Camel Husk and Zombie Horse riders spawn in light levels above 0

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This is happening in my desert superflat world. They seem to follow the old light level rules.

I can confirm that this still affects v26.0.27.

Made a similar report a while back (MCPE-172793). I’m having trouble linking this on mobile, so please do search for it if the link doesn't work.

Happens far less often with typical hostile mobs before the new mounts/riders.

Still happens in 26.0 stable

still happening, ruining bases and destroying villages. should've been patched by now

Affects 26.10 stable

The zombie horse riders are still spawning in light levels above zero

This issue is still happening as of March 30th 2026 on bedrock. My base is fully lit up and has a wall surrounding it and Lance zombies are still spawning almost every night. I am playing hardcore and I've almost lost my world multiple times due to this glitch. There are no other mobs that spawn only the zombie horse rider.

Zombie horse keeps spawning in my worlds village that we’ve built up.

Issue Still happening. I suppose if it doesn’t get fixed we’ll just have to not make our bases in a plains biome.

Zombie horse riders are spawning in my plains biome base. It is fully lit, fully fenced in and this is happening on a near nightly basis. Villagers in a trading hall are murdered or zombified. I have no choice but to sleep during nighttime to avoid the chance of a wayward spawn. Version 26.13. Please fix.

it appears that grass blocks of light level 7 are then main place where this is happening for horse riders. Could be happening on other blocks too

I play on realms and this is constant. I like playing with light levels esp in survival and noone likes torch vomit but its inevitable when the riders are literally everywhere even with such a small spawn rate because they are the only things spawning in those light blocks. Please pay attention to this issue 🙏

I still have this problem in my worlds as of now.

Issue Still happening

This issue still affects v26.32, which is the latest release of the Chaos Cubed Drop. Please fix this bug. It is unacceptable that it has not been fixed two drops after it was introduced. I fully lit up a desert village, walled it off, and camel husk jockeys still spawn inside the walls occasionally at night. The only workaround I can think of is to keep the villagers blocked in their houses so they do not get killed. I would greatly appreciate for this bug to be fixed as soon as possible.

During thunderstorms, camel jocks sometimes spawn no matter the light level, straight up right on top of torches

Still happening and not during thunderstorms. I keep dying and loosing all my stuff. My torches are 10blocks apart. So lowest light level is 5. I don’t know a lot about coding but i imagine it’s something like: if(lightlevel:>0) swawn zombiehorse = false

It may be helpful to note that camel husk/zombie horse jocks do not spawn at daytime in clear weather, just at night and thunderstorms

This is such an annoying bug. It defeats the whole point of increasing light levels for monsters to spawn. Is it really so hard to fix that it hasn’t been addressed 7 months after being reported (not to mention the many duplicate reports).

still happening. My little sister whos new to the game died to zombie horse rider with spear. In a lit up village with walls. Only solution i found is putting iron golem there with a lead and fence

I found it odd that my mob-proofed desert base kept getting Camel Husk Jockeys at night… go figure, it’s another longstanding bug. I recognize coding is complex but I can’t imagine this would be THAT difficult to fix? Please address it!

Still occurring in 26.33. This is also a Java Parity issue. In Java, they only spawn on light level 0 live every other mob.

still happening. its very frustrating that normally my island would be spawn proof from hostile mobs, but then the zombie horseman still spawns.

If more user experience of this bug is needed, there is a wealth of it on the below reddit post. As well as increasing levels of frustration…
https://www.reddit.com/r/MinecraftBedrockers/comments/1sh1h2s/zombie_horsemen_spawning_is_a_problem/

I built a custom village and spam torched it just for them to get murdered by a horseman. FIX THIS!!