Chicken Jockeys are an extremely rare mob. They consist of a Baby Zombie riding a Chicken.
Behavior
- Chicken Jockeys run around like Baby Zombies, instead of using the chicken AI.
- Even though the Zombie AI is used, the chicken still randomly lays eggs.
- Chicken Jockeys will not avoid bumping into walls that would potentially suffocate the Baby Zombie.
- Chicken Jockeys do not take fall damage, as the chicken flaps his wings quickly, slowing the falling speed.
- The chicken moves at the speed of the Baby Zombie, which is much faster than a normal chicken.
- Chicken Jockeys can track the player over a very large distance.
- Like zombies, the Chicken Jockey will also track villagers.
- They can fit through a 1-high space, but the Baby Zombie will take suffocation damage if the block above is solid.
Spawn
Zombies have a 0.05% chance (1 in 2000) of being a chicken jockey.[citation needed] Baby zombie pigmen can also rarely spawn riding a chicken.
History
| 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. | ||||
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| November 30, 2013 | Dinnerbone tweeted the link to an image of Chicken Jockeys, after seeing the image on Reddit. | ||||
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| 1.7.3 | 13w49a | Chicken Jockeys were added. | |||
Issues
Issues relating to "Chicken Jockey" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia
- If the player goes far enough away, the baby zombie despawns but the chicken does not, leaving a regular chicken behind.
- The command to spawn a Chicken Jockey is /summon Zombie ~ ~ ~ {IsBaby:1,Riding:{id:Chicken}}
- This is not exactly the same mob, but it is close, the real Chicken Jockey is positioned lower on the Chicken's back, which you can get by spawning a large number of zombies
- The baby zombie's hitbox is larger than the chicken's.
- Attacking the chicken may harm the zombie instead, unless the player carefully attacks its feet.
- If the chicken moves too close to a wall two blocks high, the zombie half will take suffocation damage unless the upper block is transparent.
- Since they can spawn in the Nether,[citation needed] eggs, feathers and raw chicken are renewable, without having to bring eggs from the Overworld.
Gallery
Chicken Jockey named Dinnerbone
Zombie Pigmen Chicken Jockey
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