Minecraft:Strider

Template:For Template:More images Template:Infobox entity A strider is a Minecraft:passive mob found in Minecraft:the Nether. It can walk on Minecraft:lava and be Minecraft:saddled by the Minecraft:player, being directed via a Minecraft:warped fungus on a stick. They can be fed Minecraft:warped fungus to breed, and are a source of Minecraft:string.

Spawning

Striders can spawn in every Minecraft:Nether biome. Groups of 2 to 4 striders spawn on spaces of Minecraft:lava that have an Minecraft:air block above. Template:IN, striders are the only Minecraft:passive mob in the Nether, so spawning attempts are made every 400 Minecraft:game ticks. Template:IN, striders share the animal population cap with Minecraft:hoglins, and their spawn rate depends on the biome, being impacted by the ability of other mobs to spawn at a given coordinate.

For every strider that spawns, there is a 1 in 10 chance for an additional Minecraft:baby strider to spawn riding on top of the spawned strider, as a Minecraft:baby strider jockey. This behavior is limited to one strider.<ref>Template:Bug</ref> The baby strider on the adult strider continues to grow, although it does not dismount the adult strider once it has grown up.

In Template:JE<ref>Template:Bug</ref>, adult striders also have a 1 in 30 chance of spawning being ridden by a Minecraft:zombified piglin, forming a Minecraft:strider jockey. When this happens, the strider spawns with a Minecraft:saddle and the zombified piglin spawns wielding a Minecraft:warped fungus on a stick instead of a Minecraft:golden sword or spear. The zombified piglin does not despawn naturally and does not count toward the mob cap. On Minecraft:Peaceful difficulty, the zombified piglin despawns immediately, leaving a saddled strider.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>

If a strider spawns under Minecraft:lava, it rises out of the Minecraft:lava. Template:IN, baby striders spawn more commonly than adult striders do, including when spawned by a spawn egg.

• An adult strider that spawned with a baby strider riding it.
  An adult strider that spawned with a baby strider riding it.
• A strider jockey.
  A strider jockey.
• Adult shivering strider riding an adult warm strider.
  Adult shivering strider riding an adult warm strider.

Drops

On death

Template:DropTable 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. The saddle can be removed by using Minecraft:shears on the strider. When an adult strider is killed by a player or tamed Minecraft:wolf, Template:Xp experience is dropped. Killing a baby strider yields no items or experience.

Behavior

Minecraft:Lava does not damage striders, and they can walk on top of it without sinking.

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

Striders are damaged by Minecraft:water, Minecraft:rain, and Minecraft:splash water bottles, which deal damage by Template:Hp per splash water bottle or half-second in water or rain. While in water, they slowly sink while taking damage. Striders still take damage from rain even if they are in lava. However, they are not harmed when standing in a filled Minecraft:cauldron as a baby. They also cannot be harmed by Minecraft:snowfall or Minecraft:snowballs. They take extra damage from freezing in Minecraft:powder snow.

Unlike Minecraft:piglins and Minecraft:hoglins, striders can exist safely in the Minecraft:Overworld, as long as they are kept away from water and rain. Striders outside of lava change to a dull 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.<ref>This behavior is controlled by the #strider_warm_blocks block tag.</ref>

If a strider has the Template:EffectLink effect applied to it, it 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,<ref name=StriderLavaBug>Template:Bug</ref> striders that fall from a height take fall damage when landing in lava.Template:Only

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.

• A strider walking.
  A strider walking.
• A strider shivering and slowed down on land.
  A strider shivering and slowed down on land.

Riding

File:Strider riding.gif

A player riding a strider.

The player can ride on an adult strider using a Minecraft:saddle.

Similar to how Minecraft:pigs are controlled using a Minecraft:carrot on a stick, striders move forward automatically while their direction is influenced using a Minecraft:warped fungus on a stick, at a speed of 4.24 m/sTemplate:Only / 3.71 m/sTemplate:Only if on a flat lava surface (such as the Nether Minecraft:lava sea) or 1.78 m/sTemplate:Only / 1.64 m/sTemplate:Only if on land. They walk especially slowly against the lava flow direction.

When a warped fungus on a stick is Template:Ctrl, the strider enters a boost for a random duration between 140 to 980 game ticks (7 to 49 seconds)Template:Only / 320 game ticks (16 seconds)Template:Only. Each boost takes 1 point of durability from the warped fungus on a stick. If the durability of the warped fungus on a stick reaches 0, it turns into a fishing rod.

While boosted, the strider gradually accelerates to its peak speed of 9.12 m/s Template:Only / 7.98 m/sTemplate:Only until halfway through the boost, and then decelerates to its default speed by the end of the boost. Specifically, the speed of the strider increases by <math>1+1.15\times \sin(\frac{t}{t_0}\pi)</math> times the original speed, where <math>t</math> is the time already passed since the start of the boost, and <math>t_0</math> is the total duration of the boost. No matter how many ticks the boost lasts, the average speed of the strider during a full boost cycle is roughly 7.34 m/s Template:Only / 6.42 m/sTemplate:Only.

Striders also follow players holding a Minecraft:warped fungus or a warped fungus on a stick.

Unlike underwater Minecraft:boats, players riding striders are not dismounted if the strider submerges in lava, and striders rise back up to the surface if this happens. However, players risk getting burned by the lava while submerged. Template:IN, players can start riding a strider that is fully submerged in lava.

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<ref name=StriderLavaBug/> 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.

To safely dismount from a strider, a player who does not have Minecraft:Fire Resistance may face a solid block within reach before dismounting to dismount onto that block,<ref>Template:Tweet</ref> instead of at the strider's location (which is usually in lava<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>).Template:Only<ref>Template:Bug</ref>

A strider can still be equipped with a saddle while another mob is riding it.

Breeding

Template:Main If striders are given Minecraft:warped fungus, they breed to create baby striders, granting the player 1–7 Minecraft: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 accelerated using warped fungus; each use takes 10% off of the remaining time to grow up.

Sounds

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Data values

ID

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Entity data

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

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<section begin="entity data"/>

• Template:Nbt Entity data
  • Template:Nbt inherit/breedable
  • Template:Nbt inherit/entity
  • Template:Nbt inherit/mob

<section end="entity data"/>

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See Minecraft:Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements

Achievements that apply to all mobs: Template:Collapse

Advancements

Advancements that apply to all mobs: Template:Collapse

History

Trivia

File:Strider fin.png

Strider's fin

• Striders previously had a fin in their texture file. The fin was not visible in-game and was removed in 20w15a.
• If commands are used to saddle a baby strider, and the player rides the baby strider in lava, the player takes fire damage due to not being high enough to avoid the lava.
• Mojang added striders to the game as the solution to the community request for lava boats.<ref>

Template:Cite </ref> Prior to this, actual lava boats made of Minecraft:obsidian were briefly added as an April Fools prank.

• At one point in the strider's development, before it was added to the game, a strider out of lava would retract its legs and start to take damage while bouncing around until it died, similar to how Minecraft:fish suffocate when out of water. This feature was discarded for being "kind of sad".<ref name="meet strider">Template:Mcnet</ref>
• Striders were planned to have their own unique armor and saddle, but this was decided against.<ref name="MCIA kingbdogz">Template:Tweet, Discord: "once upon a time Striders were going to get their own armor
  and unique saddle" - Minecraft:Brandon Pearce</ref>
• Striders were initially going to have a long tongue with which they could eat things, similar to Minecraft:frogs. The different items would all have various effects, such as Minecraft:swords hurting the strider, and Minecraft:TNT exploding.<ref name="MCIA kingbdogz"/>
• Part of the reason that striders drop string (from their bristles) was to answer the question of "how do Minecraft:piglins make crossbows?".<ref name="meet strider"/> In Minecraft:Minecraft Legends: Return of the Piglins, striders shed the strings that piglins used to make crossbows.<ref>Template:W, Minecraft:Minecraft Legends: Return of the Piglins, Finding the Portal (chapter 8)</ref>
• 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.<ref name="meet strider"/>
• Internally the strider was originally referred to as the derp-a-tron.<ref>From Modder to Mojangstah: The kingbdogz Story - The Void Frogs Minecraft Podcast at 1:01:15</ref>
• In a video summarizing the Minecraft:Tiny Takeover drop, Mojang developer Minecraft:Slicedlime refers to baby Striders as "Striderlings" before adding that he made up this word.<ref>Template:YouTube link</ref>

Gallery

Renders

• A strider
  A strider
• A strider walking
  A strider walking
• A saddled strider
  A saddled strider
• A cold strider
  A cold strider
• A cold strider walking
  A cold strider walking
• A saddled cold strider
  A saddled cold strider
• A baby strider
  A baby strider
• A baby strider walking
  A baby strider walking
• A cold baby strider
  A cold baby strider
• A cold baby strider walking
  A cold baby strider walking

Mojang screenshots

• File:Strider-header.webp
  Two striders looking at another strider with a baby
• File:Strider-1.jpeg
  Two striders with babies, and two in the distance that don't
• File:Strider-3.jpeg
  A strider and baby strider standing on Minecraft:basalt
• File:Strider-4.jpeg
  A strider near a Minecraft:stone brick slab
• File:Strider-ingame.jpeg
  Two striders facing away from each other
• File:Strider-ingame2.jpeg
  A strider and baby strider in the Minecraft:Overworld
• A strider and baby strider together
  A strider and baby strider together
• Four baby striders among other infants
  Four baby striders among other infants
• A strider shivering on Minecraft:netherrack
  A strider shivering on Minecraft:netherrack
• Minecraft:Sunny riding a strider
  Minecraft:Sunny riding a strider

Development Images

• Strider teaser 1
  Strider teaser 1
• Strider teaser 2
  Strider teaser 2
• Strider teaser 3
  Strider teaser 3
• Minecraft:Kingbdogz riding a strider
  Minecraft:Kingbdogz riding a strider
• Kingbdogz reveals Strider information on Discord
  Kingbdogz reveals Strider information on Discord
• A cold strider in a warped forest
  A cold strider in a warped forest
• Upside down striders
  Upside down striders
• Adult and baby striders
  Adult and baby striders
• A strider with a jockey
  A strider with a jockey
• Striders in love
  Striders in love
• Dismounting a strider into lava
  Dismounting a strider into lava
• Riding a strider over lava
  Riding a strider over lava
• Several striders on a lava sea: note the blue shivering striders and the hoglins riding striders
  Several striders on a lava sea: note the blue shivering striders and the hoglins riding striders

Concept artwork

• Concept art of an early design of the strider
  Concept art of an early design of the strider
• An early design of the strider by Minecraft:Jasper Boerstra, similar in appearance to a Template:W
  An early design of the strider by Minecraft:Jasper Boerstra, similar in appearance to a Template:W
• An early, Minecraft:ghast-like design of the strider: notice that there is no hair and one has six legs, while the other has nine
  An early, Minecraft:ghast-like design of the strider: notice that there is no hair and one has six legs, while the other has nine
• Ditto
  Ditto
• Concept art of Minecraft:Alex riding a strider: notice the Minecraft:carrot on a stick instead of Minecraft:warped fungus on a stick
  Concept art of Minecraft:Alex riding a strider: notice the Minecraft:carrot on a stick instead of Minecraft:warped fungus on a stick

Recreations

• A recreation of the latter
  A recreation of the latter
• A recreation of a pre-release shivering strider<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>
  A recreation of a pre-release shivering strider<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>

Screenshots

• A baby strider jockey in Minecraft:lava
  A baby strider jockey in Minecraft:lava
• Striders are occasionally ridden by a Minecraft:zombified piglin when spawned
  Striders are occasionally ridden by a Minecraft:zombified piglin when spawned
• Striders can be ridden by baby zombified piglins too
  Striders can be ridden by baby zombified piglins too
• Three striders riding one another before 20w18a
  Three striders riding one another before 20w18a
• Strider out of the lava
  Strider out of the lava
• A comparison image of model differences between Java and Bedrock editions
  A comparison image of model differences between Java and Bedrock editions
• Player riding a strider riding a strider, with nearby striders looking on
  Player riding a strider riding a strider, with nearby striders looking on
• Three baby striders stacked on top of an adult
  Three baby striders stacked on top of an adult
• A baby strider riding an adult
  A baby strider riding an adult
• Several striders on a lava sea
  Several striders on a lava sea
• Piglin and a shivering strider
  Piglin and a shivering strider
• A player attracting multiple striders using a warped fungus on a stick
  A player attracting multiple striders using a warped fungus on a stick

Textures

• Strider texture file
  Strider texture file
• Cold strider texture file
  Cold strider texture file
• Baby strider texture file
  Baby strider texture file
• Cold baby strider texture file
  Cold baby strider texture file

In other media

• A Minecraft:camel looking at striders in Minecraft:A Tale of Two Friends
  A Minecraft:camel looking at striders in Minecraft:A Tale of Two Friends
• Minecraft:Lego Minecraft Strider
  Minecraft:Lego Minecraft Strider
• An official strider Minecraft:action figure
  An official strider Minecraft:action figure
• A strider as it appears on the cover of Template:MCL
  A strider as it appears on the cover of Template:MCL
• Several striders on the cover of Minecraft: The Manga Volume 5
  Several striders on the cover of Minecraft: The Manga Volume 5
• A strider in the Minecraft:Plastic Texture Pack
  A strider in the Minecraft:Plastic Texture Pack
• Template:MCD, a Template:MCD dressed as a strider featured in Template:MCD
  Template:MCD, a Template:MCD dressed as a strider featured in Template:MCD
• Several striders looking at Minecraft:Steve's Minecraft:leash
  Several striders looking at Minecraft:Steve's Minecraft:leash

External links

• Template:Mcnet

• Template:Mcnet