Chicken Jockey

Chicken Jockey

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Health points	All Riders: 20HP × 10 Chicken: 4HP
Attack strength	Easy: 2.5HP × 1.25 Normal: 3HP Hard: 4.5HP × 2.25
Spawn	Zombie Chicken Jockey: Anywhere a baby zombie can spawn‌ When a baby zombie mounts a chicken‌ Zombie Villager Chicken Jockey: Anywhere a baby zombie villager can spawn (besides zombifying from a villager)‌ When a baby zombie villager mounts a chicken‌ Husk Chicken Jockey: Anywhere a baby husk can spawn‌ When a baby husk mounts a chicken‌ Drowned Chicken Jockey: Anywhere a baby drowned can spawn‌ Zombified Piglin Chicken Jockey: Anywhere a baby zombified piglin can spawn‌

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A chicken jockey^[1] is the rare appearance of a baby zombie, baby zombie villager, baby husk, baby drowned or baby zombified piglin riding a chicken.

Spawning

In Java Edition, chicken jockeys spawn directly in the world, like all other mobs. In Bedrock Edition, they do not spawn directly but instead mount other existing mobs nearby.

Direct spawning

This feature is exclusive to Java Edition.

 

Each baby zombie, baby zombie villager, baby husk, baby drowned or baby zombified piglin that spawns naturally has a 5% chance to check for an existing chicken within an approximately 10×6×10 (L*H*W) 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 spawning mounted on a new adult chicken.

Therefore, in a chicken-free environment, each baby zombie has a 4.75% chance of spawning directly as a chicken jockey. If chickens are present, this chance increases to 9.75%.

Taking into consideration the fact that each type of zombie has a 5% chance of spawning as a baby, each spawned zombie has a 0.2375% chance of directly spawning as a chicken jockey in a chicken-free environment. If chickens are present, the chance increases to 0.4875%.

Chickens that are mounted by zombies despawn naturally, cannot lay eggs, and drop 10XP experience instead of the usual 1–3XP. If a jockey spawns riding a new chicken, the variant of the chicken depends on the biome it spawns in. If a jockey spawns riding an existing chicken, the chicken keeps its NBT data (variant, health, custom name, age, etc), but its IsChickenJockey tag is set to 1.

Chicken jockeys can sometimes spawn with equipment. Zombie, zombie villager and husk chicken jockeys may spawn holding an iron sword or iron shovel, and wearing armor. Drowned chicken jockeys may spawn holding a trident, fishing rod, or nautilus shell. Zombified piglin chicken jockeys always spawn holding a golden sword.

Although chickens take damage from standing on magma blocks, zombified piglin chicken jockeys still spawn on them, killing the chicken and leaving just the baby zombified piglin.

Due to the biomes the riders spawn in, husk and zombified piglin chicken jockeys can only spawn with a warm chicken, unless they spawn riding an existing chicken. If a zombified piglin chicken jockey spawns from a Nether portal block, the variant of the chicken depends on the biome the portal block is located in.

Mounting

This feature is exclusive to Bedrock Edition.

 

In Bedrock Edition, 15% of naturally spawned baby zombies, baby husks, and baby zombie villagers that are not jockeys already can mount other mobs when trying to attack a player, villager, wandering trader, iron golem, or snow golem. This includes baby zombies summoned by monster spawners. The following mobs can be mounted:

Drops

The baby zombie (or variant) and the chicken each drop the same items they normally would (see Zombie § Drops and Chicken § Drops). If the baby zombie is killed by a player or tamed wolf while still riding its chicken, it also drops the Lava Chicken music disc. Note that the jockey must be a zombie, not a zombie villager, husk, drowned or zombified piglin.

Behavior

The chicken jockey’s behavior is controlled by the rider.

• Chicken jockeys fall slowly and do not take fall damage, like normal chickens.
• The chicken can run through 1 block high gaps. The rider suffocates unless the above block is transparent.
• The rider can pick up/equip items if capable.
• The chicken (unless spawned with commands without the IsChickenJockey tag) does not lay eggs.^[2] However, they can still breed with other chickens, and the offspring do lay eggs. In Bedrock Edition, if a baby zombie or a variant mounts a normal chicken, the chicken stops laying eggs. If the rider is killed, the chicken starts laying eggs again.
• Chicken jockeys (both the riders and chickens^[3]) despawn like regular hostile mobs.
• The chicken acts like a regular passive mob again if the rider is killed, but still does not lay eggs and may despawn.
• Only the chicken needs a name tag to prevent both the chicken and rider from despawning.
• Curing a zombie villager jockey:
  • In Java Edition: turns it into a villager chicken jockey. The baby villager continues to ride the chicken if it grows up^[4] or turns into a witch.
  • In Bedrock Edition: dismounts the villager riding the jockey after it has been cured.

History

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.
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.
							The texture of 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.
							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 has been changed.
			pre4				The model of the zombified piglin jockey wasn't positioned properly due to a bug.
1.16.2			20w30a				The model of the zombified piglin jockey got fixed.[5]
1.21.5			25w06a				Chicken jockeys now spawn as warm or cold chicken variants in their respective biomes.
1.21.7			Release Candidate 1				Zombie chicken jockeys now drop the Lava Chicken music disc when killed by a player or tamed wolf.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.11.0			build 1				Added baby zombies and chicken jockeys.
			build 2				Added baby zombie pigmen and their chicken jockeys.
v0.12.1			build 1				Added baby zombie villagers and their chicken jockey.
v0.14.0			build 1				Overhauled the jockey mechanics. Baby zombies, baby zombie villagers, and baby zombie pigmen that are not jockeys already now have a 15% chance of becoming able to mount certain mobs, including chickens, when angered.
v0.16.0			?				Baby zombie pigmen can no longer mount mobs.
Bedrock Edition
1.21.93							Zombie chicken jockeys now drop the Lava Chicken music disc when killed by a player or tamed wolf.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Added chicken jockeys.
TU60	CU51	1.64	1.64	1.64	Patch 30	1.0.11	Baby zombies can now ride most mobs, that match as bedrock edition's. However, normal chicken jockeys are still spawned.
			1.90				The texture of chicken jockeys has been changed.
							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. Issues should be reported and viewed 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, however it is still not the rarest jockey.
• In Java Edition, the rarest mob is the zombie villager chicken jockey from abandoned jungle village with fully enchanted diamond armor, maxed trades, jack-o'-lantern, leader attributes, and an enchanted iron sword in its left hand.
• Zombified piglin chicken jockeys can spawn from portals in the Overworld.
• A zombified piglin chicken jockey does not become hostile if the chicken is killed or attacked.
• A chicken jockey is the main protagonist of the openings for MINECON Live 2019 and Minecraft Live 2020.
• In Bedrock Edition, baby drowned cannot naturally mount mobs, but they can still do it using the /ride command.

Gallery

Renders

Unarmed

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  Zombie
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  Husk
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  Drowned
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  Plains Zombie Villager
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  Desert Zombie Villager
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  Savanna Zombie Villager
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  Taiga Zombie Villager
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  Jungle Zombie Villager
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  Snowy Zombie Villager
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  Swamp Zombie Villager
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  Zombie on Warm Chicken
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  Zombie on Cold Chicken

Armed

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  Zombified Piglin.
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  Zombified Piglin on Warm Chicken.
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  A zombie villager chicken jockey, wearing full enchanted diamond armor and holding an enchanted iron sword in its left hand. This is one of the rarest possible jockeys in Java Edition.
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  A zombie chicken jockey with diamond armor and a diamond sword.

Screenshots

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  A baby zombie inside a chicken before 1.7.4 and in 14w25b.
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  A zombie pigman chicken jockey before 1.16.
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  A chicken jockey with some other chickens walking around.
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  Chickens can still lay eggs while being ridden when spawned with commands without the IsChickenJockey tag.
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  A chicken jockey named "Dinnerbone".
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  A baby zombie villager chicken jockey.
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  The chicken hitbox below the zombie.
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  Hitting from below leaves the zombie unharmed.
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  The four variations of chicken jockeys using "Grumm" or "Dinnerbone" name tags.
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  The zombie on the chicken jockey (pre-1.8) has picked up an egg that the chicken laid.
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  A chicken jockey in Bedrock Edition.
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  A chicken jockey that broke into a house.
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  A drowned chicken jockey.
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  A zombified piglin chicken jockey in the Nether before 1.21.5.
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  A detached chicken jockey.
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  A chicken jockey's zombie burning up in the sun.
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  A baby zombified piglin chicken jockey spawned by a monster spawner.
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  Chicken jockey found in a cave.
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  A baby zombified piglin riding an existing baby cold chicken.

Mojang screenshots

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  The first image of chicken jockeys.
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  An image that inspired the chicken jockey.
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  An image that inspired the chicken jockey.
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  A chicken jockey in a chicken pen.

In other media

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  Chicken jockey artwork.
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  Chicken jockeys artwork.
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  Chicken jockey animated artwork.
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  A chicken jockey trying to keep up with an array of minecarts.
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  Chicken jockey from the Mobestiary.
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  Lego Minecraft chicken jockey.
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  Flippin' Figs figure of a chicken jockey.
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  Chicken Jockey on Minecraft: Story Mode.
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  Chicken jockey as seen in A Minecraft Movie
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  Chicken jockeys racing.

References

External links

• Meet the Chicken Jockey – Minecraft.net on October 10, 2017

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