Mule

Mule

Health points	15HP × 7.5 to 30HP × 15
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	When a horse and donkey breed
Usable items	Saddle Chest plus contents Lead Shears Sugar Wheat Apple Carrot Golden Carrot Golden Apple Enchanted Golden Apple Hay Bale

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Mules are infertile offspring of horses and donkeys that, when tamed, can be ridden and equipped with chests.

Spawning

Mules do not spawn naturally, but a mule can spawn through cross-breeding a horse with a donkey. Mules cannot breed with other mules.

20% of mule spawn eggs produce baby mules.

Appearance

Mules are the offspring of horses and donkeys and are closer to (but not quite) the size of a horse. Their ears, coats, and manes are like those of a donkey, though mules' coats are darker and reddish-brown. Like donkeys, mules cannot be equipped with armor but can be equipped with chests. Mules cannot have babies, much like mules in real life.

Drops

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, when killed by a player or tamed wolf.
• If equipped with a chest or saddle, they drop those items, as well as any contents of the chest.

Killing a baby mule yields no items nor experience.

Usage

Tamed and saddled mules can be used as a means of transportation in the game. Mules 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.^[1]

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

Equipment

Tamed mules have the following slot available:

• Saddle slot: for equipping a saddle.
• An additional 15 inventory slots, provided the mule has been equipped with a chest.

Equipment can be placed on a mule by holding it and then using on the mule, or by accessing its inventory. A mule's inventory can be accessed by mounting the mule and using inventory control, or by sneaking and then using or pressing the "open inventory" button ‌ on the mule.

A mule starts out with just a saddle slot, but if it is given a chest, it acquires 15 more inventory slots that can hold any items. Chests can be given to a mule by using it with the chest in hand, and the chest cannot be removed except by killing the mule. Upon death, the mule drops the attached chest and its contents.

Baby mules cannot be equipped with anything.

Riding

Once a mule is tamed and saddled, the player can control it with standard directional controls, jump, and the mouse. The player dismounts using the dismount control.

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

The maximum speed of mules, when created by breeding a horse and a donkey, varies between 4.74 blocks/second and 14.23 blocks/second (compared to the player's walking speed, which is about 4.3 blocks/second). About 68% of mules are able to go faster than a minecart. Any mule spawned with its spawn egg always has a speed of 7.38 blocks/second, which is slower than a minecart at full speed. Mules are slow-moving backward, and about as fast as the player when moving sideways.

Ridden saddled mules have the ability of "jumping charging". When the player rides them, the experience bar on HUD is replaced by jumping charging bar. A ridden saddled mule can be made to jump and holding the control charges for a higher leap. Mules are not affected by jump boost beacons or potions.

Behavior

Mules roam 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. Mules turn to look at any player that comes near. Any mule, even a wild one, may be attached to a lead. However, if the player attempts to saddle an untamed mule, it rears and flails its front hooves.

Mules can safely fall 6 blocks before they begin to accumulate fall damage, unlike most mobs, which can only safely fall 3 blocks. Mules 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 mule, they receive the same fall damage as the mule.

Mules, like most mobs, can ride in a minecart. Similarly to horses and donkeys, adult mules cannot ride a boat, but babies can. Also like horses and donkeys, mules slowly regenerate health.

Taming

Adult mules can be tamed: with an empty hand, mount the mule repeatedly; when it no longer bucks the player and shows hearts, it is tamed. It is necessary to tame a mule in order to give it equipment or ride it for any length of time.

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

While riding an untamed mule, a galloping sound is audible, more or less rapid to give a general idea of the mule's speed.

Like all tamed animals, a death message is displayed to their owner if they are killed.‌

Breeding

Like their real-life counterparts, mules in Minecraft cannot produce offspring. The only way to produce a mule (other than using a spawn egg) is to cross-breed a horse with a donkey.

Food

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

To feed a mule, hold a valid food item and press use on the mule. If the food is invalid, the player simply mounts the mule. Mules can be fed only when feeding would have an effect, similar to other animals.

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
Golden apple	10HP	4 min (4800 ticks)	+10
Enchanted golden apple
Hay bale	20HP × 10	3 min (3600 ticks)	N/A	In Bedrock Edition, adult mules with full health cannot be fed.

Statistics

Mules have three "equine stats" that vary from mule to mule: health, (maximum) movement speed, and jump strength. These stats are created once the mule is born or spawned, and are not affected by food.

Spawned values

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

Health

A mule's health ranges from 15–30, but tends toward the average of 22–23. Displayed hearts are health, divided by two, rounded down. A mule with a non-even number of health points (15, 17, 19, etc.) does not show the last half-heart. So if a mule has 15 health (), its health bar will only display 14 health (). And if the mule 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

Spawned mules' speed is always 0.175; the player's normal walking speed is 0.1. The speed listed does not include any status effect that affects the speed of a horse or a player. Bred mules have speed between 0.1125 and 0.3375 based on their parent's speeds, like all other horse breeding. See Horse#Movement speed.

See transportation to compare the speeds of various transportation methods.

Jump strength

Spawned mules' jump strength is usually 0.5, which is enough to clear 1 ⁹⁄₁₆ blocks. Jump strengths between 0.4 and 1.0 can be found in bred mules, depending on the statistics of the parents (as explained later).

Bred values

When breeding a horse and a donkey, the baby's stats are determined by a variation of the average of both parents' stats, randomly determined as horses' stats are.

Sounds

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

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Entity tags	Translation key
Mule	mule	dismounts_underwater	entity.minecraft.mule

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Mule	mule	25	entity.mule.name

Entity data

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

Java Edition:

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 from a horse 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 horse.	—	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 Horse Llama 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.
	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 Horse Llama Mooshroom Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Sniffer Strider Trader Llama Turtle Wolf A must be the result of breeding a horse 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 Horse Llama Mooshroom Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Sniffer Strider Turtle Wolf A trader llama does not count as a llama, and a must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breedable together. Other breedable mobs can be bred, but are ignored for this advancement.

Video

History

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Java Edition
1.6.1			13w16a				Added mules, assisted by DrZhark (John Olarte), creator of the Mo' Creatures mod, whose horses are a baseline for Minecraft's mule models.[2]
							Added leads, which can be used to leash tamed mules.
			13w16b				Mules are now slower.
							The gliding of mules has been reduced.
			13w18a				Horse saddles have been removed. Mules are now controlled using the saddle.
			13w19a				Access to the mule inventory by sneaking and interacting has been enabled.
			13w21a				Added new GUI for mules, to control their saddles and inventories.
			13w22a				Added new sound effects for mules.
							Untamed mules can now be leashed.
			Release				Mules can now be fed with golden carrots in addition to both types of golden apples.
1.8			14w26c				Wheat's acceleration of baby mule growth has been reduced.
1.9			15w47b				Added sounds for mules eating food given by a player.
1.10			16w20a				Added mule spawn egg.
			pre2				The mule spawn egg has been removed.
1.11			16w32a				The mule spawn egg has been re-added.
1.13			17w45a				The models of mules have been changed.
			17w46a				The new models of mules have been slightly tweaked.
			18w03a				The models of mules have been updated again.
1.14			18w43b				Changed texture.
1.16			20w15a				Tamed mules can now be saddled by dispensers.
							Dispensers can now put chests on tamed mules.
1.18			experimental snapshot 6				Mules now follow players that are holding golden carrots, golden apples, or enchanted golden apples.
1.19.4			23w03a				The texture of the mule has been changed.
			23w07a				The speed, jump height and health of a baby is now a variation of the average of the parents' attributes, rather than being biased toward the average possible value.
1.20.5			24w09a				Added sound event entity.mule.jump to replace entity.horse.jump.[3]
1.21.5			25w03a				Saddles now show up on invisible mules.[4]
							Saddles now show the enchantment glint on the mule when enchanted.
1.21.6			25w20a				Saddles can now be removed from mules using shears.
			25w21a				Mules can now be fed carrots for taming, healing, and growing.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.15.0			build 1				Added mules.
v0.16.0			build 1				Mules can now be fed using enchanted golden apples.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.5			release				Mules no longer follow players that are holding food.
1.2.6			beta 1.2.6.2				The models of mules have been changed to Java Edition 17w45a's mule models.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				Changed texture.
1.20.10			Preview 1.20.10.20				Mules now follow players that are holding golden carrots, golden apples, or enchanted golden apples.
1.21.90			Preview 1.21.90.25				Saddles can now be removed from mules using shears.
			Preview 1.21.90.26				A sound now plays when removing a saddle from an mule using shears.
							Mules 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 mules.
TU22	CU10	1.15	1.15	1.15			Added quick move to the mule inventory.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Baby mule growth can now be accelerated using wheat.
TU43	CU33	1.36	1.36	1.36	Patch 13		Added sounds for mules.
TU60	CU51	1.64	1.64	1.64	Patch 30	1.0.11	The models of mules have been changed to Java Edition 17w45a's mule models.
			1.90				Changed texture.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added mules.

Data history

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Issues

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

Trivia

• A "mule" specifically refers to the offspring of a male donkey (jack) and a female horse (mare). The offspring of a female donkey (jenny) and a male horse (stallion) is called a "hinny". However, because mules are much more common than hinnies, "mule" can colloquially refer to any donkey-horse hybrid.
• Mules are the only hybrid mobs in Minecraft.

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  A herd of various horses and a baby mule.
• 
  A donkey and a mule.

Textures

• 
  Mule texture file.

See also

• Horse
• Donkey
• Skeleton Horse
• Zombie Horse
• Llama

References

External links

• Mule article on Wikipedia

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