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

Here'due south everything yous need to do to showtime your ain horse family: taming, breeding, and what sort of stats the baby horses might go from their parents. This guide will also cover everything yous demand to know nearly horses, donkeys, and mules.

Offset, You lot Need To Tame The Horses

wild horse in minecraft

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

Approach a horse in the wild. Click on the equus caballus with an empty paw, every bit if you were trying to apply an item. This will put yous onto the equus caballus'south dorsum. Horses aren't massive fans of existence ridden and it may have a few tries for the fauna to calm downwardly.

In that location's a threshold in place for how long it takes to tame a equus caballus: each time yous get on the dorsum of the animalyou lot basically tame it by 5 points, and in that location's a magic number somewhere between 0-99 you have to hit earlier the horse is yours. That number is random and different for each horse. Some horses volition take longer to tame than others.

Some other tips:

  • You can increment the taming speed for horses by feeding them apples, wheat, carrots, and saccharide.
  • You will need a saddle if you want to ride the horse, though yous can utilize a lead to motion a tamed horse.
  • Some horses take more than health, and some are faster (we'll cover that in a later fleck of this guide).
  • Information technology's a good idea to move your horses to a farm and then y'all tin keep an heart on them, check out this guide to livestock areas here.

How To Brood Your Horses In Minecraft

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Okay, and then you've tamed two horses and are now fix to have them breed. Y'all will need Aureate Carrots or Golden Apples. Yep, horses have expensive taste, plain. Feed one Golden Carrot or Golden Apple to each horse and you'll see they enter "love" mode, with hearts bubbling up from their heads. This means they're ready to breed.

After a brusque moment, the horses volition produce a baby horse, chosen a foal. These lilliputian guys are cute, but if you want them to grow up quickly you can begin feeding them lots of food. After all, fifty-fifty a farm with lots of crops isn't consummate without some horses.

The foal will have stats based on its parent'south stats. Therefore, if you bred two fast horses together it's very likely that the infant horse will share those traits. Sometimes it might even exist faster. Other traits that are shared from horse to foal are HP and Jump Height. You can repeat the breeding procedure over and over once more until you lot become yourself the perfect equus caballus.

Some general tips:

  • Horses can as well share their parent'due south markings and colorings, although there is a chance that the babe horse will come out with completely random markings.
  • You lot tin can breed horses pretty regularly, although they have a mating cooldown menstruum merely like other animals.

How To Brood Donkeys And Mules In Minecraft

donkey in minecraft with chests

Breeding donkeys works exactly the same equally with horses. You will need to tame them and so feed them Golden Apples and Carrots. Donkeys are much slower than horses but tin can equip chests instead of armor. This can exist super useful for in a higher place-ground adventures and transporting items from one area to another.

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

How To Get The Best Horse, Donkey, Or Mule In Minecraft

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

Nonetheless, if yous begin to selectively breed your horses, you lot could, in theory, create a donkey that is just equally fast, healthy, and able to jump equally any equus caballus. This can take a bit of time, simply it'south probably worth it: an fauna with chest space is by and large more useful than armor considering fighting on horseback in Minecraft is a scrap of a nightmare.

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