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Zombie

Mobs & entity

The Zombie is a hostile mob that spawns naturally across 55 biomes, including Badlands, Bamboo Jungle, Beach, Birch Forest, and Cherry Grove. A spawn egg for it also exists.

Players defeat Zombies to collect their drops. A fallen Zombie can leave behind Rotten Flesh, Red Mushroom, Iron Ingot, Carrot, Potato, or a Music Disc.

Contents (9)
  1. Animations
  2. Gallery
  3. Sounds
  4. Stats
  5. Advancements
  6. History
  7. Registry entry
  8. Related items
  9. See also

Animations

5 of these were recorded inside the running game, so the movement is the animation Mojang shipped rather than an imitation of it. Transparent background, free to download.

Zombie, walking
WalkingDownload
Zombie, running
RunningDownload
Zombie, idle
IdleDownload
Zombie, baby
BabyDownload
Zombie, taking damage
Taking damageDownload
Zombie, death
DeathDownload
Zombie, holding a weapon
Holding a weaponDownload
Zombie, in armor
In armorDownload

2 variants of this mob, each animated. Rendered here from the game’s own model and textures.

Zombie, zombie
Zombie
Zombie, baby
Baby

Sounds

10 sound events for this mob, 27 files in all. Where an event lists more than one file the game picks one at random.

EventSoundClosed captionIdentifierTranslation key
ambientZombie groansentity.zombie.ambientsubtitles.entity.zombie.ambient
attack iron doorBlock brokenentity.zombie.attack_iron_doorsubtitles.block.generic.break
attack wooden doorDoor shakesentity.zombie.attack_wooden_doorsubtitles.entity.zombie.attack_wooden_door
break wooden doorDoor breaksentity.zombie.break_wooden_doorsubtitles.entity.zombie.break_wooden_door
converted to drownedZombie converts to Drownedentity.zombie.converted_to_drownedsubtitles.entity.zombie.converted_to_drowned
deathZombie diesentity.zombie.deathsubtitles.entity.zombie.death
destroy eggTurtle Egg stompedentity.zombie.destroy_eggsubtitles.entity.zombie.destroy_egg
hurtZombie hurtsentity.zombie.hurtsubtitles.entity.zombie.hurt
infectZombie infectsentity.zombie.infectsubtitles.entity.zombie.infect
stepFootstepsentity.zombie.stepsubtitles.block.generic.footsteps

Stats

Mojang publishes these numbers in the Bedrock behaviour pack (bedrock-samples); the Java edition keeps them in code, not in any data file. Most values match across editions, but not all — treat them as the Bedrock figures.

Health points20
Attack strength3
Hitbox size0.6 blocks wide, 1.9 blocks tall
Mob typezombie, undead, monster, mob

Advancements

Advancements whose own criteria name this entry. Recipe-unlock entries are left out — they never appear on the player’s Advancements screen.

History

Worked out by reading the registry of every Minecraft build Mojang has published, in release order.

VersionDateWhat the files show
before 18w50a—Already in the game when Mojang’s data generator first shipped, in 18w50a (12 December 2018). The files do not say which earlier version added it.

Registry entry

Identifierminecraft:zombie
Registryminecraft:entity_type

See also