Jockey

A jockey refers to a naturally-spawned mob riding another mob. Most jockeys are named based on the mob being ridden. The mob on the top often controls the mob on the bottom in Java Edition, but sometimes do not control it in Bedrock Edition.

The exceptions to the “jockey” naming scheme are the skeleton horseman and zombie horseman​^{[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem]}.

List of jockeys

• Chicken Jockey
• Hoglin Jockey
• Ravager Jockey
• Skeleton Horseman
• Spider Jockey
  • Cave Spider Jockey‌^{[BE only]}
• Strider Jockey

Upcoming

This section describes content that is currently in development.

 

This content has appeared in development versions for Mounts of Mayhem, but the full update adding it has not been released yet.

• Zombie Horseman
• Zombie Nautilus Jockey
• Camel Husk Jockey

Most jockeys spawn in similar conditions to their respective mobs.

Summoning

Jockeys can also be manually summoned using commands:

Chicken Jockey
In Java Edition: /summon minecraft:chicken ~ ~ ~ {Passengers:[{id:"minecraft:zombie",IsBaby:1}]}

In Bedrock Edition, it requires two commands:

1. /summon chicken ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ minecraft:spawn_adult
2. /ride @e[type=chicken] summon_rider zombie minecraft:as_baby

Camel Husk Jockey​^{[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem]}

• In Java Edition: /summon camel_husk ~ ~ ~ {Passengers:[{id:"minecraft:husk",equipment:{mainhand:{id:"minecraft:iron_spear",count:1}}},{id:"minecraft:parched",equipment:{mainhand:{id:"minecraft:bow",count:1}}}]}

Cave Spider Jockey‌^{[BE only]}

1. /summon cave_spider ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ minecraft:entity_spawned_with_default_jockey

Hoglin Jockey

• In Java Edition: /summon minecraft:hoglin ~ ~ ~ {Age:-12000,Passengers:[{id:"minecraft:piglin",IsBaby:1}]}

• In Bedrock Edition, it requires two commands:

1. /summon hoglin ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ spawn_baby
2. /ride @e[family=hoglin_baby] summon_rider piglin spawn_baby

Ravager Jockey
In Java Edition: /summon minecraft:ravager ~ ~ ~ {Passengers:[{id:minecraft:pillager,HandItems:[{id:crossbow,Count:1b}]}]}

• This command summons a ravager with a pillager rider.

/summon minecraft:ravager ~ ~ ~ {Passengers:[{id:minecraft:vindicator,HandItems:[{id:iron_axe,Count:2b}]}]}

• This command summons a ravager with a vindicator rider.

/summon minecraft:ravager ~ ~ ~ {Passengers:[{id:minecraft:evoker}]}

• This command summons a ravager with a evoker rider.

In Bedrock Edition: /summon ravager ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ minecraft:spawn_with_pillager_rider

• This command summons a ravager with a pillager rider.

/summon ravager ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ minecraft:spawn_with_vindicator_rider

• This command summons a ravager with a vindicator rider.

/summon ravager ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ minecraft:spawn_for_raid_with_evoker_rider

• This command summons a ravager with an evoker rider.

/summon ravager ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ minecraft:spawn_for_raid_with_pillager_rider

• This command summons a ravager with a pillager rider, but the pillager drops special loot upon death.

/summon ravager ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ minecraft:spawn_with_pillager_captain_rider

• This command summons a ravager with a pillager rider, but the pillager is a raid captain.

/summon ravager ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ minecraft:spawn_with_vindicator_captain_rider

• This command summons a ravager with a vindicator rider, but the vindicator is a raid captain.

Skeleton Horseman
Skeleton horsemen can be manually summoned by both the regular method and by spawning a skeleton trap.

A skeleton trap spawns 4 skeleton horsemen.

• In Java Edition: /summon minecraft:skeleton_horse ~ ~ ~ {SkeletonTrap:1}

• In Bedrock Edition: /summon skeleton_horse ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ minecraft:set_trap

Spider Jockey

• In Java Edition: /summon minecraft:spider ~ ~ ~ {Passengers:[{id:"minecraft:skeleton",HandItems:[{id:"minecraft:bow",count:1}]}]}

• In Bedrock Edition: /summon spider ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ minecraft:entity_spawned_with_default_jockeyNote: It only works during nighttime or underground.

Strider Jockey

• Zombified piglin riding strider:
  
  • In Java Edition: /summon minecraft:strider ~ ~ ~ {Saddle:1,Passengers:[{id:"minecraft:zombified_piglin",HandItems:[{id:"minecraft:warped_fungus_on_a_stick",count:1}]}]}

• • In Bedrock Edition: /summon strider ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ spawn_adult_piglin_jockey

• Baby strider riding adult strider:
  
  • In Java Edition: /summon minecraft:strider ~ ~ ~ {Passengers:[{id:"minecraft:strider",Age:-1200}]}

• • In Bedrock Edition: /summon strider ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ spawn_adult_parent_jockey

Zombie Horseman
Despite being included in the upcoming Mounts Of Mayhem game drop, they can be summoned earlier:

• In Java Edition: /summon minecraft:zombie_horse ~ ~ ~ {Passengers: [{id:"minecraft:zombie",equipment: {mainhand:{id:"minecraft:iron_spear",count:1}}}]} * In Bedrock Edition, it requires two commands:
  1. /summon zombie_horse Note: There is no specific spawn event to summon an adult zombie horse, so it has a 20% chance to spawn as a baby.
  2. /ride @e[type=zombie_horse] summon_rider zombie minecraft:as_adult

Zombie Nautilus Jockey​^{[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem]}

• In Java Edition: /summon minecraft:zombie_nautilus ~ ~ ~ {Passengers: [{id:"minecraft:drowned",equipment:{mainhand:{id:"minecraft:trident",count:1}}}]}

Mounting

This feature is exclusive to Bedrock Edition.

 

In Bedrock Edition, 15% of naturally spawned baby zombies, baby husks, and baby zombie villagers search for a mount when attacking a player, villager, wandering trader, iron golem, or snow golem. The following mobs can be mounted:

History

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Instructions: missing jockeys other than chicken and ravager. changes after 1.14, if there were

August 16, 2010							Notch mentions the concept of spider jockeys in a TIGSource forum post.
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.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.17							Added spider jockeys.
v1.2.0							Skeletons that ride spider jockeys now hold a bow.
Java Edition Beta
1.2							As with spiders, spider jockeys can now climb vertically up walls.
1.5							Spider jockeys can now be "neutral-hostile" with the addition of rain. The light level is low enough in a rainstorm for the skeleton to not combust, but high enough for the spider to not be actively hunting. In this state, the skeleton shoots the player with arrows, but the spider does not give chase (unless the spider jockey wanders into a shady area) because movement is controlled by the spider. The player can safely observe this kind of spider jockey from a distance of 16 or more blocks away.
1.8							Skeletons that ride spider jockeys' bows are now larger and held more realistically (full-sized bows, two-handed, and pulling the arrow back) than in previous versions (in one hand).
							Skeletons that ride spider jockeys now fire arrows slightly slower. Their arrows, however, are shot with more force.
Java Edition
1.0.0							Skeletons that ride spider jockeys now hold their bow with one hand again, but they still have the larger and held realistically bow.
1.4.2			12w34a				Spider spawn eggs now have a chance to spawn a spider jockey.
			12w36a				Spider spawn eggs used in nether fortresses now have a chance to spawn a spider jockey with a wither skeleton rider.
1.5			13w09a				Skeletons no longer dismount the spider jockey when the world is reloaded.
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			15w31a				Skeletons that ride spider jockeys now lower their arms when idle and their sitting position has been shifted a bit lower.
			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.
1.9.4			?				Spider jockeys no longer spawn properly due to a bug.[1]
1.10			16w20a				Added a baby husk jockey variant.
							Spider jockeys spawned in cold biomes can now have a stray rider.
1.11			16w32a				Spider jockeys no longer naturally spawn with a stray rider or wither skeleton rider.[2]
1.13			18w11a				Added a baby drowned jockey variant.
			pre5				Spider jockeys now spawn again.
1.14			18w43a				The texture of chicken jockeys has been changed.
							The textures of spider jockeys have been changed.
							The movement of a spider jockey is now controlled by the skeleton. The spider in a spider jockey no longer performs melee attacks on the player.[3]
							Added illager beasts, therefore adding illager beast jockeys. At the time, they can be ridden only via commands.
			18w45a				Illager beast jockeys now can spawn in the new Patrols,with a pillager / vindicator captain Illager beast rider.
			18w47a				Illager beast jockeys now spawn in the new raids, which makes them findable in Survival without commands.
			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.
			19w05a				"Illager Beast" has now been renamed to "Ravager". This makes it a ravager jockey, no longer an illager beast jockey.
			19w13a				Ravagers can now be ridden by evokers.
1.16			20w13a				Added strider jockeys.
			20w18a				Striders can no longer spawn in stacks of 3 or higher; only an adult and baby strider or an adult strider and a zombified piglin.
							Zombified piglins that spawn riding striders no longer despawn.
							The model and texture of zombified piglin jockeys have been changed.
			20w22a				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				The model of the zombified piglin jockey got fixed.[4]
			Pre-Release 1				Zombified piglins now hold a warped fungus on a stick when spawned as a strider jockey.
1.21.5			25w06a				Chicken jockeys now spawn as cold or warm chicken variants in their respective biomes.
1.21.7			Release Candidate 1				Baby zombies riding chickens now drop the new Lava Chicken Music Disc when killed by a player or tamed wolf.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.21.11			25w41a				Added zombie nautilus jockey.
							Added zombie horseman.
			25w44a				Added camel husk jockey.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.11.0			build 1				Added baby zombies and chicken jockeys.
							Added spider jockeys. Cave spiders also have a chance to spawn with a skeleton rider.
			build 2				Added baby zombie pigmen and their chicken jockeys.
v0.12.1			build 1				Added baby zombie villagers and their chicken jockey.
							Added wither skeleton spider jockeys with a cave spider variant.
							Spider jockeys have an 80% chance to spawn with a wither skeleton rider when spawned in the Nether (via spawn eggs, monster spawners, etc).
v0.14.0			build 1				Overhauled the jockey mechanics. Baby zombies, baby zombie villagers, and baby zombie pigmen that are not jockeys already now have a 15% chance of becoming able to mount certain mobs, including chickens, when angered.
v0.15.0			build 1				Added "skeleton trap" horses.
							Spider jockeys now have a 80% chance to spawn with a stray rider in snowy biomes.
							Skeletons and wither skeletons that ride spider jockeys now lower their arms when idle.
v0.16.0			?				Baby zombie pigmen can no longer mount mobs.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				Due to an identifier change, spider jockeys can no longer naturally spawn with a stray rider or wither skeleton rider.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The textures of "skeleton trap" horses have been changed.
							Added illager beasts, therefore adding illager beast jockeys. At the time, they can be ridden only via commands.
							Illager beast jockeys are currently available only through Experimental Gameplay.
							The textures of spider jockeys have now been changed.
1.16.0			beta 1.16.0.57				Added strider jockeys.
1.16.100			beta 1.16.100.54				Zombified piglins now hold a warped fungus on a stick when spawned as a strider jockey.
1.21.93							Baby zombies riding chickens now drop the new Lava Chicken Music Disc when killed by a player.
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.
							Added "skeleton trap" horses.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added chicken jockeys.
							Added "skeleton trap" horses.

Issues

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

Gallery

Screenshots

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  A skeleton in a boat fighting a spider jockey in water.
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  A baby villager after being cured while being a jockey.

Renders

• 
  A chicken jockey.
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  A warm chicken jockey.
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  A cold chicken jockey
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  A hoglin jockey.
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  A hoglin jockey with multiple piglins.
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  A ravager jockey.
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  A skeleton horseman.
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  A spider jockey.
• 
  A cave spider jockey.‌^{[BE only]}
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  A strider jockey.
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  A baby strider riding an adult strider.
• 
  A zombie horseman.​^[upcoming]
• 
  A zombie nautilus jockey.​^[upcoming]
• 
  A camel husk jockey.​^[upcoming]

Mounts

This feature is exclusive to Bedrock Edition.

 

• 
  Adult zombie jockey.
• 
  Adult husk jockey.
• 
  Adult zombified piglin jockey.
• 
  Pig jockey.
• 
  Cow jockey.
• 
  Mooshroom jockey.
• 
  Sheep jockey.
• 
  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.
• 
  Baby zombie spider jockey.
• 
  Baby zombie cave spider jockey.

References

See also

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• Arthropod
• Illager
• Monster
• Undead

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