
When a zombie spawn egg is used on a zombie, it spawns a baby zombie. Zombies spawn with up to 5% of knockback resistance. The baby zombies also have a chance of spawning as a chicken jockey in Java Edition.Īll zombie variants (including babies) require a 2-block tall space to spawn.Ī zombie can also spawn from a husk that drowns in water, but converts to a drowned if its head remains submerged. Zombie variants have a 5% chance to spawn as babies.


Zombies that are not husks or drowned have a 5% chance to spawn as zombie villagers. All zombies spawned in desert biomes and exposed to the sky have a likelihood of 80% /70% to be replaced by husks. Zombies may spawn in the Overworld in groups of up to four above solid blocks at a light level of 0, except in mushroom fields and deep dark biomes.
