Mutant Zombie

Mutant Zombie
Mod	Mutant Monsters
Type	Boss
Health	150 ♥×75
Attack damage	12
Speed	0.26
Follow range	35
Knockback resist.	1
Size	1.8 × 3.2 blocks
XP dropped	30
Spawns in	274 biomes
Category	Monster
ID	mutantmonsters:mutant_zombie

The Mutant Zombie is a boss-scale hostile mob added by Mutant Monsters. It is the mod's version of the zombie: it has 150 health, three lives, and a set of ground-shaking attacks that damage and launch players and terrain. Each time it dies with a life left it stands back up, and it can summon new zombies from the ground around it, so a fight that looks finished may not be. A player should care about it because it is a strong melee threat in its own right, and because it drops the Hulk Hammer, a heavy weapon with a terrain-breaking ability.

The Mutant Zombie is a Monster-category mob. It does not replace the vanilla zombie; it spawns alongside it, and it can also be made from a zombie with Chemical X.

Spawning

Mutant Zombies spawn naturally in the biomes listed in the table below. The mod adds an entry for them to every biome where a vanilla zombie spawns, with a weight taken from the vanilla zombie entry and scaled by the common config value mutantZombieSpawnWeight (default 0.05, so the mutant is much rarer than the zombie it accompanies). Each natural spawn is a single mob; the group size is always 1.

Because the Mutant Zombie is a Monster, it counts toward the monster spawn cap and competes with other hostile mobs for the same spawn slots.

Two other sources can produce one:

• A Mutant Zombie Spawn Egg, which stacks to 64.
• Chemical X. Drinking or throwing Chemical X applies an effect that spawns a Skull Spirit on each eligible nearby mob. The spirit attaches to the zombie for 80 to 119 ticks, then explodes with a radius of 2 blocks. The zombie is then converted to a Mutant Zombie with a 3 in 4 chance. Baby zombies are not converted.

Behavior

Stats. The Mutant Zombie has 150 health (75 hearts), 12 attack damage, a movement speed of 0.26, a follow range of 35 blocks, a step height of 1 block, and full knockback resistance, so it cannot be pushed around by hits. It gives 30 experience when killed by a player. Its hitbox is 1.8 blocks wide and 3.2 blocks tall. It can swim faster than a vanilla zombie, with a swim speed of 4.

Targeting. It attacks players, Iron Golems and villagers. It follows a player it has lost sight of for up to 300 ticks (15 seconds). It does not harm zombies, husks, drowned, zombie villagers, or other Mutant Zombies. Villagers and wandering traders try to avoid it.

Lives. The Mutant Zombie has three lives. When it takes lethal damage with at least one life left, it goes into a 140-tick death animation, then revives with a quarter of its maximum health (37.5 health) and loses one life. It gets no revival if it is on fire when it dies, or if it is removed with the kill command. After its last life, it stays down for 100 ticks while it fades, then dies for good.

Regeneration. During the night, while alive and below full health, it heals 2 health every 100 ticks (0.4 health per second).

Melee and slam. The Mutant Zombie's basic attack is a melee strike that deals 12 damage. Whenever it is close to its target (within 7 blocks horizontally and within 1 block vertically), it has a 1 in 20 chance each tick to slam the ground. When something hits it in melee, it usually answers with a slam (4 in 5 chances while it is on the ground) and otherwise with a throw attack.

The ground slam sends a seismic wave 8 blocks toward the target, starting 2 blocks ahead of the mob. The wave hits everything in its path:

• The first wave deals 9 to 12 damage. Later waves deal 6 to 8 damage.
• Each hit has a 1 in 5 chance to give the target Hunger II for 8 seconds.
• Hit targets are pushed outward from the mob.
• The wave also changes terrain, the same way the Hulk Hammer wave does.

Throw attack. At close range the Mutant Zombie picks up its target, launches it into the air, then leaps after it. When the mob lands on the target, the hit deals 12 damage, drives the target into the ground, and stuns any Ravager. If the hit does not damage the target, the target's shield is disabled for 150 ticks.

Roar. The roar is a rare action. Each time the roar check runs, the mob has a 0.35 percent chance to roar when its target is more than 4 blocks away, it is on the ground, and it has no zombie summons pending. The roar lasts 120 ticks. On the tenth tick it knocks back every entity it can harm within 14 blocks, dealing 2 to 3 piercing damage to each one. The mob is invulnerable for the first 20 ticks of the roar.

Summoning. During the roar, from tick 20 to tick 79, the Mutant Zombie marks spots on suitable ground at random offsets of 1 to 8 blocks from its position every 10 ticks, for up to 6 spots per roar. Each spot waits 100 to 139 ticks and then becomes a zombie. The type depends on the place:

• Drowned, if the spot is in ocean or river water.
• Husk, if the spot is in daylight, with open sky above it.
• Zombie, in all other cases. Each zombie has a 5 percent chance to be a zombie villager instead.

A summoned zombie starts at 60 to 100 percent of its maximum health and tracks the Mutant Zombie that summoned it. While it has pending summons, the Mutant Zombie does not roar.

Drops

The Mutant Zombie always drops one Hulk Hammer, whether or not a player kills it.

Item	Amount	Conditions
Hulk Hammer

The Hulk Hammer is the mod's heavy melee weapon. It has 9 attack damage (1 base plus 8), an attack speed of 1.1, and 64 durability. Right-clicking the top face of a block sends a seismic wave 8 blocks forward in the direction the player faces, with a cooldown of 25 ticks. Each use costs 1 durability, as does each hit that lands. The Hulk Hammer is also one of the four ingredients for Chemical X.

The advancement Hulk Smash! is granted for killing a Mutant Zombie with a Hulk Hammer.

Related items

Item	Stack	Durability	Damage
Hulk Hammer	1	64	9
Mutant Zombie Spawn Egg	64

• Hulk Hammer, the weapon the Mutant Zombie drops.
• Mutant Zombie Spawn Egg, the spawn egg.
• Chemical X, which can convert a zombie into a Mutant Zombie.

Tips

• Keep out of the wave line. The slam and throw both send the player forward, and the seismic wave runs straight toward the target. Strafing to the side of the mob, rather than backing straight away, keeps the player out of the wave and gives time to hit back between attacks.
• Use fire. A Mutant Zombie that dies while on fire does not revive. Fire aspect, flaming arrows, or lava are the fastest ways to end its last life without a second fight.
• Clear the summons. Each summoned zombie appears 100 to 139 ticks after its spot is marked. Cut down the zombies that appear rather than letting them gather around the player.
• Mind the night. It heals during the night, so an unfinished fight at night is a slow loss. Fight it during the day, or finish it quickly.
• Ravagers. A Ravager hit by the throw attack is stunned for 40 ticks, so it is an easy target after the mob's attack.