Stray

Stray

Health points	20HP × 10
Armor points	0 ()
Behavior	Hostile
Mob type	Undead • Monster
Attack strength	Ranged: Bow: In Java Edition: Easy: 2HP - 4HP Normal: 3HP - 5HP Hard: 4HP - 8HP In Bedrock Edition: Easy and Normal: 1HP - 4HP, depending on proximity Hard: 1HP - 5HP, depending on proximity Arrow of Slowness : Slowness for 30 seconds Melee: Easy: 2HP Normal: 2HP Hard: 3HP Slowness for 9 seconds ‌[BE only]
Hitbox size	In Java Edition: Height: 1.99 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks In Bedrock Edition: Height: 1.9 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks
Spawn	When a skeleton freezes. Snowy Plains at night or during thunderstorms. Ice Spikes at night or during thunderstorms. Frozen Ocean at night and during thunderstorms.‌[BE only] Deep Frozen Ocean at night and during thunderstorms.‌[BE only] Frozen River at night and during thunderstorms.‌[BE only] Legacy Frozen Ocean at night and during thunderstorms.‌[BE only] Snowy Slopes at night and during thunderstorms.‌[BE only] Jagged Peaks at night and during thunderstorms.‌[BE only] Frozen Peaks at night and during thunderstorms.‌[BE only] Trial Chambers: from trial spawners.
Natural equipment	Bow (right hand: 95%; left hand: 5%‌[JE only]; may be enchanted) Armor (occasionally, may be enchanted) Carved Pumpkin (22.5% chance, only during Halloween) ‌[JE only] Jack o'Lantern (2.5% chance, only during Halloween) ‌[JE only]

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A stray is a skeleton variant that spawns in various snow-covered biomes. They behave very similarly to skeletons, except they fire tipped arrows of Slowness from their bows.

Spawning

A stray may spawn directly under the sky in snowy plains, or ice spikes, replacing 80% of skeletons. Additionally, a stray may spawn in frozen rivers, frozen oceans, deep frozen oceans, legacy frozen oceans, snowy slopes, jagged peaks and frozen peaks in Bedrock Edition. Strays do not spawn naturally from monster spawners in Java Edition.

When a skeleton is kept inside powder snow for 7 seconds (140 game ticks), it begins shaking. After another 15 seconds (300 game ticks), it becomes a stray. A converted stray appears with full health even if the original skeleton did not have full health. Items being held or worn by a skeleton when it becomes a stray remain unchanged. Unlike regular skeletons, bogged do not turn into strays, but take freezing damage instead.

Stray spawns in:

Category: Monster	Java Edition			Bedrock Edition
Spawn area	Spawn weight	Spawn chance	Group size	Spawn weight	Group size
Ice Spikes	80⁄515	15.53%	4	96	1–2
Snowy Plains	80⁄520	15.38%	4	96	1–2
File:BiomeSprite ocean-biomes.pngOcean biomes	—	—	—	96	1–2
Jagged Peaks	—	—	—	96	1–2
Frozen River	—	—	—	96	1–2
Frozen Peaks	—	—	—	96	1–2
Deep Frozen Ocean	—	—	—	96	1–2
Frozen Ocean	—	—	—	96	1–2
Snowy Slopes	—	—	—	96	1–2

Trial spawners

Strays have a ¹⁄₃ chance to be selected as the "ranged" mob for trial spawners in trial chambers.

Spider jockeys

This feature is exclusive to Bedrock Edition.

 

Spiders and cave spiders spawned in biomes where strays can spawn (spiders cannot naturally spawn in snowy plains) have a 1% chance to spawn as a spider jockey, with an 80% chance of that spider being ridden by a stray. In Java Edition, stray spider jockeys cannot spawn naturally but skeletons riding a spider can convert into a stray, continueing as a stray spider jockey.

Drops

On death

Java Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Bone	0–2	66.67%	1.00	0–3	83.33%	1.50	0–4	91.67%	2.00	0–5	94.44%	2.50
	Arrow	0–2	66.67%	1.00	0–3	83.33%	1.50	0–4	91.67%	2.00	0–5	94.44%	2.50
	Arrow of Slowness[A]	0–1	50.00%	0.50	0–1	75.00%	0.75	0–1	87.50%	0.88	0–1	91.67%	0.92

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Bone	0–2	2⁄3	1	0–3	5⁄6	3⁄2	0–4	11⁄12	2	0–5	17⁄18	5⁄2
	Arrow	0–2	2⁄3	1	0–3	5⁄6	3⁄2	0–4	11⁄12	2	0–5	17⁄18	5⁄2
	Arrow of Slowness[A]	0–1	1⁄2	1⁄2	0–1	3⁄4	3⁄4	0–1	7⁄8	7⁄8	0–1	11⁄12	11⁄12

Item		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Bone	0	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		1	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		2	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		3	0	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		4	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		5	0	0	0	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		Average	1 (1.00)	3⁄2 (1.50)	2 (2.00)	5⁄2 (2.50)
	Arrow	0	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		1	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		2	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		3	0	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		4	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		5	0	0	0	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		Average	1 (1.00)	3⁄2 (1.50)	2 (2.00)	5⁄2 (2.50)
	Arrow of Slowness[A]	0	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄8 (12.50%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)
		1	1⁄2 (50.00%)	3⁄4 (75.00%)	7⁄8 (87.50%)	11⁄12 (91.67%)
		Average	1⁄2 (0.50)	3⁄4 (0.75)	7⁄8 (0.88)	11⁄12 (0.92)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drops
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Bone	1.00	1.50	2.00	2.50
	Arrow	1.00	1.50	2.00	2.50
	Arrow of Slowness[A]	0.50	0.75	0.88	0.92

Bedrock Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Bone	0–2	66.67%	1.00	0–3	66.67%	1.33	0–4	66.67%	1.67	0–5	66.67%	2.00
	Arrow	0–2	66.67%	1.00	0–3	66.67%	1.33	0–4	66.67%	1.67	0–5	66.67%	2.00
	Arrow of Slowness[A]	0–1	50.00%	0.50	0–2	50.00%	0.75	0–3	50.00%	1.00	0–4	50.00%	1.25

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Bone	0–2	2⁄3	1	0–3	2⁄3	4⁄3	0–4	2⁄3	5⁄3	0–5	2⁄3	2
	Arrow	0–2	2⁄3	1	0–3	2⁄3	4⁄3	0–4	2⁄3	5⁄3	0–5	2⁄3	2
	Arrow of Slowness[A]	0–1	1⁄2	1⁄2	0–2	1⁄2	3⁄4	0–3	1⁄2	1	0–4	1⁄2	5⁄4

Item		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Bone	0	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)
		1	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		2	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		3	0	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	2⁄9 (22.22%)
		4	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		5	0	0	0	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		Average	1 (1.00)	4⁄3 (1.33)	5⁄3 (1.67)	2 (2.00)
	Arrow	0	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)
		1	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		2	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		3	0	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	2⁄9 (22.22%)
		4	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		5	0	0	0	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		Average	1 (1.00)	4⁄3 (1.33)	5⁄3 (1.67)	2 (2.00)
	Arrow of Slowness[A]	0	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)
		1	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄8 (12.50%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)
		2	0	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		3	0	0	1⁄8 (12.50%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		4	0	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)
		Average	1⁄2 (0.50)	3⁄4 (0.75)	1 (1.00)	5⁄4 (1.25)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drops
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Bone	1.00	1.33	1.67	2.00
	Arrow	1.00	1.33	1.67	2.00
	Arrow of Slowness[A]	0.50	0.75	1.00	1.25

• Any picked-up equipment has a 100% chance of dropping and drops with the same damage level it had when picked up.
• Any naturally spawned equipment, including the bow, has an 8.5% chance of dropping (9.5% with Looting I, 10.5% with Looting II and 11.5% with Looting III). It is damaged and may be enchanted.
• 5XP experience orbs when killed by a player or tamed wolf and an extra 1–3XP if the stray has armor.

Behavior

Strays behave the same as normal skeletons but make noises with an echoing effect and shoot tipped arrows that inflict Slowness for 30 seconds on any target that they hit. In Bedrock Edition, strays that are underwater use a melee attack that inflicts Slowness. Strays do not take damage from freezing in powder snow, but they are not immune to Slowness. A stray holding a tipped arrow or spectral arrow in its off-hand always shoots that type of arrow instead, and the arrow held is not consumed.

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.
• Unable to swim in water, but do not drown.
• A threat to armadillos, causing them to hide in their shell.

As they are also under the "skeletons" entity type tag, if a stray kills a creeper, the creeper drops a music disc, randomly selected from 13, cat, blocks, chirp, far, mall, mellohi, stal, strad, ward, 11, and wait.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Entity tags	Translation key
Stray	stray	burn_in_daylight can_breathe_under_water freeze_immune_entity_types ignores_poison_and_regen inverted_healing_and_harm no_anger_from_wind_charge skeletons undead wither_friends sensitive_to_smite	entity.minecraft.stray

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Stray	stray	46	entity.stray.name

Entity data

Strays have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Monster Hunter	Attack and destroy a monster.	Kill one of these 37/41​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] hostile monsters: Blaze Bogged Breeze Camel Husk​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] Cave Spider Creaking (by destroying its creaking heart) Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Parched​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Horse​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] Zombie Nautilus​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this achievement.	15	Bronze
		Sniper Duel	Kill a Skeleton with an arrow from more than 50 meters.	Use a launched arrow to kill a skeleton, wither skeleton, stray, or bogged from 50 or more blocks away, horizontally.	30	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
		It Spreads	Kill a mob next to a catalyst	—	10	Bronze
		Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.	20	Silver

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Not Today, Thank You	Deflect a projectile with a Shield	Block any projectile with a shield.
	Monster Hunter	Kill any hostile monster	Kill one of these 37/41​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] mobs: Blaze Bogged Breeze Camel Husk​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] Cave Spider Creaking (by destroying its creaking heart) Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Parched​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Horse​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] Zombie Nautilus​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.
	It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Kill any mob that drops experience near a sculk catalyst, with the sole exception of the ender dragon. Mobs that drop no experience are ignored for this advancement.
	Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Kill each of these 37/41​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] mobs: Blaze Bogged Breeze Camel Husk​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] Cave Spider Creaking (by destroying its creaking heart) Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Parched​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Horse​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] Zombie Nautilus​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.

Advancements that apply to all mobs:

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Adventure	Adventure, exploration and combat	Kill any mob, or be killed by any living entity.
	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.
	Take Aim	Shoot something with an Arrow	Using a bow or a crossbow, shoot a mob with an arrow, tipped arrow, or spectral arrow.
	Mob Kabob​[upcoming JE 1.21.11]	Hit five mobs in the same Charge attack using the Spear.	Armor Stand and Mannequin also count for this advancement.
	Arbalistic	Kill five unique mobs with one crossbow shot	Armor Stand and Mannequin also count 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.
	Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.

History

Development

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.10			16w20a				Added strays. When explaining the origin of the stray, Jeb stated, "They’re based on a concept that emerged from a game jam the Bellevue team had, where they were just adding a bunch of stuff to Minecraft - whatever they wanted. Jason Major made a bunch of cool mobs and I thought these particular ones fitted [sic] really well with what we were already planning."[1]
							Added spawn eggs for strays, which strays can be spawned from.
			pre2				The spawn egg for strays has been removed.
							New sounds have now been added for strays, which allow them to have their own sounds. Previously, they had the same sounds as a regular skeleton.
1.11			16w32a				The spawn egg for strays has been re-added.
							The in-game name of strays is now "Stray" instead of "entity.Skeleton.name".
							Creepers no longer drop music discs when killed by strays.[2]
							Strays can no longer spawn from normal skeleton spawn eggs used in snowy biomes.
1.13			18w19a				Strays now sink underwater.
							Strays no longer drown underwater.
1.14			18w43a				The texture of strays has been changed.
							Creepers now drop music discs when killed by strays again.
			19w09a				Strays holding tipped arrows or spectral arrows in their off-hand now shoot that type of arrow.[3]
1.15			19w37a				Mobs that spawn wearing carved pumpkins or jack o'lanterns on Halloween no longer drop them.
1.17			21w05a				Skeletons now convert to strays when in powder snow.
			21w13a				Strays are now immune to freezing.
							Skeletons now only take 20 seconds to convert to strays when in powder snow, instead of 45.
1.20.3 Experiment Update 1.21			23w45a				Strays now spawn in trial chambers behind the "Update 1.21" experimental data pack.
1.20.5 Experiment Update 1.21			24w04a				No longer retaliates against attacks from the breeze.
1.21.2			24w33a				Now naturaly spawn with armor in the order of (most likely to least likely): helmet, chestplate, leggings, boots.[4]
1.21.4			24w45a				Prefer to pick bows from the ground as opposed to other items.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.15.0			build 1				Added strays.
v0.16.0			build 5				New sounds have now been added for strays, which allow them to have their own sounds. Previously, they had the same sounds as the regular skeleton.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0			alpha 0.17.0.2				The clothing of strays now has their own overlay and no longer glitch through their bones.
			alpha 1.0.0.1				Strays can now drop tipped arrows of Slowness when killed by players.
Bedrock Edition
1.5.0			beta 1.5.0.0				Strays now sink underwater.
							Strays now use melee attacks that inflict Slowness and no longer use ranged attacks while underwater.
1.9.0			beta 1.9.0.5				Strays now have a correct overlay model.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The texture of strays has now changed.
1.16.0			beta 1.16.0.51				Strays can now pick up items.
							Strays now use melee attacks when not holding a bow. Prior to this, strays used any items as ranged weapons to shoot arrows of Slowness normally.
1.17.0			beta 1.16.230.54				Strays are now immune to freezing.
			beta 1.17.0.54				Skeletons now convert to strays when in powder snow.
			release				Strays don’t drop wither skeleton skulls anymore if killed by a charged creeper.[5]
1.20.60 Experiment Update 1.21			Preview 1.20.60.20				Strays now spawn in trial chambers behind the "Update 1.21" experimental toggle.
1.20.70 Experiment Update 1.21			Preview 1.20.70.21				Strays no longer retaliate against attacks from breezes.
1.21.90			Preview 1.21.90.26				Strays now spawn as riders in spider jockeys again. They did not since Pocket Edition 1.1.0 due to an identifier change.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15	1.0.1	Added strays.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Strays now have their own sounds. Previously, they had the same sounds as a regular skeleton.
							Added stray spawn eggs, which strays can be spawned from.
							Strays can no longer spawn from normal skeleton spawn eggs used in snowy biomes.
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Strays now sink underwater.
			1.90				Creepers now drop music discs when killed by strays.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added strays.

Data history

Issues

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

Trivia

• Strays and other skeleton variants do not know how to use a crossbow, despite the same using method as a bow.
• According to the Minecraft website, the slowness arrows represent frozen arrows that freeze on impact.^[1]
• The stray's fourth ambient sound is the skeleton's second ambient sound but partly edited.

Gallery

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  A stray aiming.
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  A sitting stray.
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  A stray spider jockey in Java Edition.
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  A stray spider jockey in Bedrock Edition.
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  A stray cave spider jockey.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}
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  A stray riding a skeleton horse.

Screenshots

• 
  A stray being compared to its variants in Java Edition.
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  A stray standing next to a normal skeleton.
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  Stray wearing a pumpkin on Halloween.
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  Stray without a bow.
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  A stray in a superflat world.
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  Several strays spawned during an ominous trial

Developer images

• 
  One of the first images of strays, as tweeted by Jeb.
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  Two strays, one in full gold armor. Note the old texture.
• 
  First image of a stray in Bedrock Edition.

Textures

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  Stray texture file.
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  Stray overlay texture file.

In other media

• 
  Artwork of a stray.
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  Lego Minecraft stray.
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  The potato stray from 24w14potato.
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  An artwork from minecraft.net
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  Animation of a stray falling into powder snow.
• 
  Stray action figure.

See also

• Skeleton
• Husk
• Bogged
• Parched

References

External links

• "Meet The Stray" by Marsh Davies – Minecraft.net, December 14, 2016.

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Other entities Player Alex Ari Efe Kai Makena Noor Steve Sunny Zuri Blocks Falling Blocks Anvil Concrete Powder Dragon Egg Gravel Pointed Dripstone Sand Red Sand Scaffolding Suspicious Gravel Suspicious Sand Primed TNT BE & edu only Falling Blocks Deprecated Anvil Snow Primed Underwater TNT Vehicles Bamboo Raft Boat with Chest Minecart with Chest with Command Block with Hopper with TNT Java Edition only Minecart with Furnace with Monster Spawner Projectiles Fireball Small Dragon Launched Firework Rocket Llama Spit Shot Arrow Tipped Shulker Bullet Thrown Bottle o' Enchanting Thrown Egg Thrown Ender Pearl Thrown Eye of Ender Thrown Snowball Thrown Splash Potion Lingering Potion Thrown Trident Wind Charge Wither Skull Java Edition only Shot Spectral Arrow BE & edu only Thrown Ice Bomb Stationary objects End Crystal Leash Knot Painting Java Edition only Item Frame Glow Miscellaneous Area Effect Cloud Armor Stand Evoker Fangs Experience Orb Fishing Bobber Items Lightning Bolt Ominous Item Spawner JE only Mannequin BE & edu only Balloon Camera Technical objects JE only Display Block Item Text Interaction Marker Editor only Location Pointer Idle Location Pointer Selected Map Marker Ruler Idle
Unimplemented Unused Zombie Horse‌[until Mounts of Mayhem] JE only Giant Illusioner Killer Bunny BE & edu only Elder Guardian Ghost Old Villager Old Zombie Villager Mentioned Alpaca Barnacle Crab Firefly Glare Great Hunger Iceologer Meerkat Minecart with Dispenser Moobloom Ostrich Penguin Pigman Rascal Red Dragon Shade Shark Termite Tuff Golem Vulture Wildfire Removed Builder MD3 Test Mob Mob Monster Shot Purple Arrow Sign Entity
Joke Mobs April Fools 2013 Diamond Chicken Horse Pony Pink Wither Redstone Bug April Fools 2015 Love Golem Pink Wither Smiling Creeper April Fools 2019 Nerd Creeper April Fools 2023 Moon Cow Ray Tracing April Fools 2024 Batato Mega Spud Plaguewhale Slab Poisonous Potato Zombie Potato mob category Toxifin Slab April Fools 2025 Angry Ghast Spectator Villager Spectator Witch Traitor Warden (boss) Pet variants Pet Armadillo Pet Axolotl Pet Bee Pet Cat Pet Chicken Pet Cow Pet Creeper Pet Fox Pet Frog Pet Mooshroom Pet Polar Bear Pet Slime Pet Turtle Pet Wolf Other entities April Fools 2013 Pink Wither Skull April Fools 2015 Obsidian Boat Pink Wither Skull April Fools 2024 Falling Block Gravtater Potato Eye