Horse

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A horse is a passive mob that can be ridden when tamed and saddled, and can wear horse armor. Different horses have different run speeds, jump heights and health points, and these attributes can be inherited and improved through breeding.

Horses spawn in plains and savannas in herds of 2–6. For horses, all combinations of color and markings are equally likely. All members of the herd have the same color, but markings may vary. 20% of all individual horses spawn as babies. In Java Edition, all individual horses spawn as adults when using spawn eggs.^[3]

Villages naturally generate with stables and animal pens containing horses.

Each horse variant has unique features and markings, and a foal. Adult horses are 1.4 blocks wide and long, and 1.6 blocks high. Foals start at half the size of adults. Unlike wolves and cats, horses do not change appearance once they have been tamed, although tamed horses may be differentiated by giving them equipment.

Horses can have 1 of 7 base colors: white, creamy, chestnut, brown, black, gray, and dark brown; and 1 of 5 marking patterns: no markings, white stockings and blaze, white field, white spots and black dots. In total, there are 35 possible horse coat combinations.

1–7XP upon successful breeding.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

• 1–3XP exp. when killed by a player or tamed wolf.
• Horse armor if the horse was already equipped
• Saddle if the horse was already equipped.

Killing a foal yields neither items nor experience.

Horses wander aimlessly, occasionally stopping to rear, flick 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 horse, even a wild or undead horse, can be attached to a lead without protest. Horses remain passive, even when hit.

Horses make neighing and whinnying sounds.

Adult horses cannot ride a boat, though babies can.

Horses can safely fall 7 blocks before they begin to accumulate fall damage, unlike most mobs, which can only safely fall 3 blocks. Horses also take half of the normal fall damage (rounded down) 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 horse, they take fall damage as normal, counting from the entity's safe fall distance; however, they also safely fall 7 blocks without taking damage.

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

Horses can be led by a player holding a golden carrot, golden apple, or enchanted golden apple. Foals follow adult horses.

A horse with a rider can be pulled by a lead, and can even be lifted into the air.

Taming a horse is required to breed it, to give it equipment, or to control it while riding.

In Java Edition, a player mounts a horse 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 horse. An adult horse can be tamed by repeatedly mounting it until the horse stops bucking the player off. Taming depends on the horse's "temper". Horses begin with a temper of 0 out of 100. When a player first mounts the horse, a random taming threshold 0–99 is chosen. The horse becomes tame if the temper exceeds this threshold. Otherwise, the player is bucked off and the temper is increased by 5, to be compared against the threshold the next time the player mounts the horse. Temper can also be increased by feeding the horse.

After repeated mountings, hearts appear above the horse, indicating that it is tamed.

In Bedrock Edition, like all tame animals, a death message is displayed to every player when a horse is killed.

Feeding two tamed horses golden apples or golden carrots activates love mode, causing them to mate and produce a foal. The foal appears more spindly than adult horses. 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.

• Bred with a horse: breeding two horses produces a foal. Usually, the new foal has the color and markings of one of its parents, although there is a ¹³⁄₄₅ chance of having a random color/markings (which may still end up being the same as one of the parents).
• Bred with a donkey: cross-breeding a horse with a donkey creates a baby mule. Mules cannot breed. This unlocks the Artificial Selection achievement.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

This is a table representing the probabilities of the color and markings of the foal when breeding two horses A and B.

Feeding a horse food can alter its behavior, increase its temper (if untamed), 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 can eat.

To feed a horse, hold a valid food item and press Use on the horse.

In Java Edition, tamed horses cannot be fed when at full health, but they can be fed in Bedrock Edition.

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

In Bedrock Edition, while temper is at max value, untamed horses with full health can be fed any food except hay bales.

In Java Edition, tamed horses with full health cannot be mounted while holding a food item.

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

All horses have three "equine stats" that vary from horse to horse: health, (maximum) movement speed, and jump height. These stats are created once the horse 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 – horses are assigned their stats within certain ranges.

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

A horse's movement speed ranges from 0.1125–0.3375 in internal units, with an average of 0.225. For reference, the player's normal walking speed is 0.1. The speed listed does not include any status effect that affects the speed of the horse or the player.

The conversion factor between internal units and blocks/sec is roughly 43.17, putting the best horse's maximum speed at about 14.57 blocks/second, and the average horse's speed at about 9.71 blocks/sec.

• Minimum: 4.86 blocks/sec.
• Player speed (walking): 4.317 blocks/sec.
• Player speed (sprinting): 5.612 blocks/sec.

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

Horse's jump strength ranges from 0.4–1.0, with an average of 0.7 in internal units.

The minimum jump strength of 0.4 is enough to clear 1.153 blocks, while the maximum of 1.0 is enough to clear 5.9197 blocks. The calculation, however, is not linear with the average jump strength of 0.7 favoring the lower side with the value of 3.124 blocks.^[4]

When breeding two horses, or a horse and a donkey, the baby's stats are determined by the following formula, run for each stat individually:

1. Get the absolute difference of the attribute value of both parents
2. Add 30% of the total value range to the result of step one
3. Compute a value between -0.5 and 0.5 (the distribution is not equally likely)
4. Multiply the result of step two with the random value from step three
5. Add the average of the two parents' attribute values to the result

If the resulting value is

• greater than the allowed maximum,
• or smaller than the allowed minimum,

the difference towards that allowed extreme is respectively subtracted/added from/to the value.

Although the game performs these operations on the internal attribute values, they can just as well be applied to the in-game values for movement speed and jump height.

A pseudocode implementation might look like this, wherein MIN and MAX represent the extremes Minecraft allows the attribute to assume. Additionally, x and y represent the values the parents hold.

base = (| x - y | + (MAX - MIN) * 0.3) * ((rand(0,1) + rand(0,1) + rand(0,1)) / 3 - 0.5) + (x + y) / 2
if base > MAX:
 base = 2 * MAX - base
if base < MIN:
 base = 2 * MIN - base
return base

^[5]

A foal has an 11% chance to be a random base color and a 20% chance to have random markings. Otherwise, it chooses the values from one of its parents.

Tamed and saddled horses can be used as a means of transportation. When ridden, they are able to move faster and jump higher than a normal player. Horses can be used to climb hills and jump fences, as some can jump high enough to clear up to five block heights, versus the player's maximum of about one (without jump boost).

Horses can be pulled along and tied up using a lead. They can be towed behind a boat by using a lead.

Tamed horses have two equipment slots:

• 👁 SlotSprite Saddle.png: Sprite image for Saddle in Minecraft
  Saddle slot: for equipping a saddle.
• 👁 SlotSprite Horse Armor.png: Sprite image for Horse Armor in Minecraft
  Horse armor slot: for equipping horse armor.

Foals cannot be equipped, as they cannot be ridden.

Equipment can be placed on a horse by holding it and then using on the horse, or by accessing its inventory. A horse’s inventory can be accessed by mounting the horse and using inventory control, or by sneaking and then using or pressing the "open inventory" button‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} on the horse. The player cannot open their inventory while on an untamed horse, though they can open containers.

The equipment can be removed by two methods:

• Removing the equipment from their slots in the horse's inventory.
• Using shears on the horse. If both a saddle and horse armor are equipped, they are removed one at a time. The first use removes the horse armor, and a second use removes the saddle.

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. Like riding other entities, it is impossible for a player to use a nether portal or end portal while on a horse.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

A ridden saddled horse automatically runs 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 4.86 blocks/second and 14.57 blocks/second (compared to the player's walking speed, which is about 4.317 blocks/second). About 82% of horses are able to go faster than a minecart. Horses move backward slowly, about as fast as the player when moving sideways. A horse’s speed can also be affected by potions. Speed has no relation to a horse’s outward appearance. However, how fast a horse walks on its own while not being ridden can be an indication of its Speed. This can be useful to determine whether or not a horse is fast without first having to tame it.

A ridden saddled horse can be made to jump by pressing the jump control. Holding the jump control fills a jump charge bar allowing for a higher jump when released relative to how much the bar was filled. In Java Edition, when the player rides a horse, the experience bar on HUD is replaced by a jump bar and the player's hunger bar is replaced by the horse's health bar. In Bedrock Edition, the player's health bar and hunger bar are displayed while riding a horse and the player's experience bar is replaced by the horse's jump bar when the jump control is activated. During the jump control activation the number denoting the player's experience level is still displayed above the jump bar. Horses are not affected by jump boost beacons.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

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

Java Edition:

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

Summoning a horse without specifying the Variant value results in a white horse. Summoning a horse with a correct color byte but an incorrect marking byte results in a horse of the corresponding color but no markings. Summoning a horse with a correct marking byte but an incorrect color byte results in a white horse with the corresponding markings.

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements that apply to all mobs:

Advancements that apply to all mobs:

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

• 👁 A horse
  
  A horse
• 👁 The current horse model
  
  The current horse model
• 👁 A horse in the mountains
  
  A horse in the mountains
• 👁 A horse on a mountaintop
  
  A horse on a mountaintop
• 👁 A horse sinking into snow
  
  A horse sinking into snow
• 👁 Sunny riding a horse
  
  Sunny riding a horse
• 👁 Several horses being housed in a warped forest.[13]
  
  Several horses being housed in a warped forest.^[13]
• 👁 "Ari is jumping over a ravine in a Savanna on a brown Horse with white spots. A big pack Tamed Wolves of different variants is following them."[14]
  
  "Ari is jumping over a ravine in a Savanna on a brown Horse with white spots. A big pack Tamed Wolves of different variants is following them."^[14]
• 👁 A horse in a pen with a cow
  
  A horse in a pen with a cow
• 👁 A horse through a peephole
  
  A horse through a peephole

• 👁 The original horses from Dr. Zhark's Mo' Creatures mod
  
  The original horses from Dr. Zhark's Mo' Creatures mod
• 👁 Jeb posted this horse photo on Twitter shortly before the mob was revealed.
  
  Jeb posted this horse photo on Twitter shortly before the mob was revealed.
• 👁 An image posted by Jeb on Instagram. Note the saddle usage.[15]
  
  An image posted by Jeb on Instagram. Note the saddle usage.^[15]
• 👁 Horses can wear armor and can be bound to fence posts.[16]
  
  Horses can wear armor and can be bound to fence posts.^[16]
• 👁 Jeb and Dinnerbone riding horses. 1.6 banner.
  
  Jeb and Dinnerbone riding horses. 1.6 banner.
• 👁 First image of horses in Pocket Edition
  
  First image of horses in Pocket Edition
• 👁 The horse model in 17w45a
  
  The horse model in 17w45a

• 👁 A herd of various horses
  
  A herd of various horses
• 👁 A dying horse
  
  A dying horse
• 👁 Horses getting attacked by the wither
  
  Horses getting attacked by the wither
• 👁 A spotted baby horse
  
  A spotted baby horse
• 👁 The result of right-clicking a spawn egg on a horse while mounted
  
  The result of right-clicking a spawn egg on a horse while mounted
• 👁 The faint markings on a white tobiano, with a bay tobiano is in the background for comparison
  
  The faint markings on a white tobiano, with a bay tobiano is in the background for comparison
• 👁 A herd of donkeys and horses spawned next to each other
  
  A herd of donkeys and horses spawned next to each other
• 👁 A horse with golden horse armor on
  
  A horse with golden horse armor on
• 👁 A comparison between a horse, a zombie horse, and a skeleton horse
  
  A comparison between a horse, a zombie horse, and a skeleton horse
• 👁 A player luring a horse using a golden apple.
  
  A player luring a horse using a golden apple.
• 👁 A chestnut horse with white spots spawning as part of a plains village.
  
  A chestnut horse with white spots spawning as part of a plains village.

• 👁 Black horse texture file
  
  Black horse texture file
• 👁 Brown horse texture file
  
  Brown horse texture file
• 👁 Chestnut horse texture file
  
  Chestnut horse texture file
• 👁 Creamy horse texture file
  
  Creamy horse texture file
• 👁 Dark brown horse texture file
  
  Dark brown horse texture file
• 👁 Gray horse texture file
  
  Gray horse texture file
• 👁 White horse texture file
  
  White horse texture file
• 👁 Baby black horse texture file
  
  Baby black horse texture file
• 👁 Baby brown horse texture file
  
  Baby brown horse texture file
• 👁 Baby chestnut horse texture file
  
  Baby chestnut horse texture file
• 👁 Baby creamy horse texture file
  
  Baby creamy horse texture file
• 👁 Baby dark brown horse texture file
  
  Baby dark brown horse texture file
• 👁 Baby gray horse texture file
  
  Baby gray horse texture file
• 👁 Baby white horse texture file
  
  Baby white horse texture file

• 👁 Black dots markings texture file
  
  Black dots markings texture file
• 👁 White markings texture file
  
  White markings texture file
• 👁 White dots markings texture file
  
  White dots markings texture file
• 👁 White field markings texture file
  
  White field markings texture file
• 👁 Baby black dots markings texture file
  
  Baby black dots markings texture file
• 👁 Baby white markings texture file
  
  Baby white markings texture file
• 👁 Baby white dots markings texture file
  
  Baby white dots markings texture file
• 👁 Baby white field markings texture file
  
  Baby white field markings texture file

• 👁 Horses shown in the Horse Update artwork.
  
  Horses shown in the Horse Update artwork.
• 👁 Artwork of the original horse model used for the 10th anniversary.[17]
  
  Artwork of the original horse model used for the 10th anniversary.^[17]
• 👁 Jens riding a horse in the Minecraft Legends Live Event
  
  Jens riding a horse in the Minecraft Legends Live Event
• 👁 Hannah riding a horse in the Minecraft Legends Live Event
  
  Hannah riding a horse in the Minecraft Legends Live Event
• 👁 LEGO Minecraft Horse
  
  LEGO Minecraft Horse
• 👁 Alex riding a horse
  
  Alex riding a horse
• 👁 Horse but with pants on. Meme posted by the official Minecraft account.
  
  Horse but with pants on. Meme posted by the official Minecraft account.
• 👁 "Barn boi" calling you. Meme posted by the official Minecraft account.
  
  "Barn boi" calling you. Meme posted by the official Minecraft account.
• 👁 A black horse as seen in Minecraft Dungeons
  
  A black horse as seen in Minecraft Dungeons
• 👁 A gray horse as it appears in Minecraft Dungeons
  
  A gray horse as it appears in Minecraft Dungeons

• Tutorial:Horses
• 👁 Image
  Donkey
• 👁 Image
  Mule
• 👁 Image
  Zombie Horse
• 👁 Image
  Skeleton Horse

• "Meet The Horse" by Emily Richardson – Minecraft.net, October 2, 2017.
• "Mob Menagerie: Horse" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, March 9, 2023.