Horse Armor

Horse armor is a special type of armor that can be given to a horse to wear. Only normal horses can wear armor; other variants such as skeleton horses, donkeys, and mules cannot be equipped with armor.

Natural generation

 * Iron


 * Gold


 * Diamond

Trading
Expert-level leatherworker villagers sell leather horse armor for 6 emeralds as part of their trade.

Protection
Horse armor can be equipped to horses either by manually placing it in its respective slot, or by right clicking the horse with it.

There is a gradual increase in the defense given from a horse wearing the different types of armor:

Dyeing
Leather horse armor can be dyed 12,326,391 different colors (using lone dyes or dye combinations) and put onto a horse to display that color. These changes can be reverted by right clicking on a filled cauldron with dyed leather horse armor.