Joylee Taylor

· 21 Jan 2022

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How to breed horses in a Minecraft.

Riding a horse in Minecraft allows you to travel much faster than sprinting. Before you can do that, you need to find a horse and tame it. But did you know you could also breed horses? Minecraft lets you do this to produce better offspring or colors.

In Minecraft, horse breeding isn’t very complicated from a practical point of view, but when you’re diving deep into the genetics aspect, it can become more complicated.

But regardless, breeding two horses or a horse and a donkey in the game can be quite fun, as the foals can have random characteristics. However, before you breed some horses, you need a few ingredients.

How to Breed Horses in Minecraft.
Now that you have your horses and breeding food, it’s time to start breeding. The breeding process takes less than three seconds, and you’ll get a foal right after. You’ll need to feed the horses again if you want more foals.

Here’s how to breed horses in Minecraft:
Equip your breeding food.
Feed it to both of your horses.
Let them meet each other.
Once they meet, they’ll start mating.
Two and a half seconds later, a foal will be found nearby.
Repeat if necessary.

If you want to breed your horses again, you’ll need to wait five minutes. During this time, your horses still follow you if you hold the breeding food, but they won’t eat it.

After the five minutes have passed, you can breed them once again.

Horses, like all animals and creatures you can breed in Minecraft, exit “love mode” after 30 seconds of eating a breeding food and not finding another horse to breed with. You’ll need to feed it again for it to enter love mode, but there’s no need for the five-minute wait.

Breeding a horse and donkey will result in a mule foal. Mules themselves cannot breed and produce offspring. In Bedrock Edition, you’ll receive the Artificial Selection achievement.

When a foal is born and grows up, you can repeat the taming process. You’re more than welcome to feed your foals and make them grow up faster, but if you prefer to handle other tasks like mining and fishing, you can always put the foal in an enclosure and let it grow up slowly. Without feeding, all foals grow up in 20 minutes.

All breeding gives you one to seven experience points. The number isn’t predetermined.

Things to Do With Horses in Minecraft
You can saddle a horse and ride them all around the overworld. Depending on the horse’s stats, their speed can be only marginally faster than a sprint or at least three times faster. These stats are random, but repeated breeding can allow you to breed faster and higher-jumping horses.

Saddles grant you an extra slot as well, handy for keeping an item on the horse.
Riding a horse is done by using the movement and mouse keys to travel. Horses can also jump over obstacles. The best horses can jump above five blocks, while the weakest ones are only barely able to clear two blocks.

You can make armor for your horse as well for additional protection. The armor protects the horse from getting killed quickly, but it doesn’t prevent the horse from getting injured by fall damage.


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