Stray Mob – Wiki Guide
This Minecraft tutorial explains all about strays with screenshots and step-by-step instructions. Let’s learn about strays in Minecraft.
Background
The following is a picture of what a stray looks like in Minecraft:
| Hostility Level | Hostile Mob |
|---|---|
| Health Points | 20 health points x 10 |
| Where to Find | In the Snow biomes in light levels of 7 or less |
| Weapon |  Bow Arrows of Slowness |
| Attack Method | Shoots Slowness arrows at you with a bow |
| Drops |  0-2 Bones 0-2 Arrows |
| Experience Points | 5-7 experience points |
Hostility Level (Hostile)
A stray is a hostile mob. The term mob is short for mobile and is used to refer to all living, moving creatures in the game such as chickens, creepers, and strays. Because a stray is a hostile mob, it will attack you in Survival mode but not Creative mode.
Health Points
In Minecraft, a stray has 10 hearts for health. This gives a stray 20 health points (because 1 heart = 2 health points). To kill a stray, you need to inflict 20 points of damage to the stray.
Where to Find Strays
In Minecraft, you can find strays in Snow biomes. They spawn in light levels of 7 or less. Strays will spawn in the dark, usually at night. Once a stray has spawned in the dark, it can not survive in the daylight. When the sun comes out, the stray will burst into flames and take damage until it dies.
Weapon
The stray is armed with a bow and Arrows of Slowness as a weapon.
Attack Method
In Minecraft, a stray can shoot Arrows of Slowness at you from a distance making it tougher to kill. If a stray hits you with an arrow, you will get the Slowness effect.
Drops
When you kill stray in Minecraft, it may drop one of the following items: bones or arrows.
Make sure you pick up the dropped items before they disappear. These are useful and should be kept in your inventory to be used later.
Experience Points
As you play the game, you will gain experience. The most common way to gain experience is by killing mobs. When a mob is killed you will see tiny green and yellow balls appear and move towards you.
These orbs represent experience points. When you kill a stray, you will gain 5-7 experience points.
Stray during the Day
A stray can not survive in daylight. When exposed to light, the stray will burst into flames and eventually die.
A stray will try to protect itself from the sun by standing under a tree during the day or going into water. If it gets cloudy and rains or it turns to night, a stray will be fine and not burn.
Spawn Egg for Stray
You can spawn a stray using the following spawn egg:
Stray Spawn Egg
Stray Spawn EggCommand Examples
Here are some game command examples for a stray in Minecraft:
NBT Tags for Stray (Java Edition)
Here are the NBT tags (formerly called data tags) that you can use in game commands for a stray in Java Edition:
Spawn Events for Stray (Bedrock/Education)
Here are the spawn events that you can use in game commands for a stray in Bedrock Edition and Education Edition:
Other Mobs
Here are some of the other mobs in Minecraft:
Allay
Axolotl
Bat
Bee
Blaze
Camel
Cat
Cave Spider
Chicken
Cod
Cow
Creeper
Dolphin
Donkey
Drowned
Elder Guardian
Ender Dragon
Enderman
Endermite
Evoker
Fox
Frog
Ghast
Giant
Glow Squid
Goat
Guardian
Hoglin
Horse
Husk
Illusioner
Iron Golem
Killer Bunny
Llama
Magma Cube
Mooshroom
Mule
Ocelot
Panda
Parrot
Phantom
Pig
Piglin
Piglin Brute
Pillager
Polar Bear
Pufferfish
Rabbit
Ravager
Salmon
Sheep
Shulker
Silverfish
Skeleton
Skeleton Horse
Slime
Snow Golem
Spider
Squid
Strider
Tadpole
Trader Llama
Tropical Fish
Turtle
Vex
Villager
Vindicator
Warden
Witch
Wither Boss
Wither Skeleton
Wolf
Zoglin
Zombie Horse
Zombified Piglin (Zombie Pigman)
Zombie Villager
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