Donkey
Donkeys live like horses: troughs or grass, lying down to sleep, and the brush instead of petting. Give one a chest and it carries your things too.
- Horse family
- Troughs or grass
- Lies down
- Brush, don't pet
| Becomes a pet | If you tamed it the vanilla way it becomes your pet automatically. Otherwise use a Pet Collar on it (that tames it too). |
|---|---|
| Needs |  Hunger  Thirst  Hygiene  Mood  Energy |
| Eats | From a Feed Trough; without one it grazes on grass (within 10 blocks). Never from pet bowls. |
| Drinks | From a Water Trough; without one, from a pond, river or lake (within 10 blocks). |
| Favourite kibble | None |
| Hand-feed with | Its usual food (wheat, apples, sugar, hay, golden carrots...), or Pet Kibble |
| Toilet | None: only cats, ocelots, dogs and foxes have a bladder need. |
| Sleeps | Lies down where it is (or on its Rest Spot). It doesn't use pet beds. |
| Plays | Chases a thrown Pet Ball and noses it around. |
| Can sit | No: on Stay it just stands still. |
| Petting | Sneaking with an empty hand opens its inventory, as in vanilla. Use a Pet Brush to bond with it instead. |
Eating & drinking
Like the rest of the horse family, a donkey uses troughs, never pet bowls, and grazes or drinks from a pond when there's no trough nearby. It reaches its head down over the trough's rim to eat.
A hay bale fills a Feed Trough (6 servings); its usual food, apples, or other farm animal food adds one serving each. Kibble doesn't go in troughs.
Sleeping
A tired donkey lies down where it is, front legs first, the way a horse does, and gets up rear end first.
Chest and grooming
- Put a chest on it as usual. Sneak + empty hand opens its inventory (saddle and chest), so it can't be petted. Use the Pet Brush instead: it cleans it and cheers it up.
- Ride it as usual. While you're in the saddle (or it's on a lead) it does what you want; its needs keep ticking.
Tips
- A donkey on Follow makes a handy pack animal that feeds itself on the way.
- Breed a donkey with a horse for a mule. A baby born to your pets is your pet too.
