Minecraft:Stray

Template:Infobox entity A stray is a Minecraft:skeleton variant that spawns in various snow-covered Minecraft:biomes. They behave very similarly to skeletons, except they fire Minecraft:tipped arrows of Minecraft:Slowness from their Minecraft:bows and do not freeze in Minecraft:powder snow.

Spawning

A stray may spawn directly under the sky in Minecraft:snowy plains, or Minecraft:ice spikes, replacing 80% of skeletons. Additionally, a stray may spawn in frozen rivers, Minecraft:frozen oceans, Minecraft:deep frozen oceans, Minecraft:legacy frozen oceans, Minecraft:snowy slopes, Minecraft:jagged peaks and Minecraft:frozen peaks in Minecraft:Bedrock Edition. Strays do not spawn naturally from Minecraft:monster spawners Template:In.

Converting

When a Minecraft:skeleton is kept inside Minecraft:powder snow for Template:Convert, it begins shaking. After another Template:Convert, it becomes a stray. A converted stray appears with full health even if the original skeleton did not have full health. Items being held or worn by a skeleton when it becomes a stray remain unchanged. Unlike regular skeletons, Minecraft:bogged and Minecraft:parched do not turn into strays, but take freezing damage instead.

Trial spawners

Strays have a Template:Frac chance to be selected as the "ranged" mob for Minecraft:trial spawners in Minecraft:trial chambers.

Spider jockeys

Template:IN, Minecraft:spiders and Minecraft:cave spiders spawned in biomes where strays can spawn (spiders cannot naturally spawn in Minecraft:snowy plains) have a 1% chance to spawn as a Minecraft:spider jockey, with an 80% chance of the rider being a stray. Template:IN, stray spider jockeys cannot spawn naturally, but the skeleton rider can convert into a stray and continue as a stray spider jockey.

Drops

On death

• Any picked-up equipment has a 100% chance of dropping and drops with the same damage level it had when picked up.
• Any naturally spawned equipment, including the Minecraft:bow, has an 8.5% chance of dropping (9.5% with Minecraft:Looting I, 10.5% with Looting II and 11.5% with Looting III). It is damaged and may be enchanted.
• Template:Xp Minecraft:experience orbs when killed by a player or tamed Minecraft:wolf and an extra Template:Xp if the stray has Minecraft:armor.

Behavior

Strays behave the same as normal skeletons but make noises with an echoing effect and shoot Minecraft:tipped arrows that inflict Minecraft:Slowness for 30 seconds on any target that they hit. Template:IN, strays that are underwater use a melee attack that inflicts Slowness. Strays do not take damage from freezing in powder snow, but they are not immune to Slowness. A stray holding a Minecraft:tipped arrow or Minecraft:spectral arrow in its off-hand always shoots that type of arrow instead, and the arrow held is not consumed.

Being an Minecraft:undead mob, they are:

• Damaged by the status effect Minecraft:Instant Health and healed by the status effect Minecraft:Instant Damage.
• Unaffected by the status effects Minecraft:Regeneration and Minecraft:Poison.
• Ignored by the Minecraft:wither.
• Affected by the Minecraft:Smite enchantment.
• Unable to swim in Minecraft:water, but do not drown.
• A threat to Minecraft:armadillos, causing them to hide in their shell.

As they are also under the "skeletons" Minecraft:entity type tag, if a stray kills a Minecraft:creeper, the creeper drops a Minecraft:music disc, randomly selected from 13, cat, blocks, chirp, far, mall, mellohi, stal, strad, ward, 11, and wait.

Like Minecraft:bogged and Minecraft:parched, the eyes of strays are emissive with Minecraft:Vibrant Visuals.

Sounds

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Data values

ID

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Entity data

Strays 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/entity
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<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

• Strays and other skeleton variants do not know how to use a Minecraft:crossbow, despite the same using method as a Minecraft:bow.
• According to the Minecraft:Minecraft website, the slowness arrows represent frozen arrows that freeze on impact.<ref name=":0" />
• The stray's fourth ambient sound is the skeleton's second ambient sound but partly edited.

Gallery

Renders

• A stray targeting
  A stray targeting
• A sitting stray
  A sitting stray
• A stray spider jockey
  A stray spider jockey
• A stray cave spider jockeyTemplate:Only
  A stray cave spider jockeyTemplate:Only
• A stray riding a Minecraft:skeleton horse
  A stray riding a Minecraft:skeleton horse
• A stray with Minecraft:invisibility effect
  A stray with Minecraft:invisibility effect

Screenshots

• A stray being compared to other skeleton variants Template:In
  A stray being compared to other skeleton variants Template:In
• A stray standing next to a normal Minecraft:skeleton
  A stray standing next to a normal Minecraft:skeleton
• Stray wearing a pumpkin on Halloween
  Stray wearing a pumpkin on Halloween
• Stray without a bow
  Stray without a bow
• A stray in a Minecraft:superflat world
  A stray in a Minecraft:superflat world
• Several strays spawned during an ominous trial
  Several strays spawned during an ominous trial

Developer images

• One of the first images of strays, as tweeted by Minecraft:Jeb
  One of the first images of strays, as tweeted by Minecraft:Jeb
• Two strays, one in full gold armor. Note the old texture
  Two strays, one in full gold armor. Note the old texture
• First image of a stray in Bedrock Edition
  First image of a stray in Bedrock Edition

Textures

• Stray texture file
  Stray texture file
• Stray overlay texture file
  Stray overlay texture file

In other media

• Artwork of a stray
  Artwork of a stray
• Minecraft:Lego Minecraft stray
  Minecraft:Lego Minecraft stray
• The potato stray from 24w14potato
  The potato stray from 24w14potato
• An artwork from Minecraft:Minecraft.net
  An artwork from Minecraft:Minecraft.net
• Animation of a stray falling into powder snow
  Animation of a stray falling into powder snow
• Stray Minecraft:action figure
  Stray Minecraft:action figure
• A Template:MCSM as it appears in Template:MCSM
  A Template:MCSM as it appears in Template:MCSM
• A Template:MCD as it appears in Template:MCD
  A Template:MCD as it appears in Template:MCD

See also

• Minecraft:Skeleton
• Minecraft:Husk
• Minecraft:Bogged
• Minecraft:Parched

External links

• Template:Mcnet