Donkey

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A donkey is a passive mob similar to a horse that, when tamed, can be saddled, ridden and equipped with a chest to transport items.

In Java Edition, donkeys spawn commonly in meadows in groups of 1-2, and less commonly in plains in groups of 1-3 and savannas individually. 20% of all individual donkeys naturally spawn as babies. All donkeys spawn as adults when using spawn eggs, unless the spawn egg is used on a donkey.^[1]

In Bedrock Edition, 2-6 donkeys spawn in plains, 1-2 in meadows and 1-3 in savannas.

Adult donkeys are 1.4 blocks wide and long, and 1.6 blocks high. Baby donkeys start at half the size of adults and in Bedrock Edition, get progressively bigger as they age. Unlike wolves and cats, donkeys do not change appearance once they have been tamed, though tamed donkeys may be differentiated by giving them equipment.

Donkeys are smaller than 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 can be equipped with a saddle but cannot wear horse armor, and they can also be equipped with chests to store up to 15 stacks of items.

1–7XP experience orbs upon a successful breeding.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

• 1–3XP, when killed by a player or tamed wolf.
• If equipped with a chest or saddle, they drop those items. They also drop the contents of the chest.

Killing a baby donkey yields no items nor experience.

Donkeys roam around 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. A donkey may turn to look at a player who comes near. Any donkey, even a wild one, allows itself to be attached to a lead without protest. However, if the player attempts to saddle an untamed donkey, it rears and flails its front hooves. Donkeys remain passive, even when hit.

Donkeys can safely fall 6 blocks before they begin to accumulate fall damage, unlike most mobs, which can only safely fall 3 blocks. Donkeys also take half of the normal fall damage (rounded up) that most other mobs take (0.5HP👁 ❤️
× 0.25 damage per block over the safe distance instead of 1HP👁 💔
). If an entity is riding a donkey, they receive the same fall damage as the donkey.

Donkeys occasionally emit a braying sound.

Adult donkeys cannot ride a boat, though babies can.

Donkeys have a ¹⁄₉₀₀ chance to regenerate 1HP👁 💔
health point each game tick.

Adult donkeys can be tamed. In Java Edition, a player mounts a donkey by pressing use on it with an empty hand. In Bedrock Edition, the player can also hold an object that cannot be used on a donkey. A player tames an adult donkey by repeatedly mounting it until the donkey stops bucking off the player and shows hearts. It is necessary to tame a donkey in order to breed it, give it equipment, or ride it for any length of time.

Taming depends on the donkey's "temper". They begin with a temper of 0 out of 100. When a player is riding the donkey, a random number between 0 and 99 is chosen. The donkey 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 donkey.

While riding an untamed donkey, a galloping sound is audible, more or less rapid. This gives a general idea of the donkey's speed.

Like all tamed animals, a death message is displayed to their owner if they are killed.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Feeding tamed donkeys golden apples or golden carrots activates love mode.

Baby donkeys appear more spindly than adults. A baby donkey can be fed to make it mature faster. A baby donkey is not tamed, and can be tamed after it grows into an adult.

Cross-breeding a donkey with a horse creates a mule baby. Mules cannot breed.

Feeding a donkey food may alter its behavior and cause it to grow (if it is not yet an adult; baby donkeys normally take 20 minutes to fully mature if not fed) and restore its health.

In Bedrock Edition, the health of baby donkeys cannot be restored by feeding.

In Java Edition, feeding tamed donkeys at full health has no sound effect and movements.^[2][3] In Bedrock Edition, while temper is at max value, untamed donkeys can be fed any food except hay bale.

To feed a donkey, hold a valid food item and press use on the donkey.

The table below lists the effects of the various foods donkeys can consume.

15% of nearby baby zombies, husks, or drowned may ride an adult untamed donkey to form a jockey.

All donkeys have three "equine stats": health, (maximum) movement speed, and jump strength. In Java Edition, each of these can vary between individual donkeys. In Bedrock Edition, only health can vary. These stats are created once the donkey is born or spawned, and are not affected by food.

When spawned in any way except breeding – for instance, using commands, spawning naturally or using spawn eggs – donkeys are assigned their stats within certain ranges, specific according to their horse type.

Donkey's health points range from 15HP👁 ❤️
× 7.5 to 30HP👁 ❤️
× 15, with an average of 22.5HP👁 ❤️
× 11.25. A donkey with an odd number of health points does not show the last half-heart. So if a donkey has 15 health (👁 💔
👁 ❤️
👁 ❤️
👁 ❤️
👁 ❤️
👁 ❤️
👁 ❤️
👁 ❤️
), its health bar will only display 14 health (👁 ❤️
👁 ❤️
👁 ❤️
👁 ❤️
👁 ❤️
👁 ❤️
👁 ❤️
). And if the donkey took 3HP👁 💔
👁 ❤️
damage, it would have 12 health left 👁 🖤
👁 ❤️
👁 ❤️
👁 ❤️
👁 ❤️
👁 ❤️
👁 ❤️
, but it would seem like it only took 2HP👁 ❤️
, since the bar only shows 2 points of damage.

A spawned donkey's speed value is always 0.175, which leads to its actual movement speed being 7.56 m/s. For reference, the average walking speed is 0.1, equivalent to 4.3 blocks/sec, and the average sprinting speed is equivalent to 5.6 blocks/sec. The speed listed does not include any effect that affects the speed.

See transportation to compare the speeds of various transportation methods.

A spawned donkey's jump strength is always 0.5, enough to clear 1 ⁹⁄₁₆ blocks.

When breeding two donkeys, the baby's stats are determined by a variation of the average of both parents' stats, randomly determined the same way horses' stats are.

In Bedrock Edition, all donkeys have a speed value of 0.175 regardless of whether they were spawned or bred.

In Java Edition, a bred donkey's speed value has the same limits as other horses, between 0.1125 and 0.3375. See Horse#Movement speed.

In Bedrock Edition, all donkeys have a jump strength of 0.5, regardless of whether they were spawned or bred.

In Java Edition, A bred donkey's jump strength has the same limits as other horses, between 0.4 and 1.0. See Tutorial:Horses#Jump_Strength.

Tamed and saddled donkeys are some of the fastest means of transportation or hauling in the game, although they are unable to fit through single block-wide openings. They can also be used to climb hills and jump fences, which the player can't generally.

Donkeys can be equipped with chests and used as pack animals. They can also be pulled along and tied up using a lead.

Tamed donkeys can have the following slots available:

• 👁 SlotSprite Saddle.png: Sprite image for Saddle in Minecraft
  Saddle Slot: For equipping a saddle.
• 👁 Invicon Chest.png: Sprite image for Chest in Minecraft
  An additional 15 inventory slots, provided the donkey has been equipped with a chest.

A saddle can be equipped on a donkey by holding it and then using on the donkey, or by accessing its inventory. A donkey’s inventory can be accessed by mounting the donkey and using the inventory control, by using while sneaking, or by pressing the "open inventory" button‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} on the donkey. The saddle can be removed by either removing it from the donkey's inventory or by using shears on the donkey.

A donkey can be equipped with a chest by using a chest on the donkey. The chest cannot be removed except by killing the donkey, which causes the chest and its contents to drop.

Baby donkeys cannot be equipped with anything.

Once a donkey is tamed and saddled, the player can control it with the standard directional controls, jump, and the mouse. The player dismounts using the dismount control. Like riding other entities, it is impossible for a player to use a nether portal or end portal while on a donkey.

A ridden saddled donkey automatically runs up any one block high slope. The donkey 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 donkey 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. They cannot fit through a 1-block-wide gap.

Unlike horses, all naturally spawned donkeys have the same movement speed and jump strength. Donkeys are slow-moving backward and about as fast as the player when moving sideways.

Ridden saddled donkeys have the ability of "jump charging". In Java Edition, when the player rides them, the experience bar on HUD is replaced by the jump bar, and the hunger bar is replaced by the donkey's health bar. In Bedrock Edition, both bars display, and the experience bar is replaced by the jump bar only when jumping, with the experience level number remaining visible. A ridden saddled donkey can be made to jump, and holding the control charges for a higher leap. Donkeys are not affected by Jump Boost beacons.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Donkeys have entity data associated with them that contain various properties.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements that apply to all mobs:

Advancements that apply to all mobs:

Issues relating to "Donkey" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• If a player picks up leather dropped by an adult donkey, they 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 killing a cow.
• A player riding a donkey is dragged along if the donkey is being pulled by a lead, and can even be lifted up in the air in the same way.
• Using commands, it is possible to make a donkey with no armor slot, but also no way to equip a chest.
• In the Bedrock Edition, the donkey can be transported in a boat by riding the donkey and jumping into the boat then dismounting (leaving the donkey behind in the boat) and activating the boat from underneath/underwater. Attempting to activate the boat to pilot it from above results in the player being mounted on the donkey again rather than being placed inside the boat to pilot it.

• 👁 The first image of the donkey chest inventory.[7]
  
  The first image of the donkey chest inventory.^[7]
• 👁 A donkey and a mule.
  
  A donkey and a mule.
• 👁 A herd of donkeys and horses spawned next to each other.
  
  A herd of donkeys and horses spawned next to each other.
• 👁 Image
  

• 👁 Donkey texture file.
  
  Donkey texture file.
• 👁 Baby donkey texture file.
  
  Baby donkey texture file.

• 👁 LEGO Minecraft Donkey.
  
  LEGO Minecraft Donkey.
• 👁 A donkey with several other animals.[8]
  
  A donkey with several other animals.^[8]
• 👁 Concept art of a donkey pulling a wagon from A Minecraft Movie.
  
  Concept art of a donkey pulling a wagon from A Minecraft Movie.
• 👁 A donkey using a smartphone
  
  A donkey using a smartphone
• 👁 Image
  
• 👁 Image
  
• 👁 A donkey as seen in Minecraft: Story Mode.
  
  A donkey as seen in Minecraft: Story Mode.

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  Mule
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