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This article will show you how to Breed Horses, Donkeys, and Mules in Minecraft. Out of all the animals in Minecraft, the mule is one of the best ones to ride while traveling to carry things. The mule can carry chests, like a donkey, so you can move a lot of resources and materials from one place to another while riding it. But a mule is better than a donkey because it has “virtual horse genetics.” This makes it faster and able to jump higher. Even though the differences in agility aren’t that big, they can make a big difference if you’re an adventurer who often has to carry goods over long distances across the overworld’s biomes.
In Minecraft, you can be almost anything. A strong fighter, a brave cave diver, or even a simple farmer. And you’ll need farm animals if you want to build a farm. One of the few animals you can tame and breed in Minecraft is a horse. This means that if you start with two horses, you can end up with a lot more than that. You’ll just need a lot of gold and enough apples and carrots to feed them all. Practically speaking, breeding horses in Minecraft isn’t too hard, but when you get into the genetics of it, it can get more complicated. But no matter what, it can be fun to breed two horses or a horse and a donkey because the foals can have different traits. But you need a few things before you can breed some horses. We mentioned below are the ways how to Breed Horses, Donkeys, and Mules in Minecraft.
How to Breed Horses in Minecraft

It’s not hard to get horses to have babies. You’ll need two horses and two Golden Apples or Golden Carrots. If you can’t do that, you just need to put both horses in a stable or fenced-in area together.
- Put two horses in a stable or fenced-in area.
- Feed each horse one Golden Apple or one Golden Carrot. The horses get into “love mode” with either item.
- The horses mate and have a horse foal, which is a baby horse.
- The foal grows up and turns into an adult horse. It takes about 30 minutes, but you can speed up the process by feeding it.
- Appearance: A lot of people breed horses to get a certain color and pattern of spots. Most baby horses have a mix of the colors and markings of their parents. But there is a 28% chance that it will be a random color, have a random pattern of markings, or both.
How to Breed Donkey in Minecraft
In Minecraft, breeding donkeys is almost the same as breeding horses. To start the process, you need two donkeys and two golden apples or carrots. Donkeys were a little harder to find when I was writing this tutorial. I think this is because they travel in smaller groups than horses. Here’s how to breed donkeys, no matter what.
- Put two donkeys in a fenced-in area or a stable together.
- Give each donkey a Golden Apple or a Golden Carrot to put them in “love mode.”
- The donkeys will mate and have a donkey foal, which is a baby donkey.
- In about 30 minutes, the foal turns into a full-grown donkey. You can speed this up by giving it food.
- Donkeys look different from horses because they only come in one color. So, no matter what you do, all of your donkeys will look the same.
How to Breed Mules in Minecraft
Mules are something a bit different. Mules do not spawn naturally and also cannot procreate. It’s actually true in real life as well. You need one horse, one donkey, and two Golden Apples or Golden Carrots in order to make one. You also unlock the Artificial Selection achievement when you breed a mule.
- Place one donkey and one horse together in a fenced-in area or stable.
- Feed each animal a Golden Apple or Golden Carrot to put them in “love mode“.
- After a while, they will breed and create a baby mule, otherwise known as a mule foal.
- The baby mule grows up to a full mule in about 30 minutes. You can speed up this process by feeding it.
- Mules, like donkeys, only have one texture. Every mule you make looks the same.
There are a lot of different animals in Minecraft that can help you grow and move forward in the game. Some of them are neutral mobs that will attack you if you attack them, but others will try to get away from you because they are scared. Minecraft is a sandbox game created by Mojang Studios in 2011. Markus “Notch” Persson created the game in the Java programming language. It was first made public in May 2009, after several early private testing versions, before being fully released in November 2011, with Notch stepping down and Jens “Jeb” Bergensten taking over development. Minecraft is the best-selling video game of all time, with over 238 million copies sold and nearly 140 million monthly active players as of 2021, and it has been ported to a variety of platforms.