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If they don't spawn with equipment it is a bug. That seems to be the case at the moment.

Quote from Debugman18

After what seems like forever, managed to spawn a Jockey wearing leather armor.

Kudos to you. I tried with the latest snap but quickly lost interest after the first thousand or so mobs.
The fact this can happen though is neat, although expected. Still though a jockey decked out in diamond would be horrifying to come across.

Yay! Thank you debugman!

I have been doing testing... the skeletons get off the spider shortly after being spawned? (1.4.5) Makes no sense to me.

What is all this talk of skeletons getting on and off of spiders? THEY DO NOT DO THAT!!! The spiders spawn with the skeleton on them already.

I guess survival's going to be tougher if skeletons are going to be wearing armor. I have an xp farm on a server I play on, and on rare occasions, I see a spider jockey(or I guess it's a spider jockey) since the xp farm's only spider so idk where that 1 skeleton comes from. o.O

Wither skeleton jockeys in god armor! I'm having too much fun with ideas of god armor on mobs.

I found a spider jockey and the skeleton had a diamond chestplate and helmet... I was trying to take a screenshot but I died :/ Couldn't find where I died at.. :<

I got one in my mob spawner.

Quote from GamerGuy12z

I got one in my mob spawner.

Is that a texture pack?

Quote from mollytrainer

Is that a texture pack?

Indeed it is, would you like a link?

I found one with Butter, or gold armor that natrually spawned!

Uber necro, but that is pretty cool.

I would say to look at my pic, but I put the armour on that spider jockey.

I took this picture the other day while building a japanese garden in a flatworld

http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee134/Jongo_CJ/scary_zps1adb1788.png

I not only have seen one with armor, i took a pic and posted it here ==> http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1530496-very-cool-rare-mob/