Minecraft has no shortage of interesting creatures known as mobs. With almost every Minecraft update, new passive, neutral and hostile mobs are introduced. One of the classic overworld hostile mobs are skeletons.
In 2016, with the Minecraft 1.10 update, a new skeleton variant called strays was introduced. Strays are some of the most underrated and least known mobs in Minecraft.
These mobs are similar to skeletons, but have some distinct properties that separate the mobs from their original variants. This article provides Minecraft players with essential information about lost mobs.
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Everything you need to know about Strays in Minecraft
Fundamentals
Stays are their own kind of skeleton, unique to Minecraft's cold biomes such as ice spikes, frozen oceans, or snowy tundras. Most skeletons that spawn in these biomes will be of the lost variety.
These hostile mobs have a unique appearance that players can use to identify them. The lost wear icy gray armor that is apparently worn and torn.
A stay will shoot arrows at players just like skeletons, except that arrows from a stray will inflict its target with the slow effect. As the name suggests, this attack will cause the entity hit to move much slower than usual.
The slow can be quite harmful in a battle against strays or any other nearby mobs.
Specificities
Strays have a chance to drop the same items as skeletons, such as bones and arrows, when killed. However, there is a chance that they will release some of their unique slow arrows.
Interestingly, regular skeletons can be converted to lost skeletons with the use of new powder snow. To do this, players will need to trap a skeleton inside a block of powdered snow and wait.
After about 15 seconds, the skeleton will change into a mutt.
While this can be useful for a few different reasons, players should be aware: converting a skeleton into a mutt will, in turn, cause the mob to regenerate all of its health. Lost ones also cannot take damage from being trapped in powder snow.
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Want to know how the lost compare to other Minecraft mobs? DSV Gamer on YouTube made a video that shows battles between lost and all other mobs. Check it out here:
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