Lead

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Leads are utility items used to leash and lead certain entities. Leashed entities can be tied to fences or other entities by using the fence or entity while sneaking. A lead can be removed from an entity by shearing it.

Wandering traders always spawn with 2 trader llamas, each held with a lead. When a trader llama is detached, either by killing it or the wandering trader, dragging them far apart, using shears, or putting the llama in a boat or a minecart, the lead drops at the llama's position.

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{ "item": "Lead", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.022222222222222254, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }

{ "item": "Lead", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.32942517119807224, "structure": "Woodland Mansion", "container": "Chest" }

{ "item": "Lead", "stacksize": "1–3", "chance": 0.2747977375984192, "structure": "Abandoned Camp", "container": "Common chest" }

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Using a lead on a mob ties the lead to the mob, allowing it to be moved by the player. Multiple mobs can be held by leads at once, but each mob held requires its own lead. Mobs can also be attached to other mobs with leads.

It is possible to leash the following mobs and other entities:

These mobs can only be leashed when not hostile:

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  Nautilus
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  Wolf
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  Zombie Nautilus

These mobs can only be leashed when not mounted by a hostile mob:

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  Camel Husk
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  Zombie Horse
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  Zombie Nautilus

Additionally, bats, pandas, fish, tadpoles, turtles, villagers, wandering traders, NPCs, agents, and monsters other than the ones listed above can be leashed using a map editor or NBT editor.

With a mob on a lead held by the player, using the lead on any type of fence attaches the lead to it with a visible knot, tying the mob to it. Multiple leads may be attached to one fence post. A mob tied to a fence tends to stay within 5 blocks of the fence post.

Pressing the use item control on a leash knot will leash any player-leashed mobs to the leash knot, or if the player is not currently leashing any mobs, leash all mobs leashed to the leash knot to the player.

Sneaking and pressing the use item control on a leashable mob while already having other mobs leashed will leash any leashed mobs to the new mob. There is at least one exception: the ghastling cannot have anything leashed to it. If a boat or any leashable mob that cannot fit into a boat is leashed to a happy ghast (aside from another happy ghast), it will be attached in a four-leash configuration hanging below the happy ghast.

A lead is broken by pressing the use item control on the leashed mob again, hitting the knot, removing or pushing the attached fence post, or using shears on a leashed mob or a leash knot. Leads also break when hit by projectiles. Whenever a lead is removed or broken, it drops as an item at the location of the mob. However, it does not drop when unleashed in Creative mode.‌^{[Java Edition only][1]} A lead does not break if the attached animal dies.

A lead can stretch a maximum of 12 blocks (16 if the leashed mob is a happy ghast). If the mob can move toward the player or fence post, it does so. If not, or if the mob is moving quickly away from the player, the lead breaks. The lead also breaks if the player uses a firework rocket while using elytra.

When the player or the knot is more than 7 blocks above the ground, the mob being leashed becomes suspended.

Most mobs that can be leashed can still be leashed even if attacking the player leashing them, and any attached leads do not break.

Wolves, nautiluses, and zombie nautiluses cannot be leashed after becoming angry. Despite this, if they become angry while already leashed, the lead does not break, but it cannot be reattached when broken through other methods while the mob is still angry.

When moving downward and accelerating toward the ground, leashed mobs accumulate fall damage and take it if they hit the ground while still accelerating. When moving up or decelerating (such as when the lead is stretched to its limit), the fall distance is set to one block, so the mob does not take any fall damage if it touches the ground.

If the player walks into and back out of a nether portal while holding a lead connected to a mob, the lead remains attached to the mob. However, if a mob attached to a lead walks into a nether portal, the lead breaks and drops as an item in the other dimension.

A lead can be used to remove a mob from a boat without needing to break the boat, if the mob can normally be leashed.

In Bedrock Edition, if a chunk unloads while containing a leashed mob (either by the player walking too far away, or traveling to another dimension via a portal), sometimes the lead breaks and drops as an item, leaving the mob free to wander around.^[2]

Boats are unaffected by leads if a player is a direct passenger to a boat. Leads still work on boats with a player riding a mob that is riding the boat.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

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A leash knot is an entity created when the player right-clicks a fence post while having a mob leashed. It can be destroyed by attacking it, which detaches all mobs bound to the post and drops the leads.

Using the command /summon minecraft:leash_knot <X Y Z>, it is possible to summon a leash knot without using a fence. A leash knot spawned this way does not have a leash attached to it.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Leash knots have entity data that define various properties of the entity.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

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

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• The lead is named "leash" in the texture file.
• If a player goes to sleep while holding a mob on a lead, the lead remains attached.
• In Java Edition, when using the /item command to put a lead in a player's head slot, the item gets rotated and positioned in such a way that it looks like the player is wearing a monocle.
• In Java Edition, when placing a block on a fence and while leashing a mob or boat, the block prevents it from being placed and the leash knot places instead.

• 👁 Many animals can be tied to one fence post.
  
  Many animals can be tied to one fence post.
• 👁 A horse wearing golden horse armor that is leashed to a fence post.
  
  A horse wearing golden horse armor that is leashed to a fence post.
• 👁 Three sheep tied to the same fence.
  
  Three sheep tied to the same fence.
• 👁 A shot of all the mobs that could be tied with leads as of 1.6.1, except donkeys and mules.
  
  A shot of all the mobs that could be tied with leads as of 1.6.1, except donkeys and mules.
• 👁 With the use of the leash, it is possible to suspend animals in the air by tying the leash on high-up fence posts.
  
  With the use of the leash, it is possible to suspend animals in the air by tying the leash on high-up fence posts.
• 👁 A donkey with the Grumm/Dinnerbone name tag easter egg tied to a fence with a lead to make a yo-yo.
  
  A donkey with the Grumm/Dinnerbone name tag easter egg tied to a fence with a lead to make a yo-yo.
• 👁 Several sheep hanging in the air in Creative mode.
  
  Several sheep hanging in the air in Creative mode.
• 👁 Leads become dark when connected in an unlit area
  
  Leads become dark when connected in an unlit area

• 👁 First image of a lead in Bedrock Edition, taken on mobile. The player is leashing a sheep.
  
  First image of a lead in Bedrock Edition, taken on mobile. The player is leashing a sheep.
• 👁 An image showing how you can use a lead on an ocelot. Surely the cutest walking companion ever?
  
  An ocelot leashed by the player.
• 👁 Two happy ghasts with mobs in boats leashed below them.
  
  Two happy ghasts with mobs in boats leashed below them.
• 👁 This is a screenshot of a player with a goat, a fox, and a cat all leashed together!
  
  3 mobs leashed together in a line. Kai is using wheat to attract the goat, and the goat is leading the other 2 mobs.
• 👁 A happy ghast soaring high in the sky in Minecraft - with a boat leashed beneath it!
  
  Kai and Noor riding a happy ghast, with a mob in a boat leashed below.
• 👁 So many mobs leashed together!
  
  Sunny leashing 3 mobs, with 2 pyramids in the background.
• 👁 How many chickens leashed together is TOO many chickens? Our answer? Limitless!
  
  Noor attached 3 baby chickens to an adult chicken using leads.
• 👁 Happy ghast leashed to mobs
  
  A happy ghast and 3 other mobs leashed together in a line.
• 👁 Mobs leashed together
  
  Kai leashing a wolf and 4 other mobs together in a line.
• 👁 Happy ghasts leashed to boats
  
  Kai and Noor leashing happy ghasts, while riding in boats.
• 👁 Happy ghast ridden by a Minecraft character leashed to a boat with a mob
  
  Sunny riding a happy ghast that is leashed to a boat with mobs in it.
• 👁 Happy ghast leashed to a boat with a mob
  
  Kai riding a happy ghast leashed to a pig in a boat.
• 👁 Happy Ghast leashed to a mob
  
  A happy ghast leashed to a frog.
• 👁 Happy ghast leashed to mobs
  
  A happy ghast leashed to a pig, a panda, and a wolf (in a line).
• 👁 Minecraft character with leashed mobs looking at a happy ghast
  
  Sunny leashing a snow fox, cold pig, and cold cow (separately), while a happy ghast flies behind.

• "Taking Inventory: Lead" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, April 8, 2022.