Breed Horses in Minecraft
When you finally get a horse in Minecraft and bring it back to your base, you might be content for a while. However, what if your friend needs one or if yours is hurt? Or maybe you want a horse with better stats. You need to start a horse ranch and breed some more horses.
Steps
- Get 2 adult horses or donkeys that have not bred in the last 5 minutes. Pick them based on traits you want the offspring to have. The stats of the two parents will be averaged along with random stats of one imaginary horse. A horse and donkey can breed, resulting in a mule. However the mule will be sterile and unable to breed itself.
- Get 2 of either: golden apple or golden carrot. Golden apples cost about 900% more gold (72 nuggets compared to 8 nuggets) than golden carrots, so golden carrots are recommended. Which one you use will not affect the offspring.
- Golden apples or carrots can be crafted by surrounding a carrot with gold nuggets, or an apple with gold ingots, in a workbench.
- Feed a golden apple or carrot to both horses.
- Wait for about a minute. Leave them alone.
- Enjoy your new foal.
- It will take approximately twenty minutes for the foal to reach adulthood (if the chunk is loaded), but this can be sped up. To make the foal grow faster, feed it hay bales, wheat, sugar, apples, golden apples, and golden carrots. To make the foal instantly grow up, feed it five golden apples (20 golden ingots), or seven hay bales (63 wheat), or 60 wheat, or 64 sugar, or 24 golden carrots (21 and 1/3 golden ingots), or 20 apples. There is an intermediate stage between the foal and the adult, which looks like an adult, but you can't ride the horse yet.
Tips
- Both parent horses don't have to receive the same food - giving one an apple and one a carrot works too!
- Baby horses will typically follow their parents, so be sure they don't follow you into danger.
- The new horse will not be tame. If you want to own it, you will have to tame it when it becomes an adult.
- The baby horse will usually be the same color and breed of one of its parents (8/9 times).
- Gold carrots won't work when breeding donkeys and healing mules and donkeys
- You can summon skeleton horses and zombie horses using the command: /Summon HorseEntity ~ ~ ~ {Type: 3(or 4), Tame(optional):1}
- Go to http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Horse#Breeding for more info on horses, how they breed, and how their stats work.
