Zombie Horse

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Zombie Horse

Normal

Saddled

Baby

Normal

Saddled

Normal

Saddled

Health points	15HP × 7.5‌[until Mounts of Mayhem] 25HP × 12.5​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem]
Behavior	Passive
Mob type	Undead • Animal • Monster‌[BE only]​[upcoming JE]
Hitbox size	Java Edition: Adult: Height: 1.6 blocks Width: 1.3965 blocks Baby: Height: 0.8 blocks Width: 0.6982 blocks Bedrock Edition: Adult: Height: 1.6 blocks Width: 1.4 blocks Baby: Height: 0.8 blocks Width: 0.7 blocks
Spawn	Plains​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] Sunflower Plains​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] Snowy Plains​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] Savanna​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] Savanna Plateau​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] Windswept Savanna​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem]
Usable items	Saddle ‌[JE only] ​[upcoming BE] Lead Shears Horse Armor ​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] Red Mushroom ​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem]

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A zombie horse is an undead horse. It rarely spawns in dark areas as hostile mobs being ridden and controlled by a zombie horseman wielding an iron spear.​^{[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem]} It becomes passive once separated from the zombie.

Spawning

Zombie horses cannot spawn naturally.‌^{[until Mounts of Mayhem]} Zombie horses can be spawned by the /summon command or with their spawn egg. When using a spawn egg, 20% spawn as baby zombie horses.

Zombie horseman

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.

In Mounts of Mayhem,​^[upcoming] zombie horses can naturally spawn in savanna and plains biomes and variants thereof as zombie horsemen: a zombie wielding an iron spear riding a zombie horse. Like zombies themselves, zombie horsemen can only spawn at a light level of 0, both above ground and underground. The zombie horse never spawns as a baby. Other zombie variants such as husks and zombie villagers cannot spawn as horsemen.

When the zombie rider is dismounted or killed, the zombie horse becomes completely passive. However, until the zombie horse is tamed it is still considered a hostile mob and can despawn if the player moves too far away.

In Java Edition, zombie horses do not spawn in Peaceful difficulty, like other hostile mobs. In Bedrock Edition, they do spawn, but less frequently.

Zombie Horse spawns in:

Category: Monster	Java Edition			Bedrock Edition
Spawn area	Spawn weight	Spawn chance	Group size	Spawn weight	Group size
Plains[note 1]	5⁄520	0.96%	1	5	1
Windswept Savanna[note 1]	5⁄520	0.96%	1	5	1
Savanna[note 1]	5⁄520	0.96%	1	5	1
Snowy Plains[note 1]	5⁄520	0.96%	1	—	—
Sunflower Plains[note 1]	5⁄520	0.96%	1	5	1
Savanna Plateau[note 1]	5⁄520	0.96%	1	5	1

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} ​^{[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem]}

Drops

On death

Java Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Rotten Flesh	0–2	66.67%	1.00	0–3	83.33%	1.50	0–4	91.67%	2.00	0–5	94.44%	2.50

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Rotten Flesh	0–2	2⁄3	1	0–3	5⁄6	3⁄2	0–4	11⁄12	2	0–5	17⁄18	5⁄2

Item		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Rotten Flesh	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)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drops
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Rotten Flesh	1.00	1.50	2.00	2.50

Bedrock Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Rotten Flesh	0–2	66.67%	1.00	0–3	66.67%	1.33	0–4	66.67%	1.67	0–5	66.67%	2.00

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Rotten Flesh	0–2	2⁄3	1	0–3	2⁄3	4⁄3	0–4	2⁄3	5⁄3	0–5	2⁄3	2

Item		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Rotten Flesh	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)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drops
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Rotten Flesh	1.00	1.33	1.67	2.00

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

If saddled, they drop their saddle.

Baby zombie horses yield neither items nor experience.

In Mounts of Mayhem​^[upcoming], adult zombie horses drop 2-3 rotten flesh, plus 0-1 per level of Looting instead.

Behavior

Zombie Horse

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Health points	Zombie: 20HP × 10 Zombie Horse: 25HP × 12.5​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem]
Behavior	Hostile
Natural equipment	Zombie: Iron Spear (100% chance; may be enchanted)

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The zombie horse is an undead mob that spawns as a hostile mob with a zombie controlling it.​^{[upcoming JE 1.21.11]} On their own, 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 cause any grass to be consumed. Like other undead mobs, zombie horses can breathe in water.

Unlike most other mobs, zombie horses slowly regenerate health. In Bedrock Edition, zombie horses can be killed by the Conduit like any regular hostile mob and prevent the player from sleeping.

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.

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.

Mob type

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.

Like most other undead mobs, zombie horses burn in direct sunlight. They are protected from burning when wearing horse armor, similar to other undead mobs wearing helmets. As horse armor has no durability, it does not break from absorbing the damage like helmets do.

As they are monsters, zombie horses count towards the hostile mob cap. Parrots can also imitate them like other hostile mobs.​^{[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem]}

Taming

Zombie horses cannot be tamed normally.‌^{[until Mounts of Mayhem]} 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}.

In Mounts of Mayhem,​^[upcoming] zombie horses can be tamed like normal horses.

Statistics

Zombie horses are spawned with constant health of 25, speed ranging from 0.1125 to 0.3375, and jump strength ranging from 0.4 to 1.0, with the variable statistics trending toward their averages of 0.225 and 0.7 respectively.

Usage

This feature is exclusive to Java Edition.

 

This section describes content that is currently in development for Bedrock Edition.

 

This content has appeared in development versions for Bedrock Edition 1.21.130, but the full update adding it has not been released yet.

Tamed and saddled zombie horses can be used as a means of transportation. They can also be used to climb hills and jump fences.

In Bedrock Edition, they cannot be ridden.‌^{[until Mounts of Mayhem]}

Healing

In Mounts of Mayhem,​^{[upcoming JE 1.21.11]} a red mushroom can be fed to zombie horse to heal it. The zombie horse can also be tempted (or "led") with a red mushroom.

Equipment

Tamed zombie horses have a lone equipment slot:‌^{[until Mounts of Mayhem]}

• Saddle slot: For equipping a saddle

Tamed zombie horses have two equipment slots:​^{[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem]}

• Saddle slot: For equipping a saddle.
• Armor slot: For equipping horse armor.

In Bedrock Edition, they have no slot.‌^{[until Mounts of Mayhem]}

Baby zombie horses cannot be equipped, as they cannot be ridden.

Equipment can be placed on a zombie horse by holding it and then using on the zombie horse, or by accessing its inventory. A zombie horse’s inventory can be accessed by mounting the horse and using inventory control, or by sneaking and then using or pressing the "open inventory" button‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} on the zombie horse. The player cannot open the inventory on an untamed zombie horse, though they can open containers.

In Mounts of Mayhem​^[upcoming], the equipment can be removed by two methods:

• Removing the equipment from their slots in the zombie horse's inventory.
• Using shears on the zombie horse. If both a saddle and horse armor are equipped, they are removed one at a time. The first use removes the horse armor, and a second use removes the saddle.

Riding

Once a zombie 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 when riding other entities, it is possible for a player to use a nether portal or end portal while on a zombie horse.

A ridden zombie 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 zombie 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. Like other horses, zombie horses cannot fit through a 1-block-wide gap.

Ridden zombie horses have the ability of "jump charging". When the player rides them, the experience bar on the HUD is replaced by a jump charging bar. The zombie horse is then able to jump, and holding the control charges for a higher leap. Zombie horses are not affected by the Jump Boost effect.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Entity tags	Translation key
Zombie Horse	zombie_horse	burn_in_daylight can_wear_horse_armor can_breathe_under_water dismounts_underwater ignores_poison_and_regen inverted_healing_and_harm sensitive_to_smite 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.

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
		Saddle Up	Tame a horse.	—	20	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)
	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.
	Best Friends Forever	Tame an animal	Tame one of these 8/11​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] tameable mobs: Cat Donkey Horse Llama Mule Nautilus​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] Parrot Trader Llama Wolf Zombie Horse​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] Zombie Nautilus​[upcoming Mounts of Mayhem] Skeleton Horse can be tamed in the same way as a regular horse to gain this advancement with the ride command.

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

This section is missing information about: Did saddles always show up on invisible zombie horses? If not, when did this change? Remember to include any relevant bug reports.

 

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Announcement

September 27, 2025							Zombie horses are revealed to be added into Survival mode with the Mounts of Mayhem drop at Minecraft LIVE – September 2025 with a new design.

Java Edition

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.[1]
			13w16b				Zombie horses have been made slower and have been reduced from gliding so much.
			13w18a				Removed horse saddles. Zombie horses are now ridden using the saddle.
			13w21a				Added new GUI for zombie horses, to control the saddle.
			13w22a				Added new sound effects for zombie horses.
1.7.2			13w36a				Zombie horses are now available without third-party tools, with the introduction of the /summon command.
1.9			15w38b				Zombie horses are now undead mobs.
			15w43a				Zombie horses no longer drop anything other than their equipment.
			15w43c				Zombie horses now drop 1 rotten flesh, not affected by Looting.
			15w44a				Zombie horses now drop 1 End crystal, not affected by Looting.
			15w44b				The above change has been reverted.
			15w47b				Added sounds for zombie horses eating food given by a player.
1.10			16w20a				Added zombie horse spawn egg.
			pre2				Removed zombie horse spawn eggs.
1.11			16w32a				Re-added zombie horse spawn egg.
			16w38a				Zombie horses now drop 0–2 rotten flesh, affected by Looting.
1.13			17w45a				Changed the model for zombie horses.
			17w46a				The new zombie horse models have been slightly tweaked. The position of the nose has been moved up to one pixel.
			18w03a				Changed the models of zombie horses once again. Also, the textures of zombie horses have 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 been updated to fix serious Z-fighting, which has changed the model from to .[2]
1.14			19w08a				Changed the textures of zombie horses.
1.16			20w09a				Zombie horses can now be leashed.
1.19.4			23w03a				The texture of the zombie horse has been changed.​[more information needed]
1.21.5			25w03a				Saddles now show up on invisible zombie horses.[3]
							Saddles now show the enchantment glint on the zombie horse when enchanted.
1.21.6			25w20a				Saddles can now be removed from zombie horses using shears.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.21.11			25w41a				Changed the textures of zombie horses to have darker texture.
							Zombie horses now spawn naturally as part of zombie horsemen.
							Zombie horses now count as monsters, thus despawning in Peaceful difficulty, and being required for the "Monsters Hunted" advancement.
							Increased health points to 25HP × 12.5.
							Zombie horses can now be tamed without commands.
							Red mushrooms are now used to heal and tempt zombie horses.
							Zombie horses are now vulnerable to sunlight.
							Zombie horses can now use horse armor, which also protects them from sunlight.
							Increased amount of rotten flesh dropped on death, from 0-2 to 2-3.
							Updated zombie horse saddle texture.
							Added an angry sound.
			25w42a				Zombie horses no longer despawn in Peaceful difficulty.
							Zombie horsemen no longer spawn with weapons other than iron spears.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.15.0			build 1				Added zombie horses.
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							Changed the textures of zombie horses.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.21.130			Preview 1.21.130.20				Changed the textures of zombie horses to have darker texture.
							Zombie horses now spawn naturally as part of zombie horsemen.
							Increased health points to 25HP × 12.5.
							Zombie horses can now be tamed.
							Red mushrooms are now used to heal and tempt zombie horses.
							Zombie horses are now vulnerable to sunlight.
							Zombie horses can now use horse armor, which also protects them from sunlight.
							Increased amount of rotten flesh dropped on death, from 0-2 to 2-3.
							Updated zombie horse saddle texture.
							Added an angry sound.
							Zombie horses no longer have a baby variant.
			Preview 1.21.130.22				Zombie horses once again have a baby variant, remaining unused.
							The tooltip displayed when attempting to mount an untamed zombie horse has been changed from "Ride" to "Mount".

Legacy Console Edition

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.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		Zombie horses are now undead mobs.[is this the correct version?]
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.
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Zombie horses now sink in water.[verify]

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added zombie horses.

• 
  Zombie horse with saddle

Data history

This section is missing information about: 1.21.5 changed how saddles are handled internally

 

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Issues

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

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.
  • The updated texture removes the saddlebag.
• Despite being unused in Survival at the time, the zombie horse was present in a Minecraft video about every mob in the game.^[4]
• In the Minecraft.net, zombie horses were reffered to as neutral mobs, due to their status as "hostile" while being ridden by zombies.^[5][6]

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  A zombie horse in a badlands biome.
• 
  A zombie horse and a baby zombie horse.

Mojang images

• 
  An image divided into three segments, with one of which depicting a zombie riding a zombie horse
• 
  A zombie horse and a nautilus
• 
  A zombie riding a zombie horse at night while holding a spear
• 
  A zombie riding a zombie horse in Java Edition.
• 
  Sunny riding a zombie horse.
• 
  Alex and several zombie horses

References

External links

• "Meet the Horse" by Emily Richardson – Minecraft.net, October 2, 2017.

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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