Starting a farm in Minecraft just isn't the same without your own herd of horses. Thankfully, much similar the other animals in Minecraft, horses are quite easy to tame and breed.

Hither's everything you demand to do to first your own horse family: taming, breeding, and what sort of stats the baby horses might get from their parents. This guide will as well cover everything you need to know near horses, donkeys, and mules.

First, You Need To Tame The Horses

wild horse in minecraft

Y'all aren't able to breed wild horses, you need to tame them first. Taming a horse in Minecraft is very simple, and you tin practice this even before y'all have a saddle.

Approach a equus caballus in the wild. Click on the horse with an empty hand, as if you were trying to use an item. This volition put you onto the horse'due south back. Horses aren't massive fans of existence ridden and it may accept a few tries for the animal to calm downwards.

There'south a threshold in place for how long it takes to tame a equus caballus: each time yous get on the back of the animalyou basically tame it past 5 points, and there's a magic number somewhere between 0-99 you have to hit before the horse is yours. That number is random and different for each horse. Some horses will take longer to tame than others.

Some other tips:

  • You tin increment the taming speed for horses past feeding them apples, wheat, carrots, and carbohydrate.
  • You will need a saddle if you lot desire to ride the horse, though you can employ a lead to move a tamed equus caballus.
  • Some horses have more wellness, and some are faster (we'll cover that in a later bit of this guide).
  • It's a practiced idea to movement your horses to a subcontract so yous can go along an eye on them, check out this guide to livestock areas here.

How To Brood Your Horses In Minecraft

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Okay, and so y'all've tamed 2 horses and are now ready to have them breed. Yous will need Gilded Carrots or Golden Apples. Aye, horses have expensive taste, apparently. Feed one Golden Carrot or Golden Apple to each equus caballus and you'll see they enter "dear" mode, with hearts bubbling up from their heads. This means they're ready to brood.

Afterward a brusk moment, the horses will produce a babe equus caballus, called a foal. These little guys are cute, but if you want them to grow upwardly quickly you tin can begin feeding them lots of food. After all, even a subcontract with lots of crops isn't complete without some horses.

The foal will have stats based on its parent's stats. Therefore, if y'all bred two fast horses together it'south very likely that the baby equus caballus will share those traits. Sometimes it might even be faster. Other traits that are shared from horse to foal are HP and Jump Elevation. You can echo the breeding process over and over once again until you get yourself the perfect horse.

Some general tips:

  • Horses can as well share their parent's markings and colorings, although at that place is a chance that the baby horse volition come out with completely random markings.
  • You tin can breed horses pretty regularly, although they have a mating cooldown period only similar other animals.

How To Breed Donkeys And Mules In Minecraft

donkey in minecraft with chests

Breeding donkeys works exactly the same every bit with horses. You will need to tame them and and so feed them Golden Apples and Carrots. Donkeys are much slower than horses but can equip chests instead of armor. This can exist super useful for higher up-basis adventures and transporting items from one expanse to another.

If you breed two horses together, you go a foal. If you brood two donkeys together, yous get a baby donkey. However, if yous breed a horse with a donkey, you'll become a mule. TwoMules cannot be bred in Minecraft.Plus, a equus caballus won't be much use in the Nether, so you might desire to ride a Strider instead.

How To Become The Best Horse, Ass, Or Mule In Minecraft

The stats of wild horses and donkeys might propose that the sometime are naturally faster than donkeys, although some selective breeding can render this claim untrue. Wild horses spawn with random stats, whereas donkeys in the wild are typically pretty slow and a bit useless.

However, if you begin to selectively breed your horses, you could, in theory, create a donkey that is just equally fast, good for you, and able to jump as any horse. This can accept a bit of time, but it's probably worth it: an fauna with chest space is generally more useful than armor considering fighting on horseback in Minecraft is a scrap of a nightmare.

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