Chicken Jockey

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Chicken Jockey

Health

Baby Zombie / Zombified Piglin / Zombie Villager / Husk / Drowned: 20

× 10

Chicken: 4

Classification

Undead (zombies)
Animal (chicken)

Behavior

Hostile (Zombie Variants)
Neutral (zombified piglin)
Passive (Chickens)

Spawn

Randomly spawns instead of a baby zombie, baby husk, baby drowned or baby zombified piglin

Chicken Jockey:
Light level of 0
Chicken Husk Jockey:
Desert, Desert Hills, Desert Lakes
Chicken Zombified Piglin Jockey:
Any 2 block high space in any light level in the Nether

Damage

Chicken Jockey:
Easy: 2

Normal: 3

Hard: 4

Chicken Zombified Piglin Jockey:
Easy: 5
Normal: 8
Hard: 12 × 6

Details

Armor

Baby Zombie / Zombified Piglin / Zombie Villager / Husk / Drowned: 2 (

)

Chicken: 0 ()

Chicken jockeys^[1] are the rare appearance of a baby zombie, baby zombified piglin, baby zombie villager, baby husk, or baby drowned riding a chicken.

Spawning

Each baby zombie, baby husk, baby zombie villager, baby zombified piglin, or baby drowned that spawns has a 5% chance to check for an existing chicken within a 10×6×10 box centered on the baby's spawn location and spawn riding one of those chickens if there are any. If it fails that 5% chance, there is an additional 5% chance of the baby zombie spawning mounted on a new chicken. In a chicken-free environment, each spawned zombie has a 0.25% chance of becoming a chicken jockey; if chickens are present, the chance increases to 0.4875%.

Chicken jockeys may spawn with items equipped. Baby zombified piglin versions of the chicken jockey always have a golden sword equipped, while baby drowned versions may have a trident. Although chickens take damage from magma blocks, baby zombified piglin jockeys still spawn on them, killing the chicken and leaving just the baby zombified piglin. Provoking the zombified piglin chicken jockey causes it to attack, like a normal zombified piglin.

Drops

The rider and the chicken each have separate drops when that part of the chicken jockey is killed.

Their drops are no different than if the zombie (or zombified piglin, zombie villager, husk, or drowned) and the chicken were standing alone.

Behavior

Chicken jockeys fall slowly and do not take fall damage, like normal chickens.
The chicken can run through 1 block high gaps. The baby zombie suffocates unless the above block is transparent.
The baby zombie can pick up/equip items.
The chicken (unless spawned with commands without the IsChickenJockey tag) does not lay eggs.^[2] However, they can still be bred with other chickens.
Chicken jockeys (both zombies and chickens^[3]) despawn like zombies.
The chicken becomes passive again if the rider is killed, but still does not lay eggs and may despawn.

Data values

Neither the chicken and rider's IDs nor the entity data are any different than if the chicken or rider were standing alone.

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Monster Hunter	Kill one of these 70 mobs near a sculk catalyst: Axolotl Bee Blaze Camel Cat Cave Spider Chicken Chicken Jockey Cod Cow Creeper Donkey Dolphin Drowned Elder Guardian Enderman Endermite Evoker Fox Frog Ghast Goat Glow Squid Guardian Hoglin Horse Husk Llama Magma Cube Mooshroom Ocelot Panda Parrot Phantom Pig Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Polar Bear Pufferfish Rabbit Ravager Salmon Sheep Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Skeleton Horse Skeleton Horseman Slime Sniffer Stray Spider Spider Jockey Squid Strider Trader Llama Tropical Fish Turtle Vex Vindicator Warden Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Wolf Zoglin Zombie Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Mobs that drop no experience are ignored for this advancement.	`adventure/kill_mob_near_sculk_catalyst`

History

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Java Edition
November 29, 2013					A two-image gallery was uploaded to Imgur, and showed a baby zombie inside a chicken. It was also posted to Reddit.
November 30, 2013					Dinnerbone tweeted the link to an image of chicken jockeys, after seeing the image on Reddit.
1.7.4		13w49a			Added chicken jockeys.
1.7.5					Chickens that are part of chicken jockeys can now despawn when no longer ridden.
1.8		14w02a			Chicken jockeys no longer lay eggs.
1.9		15w35a			Zombie villagers now retain their professions and clothes, which have a tattered appearance. This has caused zombie villager chicken jockeys to have a changed appearance, as well.
1.10		16w20a			Added a baby husk jockey variant.
1.13		18w11a			Added a baby drowned jockey variant.
1.14		18w43a			The texture of chicken jockeys has been changed.
					The texture baby husk jockeys has been changed.
					The texture of baby zombie pigman jockeys has been changed.
					The texture of baby drowned jockeys has been changed.
		18w50a			Zombie villager jockeys now have different clothes in desert, jungle, plains, savanna, snowy, swamp and taiga biomes.
		18w50a			Zombie villager jockeys no longer have a profession.
1.16		20w09a			"Zombie pigman jockey" has been renamed to "zombified piglin jockey".
		20w09a			The model and texture of zombified piglin jockeys have been changed.
		20w22a			The model of the zombified piglin jockey have been changed.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.11.0		build 1			Baby zombies and baby zombie pigmen now have a chance of becoming a jockey.
v0.12.1		build 1			Baby zombie villagers now have chance of becoming a jockey.
v0.14.0		build 1			Baby zombies now have 15% chance to mount a chicken to become a jockey.
v0.14.0		build 1			The zombie pigman can no longer become a chicken jockey.
v0.15.0		build 1			Baby husks now have 15% chance to mount a chicken to become a jockey.
					Baby zombie variants can now ride adult husks.
					Baby zombie variants can now ride horse variants.
Pocket Edition
?					Adult zombie pigmen are no longer rideable by baby zombie variants.
Bedrock Edition
1.8.0		beta 1.8.0.8			Baby zombie variants can now ride pandas and adult stray cats.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The texture of zombie jockeys has been changed.
					The texture baby husk jockeys has been changed.
					The texture of baby drowned jockeys has been changed.
					Zombie villager jockeys now have different clothes in desert, jungle, plains, savanna, snowy, swamp and taiga biomes.
					Zombie villager jockeys no longer have a profession.
1.13.0		beta 1.13.0.9			Adult zombie pigmen can now be ridden again by baby zombies.
Legacy Console Edition
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		Added chicken jockeys.
TU60	CU51	1.64	Patch 30	1.0.11	Baby zombies can now ride any mobs, that match as bedrock edition's. However, normal chicken jockeys are still spawned.
		1.90			The texture of chicken jockeys has been changed.
		1.90			The texture of baby zombie pigman jockeys has been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added chicken jockeys.

Issues

Issues relating to "Chicken Jockey" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

In Java Edition, the chance for a baby zombie villager to spawn wearing full enchanted diamond armor holding an enchanted iron sword in its left hand while riding a chicken is about 1 in 2.91082×10²², easily making it the rarest mob in the game.
Zombified piglin chicken jockeys can spawn from portals in the Overworld. Also, a normal chicken jockey may spawn in the Nether if a zombified piglin calls a normal zombie as reinforcement.
Name tags prevent the chickens from despawning, and they can be bred to spawn normal egg-laying, non-despawning chickens.
To prevent a chicken jockey from despawning, only the chicken needs to be name tagged, because riders of other entities never despawn.
The wither attempts to attack the chicken being ridden by the zombie and the zombie also takes damage.
A zombified piglin chicken jockey does not become hostile if the chicken is killed or attacked.
In Java Edition, if a zombie villager chicken jockey is cured, then the villager continues riding the chicken even after it grows up.^[4]
A scene in the movie features Jack Black's character, Steve, and Jason Momoa's character, Garrett Garrison, facing off against a chicken jockey in a boxing ring. During this scene, Steve exclaims "Chicken jockey!"
- Steve's line and the visual of the chicken jockey have become a viral sensation among moviegoers; audiences are reportedly shouting the line "Chicken jockey!" in unison during screenings, and some are even throwing popcorn and beverages in excitement, going as far as to bringing an actual chicken to a screening. It has gotten to the point where police have been called to kick people out of theaters, as other theaters have started "Chicken jockey" screenings so people can yell during the movie.

Gallery

Screenshots

The first image of chicken jockeys.
A baby zombie inside a chicken in before 1.7.4 and 14w25b.
A chicken jockey with some other chickens walking around.
Chickens can still lay eggs while being ridden when spawned with commands without the IsChickenJockey tag.
A chicken jockey named "Dinnerbone".
A baby zombie villager chicken jockey before 1.9.
A zombie pigman chicken jockey before 1.16.
The chicken hitbox below the zombie.
Hitting from below leaves the zombie unharmed.
The four variations of chicken jockeys using "Grumm" or "Dinnerbone" name tags.
The zombie on the chicken jockey (pre-1.8) has picked up an egg that the chicken laid.
A chicken jockey from Bedrock Edition.
A Chicken Jockey during a night phase in Bedrock Edition. Notice how the chicken has its head fixed at the player, unlike the zombie riding it, which appears to be looking in the direction of the left side of the screen.
A chicken jockey that broke into the player's house.
A husk chicken jockey.
A drowned chicken jockey holding a trident.
A zombie pigman chicken jockey in the Nether.
A detached chicken jockey.
A jockey in the rain.
A husk chicken jockey in a desert biome in the early morning.
A chicken jockey's zombie burning up in the sun.
A baby zombified piglin chicken jockey spawned by a spawner.
Chicken jockey found in the cave.
Three chicken jockeys spawned at night.
A zombified piglin chicken jockey.
A villager chicken jockey, having been cured, being chased by a normal chicken jockey.

Renders

A zombie villager jockey, wearing full enchanted diamond armor and an enchanted iron sword in its left hand.
Chicken jockey with diamond armor and a sword.
Baby Zombified Piglin Jockey in Java Edition 1.16 Pre-release 4.