How To Make Minecraft Horse Armor

Horse armor
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is a special type of armor that can exist given to a horse to wear.

Obtaining

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Natural generation

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Detail	Construction	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Iron Horse Armor	Dungeon	Breast	1	21.five%
	Desert temple	Chest	1	18%
	End metropolis	Chest	1	4.6%
	Jungle temple	Breast	1	4.5%
	Nether fortress	Breast	1	19%
	Stronghold	Altar chest	i	2.5%
	Village	Weaponsmith’s breast	1	five.7%
Bedrock Edition
Iron Horse Armor	Dungeon	Chest	1	21.8%
	Desert temple	Chest	ane	eighteen%
	End city	Breast	1	4.6%
	Jungle temple	Chest	1	four.four%
	Nether fortress	Chest	1	nineteen%
	Stronghold	Chantry chest	1	2.4%
	Village	Weaponsmith’s breast	ane	5.seven%

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Golden Equus caballus Armor	Dungeon	Breast	one	xiv.7%
	Desert temple	Chest	1	12.3%
	Terminate city	Breast	1	4.6%
	Jungle temple	Chest	one	4.five%
	Under fortress	Chest	1	29.ane%
	Ruined portal	Chest	ane	7.3%
	Stronghold	Chantry chest	1	ii.5%
	Hamlet	Weaponsmith’due south chest	i	5.7%
Bedrock Edition
Golden Horse Armor	Dungeon	Chest	1	fourteen.9%
	Desert temple	Breast	1	12.3%
	End city	Breast	one	four.half-dozen%
	Jungle temple	Chest	one	4.4%
	Nether fortress	Chest	1	29.i%
	Ruined portal	Breast	i	7.3%
	Stronghold	Chantry chest	i	two.four%
	Village	Weaponsmith’s breast	1	5.7%

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Diamond Equus caballus Armor	Dungeon	Chest	1	7.6%
	Ancient City	Chest	1	sixteen.i%
	Desert temple	Chest	1	6.3%
	End city	Breast	i	4.vi%
	Jungle temple	Chest	1	4.five%
	Nether fortress	Chest	1	eleven.8%
	Stronghold	Altar chest	1	2.5%
	Village	Weaponsmith’s breast	1	5.seven%
Bedrock Edition
Diamond Horse Armor	Dungeon	Chest	one	vii.7%
	Ancient Urban center	Chest	one	16.1%
	Desert temple	Chest	1	half-dozen.iii%
	End city	Breast	ane	4.6%
	Jungle temple	Chest	i	four.4%
	Nether fortress	Chest	one	11.8%
	Stronghold	Chantry breast	1	2.4%
	Hamlet	Weaponsmith’s chest	1	5.7%

Crafting

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Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Leather

Only leather horse armor tin can be crafted; other horse armor can be obtained only from chest loot from some generated structures.

Trading

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Expert-level leatherworker villagers sell leather horse armor for 6 emeralds every bit function of their trade.

Usage

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Only normal adult horses can wear armor; foals, donkeys, mules, and undead variants such equally skeleton horses and zombie horses cannot exist equipped with armor.

Types

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Horse armor has leather, iron, gold, and diamond variants. However, horse armor does not have netherite or chainmail variants.

Armor Stands

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Horse armor cannot exist placed or displayed on armor stands.

Protection

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Horse armor can be equipped to horses either past manually placing it in its respective slot past pressing E while riding the horse (), 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. Note that golden horse armor provides more protection than iron equus caballus armor, whereas the opposite is true for player armor.

Fabric	Armor
Leather	3 ( )
Iron	5 ( )
Aureate	7 ( )
Diamond	11 (  × 5.five)

When a horse dies while equipped with any horse armor, it drops its normal boodle, saddle (if it had i), and the horse armor.

Leather horse armor protects horses from freezing in powder snowfall, but it does not negate other powder snow effects (eastward.grand., falling through, inability to leap).

Durability

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Unlike player armor, horse armor does non have immovability. This ways a unmarried horse armor tin can be used infinitely unless destroyed.

Enchanting

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Unlike player armor, horse armor cannot exist enchanted in survival mode. However, in
Coffee Edition
Creative mode, horse armor can be used with an anvil to enchant with Depth Strider, Thorns, Respiration, Plumage Falling, and Curse of vanishing. Other enchantments tin can be applied, only they have no upshot.

Dyeing

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

Smelting usage

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Proper noun	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Iron Nugget or Gold Asset	Iron Equus caballus Armor or Gilt Horse Armor + Whatever fuel	0.i

Piglins

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Piglins

are attracted to gilded horse armor and run toward whatever golden horse armor on the basis, inspecting it for 6 to 8 seconds before putting it in their inventory.

Sounds

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Audio	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Horse armor equipped	Friendly Creatures	When horse armor is equipped to a equus caballus	entity.item.equips	subtitles.entity.item.equips	?	?	16

Data values

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ID

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Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Leather Horse Armor	leather_horse_armor	Item	particular.minecraft.leather_horse_armor
Fe Equus caballus Armor	iron_horse_armor	Particular	detail.minecraft.iron_horse_armor
Diamond Horse Armor	diamond_horse_armor	Item	item.minecraft.diamond_horse_armor
Gold Equus caballus Armor	golden_horse_armor	Detail	particular.minecraft.golden_horse_armor

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Class	Translation cardinal
Leather Horse Armor	leather_horse_armor	horsearmorleather	530	Item	particular.horsearmorleather.proper noun
Iron Horse Armor	iron_horse_armor	horsearmoriron	531	Particular	item.horsearmoriron.proper noun
Diamond Equus caballus Armor	diamond_horse_armor	horsearmordiamond	533	Item	item.horsearmordiamond.name
Golden Equus caballus Armor	golden_horse_armor	horsearmorgold	532	Item	particular.horsearmorgold.proper name

Item data

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When leather equus caballus armor is dyed, it has the post-obit NBT:

Coffee Edition:

Boulder Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Particular format.

History

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Java Edition
1.half-dozen.1		13w16a			Added equus caballus armor.
					Horse armor can be crafted using the post-obit recipe. 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 tin now additionally be plant in mineshaft chests.
		13w21a			Horse armor is no longer stackable, to be consistent with other types of armor.
1.9		15w31a			Horse armor has been added to end urban center 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 fe horse armor from dungeon chests has slightly decreased.
					Iron horse armor has been removed from mineshaft chests.
1.xi.i		16w50a			Golden and iron horse armor can at present exist smelted down into i of their respective nuggets.
1.xiii		17w45a			The textures of horse armor have been changed, as the model of horses has changed.
		17w46a			The model of horse armor has been inverse, but the textures of horse armor have remained unaltered.
		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, these items’ numeral IDs were 417, 418 and 419.
		18w03a			The textures of horse armor accept been changed, equally the model of horses has changed.
		18w22a			The texture of fe horse armor when equipped has been changed.[2]
		pre2			A bug with the equus caballus skin and horse armor textures not applying correctly has been stock-still.[3]
1.14		18w50a			The textures of horse armor items have been changed.
		Feb xx, 2019			Leather horse armor announced for Java Edition.
		19w08a			The textures of fe, gold and diamond equus caballus armor accept been changed.
					Added leather horse armor, which can be dyed 12,326,391 different colors, like to leather armor.
		19w11a			Leatherworker villagers now sell leather horse armor.
i.14.one		Pre-Release 1			The texture of leather equus caballus armor item has been inverse to exist more than consistent with the other types of horse armor.
					The texture of atomic number 26 horse armor particular has been changed.
1.16		20w15a			Horse armor placed in a dispenser can at present be put on tamed horses.
		20w16a			Gilded horse armor now generates in ruined portal chests.
1.17		21w13a			Leather horse armor now protects horses from freezing.
1.nineteen		22w13a			Diamond horse armor may now exist found in ancient metropolis chests.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.15.0		build 1			Added horse armor and dyeable leather horse armor every bit a version exclusive.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.ane			Horse armor tin now exist found inside end city chests.
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Iron and golden equus caballus armor are now smeltable.
Bedrock Edition
1.ii.6		beta i.2.6.2			The textures of horse armor have been changed, equally the model of horses has been changed.
one.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Horse armor can now be found in plains village weaponsmith chests.
					The textures of all horse armor have been changed.
1.eleven.0		beta i.11.0.1			Equus caballus armor tin can now exist found in savanna, desert, taiga, snowy taiga and snowy tundra village weaponsmith chests.
		beta i.xi.0.4			Leather equus caballus armor can now be bought from leatherworker villagers.
		beta i.11.0.five			The textures of all equus caballus armor items accept been changed.
1.17.0		beta 1.16.230.54			Leather horse armor at present protects horses from freezing.
Legacy Console Edition
TU19	CU7	ane.12	Patch 1	one.0.1	Added horse armor.
TU53	CU43	1.49	Patch 23	1.0.3	Iron and aureate horse armor are at present smeltable.
TU60	CU51	1.64	Patch xxx	1.0.11	Added leather horse armor.
		1.90			The textures of leather, atomic number 26, aureate and diamond horse armor have been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added equus caballus armor.

Issues

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Issues relating to “Equus caballus Armor” are maintained on the bug tracker. Written report issues there.

Gallery

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  A equus caballus equipped with iron horse armor and spring to a fence postal service by a pb.

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  The GUI for horses implemented in 13w21a, which allows the removal and switching of armor.

Notes

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