How to Make a Baby Zombie Ride a Chicken in Minecraft Pe

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.

1 Spawning
2 Drops
- 2.1 Chicken
- 2.2 Baby zombie
- 2.3 Baby drowned
- 2.4 Baby zombified piglin
- 2.5 Halloween
3 Behavior
4 Data values
5 History
6 Issues
7 Trivia
8 Video
9 Gallery
- 9.1 In other media
10 References

Spawning [ ]

Java Edition

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 to check for existing chickens, 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.

In Java Edition, there is an extremely low chance for a baby zombie villager to spawn wearing enchanted full diamond armor and holding an enchanted iron sword on its left hand while riding a chicken; this chance is 1 in 1.9921×10³⁵ ^{[ citation needed ]}, making this mob the rarest in the game.

Using the summon command: /summon chicken ~ ~ ~ {Passengers:[{id:zombie,IsBaby:1}],IsChickenJockey:1b} yields a chicken jockey.

Bedrock Edition

In Bedrock Edition, baby zombies, baby husks, and baby zombie villagers have a 15% chance to become a jockey when it tries attacking a villager, player, or iron golem, which can ride:

Adult chickens
Adult ocelots and stray cats
Adult wild wolves
Adult zombies and variants
Cows
Pigs
Sheep
Horses and variants
Mooshrooms
Spiders
Cave spiders
Pandas

Any rideable or tameable mob can become unrideable or untameable, respectively, after being mounted by a baby zombie.

In Bedrock Edition, if a baby zombie has spawned on another type of mob (such as an adult zombie), killing the baby zombie's current mount in an area populated with chickens may result in the baby zombie jumping onto a chicken rather than attacking the player. In addition, Baby Zombies riding on other zombie variants appear to have a chance to change into the baby variant of the mob it's riding.

Drops [ ]

Chicken [ ]

Chickens drop:

0–2 Feather
1 Raw Chicken , when not killed by fire
1 Cooked Chicken , when killed while on fire
10 if killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Baby zombie [ ]

Baby zombies drop:

0–2 rotten flesh , and rarely carrot s, potato es and iron ingot s.
Baby zombies also have a 8.5% chance each of dropping their
- Iron Shovel
- Iron Sword
- or any equipped armor that they spawned with. The chance of each can be increased by 1% per level of Looting, up to 11.5% chance. The equipment is usually badly damaged, and may be enchanted.

If killed by a charged creeper, it drops a zombie head .

They drop 12 when killed by a player or tamed wolf, extra 1–3 is given if the zombie has equipment.

Baby drowned [ ]

Baby drowned drop:

0–2 rotten flesh
(Rarely) a copper ingot .

Baby drowned also have an 8.5% chance each of dropping their:

Trident
Fishing Rod

The chance of each can be increased by 1% per level of Looting, up to 11.5% chance. It is usually badly damaged and can be enchanted.

The baby drowned always drop their nautilus shell , but only when held in their offhand.

Like baby zombies, they drop 12 when killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Baby zombified piglin [ ]

Baby zombified piglins drop:

0–1 rotten flesh
0–1 gold nugget
(Rarely) a gold ingot .

Baby zombified piglins also have an 8.5% chance each of dropping their golden sword . The chance of each can be increased by 1% per level of Looting, up to 11.5% chance. It is usually badly damaged and may be enchanted.

Like baby zombies, they drop 12 when killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Halloween [ ]

If a baby zombie or zombified piglin wearing a pumpkin or jack o'lantern is killed using a tool enchanted with Looting, there is a chance equivalent to the level of Looting used to drop the pumpkin or jack o' lantern, up to a maximum of a 3% chance of a drop.

Behavior [ ]

Chicken jockeys generally run around, behaving like the zombie, instead of using the chicken AI. ‌^{[ Java Edition only ]}
Chicken jockeys fall slowly and do not take fall damage, like normal chickens.
The chicken moves at the speed of the baby zombie, which is much faster than a normal chicken.
- Command spawned jockeys are an exception.
The chicken can run through 1 block high gaps. The baby zombie suffocates unless the above block is transparent.
Chicken jockeys can pick up/equip items.
The chicken (unless spawned with commands without the IsChickenJockey tag) does not lay eggs. However, they can still be bred into regular chickens.
The baby zombie and the chicken can be separated by using a bucket of water on them.
In Creative mode, a chicken jockey that isn't already targeting a player follows a player holding seeds, like a normal chicken, and can be fed. In Survival mode, unless the zombie is a zombified piglin in a non-aggressive state, the chicken jockey targets a player who attempts to do this, and the chicken cannot be fed.
Chickens become passive again if the rider is killed.

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.

History [ ]

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The specific instructions are: MC-188880 before and after, also these images are massive and there is overinking to be cleaned here

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 zombie jockeys 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 [ ]

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.
Chicken jockeys, like spider jockeys, cannot pass through portals.
- Zombified piglin chicken jockeys can spawn from portals in the Overworld.
- A normal chicken jockey may spawn in the Nether if a zombified piglin calls a normal zombie as reinforcement.
If the zombie happens to be a zombie villager, curing it does not separate the cured villager from the chicken.
Name tags prevent the chickens from despawning, and they can be bred to spawn normal egg-laying, non-despawning chickens.
The wither attempts to attack the chicken being ridden by the zombie and the zombie also takes damage.
Adult zombies and zombified piglins can also control a chicken while riding on it, though they do not naturally spawn on chickens.
A zombified piglin chicken jockey does not become hostile if the chicken is killed or attacked.
Chicken jockeys spawned using /summon use the chicken's speed instead of the baby rider's speed.
To prevent a chicken jockey from despawning, only the chicken needs to be name tagged, because riders of other entities never despawn.
In Java Editon, if a zombie villager chicken jockey is cured, then the villager continues riding the chicken even after it grows up.^[2]

Video [ ]

Gallery [ ]

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.
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 that broke into the player's house.
A husk chicken jockey.
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 rare variation of a zombie villager jockey, wearing full enchanted diamond armor and a enchanted iron sword in its left hand as of Village and Pillage.
Chicken jockey with diamond armor and a sword.
Chicken jockey found in the cave.
Baby Zombified Piglin Jockey in Java Edition 1.16 Pre-release 4.