken may harm the zombie instead, unless the player carefully attacks its feet.
  • If the chicken moves too close to a wall two blocks high, the zombie will take suffocation damage unless the upper block is transparent.
• Chicken jockeys, like spider jockeys, cannot pass through portals.
  • Zombie pigman chicken jockeys can spawn from portals in the Overworld.
  • A normal chicken jockey may spawn in the Nether if a zombie pigman calls a normal zombie as reinforcement.
• If the zombie happens to be a zombie villager, curing it will separate the cured villager from the chicken.
• Name tags will prevent the chickens from despawning, and they can be bred to spawn normal egg-laying, non-despawning chickens.
• Chicken jockeys can spawn from zombie spawners.
• The wither will attempt to attack the chicken being ridden by the zombie, however the zombie will also take damage even though it is an undead mob.
• Adult zombies and zombie pigmen can also control a chicken while riding on it, though they do not naturally spawn on chickens.
• If the chicken is killed or attacked zombie pigmen will not become hostile.

Gallery

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  A chicken jockey with some other chickens walking around.

• 

  Chickens can still lay eggs while being ridden before 14w02a.

• 

  Chicken jockey named Dinnerbone.

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  Baby zombie villager chicken jockey.

• Zombie pigman chicken jockey.

  Zombie pigman chicken jockey.

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  The chicken hitbox below the zombie.

• 

  Hitting from below leaves the zombie unharmed.

• 

  The four variations of chicken jockeys using Grumm or Dinnerbone name tags.

• 

  The zombie on the chicken jockey has picked up an egg that the chicken laid. (Note: Chicken jockeys no longer lay eggs).

• A chicken jockey from Bedrock Edition.

  A chicken jockey from Bedrock Edition.

• 

  A chicken jockey that broke into the player's house.

• 

  A husk chicken jockey.

• A drowned chicken jockey holding a trident.

  A drowned chicken jockey holding a trident.

• 

  A zombie pigman chicken jockey in the Nether.

• 

  A detached chicken jockey.

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  A jockey in the rain.

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  A husk chicken jockey in a desert biome in early morning.

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  A chicken jockey's zombie burning up in the sun.