Zombie Horse

Natural generation

Zombie horses can appear as part of a natural zombie-jockey spawn. The horse is created with a zombie passenger holding an iron spear, while a horse created by an egg or command has no forced rider.

• ZombieMob
• Iron SpearItem
• PlainsBiome
• SavannaBiome
• Snowy PlainsBiome

Obtaining

Use a zombie horse spawn egg or summon the entity with a command. A wild horse can be tamed through normal horse interaction; once tamed it accepts a saddle, can carry a rider, and can be led when it is not controlled by a mob passenger.

• Zombie Horse Spawn EggItem
• SaddleItem
• LeadItem

Drops

The entity loot table awards 2–3 rotten flesh, with the amount increased by Looting. The zombie rider is a separate entity and has its own drops.

• Rotten FleshItem
• ZombieMob

Usage

Zombie horses follow the shared horse interaction model after taming. A tamed adult can be saddled and ridden; a saddle is accepted only while the horse is alive, adult, and tamed. The zombie horse food tag contains red mushrooms, which heal it and increase temper but never start breeding.

• Red Mushroom
• SaddleItem
• LeadItem

Sounds

Ambient, hurt, angry, eating, and death events are dedicated to the zombie horse rather than borrowed from the normal horse.

Behavior

The zombie horse is an undead mount with 25 health points. Its jump strength and movement speed are randomized within the horse attribute formulas, and its charge speed modifier is 1.4. It cannot enter love mode or age up, but it is tempted by the red mushroom food tag.

• Red Mushroom
• SaddleItem

Data values

The entity uses `minecraft:zombie_horse` in the monster category. Its adult collision box is 1.3964844 blocks wide and 1.6 blocks tall; the passenger attachment is 1.31875 blocks high.

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See also

• Mob catalogue
• Minecraft Wiki overview
• Zombie Horse Spawn EggItem
• SaddleItem
• LeadItem
• Red Mushroom
• Rotten FleshItem
• ZombieMob
• Skeleton HorseMob

References

Data: References

Local source	Zombie Horsezombie_horse
Entity implementation	net/minecraft/world/entity/animal/equine/ZombieHorse.java
Shared horse interaction	net/minecraft/world/entity/animal/equine/AbstractHorse.java
Entity loot	data/minecraft/loot_table/entities/zombie_horse.json
Food tag	data/minecraft/tags/item/zombie_horse_food.json
Spawn entries	data/minecraft/worldgen/biome/snowy_plains.json

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