Golden apples and carrots put tamed horses into love mode, as mentioned above, but are also very effective in healing, taming, and growing horses. Sugar and wheat are the least effective food, and apples work quite well. It can heal a wounded horse's injuries, make an untamed horse easier to tame, and shorten the time it takes for a foal grow up into a horse or donkey. You can feed horsesįeeding a horse helps in a number of ways. A foal if you breed two horses, a donkey foal if you breed two donkeys, and a mule if you breed a donkey and a horse. Do this to another animal in the vicinity (it's a good idea to build a fence around them) and they'll start getting jiggy with one another. Walk up to one animal and hit the "Feed" button, and the animal will start spewing hearts. A golden carrot can be made from one carrot and eight golden nuggets. To do this, you first need a golden apple or carrot.Ī golden apple is crafted by mixing one apple and eight gold ingots. You can get two horses to bump uglies and pump out a baby horse by making them both enter love mode. And if you tap on a fence post while holding a leash, the animal will be tied up until you hit the post again. You can have multiple animals on multiple leashes at once. It will now stay with you as you walk - though the leash can break if you get too far away. Then go over to the animal and hit the "Leash button". You can craft one from four string and one slime ball. You can put horses on leashesĭon't want your tamed, armoured, and named horse to run away? Use the new lead item to keep it by your side. Handy for keeping track of your farmyard. The animal will now strut about with a little white name above its head. Then go up to your horse of choice while holding the name tag, and hit Name. Then tap on the new name tag on the right to add it to your inventory. Once you have one, use it on an anvil and then type a new name into the slot that says "Name Tag".
Annoyingly, it's another item you can't craft: you'll have to find it in a dungeon or while fishing. You can name a horseĪnother new item in Pocket Edition 0.15 is the name tag, which lets you give a name to a mob (including a horse or donkey). There are only 15 slots but that could be all the space you need to bring some booty back from a dungeon. Now, use open on the donkey and select the chest tab from the lower left corner to see what the donkey is carrying. Hold a chest and then tap ride on the donkey and it will hold onto the chest. But you can't make the horse wear armour. You can tame them, throw on a saddle, and use them to walk faster and jump higher. Donkeys can carry chestsĭonkeys work very similarly to horses. To equip it, repeat the steps above: get on the horse, look down, hit open, and then tap on the armour in your inventory. If you want better armour like iron, gold, or diamond, you'll need to find it in a dungeon chest or in a village blacksmith chest. Horses can also wear armour to boost their health points - but only leather, the weakest type of armour, can be crafted (from seven leather pelts). You can also jump - and the longer you hold down jump, the higher the horse will leap.Ī horse runs a lot faster, and jumps a lot higher than the player character.
Now the horse will obey your commands properly, and you can move it using the directional pad. Here you can tap on the saddle in your menu to apply it to the horse. Once you have one, get on the horse, look down and press open to see the horse menu.
You'll have to find it - by fishing, or by searching in chests inside dungeons. Sad(dle)y, you can't craft one of these items. If you want to tell the horse where to go you need to get a saddle. So tap sneak (the button in the middle of the directional pad) to leap off the horse. Now the horse is tamed but you can't yet tell it where to go. You'll need to ride it multiple times - until hearts come out of its butt - to tame it. It will ride around without direction and quickly throw you off. Tap this to leap on the horses back.Īt first, the horse will be completely untamed. If you get up close to a horse you'll notice a "Ride" button. They can also sometimes appear as donkeys. Horses appear naturally in the plains and savanna biomes in your Minecraft world, and can spawn with different coat colours, and in different sizes. Here's our definitive guide to horses in the blocky world of Minecraft. Horses are one of the most exciting new features in Minecraft Pocket Edition's huge 0.15 update.