Strider

This article is about the mob. For the enchantment, see Depth Strider.

Strider

Health points	20 × 10
Behavior	Passive
Hitbox size	Adult: Height: 1.7 Blocks Width: 0.9 Blocks Baby: Height: 0.85 Blocks Width: 0.45 Blocks
Spawn	Lava sea Delta Nether Wastes Crimson Forest Warped Forest Soul Sand Valley Basalt Deltas
Items usable on	Warped Fungus Saddle Lead Warped Fungus on a Stick

Striders are passive mobs native to the Nether. They can walk/stride on lava and be saddled by the player. A warped fungus on a stick is needed to control a strider, similar to how a pig is controlled by a carrot on a stick.

Spawning

In The Nether, two to four striders spawn on spaces of lava that are two blocks tall with an air block above. Because striders are the only passive mob in the nether, spawning attempts are made every 400 game ticks. For every strider that spawns, there is a 1 in 10 chance of an additional baby strider to spawn riding on top of the previous strider. A baby strider on the adult strider continues to grow although it does not dismount the adult strider once it has grown up. Zombified piglins have a 1 in 30 chance of spawning on top of a strider, creating a strider jockey. If this happens, the strider spawns with a saddle and the zombified piglin spawns carrying a warped fungus on a stick. The zombified piglin also does not despawn (except on Peaceful difficulty). If a strider spawns under lava it will rise out of the lava.

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  A strider rides on an adult strider when they spawn.

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  An adult strider that spawned with a zombified piglin riding it.

Drops

Adult striders drop 2–5 string upon death. The maximum amount is increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 2–8 with Looting III.‌^{[JE only]}

Striders wearing a saddle always drop the saddle upon death, regardless of if they spawn wearing it or if a player puts it on them. In fact, the only way to remove a saddle from a strider is to kill the strider.

When an adult strider is killed by a player or tamed wolf, 1–2‌^{[JE only]} / 1–3‌^{[BE only]} experience is dropped.

Behavior

Unlike most mobs, striders can walk on lava.

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

Striders are damaged by water, rain, and splash water bottles, which deal damage by 1 per splash water bottle or half-second in water or rain, which can kill them. Striders still take damage from rain even if they are in lava. However, they are not harmed when standing in a filled cauldron. They also cannot be harmed by snowfall or snowballs. They take extra damage from freezing in powder snow.‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.17]}

Striders outside of lava change to a purple color, change their expression to more of a frown, shiver, and their legs become slightly shorter. They also move slower when outside of lava.

If a strider has the Speed effect applied to it, the strider moves faster on both land and lava (though its land speed is still considerably slower).

If a zombified piglin is riding a strider, the strider pursues the player if the zombified piglin is angered.

Due to a bug, striders that fall from a height take fall damage when landing in lava.

A baby strider on an adult strider still grows into an adult. Apart from this, adult striders riding other adult striders do not spawn naturally. Baby striders not riding on an adult follow the closest adult strider.

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  A strider walking.

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  A strider shivering and slowed down on land.

Riding

A player riding a strider (click to see animation).

Main article: Strider Jockey

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 move forward automatically while their direction is influenced using a warped fungus on a stick, at a speed of 4.14 m/s if on a flat lava surface (such as the Nether lava sea) or 1.74 m/s if on land. Striders move much more slowly in flowing lava than on land.^{[more information needed]} They swim especially slowly against the lava flow direction.

Warped fungus on a stick can be used, causing the strider to boost and walk at a greater speed^{[more information needed]} and taking 1 point of durability from the warped fungus on a stick. They also follow players holding a warped fungus or a warped fungus on a stick. In Java Edition, saddled striders being ridden by players never move on their own accord (when not seeking lava within around 10 seconds) unless being directed. In Bedrock Edition, striders wander around freely when ridden by a player not directing it. Once in lava and unmounted, striders actively seek lava or wander around when not seeking lava.

Players riding striders into (flowing-only due to a bug) lava from heights do not dismount if the strider submerges into the lava, and striders quickly rise back up to the surface if this happens. However, players risk getting burned by the lava while submerged.

A strider ridden into flowing lava slowly rises to the top. Fall damage does not affect striders that have dropped onto flowing lava, unlike the bug for lava source blocks.

When ridden over land, striders automatically walk up any one block high slope. They also cross any 1-wide block gap or air space that is only one block higher - diagonally up - when ridden directly upward and not completely sideways to the slope.

When being ridden (by a player, zombified piglin, or another strider), a strider is not attracted to warped fungus or warped fungus on a stick other than that of the rider, even if not being directed by the rider.

To safely dismount from a strider, a player who does not have fire resistance may face a solid block within reach before dismounting to dismount onto that block, instead of at the strider's location (which is usually in lava).

Breeding

Main article: Breeding

If striders are given warped fungus, they breed to create baby striders, granting the player 1–7 experience orbs. The parent striders have a cooldown of about 5 minutes before they can breed again. All babies obtained through 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.

Sounds

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Strider chirps	Friendly Creatures	Plays randomly from Strider	entity.strider.ambient	subtitles.entity.strider.ambient	1.0	1.0	16
	Strider eats	Friendly Creatures	Plays when player feeds a Strider a warped fungus	entity.strider.eat	subtitles.entity.strider.eat	1.0	1.0	16
	Strider warbles	Friendly Creatures	Plays randomly from Strider when the player is holding warped fungus or warped fungus on a stick.	entity.strider.happy	subtitles.entity.strider.happy	1.0	1.0	16
	Strider hurts	Friendly Creatures	Plays when Strider takes damage	entity.strider.hurt	subtitles.entity.strider.hurt	1.0	1.0	16
	Strider dies	Friendly Creatures	Plays when Strider dies	entity.strider.death	subtitles.entity.strider.death	1.0	1.0	16
	Strider retreats	Friendly Creatures	Plays randomly during 10 seconds after Strider takes damage and isn't killed	entity.strider.retreat	subtitles.entity.strider.retreat	0.8	1.0	16
	Footsteps	Friendly Creatures	Plays when Strider walks on land	entity.strider.step	subtitles.entity.generic.footsteps	0.25	1.0	16
	Footsteps	Friendly Creatures	Plays when Strider walks on lava	entity.strider.step_lava	subtitles.entity.generic.footsteps	0.2	1.0	16

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Namespaced ID
	This Boat Has Legs	Ride a Strider with a Warped Fungus on a Stick	Nether	Boost a strider with a warped fungus on a stick.	nether/ride_strider
	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed two animals together	Husbandry	Breed a pair of any of these 21 mobs:‌[upcoming: JE 1.17] Axolotl‌[upcoming: JE 1.17] Bee Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Goat‌[upcoming: JE 1.17] Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Strider Turtle Wolf A trader llama does not count as a llama, and a mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breed-able together. Other breed-able mobs, if any, can be bred, but are ignored for this advancement.	husbandry/breed_an_animal
	Two by Two	Breed all the animals!	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed pairs of each of these 21 mobs:‌[upcoming: JE 1.17] Axolotl‌[upcoming: JE 1.17] Bee Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Goat‌[upcoming: JE 1.17] Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Strider Turtle Wolf A trader llama does not count as a llama, and a mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breed-able together. Other breed-able mobs, if any, can be bred, but are ignored for this advancement.	husbandry/bred_all_animals

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Translation key
Strider	strider	entity.minecraft.strider

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Strider	strider	125	entity.strider.name

Entity data

See also: Chunk format

Striders have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

• Entity data
  • Additional fields for mobs that can breed
  • Tags common to all entities
  • Tags common to all mobs
  •  Saddle: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if the strider is saddled.

History

March 25, 2020					Three different screenshots are released of what was then revealed to be a strider.
Java Edition
1.16		20w13a			Added striders and baby striders.
					Adult striders can be ridden by zombified piglins and baby striders.
					A shivering animation exists for when a strider is out of lava.
		20w14a			Striders now move faster to resemble a boat's speed on water.
					Subtitles have been added for strider sounds.
		20w15a			Striders now turn purple when outside of lava.
					Striders can now be saddled by dispensers.
					The texture of striders has been changed from to to remove an unused fin. The fin itself was not viewable in-game.
		20w17a			The texture of the strider saddles have been changed. The front and back orientation of the saddle has been corrected.
		20w18a			Striders can no longer spawn in stacks of 3 or higher; only an adult and baby strider or an adult strider and a zombified piglin.
					Zombified piglins that spawn riding striders no longer despawn.
					Walking logic was changed significantly.
					Player can now "safely" dismount, by looking at the block they want to dismount onto before dismounting.
		20w19a			The "Distance by Strider" statistic that displays the distance traveled while on a strider has been added.
		20w20a			Striders are now required for the "Two by Two" advancement.
		Pre-release 3			Striders are now more common.
		Pre-release 7			Each strider leg can now be textured individually. The textures of the legs on the model are now mirrored.
1.16.2		Pre-Release 1			Zombified piglins now hold a warped fungus on a stick when spawned as a strider jockey.
					Striders now try to find their way to lava and avoid going out of lava.
					Fixed bug that allowed Striders to walk on other mobs.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.17		21w13a			Striders now take extra damage when freezing.
Bedrock Edition
1.16		beta 1.16.0.57			Added striders and baby striders.
					Adult striders can be ridden by zombified piglins and baby striders.
		beta 1.16.0.63			Striders now move faster to resemble a boat's speed on water.
1.16.100		beta 1.16.100.54			Zombified piglins now hold a warped fungus on a stick when spawned as a strider jockey.
					Striders now have the correct health of 20 × 10 instead of 15 × 7.5.
					Each strider leg can now be textured individually. The textures of the legs on the model are now mirrored.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.16.230		beta 1.16.230.54			Striders now take extra damage when freezing.

Issues

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

Trivia

• Striders are the only passive mob that spawns exclusively in the Nether except for hoglins and piglins on peaceful difficulty.
• Striders are the only (non-zombified) mob introduced in the Nether Update that do not zombify when leaving the Nether.
• Striders are the only mob that can spawn in every Nether biome.
• If commands are used to saddle a baby strider, and the player rides the baby strider, the player takes fire damage.
• At one point in the strider's development, before it was added to the game, a strider out of lava would retract its legs start to take damage and bounce around until they died, similar to how fish suffocate when out of water. This feature was discarded for being too sad.
• Part of the reason that striders drop string was to answer the question of "how do piglins make crossbows?"
• The bobbing animation that the strider makes while walking was initially an accident. However, the developers thought it was "quirky and fun", so it was added as a feature.

Gallery

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  Baby strider riding on an adult strider.

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  Striders are occasionally ridden by a zombified piglin when spawned.

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  Striders can be ridden by baby zombified piglins too.

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  Three striders riding one another before 20w18a.

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  Strider out of the lava.

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  A comparison images of model differences between Java and Bedrock.

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  Player riding a strider riding a strider, with nearby striders looking on.

Concept art

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  Concept art of an early design of the strider.

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  An early design of the strider by Jasper Boerstra. It is similar in appearance to a tardigrade.

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  An early design of the strider. Notice that there is no hair and one has six legs, while the other has nine and their ghast-like bodies.

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  Concept art of the strider. Notice the carrot on a stick instead of warped fungus on a stick.

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