Minecraft:Java Edition guides/Horse Update

This guide is a simplified overview of all the changes in the Minecraft:Horse Update (Template:JE 1.6.x releases), which assumes at least some familiarity with the Minecraft:Redstone Update (Java Edition 1.5.x releases).

Mobs

New

Minecraft:Horse	File:White Horse Revision 1.png	Spawns in plains.	Template:Drop Template:Xp (when killed by a Minecraft:player or tamed Minecraft:wolf)	Creation assisted & inspired by DrZhark's Mo' Creatures mod. To tame, ride them and get thrown off a few times until hearts appear. Can be bred using golden apples & golden carrots. Health can be restored using bread, sugar, hay bales, wheat, apples, golden apples & golden carrots. Baby horses can be grown the same way. Players riding saddled horses are granted full control over the horse's movement. Color, style, maximum health, jump height and speed vary between horses. Open inventory, right click a horse or press the inventory key while holding LSHIFT and looking at a horse to access their inventory to deal with their storage, armor and saddle. Rarely spawn in small groups.
Minecraft:Donkey	File:Donkey JE1.png	Spawns in plains.	Template:Drop Template:Xp (when killed by a Minecraft:player or tamed Minecraft:wolf)	Like horses, but smaller and gray. Can carry chests with 15 slots on their saddle.
Minecraft:Mule	File:Mule JE1.png	Only spawns by breeding a horse with a donkey.	Template:Drop Template:Xp (when killed by a Minecraft:player or tamed Minecraft:wolf)	Can wear chests on their saddles, just like donkeys. Not breedable with horses, donkeys, or other mules.
Minecraft:Skeleton horse and Minecraft:zombie horse	Template:Animate	Can be spawned only by using third party programs.	Template:Xp (when killed by a Minecraft:player or tamed Minecraft:wolf)	Introduced as the code of the normal horse, although require third-party modifications to be used in the game. Aren't used at this time.

Changed

All mobs		Mobs named "Dinnerbone" or "Grumm" are now flipped upside down. Now spawn in groups again.
Minecraft:Zombies	File:Zombie JE2 BE1.png	Now have a small chance to spawn additional zombies when damaged or not being looked at. Able to lock onto the player from 40 blocks away (formerly 16 blocks). Zombies that are locking onto a player can now move when further than 32 blocks away.
Minecraft:Withers	File:Wither JE1 BE1.png	Armor has been retextured.

Blocks

New

Minecraft:Hardened clay	File:Terracotta JE1 BE1.png		Pickaxe	Can be crafted into Minecraft:stained clay.
Minecraft:Stained clay	Template:Animate		Pickaxe	Can be used as a decorative block.
Minecraft:Carpets	Template:Animate		Any	Can be used as a decorative block.
Minecraft:Hay bale	File:Hay Bale (UD) JE1 BE1.png		Any	Can be used as a building block. Can be used as compact wheat storage. Can be used to accelerate the growth of horses.
Minecraft:Block of coal	File:Block of Coal JE2 BE1.png	Crafted only with coal, not charcoal.	Pickaxe	Can be used as a building block. Can be used as compact coal storage. Can be used as furnace fuel to smelt 80 items, which is more than its individual 9 coal ingredients can (72 smelted items).

Changed

Minecraft:Lapis lazuli block	File:Block of Lapis Lazuli JE2 BE2.png	Retextured subtly, it now has a border around it
Minecraft:Redstone comparator	File:Redstone Comparator (S) JE2 BE1.png	Now gives a redstone signal for cauldrons and end portal frames depending on their state. Cauldrons give a signal strength of zero (empty) to three (full), depending on the water level. End portal frames give a signal strength of either zero or fifteen, depending on if an eye of ender has been inserted.

Items

New

Minecraft:Horse armor	Template:Animate	Cannot be crafted; found in most types of generated chests, including in dungeons, nether fortresses, desert temples, and jungle temples.	Armor for Minecraft:horses.
Minecraft:Lead	File:Lead JE1 BE1.png		Can be used to bind mobs to fences or lead them around. Right click mob first, then right-click fence or right-click the mob again to get the leash back.
Minecraft:Name tag	File:Name Tag JE1 BE1.png	Found in dungeon chests.	Name it in an anvil, then right click a mob to name it.
Horse Minecraft:spawn egg	File:Horse Spawn Egg JE1 BE1.png	Can be obtained via Creative inventory.	Works like any other spawn egg. Sometimes a donkey is spawned instead.

Changed

Minecraft:Charcoal	File:Charcoal JE3 BE3.png	Retextured, with more brown shading to differentiate from coal.
Minecraft:Saddle	File:Saddle JE1 BE1.png	The player can now put a saddle on a horse.
Minecraft:Golden apples	File:Golden Apple JE1 BE1.png	Lower tier now requires gold ingots instead of gold nuggets to craft. Lower tier now gives Regeneration II for 10 seconds, and both tiers give Absorption for 1 min 30 seconds.
Minecraft:Glistering melon	File:Glistering Melon Slice JE1 BE1.png	Now requires 8 gold nuggets.

Biomes

Changed

Minecraft:Deserts

File:Desert.png

No longer contain water lakes.

Effects

New

Minecraft:Absorption	File:Absorption JE1 BE1.png	Golden apples	Increases damage absorption.
Minecraft:Health Boost	File:Health Boost JE1 BE1.png	Golden apples	Increases maximum health.
Saturation		Food	Decreases hunger loss.