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Zombie Villager

GamesUndeadShambles2010 to today

A Minecraft villager killed and turned by a zombie. Unusually, it can be cured: under the Weakness effect it is fed a golden apple and becomes a villager again, keeping its profession and trades.1234

Battle it
First appeared
2012
Java Edition 1.4.2 (October 2012)
Source work
Minecraft (2011)
Mojang Studios
Age rating
ESRB E10+
Made in
Sweden
What causes it
Other
A villager caught by a zombie may become a zombie villager; the chance depends on the difficulty setting.
How you become one
A zombie gets a villager (never on Easy, half the time on Normal, always on Hard).
How it moves
Shambles
Moves like a normal zombie; babies are faster.
Intelligence
Mindless
Weak spots
  • sunlight
  • Smite enchantment
  • cure: Weakness effect plus a golden apple

When did it first appear?

Ancient worldMiddle Ages1500 to 18991900 to 19671968 to 19992000 to 20092010 to today2012

Java Edition 1.4.2 (October 2012)

field notes

What the sources say

1

Can be cured back into a villager1234

2

Keeps its job, its clothes and its trades after changing1234

3

Every igloo basement has one locked in a cage beside a villager1234

4

About 1 in 20 zombies appears as a zombie villager1234

5

A cured baby becomes a baby villager1234

6

Came with the 2012 update that also added witches and bats1234

Could you outrun it?

Speed class from how the sources describe it (shambles), not a measurement.

Zombie Villager about 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
You, walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
You, jogging about 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
A fit adult sprinting about 24 km/h (15 mph)
A fast cyclist about 37 km/h (23 mph)

Sources

  1. Zombie Villager - Minecraft Wiki
  2. Java Edition 1.4.2 - Minecraft Wiki
  3. Minecraft - Wikipedia
  4. Minecraft game review - Common Sense Media

Every fact on this page comes from these sources, written in our own words. Spotted a mistake? Tell us at [email protected].

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