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Finally, in a dark red corridor with the shrieks of ghasts ringing in your ears, you see a chest. You walk up to it. Another wither skeleton attacks, and you fight it off. You open the chest, and see what's inside. Some diamonds – meh, you've got loads of those. A flint and steel – might be useful to re-light a portal. A dusty saddle? You've already ridden a pig off a cliff. But then your eyes light up – at the very bottom of the chest, you find the prize you've been seeking. It's our item of the week – horse armor.
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— Duncan Geere[1]
Horse armor [note 1] is a special type of armor that can be given to a horse to wear. Only normal horses can wear armor; donkey, mule and undead variants such as skeleton horses and zombie horses cannot be equipped with armor.
Obtaining
Natural generation
Iron
Gold
Diamond
Crafting
Trading
Expert-level leatherworker villagers sell leather horse armor for 6 emeralds as part of their trade.
Usage
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:
Material
Armor
Leather
3 ( )
Chain
Don't Exist (<span class="pixel-image nowrap" title="Expression error: Unexpected < operator. armor points">Expression error: Unrecognized word "don". )
Iron
5 ( )
Gold
7 ( )
Diamond
11 ( × 5.5)
Netherite
Don't Exist (<span class="pixel-image nowrap" title="Expression error: Unexpected < operator. armor points">Expression error: Unrecognized word "don". )
Durability
Unlike player's armor , horse armor does not have durability. This means a single horse armor can be used indefinitely.
Unlike player's armor , horse armor cannot be enchanted.
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.
Smelting usage
Data values
ID
Java Edition :
Item
Namespaced ID
Leather Horse Armor
leather_horse_armor
Iron Horse Armor
iron_horse_armor
Golden Horse Armor
golden_horse_armor
Diamond Horse Armor
diamond_horse_armor
Bedrock Edition :
Item
Namespaced ID
Numeric ID
Leather Horse Armor
horsearmorleather
416
Iron Horse Armor
horsearmoriron
417
Golden Horse Armor
horsearmorgold
418
Diamond Horse Armor
horsearmordiamond
419
History
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Please remove this notice once you've added suitable isometric renders to the article. The specific instructions are: 17w45a and 17w46a textures of horse armor changes due to the model changes of horses.
Java Edition
1.6.1 13w16a File:Iron Horse Armor Revision 1.png File:Golden Horse Armor Revision 1.png File:Diamond Horse Armor Revision 1.png File:Iron Horse Armor (Item) Revision 1.png File:Golden Horse Armor (Item) Revision 1.png File:Diamond Horse Armor (Item) Revision 1.png Added horse armor.
Horse armor can be crafted using the following recipe.
13w18a The crafting recipe for horse armor has been removed.
Horse armor can now be found in chests in jungle & desert temples , dungeons , nether fortresses , stronghold altar rooms and village blacksmith buildings. Iron horse armor can now additionally be found in mineshaft chests.
13w21a Horse armor is now no longer stackable, to be consistent with other types of armor .
1.9 15w31a Horse armor has been added to end city chests .
15w43a The average yield of horse armor in nether fortress chests has slightly decreased.
15w44a The average yield of horse armor in desert temple chests has increased.
The average yield of iron horse armor from dungeon chests has slightly decreased. Iron horse armor has been removed from mineshaft chests .
1.11.1 16w50a Golden and iron horse armor can now be smelted down into one of their respective nuggets .
1.13 17w45a The textures of horse armor have now been changed, as the model of horses has changed.
17w46a The textures of horse armor have now been changed, as the model of horses has changed.
17w47a Prior to The Flattening , these items ' numeral IDs were 417, 418 and 419.
18w03a File:Golden Horse Armor Revision 2.png File:Diamond Horse Armor Revision 2.png The textures of horse armor have now been changed, as the model of horses has changed.
18w22a The texture of iron horse armor when equipped has now been changed from File:Iron Horse Armor Pre-18w22a.png to .[2]
pre2 File:Iron Horse Armor Revision 3.png The texture of iron horse armor has been changed due to a bug with the horse skin and armor textures not applying correctly.[3]
1.14 18w50a File:Iron Horse Armor (Item) JE2 BE2.png File:Golden Horse Armor (Item) JE2 BE2.png File:Diamond Horse Armor (Item) JE2 BE2.png The textures of horse armor items have now been changed.
February 20, 2019 Leather horse armor announced for the Java Edition .
19w08a File:Iron Horse Armor (Item) JE3 CE2.png File:Golden Horse Armor (Item).png File:Diamond Horse Armor (Item).png The textures of iron, gold and diamond horse armor have now been changed.
File:Leather Horse Armor (Item) JE1 BE2.png Added leather horse armor, which can be dyed 12,326,391 different colors, similar to leather armor .
1.14.1 Pre-Release 1 File:Leather Horse Armor (Item) JE2 BE3.png The texture of leather horse armor item has now been changed to be more consistent with the other types of horse armor.
File:Iron Horse Armor (Item).png The colors on the iron horse armor item have now been changed slightly.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.15.0 build 1 File:Leather Horse Armor Revision 1.png File:Iron Horse Armor Revision 1.png File:Golden Horse Armor Revision 1.png File:Diamond Horse Armor Revision 1.png File:Leather Horse Armor (Item) BE1.png File:Iron Horse Armor (Item) Revision 1.png File:Golden Horse Armor (Item) Revision 1.png File:Diamond Horse Armor (Item) Revision 1.png Added horse armor and dyeable leather horse armor as a version exclusive.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0 alpha 0.17.0.1 Horse armor can now be found inside end city chests .
1.1.0 alpha 1.1.0.0 Iron and golden horse armor are now smeltable .
Bedrock Edition
1.2.6 beta 1.2.6.2 File:Iron Horse Armor Revision 3.png File:Golden Horse Armor Revision 2.png File:Diamond Horse Armor Revision 2.png The textures of horse armor have now been changed, as the model of horses has now been changed.
1.10.0 beta 1.10.0.3 Horse armor can now be found in plains village weaponsmith chests .
File:Leather Horse Armor (Item) JE1 BE2.png File:Iron Horse Armor (Item) JE2 BE2.png File:Golden Horse Armor (Item) JE2 BE2.png File:Diamond Horse Armor (Item) JE2 BE2.png The textures of all horse armor have now been changed.
1.11.0 beta 1.11.0.1 Horse armor can now be found in savanna , desert , taiga , snowy taiga and snowy tundra village weaponsmith chests .
beta 1.11.0.4 Leather horse armor can now be bought from leatherworker villagers .
beta 1.11.0.5 File:Leather Horse Armor (Item) JE2 BE3.png File:Iron Horse Armor (Item).png File:Golden Horse Armor (Item).png File:Diamond Horse Armor (Item).png The textures of all horse armor items have now been changed.
Legacy Console Edition
TU19 CU7 1.12 Patch 1 1.0.1 File:Iron Horse Armor Revision 1.png File:Golden Horse Armor Revision 1.png File:Diamond Horse Armor Revision 1.png File:Iron Horse Armor (Item) Revision 1.png File:Golden Horse Armor (Item) Revision 1.png File:Diamond Horse Armor (Item) Revision 1.png Added horse armor.
TU53 CU43 1.49 Patch 23 1.0.3 Iron and golden horse armor are now smeltable .
TU60 CU51 1.64 Patch 30 1.0.11 File:Leather Horse Armor Revision 1.png File:Leather Horse Armor (Item) BE1.png Added leather horse armor.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.90 File:Leather Horse Armor (Item).png File:Iron Horse Armor (Item) JE3 CE2.png File:Golden Horse Armor (Item).png File:Diamond Horse Armor (Item).png The textures of leather, iron, gold and diamond horse armor have now been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0 File:Iron Horse Armor Revision 1.png File:Golden Horse Armor Revision 1.png File:Diamond Horse Armor Revision 1.png File:Iron Horse Armor (Item) Revision 1.png File:Golden Horse Armor (Item) Revision 1.png File:Diamond Horse Armor (Item) Revision 1.png Added horse armor.
Issues
Issues relating to "Horse Armor" are maintained on the bug tracker . Report issues there .
Gallery
A horse equipped with iron horse armor and bound to a fence post by a lead .
The GUI for horses implemented in 13w21a which allows the removal and switching of armor.
Notes
↑ Known as Armour in British, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand English variants.
References