Drowned

Drowned

Adult

Baby

Adult

Baby

Adult

Baby

Adult

Baby

Health points	20HP × 10
Armor points	2 ()
Behavior	Neutral
Mob type	Undead, Monster
Attack strength	Melee: Easy: 2.5HP × 1.25 Normal: 3HP Hard: 4.5HP × 2.25 Trident:‌ Easy: 6.5HP × 3.25 Normal: 11HP × 5.5 Hard: 16.5HP × 8.25 Ranged: Trident: In Java Edition: Easy: 5HP Normal: 8HP Hard: 12HP × 6 In Bedrock Edition: Always 8HP
Hitbox size	In Java Edition: Adult: Height: 1.95 blocks Width: 0.6 blocks Baby: Height: 0.975 blocks Width: 0.3 blocks In Bedrock Edition: Adult: Height: 1.9 blocks Width: 0.6 blocks Baby: Height: 0.95 blocks Width: 0.3 blocks
Speed	0.23
Knockback resistance	0%–5%
Spawn	When a zombie drowns. River Frozen River Cold Ocean Deep Cold Ocean Frozen Ocean Deep Frozen Ocean Lukewarm Ocean Deep Lukewarm Ocean Ocean Deep Ocean Warm Ocean Dripstone Caves Ocean Ruins
Natural equipment	Trident (6.25% chance in Java Edition and 15% chance in Bedrock Edition) Fishing Rod (3.75% chance in Java Edition and 0.85% chance in Bedrock Edition) Nautilus Shell (3% chance in Java Edition and 8% chance in Bedrock Edition; only appears in offhand) Carved Pumpkin (22.5% chance, only during Halloween) ‌ Jack o'Lantern (2.5% chance, only during Halloween) ‌

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Drowned are common neutral underwater zombie variants that spawn in oceans, rivers and dripstone caves, or when zombies drown. They usually attack through melee attacks, but may also come armed with tridents that they can throw at range. They are the only renewable source of tridents and copper.

Spawning

Natural generation

Drowned spawn naturally at water blocks that emit light level of 0 and sky light level being 7 and below in all ocean biomes, aquifers in the dripstone caves biome, and river biomes. They spawn at higher rates in rivers and dripstone caves than in ocean biomes.

In Java Edition, drowned spawn individually inside flowing water or source water that is 2 blocks or taller (this can include waterlogged blocks or bubble columns). In ocean biomes and dripstone caves, drowned spawn at Y < 58; this restriction does not apply to rivers meaning they can also spawn during the day in that biome as long as it is deep enough for the sky light level to reach 7 and below.

In Bedrock Edition, drowned spawn individually inside flowing water or source water of any depth, but they spawn at higher rates in water that is 2 blocks or taller.​ They spawn only on the surface that is on the highest spawnable block at any given X, Z coordinate. They count toward the monster population control cap and also have their own density caps of 5 in oceans and 2 in rivers. They can spawn during the day as long as the water is deep enough for the sky light level to reach 7 and below.

Drowned have a chance to spawn with either a trident or a fishing rod in their main hand, and occasionally with a nautilus shell in their offhand. In Java Edition, when spawned as a baby drowned they also have a small chance to spawn riding a chicken, creating a drowned chicken jockey. They are the only Overworld zombie variant within the game that cannot spawn naturally with any armor. A drowned’s eyes, nose, mouth and various holes on its body glow a bright turquoise color, but do not provide illumination.

Drowned spawns in:

Category: Monster	Java Edition			Bedrock Edition
Spawn area	Spawn weight	Spawn Chance	Group size	Spawn weight	Group size
River	100⁄615	16.26%	1	100	1
Dripstone Caves	95⁄610	15.57%	1	100	2–4
Deep Lukewarm Ocean	5⁄520	0.96%	1	100	2–4
Warm Ocean	5⁄520	0.96%	1	100	2–4
Cold Ocean	5⁄520	0.96%	1	100	2–4
Deep Frozen Ocean	5⁄520	0.96%	1	100	2–4
Deep Cold Ocean	5⁄520	0.96%	1	100	2–4
Deep Ocean	5⁄520	0.96%	1	100	2–4
Lukewarm Ocean	5⁄520	0.96%	1	100	2–4
Frozen Ocean	5⁄520	0.96%	1	100	2–4
Ocean	5⁄520	0.96%	1	100	2–4
Frozen River	1⁄516	0.19%	1	5	2–4

Ocean ruins

Drowned spawn during the generation of certain ocean ruin structures. These drowned do not naturally despawn unless the world is set to Peaceful difficulty.

Conversion

If a zombie's head (not the legs) is submerged in water continuously for 30 seconds, it begins the process of converting to a drowned. The zombie begins shaking, similar to the effect seen while a zombie villager is being cured. At this point, the process cannot be stopped, and 15 seconds later the zombie becomes drowned. The drowned appears with full health even if the previous zombie did not.

In Bedrock Edition only, an item being held or worn by a zombie when it transforms into drowned, whether it was picked up or naturally equipped, is automatically dropped with an 100% drop rate. In Java Edition, the converted drowned keeps the equipped items.

Only normal zombies can transform into drowned, while zombie villagers and zombified piglins cannot. For husks, they first transform into a regular zombie, and subsequently convert to a drowned in the usual fashion. The zombie that is converted from a husk always has full health even if converted from a damaged husk.

Reinforcements

This feature is exclusive to Java Edition.

 

On Hard difficulty, drowned have a 5% chance to spawn as leaders. Leader drowned can spawn other drowned as reinforcements.

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
	Copper Ingot[A]	0–1	11.00%	0.11	0–1	13.00%	0.13	0–1	15.00%	0.15	0–1	17.00%	0.17

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
	Copper Ingot[A]	0–1	11⁄100	11⁄100	0–1	13⁄100	13⁄100	0–1	3⁄20	3⁄20	0–1	17⁄100	17⁄100

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)
	Copper Ingot[A]	0	89⁄100 (89.00%)	87⁄100 (87.00%)	17⁄20 (85.00%)	83⁄100 (83.00%)
		1	11⁄100 (11.00%)	13⁄100 (13.00%)	3⁄20 (15.00%)	17⁄100 (17.00%)
		Average	11⁄100 (0.11)	13⁄100 (0.13)	3⁄20 (0.15)	17⁄100 (0.17)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drop
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Rotten Flesh	1.00	1.50	2.00	2.50
	Copper Ingot[A]	0.11	0.13	0.15	0.17

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
	Copper Ingot[A]	0–1	11.00%	0.11	0–1	13.00%	0.13	0–1	15.00%	0.15	0–1	17.00%	0.17

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
	Copper Ingot[A]	0–1	11⁄100	11⁄100	0–1	13⁄100	13⁄100	0–1	3⁄20	3⁄20	0–1	17⁄100	17⁄100

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)
	Copper Ingot[A]	0	89⁄100 (89.00%)	87⁄100 (87.00%)	17⁄20 (85.00%)	83⁄100 (83.00%)
		1	11⁄100 (11.00%)	13⁄100 (13.00%)	3⁄20 (15.00%)	17⁄100 (17.00%)
		Average	11⁄100 (0.11)	13⁄100 (0.13)	3⁄20 (0.15)	17⁄100 (0.17)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drop
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Rotten Flesh	1.00	1.33	1.67	2.00
	Copper Ingot[A]	0.11	0.13	0.15	0.17

Adult drowned drop 5XP and an additional 1–3XP per naturally-spawned equipment if killed by a player, axolotl or tamed wolf. Baby drowned drop 12XP and an additional 1–3XP per naturally-spawned equipment if killed by a player, axolotl or tamed wolf.

• 1 Helmet, Chestplate, Leggings, and/or Boots.‌

Any picked-up equipment has a 100% chance of dropping, and drops without changing the damage that has accumulated on it.

Equipment

Java Edition

For naturally-spawned drowned:

• In the main hand (mutually exclusive):
  • Each drowned has a 6.25% chance to spawn with a trident. May be enchanted.​
  • Each drowned has a 3.75% chance to spawn with a fishing rod. May be enchanted.​
• In the offhand:
  • Each drowned has a 3% chance to spawn with a nautilus shell.

A drowned holding a trident has an 8.5% chance to drop it when killed by a player or tamed wolf. The chance is increased by 1% per level of Looting, up to a max of 11.5% with Looting III. This means that killing 8 drowned with tridents without the Looting enchantment or 6 with Looting III, will have a greater than 50% chance of getting a trident.

A drowned holding a nautilus shell always drops it.

Zombies converted to drowned are never equipped with new items. They keep any equipment the zombie had before conversion.

On Halloween, a drowned may spawn wearing a carved pumpkin or jack o'lantern. However, they do not drop this, even when killed with Looting.

Bedrock Edition

For naturally-spawned drowned:

• In the main hand (mutually exclusive):
  • Each drowned has a 15% chance to spawn with a trident. May be enchanted.​
  • Each drowned has a 0.85% chance to spawn with a fishing rod. May be enchanted.​
• In the offhand:
  • Each drowned has a 8% chance to spawn with a nautilus shell.

A drowned holding a trident has a 25% chance to drop it when killed by a player or tamed wolf. This chance is increased by 1% per level of Looting, up to a max of 28% with Looting III. This means that killing 3 drowned with tridents without the Looting enchantment or 2 with Looting III, will have a greater than 50% chance of getting a trident.

In Bedrock Edition, if a drowned is able to pick up equipment and is wielding a trident, it can trade its trident for a nautilus shell if it is not currently attacking anything.

For converted drowned:

• 1% spawn with a fishing rod in the main hand.
• 8% spawn with a nautilus shell in the offhand (same as naturally-spawned drowned).

Zombies converted to drowned are never equipped with tridents. Any equipment the zombie had before conversion is dropped.

Farming

Farms that convert zombies into drowned produce all of naturally-spawned equipment dropped by zombies, as well as fishing rods, copper ingots, and (in Bedrock Edition) nautilus shells.

A drowned farm must be designed to harvest naturally-spawned drowned to produce tridents in all game editions and nautilus shells in Java Edition.

Behavior

During the day, drowned stay on the floor of the body of water they are in, unless provoked.

If on land during the daytime, drowned seek out nearby water or shade. They sometimes step onto land but quickly return to the water.

Drowned seek out turtle eggs within 10 blocks in Bedrock Edition and 24 blocks in Java Edition. They stomp on turtle eggs until the eggs break. Drowned can even jump over a 1-block gap to reach a turtle egg successfully, even if the egg is raised 1 block higher than the gap.

Drowned are passive‌ or neutral‌ during the day if no player in range is touching the water.

They are immune to guardians or elder guardians attacks. They also have a small chance to be immune to knockback when damaged.^[1]

Drowned can be damaged by a fully-powered conduit within a distance of 8 blocks.

Attacking

Generic

They are always hostile toward axolotls. Like other zombie variants, they chase and attack villagers, wandering traders, snow golems,‌ baby turtles and iron golems, but only at night or in dark areas.

If a drowned kills a villager, either with a melee attack or with a trident, the villager has a chance of turning into a zombie villager (a 0% chance on Easy difficulty, a 50% chance on Normal, and a 100% chance on Hard).

Drowned-specific

During the day, drowned ignore players on land and in boats, only attacking if the player enters the water.

In Java Edition, a drowned is also neutral if it is equipped with a trident during the daytime, only attacking the player if provoked. During the night or in thunderstorms, they become hostile and attack any player or baby turtle they see, without provocation.

Every drowned has a melee attack, and if it spawns with a trident, the trident is used as a ranged weapon. A drowned with a trident can throw it every 1.5 seconds, sending it up to 20 blocks away. Thrown tridents cannot be picked up by the player, just like arrows shot by skeletons. In Bedrock Edition, a drowned with a trident also uses a melee attack if the target is within a 3 blocks distance.

In Java Edition, a drowned's trident can be enchanted. The Loyalty, Impaling and Channeling enchantments work the same as they would for a player, while Riptide has no effect for drowned.

A drowned equipped with a trident continues throwing it at the player even after the player leaves the water, or gets a long distance away.^[2] It also attacks any player that attacks it or another drowned. However, it is not provoked by a player killing another drowned in one hit.‌^[3]

If one drowned is hit by another drowned's thrown trident, the attacked drowned ignores it. ‌

Sometimes,​ drowned do not immediately become aggressive toward a player when the player first enters the water. However these are not "passive" drowned, but slow or non-movers which more-often will melee attack when the player draws closely.

Breaking doors

Up to 10% of drowned (depending on regional difficulty in Java Edition) spawn with the ability to break wooden and copper doors on Hard difficulty.

Picking up items

Some drowned spawn with the ability to pick up loot that is on the ground. That includes armor and weapons or tools just like regular zombies. Unlike zombies however, they can also pick up tridents, which they always prefer over anything else.

Undead

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.
• Threatening to armadillos, causing them to hide in their shell.

Swimming

This feature is exclusive to Bedrock Edition.

 

Drowned use a swimming animation similar to the player. They use this animation whenever they try to pathfind to a player that is either below or above them; if the player is on the same ground level, the drowned simply walk toward them. Drowned also use this animation if they are tracking a player while they are not standing on a solid block. Their hitbox does not change when using this animation.

If they hold a nautilus shell or anything else in their offhand, their arms are in the same posture as a player's. When attacking, they use the player's attacking animation. Still, they use the same swimming animation when tracking a player underwater.

Sounds

Java Edition:
Drowned use the Hostile Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Entity tags	Translation key
Drowned	drowned	axolotl_always_hostiles can_breathe_under_water ignores_poison_and_regen inverted_healing_and_harm undead wither_friends zombies	entity.minecraft.drowned

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Drowned	drowned	110	entity.drowned.name

Entity data

Drowned have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		It Spreads	Kill a mob next to a catalyst	—	10	Bronze
		Monster Hunter	Attack and destroy a monster.	Kill a hostile mob or one of the following neutral mobs: an enderman, a piglin, a zombified piglin, a spider, or a cave spider.	15	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
		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)
	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.
	Adventure	Adventure, exploration and combat	Kill any mob, or be killed by any living entity.
	Arbalistic	Kill five unique mobs with one crossbow shot	Armor Stand also counts 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.
	It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Kill one of these 73 mobs near a sculk catalyst: Armadillo Axolotl Bee Blaze Bogged Breeze Camel Cat Cave Spider Chicken Cod Cow Creeper Donkey Dolphin Elder Guardian Enderman Endermite Evoker Fox Frog Ghast Goat Glow Squid Giant Guardian Hoglin Horse Husk Illusioner Llama Magma Cube Mooshroom Ocelot Panda Parrot Phantom Pig Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Polar Bear Pufferfish Rabbit Ravager Salmon Sheep Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Skeleton Horse Slime Sniffer Stray Spider Squid Strider Trader Llama Tropical Fish Turtle Vex Vindicator Warden Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Wolf Zoglin Zombie Zombie Horse Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Mobs that drop no experience as well as the ender dragon are ignored for this advancement.
	Monster Hunter	Kill any hostile monster	Kill one of these 37 mobs: Blaze Bogged Breeze Cave Spider Creaking (by destroying its creaking heart) Creeper Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.
	Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Kill each of these 37 mobs: Blaze Bogged Breeze Cave Spider Creaking (by destroying its creaking heart) Creeper Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.
	Not Today, Thank You	Deflect a projectile with a Shield	Block any projectile with a shield.
	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.
	Take Aim	Shoot something with an Arrow	Using a bow or a crossbow, shoot a mob with an arrow, tipped arrow, or spectral arrow.

History

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Java Edition
1.13			18w11a				Added drowned mobs.
							Zombies now convert into drowned instead of dying from drowning.
			18w15a				Drowned now occasionally spawn with a nautilus shell.
			18w16a				Drowned now spawn in underwater ruins.
			18w22a				Drowned now have a swimming animation.
1.14			18w43a				Drowned no longer spawn in swamps.
			19w05a				Drowned are now hostile toward the new wandering traders.
			19w06a				The drowned's trident throwing animation has been changed from to .
			19w07a				The drowned's trident throwing animation has been changed from to .[4]
			19w14a				Drowned no longer have a unique swimming animation.[5]
1.15			19w46a				Baby drowned can now be spawned by using the drowned spawn egg on it.[6]
1.16			20w10a				Firework damage now provokes drowned with tridents.[7]
1.17			21w05a				Drowned now drop copper ingots instead of gold ingots.
1.17.1			Pre-release 1				Increased the drop probability of copper ingots from 5% to 11%, and increased the drop probability of each level of Looting spell from 1% to 2%.
							Drowned no longer pick up glow ink sacs.
1.18			21w37a				Drowned are now able to spawn in warm oceans.[8]
			21w39a				Drowned are now able to spawn in aquifers inside dripstone caves.
1.19.4			23w05a				Drowned now have a unique swimming animation again.[5]
1.20.3			23w40a				Drowned are now part of the #can_breathe_under_water, #undead and #zombies tags.
1.21			24w18a				Drowned can now use the Channeling enchantment.[9]
			24w20a				Drowned can no longer use the Channeling enchantment.
1.21.2			24w33a				Drowned can no longer spawn reinforcements.[10]
							Drowned can now use the Loyalty, Channeling and Impaling enchantments.
			24w39a				Drowned can again spawn reinforcements, spawning more drowned instead of zombies.[11]
1.21.4			24w45a				Drowned now prefer to pick up tridents from the ground as opposed to other items.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.13 Experiment Experimental Gameplay			beta 1.2.13.8				Added drowned mobs as part of "Experimental Gameplay".
							Drowned use lower-pitched zombie sounds as a placeholder.
1.4.0 Experiment Experimental Gameplay			beta 1.2.14.2				Added baby drowned.
							The drowned's face now glows in the dark.
							Drowned now have their own sounds.
			beta 1.2.20.1				Drowned no longer drop sponge.
							Baby drowned now burn in sunlight.
1.5.0			beta 1.5.0.0				Drowned are now present outside of experimental gameplay.
							Drowned now have a chance to hold nautilus shells.
							Zombies now turn into drowned when underwater.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				Drowned are now hostile toward the new wandering traders.
							The number of drowned mobs that spawn has been reduced.
							Drowned no longer spawn in swamps.
1.16.0			beta 1.15.0.51				A converted drowned can no longer generate with a trident.
							Drowned without tridents no longer drop a trident.
			beta 1.16.0.51				Drowned now have the ability to pick up items.
1.16.210 Experiment Caves and Cliffs			beta 1.16.210.57				Drowned now drop copper ingots instead of gold ingots.
1.17.30			beta 1.17.30.20				Drowned no longer pick up glow ink sacs.
1.21.20			Preview 1.21.10.22				Drowned now spawn individually in rivers instead of in groups of two.
							Drowned now spawn in aquifers in dripstone caves.[12]
1.21.60			Preview 1.21.60.21				Baby drowned now move with the same speed as baby zombies and baby zombie villagers.[13]
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Added drowned mobs.
							Zombies now turn into drowned when underwater for too long.
			1.91				Drowned are now hostile toward the new wandering traders.

Issues

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

Trivia

• Drowned are not considered as aquatic mobs, instead, they are considered as undead and are therefore unaffected by the Impaling enchantment.‌^[14]
• A drowned chicken jockey that spawns underwater floats to the surface because the chicken it is riding floats, causing the drowned riding it to burn in sunlight during the day, resulting in a chicken in the middle of the ocean or river where the drowned chicken jockey spawned in.‌
• In Bedrock Edition, drowned have a 3D outer layer. This causes their heads and arms to look larger than in Java Edition and causes rendering conflicts with armor, particularly helmets.
• Like spiders and endermen, drowned have eyes (in addition to their noses and mouths) that appear to glow, although they do not produce light.
• The sounds for drowned were recorded by Samuel Åberg gurgling milk.^[15][16]

Gallery

Renders

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  A drowned with a fishing rod.
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  A drowned holding both a trident and a nautilus shell.
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  A drowned chicken jockey.
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  A drowned without its second layer (this state cannot be seen in vanilla gameplay).

Screenshots

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  A passive drowned during the day, standing in the shade.
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  A group of drowned that spawned naturally in an ocean biome.
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  A group of drowned attacking the player.
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  A drowned near an ocean ruin within a coral reef.
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  A drowned attacking a pufferfish after being attacked by it.
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  A drowned swimming in a river in Bedrock Edition.
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  Drowned can sometimes spawn in ocean ruins in positions that they can't get out of.
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  A drowned wearing armor. This occurs only on drowned converted from zombies, not naturally spawned drowned.‌
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  A drowned with the same posture as a player, when holding a nautilus shell or anything else in their offhand.‌
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  Drowned wearing a pumpkin on Halloween.
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  A drowned chicken jockey.
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  A left-handed drowned holding its trident in the wrong direction.
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  Drowned with Loyalty trident gets swarmed by its own tridents.
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  A trident drowned in a savanna village.
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  A creeper and drowned mixed together.
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  A drowned chasing the player while holding a fishing rod.

Mojang images

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  An unreleased drowned texture.
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  Diving contest!

Textures

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  Drowned outer layer texture file.
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  Drowned texture file.

In other media

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  Artwork of a Drowned with a fishing rod, used on the Minecraft 15th anniversary page.^[17]
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  Efe fighting several drowned underwater.
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  An enderman and drowned embrace on a floating door in the middle of the ocean, parodying a shot from the film Titanic.^[18]
• An animation of a zombie converting into a drowned.^[19]
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  LEGO Minecraft Drowned.
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  Acid Drowned, an official T-shirt design.

References

External links

• DANGER: SCARY MOB SPOTTED IN SEAS — Minecraft.net on July 2, 2018

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