Undead

Undead mobs are a group of mobs, many of which are hostile, that usually drop either bones or rotten flesh on death.

Common properties

All undead mobs share the following properties:

They are damaged by Instant Health and healed by Instant Damage.
They are not affected by Regeneration and Poison.
They take extra damage from Smite.
They do not take drowning damage (husks and zombies instead convert into zombies and drowned, respectively.)
They are not targeted by and cannot harm the wither.
They are considered a threat to armadillos, making them hide in their shell.
They are part of the #undead entity tag.

The majority of undead mobs catch fire under sunlight, a property not found in any other mobs, and are also able to transfer the fire with their attacks. The notable exceptions to this are Nether-native undead mobs, which are entirely immune to fire, and desert-native undead mobs, which are not immune to fire but do not burn in sunlight.

List of mobs

Burn in sunlight

Bogged
Drowned
Old Zombie Villager‌^{[BE & edu only]}
Phantom
Skeleton
Stray
Zombie
Zombie Horse
Zombie Nautilus^{[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem]}
Zombie Villager

Do not burn in sunlight

Camel Husk^{[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem]}
Husk
Parched^{[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem]}
Skeleton Horse
Wither
Wither Skeleton
Zoglin
Zombified Piglin

History

Java Edition

Java Edition Classic
0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST		Added zombies and skeletons, the first undead mobs.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.2.0		Added zombie pigmen.
Java Edition
1.0.0	Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3	Added the Smite enchantment, which increases damage against undead mobs.
1.4.2	12w32a	Added zombie villagers.
	12w34a	Added the wither.
	12w36a	Added wither skeletons.
1.9	15w38b	Skeleton horses and zombie horses are now considered undead.
1.10	16w20a	Added husks and strays.
1.13	18w10c	Phantoms are now considered undead.
1.13	18w11a	Added drowned.
1.16	20w15a	Zoglins are now considered undead.^[1]
1.19	Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot 1	Added wardens.
1.19	22w12a	Wardens are no longer considered undead.
1.20.5 Experiment Update 1.21	24w07a	Added bogged.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.21.11	25w41a	Added zombie nautiluses.
1.21.11	25w44a	Added camel husks and parched.

Bedrock Edition

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Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added zombies, skeletons and zombie pigmen.
TU7		1.00					Added the Smite enchantment, which increases damage against undead mobs.
TU14		1.04					Added zombie villagers.
TU19	CU7	1.12	1.12	1.12			Added withers and wither skeletons.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		Added husks and strays.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		Skeleton horses and zombie horses are now considered undead.^{[is this the correct version?]}
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Added drowned and phantoms.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added zombies, zombie villagers, husks, zombie pigmen, skeletons, wither skeletons, strays, zombie horses and skeleton horses.
1.3.12							Added withers.

Issues

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

Trivia

The warden was classified as an undead mob in experimental snapshots. This property did not carry over to its official addition in snapshot 22w12a.
In Java Edition, all the undead mobs except for the skeleton horse are classified as monsters in the code, however, in Bedrock Edition, the horse is part of the monster class as well.^[2]
Although undead mobs share the #undead entity tag, the tag is not directly responsible for most of their shared properties.
- Most of their shared properties are a result of entity tags that in vanilla contain the #undead tag; the only property directly caused by the aforementioned tag is armadillos considering undead mobs a threat.