Chicken jockeys[1] are the rare appearance of a baby zombie, baby zombified piglin, baby zombie villager, baby husk, or baby drowned riding a chicken.
Spawning[]
Each baby zombie, baby husk, baby zombie villager, baby zombified piglin, or baby drowned that spawns has a 5% chance to check for an existing chicken within a 10×6×10 box centered on the baby's spawn location and spawn riding one of those chickens if there are any. If it fails that 5% chance, there is an additional 5% chance of the baby zombie spawning mounted on a new chicken. In a chicken-free environment, each spawned zombie has a 0.25% chance of becoming a chicken jockey; if chickens are present, the chance increases to 0.4875%.
Chicken jockeys may spawn with items equipped. Baby zombified piglin versions of the chicken jockey always have a golden sword equipped, while baby drowned versions may have a trident. Although chickens take damage from magma blocks, baby zombified piglin jockeys still spawn on them, killing the chicken and leaving just the baby zombified piglin. Provoking the zombified piglin chicken jockey causes it to attack, like a normal zombified piglin.
Drops[]
The rider and the chicken each have separate drops when that part of the chicken jockey is killed.
Their drops are no different than if the zombie (or zombified piglin, zombie villager, husk, or drowned) and the chicken were standing alone.
Behavior[]
- Chicken jockeys fall slowly and do not take fall damage, like normal chickens.
- The chicken can run through 1 block high gaps. The baby zombie suffocates unless the above block is transparent.
- The baby zombie can pick up/equip items.
- The chicken (unless spawned with commands without the
IsChickenJockeytag) does not lay eggs.[2] However, they can still be bred with other chickens. - Chicken jockeys (both zombies and chickens[3]) despawn like zombies.
- The chicken becomes passive again if the rider is killed, but still does not lay eggs and may despawn.
Data values[]
Neither the chicken and rider's IDs nor the entity data are any different than if the chicken or rider were standing alone.
Jockey Of An Baby Zombie[]
In Bedrock Edition, An Simmilar Mob Exists.
Instructions: Section Is A stub
Advancements[]
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Resource location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | It Spreads | Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst | Monster Hunter | Kill one of these 70 mobs near a sculk catalyst:
| adventure/kill_mob_near_sculk_catalyst
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History[]
The specific instructions are: MC-188880 before and after, and there is overlinking to be cleaned here.
| November 29, 2013 | A two-image gallery was uploaded to Imgur, and showed a baby zombie inside a chicken. It was also posted to Reddit. | ||||
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| November 30, 2013 | Dinnerbone tweeted the link to an image of chicken jockeys, after seeing the image on Reddit. | ||||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.7.4 | 13w49a |    Added chicken jockeys. | |||
| 1.7.5 | Chickens that are part of chicken jockeys can now despawn when no longer ridden. | ||||
| 1.8 | 14w02a | Chicken jockeys no longer lay eggs. | |||
| 1.9 | 15w35a |       Zombie villagers now retain their professions and clothes, which have a tattered appearance. This has caused zombie villager chicken jockeys to have a changed appearance, as well. | |||
| 1.10 | 16w20a |  Added a baby husk jockey variant. | |||
| 1.13 | 18w11a |  Added a baby drowned jockey variant. | |||
| 1.14 | 18w43a |  The texture of chicken jockeys has been changed.
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 The texture baby husk jockeys has been changed. | |||||
 The texture of baby zombie pigman jockeys has been changed. | |||||
 The texture of baby drowned jockeys has been changed. | |||||
| 18w50a |        Zombie villager jockeys now have different clothes in desert, jungle, plains, savanna, snowy, swamp and taiga biomes.
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| Zombie villager jockeys no longer have a profession. | |||||
| 1.16 | 20w09a | "Zombie pigman jockey" has been renamed to "zombified piglin jockey". | |||
 The model and texture of zombified piglin jockeys have been changed. | |||||
| 20w22a |  The model of the zombified piglin jockey have been changed. | ||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| v0.11.0 | build 1 | Baby zombies and baby zombie pigmen now have a chance of becoming a jockey. | |||
| v0.12.1 | build 1 | Baby zombie villagers now have chance of becoming a jockey. | |||
| v0.14.0 | build 1 | Baby zombies now have 15% chance to mount a chicken to become a jockey. | |||
| The zombie pigman can no longer become a chicken jockey. | |||||
| v0.15.0 | build 1 | Baby husks now have 15% chance to mount a chicken to become a jockey.
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| Baby zombie variants can now ride adult husks. | |||||
| Baby zombie variants can now ride horse variants. | |||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| ? | Adult zombie pigmen are no longer rideable by baby zombie variants. | ||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.8.0 | beta 1.8.0.8 | Baby zombie variants can now ride pandas and adult stray cats. | |||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | The texture of zombie jockeys has been changed.
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| The texture baby husk jockeys has been changed. | |||||
| The texture of baby drowned jockeys has been changed. | |||||
| Zombie villager jockeys now have different clothes in desert, jungle, plains, savanna, snowy, swamp and taiga biomes. | |||||
| Zombie villager jockeys no longer have a profession. | |||||
| 1.13.0 | beta 1.13.0.9 | Adult zombie pigmen can now be ridden again by baby zombies. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | Patch 3 |  Added chicken jockeys. | |
| TU60 | CU51 | 1.64 | Patch 30 | 1.0.11 | Baby zombies can now ride any mobs, that match as bedrock edition's. However, normal chicken jockeys are still spawned. |
| 1.90 | The texture of chicken jockeys has been changed.
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 The texture of baby zombie pigman jockeys has been changed. | |||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | Added chicken jockeys. | ||||
Issues[]
Issues relating to "Chicken Jockey" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia[]
- In Java Edition, the chance for a baby zombie villager to spawn wearing full enchanted diamond armor holding an enchanted iron sword in its left hand while riding a chicken is about 1 in 2.91082×1022, easily making it the rarest mob in the game.
- Zombified piglin chicken jockeys can spawn from portals in the Overworld. Also, a normal chicken jockey may spawn in the Nether if a zombified piglin calls a normal zombie as reinforcement.
- Name tags prevent the chickens from despawning, and they can be bred to spawn normal egg-laying, non-despawning chickens.
- To prevent a chicken jockey from despawning, only the chicken needs to be name tagged, because riders of other entities never despawn.
- The wither attempts to attack the chicken being ridden by the zombie and the zombie also takes damage.
- A zombified piglin chicken jockey does not become hostile if the chicken is killed or attacked.
- In Java Edition, if a zombie villager chicken jockey is cured, then the villager continues riding the chicken even after it grows up.[4]
Gallery[]
Screenshots[]
The first image of chicken jockeys.
A baby zombie inside a chicken in before 1.7.4 and 14w25b.
A chicken jockey with some other chickens walking around.
Chickens can still lay eggs while being ridden when spawned with commands without the
IsChickenJockeytag.
A chicken jockey named "Dinnerbone".
A baby zombie villager chicken jockey before 1.9.
A zombie pigman chicken jockey before 1.16.
The chicken hitbox below the zombie.
Hitting from below leaves the zombie unharmed.
The four variations of chicken jockeys using "Grumm" or "Dinnerbone" name tags.
A chicken jockey from Bedrock Edition.
A chicken jockey that broke into the player's house.
A husk chicken jockey.
A zombie pigman chicken jockey in the Nether.
A detached chicken jockey.
A jockey in the rain.
A husk chicken jockey in a desert biome in the early morning.
A baby zombified piglin chicken jockey spawned by a spawner.
Chicken jockey found in the cave.
Three chicken jockeys spawned at night.
A zombified piglin chicken jockey.
Renders[]
A zombie villager jockey, wearing full enchanted diamond armor and an enchanted iron sword in its left hand.
Chicken jockey with diamond armor and a sword.
Baby Zombified Piglin Jockey in Java Edition 1.16 Pre-release 4.
In other media[]
Chicken Jockey from the Mobestiary.
Lego Minecraft Chicken Jockey.
Chicken Jockey artwork.
Chicken Jockeys artwork.
References[]
- ↑ "I saw this on reddit and had to make it a real thing: Chicken Jockeys." – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X, November 30, 2013
- ↑ MC-165545 — resolved as "Works As Intended".
- ↑ MC-48965 — resolved as "Works as intended".
- ↑ MC-200418
External Links[]
- Meet the Chicken Jockey – Minecraft.net on October 10, 2017