When spawning striders, sometimes you can spawn a baby strider riding a regular strider. However, if you spawn them anywhere that's not lava, the adult strider will turn gray, but the baby strider will not. When the adult strider is killed, then the baby will turn gray
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We're actually already tracking this issue in MC-176135, so I resolved and linked this ticket as a duplicate.
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