How to breed horses in Minecraft – Easy Steps

Horses are one of the many neutral or passive mobs in Minecraft. Like other mobs of this type can be used to gather resources or provide food for a player, horses serve their own unique purpose if a player can tame them. Once tamed, he can ride a horse and you can give him armor to keep him safe when fighting mobs.

Raise horses in Minecraft

Horses occur naturally in Minecraft and come in different variations. Like chickens, cats, wolves, cows, turtles, etc., horses can be raised. Horse breeding follows the same principle as other mobs. The only trick is knowing what to feed the horse.

To breed horses in Minecraft, you must feed them one of the following:

• Golden apples or
• Golden Carrots

Between apples and carrots, apples are much easier to obtain.

Get apples in Minecraft

To get apples in Minecraft, you can search for them in chests found in villages, temples, mine shafts. You can also extract them.

1. Find an oak tree (they are extremely common)
2. Break the leaves off the tree.
3. Keep breaking them and they will eventually drop an apple.
4. Look for large oaks and you will usually get an apple if not more.

Get carrots in Minecraft

Carrots can be found on farms in villages or in chests in temples, mine shafts, villages, etc. They are most commonly found on village farms, although not all village farms have carrots.

A carrot can be difficult to find, but once you’ve found one, you can plant and grow more. Unlike apples, one carrot is enough to create your own source of them.

Get gold in Minecraft

Regardless of whether you choose to feed a horse a golden apple or a golden carrot, you will need gold. Gold is a mineral found underground.

To mine gold, you need an iron pickaxe. Gold can be found at levels 2-29. Read our Minecraft Minerals guide for more details.

Artisan golden carrot / apple

The elaboration of a golden apple or a carrot requires;

• An apple or carrot
• Eight gold bars

To make a golden carrot or apple;

1. Open the workbench.
2. Put the apple or carrot (whichever you are using) in the middle cell, that is, the second cell in the second row.
3. Place gold bars in all the remaining cells.
4. Pick up the golden apple or carrot.

Raise horses in Minecraft

You should have at least ten golden apples or carrots ready. You can use a combination of both. There is no rule that says you can only feed a horse apples or only carrots. Mix it up if you want or have to.

1. Make sure you have at least two domesticated horses.
2. Take the golden apple / carrot in your hand.
3. Use the use place / action item on the horse while holding the carrot / apple.
4. Repeat until you see hearts coming out of the horse.
5. Repeat for the other horse.
6. If all goes well, you will have a foal.

conclusion

The hardest part of raising horses is finding the gold for the apples / carrots. If you don’t know how to tame a horse, you basically have to ‘ride’ it and keep doing it until it stops kicking you. That is all. It can take quite a few tries with certain types of horses, while others are much easier to tame.