Donkey Mob – Wiki Guide

This Minecraft tutorial explains all about donkeys with screenshots and step-by-step instructions. Let’s learn about donkeys in Minecraft.

Background

A donkey is a variant of horse in Minecraft. The following is a picture of what a donkey looks like in the game:

Hostility Level	Passive Mob
Health Points	15 health points (up to 30 health points) x 7.5 (up to  x 15)
Where to Find	In the Plains and Meadow biomes
Weapon	None
Attack Method	Will never attack you
Drops	0-2 Leather  1 Saddle (if equipped)  1 Chest (if equipped)
Experience Points	1-3 experience points
Special Skills	Can be tamed and ridden

A donkey can not wear horse armor, but you can put a saddle on a donkey and ride it. You can also equip a donkey with a chest and store up to 15 stackable items.

Hostility Level (Passive)

A donkey is a passive mob. The term mob is short for mobile and is used to refer to all living, moving creatures in the game such as chickens, creepers, and donkeys. Because a donkey is a passive mob, it will never attack you in the game (Creative or Survival mode).

Health Points

In Minecraft, a donkey has between 7.5 hearts and 15 hearts for health, depending on the type of donkey. This gives a donkey 15 and 30 health points (because 1 heart = 2 health points). To kill a donkey, you need to inflict between 15 and 30 points of damage depending on the donkey.

Where to Find Donkeys

In Minecraft, you can find donkeys in the Plains and Meadow biomes.

Plains

Meadow

If you are having trouble finding a donkey, you can summon a donkey using a cheat or you can use a spawn egg.

Weapon

A donkey does not carry a weapon.

Attack Method

You are safe to walk near a donkey and it will not attack or cause you any damage. And if you attack a donkey, it will just try to run away. It will not attack you back.

Drops

When you kill a donkey in Minecraft, it will drop leather.

If the donkey was wearing a saddle or chest, these items would also have been dropped when the donkey was killed.

Make sure you pick up any dropped items before they disappear. They are useful and should be kept in your inventory to be used later.

Experience Points

As you play the game, you will gain experience. The most common way to gain experience is by killing mobs. When a mob is killed you will see tiny green and yellow balls appear and move towards you.

These orbs represent experience points. When you kill a donkey, you will gain 1-3 experience points.

Foods to Feed a Donkey

In Minecraft, you can restore a donkey’s health by feeding it and you can also speed up how fast a baby donkey grows by feeding it food.

TIP: A donkey will only eat food if its health bar is down or if it is a baby donkey that is growing. If you try to feed a donkey otherwise, it will not eat the food.

In Minecraft, these are the foods that you can feed a donkey:

Item	Name	Health Restored	Speeds Growth By
	Sugar	1 health point ( x 0.5)	30 seconds
	Wheat	2 health points ( x 1)	20 seconds
	Apple	3 health points ( x 1.5)	1 minute
	Golden Carrot	4 health points ( x 2)	1 minute
	Golden Apple	10 health points ( x 5)	4 minutes
	Enchanted Golden Apple	10 health points ( x 5)	4 minutes
	Hay Bale	20 health points ( x 10)	3 minutes

Note: The chart above shows the amount of health restored for each type of food eaten by a donkey. It also displays the amount of time that it speeds up growth if you feed the food to a baby donkey.

Spawn Egg for Donkey

You can spawn a donkey using the following spawn egg:

Donkey Spawn Egg

Things to Do with Donkeys

Here are some activities that you can do with donkeys in Minecraft:

How to Use a Lead on a Donkey

How to Breed Mules

How to Feed a Donkey

How to Tame and Ride a Donkey

Donkey Generator

Need some help generating the /summon command for a donkey carrying a chest of items? Try our command generator:

Summon Donkey with Chest Generator

Command Examples

Here are some game command examples for a donkey in Minecraft:

How to Summon a Donkey

NBT Tags for Donkey (Java Edition)

Here are the NBT tags (formerly called data tags) that you can use in game commands for a donkey in Java Edition:

NBT Tags for Donkey

Spawn Events for Donkey (Bedrock/Education)

Here are the spawn events that you can use in game commands for a donkey in Bedrock Edition and Education Edition:

Spawn Events for Donkey

Donkey Seeds

You can use a seed to create a world where you spawn in a biome with donkeys:

Donkey Seeds (Java Edition)

Donkey Seeds (Bedrock Edition)

Other Mobs

Here are some of the other mobs in Minecraft: