Chicken Jockey

Chicken Jockey

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Spawn	Randomly spawns instead of a baby zombie, baby husk, baby drowned or baby zombified piglin Chicken Jockey: Light level of 0 Chicken Husk Jockey: Desert, Desert Hills, Desert Lakes Chicken Zombified Piglin Jockey: Any 2 block high space in any light level in The Nether

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Chicken jockeys are the rare appearance of a baby zombie, baby zombified piglin, baby zombie villager, baby husk, or baby drowned riding a chicken.

Spawning

Each baby zombie, baby husk, baby zombie villager, baby zombified piglin, or baby drowned 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 spawn riding one of those chickens if there are any. If it fails that 5% chance, there is an additional 5% chance of the baby zombie spawning mounted on a new chicken. Each spawned zombie has a 5% chance of becoming a baby. In a chicken-free environment, each baby has a 4.75% chance to become a chicken jockey for a total 0.2375% chance of each spawned zombie becoming a chicken jockey; if chickens are present, the chance increases to 0.4875%.

Chicken jockeys may spawn with items equipped. Baby zombified piglin versions of the chicken jockey always have a golden sword equipped, while baby drowned versions may have a trident. Although chickens take damage from magma blocks, baby zombified piglin jockeys still spawn on them, killing the chicken and leaving just the baby zombified piglin. Provoking the zombified piglin chicken jockey causes it to attack, like a normal zombified piglin.

Mounting

In Bedrock Edition, 15% of naturally spawned baby zombies, baby husks, and baby zombie villagers that are not jockeys already can mount other mobs when trying to attack a player, villager, wandering trader, iron golem, or snow golem. The following mobs can be mounted:

• 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

Behavior

• Chicken jockeys fall slowly and do not take fall damage, like normal chickens.
• The chicken can run through 1 block high gaps. The baby zombie suffocates unless the above block is transparent.
• The baby zombie can pick up/equip items.
• The chicken (unless spawned with commands without the IsChickenJockey tag) does not lay eggs. However, they can still breed with other chickens, and the offspring do lay eggs.
• Chicken jockeys (both the zombies and chickens) despawn like zombies.
• The chicken acts like a regular passive mob again if the rider is killed, but still does not lay eggs and may despawn.
• Only the chicken needs a name tag to prevent both the chicken and rider from despawning.

History

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.
November 30, 2013							Dinnerbone tweeted the link to an image of chicken jockeys, after seeing the image on Reddit.
[hide]Java Edition
1.7.4			13w49a				Added chicken jockeys.
1.7.5							Chickens that are part of chicken jockeys can now despawn when no longer ridden.
1.8			14w02a				Chicken jockeys no longer lay eggs.
1.9			15w35a				Zombie villagers now retain their professions and clothes, which have a tattered appearance. This has caused zombie villager chicken jockeys to have a changed appearance, as well.
1.10			16w20a				Added a baby husk jockey variant.
1.13			18w11a				Added a baby drowned jockey variant.
1.14			18w43a				The texture of chicken jockeys has been changed.
							The texture baby husk jockeys has been changed.
							The texture of baby zombie pigman jockeys has been changed.
							The texture of baby drowned jockeys has been changed.
1.14			18w50a				Zombie villager jockeys now have different clothes in desert, jungle, plains, savanna, snowy, swamp and taiga biomes.
							Zombie villager jockeys no longer have a profession.
1.16			20w09a				"Zombie pigman jockey" has been renamed to "zombified piglin jockey".
							The model and texture of zombified piglin jockeys have been changed.
			20w22a				File:Chicken Zombified Piglin Jockey JE2.png The model of the zombified piglin jockey has been changed.
			pre4				The model of the zombified piglin jockey wasn't positioned properly due to a bug.
1.16.2			20w30a				File:Chicken Zombified Piglin Jockey JE2.png The model of the zombified piglin jockey got fixed.
[hide]Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.11.0			build 1				Added baby zombies and chicken jockeys.
			build 2				Added baby zombie pigmen and their chicken jockeys.
v0.12.1			build 1				Added baby zombie villagers and their chicken jockey.
v0.14.0			build 1				Removed chicken jockeys. Now baby zombie, baby zombie villager, and baby zombie pigmen now have 15% chance of becoming a jockey when angering, rather than spawning as a chicken jockey.
v0.16.0			?				Baby zombie pigmen no longer can mount mobs.
[hide]Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Added chicken jockeys.
TU60	CU51	1.64	1.64	1.64	Patch 30	1.0.11	Baby zombies can now ride most mobs, that match as bedrock edition's. However, normal chicken jockeys are still spawned.
			1.90				The texture of chicken jockeys has been changed.
							The texture of baby zombie pigman jockeys has been changed.
[hide]New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added chicken jockeys.

Issues

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

Trivia

• In Java Edition, the chance for a baby zombie villager to spawn wearing full enchanted diamond armor holding an enchanted iron sword in its left hand while riding a chicken is about 1 in 2.91082×10²², however it is still not the rarest jockey.
• In Java Edition, the rarest mob is the zombie villager chicken jockey from abandoned jungle village with fully enchanted diamond armor, maxed trades, jack-o'-lantern, leader attributes, and an enchanted iron sword in its left hand.
• Zombified piglin chicken jockeys can spawn from portals in the Overworld. Also, a normal chicken jockey may spawn in the Nether if a zombified piglin calls a normal zombie as reinforcement.
• The wither attempts to attack the chicken being ridden by the zombie and the zombie also takes damage.
• A zombified piglin chicken jockey does not become hostile if the chicken is killed or attacked.
• In Java Edition, if a zombie villager chicken jockey is cured, then the villager continues riding the chicken even after it grows up.
• The chicken jockey is the main protagonist of the MINECON/Minecraft Live’s intro in the 2019 and 2020 editions, but also appearing for a short time in the Minecraft Live 2022’s intro.

Gallery

Renders

Unarmed

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Armed

• Baby zombified piglin jockey.

  Baby zombified piglin jockey.

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  A zombie villager jockey, wearing full enchanted diamond armor and an enchanted iron sword in its left hand.

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  Chicken jockey with diamond armor and a sword.

Mounts

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  Adult Zombie Jockey

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  Adult Husk Jockey

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  Adult Zombified Piglin Jockey

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  Pig Jockey

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  Cow Jockey

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  Mooshroom Jockey

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  Sheep Jockey

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  Wolf Jockey

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  Ocelot Jockey

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  Stray Cat Jockey

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  Horse Jockey

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  Panda Jockey

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  Baby Zombie Spider Jockey

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  Baby Zombie Cave Spider Jockey

Screenshots

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  The first image of chicken jockeys.

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  A baby zombie inside a chicken in before 1.7.4 and 14w25b.

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  A chicken jockey with some other chickens walking around.

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  Chickens can still lay eggs while being ridden when spawned with commands without the IsChickenJockey tag.

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  A chicken jockey named "Dinnerbone".

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  A baby zombie villager chicken jockey before 1.9.

• A zombie pigman chicken jockey before 1.16.

  A zombie pigman chicken jockey before 1.16.

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  The chicken hitbox below the zombie.

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  Hitting from below leaves the zombie unharmed.

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

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  The zombie on the chicken jockey (pre-1.8) has picked up an egg that the chicken laid.

• A chicken jockey from Bedrock Edition.

  A chicken jockey from Bedrock Edition.

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

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  A husk chicken jockey.

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  A drowned chicken jockey holding a trident.

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  A zombified piglin chicken jockey in the Nether.

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  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 the early morning.

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

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  A baby zombified piglin chicken jockey spawned by a monster spawner.

• Chicken jockey found in the cave.

  Chicken jockey found in the cave.

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  Three chicken jockeys spawned at night.

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  A zombified piglin chicken jockey.

In other media

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  Chicken jockey artwork.

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  Chicken jockeys artwork.

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  Chicken jockey animated artwork.

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  A chicken jockey trying to keep up with an array of minecarts.

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  Chicken jockey from the Mobestiary.

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  Lego Minecraft chicken jockey.

External links

• Meet the Chicken Jockey – Minecraft.net on October 10, 2017