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Zombie Doctor

Zombie Doctor

Cure a zombie villager.

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How to unlock the Zombie Doctor achievement in Minecraft - Definitive Guide

Zombie villagers look like villagers but have shredded clothes and greener skin. You can find them anywhere you can find zombies, although they are much rarer. To cure one, you need two items:

1. A splash potion of weakness
2. A golden apple

The items must be used in this order. The achievement will unlock as soon as you use these items on a zombie villager. You do not need to wait the 5 or so minutes for it to transform.

A splash potion of weakness is created by brewing a fermented spider eye (spider eye, sugar, brown mushroom) in a water bottle. You do not need a nether wart for this potion. Then you need to add gunpowder for it to become throwable.

A golden apple is crafted from an apple surrounded by 8 gold ingots.
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23 Sep 2017 03:14

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Can you explain what I do with the golden apple?

There is no option to "feed" or "give" the golden apple to a villager before or after throwing the potion of weakness.

My friend only threw the potion and it popped but I have tried multiple options in the same and different worlds with no luck and no idea what to do with this golden apple.

Thanks
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By ResinousHashish on 02 Nov 2017 01:07
I'm not sure if there is an actual option for feeding it because it is an enemy mob. You just have to press LT on the zombie villager with the golden apple in hand and it should work. If not, then there may be some sort of glitch in the new update or something.
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By Aco2148117 on 02 Nov 2017 14:32
That worked, thank you
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By ResinousHashish on 05 Nov 2017 05:06
Just cured one and waited for the transform and no achievement.
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By Poopdog M60Riot on 02 May 2019 03:19
Same, I waited until the zombie turned into a villager, waited a few more minutes, and nothing. This one seems to be glitched.
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By OlivierL57 on 03 May 2019 19:27
Nobody unlocked this achievement in the last five days, that is since the villages and pillages update was released, so my guess is that this last update broke it. I'll report it on the official site, hopefully they will fix it if that is the issue.
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By OlivierL57 on 05 May 2019 00:24
Wish I would have read that before I did it. Just cured 3 villagers with no achievement
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By Reborn Insanity on 05 May 2019 18:13
So the new update broke the achievement. I thought my game was glitched and would have to restart on a fresh world.
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By n3wt89 on 05 May 2019 18:40
Tentei essa conquista hoje e não subiu. Affs
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By ZumbiLine on 11 May 2019 04:41
Same here, already cure three zombie villagers in two diferent worlds no achievement unlock, one of them on a new world created after the last update, so i think its broken.
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By Sascabar on 14 May 2019 00:47
It is. This and the Haggler achievements are currently broken.
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By Reborn Insanity on 14 May 2019 00:49
I managed to get the haggler just now. I swear I traded dozens of emeralds back and forth. I made sure I did all on one save all at once (I used bone marrow to grow tons of sugar cane and wheat and potatoes and traded them within the same village over 2 game days and it finally popped for me. No Zombie Doctor yet though.
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By Erukusaki36 on 15 May 2019 05:39
Broken achievement
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By DeadSamurai77 on 15 May 2019 06:41
I just unlocked it in the main menu when I booted the game up! I think it’s fixed if anyone can confirm?
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By SL33Py n00b on 21 May 2019 00:07
I just unlocked it in the main menu when I booted the game up! I think it’s fixed if anyone can confirm?
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By SL33Py n00b on 21 May 2019 02:35
Yup, it popped as soon as I booted up the game.
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By Reborn Insanity on 21 May 2019 05:36
If anyone is needing help with any achievements for minecraft, I’ve created a world specifically for achievements, few free to message me what one you need help with and I’ll gladly help when I can.

GT: Leo Deo Neo
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By Leo Deo Neo on 04 Aug 2020 19:15
Empty huts in cold biomes (kind of look like igloos) have a trap door hidden by carpet; that had the potion, the apple, and a caged zombie for me (as well as a brew stand). Easiest way to get this if you don't have brewing capabilities yet.
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By UnhandledErrors on 15 Sep 2022 16:53
Still have an achievement world for anyone who’s needing help with achievements. GT: Leo Deo Neo
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By Leo Deo Neo on 02 Jan 2023 15:35
Thumbs up from me 👍
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By on 18 Dec 2023 22:45
Wonderful thank you, I always forget how to do this! :)
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By Le Angrychicken on 25 Jan 2024 00:35
I've done it twice now and no achievement... Did the splash potion of weakness and then Golden apple. Don't know if there's anything else specific that needs to be done.. why are certain ones glitched, this is annoying. Does it matter if you use glowstone or Redstone for the enhancement of the splash potion maybe?
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By HITnRUNreed36 on 04 May 2019 06:20
Be careful if you lose connection to Xbox Live at all. I played Minecraft on multiple consoles, if you lose connection/are offline when you perform the required actions, it will not unlock on that save file from that point on. You can complete the requirements over and over and nothing. A fresh world always fixed this for me. This was especially frustrating on the Android and Nintendo Switch editions as they drop connection without any warning and you will not know until you return to the home screen.
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By Erukusaki36 on 14 May 2019 06:11
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If you are looking for a world for this specific achievement, and since it's a bit tricky to import worlds on this version of the game, you can use the solution suggested by u/WaveSmashReddit on Reddit (all credit goes to him/her):

https://www.reddit.com/r/MCPE/comments/8t3rm6/easy_zombie_do...

I copy/paste the instructions just in case the Reddit thread happens to be removed:


"Make a new world using the seed "SNEEZE" of course without the "". Turn right and head straight into the snow. You'll find an igloo with a hidden bunker under the carpet, coordinates 820, 71, 29. There will be a Villager and a Zombie Villager in separate cages. You can take the golden apple from the loot chest and the splash potion of weakness from the brewing stand. Just throw the potion onto the Zombie Villager and use the Golden Apple on him afterwards. (You can't throw the potion at him through the iron bars. Break one of them)."


This is the seed I used to unlock the achievement, on the 1.11.1 version (05/22/2019). Please let me know if it no longer works with future updates.
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22 May 2019 18:14

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That is so bizarre that this is a thing. I never knew that igloos could have bunkers underneath them in Minecraft.
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By SpudimusPrime89 on 25 May 2019 00:46
How do I get the Zombie to turn the villager? Without killing the villager?
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By ViiTAL NoVa on 28 May 2019 16:09
Throw the splash potion near the zombie and if you aimed correctly, you will see red "sparkles" around him. Then use LT to feed him with the golden apple, after a minute or so he will turn into a villager.
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By OlivierL57 on 28 May 2019 17:43
Thanks, for some reason I was seeing the Zombie Villager as a regular Zombie.
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By ViiTAL NoVa on 29 May 2019 02:46
Still works 6/18/19. Thanks!
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By Quacky 2 Ducks on 18 Jun 2019 19:05
Still works 01/11/19, Thanks
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By Riccaardo on 01 Nov 2019 14:28
Perfect...Working :)
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By ZumbiLine on 03 Nov 2019 17:58
13/12/2019 - Still working.
Thanks
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By Stahp on 13 Dec 2019 20:36
Still working! Thank you
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By on 06 Jan 2020 10:07
Still working as of 3-21-2020!
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By The S bot 9000 on 21 Mar 2020 08:20
Still working as of 3/1/21! Thanks for the tip!
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By One Eyed Tigh on 02 Mar 2021 02:31
4/6/21 on Xbox 360 version everything is there (except coordinates are wrong). The igloo, potion, gold apple, and a villager but no zombie/zombie villager :/
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By BAE 10 on 06 Apr 2021 23:00
Still working 9/24/21 on xbox one
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By Biggo86 on 23 Sep 2021 22:39
This doesn’t appear to be working August 27th 2022
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By HockeySteve94 on 27 Aug 2022 21:43
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Start a world on easy with the seed 1410403532 with coordinates activated and go to 64 64 172 where is the location of an igloo. Inside the igloo you will have to destroy the carpet to access the underground laboratory. Inside the lab you have everything you need to do this achievement. Take the potion of weakness inside the brewing stand and the golden apple inside the chest, then break the bars that hold the zombie villager and throw the potion of weakness on the zombie and then use the golden apple on him. After a few seconds he will be healed.
Note: this achievement took a week to pop up for me.
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04 Jun 2019 02:35

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Still works May 12th, 2024. Thank you!
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By datboiquadzilla on 12 May 2024 18:28
Still works as of 02/08/20. Thanks!
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By JRAycfc00 on 02 Aug 2020 19:13
Works great on June 10th 2021 for 1.17
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By PhoenixFire424 on 10 Jun 2021 09:28
Still works as of July 27, 2022!
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By Sniggleworth on 27 Jul 2022 20:12
Works August 27th 2022
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By HockeySteve94 on 27 Aug 2022 21:51
Still works September 12, 2023 - great tip!
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By Gremlin Ninja on 12 Sep 2023 21:43
Bit of a hike to get to the location, but this is an amazing guide. Thanks!
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By HeyMrBassman on 13 Jun 2019 10:55
Great solution! Still works as of Oct 19, 2019!
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By KinectKid333 on 19 Oct 2019 21:37
Still working as of 15/4/2020, now I'm curious to what of shady things have been going on in Minecraft..
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By Grim Reaper1613 on 15 May 2020 08:48
Still works on September 5th 2022, I greatly helped to finish the alphabet challenge, thanks!

Do you know how this code was found? Having all the items and the relevant enemy in one place is a blessing.
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By Moe GZ on 04 Sep 2022 22:29
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In this video I will show you an igloo in a specific seed to find a guaranteed zombie villager!
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21 Aug 2019 01:25

I've made a quick video about this specific achievement. This method should work on most, if not, all current updated versions on platforms that support the "Bedrock" edition:


Hope this helped! :)
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30 Dec 2022 18:00

I created a video going over how to quickly unlock this achievement:

This seed has an igloo with a basement relatively close to spawn which contains a chest with a golden apple, a brewing stand with a splash potion, and an infected zombie villager. If the zombie villager does not spawn in the basement, there is an abandoned village nearby.

World Seed: 9179120847971720961 - This should work with the latest updated Bedrock versions of the game.

Igloo with basement coordinates: 653, 118, 289

Abandoned village coordinates: 1082, 107, 267
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27 Aug 2023 06:32