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

Background

The following is a picture of what a horse looks like in Minecraft:

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 biome
Weapon None
Attack Method Will never attack you
Drops  0-2 Leather
 1 Saddle (if equipped)
 1 Horse Armor (if equipped)
Experience Points 1-3 experience points
Special Skills Can be tamed and ridden

Hostility Level (Passive)

A horse 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 horses. Because a horse is a passive mob, it will never attack you in the game (Creative or Survival mode).

Health Points

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

Where to Find Horses

In Minecraft, you can find horses in the Plains biome.

 

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

Weapon

A horse does not carry a weapon.

Attack Method

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

Drops

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

If the horse was wearing a saddle or horse armor, these items would also be dropped when the horse 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 horse, you will gain 1-3 experience points.

Foods to Feed a Horse

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

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

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

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 horse. It also displays the amount of time that it speeds up growth if you feed the food to a baby horse (foal).

Spawn Egg for Horse

You can spawn a horse using the following spawn egg:

Horse Spawn Egg

Things to Do with Horses

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

How to Feed a Horse

How to Use a Lead on a Horse

How to Breed Horses

How to Put Armor on a Horse

How to Take Armor off a Horse

How to Tame and Ride a Horse

How to Breed Mules

Command Examples

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

How to Summon a Horse

How to Summon a Horse with Armor

How to Summon a Tame Horse with Saddle

NBT Tags for Horse (Java Edition)

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

NBT Tags for Horse

Horse Variants

Here are the variants for a horse in Minecraft:

Horse Variant List (Java Edition)

Spawn Events for Horse (Bedrock/Education)

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

Spawn Events for Horse

Horse Seeds

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

Horse Seeds (Java Edition)

Horse Seeds (Bedrock Edition)

Other Mobs

Here are some of the other mobs in Minecraft:

 

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