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In order to ride a Horse, all you need is a Saddle. … Optionally, you can put Horse Armor on Horses (not Donkey’s or Mules). This also can only be found, not crafted. You can equip a Donkey or Mule with a Chest to have it hold supplies for you (you cannot add a chest to a Horse).
Chests cannot be placed on horses in Minecraft; they can be placed, however, on donkeys, mules, and llamas by using (typically right clicking) a chest on one of these three types of creatures.
7 Answers. A skeleton horse will be tamed, and ridable, if you hold a hay bale to it. However, I think this is only possible if it was spawned. Here is tutorial of how to tame and ride a horse, put saddle or armor on horse and get off it.
Tame the Horse
First, select an empty slot in your hotbar (because you must use your hand to tame the horse). You will tame a horse by repeatedly trying to mount the horse and getting bucked off. The game control to tame the horse depends on the version of Minecraft: For Java Edition (PC/Mac), right click on the horse.
A donkey can only hold one Chest , even though it appears to have two (one on each side). A chest is simply equipped by placing a chest on the donkey by right clicking.
Now that you have tamed the llama in Minecraft, you can put a chest on it. So select the chest in your hotbar and then: … For Pocket Edition (PE), you move your pointer over the llama and press the Attach Chest button.
In Minecraft, a saddle is an item that you can not make with a crafting table or furnace. Instead, you need to find and gather this item in the game. Most commonly, a saddle can be found inside a chest in a dungeon or Nether Fortress or you can catch a saddle while fishing.
How to craft Leather Horse Armor in Survival Mode
Feeding a horse will make it easier to tame. They will eat wheat, hay bales, sugar, apples, bread, golden carrots, and golden apples. Mules are not found naturally in Minecraft.