How to Breed Horses in Minecraft Game

This is an article on how to breed horses in Minecraft. After breeding horses, you will have foals by giving each horse a golden apple. Horse breeding is available on all versions of Minecraft, including desktop, mobile and console versions.

Table of Contents

Horse taming

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Prepare a minimum of 40 apples. You need about 20 apples for each horse to tame. Apples make taming horses easier (and faster) than trying to tame without food.

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Find horses. Horses are commonly found in flat grasslands such as plains and savannas. ^{[1] X Research Source}

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Apple equipment. You need to make sure the apple is selected in the equipment bar at the bottom of the screen before approaching the horse.

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Pick the horse until it stops eating. Right click or push the left shifter on the horse until you can no longer hear the crunch and the horse starts to jump and neigh.

In the PE version of Minecraft, you will point towards the horse and tap Feed exactly 20 times.

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Switch to empty hands. This maneuver allows you to climb on horseback.

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Choose a horse. Right-click or left-click on the horse to do this. You should climb on horseback at this point.

In the PE version of Minecraft, you will aim towards the horse and tap Mount at the bottom of the screen.

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Wait for the red heart to appear. When red hearts appear around the horse, you have successfully tamed the horse. At this point, you can dismount by pressing the left Shift button or the “Crouch” button.

If the horse knocks you down, get on the horse again and wait for the red heart to appear. You need to do this several times.

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Taming another horse. You need to tame two horses to breed.

If the first tamed horse doesn’t follow you, you can lead it into the two-story fence area so it doesn’t wander off.

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Build a two-story fence around the horse. You can use any resource (such as earth or sand) to do this, but the fence must be two stories high so the horses can’t run out.

If you have enough fence materials in your inventory, you can use them to fence horses instead of using blocks.
You need to create a little more space when building the fence because you will quickly have a third horse.

Breeding a horse

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Prepare resources to create golden apples. You need two golden apples – one for each horse, so you need the following types of resources:

2 apples — Used to make golden apples.
16 gold bars — You can create gold bars by heating gold ore in a furnace.
1 crafting table — Used to make golden apples. If you don’t have a crafting table yet, create it before continuing.

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Create two golden apples. The process will be slightly different depending on the platform:

Calculator — Open the crafting table, click the gold bars, right-click each tile in the crafting table twice except the middle one, place both apples in the center slot, and transfer the two golden apples to the inventory.
Mobile — Open the crafting table, tap the magnifying glass icon on the left side of the screen, and double-tap the golden apple icon.
Game console — Open the crafting table, select the magnifying glass card, and select two golden apples.

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Go into the horse fence. You need to make sure no horses run away from the fence when you enter it.

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Make sure both horses have full strength. Feeding the horse you accidentally attacked a golden apple is just a way to feed it instead of preparing to breed.

If the horse does not have full strength, you will feed each red apple until they stop eating.

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Equip the golden apple. You need to make sure the golden apples in the equipment bar at the bottom of the screen are selected.

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Select each horse. Right click or press the left switch on each horse with the gold apple equipped. This is the operation that causes a red heart to appear on the head of each horse, indicating that they are ready for breeding.

In the PE version of Minecraft, you’ll aim for each horse and tap Feed at the bottom of the screen.

Advice

You can also find golden apples in chests located around the world, or occasionally in the village.

Warning

You cannot tame new horses. If you want to own that horse, you have to tame it when it is an adult.

Steps

Horse taming

Breeding a horse

Advice

Warning

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