---
id: envelope:charred_pigeon
icon: envelope:entity/charred_pigeon
title: Charred Pigeon
custom:
    Health: "8 (4 hearts)"
    Damage: "4 (2 hearts)"
    Behavior: "Aggressive"
---

**Charred pigeon** is a flying hostile mob found in [the Nether](https://minecraft.wiki/w/The_Nether).\
It wanders aimlessly and attacks any player on sight. It cannot take part in deliveries.

Can be converted back into a regular [Pigeon](@envelope:pigeon).

## Spawning
Charred Pigeon spawns in all Nether biomes, except [Basalt Deltas](https://minecraft.wiki/w/Basalt_Deltas).

### Conversion
When a regular [Pigeon](@envelope:pigeon) stays in the Nether for 15 seconds, it will be converted into a Charred Pigeon.\
And vice-versa: Charred Pigeon that stays outside of the Nether for 15 seconds will be "extinguished" into a regular [Pigeon](@envelope:pigeon).
Pigeon will always have a **Charred** [variant](pigeon#variants-and-spawning) when that happens.

## Mail
<div style={{ display: "flex", flexWrap: "wrap", width: "100%", alignItems: "flex-start" }}>
    <div style={{ flex: 1, marginTop: "-20px"}}>
        Charred Pigeons have 20% chance to spawn carrying mail.

        Carried items include several variants of packages for service crafting and the Nether variant of
        [Lost Mail](lost_mail) package, that has 75% chance to contain items from [piglin bartering](https://minecraft.wiki/w/Bartering)
        and 25% chance to contain regular [Lost Mail](lost_mail) items.

        Carried mail will be dropped on the ground when Charred Pigeon dies or is converted into a regular [Pigeon](@envelope:pigeon).\
        Mail can also be removed by interacting with a pigeon with an empty hand.
    </div>

    <center style={{ alignItems: 'top', marginLeft: "1rem", marginRight: "0.2rem" }}>
        <Asset location="envelope:entity/charred_pigeon_mail" width={180}  />\
        <div style={{ marginTop: "6px"}}>*Charred Pigeon carrying mail*</div>
    </center>
</div>

<Callout variant="info">Although this scenario should not happen in game due to delivery mechanics,
a special logic is implemented to keep the carried mail when a regular Pigeon is converted into a Charred Pigeon.</Callout>

## Drops
Charred Pigeon does not drop any items when killed, except the mail it is carrying.

<img src="https://minecraft.wiki/images/Experience_Orb_Value_3-6.png" width={20}/>5 [experience](https://minecraft.wiki/w/Experience)
points are dropped when killed by a player or a tamed wolf.