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Zombie Villager

Mobs & entity

The Zombie Villager 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 Zombie Villagers to collect the items they drop: Rotten Flesh, Iron Ingot, Carrot, and Potato.

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

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

Zombie Villager, zombie butcher
Zombie butcher
Zombie Villager, zombie farmer
Zombie farmer
Zombie Villager, zombie librarian
Zombie librarian
Zombie Villager, zombie priest
Zombie priest
Zombie Villager, zombie smith
Zombie smith

Sounds

6 sound events for this mob, 13 files in all. Where an event lists more than one file the game picks one at random.

EventSoundClosed captionIdentifierTranslation key
ambientZombie Villager groansentity.zombie_villager.ambientsubtitles.entity.zombie_villager.ambient
convertedZombie Villager vociferatesentity.zombie_villager.convertedsubtitles.entity.zombie_villager.converted
cureZombie Villager snufflesentity.zombie_villager.curesubtitles.entity.zombie_villager.cure
deathZombie Villager diesentity.zombie_villager.deathsubtitles.entity.zombie_villager.death
hurtZombie Villager hurtsentity.zombie_villager.hurtsubtitles.entity.zombie_villager.hurt
stepFootstepsentity.zombie_villager.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

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_villager
Registryminecraft:entity_type

See also