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
Horse Spawn EggThings to Do with Horses
Here are some activities that you can do with horses in Minecraft:
How to Use a Lead on a HorseCommand Examples
Here are some game command examples for a horse in Minecraft:
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:
Horse Variants
Here are the variants for a horse in Minecraft:
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:
Horse Seeds
You can use a seed to create a world where you spawn in a biome with horses:
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
Warden
Witch
Wither Boss
Wither Skeleton
Wolf
Zoglin
Zombie Horse
Zombified Piglin (Zombie Pigman)
Zombie Villager
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