Zombie
Zombie is a hostile mob in Minecraft. Zombie has 20 health points (10 hearts). Zombie deals 3 attack damage. When killed, Zombie drops 0–2 Rotten Flesh.
Zombie is the Overworld's default threat: a slow melee undead that spawns anywhere dark, walks straight at the nearest player or villager, and burns in daylight unless it stands in water or shade or wears a helmet it picked up. Hurt one and it can call for help — a damaged Zombie sometimes summons others from the surrounding blocks, which is how one careless swing in a cave becomes a crowd. On Hard difficulty they break wooden doors, so a wooden door is not a closed shelter.
Their most consequential trick is conversion. A Zombie that kills a villager can leave a zombie villager standing instead, and on Hard difficulty that is guaranteed. Reversing it pays: throw a splash potion of Weakness, feed the infected villager a golden apple, and when it recovers its prices stay permanently reduced. Players infect and then cure a zombie villager on purpose for exactly that discount.
Water converts them too. A Zombie left submerged becomes a drowned, which is why flooded caves fill with them — but in Java Edition a converted drowned never carries a trident, so trident hunting means finding drowned that spawned that way.
A dungeon monster spawner is the dependable base for a zombie spawner farm, feeding rotten flesh to a cleric and levels to you. Two rarer outcomes come from elsewhere: a head drops only when a charged creeper's explosion kills one, and a baby Zombie can spawn riding a chicken as a chicken jockey, faster than an adult and able to follow you through gaps an adult cannot. The zombie horse shares the name and nothing else: it is a separate mob that never spawns naturally in survival.
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What does Zombie drop?
Loot
The following items are dropped from Zombie when killed
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Dropped fromThe item the mob drops. Follow it for its own page. Avg. per killHow likely this appears — the bar compares it at a glance. AmountHow many drop at once when the mob is killed, before any Looting bonus. Looting IHow many drop when the weapon that killed the mob carries Looting I. Looting IIHow many drop when the weapon that killed the mob carries Looting II. Looting IIIHow many drop when the weapon that killed the mob carries Looting III. | |||||
| 100% | 0 - 2 | 0 - 3 | 0 - 4 | 0 - 5 | |
| 1% - 2% | 1 (1%) | 1 (1%) | 1 (2%) | 1 (2%) | |
| 1% - 2% | 1 (1%) | 1 (1%) | 1 (2%) | 1 (2%) | |
| 1% - 2% | 1 (1%) | 1 (1%) | 1 (2%) | 1 (2%) | |
| 9% - 12% | 1 (9%) | 1 (10%) | 1 (11%) | 1 (12%) | |
| 100% | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 9% - 12% | 1 (9%) | 1 (10%) | 1 (11%) | 1 (12%) | |
| 9% - 12% | 1 (9%) | 1 (10%) | 1 (11%) | 1 (12%) | |
| 100% | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
Zombie FAQ
Quick answers
Yes — Zombie is a hostile mob.
Zombie has 20 health points, which equals 10 hearts.
Zombie deals 3 attack damage.
When killed, Zombie drops 0–2 Rotten Flesh. It also drops 5 experience points.
Zombie spawns naturally in Desert, Plains, Beach, Snowy Beach, Stony Shore, and 45 more.
