Minecraft is full of living, colorful creatures, and over the years, its list of mobs and animals that can be bred has been expanding. One of the first animals added was the horse, a creature that can be ridden when saddled and tamed. They are passive mobs, meaning they won’t attack the player even if provoked or attacked directly, so they are one of the good ones. But when you’re trying to tame or breed horses, you’ll find that, as with any other mob, food will be vital to boosting its temperament past the tame threshold, which is often randomly placed between 0-99 depending on any this meeting. What do horses eat in Minecraft? Read on to find out!
What do horses eat in Minecraft?
Horses eat apples, golden apples, golden carrots, sheaves of hay, wheat and sugar. Golden apples and carrots will also activate the love mode required for breeding, and hay bales will only work on tamed or young horses.
| Food | Restores health | Accelerates growth | Increases taming chance |
| Sugar | 1 | 30 sec. | +3% |
| Wheat | 2 | 1 min. | +3% |
| Apple | 3 | 1 min. | +3% |
| Golden Apple | 10 | 4 min. | +10% |
| golden carrot | 4 | 1 min. | +5% |
| sheaf of hay | 20 | 3 min. | — |
While hay bales do not increase taming chance (since they don’t affect wild horses, making it irrelevant), hay has the highest healing qualities, healing 20 hearts for horses and rapidly boosting their growth, second only to Golden Apples. If you have a steady supply of apples, you’ll find that they can be the most effective for taming as well as healing and growth, granting 3 hearts and 1 minute of growth instantly. Use any of these items and you will be able to tame some horses!
