Strider

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

Spawning
Striders spawn in lava seas in the Nether at y-level 31 or below. 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 once it has grown up.

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 move faster on both land and lava, but its speed on land will be to a much lesser extent.

Upon being harmed by another mob, striders will attempt to flee for a few seconds whilst making "retreat" noises.

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. Striders will still take damage from rain even if they are in lava. However, they are not harmed when hit by a splash water bottle or when standing in a filled cauldron. They will also not be harmed by snowfall or snowballs.

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.

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 boost and walk at a greater speed which takes durability from the warped fungus on a stick. They will also follow players holding a warped fungus or a warped fungus on a stick. Striders being ridden by players will never move on their own accord when not being directed. When dismounting a Rider, there is a chance it will put your in or above lava. (As of the latest snapshot, 20w13b). Therefore it is best to dismount while the Strider is safely on land, well away from lavablocks.

Players riding striders into lava from heights will not dismount if the strider submerges into the lava, and striders will quickly rise back up to the surface if this happens. However, players risk getting burned by the lava themselves by doing so.

Riding striders into flowing lava will cause them to slowly rise up to the top.

When ridden over land, striders will automatically walk up any one block high slope.

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.