Horse

Horse

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Health points	15HP × 7.5 to 30HP × 15
Armor points	0 () See horse armor
Behavior	Passive
Mob type	Animal
Hitbox size	In Java Edition: Adult: Height: 1.6 blocks Width: 1.3965 blocks Baby: Height: 0.8 blocks Width: 0.6982 blocks In Bedrock Edition: Adult: Height: 1.6 blocks Width: 1.4 blocks Baby: Height: 0.8 blocks Width: 0.7 blocks
Spawn	Plains Sunflower Plains Savanna Savanna Plateau Windswept Savanna Villages
Usable items	Saddle Horse Armor Lead Shears Sugar Wheat Apple Carrot Golden Carrot Golden Apple Enchanted Golden Apple Hay Bale

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Horses are passive mobs that can be ridden when tamed and saddled.

Spawning

Horses spawn in plains and savannas in herds of 2–6 in a light level of 9‌ or 7‌ and higher. 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.^[1]

Villages naturally generate with stables and animal pens containing horses.

Horse spawns in:

Category: Creature	Java Edition			Bedrock Edition
Spawn area	Spawn weight	Spawn Chance	Group size	Spawn weight	Group size
Plains	5⁄46	10.87%	2–6	4	2–6
Sunflower Plains	5⁄46	10.87%	2–6	4	2–6
Savanna	1⁄52	1.92%	2–6	1	2–6
Windswept Savanna	1⁄52	1.92%	2–6	1	2–6
Savanna Plateau	1⁄68	1.47%	2–6	1	2–6

Appearance

Each horse variant has unique features and markings, and a baby version. Adult horses are 1.4 blocks wide and long, and 1.6 blocks high. Baby horses start at half the size of adults, and in Bedrock Edition, get progressively bigger as they age. 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.

Horse colors and markings

Markings (identifier)	Colors
	White white	Creamy creamy	Chestnut chestnut	Brown brown	Black black	Gray gray	Dark brown darkbrown
None
White stockings and blaze white
White field whitefield
White spots whitedots
Black dots blackdots

Drops

Breeding

1–7XP upon successful breeding.

On death

Java Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Leather	0–2	66.67%	1.00	0–3	83.33%	1.50	0–4	91.67%	2.00	0–5	94.44%	2.50

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Leather	0–2	2⁄3	1	0–3	5⁄6	3⁄2	0–4	11⁄12	2	0–5	17⁄18	5⁄2

Item		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Leather	0	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		1	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		2	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		3	0	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		4	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		5	0	0	0	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		Average	1 (1.00)	3⁄2 (1.50)	2 (2.00)	5⁄2 (2.50)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drop
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Leather	1.00	1.50	2.00	2.50

Bedrock Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Leather	0–2	66.67%	1.00	0–3	66.67%	1.33	0–4	66.67%	1.67	0–5	66.67%	2.00

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Leather	0–2	2⁄3	1	0–3	2⁄3	4⁄3	0–4	2⁄3	5⁄3	0–5	2⁄3	2

Item		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Leather	0	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)
		1	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		2	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		3	0	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	2⁄9 (22.22%)
		4	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		5	0	0	0	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		Average	1 (1.00)	4⁄3 (1.33)	5⁄3 (1.67)	2 (2.00)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drop
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Leather	1.00	1.33	1.67	2.00

• 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 baby horse yields neither items nor experience.

Usage

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 cannot float on water when being controlled by a player. They can be ridden in water up to 2 blocks deep. In deeper water, the player is automatically dismounted.^[2]

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

Equipment

Tamed horses have the following two slots available:

• Horse armor slot: for equipping horse armor. Exclusive to horses.
• Saddle slot: for equipping a saddle.

Baby horses 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 on the horse. A normal horse’s inventory has two slots, one for a saddle and one for horse armor. The player cannot open their inventory while on a wild or untamed horse, though they can open containers.

Riding

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.‌

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 4.74 blocks/second and 14.23 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.

Behavior

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 6 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 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 horse, they receive the same fall damage as the horse.

Horses slowly regenerate health on their own over time.

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

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

Taming

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.

Breeding

Feeding two tamed horses golden apples or golden carrots activates love mode, causing them to mate and produce a baby. The baby appears more spindly than adult horses and grows in stages to full size with time. The baby 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 baby horse. Usually, the new baby 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.‌

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

Food

Feeding a horse food can alter its behavior, cause it to grow (if it is not yet an adult; baby horses 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.

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

In Java Edition, feeding tamed horses at full health has no sound effect and movements.^[3][4] In Bedrock Edition, while temper is at max value, untamed horses can be fed any food except hay bales.

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

Food	Heals	Speeds growth by	Increases temper	Notes
Sugar	1HP	30 sec (600 ticks)	+3
Wheat	2HP	20 sec (400 ticks)	+3
Apple	3HP	1 min (1200 ticks)	+3
Carrot
Golden carrot	4HP	1 min (1200 ticks)	+5	Activates love mode in tamed horses.
Golden apple	10HP	4 min (4800 ticks)	+10	Activates love mode in tamed horses.
Enchanted golden apple
Hay bale	20HP × 10	3 min (3600 ticks)	N/A	In Bedrock Edition, adult horses with full health cannot be fed.

Statistics

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.

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.

Health

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 (), its health bar will only display 14 health (). And if the horse 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.

Movement speed

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. However, horses instead travel at just shy of 42.16 blocks/sec times their internal attribute, putting the best horse's maximum speed at about 14.23 blocks/second, and the average horse's speed at about 9.49 blocks/sec.

• Minimum: 4.74 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.

Jump strength

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 1.086 blocks in Java Edition and 1.153 in Bedrock Edition, while the maximum of 1.0 is enough to clear 5.2926 blocks in Java Edition and 5.9197 in Bedrock Edition. The calculation, however, is not linear with the average jump strength of 0.7 favoring the lower side with the value of 2.89 blocks in Java Edition and around 3 blocks in Bedrock Edition.^[5]

Bred values

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 random value between -0.5 and 0.5
4. Multiply the result of step two with the random value
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 it.

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 psuedocode 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

^[6]

A baby horse 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.

Sounds

Java Edition:
Horses use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Entity tags	Translation key
Horse	horse	dismounts_underwater	entity.minecraft.horse

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Horse	horse	23	entity.horse.name

Entity data

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

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Artificial Selection	Breed a mule from a and a donkey.	—	30	Bronze
		Cow Tipper	Harvest some leather.	Pick up leather from the ground or via fishing.	15	Bronze
		It Spreads	Kill a mob next to a catalyst	—	10	Bronze
		Overkill	Deal nine hearts of damage in a single hit.	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have nine hearts of health overall.	30	Bronze
		Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.	20	Silver
		Saddle Up	Tame a .	—	20	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	A Throwaway Joke	Throw a Trident at something. Note: Throwing away your only weapon is not a good idea.	Hit a mob with a thrown trident.
	Adventure	Adventure, exploration and combat	Kill any mob, or be killed by any living entity.
	Arbalistic	Kill five unique mobs with one crossbow shot	Armor Stand also counts for this advancement. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.
	Best Friends Forever	Tame an animal	Tame one of these 8 tameable mobs: Cat Donkey Llama Mule Parrot Trader Llama Wolf Skeleton Horse and Zombie Horse can be tamed in the same way as a regular horse to gain this advancement with the ride command.
	It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Kill one of these 73 mobs near a sculk catalyst: Armadillo Axolotl Bee Blaze Bogged Breeze Camel Cat Cave Spider Chicken Cod Cow Creeper Donkey Dolphin Drowned Elder Guardian Enderman Endermite Evoker Fox Frog Ghast Goat Glow Squid Giant Guardian Hoglin Husk Illusioner Llama Magma Cube Mooshroom Ocelot Panda Parrot Phantom Pig Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Polar Bear Pufferfish Rabbit Ravager Salmon Sheep Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Skeleton Horse Slime Sniffer Stray Spider Squid Strider Trader Llama Tropical Fish Turtle Vex Vindicator Warden Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Wolf Zoglin Zombie Zombie Horse Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Mobs that drop no experience as well as the ender dragon are ignored for this advancement.
	Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.
	Take Aim	Shoot something with an Arrow	Using a bow or a crossbow, shoot a mob with an arrow, tipped arrow, or spectral arrow.
	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed two animals together	Breed a pair of any of these 26 mobs: Armadillo Axolotl Bee Camel Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Frog Goat Hoglin Llama Mooshroom Mule Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Sniffer Strider Trader Llama Turtle Wolf A mule must be the result of breeding a and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breedable together. Other breedable mobs are ignored for this advancement.
	Two by Two	Breed all the animals!	Breed a pair of each of these 25 mobs: Armadillo Axolotl Bee Camel Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Frog Goat Hoglin Llama Mooshroom Mule Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Sniffer Strider Turtle Wolf A trader llama does not count as a llama, and a mule must be the result of breeding a and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breedable together. Other breedable mobs can be bred, but are ignored for this advancement.

History

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Java Edition
April 1, 2013							Added horses and ponies to the April Fools update, Minecraft 2.0. Horses are actually retextured cows and ponies are actually retextured pigs.
April 4, 2013							Jeb hinted at adding horses when Minecraft hit 10,000,000 sales.
1.6.1			13w16a				Added horses.
							Horses have been assisted by DrZhark (John Olarte), creator of the Mo' Creatures mod, whose horses are a baseline for Minecraft's horse models.[7]
							Added leads, which can be used to leash tamed horses.
			13w16b				Horses are now slower.
							The gliding of horses has been reduced.
			13w18a				Horse saddles have been removed. Horses are now controlled using saddles.
			13w21a				A new GUI for horses has been added, to control saddles/armor/inventory.
			13w22a				New sound effects have been added to horses.
							Untamed horses can now be leashed.
			release				Horses can now be fed with golden carrots in addition to both types of golden apples.
1.7.2			13w36a				Horses now spawn in savannas.
1.8			14w26c				Horses can no longer be fed bread for taming, healing, or growing.
							Wheat's acceleration of baby horse growth has been reduced.
1.9			15w47b				Sounds for horses eating food given by a player have been added.
1.13			17w45a				The models of horses have been simplified to be more consistent with other mobs.
							Horses (and all variants) no longer open their mouth when emitting sounds.
			17w46a				The new models of horses have been slightly tweaked. The position of the nose has moved up to one pixel.
			18w03a				The models of horses have been changed, once again. The texture has also been slightly altered and their nose height has been increased by one pixel.
			18w22a				The texture of creamy horses has been changed, which has changed the texture from to .
1.14			18w43a				The textures of horses have been changed.
			19w08a				Horses can now wear leather horse armor.
							Horse armor no longer flashes red when the horse takes damage.
							Horse armor no longer turns invisible when the horse has the invisibility effect.
							Horses can now use the Thorns, Feather Falling, Depth Strider, Respiration, Protection, Fire Protection, Projectile Protection and Blast Protection enchantments are via horse armor if the enchantments were added using an anvil in creative mode.
1.15			19w37a				Horses no longer drop their horse armor if it was enchanted with Curse of Vanishing using an anvil in creative mode.
1.16			20w15a				Tamed horses can now be saddled by dispensers.
							Dispensers can now put horse armors on tamed horses.
1.18			experimental snapshot 6				Horses now follow players that are holding golden carrots, golden apples, or enchanted golden apples.
1.19.3			22w45a				Horses can no longer suffocate in the obsidian frame after going through nether portals.[8]
1.19.4			23w07a				When breeding horses and the like, the babies' speed, jump height, and health are now a variation of the average of the parents' stats. Previously, it was an average of the parents' stats plus a random imaginary horse's stats, which caused babies' stats to be biased toward the average.[9]
1.20.5			24w05a				Horses can no longer use the Depth Strider and Respiration enchantments via horse armor.
1.21			24w18a				Players in survival or adventure mode no longer remove horse armor with the Curse of Binding enchantment from horses.
1.21.2			24w36a				Horse armor now shows the enchantment glint on the horse when enchanted.[10]
1.21.5			25w03a				Saddles now show up on invisible horses.[11]
							Saddles now show the enchantment glint on the horse when enchanted.
1.21.6			25w20a				Saddles and horse armor can now be removed from horses using shears.
			25w21a				Horses can now be fed carrots for taming, healing, and growing.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.15.0			build 1				Added horses.
v0.16.0			build 1				Horses can now be fed using enchanted golden apples.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.5			release				Horses no longer follow players that are holding food.
1.2.6			beta 1.2.6.2				The models of horses have been changed to the (Java Edition 17w45a) models.
1.2.9							Horses no longer open their mouths when bucking the player off or taking damage.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The textures of horses have been changed.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1				Horses now spawn in village stables and animal pens.
1.13.0			beta 1.13.0.16				The horses no longer use the old models. Prior, old horses sometimes appeared.
1.19.70			Preview 1.19.70.23				When breeding horses and the like, the babies' speed, jump, height, and health are no longer biased toward the average.
1.20.10			Preview 1.20.10.20				Horses now follow players that are holding golden carrots, golden apples, or enchanted golden apples.
1.21.90			Preview 1.21.90.25				Saddles and horse armor can now be removed from horses using shears.
			Preview 1.21.90.26				A sound now plays when removing a saddle or horse armor from an horse using shears.
							Horses can now be fed carrots for taming, healing, and growing.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU19	CU7	1.12	1.12	1.12	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added horses.
TU22	CU10	1.15	1.15	1.15			Quick move has been added to the horse inventory.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Baby horse growth can now be accelerated using wheat.
TU43	CU33	1.36	1.36	1.36	Patch 13		Sounds for horses have been added.
TU60	CU51	1.64	1.64	1.64	Patch 30	1.0.11	The models of horses have been changed.
			1.90				The textures of horses have been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added horses.

Data history

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Issues

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

Gallery

Renders

Mojang images

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  A horse.
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  The current horse model.
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  A horse in the mountains.
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  A horse on a mountaintop.
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  A horse sinking into snow.
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  Sunny riding a horse.
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  Several horses being housed in a warped forest.^[12]
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  "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."^[13]
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  Horse on a Minecraft world.
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  A horse through a peephole.

Development images

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  The original horses from Dr. Zhark's Mo' Creatures mod.
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  Jeb posted this horse photo on Twitter shortly before the mob was revealed.
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  An image posted by Jeb on Instagram. Note the saddle usage.^[14]
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  Horses can wear armor and can be bound to fence posts.^[15]
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  Jeb and Dinnerbone riding horses. 1.6 banner.
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  First image of horses in Pocket Edition.
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  The horse model in 17w45a.

Screenshots

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  A herd of various horses.
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  A dying horse mob.
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  Horses getting attacked by the wither.
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  A spotted baby horse.
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  Showing the result of right-clicking a spawn egg on a horse while mounted.
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  Showing the faint markings on a white tobiano. A bay tobiano is in the background for comparison.
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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.

Textures

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  Black horse texture file.
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  Brown horse texture file.
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  Chestnut horse texture file.
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  Creamy horse texture file.
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  Dark brown horse texture file.
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  Gray horse texture file.
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  White horse texture file.

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  Black dots markings texture file.
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  White markings texture file.
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  White dots markings texture file.
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  White field markings texture file.

In other media

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  Horses shown in the Horse Update artwork.
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  Artwork of the original horse model used for the 10th anniversary.^[16]
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  Jens riding a horse in the Minecraft Legends Live Event.
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  Hannah riding a horse in the Minecraft Legends Live Event.
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  LEGO Minecraft Horse.
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  Alex riding a Horse.
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  Horse but with pants on.

References

External links

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

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