Minecraft:Frostbite

Template:Redirect Template:For Template:In development Template:Infobox entity A frostbite is a variant of the Minecraft:zombie that spawns in cold Minecraft:biomes or when a zombie is submerged in Minecraft:powder snow. Its melee attacks apply the Minecraft:Freezing effect to their target, and it can sometimes spawn holding Minecraft:ice balls, which are thrown as a ranged attack. Additionally, they have slightly more health and are slightly slower than regular zombies.

Spawning

Natural spawning

Template:See also Frostbites can spawn on the surface<ref group="note">Sky light potential must be 15.</ref> of many cold biomes during the nighttime, as well as in Minecraft:ice caves.

Conversion

Minecraft:Zombies transform into frostbites when submerged inside Minecraft:powder snow for 22 seconds and retain equipped Minecraft:tools and Minecraft:armor. They cannot transform if they wear any piece of Minecraft:leather armor.

Variants

Baby frostbites

Baby frostbites make up 5% of frostbite spawns. They behave similarly to adult frostbites, with the following differences:

• They are much smaller than adult frostbites, with a decreased hitbox size. This allows them to fit through 1x1 Minecraft:block gaps.
  • Worn Minecraft:armor shrinks to fit their body size.
• They are much faster than adult frostbites, yet they have the same amount of Minecraft:health.
• The noises they make are higher-pitched than adult frostbite Minecraft:sound effects.
• They give 12 Minecraft:experience points when killed by the player or a tamed wolf, instead of 5.
• Unlike most other Minecraft:baby mobs, they remain babies indefinitely and never become adult frostbites, therefore Minecraft:golden dandelions cannot be used on them.

Jockeys

Template:Main Template:IN, most baby frostbites (except ones spawned from a baby Minecraft:zombie converting when submerged in Minecraft:powder snow) have a chance to spawn as a Minecraft:chicken jockey. In a Minecraft:chicken-free environment, each baby has a 4.75% chance of spawning as a chicken jockey, for a total 0.2375% chance for each spawned frostbite to spawn as a chicken jockey; if chickens are present, the chance increases to 0.4875%.

Template:IN, 15% of naturally spawned baby frostbites can mount a mob and become a Minecraft:jockey after they spawn. A jockey mob ridden by a baby frostbite adapts to the speed of its rider. A baby frostbite can ride: Template:Columns-list

Drops

Behavior

Attacking

A frostbite primarily uses its melee attack, which will apply the Minecraft:Freezing effect for 3 seconds to their target. Unlike Minecraft:husks, they can apply this effect while holding a weapon.

25%Template:Verify of frostbites spawn holding Minecraft:ice balls and can throw them as a ranged attack. They throw ice balls at range within 16 blocks while moving toward their target, and switch to melee attacks when they get within 2 blocks of the target. The speed at which they throw ice balls is dependent on the difficulty. Frostbites also throw ice balls if they pick up an ice ball Minecraft:item off the ground.

Frostbites attack Minecraft:players, Minecraft:villagers, Minecraft:wandering traders, Minecraft:iron golems, Minecraft:snow golemsTemplate:Only, and baby Minecraft:turtles.

Mob type

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 drown when submerged in Minecraft:water.
• immune to the Minecraft:Freezing status effect and do not take damage from Minecraft:powder snow.Template:Upcoming
• threatening to Minecraft:armadillos, causing them to hide in their shell.

Picking up items

Template:Main Like zombies, some frostbites spawn with the ability to pick up dropped Minecraft:items from the ground in Normal and Hard Minecraft:difficulty, with the chance being higher in the latter. Template:IN, frostbites pick up items that they happen to walk near. Template:IN, they actively search for and walk toward dropped items.

Template:IN, standard frostbites can pick up any item except for Minecraft:glow ink sacs. Template:IN, they can only pick up Minecraft:ice balls, Minecraft:swords, Minecraft:spears, Minecraft:armor, and Minecraft:carved pumpkins. Minecraft:Chicken jockey riders also cannot pick up any variant of an Minecraft:eggTemplate:Verify.

If the picked up item is armor, the frostbite equips the armor into its respective armor slot. Carved pumpkins and Minecraft:heads are worn on their heads, and Minecraft:elytra are worn in the their chestplate slot. If the picked up item is a Minecraft:shield, the frostbite equips it to their offhand. It cannot use the shield to block incoming attacks, however.

If a frostbite encounters another similar item, it may drop the previous item in favor of the new one if:

• Both items are armor/weapons and the new item is better damage-wise (reduces higher damage for armor, or inflicts more damage for weapons) without considering enchantments,
• Both items are armor/weapons with the same damage reduction/infliction, the new item has NBT tags while the old does notTemplate:Only or the new item is less damaged than the old item

Items dropped by mobs in exchange for another cannot be picked up by players or mobs for 10 game ticks (0.5 seconds, barring lag), but can be picked up by Minecraft:hoppers.

A frostbite equipped with a picked-up Minecraft:item becomes persistent and does not Minecraft:despawn, similar to being named.

Picked-up items do not cause the frostbite to drop more experience when killed.

Powder snow

Frostbites do not sink in or take damage from Minecraft:powder snow, and their jump height and speed is unimpeded by it. They can ascend through multiple layers of powdered snow like Minecraft:scaffolding.

Conversion

Like husks, frostbites transform into zombies when submerged inside water for 30 seconds. If the resulting zombie remains submerged in water, it can subsequently transform into a Minecraft:drowned.

Jockey

File:Baby Zombie Riding Frostbite.png

An unarmed frostbite ridden by a baby zombie

15% of nearby baby Minecraft:zombies, baby Minecraft:husks, Minecraft:gurgles, or baby frostbites may ride an adult frostbite to form a Minecraft:jockey.

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Data values

ID

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Entity data

Frostbites 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
  • Template:Nbt inherit/mob
  • Template:Nbt: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if this frostbite can break doors. Default is Template:Cd.
  • Template:Nbt: The number of ticks until this frostbite converts to a zombie. Default is Template:Cd, which corresponds to no conversion underway.
  • Template:Nbt: The number of ticks this frostbite has been under water, used to start the drowning conversion. Default is Template:Cd, which corresponds to no conversion underway.
  • Template:Nbt: 1 or 0 (true/false) - whether this frostbite is a baby. May be absent.

<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

• The frostbite could be considered a successor to the Template:MCD from Template:MCD, another ice-covered zombie variant which notably also attacks with thrown ice projectiles in addition to the standard melee attacks. Both are very similar in appearance as well, with the only significant difference being that the frostbite uses an original clothing design, whereas the frozen zombie simply reuses the clothes of the normal zombie.
  • The frostbite's texture even includes the palette, positioned identically to the palette in the frozen zombie's texture from Minecraft Dungeons.

Gallery

Mojang images

• Minecraft:Efe running from frostbites
  Minecraft:Efe running from frostbites
• Minecraft:Kai beside a frostbite
  Minecraft:Kai beside a frostbite
• A baby and an adult frostbite
  A baby and an adult frostbite
• Frostbites with a Minecraft:stray
  Frostbites with a Minecraft:stray
• Frostbite trying to attack the player
  Frostbite trying to attack the player
• Frostbite in the mineshaft
  Frostbite in the mineshaft

Development images

• A screenshot of a frostbite
  A screenshot of a frostbite
• A baby frostbite holding an ice ball
  A baby frostbite holding an ice ball

Renders

With an Ice Ball

• Adult
  Adult
• Baby
  Baby

Targeting

• Adult
  Adult
• Baby
  Baby

Textures

• Frostbite texture on Template:JE
  Frostbite texture on Template:JE
• Frostbite overlay texture on Java Edition
  Frostbite overlay texture on Java Edition
• Frostbite texture on Template:BE
  Frostbite texture on Template:BE
• Baby frostbite texture
  Baby frostbite texture

In other media

• Template:MCD from Template:MCD
  Template:MCD from Template:MCD
• Template:MCD2 from Template:MCD2
  Template:MCD2 from Template:MCD2
• Template:MCE concept art from Template:MCE
  Template:MCE concept art from Template:MCE

See also

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