Tutorials/Curing a zombie villager

This page guides which ways you can cure a zombie villager.

About zombie villagers
Zombie villagers spawn naturally 10% in place of an regular zombie, and also if a zombie kills a regular villager, depending on the difficulty level.

A villager and zombie villager also spawn inside a igloo, and also from a spawn egg in creative mode.

They look like a villager, and have clothes like a villager, and their behaivour is like the regular zombie.

Required

 * 1
 * 1 or
 * 1 (regular)

Optional

 * Any type of cheap building blocks, such as dirt, stone or wood planks
 * A full set of leather or better armour
 * Any type of mining tool, such as a (if in stone) or  (if in grass or dirt)
 * Any type of mining tool, such as a (if in stone) or  (if in grass or dirt)

Finding the equipment

 * Splash Potions: Splash potions needs to be brewed on the brewing stand that needs to be crafted first (or found in a igloo or end ship), and the ingredients needed to craft it is cobblestone (commonly found in the over world) and a blaze rod (which can be found in the nether by killing a blaze, which has a chance to drop a blaze rod). Also blaze powder (crafted from a blaze rod) are needed to fuel the brewing stand. The ingredients for the potion of Weakness is:
 * Fermented spider eye (crafted from a spider eye, sugar and a brown mushroom)
 * Nether wart (found inside a nether fortress in the Nether)
 * Gunpowder (to make so the potion will be throw-able), and is obtained by killing a creeper, ghast or witch, or found in a loot chest.
 * Golden Apple: Found sometimes from a loot chest, or can be crafted from 8 gold ingots and a regular apple. (Note that enchanted golden apples DOES NOT work, it must be a regular golden apple)

Finding a zombie villager
Zombie villagers spawn naturally 10% in place of a regular zombie, or if a villager is being killed by a zombie, or in a igloo basement.

While you see a zombie villager, read the steps below how to cure it.

Curing the zombie villager
While you find a zombie villager, there are several ways to cure it, from simply throwing the potion and feeding it a golden apple, to building a barrier around it and then throwing the potion and giving it the golden apple.

Digging down it in a hole
Find a zombie villager, build a 2 bocks high pillar, and then mining the blocks around the pillar is a easy way to lure it down in the hole to prevent being damaged by it.