Zombie Horse

Zombie Horse

Health points	15HP × 7.5
Behavior	Passive
Mob type	Undead, Animal, Monster‌
Hitbox size	Adult: Height: 1.6 blocks Width: 1.3965 blocks Baby: Height: 0.8 blocks Width: 0.6982 blocks In Bedrock Edition: Adult: Height: 1.6 blocks Width: 1.4 blocks Baby: Height: 0.8 blocks Width: 0.7 blocks
Spawn	See Spawning
Usable items	Saddle ‌ Lead

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A zombie horse is an unused variant of the regular horse. Zombie horses appear to be the horse equivalent of zombies. Like zombies, zombie horses are green-skinned and their eyes are completely black.

Spawning

Zombie horses are incapable of spawning naturally.

Zombie horses may be created by the /summon command or with their spawn egg. When using a spawn egg, 20% spawn as baby zombie horses.

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

• 1–3XP when killed by a player or tamed wolf.

If saddled, they drop their saddle.

Baby zombie horses yield neither items nor experience.

Usage

Tamed and saddled zombie horses can be used as one of the fastest means of transportation in the game. They can also be used to climb hills and jump fences.

In Bedrock Edition, they cannot be ridden.

Equipment

GUI of a zombie horse.

Zombie horses have a lone equipment slot.

• Saddle slot: For equipping a saddle.

In Bedrock Edition, they have no slot.

Riding

Once a horse is tamed and saddled, the player can control it with directional controls, jump, and the mouse. The player dismounts using the dismount control. Like riding other entities, it is possible for a player to use a nether portal or end portal while on a horse.

A ridden horse automatically runs up any one-block-high slope. The horse and rider can safely fit through a space as low as 2.75 blocks high. Lower clearance risks suffocating the rider if the rider's head enters a non-transparent block. The horse itself can enter gaps as low as 1.625 blocks high, but may itself take suffocation damage when clearance is less than 1.75 blocks. Horses cannot fit through a 1-block-wide gap.

Ridden saddled zombie horses have the ability of "jumping charging". When the player rides them, the experience bar on HUD is replaced by jumping charging bar. A ridden saddled zombie horses can be made to jump and holding the control charges for a higher leap. Zombie horses are not affected by jump boost beacons or potions.

Behavior

The zombie horse is the only undead mob that is completely passive. Zombie horses behave like normal horses, roaming idly and occasionally stopping to rear, swish their tails, or lower their heads as though eating the grass. Unlike sheep and like other horses, the eating animation does not actually cause any grass to be consumed. Zombie horses can breathe in water.

Unlike other passive mobs, zombie horses slowly regenerate health. In Bedrock Edition zombie horses will be killed by the Conduit like any regular hostile mob, despite being passive.

Zombie horses can safely fall 6 blocks before they begin to accumulate fall damage, unlike most mobs, which can only safely fall 3 blocks. Zombie horses also take half of the normal fall damage (rounded up) that most other mobs take (0.5HP × 0.25 damage per block over the safe distance instead of 1HP). If an entity is riding a zombie horse, they receive the same fall damage as the zombie horse.

Zombie horses cannot be bred, however, in Java Edition, tamed zombie horses can be fed while being ridden by another mob, the valid food items are the same as for the normal horse: sugar, wheat, normal/gold/enchanted apples, golden carrots, and hay bales.

If a player pulling a zombie horse with a lead enters a boat, the zombie horse follows by swimming the same speed as the boat. A player riding a zombie horse is dragged along if the zombie horse is being pulled by a lead, and can even be lifted up in the air in the same way.

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.
• a threat to armadillos, causing them to hide in their shell.

Taming

Zombie horses cannot be tamed normally. However, in Java Edition, with the use of commands, a zombie horse can be tamed in the same way as a regular horse, granting the Best Friends Forever advancement: /ride @s mount @e[type=minecraft:zombie_horse,limit=1]. A tamed zombie horse can also be summoned using /summon minecraft:zombie_horse ~ ~ ~ {Tame:1b}.

Statistics

Zombie horses are spawned with constant health of 15, speed of 0.2, and have a jump strength ranging from 0.4–1.0, tending toward the average 0.7.

Sounds

Java Edition:
Zombie horses use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Zombie Horse cries	Friendly Creatures	Randomly	entity.zombie_horse.ambient	subtitles.entity.zombie_horse.ambient​	0.8	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)	16
	​Zombie Horse dies	Friendly Creatures	When a zombie horse dies	entity.zombie_horse.death	subtitles.entity.zombie_horse.death​	0.8	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)	16
	​Zombie Horse hurts	Friendly Creatures	When a zombie horse is damaged	entity.zombie_horse.hurt	subtitles.entity.zombie_horse.hurt​	0.8	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)	16
	​Horse gallops	Friendly Creatures	While a zombie horse is galloping	entity.horse.gallop	subtitles.entity.horse.gallop​	Block-Dependent	Block-Dependent	16
	​Horse jumps	Friendly Creatures	When a zombie horse begins a leap	entity.horse.jump	subtitles.entity.horse.jump​	0.4	1.0	16
	​Something fell	Friendly Creatures	When a zombie horse falls from more than 1 block	entity.horse.land	subtitles.entity.generic.big_fall​	0.4	1.0	16
	​Footsteps	Friendly Creatures	While a zombie horse is walking	entity.horse.step	subtitles.generic.block.footsteps​	Block-Dependent	Block-Dependent	16
	​Footsteps	Friendly Creatures	While a zombie horse is walking on wood or is being ridden	entity.horse.step_wood	subtitles.generic.block.footsteps​	Block-Dependent	Block-Dependent	16
	​Saddle equips	Friendly Creatures	When a saddle is equipped to a tamed zombie horse	entity.horse.saddle	subtitles.entity.horse.saddle​	0.5	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sounds
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Friendly Creatures	Randomly	mob.horse.zombie.idle	0.8	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
	Friendly Creatures	Unused sound event	mob.horse.armor	0.6	1.0 (Baby: 1.5)
	Friendly Creatures	Unused sound event	mob.horse.armor	1.0	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
	Friendly Creatures	Unused sound event	mob.horse.breath	0.7	1.0
	Friendly Creatures	When a zombie horse dies	mob.horse.zombie.death	0.8	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
	Friendly Creatures	Unused sound event	mob.horse.eat	0.5-1.5	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
	Friendly Creatures	When a zombie horse takes damage	mob.horse.zombie.hit	0.8	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
	Friendly Creatures	When a zombie horse begins a leap	mob.horse.jump	0.4	1.0
	Friendly Creatures	When a zombie horse falls from more than 1 block	mob.horse.land	0.4	1.0 (Baby: 1.5)
	Friendly Creatures	While a zombie horse is walking	mob.horse.soft	0.45	0.9-1.1
	Friendly Creatures	While a zombie horse is walking on wood or is being ridden	mob.horse.wood	0.45	0.9-1.1
	Friendly Creatures	When a saddle is equipped to a zombie horse	mob.horse.leather	0.6	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Entity tags	Translation key
Zombie Horse	zombie_horse	can_breathe_under_water dismounts_underwater ignores_poison_and_regen inverted_healing_and_harm undead wither_friends zombies	entity.minecraft.zombie_horse

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Zombie Horse	zombie_horse	27	entity.zombie_horse.name

Entity data

Zombie horses have entity data associated with them that contain various properties.

• [NBT Compound / JSON Object] Entity data
  • Additional fields for mobs that can breed see Template:Nbt inherit/breedable/template
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
  • Tags common to all mobs see Template:Nbt inherit/mob/template
  • Tags common to all horses see Template:Nbt inherit/horse/template

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.
	Best Friends Forever	Tame an animal	Tame one of these 8 tameable mobs: Skeleton Horse and Zombie Horse can be tamed in the same way as a regular horse to gain this advancement with the ride command.
	It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Kill one of these 73 mobs near a sculk catalyst: Mobs that drop no experience as well as the ender dragon 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

Java Edition
1.6.1			13w16a				Added zombie horses.
							Zombie horses have been assisted by DrZhark (John Olarte), creator of the Mo' Creatures mod, whose horses are a baseline for Minecraft's zombie horse models.
			13w16b				Zombie horses have now been made slower and have been reduced from gliding so much.
			13w18a				Horse saddles have now been removed. Zombie horses are now ridden using the saddle.
			13w21a				New GUI for zombie horses, to control the saddle, has been added.
			13w22a				New sound effects for zombie horses have been added.
1.7.2			13w36a				Zombie horses are now available without third-party tools, with the introduction of the /summon command.
1.9			15w43a–44b				The drops of zombie horses have now been changed several times. The end result is that zombie horses now always drop 1 rotten flesh, not affected by Looting.
			15w47b				Sounds for zombie horses eating food given by a player have now been added.
1.10			16w20a				Added zombie horse spawn egg.
			pre2				Zombie horse spawn eggs have now been removed.
1.11			16w32a				Zombie horses now have a separate ID from horses: zombie_horse.
							Re-added zombie horse spawn egg.
			16w38a				Zombie horses now drop 0–2 rotten flesh, affected by Looting.
1.13			17w45a				The model for zombie horses has now been changed.
			17w46a				The new zombie horse models have now been slightly tweaked. The position of the nose has now been moved up to one pixel.
			18w03a				The models of zombie horses have now been changed, once again. Also, the textures of zombie horses have now been slightly altered and the nose heights have been increased by one pixel.
			pre2				Zombie horses now sink in water.
							The model of zombie horses has now been updated to fix serious Z-fighting, which has changed the model from to .
1.14			19w08a				The textures of zombie horses have now been changed.
1.16			20w09a				Zombie horses can now be leashed.
1.19.4			23w03a				The texture of the zombie horse has been changed.
1.20.3			23w40a				Zombie horses are now part of the #can_breathe_under_water, #undead and #zombies tags.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.15.0			build 1				Added zombie horses.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				The entity ID for zombie horses has now been changed from zombiehorse to zombie_horse.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.9							Zombie horses no longer open their mouths when bucking the player off or taking damage.
1.8.0			beta 1.8.0.8				Baby zombie horses now have a chance of being spawned using a spawn egg.
1.10.0							The textures of zombie horses have now been changed.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU19	CU7	1.12	1.12	1.12	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added zombie horses.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Zombie horses are able to be spawned with a spawn egg found in the creative inventory.
TU57	CU49	1.57	1.56	1.56	Patch 27	1.0.7	Zombie horses can now be leashed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added zombie horses.

Issues

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

Zombie Horses are an unsupported mob and as such issues relating to them may not be fixed.

Trivia

• Dr. Zhark appears in the credits after the End Poem as the creator of horses, including zombie horses.
• The texture for zombie horses contains an unused saddlebag.
• Despite being unused, the zombie horse was present in a Minecraft video about every mob in the game.

Gallery

• 

  A zombie horse in a badlands biome.

• 

  A zombie horse and a baby zombie horse.

External links

• Meet the Horse – Minecraft.net on October 2, 2017