
It is necessary to tame a donkey in order to breed it, give it equipment, or ride it for any length of time. With an empty hand, mount it repeatedly when it shows hearts and no longer bucks the player, it is tamed. Unlike other passive mobs, donkeys slowly regenerate health.Īdult donkeys can be tamed. Donkeys remain passive, even when hit.ĭonkeys occasionally emit an audible braying sound.ĭonkeys, like most mobs, can ride in a minecart and boat. However, if the player attempts to saddle an untamed donkey, it rears and flails its front hooves. Any donkey, even a wild one, allows itself to be attached to a lead without protest. A donkey may turn to look at a player who comes near. Unlike sheep, the eating animation does not actually cause any grass to be consumed. Donkeys are not affected by jump boost beacons or potions.ĭonkeys roam around idly, occasionally stopping to rear, swish their tails, or lower their heads as though eating the grass. A ridden saddled donkey can be made to jump and holding the control charges for a higher leap. When the player rides them, the experience bar on HUD is replaced by jumping charging bar. Ridden saddled donkeys have the ability of "jumping charging". Donkeys are slow-moving backward, and about as fast as the player when moving sideways. Unlike horses, all spawned donkeys have the same movement speed and jump strength, although speed potions can be used on the donkey and travel via the Nether can make the donkey easily the pack animal with the fastest practical way to travel in Minecraft. They cannot fit through a 1-block-wide gap. The donkey itself can enter gaps as low as 1.625 blocks high, but may itself take suffocation damage when clearance is less than 1.75 blocks. Lower clearance risks suffocating the rider if the rider's head enters a non-transparent block. The donkey and rider can safely fit through a space as low as 2.75 blocks high. Like riding other entities, it is impossible for a player to use a nether portal or end portal while on a donkey.Ī ridden saddled donkey automatically runs up any one block high slope. The player dismounts using the dismount control. Once a donkey is tamed and saddled, the player can control it with the standard directional controls, jump, and the mouse. The chest cannot be removed except by killing the donkey, which causes the chest and its contents to drop.

A donkey’s inventory can be accessed by mounting the donkey and using inventory control, or by sneaking and then using or pressing the "open inventory" button on the donkey.Ī donkey can be equipped with a chest by using a chest on a donkey. An additional 15 inventory slots, provided the donkey has been equipped with a chest.Įquipment can be placed on a donkey by holding left shift and then using on the donkey, or by accessing its inventory.Tamed donkeys can have the following slot available: GUI of a donkey, when equipped with a chest. They can also be pulled along and tied up using a lead. ĭonkeys can be equipped with chests and used as pack animals. In deeper water, the player is automatically dismounted.

They can be ridden in water up to 2 blocks deep. They can also be used to climb hills and jump fences, which the player can't generally.ĭonkeys cannot float on water when being controlled by a player. Tamed and saddled donkeys are some of the fastest means of transportation or hauling in the game, although they are unable to fit through single block-wide openings. Killing a baby donkey yields no items nor experience.

Upon successful breeding, 1–7 is dropped. They also drop the contents of the chest. If equipped with a chest or saddle, they drop those items. 1–3, when killed by a player or tamed wolf.The maximum amount is increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 0-5 with Looting III. Unlike almost all other mobs, donkeys with equipped saddles or chests do not render these when under the effect of Invisibility.
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Donkeys can be equipped with a simple saddle, not the full covered armor and they can also be equipped with chests to store up to 15 stacks of items. All donkeys have gray-brown coats with darker ankles, ears, manes, and tails. Their manes do not protrude, but rather are drawn directly on the back of their heads and necks. Unlike wolves and cats, the appearances of donkeys do not change once they have been tamed, though tamed donkeys may be differentiated by giving them equipment.ĭonkeys are smaller all around than the normal horses and sport long, erect ears.

Foals start at half the size of adults and in Bedrock Edition, get progressively bigger as they age. Adult donkeys are 1.4 blocks wide and long, and 1.6 blocks high.
