Camel Husk

For the living variant, see Camel. For other uses, see Husk (disambiguation).

Camel Husk

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Health points	32HP × 16
Behavior	Passive[note 1]
Mob type	Undead Monster Animal
Hitbox size	Standing: Height: 2.375 blocks Width: 1.7 blocks Sitting: Height: 0.945 blocks Width: 1.7 blocks
Speed	0.09
Spawn	Desert at night or during thunderstorms.
Usable items	Saddle Shears (when equipped with a saddle) Lead (only when dismounted) Name Tag Rabbit's Foot

A camel husk is an undead variant of the camel that rarely spawns at night or during thunderstorms in deserts as a hostile mob, being ridden and controlled by an iron spear-wielding husk with a parched passenger, known as a camel husk jockey. It does not burn in sunlight, and is passive once separated from its riders.

Spawning

In Java Edition, when a husk spawns naturally and spawns in a space that does not block the collision box required for a camel husk, it has a 10% chance to spawn as a camel husk jockey, i.e. riding a camel husk, and spawning a parched as the second passenger. Within a spawning pack of husks, only one of them can spawn as a camel husk jockey. If the husk is a baby husk and was supposed to spawn as chicken jockey, the chicken spawns (and can despawn), but the baby husk rides the camel husk.

Camel husks count toward the "monster" mob cap and can despawn like most hostile mobs until the first time any player interacts with it. At that point it becomes persistent and no longer counts toward any mob cap either.

Camel husks do not spawn in Peaceful difficulty, like other monsters.

In Bedrock Edition, camel husks spawn by weight on their own, and like in Java Edition, never by itself:

Category: Monster	Bedrock Edition
Spawn area	Spawn weight	Group size
Desert	25	1

Drops

On death

Java Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Rotten Flesh	2–3	100.00%	2.50	2–4	100.00%	3.00	2–5	100.00%	3.50	2–6	100.00%	4.00

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Rotten Flesh	2–3	1	5⁄2	2–4	1	3	2–5	1	7⁄2	2–6	1	4

Item		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Rotten Flesh	2	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄8 (12.50%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)
		3	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)	3⁄8 (37.50%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)
		4	0	1⁄4 (25.00%)	3⁄8 (37.50%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)
		5	0	0	1⁄8 (12.50%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)
		6	0	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)
		Average	5⁄2 (2.50)	3 (3.00)	7⁄2 (3.50)	4 (4.00)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drops
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Rotten Flesh	2.50	3.00	3.50	4.00

Bedrock Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Rotten Flesh	2–3	100.00%	2.50	2–3	100.00%	2.50	2–3	100.00%	2.50	2–3	100.00%	2.50

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Rotten Flesh	2–3	1	5⁄2	2–3	1	5⁄2	2–3	1	5⁄2	2–3	1	5⁄2

Item		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Rotten Flesh	2	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)
		3	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)
		Average	5⁄2 (2.50)	5⁄2 (2.50)	5⁄2 (2.50)	5⁄2 (2.50)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drops
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Rotten Flesh	2.50	2.50	2.50	2.50

• 1–3XP when killed by a player or tamed wolf.
• These are the drops for the camel husk. Any passengers need to die separately, and drop items separately, like other jockeys.

Behavior

Camel Husk Jockey

Health points	Husk: 20HP × 10 Parched: 16HP × 8 Camel Husk: 32HP × 16
Behavior	Hostile

Camel husks are passive, but behave as hostile mobs after spawning due to being controlled by hostile riders pathfinding toward the player. In this state, the camel husk's movement is controlled by the front passenger, initially the husk. If the husk dismounts or is killed, the parched then takes control. When both passengers are killed or dismount the camel husk, it becomes passive. It can then subsequently be ridden by players like a regular camel.

In addition to being an animal like regular camels, camel husks are part of two additional mob categories, monster and undead. Because they are undead, camel husks cannot breed.

Camel husks can safely fall 6 blocks before they begin to accumulate fall damage, unlike most mobs, which can safely fall 3 blocks. Camel husks also take half of the normal fall damage (rounded up) that most other mobs take (0.5HP × 0.25 damage per block over the safe distance instead of 1HP). If an entity is riding a camel husk, they receive the same fall damage as the camel husk.

Camel husks have a ¹⁄₉₀₀ chance to regenerate 1HP health point each game tick.

A rabbit's foot can be used to tempt and heal camel husks.

In Bedrock Edition, camel husks don't panic when damaged.

In Java Edition, camel husks are never spawned as part of a zombie siege, but if a camel husk jockey naturally spawns nearby, it joins the siege and behaves like all other zombies.

Mob type

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.
• A threat to armadillos, causing them to hide in their shell.

Unlike most undead mobs, camel husks do not burn in sunlight.

As they are also monsters, camel husks count toward the hostile mob cap. However, once a player gets onto a camel husk for the first time, it stops counting toward any mob cap and no longer despawns, similar to having a name tag applied.

As they are considered monsters, parrots can imitate them.

Riding

Camel husks can be ridden as long as there are not already two riders. The riding behavior of camel husks is identical to regular camels.

Camel husks have one slot in their inventory for equipping a saddle. A saddle can be placed on a camel husk by holding it and then using it on the camel, or by accessing its inventory. A camel husk's inventory can be accessed by mounting the camel husk and using inventory control, or by sneaking and then using or pressing the "open inventory" button‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} on the camel husk.

Once a camel husk is saddled, the player can control it with standard directional controls, jump, and the mouse. The player dismounts using the dismount control. A second player can then ride as a passenger. If the controlling passenger disembarks, then the second passenger takes control of the camel husk. In Bedrock Edition, camel husks get up immediately once the player rides them with a saddle while sitting; in Java Edition, they get up once the player moves forward.

Camel husks move at the same speed as regular camels. They gradually gain speed while moving in a straight line, up to a walking speed of 3.885 blocks/s, and can also manually sprint at a speed of 8.203 blocks/s by double tapping forward or by holding the sprint control while moving forward.

Saddled camel husks also have the ability of "dashing". When the player rides them, the experience bar on the HUD is replaced by a dash charging bar, similar to the jump charging bar for horses. Dashing is done using the jump control, and holding the control charges for a longer dashing. Camel husks can dash every 2.75 seconds. When dashing, the camel husk launches up to 12 blocks forward and one block upward. For a short time after dashing, the camel husk cannot sprint.

Sounds

Despite being monsters, camel husks use the "Friendly Mobs" sound category.^[1]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Entity tags	Translation key
Camel Husk	camel_husk	can_breathe_under_water can_equip_saddle ignores_poison_and_regen inverted_healing_and_harm sensitive_to_smite undead wither_friends zombies	entity.minecraft.camel_husk

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Family	Translation key
Camel Husk	camel_husk	152	camel_husk mob undead	entity.camel_husk.name

Entity data

Camel husks have entity data associated with them that contain 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
		Monster Hunter	Attack and destroy a monster.	Kill one of these 41 monsters: Blaze Bogged Breeze Camel Husk Cave Spider Creaking (by destroying its creaking heart) Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Parched Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Horse Zombie Nautilus Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this achievement.	15	Bronze
		It Spreads	Kill a mob next to a catalyst	Kill any mob that drops experience near a sculk catalyst, with the sole exception of the ender dragon. Mobs that drop no experience are ignored for this achievement.	10	Bronze

Achievements that apply to all mobs:

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		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
		Mob Kabob	Hit five mobs in the same Charge attack using the Spear	Armor stands and players also count for this achievement as they are technically mobs.	10	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Monster Hunter	Kill any hostile monster	Kill one of these 41​[until: Fourth Drop 2026]/42​[upcoming] monsters: Blaze Bogged Breeze Camel Husk Cave Spider Creaking (by destroying its creaking heart) Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Frostbite​[upcoming: Fourth Drop 2026] Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Parched Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Horse Zombie Nautilus Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.
	It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Kill any mob that drops experience near a sculk catalyst, with the sole exception of the ender dragon. Mobs that drop no experience are ignored for this advancement.
	Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Kill each of these 41​[upcoming: Fourth Drop 2026]/42​[upcoming] monsters: Blaze Bogged Breeze Camel Husk Cave Spider Creaking (by destroying its creaking heart) Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Frostbite​[upcoming: Fourth Drop 2026] Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Parched Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Horse Zombie Nautilus Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.

Advancements that apply to all mobs:

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Adventure	Adventure, exploration and combat	Kill any mob, or be killed by any living entity.
	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.
	Take Aim	Shoot something with an Arrow	Using a bow or a crossbow, shoot a mob with an arrow, tipped arrow, or spectral arrow.
	Mob Kabob	Hit five mobs in the same Charge attack using the Spear	Armor Stand and Mannequin also count for this advancement.
	Arbalistic	Kill five unique mobs with one crossbow shot	Armor Stand and Mannequin also count 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.
	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.

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.21.11			25w44a				Added adult and baby camel husks, along with camel husk jockeys.
			25w45a				The camel husk's rotten flesh drop is now affected by Looting.
							Now becomes persistent with any interaction from a player, not just riding them.
			25w46a				Camel husks no longer panic if controlled by other mobs.
			pre1				Camel husks can no longer be ridden underwater, making their riding functionality identical to normal camels.
26.1			snap6				Baby camel husks have been partially removed: they now appear identical to adults, but still behave as babies (have a smaller hitbox, move faster, follow adults, do not drop anything, cannot be equipped or ridden, can have their age accelerated by 10 seconds with rabbit's feet).[2]
			snap7				Baby camel husks have been completely removed on the server-side. Existing babies are automatically converted into adults. Modified servers can still send baby camel husks to vanilla clients, though the aforementioned issues persist.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.21.130			Preview 1.21.130.24				Added camel husks, along with camel husk jockeys.
							Currently, they do not spawn naturally, and can be spawned only using its spawn egg or commands.[3]
			Preview 1.21.130.26				Camel husk jockeys can now properly spawn naturally in deserts.
			Preview 1.21.130.27				A husk that spawns riding a camel husk now has a 50% chance of dropping a rabbit foot.
							Camel husks can no longer be leashed while being ridden by a hostile mob and can no longer enter a panicked state while it is being ridden.
26.0			Preview 26.0.25				Camel husks no longer panic when hit.
			Preview 26.0.27				Camel husks are no longer damaged by the conduit.
							Camel husks no longer prevent the player from sleeping when nearby.
26.10			Preview 26.10.21				Camel husks now try to avoid water, dangerous blocks, and do not try to avoid rails.
26.30			Preview 26.30.29				Camel husks ridden by players can no longer be pushed by sulfur cubes with blocks absorbed.

Issues

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

Gallery

Animations

• 
  A camel husk idling
• 
  A camel husk sitting
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  Camel husk sit
• 
  A camel husk standing up
• 
  A camel husk walking
• 
  A camel husk dashing

Mojang images

• 
  Two jockeys riding a camel husk
• 
  Ditto
• 
  Ari riding a camel husk
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  Camel husk in a sandstone cave
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  Two sets of jockeys
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  A jockey fighting against Efe and Sunny
• 
  A jockey at sunset

Screenshots

• 
  Comparison between a camel and a camel husk
• 
  An unused baby camel husk spawned with commands (Before Tiny Takeover)
• 
  A sitting camel husk jockey
• 
  A camel husk in a desert with Vibrant Visuals

Textures

• 
  Camel husk texture file
• 
  Camel husk saddle texture file

In other media

• 
  Two camel husks seen in the Mounts of Mayhem artwork
• 
  Artwork used for the release date reveal showing camel husks as enemies
• 
  Artwork of Sunny battling a camel husk jockey

See also

• Camel
• Husk
• Parched

References

Notes