Zombie Villager

A zombie villager is a variant of the zombie that can be cured into a normal villager using a golden apple while it is under the effect of Weakness.

Zombie Villager

• Plains
• Desert
• Savanna
• Taiga
• Snowy
• Jungle
• Swamp

Adult

Baby

Adult

Baby

Adult

Baby

Adult

Baby

Adult

Baby

Adult

Baby

Adult

Baby

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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
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
Spawn	See § Spawning
Natural equipment	Iron Sword (occasionally)‌ Iron Shovel (occasionally)‌ Random Armor (occasionally)‌
Usable items	Golden Apple

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Spawning

A plains zombie villager with an enchanted iron sword.

In Java Edition, when a group in the normal spawn cycle spawns zombies, there is a 5% chance to spawn a single zombie villager instead, with the probability increasing to 20% in old growth pine taiga biomes.

In Bedrock Edition, when a group in the normal spawn cycle spawns zombies, there is a 5% chance to spawn a group of zombie villagers instead.

If any type of zombie kills a villager, there is a chance for the villager to transform into a zombie villager.

Difficulty	Chance
Easy	0%
Normal	50%
Hard	100%

In Java Edition, a zombified zombie villager does not despawn if the player has traded with it at least once prior to its death, but unlike all other persistent mobs it still counts toward the hostile mob cap. If the zombie villager picks up any item however, it remains persistent but is excluded from the mob cap. In Bedrock Edition all zombified villagers are persistent.

A zombie villager appears alongside a cleric villager in every igloo basement (a normal zombie villager in Bedrock Edition and a cleric zombie villager in Java Edition). One of them transforms into a leatherworker, due to the workstation (a cauldron). They also spawn in zombie villages. Zombie villagers generated in both of these structures do not despawn naturally.

Reinforcements

On hard difficulty, zombie villagers have a 5% chance to spawn as leaders. Leader zombie villagers can spawn other zombie villagers as reinforcements.

Variants

Baby zombies

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

Baby zombie villagers make up 5% of zombie villager spawns. They have big heads, unlike normal baby villagers in Java Edition. They behave similarly to regular zombie villagers, with the following differences:

• They are 30% faster than normal zombies, yet they have the same health as normal zombies. This makes baby zombie villagers more dangerous than their bigger counterparts.
• The noises they make are higher-pitched than adult zombie villager sound effects.
• In Java Edition, baby zombie villagers have a chance to spawn as a chicken jockey.
• In Bedrock Edition, 15% of naturally spawned baby zombie villagers 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 zombified 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

• Baby zombie villagers turn into baby villagers, if cured. In Java Edition, their heads turn back to small baby villager heads.
• Worn armor shrinks to fit their body size.
• They are able to fit through 1×1 block gaps.
• They drop 12 experience when killed by the player instead of 5.
• Unlike other baby mobs but like undead baby mobs, they stay as babies indefinitely and never grow into "adult" zombie villagers.
• They have a decreased hitbox size.

Baby zombie villagers are spawned when a zombie kills a baby villager, the chance of infection being the same as adult zombie villagers. Baby zombie villagers also spawn naturally, but the combined chance (5% villagers × 5% babies) is low at 0.25% (or 1 in 400 chance) of all newly spawned zombies.

Armed zombie villagers

Along with skeletons and regular zombies, some zombie villagers are capable of picking up dropped items. These zombie villagers automatically pick up and hold any item that they come across (except jack o'lanterns‌, mob heads and pumpkins, as these are worn on their heads), and use any armor, weapons, or tools picked up. If they encounter another similar item, they pick it up and drop their previous item:

• if the new item is armor or a sword and the old item was not (for example, zombie villagers prefer swords to pickaxes and helmets to pumpkins),
• if both items are armor/swords and the new item is better damage-wise (reduces more damage for armor, or inflicts more damage for swords),
• if both items are armor/swords with the same damage reduction/infliction, the new item has NBT tags while the old does not or the new item is more damaged than the old item, or
• if both items are bows and the new item has NBT tags while the old does not.

Items dropped by mobs in exchange for another cannot be picked up by players or mobs for 10 game ticks (0.5 seconds, barring lag), but can be picked up by hoppers.

Armor worn by zombie villagers is not damaged from most damage sources, which means it cannot "wear out" the way player armor does. Helmets (not blocks like pumpkins) on zombie villagers can wear away and break if the zombie villager is exposed to daylight, or has an anvil or other falling block dropped on its head. Zombie villagers also have a natural armor rating of 2 (), which gives 1.6 - 8% damage reduction from most sources.

Some zombie villagers that are capable of picking up items spawn already in possession of such items, and those items may also be enchanted. The chances of that event are listed below. If a zombie villager spawns wearing multiple pieces of armor, the armor is never mismatched (i.e. all pieces are made of the same material).

Chances of zombie villagers wearing or picking up armor, per difficulty

	Easy	Normal	Hard
Can Pick Up Loot	0%	0%-55%	6.875%-55%
Armor	0%	0%-15%	1.875%-15%
Armor Enchantment	0%	0-50%	6.25%-50%
Weapon	1%	1%	5%
Weapon Enchantment	0%	0%-25%	3.125%-25%

If a zombie does spawn with armor, the chances of specific armor are as follows:

Chances of different armor pieces, per difficulty

Armor	Easy & Normal	Hard
Helmet	100%	100%
Helmet & Chestplate	75%	90%
Helmet & Chestplate & Leggings	56.25%	81%
Full set	42.19%	72.9%

The chances of it being of a particular material are:

Chances of different armor types

Armor Type	Chance
Leather	37.06%
Gold	48.73%
Chain	12.90%
Iron	1.27%
Diamond	0.04%

Any zombie villager that spawns with equipment‌ (picked-up items don't count) drop 1–3 extra experience per item.

Villager variants

A zombie villager retains its biome outfit and profession after zombification from a villager. They also retain their trades. Zombie villagers with a profession cannot work at a job site block.

Below is a table listing the various biome outfits and professions, along with the specific job site block that each profession requires:

Profession	Job Site Block	[hide]Biome
		Desert	Jungle	Plains	Savanna	Snowy	Swamp	Taiga
Unemployed	N/A
Armorer	Blast furnace
Butcher	Smoker
Cartographer	Cartography table
Cleric	Brewing stand
Farmer	Composter
Fisherman	Barrel
Fletcher	Fletching table
Leatherworker	Cauldron
Librarian	Lectern
Mason	Stonecutter
Nitwit	N/A
Shepherd	Loom
Toolsmith	Smithing table
Weaponsmith	Grindstone

Variant spawning

A zombie villager has variants depending on what biome it had spawned in, a Plains variant spawning in Sunflower Plains is an example.

Plains variant

• Mushroom Fields
• Ocean
• Deep Ocean
• Cold Ocean
• Deep Cold Ocean
• Lukewarm Ocean
• Deep Lukewarm Ocean
• Warm Ocean
• Beach
• Stony Shore
• River
• Plains
• Sunflower Plains
• Forest
• Flower Forest
• Birch Forest
• Old Growth Birch Forest
• Dark Forest
• Pale Garden
• Meadow
• Cherry Grove
• Stony Peaks
• Deep Dark
• Dripstone Caves
• Lush Caves

Taiga variant

• Taiga
• Old Growth Pine Taiga
• Old Growth Spruce Taiga
• Windswept Hills
• Windswept Gravelly Hills
• Windswept Forest

Jungle variant

• Jungle
• Sparse Jungle
• Bamboo Jungle

Savanna variant

• Savanna
• Savanna Plateau
• Windswept Savanna

Snowy variant

• Frozen Ocean
• Deep Frozen Ocean
• Snowy Beach
• Frozen River
• Snowy Plains
• Snowy Taiga
• Ice Spikes
• Grove
• Snowy Slopes
• Frozen Peaks
• Jagged Peaks

Swamp variant

• Swamp
• Mangrove Swamp

Desert variant

• Desert
• Badlands
• Eroded Badlands
• Wooded Badlands

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

Zombie villagers 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%)

Any picked-up equipment has a 100% chance of dropping on death or when cured and drops with the same damage level it had when picked up.

Naturally-spawned equipment

Zombie villagers do not spawn with equipment in Bedrock Edition. In Java Edition, a zombie villager can spawn with any of the following:

• Carved Pumpkin
• Jack o'Lantern‌
• Iron Shovel
• Iron Sword
• Random Armor
• Zombie villagers have an 8.5% chance of dropping their naturally-spawned equipment (other than Halloween pumpkins), and drop it with a random durability. Each level of Looting increases the chance by 1 percentage point (11.5% with Looting III).

Experience

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

Behavior

Zombie villagers behave as ordinary zombies, except that they do not convert to drowned when submerged.

Zombie villagers that were converted from villagers retain their professions and clothes, which gain a tattered appearance. Naturally spawned zombie villagers (or ones spawned with spawn eggs) have a random profession, and can also spawn with unemployed or nitwit outfits. In Bedrock Edition, baby zombie villagers are always unemployed.

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.

Curing

Zombie villagers can be cured (converted to normal villagers) by first giving them the Weakness effect, which can be applied by:

• A splash potion of Weakness thrown by the player, a dispenser, or a witch.
• A lingering potion of Weakness thrown by the player or a dispenser.
• An arrow of Weakness.
• An area effect cloud caused by an explosion of a creeper inflicted with a Weakness effect.‌.
• The /effect command, if cheats are enabled.

The weakened zombie villager must then be healed by using a (non-enchanted) golden apple on them. The zombie villager begins to shudder to signal that curing is in progress. Also, the Weakness effect is removed, replaced by Strength for the duration of the curing process. An internal countdown timer is then started, counting down the total time to cure.

Time to cure is initially a random integer between 3600 and 6000 ticks (180 to 300 seconds, 3—5 minutes). On each tick, there is a 1% chance for the game to look for cure accelerants. It checks each block within a 9×9×9 cube centered on the villager for either an iron bar or a bed (either half: they're detected separately). For each one found up to 14, there is a 30% chance of decreasing the countdown timer by 1 more tick. Therefore, having at least 14 half-beds and/or iron bars within range speeds up conversion by an average of 4.2%.

During the curing process the zombie villager behaves like a normal zombie except that it gains Strength (with a potency that doesn't depend on the difficulty level). Thus, a zombie villager is more dangerous during curing than at other times.

At the end of the curing process, the zombie villager transforms into a villager and gains the Nausea effect for 10 seconds (which has no effect on the villager's behavior). If it was holding any item it picked up, that item is dropped (unless it was enchanted with Curse of Binding, in which case it remains in the villager's inventory but is not worn and does not drop if the villager is killed). If it was a baby before it was transformed into a zombie villager, it remains a baby after the cure. If it had traded with a player at least once, it recovers its former profession and inventory of trades. Otherwise, it recovers its profession but might immediately change it if it finds and claims a workstation block for a different profession.

A newly-cured villager, if it had a profession prior to being zombified, offers a trading discount to the player who administered the cure. These discounts are permanent. If a villager is cured more than once, no additional discounts are applied. Villagers near the cured villager are also affected but offer fewer, smaller discounts.

Zombie villagers that are in the process of converting do not despawn if the player moves far away from them, but like all monsters, they despawn if the difficulty is changed to Peaceful.

Specific to Java Edition

• If a zombie villager spawned as a nitwit or was a nitwit before it was transformed into a zombie villager, it remains a nitwit if cured.
• Naturally spawned zombie villagers keep their profession for 1 tick then became unemployed. Therefore if a player were able to trade in less then a tick, players can get a villager with the preferred profession.
• After the curing process villagers can gain a different profession than the one they had while zombified.
• Curing a villager spreads minor_positive gossip through the villager gossip system.

Specific to Bedrock Edition

• A former nitwit zombie villager becomes an unemployed villager and can learn a profession after the cure.
• Villagers in a range of 16 blocks in a cube surrounding the cured villager also offer a small discount proportional to the number of cured villagers (up to 10).
• Saving and reloading the world causes the curing process to finish as soon as the chunk containing the villager is ticked. This does not happen if the player moves out of range, then returns: In that case, the countdown timer pauses until the player returns.

Sounds

Java Edition:
Zombie villagers 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
	​Zombie Villager groans	Hostile Creatures	Randomly	entity.zombie_villager.ambient	subtitles.entity.zombie_villager.ambient​	1.0	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.8-2.2)	16
	​Zombie Villager hurts	Hostile Creatures	When a zombie villager is damaged	entity.zombie_villager.hurt	subtitles.entity.zombie_villager.hurt​	1.0	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.8-2.2)	16
	​Zombie Villager dies	Hostile Creatures	When a zombie villager dies	entity.zombie_villager.death	subtitles.entity.zombie_villager.death​	1.0	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.8-2.2)	16
	​Footsteps	Hostile Creatures	While a zombie villager is walking	entity.zombie_villager.step	subtitles.entity.zombie_villager.step​	0.15	1.0	16
	​Zombie infects	Hostile Creatures	When a zombie villager infects a villager	entity.zombie.infect	subtitles.entity.zombie.infect​	2.0	0.8-1.2	16
	​Door shakes	Hostile Creatures	While a zombie villager 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 zombie villager 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 zombie villager is jumping on turtle eggs	entity.zombie.destroy_egg	subtitles.entity.zombie.destroy_egg​	0.5	0.9-1.1	16
	​Zombie Villager snuffles	Hostile Creatures	When a zombie villager begins curing	entity.zombie_villager.cure	subtitles.entity.zombie_villager.cure​	1.0-2.0	0.3-1.0	16
	​Zombie Villager vociferates	Hostile Creatures	When a zombie villager finishes curing	entity.zombie_villager.converted	subtitles.entity.zombie_villager.converted​	2.0	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.zombie_villager.say	1.0	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
	Hostile Creatures	When a zombie villager is damaged	mob.zombie_villager.hurt	1.0	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
	Hostile Creatures	When a zombie villager dies	mob.zombie_villager.death	1.0	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
	Hostile Creatures	While a zombie villager is walking	mob.zombie.step	0.45	1.0 (Baby: 1.5)
	Hostile Creatures	While a zombie villager is breaking a wooden door	mob.zombie.wood	1.0	1.0
	Hostile Creatures	When a zombie villager breaks a wooden door	mob.zombie.woodbreak	1.0	1.0
	Players	When a zombie villager is jumping on turtle eggs	fall.egg	0.5	0.9-1.0
	Hostile Creatures	When a zombie villager begins curing	mob.zombie.remedy	1.0-2.0	0.3-1.0
	Hostile Creatures	When a zombie villager finishes curing	mob.zombie.unfect	1.0-2.0	0.3-1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Entity tags	[hide]Translation key
Zombie Villager	zombie_villager	can_breathe_under_water ignores_poison_and_regen inverted_healing_and_harm undead wither_friends zombies	entity.minecraft.zombie_villager

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	[hide]Translation key
Zombie Villager (old)	zombie_villager	44	entity.zombie_villager.name
Zombie Villager (new)	zombie_villager_v2	116	entity.zombie_villager_v2.name

Entity data

Zombie villagers have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

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 villagers see Template:Nbt inherit/villager/template[show]
  • Tags common to all zombies see Template:Nbt inherit/zombie/template[show]
  • [Int] ConversionTime: -1 when not being converted back to a villager, positive for the number of ticks until conversion back into a villager. The regeneration effect parallels this.
  • [Int Array] ConversionPlayer: The UUID of the player who started curing the zombie, stored as four ints.

Zombie villager type[show][edit]

Zombie villager profession[show][edit]

Achievements

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Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Diamonds to you!	Throw diamonds at another player.	Drop a diamond. Another player must then pick up this diamond.	15	Bronze
		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
		Zombie Doctor	Cure a zombie villager.	Throw a splash potion of weakness at a zombie villager and give it a golden apple (by facing the zombie and pressing the use key with a golden apple in your hand).	40	Gold

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.
	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.
	Zombie Doctor	Weaken and then cure a Zombie Villager	Use a golden apple on a zombie villager under the Weakness effect; the advancement is granted when the zombie villager converts into a villager. In multiplayer, only the player that feeds the golden apple gets the advancement.

Video

Note: Zombie villagers have new textures and sounds as of Village and Pillage.

History

[hide]Java Edition
1.14			18w50a				Zombie villagers now have new skins, corresponding to biome and profession. Added desert zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for that biome. These zombie villagers also spawn in badlands biomes. Added jungle zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for that biome. However, jungles do not contain villages, so these zombie villagers spawn only after the player has a jungle village. Added plains zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for that biome. Added savanna zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for that biome. Added snowy zombie villagers, which all have unique textures in snowy biomes. These zombie villagers spawn in any snowy biome, including frozen rivers, frozen oceans (and their variants) and snowy beaches. Added swamp zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for that biome. However, swamps do not contain villages, so these zombie villagers spawn only after the player has created a village in a swamp. Added taiga zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for the biome. These zombie villagers also spawn in giant tree taiga and mountains biomes. Added baby zombie villagers to desert, jungle, plains, savanna, snowy, swamp and taiga biomes. However, jungles and swamps do not contain villages, so these zombie villagers spawn only after the player has created a village in those biomes.
							Cured zombie villagers now retain their trades.
1.15			19w37a				Mobs that spawn wearing carved pumpkins or jack o'lanterns on Halloween no longer drop them.
			19w41a				Zombie villagers that were converted from villagers are supposed to no longer despawn. However, they still do.
			19w46a				Baby zombie villagers can now be spawned by using a zombie villager spawn egg on an existing zombie villager.
1.16			20w06a				Zombie villagers that were converted from villagers no longer despawn.
1.17			21w11a				The overlay texture of the zombie librarian now have been changed.
			21w13a				Legacy zombie villager texture have been removed.
							Zombie villagers drop baked potatoes instead of normal potatoes if on fire when killed or killed by a fire source.
1.17.1			Pre-release 1				Zombie villagers no longer pick up glow ink sacs.
1.18			21w41a				The profession textures of Zombie Armorer and Zombie Weaponsmith have been changed.
1.19			22w17a				The sole textures of the Jungle, Plains, Savannna, and Snowy and arms of Weaponsmith have been changed.
1.20.2			23w31a				Villagers no longer offer additional discounts after being cured more than once
1.20.3			23w40a				Zombie villagers are now part of the #can_breathe_under_water, #undead and #zombies tags.
1.21.2			24w33a				Zombie villagers now spawn more zombie villagers as zombie reinforcements instead of regular zombies.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.10.0 Experiment Experimental Gameplay			beta 1.10.0.3				Zombie villagers are now split into 2 different mobs, new zombie villagers (which are only available behind Experimental Gameplay) now have new skins, coresponding to biome and profession. Added desert zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for that biome. These zombie villagers also spawn in badlands biomes. Added jungle zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for that biome. However, jungles do not contain villages, so these zombie villagers spawn only after the player has created a jungle village. Added plains zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for that biome. Added savanna zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for that biome. Added snowy zombie villagers, which all have unique textures in snowy biomes. These zombie villagers spawn in any snowy biome, including frozen rivers, frozen oceans (and their variants) and snowy beaches. Added swamp zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for that biome. However, swamps do not contain villages, so these zombie villagers spawn only after the player has created a village in a swamp. Added taiga zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for the biome. These zombie villagers also spawn in giant tree taiga and mountains biomes. Added baby zombie villagers to desert, jungle, plains, savanna, snowy, swamp and taiga biomes. However, jungles and swamps do not contain villages, so these zombie villagers spawn only after the player has created a village in those biomes.
							Added nitwit, mason, and unemployed zombie villager professions.
							Zombie villagers now attack wandering traders.
							Cured zombie villagers can now retain their trades.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.3				The new zombie villagers are now available outside of Experimental Gameplay.
1.12.0			beta 1.12.0.2				The new zombie villagers now have sounds.
1.13.0			beta 1.13.0.1				The old zombie villagers no longer spawn naturally. However, they still exist.
1.16.0			beta 1.16.0.51				Zombie villagers now have ability to pick up items.
1.17.30			beta 1.17.30.20				Zombie villagers no longer pick up glow ink sacs.
1.20.40			Preview 1.20.40.20				Zombie villager curing time is no longer a set value of 2000 ticks, and is instead a random value between 3600 and 6000 ticks.
1.21.60			Preview 1.21.60.21				Zombie villagers that spawn in mangrove swamps now use the swamp skin.
[hide]PlayStation 4 Edition
1.91							Zombie villagers now have new skins, corresponding to biome and profession. Added desert zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for that biome. These zombie villagers also spawn in badlands biomes. Added jungle zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for that biome. However, jungles do not contain villages, so these zombie villagers spawn only after the player has a jungle village. Added plains zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for that biome. Added savanna zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for that biome. Added snowy zombie villagers, which all have unique textures in snowy biomes. These zombie villagers spawn in any snowy biome, including frozen rivers, frozen oceans (and their variants) and snowy beaches. Added swamp zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for that biome. However, swamps do not contain villages, so these zombie villagers spawn only after the player has created a village in a swamp. Added taiga zombie villagers, which all have unique textures for the biome. These zombie villagers also spawn in giant tree taiga and mountains biomes. Added baby zombie villagers to desert, jungle, plains, savanna, snowy, swamp and taiga biomes. However, jungles and swamps do not contain villages, so these zombie villagers spawn only after the player has created a village in those biomes.

Issues

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

Trivia

• When a zombie villager wears a carved pumpkin or jack o'lantern, its head is so tall that it pokes out the top of the pumpkin.
• In Java Edition, zombie villagers have a glitched design when using the programmer art resource pack.
• In Bedrock Edition, when a zombie villager holds a trident, the hand that holds the trident lowers.
• in Bedrock Edition, if a zombie villager is summoned using the /summon command with an invalid spawn event, a generic zombie villager that moves extremely fast spawns.
• In Bedrock Edition, the icon for the achievement Zombie Doctor uses the old zombie villager texture.
• Curing a zombie villager chicken jockey is the only way to get a villager riding a chicken without the use of commands.
• Green-colored zombies are also present in Minicraft, a 2D Minecraft-inspired game also created by Markus Persson.
• In Java Edition, the rarest mob is a baby zombie villager riding a chicken, with 3 pieces of enchanted diamond armor, an enchanted iron sword and a jack o' lantern on its head. It has a 1 in 948 trillion (948 148 148 148 148) chance to spawn and can be found only during Halloween, as this is when mobs can spawn wearing jack o' lanterns.

Gallery

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  The base skin for all zombie villagers. This is never seen in-game.

Halloween

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  A zombie villager wearing a carved pumpkin.

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  A zombie villager wearing a jack o'lantern.

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  A baby zombie villager wearing a carved pumpkin.

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  A baby zombie villager wearing a jack o'lantern.

Screenshots

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  A zombie villager wearing a wither skeleton skull.

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  A player-armored zombie villager.

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  The Zombie Villagers from 18w50a.

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  A zombie villager in a full set of golden armor.

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  A comparison of zombie villagers wearing golden armor between Java and Bedrock.

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  A zombie villager can be seen outside wearing an enchanted diamond helmet.

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  A zombie village during the day. Multiple zombie villagers can be seen burning.

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  Zombie villager wearing a pumpkin on Halloween.

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  A zombie villager encountered in the wild.

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  A zombie villager under a tree.

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  A savanna zombie villager wearing a carved pumpkin.

In other media

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  Zombie Villager in promotional artwork for the Pretty Scary Update.

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  Pixel art of a savanna zombie villager.

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  The zombie villager about to get hit with a splash potion of weakness.

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  The zombie villager being fed a golden apple.

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  A zombie villager (referred to as simply a zombie) as it appears in Minecraft Legends.

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  Several 2D animated Legends zombies featured in a LoFi Minecraft melody.

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  LEGO Minecraft classic Zombie Villager.

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  LEGO Minecraft taiga Zombie Villager.

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  LEGO Minecraft taiga Zombie farmer.