Donkey Mob – Wiki Guide
This Minecraft tutorial explains all about donkeys with screenshots and step-by-step instructions. Let’s learn about donkeys in Minecraft.
Background
A donkey is a variant of horse in Minecraft. The following is a picture of what a donkey looks like in the game:
| 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 and Meadow biomes |
| Weapon | None |
| Attack Method | Will never attack you |
| Drops |  0-2 Leather 1 Saddle (if equipped) 1 Chest (if equipped) |
| Experience Points | 1-3 experience points |
| Special Skills | Can be tamed and ridden |
A donkey can not wear horse armor, but you can put a saddle on a donkey and ride it. You can also equip a donkey with a chest and store up to 15 stackable items.
Hostility Level (Passive)
A donkey 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 donkeys. Because a donkey is a passive mob, it will never attack you in the game (Creative or Survival mode).
Health Points
In Minecraft, a donkey has between 7.5 hearts and 15 hearts for health, depending on the type of donkey. This gives a donkey 15 and 30 health points (because 1 heart = 2 health points). To kill a donkey, you need to inflict between 15 and 30 points of damage depending on the donkey.
Where to Find Donkeys
In Minecraft, you can find donkeys in the Plains and Meadow biomes.
Plains
Meadow
If you are having trouble finding a donkey, you can summon a donkey using a cheat or you can use a spawn egg.
Weapon
A donkey does not carry a weapon.
Attack Method
You are safe to walk near a donkey and it will not attack or cause you any damage. And if you attack a donkey, it will just try to run away. It will not attack you back.
Drops
When you kill a donkey in Minecraft, it will drop leather.
If the donkey was wearing a saddle or chest, these items would also have been dropped when the donkey 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 donkey, you will gain 1-3 experience points.
Foods to Feed a Donkey
In Minecraft, you can restore a donkey’s health by feeding it and you can also speed up how fast a baby donkey grows by feeding it food.
TIP: A donkey will only eat food if its health bar is down or if it is a baby donkey that is growing. If you try to feed a donkey otherwise, it will not eat the food.
In Minecraft, these are the foods that you can feed a donkey:
| 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 donkey. It also displays the amount of time that it speeds up growth if you feed the food to a baby donkey.
Spawn Egg for Donkey
You can spawn a donkey using the following spawn egg:
Donkey Spawn Egg
Donkey Spawn EggThings to Do with Donkeys
Here are some activities that you can do with donkeys in Minecraft:
How to Use a Lead on a DonkeyDonkey Generator
Need some help generating the /summon command for a donkey carrying a chest of items? Try our command generator:
Command Examples
Here are some game command examples for a donkey in Minecraft:
NBT Tags for Donkey (Java Edition)
Here are the NBT tags (formerly called data tags) that you can use in game commands for a donkey in Java Edition:
Spawn Events for Donkey (Bedrock/Education)
Here are the spawn events that you can use in game commands for a donkey in Bedrock Edition and Education Edition:
Donkey Seeds
You can use a seed to create a world where you spawn in a biome with donkeys:
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
Drowned
Elder Guardian
Ender Dragon
Enderman
Endermite
Evoker
Fox
Frog
Ghast
Giant
Glow Squid
Goat
Guardian
Hoglin
Horse
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
Warden
Witch
Wither Boss
Wither Skeleton
Wolf
Zoglin
Zombie Horse
Zombified Piglin (Zombie Pigman)
Zombie Villager
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