Strider

Striders are the passive mobs that spawn in the Nether. They can walk on lava and be ridden by the player.

Spawning
Striders spawn in the Nether on lava at or below y-level 31. A spawn attempt is made every 400 undefined. They have a baby variant that sometimes spawns on the head of an adult. Sometimes zombified piglins spawn on striders, and if that is the case they will spawn saddled. The baby strider on the adult strider will grow; however, it will not dismount the adult strider.

Drops
Adult striders drop 0-5 upon death. The maximum amount is increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 0-8 with Looting III.

If a player equips them with a saddle, they will also drop it upon death. If they spawned wearing a saddle, the saddle has an 8.5% chance to drop, increased by 1% per level of Looting.

When killed by a player or tamed wolf, experience is dropped.

Behavior
Unlike most mobs, striders can walk on lava. If the strider has the effect applied to it, it will only move faster in lava.

Striders can also walk on other mobs as if they are solid blocks. Small mobs will cause striders to step up as if they were walking on stairs or slabs.

Striders are damaged by water and rain, which damages them at a rate of every 0.5 seconds. However, they are not harmed when hit by a splash water bottle or when standing in a filled cauldron. Striders will still take damage from rain even if they are in lava.

Striders outside of lava start shivering and will move much slower when outside of lava.

If a zombified piglin is riding a strider, the strider will pursue the player if the zombified piglin is attacked.

It is possible to make a strider move faster on land by directly applying speed through commands.

Riding


The player can ride on an adult strider using a saddle, and can attach them to leads. Similar to how pigs are controlled using a carrot on a stick, striders are controlled using a warped fungus on a stick. The warped fungus on a stick can be, causing the strider to move faster and taking durability from the warped fungus on a stick. They will also follow players holding a warped fungus or a warped fungus on a stick.

Breeding
If striders are given warped fungus, they enter love mode and pair off to create baby striders, granting the player 1-7 experience orbs. The parent striders have a cooldown of 5 minutes before they can breed again. All babies obtained by breeding take 20 minutes to grow up. The growth of baby striders can be slowly accelerated using warped fungus; each use takes 10% off of the remaining time to grow up.

Data values
Striders have entity data associated with them that contains various properties of the mob.