Horse

Horse

Health points	15 () to 30 ( × 15)
Armor points	See horse armor
Size	Adult: Height: 1.6 Blocks Width: 1.3965 Blocks Baby: Height: 0.8 Blocks Width: 0.6982 Blocks
Spawn	Plains and savanna
First appearances	See History
Common drops	Leather (0–2) when normal Rotten Flesh (1) when zombie Bone (1) when skeleton
Usable items	Saddle Horse Armor Chest plus contents
Experience	Kill Adult: 1–3 Breeding: 1–7
Internal ID	JE: (Horse: 100, Donkey: 31, Mule: 32, Zombie Horse: 29, Skeleton Horse: 28) BE: (Horse: 23, Donkey: 24, Mule: 25, Zombie Horse: 27, Skeleton Horse: 26)
Entity ID	horse, donkey, mule, zombie_horse, skeleton_horse

	“	The horse is a calm and confident compatriot out in the Minecraft wilds. Found in herds of two-to-six, they roam the plains and savanna biomes chomping on grass and swishing their swishy tails. But this life is an ambling, unfocused one, and the proud horse is a creature worthy of far greater adventure.	„
		— Emily Richardson

Horses are tameable mobs that have five in-game variants: horses, donkeys, mules, zombie horses, and skeleton horses. The variants can appear in one of several different coat colors that exhibit different markings.

Spawning

Horses and donkeys only spawn in plains and savannas in herds of 2–6. 10% of herds will be donkeys. For horses, all combinations of color and markings are equally likely. All members of the herd will have the same color, but markings may vary. 20% of the individual horses or donkeys will spawn as babies.

Mules do not spawn naturally, and can only be spawned in survival mode by cross-breeding a horse with a donkey. Skeletal horses can spawn as skeleton traps from natural lightning strikes, but do not otherwise spawn naturally. Zombie horses do not spawn naturally, but may be created by the /summon command or with their spawn egg.

Each of the 5 types of horses – horses, donkeys, mules, skeleton horses and zombie horses – has its respective spawn egg.

Appearance

All 35 colorations of horses.

Each horse variant has unique features and markings, and a foal (baby) version. Adult horses are 1.4 blocks wide and long, and 1.6 blocks high. Foals start at half the size of adults and get progressively bigger as they age. Unlike wolves and ocelots, the appearances of horses do not change once they have been tamed, though tame horses may be differentiated by giving them equipment.

• Horses feature a stocky build. They can have 1 of 7 base colors: white, buckskin, dark bay, bay, black, dapple gray, and flaxen chestnut; and 1 of 5 marking patterns: no markings, stockings and blaze, snowflake appaloosa, paint and sooty.^{[more information needed]} In total, there are 35 possible horse coat combinations.

• Donkeys are smaller all around than the normal horses and sport long, erect ears. Their manes do not protrude, but rather are drawn directly on the back of their heads and necks. All donkeys have gray-brown coats with darker ankles, ears, manes, and tails. Donkeys cannot be equipped with horse armor, but can be equipped with chests to store up to 15 stacks of items.

• Mules are the offspring of horses and donkeys, and are closer to (but not quite) the size of a normal Horse. Their ears, coats, and manes are like those of a donkey, though mules’ coats are darker and reddish-brown. Like donkeys, mules cannot be equipped with armor, but can be equipped with chests. Mules cannot have foals, much like the mule in real life.

• Zombie Horses appear to be the horse counterpart of zombies. Like zombies, zombie horses are green-skinned, and their eyes are completely black. They are also passive. They are also the only horse counterpart that is considered unused.

• Skeleton Horses appear to be the horse counterpart of skeletons. Like skeletons, their bodies are only bones. They are also the slowest naturally spawning horse. They are also passive. They can also be ridden in water.

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  Horse

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  Donkey

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  Mule

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  Zombie Horse

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  Skeleton Horse

Drops

Horses, donkeys, and mules drop:

• 0–2
  Leather

The skeleton horses drop:

• 0-2
  Bone

The zombie horses drop:

• 0-2
  Rotten Flesh

All horses also drop 1–3 experience when killed by a player or tamed wolf. If armored, chested, or saddled, they will drop anything equipped.

Using a weapon enchanted with Looting increases the maximum amount of drops by 1 per level of Looting, up to a maximum of 5 at Looting III.

Usage

Tamed and saddled horses can be used as one of the fastest means of transportation in the game, though they are unable to fit through single block-wide openings. They can also be used to climb hills, as some horses can jump high enough to clear up to five block heights, versus the player's maximum of about one (without a potion). Donkeys and mules can be equipped with chests and used as pack animals.

Equipment

Donkey UI, when equipped with a chest.

Horse UI

Tamed horses have the following two slots available:

• 
  Horse Armor Slot: For equipping horse armor. Exclusive to horses.
• 
  Saddle Slot: For equipping a saddle. Available for every animal detailed on this page.

Donkeys and mules can also be equipped with chests, however these do not have a dedicated inventory slot. Foals cannot be equipped with anything.

Equipment can be placed on a horse by holding it and then right clicking on the horse, or by accessing its inventory. A horse’s inventory can be accessed by mounting the horse and opening the player inventory or by sneaking and then right-clicking on the horse. A normal horse’s inventory will only have 2 slots, 1 for a saddle and 1 for horse armor. A donkey or mule will only have a saddle slot originally, but if it is given a chest, it will acquire 15 more inventory slots that can hold anything the player wishes.

Chests can only be given to a donkey or a mule by right-clicking on the donkey or mule with the chest in hand, and afterwards the chest cannot be removed, except by killing the donkey or mule. Upon death, the donkey or mule will drop the attached chest and its contents.

Riding

See also: Transportation

Once a horse is tamed and saddled, the player can control it with standard directional controls, jump, and the mouse. The player dismounts using the dismount control.

Skeleton horses can be ridden without a saddle and are controllable despite being untamable.^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

When riding a horse, the hunger bar is replaced by the horse's health in survival or adventure mode. In the Legacy Console Edition, the horse health bar will still be visible on creative. It uses a slightly different heart texture than the player's health bar. The experience bar is replaced by the horse jump bar.

A player can use any item while riding a horse, including drinking or throwing potions; activating doors or redstone devices; using chests, crafting tables, and furnaces; breaking and placing blocks; and attacking with melee weapons or bows.

A ridden horse will automatically run up any one block high slope. The horse and rider can safely fit through a space as low as 2.75 blocks high. Lower clearance risks suffocating the rider if the rider's head enters a non-transparent block. The horse itself can enter gaps as low as 1.625 blocks high, but may itself take suffocation damage when clearance is less than 1.75 blocks. Horses cannot fit through a 1-block-wide gap.

The maximum speed of horses varies between 4.8375 blocks/second and 14.5125 blocks/second (compared to the player's walking speed, which is about 4.3 blocks/second). About 68% of horses are able to go faster than a minecart. A fast horse can be combined with speed potions and the Nether to make the horse easily the fastest practical way to travel in Minecraft (around 130 m/s Overworld-equivalent in the Nether). The speed of a horse has no relation to its outward appearance. Horses are very slow moving backwards, and about as fast as the player when moving sideways.

A ridden horse can be made to jump, and holding the control charges for a higher leap. Horses are not affected by jump boost beacons or potions. The standard dismount control dismounts from the horse, as does going in water deeper than two blocks. Like the player, horses take fall damage when falling from heights.

It is impossible for a player to use a Nether portal while on a horse. It is possible however, to enter the portal on the horse and then dismount, sending the horse through the portal on its own.

Behavior

Horses in herds spawned by the game will usually all be the same color.

All horses will roam idly, occasionally stopping to rear, swish their tails, or lower their heads as though eating the grass. Unlike sheep, the eating animation does not actually cause any grass to be consumed. If a player comes near, the horses may turn to look at them. Any (non-undead) horse, even a wild one, will allow itself to be attached to a lead without protest. However, if the player attempts to saddle an untamed horse, it will rear and flail its front hooves. Horses remain passive, even when hit.

Horses will also open their mouths^{[Java Edition only]} and make noises that depend on the particular horse’s variation. Normal horses make neighs and whinnies, while donkeys and mules, which use the same audio, emit brays.

Horses, like most mobs, can ride in a minecart. Unlike other passive mobs, horses will slowly regenerate health.

Skeleton trap

A group of skeleton horsemen spawned by a "skeleton trap" horse.

"Skeleton trap" horses spawn from a fraction of lightning strikes during thunderstorms (0.75–1.5% chance on Easy, 1.5–4% on Normal, and 2.8125–6.75% on Hard, depending on regional difficulty). They despawn after 15 minutes if not triggered.

When a player comes within 10 blocks, lightning will strike the horse. This lightning cannot start fires or damage nearby entities. When struck, the skeleton trap horse transforms into a skeleton horseman, a skeleton riding a skeleton horse. It will also spawn three additional skeleton horsemen in the vicinity. Each skeleton is equipped with an enchanted iron helmet and an enchanted bow, and have damage immunity for 3 seconds after spawning. Skeleton horsemen move extremely fast and maneuver exactly like skeletons, strafing when attacking and backing up when the player moves towards them.

Other notes:

• The skeleton will be wearing an iron helmet, unless it randomly spawned with some other headgear.
• The skeleton's bow and helmet will be enchanted as if on an enchantment table at level 5–22. The level is higher depending on regional difficulty; on Easy it will always be a level-5 enchantment.
• The skeleton trap horse will become fully grown if it was a baby, and the breeding cooldown will be reset.
• The original horse will be tamed when struck, and the additional three horses are spawned tamed.
• The skeletons will not despawn (PersistenceRequired is set).
• A trap horse may spawn in areas that a regular horse may not, such as in the middle of an ocean.
• A trap horse will still trigger if the weather is clear; lightning will strike the trap horse and the four skeleton horsemen will spawn.

Taming

Adult horses, donkeys, and mules can be tamed, but not zombie horses or skeleton horses. With an empty hand mount the horse repeatedly; when it no longer bucks the player and shows hearts, it is tamed. It is necessary to tame a horse in order to breed it, give it equipment, or ride it for any length of time.

Taming depends on the horse's "temper". Horses begin with a temper of 0 out of 100. When a player is riding the horse, a random number 0–99 is chosen. The horse becomes tame if this number is less than the temper, otherwise the temper is increased by 5 and the player is bucked off. Temper can also be increased by feeding the horse.

While riding an untamed horse, you will hear (given a little time) a gallop sound, more or less rapid. This gives you a good general idea of the horse's speed. It is unknown whether there is any indication of jump height before taming.

Breeding

Feeding tamed horses golden apples or golden carrots will activate love mode.

The offspring will be more spindly than their adult versions and will grow progressively larger with time until they reach their full size. The offspring will not automatically belong to the player who owns its parents. Rather, it will be born as an untamed horse and will need to be tamed after it grows into an adult. The foal can be fed to make it mature faster.

Depending on the variations of the parent horses, the offspring can be one of several types.

• Horse: Breeding two horses produces a horse foal. Usually the new foal has the color of either of its parents. One out of nine times it will take on a random color (this color could still be the same as the parents', slightly reducing the probability of the new color being different). Markings work likewise.

• Donkey: Breeding two donkeys creates a donkey foal. Since all donkeys have the same texture, the offspring will look exactly like its parents when it is fully grown.

• Mules: Cannot be found in the wild, and cannot breed. Mules can only be spawned by breeding a horse with a donkey.

• Zombie and skeletal horses: Cannot be bred or produced from breeding.

Food

Feeding a horse food can alter its behavior, cause it to grow (if it is not yet an adult; foals normally take 20 minutes to fully mature if not fed), and/or restore its health. The table below lists the effects of the various foods horses will take. Zombie and skeletal horses cannot be fed, even if tame.

To feed a horse, hold a valid food item and right click on the horse. If the food is invalid, the player will simply mount the horse. Horses can only be fed when feeding would have an effect, similar to other animals.

Food	Heals	Speeds growth by	Increases temper	Notes
Sugar	1 ()	30 sec	+3
Wheat	2 ()	20 sec	+3
Apple	3 ()	1 min	+3
Golden Carrot	4 ()	1 min	+5	Activates love mode in tamed horses.
Golden Apple	10 ()	4 min	+10	Activates love mode in tamed horses. Enchanted golden apples also work.
Hay Bale	20 ()	3 min	N/A	Hay bales cannot be fed to untamed adult horses.

Statistics

See also: Horses tutorial

All horses have three "equine stats" which vary from horse to horse: health, (maximum) movement speed, and jump strength. These stats are created once the horse is born or spawned, and are not affected by food.

Spawned values

When spawned in any way except breeding – for instance, using commands, spawning naturally, spawning as part of a skeleton trap, or using spawn eggs – horses are assigned their stats within certain ranges, specific according to their horse type.

Health

For horses, donkeys and mules, their health ranges from 15–30, but tends towards the average 22–23. For skeletal and zombie horses, their health is always 15. Displayed hearts are health, divided by two, rounded down. A horse with an non-even number of health points (15, 17, 19, etc.) will not show the last half-heart. You may strike a horse with your bare hand to test this.

Movement speed

For horses, their speed ranges from 0.1125–0.3375 in internal units, tending toward the average of 0.225. For donkeys and mules, their speed is always 0.175, and for skeleton and zombie horses it is always 0.2. The player's normal walking speed is 0.1.

Horse's Block speed: A horse's Maximum Speed is 14.5125 blocks/second. Average horse is about 9/sec. Minimum: 4.8375 blocks/sec.
Player Block speed: Walking: 4.3 blocks/sec. Player Block Sprinting speed: 5.6 blocks/sec.

See also transportation to compare the speeds of various transportation methods.

Jump strength

For horses, skeletal horses and zombie horses, their jump strength ranges from 0.4–1.0, tending towards the average 0.7. For donkeys and mules, their jump strength is always 0.5.

A jump strength of 0.5 is enough to clear 1 ⁹⁄₁₆ blocks, while 1.0 is enough to clear 5 ¹⁄₄ blocks.

The following derived equation can be use to calculate a horse jump height from its jump strength attribute (with an rss of 5.510e-19). This function was fit to the data found in the table below and is therefore most accurate around these values.
JumpHeight = -0.1817584952 * x^3 + 3.689713992 * x^2 + 2.128599134 * x - 0.343930367
Where x is JumpStrength

The exact jump strengths, to 15 digits, required to clear several block heights are listed below.

Jump Strength	Blocks
0.966967527085333	5.000
0.847552919762898	4.000
0.715301016726230	3.000
0.564380127487889	2.000
0.432084373616155	1.250 (player's jump height)

Bred values

When breeding two horses, the foal's stats are determined by averaging both parent's stats with a third set, randomly determined as above (i.e. add both parents' stats with the random value and divide by 3). Random values are used for the third set even when the value is not normally randomized for the type of horse being bred.

Data values

See also: Chunk format

Horses have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the mob. Their entity IDs are: horse, donkey, mule, zombie_horse and skeleton_horse.

Horse

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  Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
  • Tags common to all mobs see Template:Nbt inherit/mob/template
  • Additional fields for mobs that can breed see Template:Nbt inherit/breedable/template
  • 
     Bred: 1 or 0 (true/false) - Unknown. Remains 0 after breeding. If true, causes it to stay near other horses with this flag set.
  • 
     EatingHaystack: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if the horse is grazing.
  • 
     Tame: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if the horse is tamed. (Non players mobs will not be able to ride a tamed horse if it has no saddle)
  • 
     Temper: Ranges from 0 to 100; increases with feeding. Higher values make a horse easier to tame.
  • 
     OwnerUUID: Contains the UUID of the player that tamed the horse. Has no effect on behavior.
  • 
     ArmorItem: The armor item worn by this horse. May not exist.
    • Tags common to all items see Template:Nbt inherit/item/template
  • 
     SaddleItem: The saddle item worn by this horse. May not exist.
    • Tags common to all items see Template:Nbt inherit/item/template
  • 
     Variant: The variant of the horse. Determines colors. Stored as baseColor | markings << 8. Unused values lead to invisible horses.

Horse entities have variant fields that determine the markings on the horse. Below is a list of Variant values that determine the variant of horses.

	White	Creamy	Chestnut	Brown	Black	Gray	Dark Brown
None	0	1	2	3	4	5	6
White	256	257	258	259	260	261	262
White Field	512	513	514	515	516	517	518
White Dots	768	769	770	771	772	773	774
Black Dots	1024	1025	1026	1027	1028	1029	1030

Variant names taken from the names of the texture file they correspond to.

Summoning a horse entity without specifying the Variant value, or using a Variant value that is not a true ID (all true IDs are displayed on the chart above), will result in a white horse.

Donkey

• 
  Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
  • Tags common to all mobs see Template:Nbt inherit/mob/template
  • Additional fields for mobs that can breed see Template:Nbt inherit/breedable/template
  • 
     Bred: 1 or 0 (true/false) - Unknown. Remains 0 after breeding. If true, causes it to stay near other horses with this flag set.
  • 
     EatingHaystack: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if the horse is grazing.
  • 
     Tame: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if the horse is tamed. (Non players mobs will not be able to ride a tamed horse if it has no saddle)
  • 
     Temper: Ranges from 0 to 100; increases with feeding. Higher values make a horse easier to tame.
  • 
     OwnerUUID: Contains the UUID of the player that tamed the horse. Has no effect on behavior.
  • 
     ArmorItem: The armor item worn by this horse. May not exist.
    • Tags common to all items see Template:Nbt inherit/item/template
  • 
     SaddleItem: The saddle item worn by this horse. May not exist.
    • Tags common to all items see Template:Nbt inherit/item/template
  • 
     ChestedHorse: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if the horse has chests. A chested horse that is not a donkey or a mule will crash the game.
  • 
     Items: List of items. Only exists if ChestedHorse is true.
    • 
      An item, including the Slot tag. Slots are numbered 2 to 16 for donkeys and mules, and none exist for all other horses.
      • Tags common to all items see Template:Nbt inherit/item/template

Mule

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  Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
  • Tags common to all mobs see Template:Nbt inherit/mob/template
  • Additional fields for mobs that can breed see Template:Nbt inherit/breedable/template
  • 
     Bred: 1 or 0 (true/false) - Unknown. Remains 0 after breeding. If true, causes it to stay near other horses with this flag set.
  • 
     EatingHaystack: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if the horse is grazing.
  • 
     Tame: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if the horse is tamed. (Non players mobs will not be able to ride a tamed horse if it has no saddle)
  • 
     Temper: Ranges from 0 to 100; increases with feeding. Higher values make a horse easier to tame.
  • 
     OwnerUUID: Contains the UUID of the player that tamed the horse. Has no effect on behavior.
  • 
     ArmorItem: The armor item worn by this horse. May not exist.
    • Tags common to all items see Template:Nbt inherit/item/template
  • 
     SaddleItem: The saddle item worn by this horse. May not exist.
    • Tags common to all items see Template:Nbt inherit/item/template
  • 
     ChestedHorse: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if the horse has chests. A chested horse that is not a donkey or a mule will crash the game.
  • 
     Items: List of items. Only exists if ChestedHorse is true.
    • 
      An item, including the Slot tag. Slots are numbered 2 to 16 for donkeys and mules, and none exist for all other horses.
      • Tags common to all items see Template:Nbt inherit/item/template

Zombie Horse

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  Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
  • Tags common to all mobs see Template:Nbt inherit/mob/template
  • Additional fields for mobs that can breed see Template:Nbt inherit/breedable/template
  • 
     Bred: 1 or 0 (true/false) - Unknown. Remains 0 after breeding. If true, causes it to stay near other horses with this flag set.
  • 
     EatingHaystack: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if the horse is grazing.
  • 
     Tame: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if the horse is tamed. (Non players mobs will not be able to ride a tamed horse if it has no saddle)
  • 
     Temper: Ranges from 0 to 100; increases with feeding. Higher values make a horse easier to tame.
  • 
     OwnerUUID: Contains the UUID of the player that tamed the horse. Has no effect on behavior.
  • 
     ArmorItem: The armor item worn by this horse. May not exist.
    • Tags common to all items see Template:Nbt inherit/item/template
  • 
     SaddleItem: The saddle item worn by this horse. May not exist.
    • Tags common to all items see Template:Nbt inherit/item/template

Skeleton Horse

• 
  Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
  • Tags common to all mobs see Template:Nbt inherit/mob/template
  • Additional fields for mobs that can breed see Template:Nbt inherit/breedable/template
  • 
     Bred: 1 or 0 (true/false) - Unknown. Remains 0 after breeding. If true, causes it to stay near other horses with this flag set.
  • 
     EatingHaystack: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if the horse is grazing.
  • 
     Tame: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if the horse is tamed. (Non players mobs will not be able to ride a tamed horse if it has no saddle)
  • 
     Temper: Ranges from 0 to 100; increases with feeding. Higher values make a horse easier to tame.
  • 
     OwnerUUID: Contains the UUID of the player that tamed the horse. Has no effect on behavior.
  • 
     ArmorItem: The armor item worn by this horse. May not exist.
    • Tags common to all items see Template:Nbt inherit/item/template
  • 
     SaddleItem: The saddle item worn by this horse. May not exist.
    • Tags common to all items see Template:Nbt inherit/item/template
  • 
     SkeletonTrap: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if the horse is a trapped skeleton horse. Does not affect horse type.
  • 
     SkeletonTrapTime: Incremented each tick when SkeletonTrap is set to 1. The horse automatically despawns when it reaches 18000 (15 minutes).

Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Availability				Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
				Xbox	PS	Bedrock	Nintendo
	Saddle Up	Tame a horse.		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	20G	Bronze
	Artificial Selection	Breed a mule from a horse and a donkey.		Yes	No	Yes	New 3DS	30G	—

Advancements

Main article: Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Internal ID
	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed two animals together	Husbandry	Breed a pair of one of these 10 mobs. Other breedable mobs, if any, are ignored for the advancement.	minecraft:husbandry/breed_an_animal
	Best Friends Forever	Tame an animal	Husbandry	Tame one of the 5 types of mob that are tamable.	minecraft:husbandry/tame_an_animal
	Two by Two	Breed all the animals!	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed pairs of each of these 10 mobs. Other tamable mobs, if any, are ignored for the advancement.	minecraft:husbandry/bred_all_animals

Video

Note: Since 1.8, bread cannot be used for breeding or feeding. Since 1.9, skeleton horses can spawn naturally.

History

Official release
4 April 2013					Jeb hinted at adding horses when Minecraft hit 10,000,000 sales.
1.6.1			13w16a		Added horses, assisted by DrZhark (John Olarte), creator of the Mo' Creatures mod, whose horses were a baseline for Minecraft's Horse models.
			13w16b		Made horses slower and reduced horses from gliding so much.
			13w18a		Removed horse saddles. Horses are now ridden using the saddle
			13w19a		Enabled access to the donkey and mule inventories by sneaking and interacting.
			13w21a		Added new GUI for horses, to control saddle/armor/inventory.
			13w22a		Added new sound effects for horses, donkeys, mules, skeleton horses, and zombie horses.
1.7.2			13w36a		Horses spawn in savannas.
					Skeleton and zombie horses are now available without third-party tools, with the introduction of the /summon command.
1.8			14w26c		Horses can no longer be fed bread for taming, healing, or growing.
					Wheat's acceleration of baby horse growth was reduced.
1.9			15w38a		Added "skeleton trap" horses.
					There is a chance (depending on regional difficulty) that a lightning strike will spawn a "skeleton trap" skeletal horse.
			15w43a–44b		Drops changed several times. The end result is that undead horses now always drop 1 of their item (bone or rotten flesh), not affected by Looting.
			15w47b		Added sounds for horses eating food given by a player.
1.10			16w20a		Added Spawn eggs for Zombie Horses, Skeleton horses, Donkeys and Mules.
			pre2		Removed spawn eggs for Zombie Horses, Skeleton Horses, Donkeys and Mules.
1.11			16w32a		Horses now have different IDs: horse, donkey, mule, zombie_horse and skeleton_horse
					Unused Variant ids result in a white horse rather than an invisible one.
					Re-added spawn eggs for Zombie Horses, Skeleton Horses, Donkeys and Mules.
					Skeleton trap horses' chance to spawn during lightning strikes is reduced to 1⁄5 of what it was.
			16w38a		Undead horses now drop 0–2 of their item (bone or rotten flesh), affected by Looting.
1.13			17w45a		Added a new model for Horses, Zombie Horses, Skeleton horses, Donkeys and Mules.
			17w46a		The new model was slightly tweaked.
			18w03a		Updated the horse model again, also slightly altered the texture.
			18w19a		The player can now ride skeleton horses when underwater. Zombie horses, curiously, do not.
					Skeleton horses will now sink in water, due to being an undead mob.
			18w22a		Changed the creamy horse texture.
			pre2		Zombie horses now sink in water.
					Updated zombie horse and skeleton horse models to fix serious Z-fighting.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.15.0			build 1		Added horses, mules, donkeys, skeleton trap horses and zombie horses.
Pocket Edition
1.1			alpha 1.1.0.0		The entity ID for skeleton horse and zombie horse is changed from skeletonhorse to skeleton_horse, zombiehorse to zombie_horse.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.6			beta 1.2.6.2		Added the new (1.13) model for Horses, Mules, and Donkeys.
1.2.9					Horses will no longer open their mouths when bucking the player off or taking damage.
1.5			beta 1.5.0.0		Skeleton horses can now be ridden underwater.
Legacy Console Edition
TU19	CU7	1.12	Patch 1		Added horses.
TU22	CU10	1.15			Added quick move to the horse inventory.
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		Baby horse growth can be accelerated using wheat.
TU43	CU33	1.36	Patch 13		Added sounds for horses.
TU46	CU36	1.38	Patch 15		Added "skeleton trap" horses.
TU60	CU51	1.64	Patch 30		Added the new horse model.

Issues

Issues relating to "Horse", "Foal", "Donkey", "Mule", "Skeleton horse", "Undead horse", or "Zombie horse" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• Dr. Zhark appears in the credits after the End Poem as the creator of the horses.
• If a player picks up leather dropped by an adult horse, they will receive the “Cow Tipper" achievement. This is due to the achievement being given when a player picks up any piece of leather instead of being given when one kills a cow.
• If a player pulling a horse with a lead enters a boat, the horse will swim after them at the same speed as the boat.
• A player riding a horse will be dragged along if their horse is being pulled by a lead, and can even be lifted up in the air in the same way.
• On multiplayer, it is possible to easily figure out which of two horses (owned and ridden by different players) is faster. Each rider needs to apply a lead to the other horse, then play 'tug of war'. The stronger horse will be faster.
• It is possible to summon a rideable zombie horse or skeleton horse using the command /summon skeleton_horse ~ ~ ~ {Tame:1, SaddleItem: {id: saddle, Count:1}} or /summon zombie_horse ~ ~ ~ {Tame:1, SaddleItem: {id: saddle, Count:1}} which will spawn the respective horse wearing a saddle, which the player can then mount. Like a donkey there is no armor slot, but also no way to equip a chest.

Gallery

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  A herd of various horses.

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  Dying horse mob.

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  Image posted by Jeb on Instagram. Note the saddle usage.

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  Horses can wear armor and can be bound to fence posts.

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  A spotted foal.

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  A donkey with an attached chest.

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  A donkey with an attached chest and saddle.

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  The first image of the donkey chest inventory.

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  A donkey and a mule.

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  Horses in story mode.

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  A "horse" (retextured cow) from 2.0.

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  The original horses from Dr. Zhark's Mo' Creatures mod.

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  Showing the result of right clicking a spawn egg on a horse while mounted.

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  Jeb and Dinnerbone riding horses, as seen on the 1.6 prerelease banner.

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  Showing the very faint markings on a white tobiano. A bay tobiano is in the background for comparison.

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  A zombie horse spawned in.

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  A skeleton horse spawned in.

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  A herd of donkeys and horses spawned next to each other.

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  A horse with gold armor on.

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  Skeletal horses spawned from a trapped skeleton horse.

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  A skeleton horseman consisting of a skeleton and a skeleton horse.

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  The horse model in 17w45a.

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  A brown foal with white spots.

See also

• Minecraft 2.0

References

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