Undead

For other uses, see Undead (disambiguation).

Undead mobs are a group of monster mobs, many of which are hostile, that usually drop either bones or rotten flesh on death.

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 convert into zombies and drowned, respectively.)
• They are not targeted by and cannot harm the wither.
• They are considered a threat to armadillos, making them hide in their shell.
• They are part of the #undead entity tag‌^{[Java Edition only]} and part of the undead family‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}.

The majority of undead mobs catch fire under sunlight, a property not found in any other mobs, and are also able to transfer the fire with their melee attacks. The notable exceptions to this are the Nether-native undead mobs, which are entirely immune to fire, and the desert-native undead mobs as well as skeleton horses, which are not immune to fire but do not burn in sunlight. The majority of undead mobs are unable to swim and sink in water, with the exceptions of camel husks, zombie horses and the two water-based undead mobs (drowned and zombie nautiluses).

List of mobs

Zombies

• Camel Husk
• Drowned
• Frostbite​^[upcoming]
• Husk
• Old Zombie Villager‌^{[BE only]}
• Zoglin
• Zombie
• Zombie Horse
• Zombie Nautilus
• Zombie Villager
• Zombified Piglin

Skeletons

• Bogged
• Parched
• Skeleton
• Skeleton Horse
• Stray
• Wither
• Wither Skeleton

Miscellaneous

• Phantom

Jockeys

These jockeys are comprised of at least one undead mob:

• Camel Husk Jockey
• Chicken Jockey
• Skeleton Horseman
• Spider Jockey
  • Cave Spider Jockey‌^{[BE only]}
• Strider Jockey
• Zombie Horseman
• Zombie Nautilus Jockey

Jokes

• Pink Wither
• Poisonous Potato Zombie

History

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Legacy Console Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

Issues

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

Trivia

• Although undead mobs share the #undead entity tag, the tag is not directly responsible for most of their shared properties.
  • Most of their shared properties are a result of entity tags that in vanilla contain the #undead tag; the only property directly caused by the aforementioned tag is armadillos considering undead mobs a threat.

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  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 able to be 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 bogged
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  A camel husk
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  A drowned
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  A frostbite​^{[upcoming: Fourth Drop 2026]}
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  A husk
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  A parched
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  A phantom
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  A skeleton
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  A skeleton horse
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  A stray
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  A wither
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  A wither skeleton
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  A zoglin
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  A zombie
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  A zombie horse
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  A zombie nautilus
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  A zombie villager
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  A zombified piglin

Unused

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  An old zombie villager‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

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

See also

• Mob
• Animal
• Aquatic
• Arthropod
• Illager
• Jockey
• Monster