Saddle

Rarity color	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No

A saddle is an item that can be placed on rideable mobs.

Obtaining[]

Chest loot[]

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Saddle	Dungeon	Chest	1	28.3%
	Bastion remnant	Hoglin stable chest	1	13.6%
	Desert temple	Chest	1	23.5%
	End city	Chest	1	13.3%
	Jungle temple	Chest	1	12.9%
	Nether fortress	Chest	1	35.3%
	Stronghold	Altar chest	1	2.5%
	Village	Weaponsmith's chest	1	16.2%
		Savanna house chest	1	11.3%
		Tanner's chest	1	17.3%
Bedrock Edition
Saddle	Dungeon	Chest	1	28.3%
	Bastion remnant	Hoglin stable chest	1	9.5%
	Desert temple	Chest	1	23.5%
	End city	Chest	1	13.3%
	Jungle temple	Chest	1	12.8%
	Nether fortress	Chest	1	35.3%
	Stronghold	Altar chest	1	2.4%
	Village	Weaponsmith's chest	1	16.2%
		Savanna house chest	1	11.3%
		Tanner's chest	1	17.3%

Fishing[]

Saddles can be obtained as a "treasure" item from fishing with a base chance (without fishing rod enchantments) of 0.8%.

Trading[]

Master-level leatherworker villagers have a 50% chance to sell a saddle for 6 emeralds as their trade.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} This trade is always offered in Java Edition.

Mob loot[]

Any mob that the player equips with a saddle drops the saddle upon death.

A strider may spawn being ridden by a zombified piglin, which causes it to spawn wearing a saddle. This saddle has an 8.5% chance to drop, increased by 1% per level of Looting.

A ravager always spawns with a saddle and always drops the saddle upon death. Looting does not affect the drop.

Usage[]

Saddles may be used to ride striders, horses, donkeys, mules, skeleton horses, and pigs. An equine mob equipped with saddle is rendered wearing a bridle along with the saddle.

Although ravagers are equipped with saddles and sometimes ridden by other mobs, the player is unable to ride ravagers.

Using a saddle on a pig equips the pig with the saddle, allowing the player to ride the pig. Controlling the pig requires using a carrot on a stick. Killing the pig is the only way to retrieve the saddle. Striders behave similarly when equipped with a saddle, but require a warped fungus on a stick to be controlled instead.

Tamed horses, donkeys, and mules can be ridden without a saddle, but a saddle is required to control them. Once tamed, they can be equipped with a saddle by placing it in their inventory, which can be opened by pressing use while holding a saddle or sneaking. The saddle can be unequipped by removing it from the specific inventory slot.

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Form	Translation key
Saddle	`saddle`	Item	`item.minecraft.saddle`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Saddle	`saddle`	`329`	Item	`item.saddle.name`

Achievements[]

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
		When Pigs Fly	Use a saddle to ride a pig, and then have the pig get hurt from fall damage while riding it.	Be riding a pig (e.g. using a saddle) when it hits the ground with a fall distance greater than 5.	40G	Silver

Advancements[]

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Namespaced ID
	This Boat Has Legs	Ride a Strider with a Warped Fungus on a Stick	Nether	Boost^[1] a strider with a warped fungus on a stick.	`nether/ride_strider`

Sounds[]

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Saddle equipped	?	Play when equipped on a pig, horse, mule, donkey or a strider	`entity.item.equips`	`subtitles.entity.item.equips`	1.0	0.9	16

History[]

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The specific instructions are: isolated saddles in 1.13 dev

Java Edition Infdev
20100625-2					Added saddles.
					Saddles do not drop from saddled pigs.
					Saddles can be found in the new dungeon chests.
Java Edition Beta
1.8		Pre-release			Saddles have been added to the new mineshaft chests.
Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3			Saddles have been added to the new stronghold altar chests.
1.1		12w01a			Saddles can now be found in the new village blacksmith chests.
1.2.4		release			When baby animals were introduced, baby pigs could be ridden just like adult pigs. After this version, baby pigs can no longer be saddled.
1.3.1		12w21a			Saddles can now be bought from butcher villagers for 6–7 emeralds each, and thus have become renewable.
		12w21a			Saddles can now be found in the new desert temple chests.
		12w22a			Saddles can now be found in the new jungle temple chests.
1.4.2		12w36a			Saddles now drop from killing saddled pigs.
		12w36a			Added carrot on a stick to direct saddled pigs, effectively controlling them.
		12w37a			Pigs can now jump when being ridden.
1.6.1		13w18a			Regular saddles can now be used to ride horses, while previously they required horse saddles.
1.6.1		13w18a			Added chests to nether fortresses, where saddles can be found.
1.7.2		13w36a			Saddles can now be fished with fishing rods and are described as treasure.
1.8		14w02a			Trading has been changed: leatherworker villagers now sell saddles for 8–10 emeralds each, and butchers no longer trade saddles.
1.9		15w31a			Saddles can now be found in end city chests.
		15w43a			The average yield of saddles in nether fortress chests has been slightly decreased.
		15w44a			Saddles have been removed from mineshaft chests.
					The average yield of saddles in dungeon chests has been decreased.
					The average yield of saddles in desert temple chests has been increased.
1.13		17w45a			The models of the horse's saddle have now been changed.
		17w46a			The models of the horse's saddle have now been changed.
		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 329.
		18w03a			The models of the horse's saddle have now been changed.
		pre2			The models of the horse's saddle have now been changed. The reins bit has now been rendered. Also, the lines of the reins are no longer rendered except when riding.
1.14		18w43a			Added illager beasts, which drop saddles.
		18w43a			The textures of saddles have been changed.
		18w48a			Saddles can now be found in chests in village tanneries.
		18w49a			Saddles can now be found in chests in savanna village houses.
1.16		20w13a			Added striders, which can be ridden with saddles.
		20w15a			Saddles placed in a dispenser can now saddle pigs, striders, and tamed horses, donkeys and mules.
		20w16a			Saddles now generate in bastion remnant chests.
		20w17a			The texture of the strider saddles have now been changed. The front and back orientation of the saddle has been corrected.^[2]
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.7.0					Added saddles.
v0.9.0		build 1			Saddles can now be obtained from village blacksmith chests.
v0.11.0		build 1			Saddles can now be fished with fishing rods and are described as treasure.
v0.12.1		build 1			Saddles can now be found in nether fortresses.
v0.13.0		build 1			Saddles can now be found in desert temples.
v0.15.0		build 1			Saddles can now be used for riding horses.
v0.15.0		build 1			Saddle can now be found inside jungle temples.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.1			Saddles can now be found in end cities.
1.0.4		alpha 1.0.4.0			Saddles are now sold by leatherworker villagers for 8-10 emeralds as their only third tiers trades.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Saddles can now be found in plains village tannery and weaponsmith chests.
					Added ravagers, which drop a saddle upon death.
					The textures of saddles have been changed.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Saddles can now be found in savanna, snowy taiga, taiga and snowy tundra village tannery chests.
					Saddles can now be found in savanna, taiga, snowy taiga, and desert village weaponsmith chests.
					Saddles can now be found in savanna village house chests.
		beta 1.11.0.4			Trading has been changed. Leatherworker villagers now have 50% chance to sell saddles for 10 emeralds as part of their last tier trade.
1.12.0		beta 1.12.0.3			The trading price of saddles has been lowered to 6 emeralds.
1.16.0		beta 1.16.0.57			Added striders, which can be ridden with saddles.
1.16.0		beta 1.16.0.57			Saddles now generate in bastion remnant chests.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added saddles.
		1.90			The textures of saddles have been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added saddles.

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Saddle" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia[]

A saddle is considered "armor" by the game, but the value of protection to the animal is zero.
A saddle can still be seen if the animal is invisible.
When riding a saddled mob, the hunger bar is replaced with hearts (representing the mounted mob's health) resembling the look of the saddle.

Gallery[]

A player riding a pig (before Beta 1.8).
A player riding a horse.
The horse interface implemented in 13w21a that allows for the removal of saddles, but only on horses, donkeys or mules.
Mule equipped with both a saddle and a chest.
A saddle found in a dungeon chest, which coincidentally contains an enchanted golden apple.