Can you cure a zombie villager child?

Yes, you can cure a zombie villager child by using a Splash Potion of Weakness and feeding it a Golden Apple, which will transform it back into a normal villager. This process is similar to curing adult zombie villagers, and the cured child villager will function exactly as a normal villager, with the ability to grow up and perform various tasks.

FAQs about Curing Zombie Villager Children

General Information

1. What happens if you cure a baby zombie villager riding a chicken? Currently, curing a baby zombie villager jockey does not cause it to dismount, creating a villager chicken jockey, and the villager can also grow up, functioning exactly as a normal villager, however, it does not dismount the chicken.
2. How do you grow a baby zombie villager? To grow a baby zombie villager, you need to cure it first by throwing a splash potion of weakness at it and feeding it a Golden Apple, then wait for the baby villager to grow up, and finally, give it a profession and open its trading UI.
3. Do baby zombie villagers give discounts? The short answer is no, when you cure a villager, the villager will offer massive discounts, however, the more you trade with it, the more it reverts back to normal, and if you try to breed two cured villagers, the baby will not give discounts.

Curing Process

4. What are the requirements to cure a zombie villager? To cure a zombie villager, you need to throw a Splash Potion of Weakness at the zombie villager and feed it a Golden Apple.
5. How long does it take to cure a baby zombie villager? After throwing the Splash Potion of Weakness and feeding the Golden Apple, you need to keep the zombie villager safe and wait for 3 to 5 minutes for it to convert into a normal villager.
6. Can a cured zombie villager be a nitwit? Zombie villagers can be unemployed, but they cannot be nitwits, as zombified nitwit villagers become unemployed zombie villagers.

Permanent Effects

7. Are the effects of curing a zombie villager permanent? Yes, the discounts offered by a newly-cured villager are permanent, and if a villager is cured more than once, the discounts get deeper until the price reaches the minimum of one emerald.
8. Do zombie villagers drop their items when cured? At the end of the curing process, the zombie villager transforms into a villager, and if it was holding any item, that item is dropped.

Rare Encounters

9. How rare are baby zombie villagers? Baby zombie villagers are spawned when a zombie kills a baby villager, with the chance of infection being the same as adult zombie villagers, and they also spawn naturally, but the combined chance is low at 0.25% (or 1 in 400 chance) of all newly spawned zombies.
10. What is the rarest baby zombie jockey? The Mooshroom Jockey is one of the rarest to find, due to Mooshrooms only spawning in Mushroom Biomes, and monsters don’t spawn there.

Breeding and Infection

11. Can zombies infect baby villagers? Yes, baby zombie villagers are spawned when a zombie kills a baby villager, with the chance of infection being the same as adult zombie villagers.
12. How do you breed zombies? You can breed two zombies by feeding them each rotten flesh.

Trading and Prices

13. Does curing a villager lower prices? Yes, a newly-cured villager, if it had a profession prior to being zombified, offers a trading discount to the player who administered the cure, and these discounts are permanent.
14. Why did my cured villager raise his prices? The price increase is due to demand, as the villager will increase the price of an item if it is traded until it is registered as sold out.

Miscellaneous

15. Can a baby zombie ride a wolf? There is a slight chance that a baby zombie will start riding a tamed wolf, making it a dog jockey, and splash potions of healing are recommended because they will heal the wolf and kill the zombie.