Horse
Horses eat from troughs or graze, lie down to sleep, and are groomed with the brush. Donkeys, mules, skeleton horses and zombie horses live the same way.
- 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. Brushed, it lifts its head and swishes its tail. |
Eating & drinking
Like all farm animals, horses use troughs, never pet bowls, and graze or drink from a pond when there's no trough nearby. To eat they reach their head down over the trough's rim.
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 horse lies down where it is: front legs first, then the hindquarters, with its tail laid out behind it. It gets up rear end first.
Riding and grooming
- 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.
- Sneak + empty hand still opens its inventory (saddle and armour), so it can't be petted. Use the Pet Brush instead: it cleans it and cheers it up.
- A horse on Follow trots after you and teleports to you if it falls more than 24 blocks behind.
Tips
- Leave your horses on Idle in their paddock with a feed and water trough, and they look after themselves while you're away.
- Use Rest Spot on a block in the stable to make a horse sleep there.
