Horse Mob Wiki Guide

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:

Item	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:

Allay
  Axolotl
Bat
  Bee
  Blaze
  Camel
Cat
Cave Spider
  Chicken
Cod
  Cow
  Creeper
Dolphin
Donkey
Drowned
Elder Guardian
  Ender Dragon
  Enderman
  Endermite
  Evoker
Fox
  Frog
  Ghast
  Giant
  Glow Squid
Goat
Guardian
Hoglin
  Husk
Illusioner
  Iron Golem
Killer Bunny
  Llama
Magma Cube
  Mooshroom
Mule
Ocelot
Panda
  Parrot
  Phantom
  Pig
  Piglin
  Piglin Brute
  Pillager
  Polar Bear
Pufferfish
  Rabbit
  Ravager
  Salmon
  Sheep
  Shulker
Silverfish
Skeleton
Skeleton Horse
Slime
  Snow Golem
  Spider
Squid
Stray
Strider
Tadpole
Trader Llama
Tropical Fish
Turtle
Vex
Villager
Vindicator
Wandering Trader
Warden
Witch
Wither Boss
 Wither Skeleton
Wolf
Zoglin
Zombie
Zombie Horse
Zombified Piglin (Zombie Pigman)
Zombie Villager
NPC