Undead

Undead mobs are a group of mobs in Minecraft that share a number of characteristics. Thematically, these mobs are dead creatures that are still animate.

Common properties

All undead mobs share the following properties:

• They are damaged by Instant Health and healed by Instant Damage.
• They are not affected by Regeneration and Poison.
• They take extra damage from Smite.
• They do not take drowning damage. (Husks and zombies instead turn into zombies and drowned, respectively.)
• They are not targeted by the wither.
• They are part of the #undead entity tag.
• They scare armadillos and make them hide in their shell.

Several undead mobs catch fire under sunlight, a property not found in any other mobs, and are also able to transfer the fire to the player after inflicting melee damage.

List of mobs

Bogged	Drowned	Husk	Old Zombie Villager ‌	Phantom	Skeleton	Skeleton Horse	Stray

Wither	Wither Skeleton	Zoglin	Zombie	Zombie Horse	Zombie Villager	Zombified Piglin

History

Issues

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

Trivia

• Despite the giant being an oversized variant of the zombie, it's not considered an undead mob.
• Despite the ghast's ghost-like appearance, it is not considered an undead mob.^[2]
• The warden was classified as an undead mob in experimental snapshots. This property did not carry over to its official addition in snapshot 22w12a.
• In Java Edition, all the undead mobs except for the horses are classified as monsters in the code, however, in Bedrock Edition, they are part of the monster category as well.
• Although undead mobs share the #undead entity tag, the tag is not responsible for their shared properties.

Gallery

Screenshots

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  Every individual undead mob in Java Edition.
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  A group of skeleton horsemen.
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  A skeleton fighting a spider jockey.
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  A wither skeleton riding a spider.
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  A zombie and a husk next to a player.
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  A zombie siege.
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  Every mob being ridden by a baby zombie or variants.
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  Skeletons in the Nether.
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  Tamed skeleton horses.
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  Three adult husks and a baby husk.

Renders

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  A zombie.
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  A zombie villager.
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  An old zombie villager.
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  A husk.
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  A drowned.
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  A zombified piglin.
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  A zoglin.
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  A zombie horse.
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  A skeleton horse.
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  A skeleton.
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  A stray.
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  A wither skeleton.
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  A bogged.
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  A wither.
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  A phantom.

In other media

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  Four phantoms in the air.
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  Animation of different undead mobs walking on snow.

References

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