Saddle

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A saddle is equipment for certain animals that either enables or improves the act of riding them. All saddled animals can be directly controlled, except for pigs and striders, which must be guided using carrots or warped fungi on sticks.

Any mob equipped with a saddle drops the saddle upon death.

A strider may spawn being ridden by a zombified piglin as a strider jockey, which causes it to spawn wearing a saddle. This saddle always drops when the strider is killed.

A ravager has a large version of a saddle on its texture, but does not actually wear one, neither does it have the "Saddle" NBT tag, but it always drops a saddle upon death. Looting does not affect the drop.

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Bedrock Edition:

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{ "item": "Saddle", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.12714065479531, "structure": "End City", "container": "Chest" }

{ "item": "Saddle", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.33324889922270184, "structure": "Nether Fortress", "container": "Chest" }

{ "item": "Saddle", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.1437813990219573, "structure": "Village", "container": "Weaponsmith's chest" }

{ "item": "Saddle", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.11323884996174782, "structure": "Village", "container": "Savanna house chest" }

{ "item": "Saddle", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.17258930206298828, "structure": "Village", "container": "Tanner's chest" }

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

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{ "item": "Saddle", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.33324889922270184, "structure": "Nether Fortress", "container": "Chest" }

{ "item": "Saddle", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.1437813990219573, "structure": "Village", "container": "Weaponsmith's chest" }

{ "item": "Saddle", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.11323884996174782, "structure": "Village", "container": "Savanna house chest" }

{ "item": "Saddle", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.17258930206298828, "structure": "Village", "container": "Tanner's chest" }

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

Saddles are obtainable through fishing, with a 0.8% chance per attempt. See fishing for more details.

While horses, donkeys, mules, skeleton horses‌^{[Java Edition only]}, zombie horses, camels and camel husks can always be ridden, a saddle is required to control them. These mobs (only after being tamed, in the case of equine mobs) can be equipped with a saddle by placing it in their inventory, which can be accessed by opening the inventory while riding the mob or pressing use on the mob while sneaking. It can also be equipped directly by using the saddle on the mob.

Tamed nautiluses and zombie nautiluses can always be ridden, but a saddle is required to control them. Like equines and camels, they can be equipped with a saddle by placing it in their inventory or using the saddle on the them.

Saddles are required in order to ride pigs and striders, but even with a saddle their movement cannot be controlled. A carrot on a stick (for pigs) or a warped fungus on a stick (for striders) is required to direct these mobs. As these mobs lack an inventory, the only method for equipping a saddle is using the saddle on them.

Animals can also be equipped with saddles by a dispenser.

For equines, camels and nautiluses, the saddle can be unequipped by removing it from the 👁 SlotSprite Saddle.png: Sprite image for Saddle in Minecraft
saddle slot or by using shears on the mob.

For pigs and striders, the saddle can only be unequipped by using shears. This is the only way to safely remove a saddle from these mobs.

While a player is riding a saddled mob, a view of the mob's health bar replaces the hunger bar on the HUD.

Saddles cannot be enchanted in Survival mode. However, in Java Edition Creative mode, an anvil can be used to enchant the saddle with Thorns, Curse of Binding, and Curse of Vanishing. Other enchantments can be applied, but they have no effect.

A saddle maintains properties such as a custom name and enchantments when dropped by the mob that was wearing it.

Once equipped, any mob with a saddle does not despawn and remains in the world.

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

• A saddle is considered "armor" by the game, but the value of protection to the animal is zero.
• A saddle on a pig can still be seen if the pig is afflicted with Invisibility.

• 👁 A player riding a pig (before Beta 1.8).
  
  A player riding a pig (before Beta 1.8).
• 👁 A player riding a horse.
  
  A player riding a horse.
• 👁 The horse interface implemented in 13w21a that allows for the removal of saddles, but only on horses, donkeys or mules.
  
  The horse interface implemented in 13w21a that allows for the removal of saddles, but only on horses, donkeys or mules.
• 👁 Mule equipped with both a saddle and a chest.
  
  Mule equipped with both a saddle and a chest.
• 👁 A strider wearing a saddle.
  
  A strider wearing a saddle.

• 👁 A screenshot of a player placing 3 leather and 1 iron ingot on a crafting table in front of a stable with horses
  
  Zuri placing 3 leather and 1 iron ingot on a crafting table in front of a stable with horses.
• 👁 A screenshot of the crafting interface showing the recipe for saddles: 3 leather and 1 iron ingot
  
  The crafting interface showing the recipe for saddles.
• 👁 Minecraft character next to a crafting table with saddle in hand
  
  Ari next to a crafting table with saddle in hand.

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