Horses are mobs that can be tamed and bred. Their creation was assisted by DrZhark (John Olarte), creator of the Mo' Creatures mod. As a result, the horses are similar to those in the mod.[1]
Once a horse is tamed and a saddle is attached, it can be controlled with standard directional controls and the mouse. Different variations of horse armor can be put onto horses. They can be tied to fence posts using a lead. There are different breeds of horses, similar to the different breeds of cats. A foal's growth can be accelerated via the use of apples, wheat, sugar, bread, golden apples and hay bales. The Zombie and Skeleton Horse are only possible to get from MC edit, unless they release it in regular Minecraft.
Spawning
Unlike most other passive mobs, horses can only spawn in plains (from snapshot 13w36a on, also in savanna and savanna plateau biomes, as well as sunflower plains). Because of this, horses are seemingly less common than other mobs, although within those biomes they spawn just as regularly as any other. Horses spawn in herds, ranging from a minimum of 2 to a maximum of 6. All members of any given herd will have the same base coat colour, although individual markings can vary. All skin pattern variations of horses, including donkeys, have an equal chance of being spawned, although donkeys are seemingly less common. This natural spawn does not include mules, which can only be spawned in survival by cross-breeding a horse of any variation and a donkey. Like most mobs, horses can be spawned in creative mode via spawn eggs. The pattern of the horse that is spawned using the egg is completely random and cannot be controlled; this variation includes donkeys, who do not have their own spawn egg. Just like in survival, mules cannot be naturally found or spawned via a spawn egg; they must be bred from horses and donkeys.
Appearance
All 35 breeds of horses.
There are currently 5 variations of the horse mob in the game, where the variations are normal horses, donkeys, mules, skeleton horses, and zombie horses. Each variation has unique features and markings, and a foal version. Unlike wolves and ocelots, the appearances of horses do not change once they have been tamed, though tame horses may be differentiated from wild horses if they have been given equipment.
Horse
Horse
Horses all feature the same stocky build and can be 1 of 7 base colors: white, buckskin, dark bay, bay, black, dapple gray, and flaxen chestnut. Horses also have a secondary coloring known as markings. There are 5 different marking variations: no markings, stockings and blaze, snowflake appaloosa, paint and sooty. In total, there are 35 possible horse coat combinations taking into consideration all base colors and markings. (For entity data values, see Horse Variants.)
Donkey
Donkey
Donkeys are smaller all around than the normal horses and sport long, erect ears. Their manes do not protrude, but rather are drawn directly on the back of their heads and necks. All donkeys have grey-brown coats with darker ankles, ears, manes, and tails. Donkeys cannot be equipped with horse armor, but can be equipped with chests to store items. Its storage contains 15 slots.
Mule
Mule
Mules, the offspring of interbred horses and donkeys, are closer to (but are not quite) the size of a normal horse. However, their ears, coats, and manes are like those of the donkey, though the mules’ coats are darker and reddish-brown in color. Like donkeys, mules cannot be equipped with armor, but can be equipped with chests.
All mules are sterile, meaning they cannot breed.
Undead horse
Undead horse
Undead horses, or zombie horses, appear to be the counterpart of zombies. Like zombies, undead horses are green-skinned on account of their leathery-looking rotten flesh, and their eyes are completely black. Undead horses can neither be tamed nor mounted. Undead horses make a low-pitched screaming noise when killed.
Undead horses are unobtainable in Minecraft without external or third-party editors, and as of 13w36a, undead horses can obtained by using the command string /summon EntityHorse ~0 ~0 ~0 {Type:3}.
Skeleton horse
Skeleton horse
Skeleton horses are comprised of white bones, though it still maintains the general structure of a normal horse. This is reminiscent of skeletons, which are also composed only of bones. Skeleton horses cannot be mounted nor tamed. Skeleton horses make the same noise as a normal horse when killed, but lower-pitched.
Skeleton horses are unobtainable in Minecraft without external or third-party editors, and as of 13w36a, skeleton horses can obtained by using the command string /summon EntityHorse ~0 ~0 ~0 {Type:4}.
Usage
Tamed horses can be used as one of the fastest means of transportation in the game. They can also be used to climb hills, as horses can jump very high. Donkeys and mules can be equipped with chests and used as pack animals. However, horses are difficult to ride in confined areas like jungles, and in water more than 2 blocks deep.
Skeleton and undead horses are currently of little use to the player because they cannot be tamed, but their appearances and their respective similarities to skeletons and zombies suggest that they may be intended as hostile mobs.
Behavior
Horses in herds spawned by the game will usually all be the same color.
Horses and donkeys spawn in plains and savannas in the Overworld in herds of as few as 2 individuals. Horse herds seem to be somewhat rarer than groups of other passive animal mobs such as cows or sheep. Donkey herds are even more uncommon. There is little variation within naturally spawned herds; foals may spawn alongside adult horses, but coat types all tend to be similar. For normal horse herds, the animals will have the same base coat color, though markings may differ.
Mules, skeleton horses, and undead horses do not spawn naturally. Mules can be acquired through breeding. Currently, undead horses and skeleton horses can only be brought into the game by editing the region files with third party editing programs.
All horses will roam idly, occasionally stopping to rear, swish their tails, or lower their heads as though eating the grass. Unlike sheep, the eating animation does not actually cause any grass to be consumed. If a player comes near, the horses may turn to look at them. Any horse, even a wild one, will allow itself to be attached to a lead without protest. However, if the player attempts to saddle an untamed horse, it will rear and flail its front hooves, though this causes no damage to the player. Horses remain passive even when hit. The appearances of the undead and skeleton horses suggest that they could possibly be intended as hostile mobs, but at this time they are completely passive if spawned.
Horses will also open their mouths and make noises that depend on the particular horse’s variation. Normal horses make neighs and whinnies, while donkeys and mules, which use the same audio, emit brays. Skeleton horses make various metallic sounds. Zombie horses make several ominous moaning sounds.
Horses are hydrophobic, will throw the rider off if swimming in water deeper than 2 blocks, and then will be difficult to coax back onto land or water shallow enough to remount. Players can build a few blocks underneath the horse to get it on dry land, or try to push it. But the player swimming in deeper water while leading a horse is no problem; keep that in mind as a solution when having to cross deep water rivers.
Taming
Adult horses, donkeys, and mules can be tamed; foals, skeleton horses, and zombie horses cannot. It is necessary to tame a horse in order to breed it, give it equipment, or ride it for any length of time.
To tame a wild horse, approach it and right click on it with an empty hand. You will climb on top of it, and will likely be thrown off. After a few attempts, it will allow you to remain on it and will give off heart animations. At this point you can dismount it by pressing the sneak key and place a saddle on it, or you can place a saddle without using the sneak key at all by right-clicking on the horse with the saddle in hand. Horses can also be saddled by opening your inventory while mounted and moving the saddle to the appropriate slot in the horse's inventory.
The chance of successful taming on the first try is almost 0%, yet it can be done. Taming on the first attempt is very rare. After the first attempt without taming the horse, the chances increase by about 5%, and usually one can then tame a horse after about 5-6 attempts. Taming can be sped up by feeding the horse any of the approved foods when you are standing next to it - see column "Taming prob." in the table below.
Breeding
Feeding tamed horses golden apples or a golden carrot will activate love mode.[2] Depending on the variations of the parent horses, the offspring can be one of several types. The offspring will be more spindly than their adult versions and will grow progressively larger with time until they reach their full size. Breeding horses tend towards average horses and the best horses are found in the wild or spawned through spawn eggs.
The offspring will not automatically belong to the player who owns its parents. Rather, it will be born as an untamed horse and will need to be tamed if the player wants the benefits of ownership. It will not be tamable until it has grown into an adult, a process which takes approximately 20 minutes. If the player does not want to wait, the foal can be fed to make it mature faster (Golden Apples mature the offspring faster than Golden Carrots). See table below.
The offspring’s health bar will always shows 26 hearts even though its real health is lower (and never exceeds 15 hearts). This glitch can be fixed by reloading the world. A foal has an attachment to its birth-mother, unless you kill her (in which case it will move to another available horse).
- Parent 1.png
First parent with 11 full hearts.
- Parent 2.png
Second parent with 12 full hearts.
- Kid.png
The new foal. Health bar shows 26 full hearts even though its health is lower.
Horse
Breeding two horses produces a horse foal. Usually the new foal has the color of either of its parents. One out of nine times it will take on an uncorrelated color (this color could still be the same as the parents', slightly reducing the probability of the new color being different). Markings are supposed to work likewise, but due to a bug the foal will only ever have the markings of one of its parents. [3]
Mule
Mules cannot be found in the wild. Mules can only be bred between a horse and a donkey.
Donkey
Breeding two donkeys creates a donkey foal. Since all donkeys have the same texture, the offspring will look exactly like its parents when it is fully grown.
Foods
Feeding a horse food can alter its behavior, cause it to grow (if it is not yet an adult), and/or restore its health. The table below lists the effects of the various foods horses will take. The two undead horses cannot be fed, even if spawned tame with an editor. Horses can only be fed when their health is low or are untamed by holding the feed and right clicking (similar to other animals). If a horse does not need feeding or if the food is invalid, the player will just mount the horse instead of feeding it.
| Food | Heals | Speeds growth by | Increases taming prob. | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sugar | 1 |
30 sec | +3% | |
| Wheat | 2 |
1 min | +3% | |
| Apple | 3 |
1 min | +3% | |
| Golden Carrot | 4 |
1 min | +5% | Activates love mode in tamed horses. |
| Bread | 7 |
3 min | +3% | |
| Golden Apple | 10 |
4 min | +10% | Activates love mode in tamed horses. |
| Hay Bale | 20 |
3 min | - |
Note: it takes 20 minutes for a newborn foal to grow into an adult.
Effects
Effects can be placed on tame horses by using splash potions. Splash potions have to be thrown at a distance from the player at the horses, or the player will mount on the horses. However, should the player decide to mount a horse, the player can still throw splash potions to give the horses effects, but it will also be applied to the player.
Effects can only be seen on the horses through the particles, not through accessing the inventory of a horse, like effects would appear in a player's inventory menu. Like any other mob, horses cannot drink milk, so horses are unable to be cured.
Effects can also be given to donkeys, mules, and both versions of undead horses.
Creative mode
The health GUI for horses, mules, and donkeys show up when the player is in Survival Mode and Adventure Mode. The only other GUIs that appear in Creative Mode for horses, mules, and donkeys is the jump bar.
Equipment
Donkey UI
Tamed horses can be equipped with saddles, horse armor (normal horses only), or chests (donkeys or mules only). Foals cannot be equipped with anything. Skeleton horses and zombie horses cannot be tamed, but if spawned tame with an editor they can be equipped with saddles only.
Equipment can be placed on a horse by holding it and then right clicking on the horse, or by accessing its inventory. A horse’s inventory can be accessed by mounting the horse and opening the player inventory or by holding down shift and then right-clicking on the horse. (Note that right-clicking without holding down shift will cause the player to mount the horse.) A normal horse’s inventory will only have 2 slots, 1 for a saddle and 1 for horse armor. A donkey or mule will only have a saddle slot originally, but if it is given a chest, it will acquire 15 more inventory slots that can hold anything the player wishes.
Chests can only be given to a donkey or a mule by right-clicking on the donkey or mule with the chest in hand, and afterwards the chest cannot be removed, except by killing the donkey or mule. Upon death, the donkey or mule will drop the attached chest and its contents.
Even a wild horse can be attached to a lead, which can then be tied to a fence post to keep the horse from wandering. Leads are attached by holding it in hand and then right-clicking on the horse.
Riding
Once you have tamed a horse and put a saddle on it, you can control it with standard directional controls and the mouse (Please note that a horse can be mounted without a saddle, but can not be controlled, similarly to how a pig with a saddle can not be controlled without a Carrot on a Stick).
Horses can be made to jump, and holding the jump key allows you to charge your jump. Horses are not affected by Jump Boost beacons. Sneaking causes you to dismount, as does going in water deeper than two blocks.
Horse jump bar
When you mount a horse, the hunger bar and oxygen bar are replaced by the horse's health in survival or adventure mode. It uses a slightly different heart texture than the player's health bar. The experience bar is replaced by the horse jump bar, which gauges how high you jump. The maximum jumping height, which is reached when the bar is fully charged as you release the spacebar, depends on the horse you ride. It seems to range from about 1.2 to 5.5 blocks high. As each horse has different statistics, it is difficult to gauge the maximum distance, but testing has revealed that certain horses can jump distances of 12 blocks.
You can use any item while riding a horse, including drinking or throwing potions, activating doors or redstone devices, or using chests, crafting tables, and furnaces. You can also break and place blocks, use a sword, and fire arrows.
When running forward, you will start at a slow walk and build to a speed faster than sprinting. You will automatically run up any one block high slope. You are three blocks tall while on a horse, but you can ride under 2 block tall areas, causing your head to pass through blocks. This causes suffocation damage, except when passing through non-solid blocks. You are slightly wider than one block, and are unable to walk through one block wide gaps. However, due to the horse's length, you can run over any one block gap. It also appears you can run across a two block gap at high speeds, but this does not seem to work all of the time.
Virtually all horses appear to be able to go faster than a minecart when both are moving at full speed. Some seem to be quite dramatically faster than a minecart. This can be combined with speed potions and the Nether to make the horse easily the fastest practical way to travel in Minecraft (around 130 m/s Earth-equivalent in The Nether). The speed of a horse is irrespective of its outward appearance. In order to find a fast horse, you have to tame multiple individuals and compare them.
Horses are very slow moving backwards, and about as fast as the player when moving sideways. Therefore, turning around is quite preferable to moving backwards or sideways.
Health, Jump Height, Speed
All horses have three "equine stats" which vary from horse to horse: health, jump height and (maximum) speed. The stats are created once the horse is born and are not affected by food. The different horse types use different formulas for each:
- Health runs from 15 to 30, with most around the average of 22.5.
- Jump strength is from 0.4 to 1.0 in internal units (but tending toward the average of 0.7.)
- Maximum speed is from 0.1125 to 0.3375 (but tending toward the average of 0.225.) This is in internal units. By comparison, the player's walking speed is 0.1 in the same units.
- The speed in blocks/second is a bit over 43 times the internal value, but can be affected by various conditions.
- Donkeys are spawned with 15 to 30 health, 0.175 movement speed and 0.5 jump strength.
The above applies to naturally spawned horses. When breeding two horses, the foal's stats are determined by averaging both parent's stats with a third set, randomly determined as above. (That is, add both parents' stats with the random value, and divide by 3).
On multiplayer, it is possible to easily figure out which of two horses (owned and ridden by different players) is faster. Each rider needs to apply a lead to the other horse, then play 'tug of war'. The stronger horse will be faster. This can be seen in this video, along with a simple horse garage, and the world's slowest horse.
Video
Horse/video
History
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| Jeb hints at adding horses when Minecraft hit 10,000,000 sales. | |||||
1.6{{Extension DPL}}<ul><li>[[Minecart with Furnace|Minecart with Furnace]]<br/>{{ItemEntity
|image=Minecart with Furnace.png
|renewable=Yes
|stackable=No
|size=Height: 0.7 Blocks<br>Width: 0.98 Blocks
|networkid=10
|drops= 1 {{ItemLink|Minecart with Furnace}}
|health={{Hp|6}}
}}
A '''minecart with furnace''' is a [[furnace]] inside a [[minecart]]. It can be powered with [[coal]] or [[charcoal]] to propel it across a [[rail]] line for a limited time, which can be used to move other minecarts.
==Obtaining==
Minecarts with furnace can be retrieved by attacking them, and by doing so it drops as an [[item]].
===Crafting===
{{Crafting
|Output= Minecart with Furnace
|type= Transportation
|Furnace|Minecart}}
==Usage==
Minecarts with furnaces are placed in the same way as other minecarts. It does not have a graphical user interface, unlike a [[furnace]].
Minecarts with furnaces can be powered, done by feeding fuel ([[coal]] or [[charcoal]]) into the furnace minecart with the {{Control|use}} button. The fuel is consumed immediately and it starts to move in the same direction the player clicked toward. Pressing {{Control|use}} always turns it to that direction, even when not holding coal.
Any piece of fuel, added at any time, increases the total range by an additional 3600 ticks (equal to 180 seconds or 3 minutes). The upper limit is 32767 ticks, approximately 27 minutes.
When powered, minecarts with furnaces cover 240m per minute (about 4 m/s, slightly slower than walking speed) or 720m per piece of coal. They do not accelerate beyond this speed when going downhill or on active [[powered rail]]s, and as long as they remain powered, they do not slow down when going uphill, on inactive powered rails, or when pushing or pulling other minecarts.
If a powered furnace minecart is derailed and then pushed back onto a rail, it starts moving again in the direction it came from, so they are not easily turned around in this state unless a player is nearby to redirect it with {{Control|use}}.
Minecarts with furnaces can climb up steep inclines while pushing other minecarts as long as they have fuel. If a minecart with furnace reaches a slope while pulling another minecart, the pulled minecart is switched to the forward position so that it can be pushed along the slope instead of pulled.
When a minecart with furnace bumps into another minecart or multiple minecarts, the other minecarts are pushed forward with great speed. The furnace minecart continues on with its own speed. Because of this speed difference, some of the minecarts may end up inside unloaded chunks on straight tracks.
===Train mechanics===
{{Schematic
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{{Schematic
|caption=Creating a strongly-shunted 1-cart train. The sloped rail must be replaced with a horizontal rail before powering.
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[[File:FurnaceMinecartTrain.png|thumb|right|A Minecart train powered by furnace [[Minecart|minecarts.]]|alt=]]
A furnace minecart can be made to pull up to four other minecarts. All minecarts in this train move at the constant speed of the furnace minecart. Trains are formed when a minecart is pushed into the back of a powered furnace minecart or a short-enough train. These shunts are fragile at best and easily come undone, but some methods are stronger than others. For example, pushing a minecart into a furnace minecart and then powering the furnace gives a weaker shunt than pushing the furnace minecart into the other minecart against a wall, and then powering the furnace in the other direction.
A high-speed minecart running into the back of a furnace minecart going in the same direction automatically creates a weak shunt with it, pulling it along.
Pulling a minecart with TNT causes it to explode.
{| class="wikitable"
|+Pulled minecart/Shunt behavior
!Condition
!Result
|-
|Furnace loses power/speed||Shunt comes undone
|-
|Entity bumping besides those part of the train||Jettisoned forward
|-
|Upward sloped track||Jettisoned forward
|-
|Downward sloped track||Jettisoned forward (strong shunt) or shunt comes undone (weak shunt)
|-
|90° turn in track||Jettisoned backward
|-
|Turn toward north/south or east/west that is not the direction the train was shunted in||Train derails
|}
When a train comes to a turn, the shunt comes undone with the pulled minecart jettisoned backward. The correct way to make such a turn is having the shunt undone before a turn, and then make the two rejoin on a straight rail later by having the pulled cart catch up with the minecart with furnace.<ref name=mango/>
Since the train runs slower on a fully powered track than a normal minecart (~5 m/s compared to 8m/s), a train pulled by an unpowered furnace minecart is ideal for AFK farms involving breaking or placing blocks like [[nether wart]].<ref name=mango>{{YouTubeLink|1=pRLiAQfhTG8|2=Why The Furnace Minecart Isn't As Useless As You Think|3=ilmango}}</ref>
==Properties==
The coal is not stored as an item in the entity, but in the object data in the fuel property as a time in ticks. ''Fuel'' is a short value, i.e. a maximum of 32767 ticks, which is about 27 minutes. However, {{cmd|/summon furnace_minecart ~ ~ ~ {Fuel:32000} }} alone doesn't make it go since it doesn't have a direction. It can be right-clicked on a track to give it a direction, or it can be summoned with the properties ''PushX'' and ''PushZ'' set, which are responsible for the direction. The <code>Motion</code> property of every entity allows for movement of the minecart, but it does not direct the minecart to move on its own.
==Sounds==
{{Edition|Java}}:<br>
Minecarts with furnaces use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.<ref group=sound name=rollsource>{{bug|MC-42132}}</ref>
{{Sound table
|sound=Minecart rolling.ogg
|subtitle=Minecart rolls
|source=Friendly Creatures <ref group=sound name=rollsource/>
|overridesource=1
|description=While a minecart with furnace is moving
|id=entity.minecart.riding
|translationkey=subtitles.entity.minecart.riding
|volume=0.0-0.35 <ref group=sound>Relates linearly with horizontal velocity (max 0.5)</ref>
|pitch=0.0-1.0 <ref group=sound>Will increase by 0.0025 per tick if the minecart's horizontal velocity is more than 0.01</ref>
|distance=16
|foot=1}}
{{Edition|Bedrock}}:
{{Sound table
|type=bedrock
|sound=Minecart rolling.ogg
|source=neutral
|description=While a minecart with furnace is moving
|id=minecart.base
|foot=1}}
==Data values==
===ID===
{{ID table
|edition=java
|firstcolumnname=Item
|showforms=y
|generatetranslationkeys=y
|displayname=Minecart with Furnace
|spritetype=item
|nameid=furnace_minecart
|form=item
|foot=1}}
{{ID table
|edition=java
|firstcolumnname=Entity
|generatetranslationkeys=y
|displayname=Minecart with Furnace
|spritetype=entity
|nameid=furnace_minecart
|foot=1}}
===Entity data===
Minecarts with furnace have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the entity.
{{el|java}}:
{{main|Entity format}}
{{/ED}}
{{el|bedrock}}:
: See [[Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format]].
==History==
{{History|java alpha}}
{{History||v1.0.14|[[File:Minecart with Furnace JE1.png|32px]] [[File:Minecart with Furnace (item) JE1.png|32px]] Minecarts with furnace were added.
|Since no in-game name was indicated, they were referred to by names such as "powered minecart" or "furnace minecart".
|No matter how much fuel was added to the minecart, it would never move for more than 3 minutes after the last fuel.}}
{{History|java beta}}
{{History||1.0|When tooltips were added to items in inventory, this was named "Minecart with Furnace".}}
{{History||1.2|[[File:Minecart with Furnace JE2.png|32px]] The texture of the minecart with furnace has been changed.}}
{{History|java}}
{{History||1.0.0|snap=?|Each piece of [[coal]] now powers a [[minecart]] with furnace for {{convert|3|minutes|ticks}}, so that adding another piece of coal at any time increases the total range by another 3 minutes. A full stack of 64 coal now powers it for {{convert|192|minutes|ticks}}.
|Minecarts with furnace on a level track cover 204 meters per minute.}}
{{History||1.8|snap=14w11a|Minecarts with furnace now give a much greater boost to other minecarts.
|When powered, minecarts with furnace now move on non-powered rails without decelerating.}}
{{History|||snap=14w17a|Minecarts with furnace's behavior has been reverted, so that no change was released in [[Java Edition 1.8]].}}
{{History||1.11|snap=16w32a|The entity ID of the minecart with furnace has been changed from <code>MinecartFurnace</code> to <code>furnace_minecart</code>.}}
{{History||1.13|snap=17w47a|Prior to [[1.13/Flattening|''The Flattening'']], this [[item]]'s numeral ID was 343.}}
{{History||1.14|snap=18w43a|[[File:Minecart with Furnace JE3.png|32px]] [[File:Minecart with Furnace (item) JE2.png|32px]] The texture of the minecart with furnace has been changed.}}
{{History||1.15|snap=19w38a|[[File:Minecart with Furnace 19w38a.png|32px]] The furnace now appears dark, like suffocating mobs.}}
{{History|||snap=19w39a|The furnace texture is now colored correctly.}}
{{History||1.15.2|snap=Pre-Release 1|Furnace minecarts can now navigate around any corner.}}
{{History||1.19|snap=22w13a|The crafting recipe for a minecart with furnace is now shapeless.
|Breaking a minecart with furnace will now drop the item instead of the minecart and furnace separately.<ref>{{bug|MC-249493|||Fixed}}</ref>}}
{{History|console}}
{{History||xbox=TU1|xbone=CU1|ps=1.0|wiiu=Patch 1|switch=1.0.1|[[File:Minecart with Furnace JE2.png|32px]] [[File:Minecart with Furnace (item) JE1.png|32px]] Added minecart with furnace.}}
{{History|Ps4}}
{{History||1.90|[[File:Minecart with Furnace JE3.png|32px]] [[File:Minecart with Furnace (item) JE2.png|32px]] The texture of the minecart with furnace has been changed.}}
{{History|foot}}
==Issues==
{{issue list}}
==Trivia==
*The minecart with furnace is excluded from {{els|be|3ds}} on purpose. In a tweet, [[Jeb]] considered removing it from {{el|je}}.<ref>{{tweet|jeb|699241247391772672|I think we will phase out the furnace minecraft ''(sic)''|15 Feb 2016}}</ref>
**When converting a [[Legacy Console Edition]] world to a [[Bedrock Edition]] world, any present minecarts with furnaces are converted into a normal minecart.
**Despite the above-described poor standing of the minecart, it was most recently briefly featured in an animation in the [[Minecraft Live 2022]], where one was depicted as moving a train of about 20 minecarts at a higher than normal speed.
==Gallery==
<gallery>
Running Powered Minecart.png|A powered minecart in action.
</gallery>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{Items}}
{{Entities}}
[[Category:Mechanics]]
[[cs:Parní vozík]]
[[de:Antriebslore]]
[[es:Vagoneta con horno]]
[[fr:Wagonnet motorisé]]
[[hu:Gőzmeghajtású csille]]
[[ja:かまど付きのトロッコ]]
[[ko:화로가 실린 광산 수레]]
[[nl:Mijnkar met oven]]
[[pl:Wagonik z piecem]]
[[ru:Вагонетка с печью]]
[[uk:Вагонетка з піччю]]
[[zh:动力矿车]]</li><li>[[Sparkler|Sparkler]]<br/>{{About|the Education Edition exclusive item|the new melee weapon available from the ''Minecraft Dungeons'' anniversary event|MCD:Sparkler}}
{{Item
| image = <gallery>
Orange Sparkler.png | Orange
Blue Sparkler.png | Blue
Red Sparkler.png | Red
Purple Sparkler.png | Purple
Green Sparkler.png | Green
</gallery>
| image2 = <gallery>
Active Orange Sparkler.png | Active Orange
Active Blue Sparkler.png | Active Blue
Active Red Sparkler.png | Active Red
Active Purple Sparkler.png | Active Purple
Active Green Sparkler.png | Active Green
</gallery>
| renewable = No
| stackable = No
}}
{{education feature}}
{{exclusive|bedrock|education}}
A '''sparkler''' is a [[Chemistry Update|chemistry]]-related [[item]] that emits particles when lit.
Sparklers are available in orange, blue, red, purple, and green colors.
== Obtaining ==
=== Crafting ===
{{Crafting
|showdescription=1
|B1=Chloride |B2=Magnesium |B3=Stick
|Output=Sparkler
|description= Calcium Chloride: Orange<br>Cerium Chloride: Blue<br>Mercuric Chloride: Red<br>Potassium Chloride: Purple<br>Tungsten Chloride: Green<br>{{only|bedrock|education}}
|type=Miscellaneous
}}
== Usage ==
{{ctrl|Using}} a sparkler ignites it, causing its texture to change. When lit, the sparkler emits colored [[particles]]; the [[durability]] meter depletes while the sparkler is burning. Sparklers are one of the few [[item]]s that can be held in the [[off-hand]] {{in|be}}. Unlit sparklers have normal lighting like most items, while lit sparklers appear to glow when held in the player's hand, similarly to [[glow stick]]s.
When the [[player]] uses another item while a sparkler is lit, or holds the sparkler in the off-hand, the sparkler's durability stops depleting.
If the player has a lit sparkler in their [[inventory]] and goes into the [[water]], the sparkler is destroyed immediately. However, it does not get destroyed if dropped in water. It also cannot float.
Despite having durability, sparklers cannot be enchanted with [[Unbreaking]] or [[Mending]].
== Sounds ==
{{Sound table
|type=bedrock
|sound=Fuse.ogg
|source=sound
|description=While a sparkler is active
|id=sparkler.active
|volume=0.25
|pitch=0.8/1.2}}
{{Sound table
|sound=Fizz.ogg
|source=block
|description=While a sparkler is being lit
|id=random.fizz
|volume=1.0
|pitch=2.4/2.6
|foot=1}}
== Data values ==
=== ID ===
{{ID table
|edition=bedrock
|shownumericids=y
|showforms=y
|notshowbeitemforms=y
|generatetranslationkeys=y
|displayname=Sparkler
|spritename=sparklers
|spritetype=item
|nameid=sparkler
|id=600
|form=item
|translationkey=item.sparkler.orange.name,item.sparkler.blue.name,item.sparkler.red.name,item.sparkler.purple.name,item.sparkler.green.name
|foot=1}}
== History ==
{{History|bedrock}}
{{History||1.4.0|snap=beta 1.2.20.1|[[File:Orange Sparkler BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Blue Sparkler BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Red Sparkler BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Purple Sparkler BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Green Sparkler BE1.png|32px]] <br>[[File:Active Orange Sparkler BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Active Blue Sparkler BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Active Red Sparkler BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Active Purple Sparkler BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Active Green Sparkler BE1.png|32px]] Added sparklers.}}
{{History|education}}
{{History||1.0.27|[[File:Orange Sparkler BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Blue Sparkler BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Red Sparkler BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Purple Sparkler BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Green Sparkler BE1.png|32px]] <br>[[File:Active Orange Sparkler BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Active Blue Sparkler BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Active Red Sparkler BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Active Purple Sparkler BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Active Green Sparkler BE1.png|32px]] Added sparklers.}}
{{History|foot}}
== Issues ==
{{issue list}}
== Trivia ==
* The formula for sparkler roughly works in real life. Magnesium itself burns white in air, while the metal salts add [[wikipedia:flame test|color to the flame]].
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[[zh:烟花棒]]</li></ul> | 13w16a | Added horses. | |||
| 13w16b | Made horses slower and reduced horses from gliding so much. | ||||
| 13w18a | Removed horse saddles. | ||||
| 13w19a | Enabled access to the donkey & mule inventories by sneaking and interacting. | ||||
| 13w21a | Added new GUI for horses, to control saddle/armor/inventory. | ||||
| 13w22a | Added new sound effects for horses, donkeys, mules, skeleton horses, and zombie horses. | ||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Horse", "Foal", "Donkey", "Mule", "Skeleton horse", or "Zombie horse" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia
- The way you tame a horse is in the same style as taming a horse in real life, called "Breaking" a horse. The food is also used to calm down the horse in real life.
- Donkeys and mules can be used to store and transport goods.
- Donkeys and mules can be just as useful as horses as they can be tamed and ridden exactly the same way as horses. They also can carry chests which horses can't do. Unfortunately, Donkeys spawn much rarer than horses which are also rare.
- Just like other baby mobs, you can spawn foals with the spawn egg by right-clicking on a horse. The foal will be the same breed as the horse.
- Every foal spawned this way follows the horse you spawned it from like a normal baby mob.
- If you ride just beside a tree causing your head to be within a block of leaves, it will cause certain parts of textures of some blocks to disappear. This can be used to have "X-Ray vision" as you can essentially see through nearby trees.
- An interesting trick you can do while riding a horse is to get on your horse, press F1 on your keyboard, drink a potion of invisibility, and press F5. It will look like you are the horse, instead of riding on the horse.
- This can be used to trick other players into thinking that you are a horse, making this a great mob disguise.
- This also works with pigs, but you can only control it with a carrot on a stick, which other players can see you holding when you are invisible.
- It is possible to jump over wooden fences and stone walls while riding a horse.
- It is possible to "double jump" by falling off of a block above the ground, and then jumping before landing.
- Even though the skeleton and zombie horses look like undead versions of their counterparts, they are not treated as undead. For example, they can be poisoned even though normal undead mobs are immune to poison, the Smite enchantment will not affect them, hitting them with splash potions of Harming and Healing will have the same effects as on living mobs, and Withers will attack them as if they were any other living mob.
- Running over a TNT Minecart landmine will result in the horse dying, but the player being undamaged until they land on the ground.
- Horses are quite possibly the best method of traveling long distances overland; they can attain speeds of at least 11 meters/second (660 blocks per minute, nearly 40 km/hour), navigate hilly terrain very easily, jump ravines with near-100% consistency, and require no infrastructure except at the end (they are not good in jungles or some forests though.)
- It is currently possible to get tamed zombie and skeleton horses via use of NBTedit by changing a horse's variation number to 3 and 4 for zombie and skeleton horses respectively.
- A horse, like most mobs, can ride in a minecart. You can get full grown horses out. A horse can be released by riding the horse and punching the cart.
- It is impossible to enter a Nether portal while on a horse. It is possible however, to sometimes enter the portal on the horse and then press shift to escape, sending the horse to the nether on its own, like dogs. Additionally, you can dismount, walk the horse into the portal with a lead, and remount, or you can just nudge the horse into the Nether. Note that horses, like all other mobs, have a cooldown of about a minute after going through a portal before they can come back. They must be clear of the portal during that time in order to go through again.
- In the Minecraft credits it gives credit to Dr. Zhark for the Horse.
- The Buckskin colored horse is the only horse that has a white blaze no matter what markings it receives.
- If you open the horse's panel while it is leashed, the leash will overflow outside of the horse model.
- Foals spawned by the player without right-clicking on an adult horse will occasionally follow a random adult horse with foals of its own. The breed of the adult horse does not matter at all.
- Foals can be spawned from foals using Spawn Eggs. The resulting foals will not follow an adult horse.
- Foals have the ability to walk into vertical blocks and suffocate, making raising foals in hilly terrain very difficult.
- Spawning a horse on a vertical surface causes the horse's back half to protrude into it, dealing the horse damage. This is probably because of its size.
- If an adult horse is killed and drops leather, you may receive the "Cow Tipper" achievement even though you got it from a horse rather than a cow. This appears to be intended behavior.[4]
- Although it is very difficult to tell due to their base coat color, white horses DO show markings besides sooty if you look closely.
Gallery
- Horse Hint.jpg
The image Jeb released on Twitter which hinted the release of horses.[5]
Image posted by Jeb on Instagram. Note the saddle usage.[6]
Horses can wear armor and can be bound to fence posts.[7]
- Pony.png
A spotted foal.
- Donkey Chest.png
A donkey with an attached chest.
- Donkey Saddle Chest.png
A donkey with an attached chest and saddle.
Jeb and Dinnerbone Riding horses, as seen on the 1.6 prerelease banner.
See also
References

![Image posted by Jeb on Instagram. Note the saddle usage.[6]](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/minecraft_gamepedia/images/9/91/Horse_jeb.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/120?cb=20130407121433)
![Horses can wear armor and can be bound to fence posts.[7]](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/minecraft_gamepedia/images/0/09/Armored_Horse.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/120?cb=20130410180016)

![The First image of the Donkey chest inventory.[8]](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/minecraft_gamepedia/images/1/1a/1st_image_of_donkey_chest.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/120?cb=20130511191632)



