Saddle

A saddle is an item required to ride pigs and striders or control ridden camels, horses, donkeys, and mules.

Obtaining

Chest loot

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 always drops when the strider is killed.

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

Usage

While camels, horses, donkeys, mules, and skeleton horses‌^{[Java Edition only]} can always be ridden, a saddle is required to control them. These mobs (only after being tamed, in the case of equine mobs) 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.

Saddles are required to ride pigs and striders, but even with a saddle their movement cannot be controlled like other mobs. A carrot on a stick (for pigs) or a warped fungus on a stick (for striders) is required to direct these mobs. Using a saddle on one of these mobs equips them with the saddle, and, since they have no inventory, there is no way to retrieve the saddle without killing the mob.

Animals can also be equipped with saddles by a dispenser.

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

Sounds

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Achievements

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	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

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
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.
1.4.2		12w36a			Saddles now drop from killing saddled pigs.
					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.
					Added saddles to the loot tables of mineshaft minecarts, stronghold altar chests, village blacksmith chests, as well as desert and jungle pyramids.
					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 has been changed.
		17w46a			The models of the horse's saddle has been changed once again.
		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 329.
		18w03a			The models of the horse's saddle has been changed once again.
		pre2			The models of the horse's saddle has been changed once again. 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.
					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 has been changed. The front and back orientation of the saddle has been corrected.[2]
1.19		22w13a			Saddles may now be found in ancient city chests.
1.20 (Experimental)		22w42a			Saddles can be used to ride camels with the use of a built-in experimental data pack.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.7.0					Added saddles. They are currently unobtainable and have no practical usage since they cannot be equipped on any mobs.
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 and pigs.
					Saddles can now be found inside jungle temples.
		?			Added saddles to the Creative inventory.[more information needed]
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.
					Saddles now generate in bastion remnant chests.
1.20.0 (Experimental)		beta 1.19.50.21			Saddles can now be used to ride camels with the use of the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle.
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 on a pig can still be seen if the pig is afflicted with Invisibility.
• When riding a saddled mob, the hunger bar is replaced by hearts (representing the mounted mob's health) resembling the look of the saddle.

Gallery

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

See also

• Transportation

References