How to breed horses in Minecraft explained
If you’re after a mighty steed to roam the blocky expanse with, you’ll be wanting to learn how to breed horses in Minecraft.
It isn’t made entirely obvious how you can breed horses in the game but, fortunately for you, we just happen to be experts in the subject.
Depending on what kinds of horses you breed in 2009 release, you will receive a different kind of foal. Once you know what to do, you can bring the horse of your dreams into the blocky world.
There are benefits to stats and colour when breeding horses in Minecraft. Even if it were just to see the cute spindly foal roaming around your homestead, though, it's a task worth completing.
If you're interested in how to breed horses in Minecraft, read on below to find out exactly that.
To breed horses in Minecraft, you need to feed two tamed horses either golden apples or golden carrots.
Feeding two tamed horses that are near each other golden carrots or golden apples will activate love mode. This leads to mating, which leads to a foal (baby horse) being born.
No. We're not going into the Minecraft horse birds and bees. Ask your parents.
You can breed a horse and a donkey together, too, to create mules. Mules cannot breed, though, so don’t even try it.
After breeding two horses or a donkey and a horse, the foal they birth has its stats and colourings based on its parents. A bred foal’s stats, for instance, are taken as an average of those of its parents plus a random variation.
The colour of your baby horse, donkey or mule, meanwhile, has an 11 per cent chance of a random base colour, plus a 20 per cent chance for random markings.
If neither of those low percentage options are met, the colour of your foal will be based on the colour of one of its parents.
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