Everything you Need to Know About Horses in Minecraft 1.20 – Mob Guide

Horses are one of the most useful mobs in minecraft and certainly the best mob for transportation however there’s a lot to know about them and getting the perfect horse can be difficult but no worries because it’s all covered in this minecraft mob guide for the horse now

First where do you actually find horses in minecraft now i’m sure you’ve probably seen them around but here’s exactly where they spawn they spawn in any planes type biome so for instance that could be something like the sunflower fields over here or just straight up the planes biome they also

Can spawn in savannah biomes for instance like the savannah biome right over here and the last place they can spawn in is in a plane’s biome village in the pens right just like this in fact you can see a horror spawn in this one just like

That so if you have any of these three places you can probably find yourself a horse there now what’s actually pretty crazy is that there’s literally 35 different varieties of horses because there’s seven main colors and five patterns so for instance these two horses are the exact same color but they

Have different patterns now you can tame a horse by just right clicking on it but a word of warning if you have literally any single item in your hand when you right click on it you’ll just kind of make this funny sound and rear up on its

Hind legs like that if you right-click on it without an item in your hand then you can ride it but it’ll just kick you off like this now every single horse starts with a certain amount of temper and once a horse’s temper reaches 100 then it is tamed so basically let’s say

A horror started with zero temper you would literally have to ride it and have it kick you off 20 times for it to be tamed but let’s say horse started off with 95 temper and you rode on it and it kicked you off then the next time you

Wrote it it would be tamed now you can affect temper two ways when you ride a horse and it kicks you off it adds five points to its temper what you can also do to tame it is you can actually just feed it and every single food the horse

Likes to does raise its temper but certainly the best one is the golden apple now the golden apple is a super useful item when taming horses because when right clicking on the horse with a golden apple it takes 10 points off of its temper so let’s say this horse over

Here has the worst temper possible which would be zero i mean to get up to a hundred we’d simply right click on this ten times with the golden apple of course if we were in survival here just like this you can see that when we right

Click on this it takes one golden apple away but basically using no more than 10 apples and then right clicking on this to ride it when we write it the first time we write it it’ll instantly be tamed so you can do that if you don’t

Want to ride this and get kicked off a bunch of times or let’s say you’re in a situation where you need to very very quickly get yourself a horse then all you have to do is go up to any horse you want then simply right click on it with

Some golden apples until you stop hearing the eating sound just like that and once you’ve done that you know the horse is up to the good amount of temper you ride it and the first time you’re on it it’ll instantly become tamed which means if you need a horse in the go

Simply bring some golden apples and there you go if you don’t want to you can just ride the horse and it works that way as well now once you’ve tamed yourself a nice horse you can see there’s two slots that open up when we press the inventory key you can see

There is a saddle slot and a horse armor slot now horse armor and saddles are both quite interesting items because you can actually equip them onto the horse with nothing but a dispenser so we’ll try that out right here by putting a piece of horse armor in the dispenser

And right clicking on it when we’re riding it and you can see here it’ll actually equip that horse armor let’s say the opposite was true and we had the saddle in there we could also equip it that way as well so that’s a really cool mechanic because you can have your horse

Be automatically saddled and armored right up without you having to do anything but flick a lever also there are four different types of horse armor there is diamond horse armor golden horse armor iron horse armor and leather horse armor for whatever reason they never added netherright horse armor into

The game but these four horse armors are quite useful also something really cool about leather horse armor is that if you have some dye let’s say some red dye and we put that into our crafting grid in a crafting table or in our inventory just like this you can see it turns the

Leather horse armor into leather horse armor that’s dyed or whatever color we put in there and we can even combine dyes to get whatever color of horse armor we want that’s completely customized we put that on our horse we have the super cool color on our horse

Just like this so using dyes you can decorate your horse with basically every single rgb color that you want also unlike every other mob that uses a saddle a horse with an invisibility potion does not render in its saddle whereas something like let’s say a pig does that horse’s saddle is not rendered

In so you can have your horse be fully invisible other than the particles whereas with something like your pig there it is not fully invisible as you can still see that strange ghostly saddle the horses love the most variety of foods in the game compared to any

Other mob so a horse can be fed sugar wheat carrots golden carrots golden apples enchanted golden apples and hay bales and all these items can be beneficial to the horses in one way or another so for instance feeding horses these items can instantly heal them this

Horse right here we can see has a whole lot of parts on it every single one of them is full if we damage the horse just a little bit here and we’ll heal it in just in a second just like that we can notice its hearts are down quite a bit

If we right click on it with a hay bale which instantly regenerates 10 hearts of health you can see there all of its hearts are instantly back what’s crazy about that is that the hay bale literally does instantly regenerate 10 hearts of health that’s right 10 that’s

20 single damage points so you could have your horse and lava it’s burning up and you just keep spamming right click with hay bales on that horse and it will survive forever also this is a really cool trick because if your horse is damaged in a battle or something you can

Simply quickly get off your horse right click on with some hay bales and get back on and you’re good to go now how do you actually ride horses well once a saddle is on a horse you simply press forward and you kind of ride a horse as if you’re walking something that’s nice

About this is you can spin all the way in a circle freely just like this there’s no issue about that and what’s cool is that when holding down control the horse can go quite fast it instantly jumps over one block jumps just like this and it’s also really interesting is

That if a horse is a good one they can go way faster than the player and i can also jump a lot higher than the player can but unfortunately not all horses have good stats and some might even be a little bit slower than the player’s sprinting speed also when you’re on the

Horse there’s literally no hitbox for you to hit on the horse you can punch wherever you want around the horse and you cannot hit that horse in fact the only way of damaging a horse that you’re riding is if you have a riptide trident

And you try and throw it in the rain you can hurt the horse that way but that’s literally the only way in the entire game so other than that you can even mine beneath you do whatever you want and that way and you cannot hurt that horse so it’s really cool because you

Could even technically play the entire game on a horse as it doesn’t really limit you in any way now players take fall damage when they fall more than three blocks so for instance four blocks like this i would take a little bit of damage but horses are a bit more

Resistant to fall damage than the player so with the horse you can actually fall six blocks before taking any damage just like this you can see that we didn’t take any damage but at seven blocks the horse and us would take a little bit of damage now every horse the second it’s

Spawned into the game whether that’s through breeding or just the one that naturally generated they have a set speed health and jump height and these things can vary a lot in how good they are some horses have a rather slow run speed like this one here a rather short

Jump speed and a rather small amount of hearts so obviously this is not a horse you really want to be riding although you can if you want because the cool thing about horses is that they can actually get so fast that they can run 14 and a half blocks every single second

And they can also jump five and a half blocks high which is pretty crazy and they can also have a lot more health than let’s say this horse does right here here’s something interesting about half of horses have a secret half heart what i mean by that is that you can see

There that the horse hearts appear there as full hearts and of course you know they couldn’t let’s say have a half heart just appearing there and so what’s interesting is that horses can however spawn in with a secret half-heart but it just isn’t rendered in so let’s say we

Get this horse to be hurt just a little bit here if your horse is hurt and you don’t see any health decline that does not mean it regenerated it quickly that actually means it has a secret half heart let’s try that right here we’re gonna fall down here you can see this

Horse did take half a heart of damage so it does not have a secret half heart but let’s see if this horse over here has a secret half heart if we go over here and go off the edge if it does not lose half a heart of health that means it did it’s

Just not visible to us if we fall here yes this horse right here has a secret half heart we fell down there and you cannot see the damage that it took you may have noticed that before and you might have thought it was just a horse regenerating quickly but no horses can

Actually have that secret half heart of health and also they can regenerate their health by eating or they can regenerate their health slowly over time without being fat at all if you want a baby horse also known as a foal you can breed horses by using golden carrots

Golden apples or even if you really want to waste them enchanted golden apples and simply right clicking on both horses with these will make them enter love mode they’ll breed and we’ll have a horse with similar characteristics to its parents but exactly how are these characteristics determined so each

Parent has a 44 chance of passing on a characteristic to the horse so this one had its color passed down and this one over here had its pattern passed down the 11 chance is actually the fact that you can technically have the horse have a pattern or a color that is not from

Either of the parents also the speed jump height and health of the horse are determined by its parents as well usually but again it’s that same chance where generally it comes from its parents but there is also a third factor so it’s a little bit different the

Parents stats are averaged and there is a third number thrown in which is literally a random number of the stats let me see if i can explain that let’s say that this horse here could jump two blocks high and let’s say that this force over here could jump four

Blocks high well then together if those were just averaged our baby horse could jump three blocks high but there is another random number thrown in let’s say that random number says the horse can jump four blocks high so we have four four blocks and one two blocks high

Because that’s from the mother the father and the random chance and then what we have is we have a combination of those and it’s divided by three and that is what the baby horse has so that would give the baby horse about a three and a

Third block jump height if that was what it got from the random number which can be literally anything from the very best stat to the very worst stat now baby horses can grow up in about 20 minutes but you can get rid of a whole four

Minutes of growth time for giving it a golden apple and three minutes of growth time for giving it a hay bale and every other food source will also make it grow up quicker as well just not by quite so much so if we actually give this horse five golden apples it will instantly

Grow up just like this one two three four and it will grow up just like that with the sixth one i guess because it just bumped over the top you can see that we now have our adult horse so if you want to you could super quickly feed the horse with golden

Apples for it to be tamed and also for it to grow up just like that and actually any baby horse that you breed is instantly tamed which is kind of a cool thing so that’s a really nice thing about breeding horses is that once you tamed your first horses then you can get

Yourself this pre-tamed baby but that brings us to the important question of how do you actually get the best horse in the game or at least close to the best that can jump five and a half blocks tall and run fourteen and a half blocks a second well you probably can’t

Get the very best horse in the game but you can get something very very close to it and what you want to do is you want to go around looking out for horses in the wild and you want to find the two fastest ones you can doesn’t have to be

Anything crazy but you want to get some really fast ones and ideally ones that also have good health and good jump height as well again it doesn’t have to be the best but certainly the best that you can find in a group let’s say there’s 10 horses simply test out all 10

And pick the best two and read the horses multiple times once you can and then out of the babies and the adults simply pick the best two that you can again and repeat the process so you’re basically getting the best two horses you can then breeding them a bunch then

Getting the best two of those horses and so on and so forth the reason why you can get better and better horses this way is let’s say these two horses bred and they have pretty good statistics but the random number was really good for one of the babies then we could get that

Horse that came from these two horses and breed it with the second best horse from those two horses or one of the two original ones and that would give us hopefully a better horse again because we’re just raising the statistics that we can and hoping random chants will

Give us better and better horses and by repeating that process you can certainly get yourself the best horse in the game or at least something somewhat close to it now when you’re riding around a horse you can often come into issues with navigating it getting across water

Things like that i’m going to answer some ways to do that right now one thing you can do if you want to have your horse follow you without riding it is to hold a golden carrot a golden apple or an enchanted golden apple in your hand and that horse will very

Quickly follow you just like this so that’s a really cool way of leading your horse around without let’s say a lead or something like that although you could use a lead if you wanted now believe it or not horses are perfectly fine with going in water that’s one block deep and

Sometimes fine with water that’s two blocks deep once you get too low they will kick you off just like that and basically you have to find a way to get them across the river or whatever part of water you’re trying to get them across so let’s say it’s an ocean something big

Like that i would suggest getting a boat going in it attaching a lead to the horse and then simply pushing the horse behind you by kind of riding forward and it will be dragged behind you it works pretty well you can also just use a lead

And kind of get it across the water another thing you can do is get one of its breeding foods and simply guide it across the water with this food just like this and how do you keep a horse from running away let’s say you get to a

Destination you want to go to let’s say this village but the horse is just going to walk off as soon as you get off of it well there’s two things you can do the first one is to make a very simple horse trap all you have to do is go four

Blocks down like this or two blocks down like in a two by two and have one block on the side then get on the horse go into it just like this and what’ll happen is that once the horse is in there you can get out very easily and

Get in very easily but the horse cannot get in and out because it’s not open like let’s say it would be like there and so it’s really cool about that is you can just simply set this up dig out nine blocks and you can keep your horse

There but if you want to you can also get a fence and if you have a lead on you as well all you have to do if you don’t want to put your horse in a hole just like that is then get a lead and put it on your

Horse just like that and attach it to a fence gate like this and the horse will stay there and can’t run away well that’s enough about horses i’m riding away from that one You