How to Create a Saddle in Minecraft: A step-by-step Guide

Minecraft is a dynamic game that allows you to domesticate and keep different in-game mods. These can include the Mods of pigs, mules, and Horses. But to ride them smoothly with better control, you need a saddle. Especially during taming a horse, it's important to include a saddle since they will be much more tame and easier to ride.

Previously, you couldn't craft a saddle in Minecraft for a very long time. Players had to rely on random chests and fields to find saddles in the game. With the new change and the latest version, however, you can now make a saddle in-game. In this guide, we will tell you how to create a saddle in Minecraft using the crafting recipes.

What is a Saddle in Minecraft?

A saddle is a special tool or item that is used to take control of a domesticated mob. This item allows players to mount and control rideable mobs such as Pigs, Horses and Mules. Once you tame the animal, it is important to make them wear a saddle, since then only you can control their movements. Saddles also become very important in riding a Strider, A netherworld creature that can walk on lava. Controlling them through the saddle is the only way to walk in lava in the underworld. Let's learn more about how to create a saddle in Minecraft in this article.

Minecraft Saddle Recipe

The Minecraft Saddle recipe is simple and requires only two main ingredients: an Iron Ingot and Leather. Here's how you can obtain both of them in the game.

Crafting Iron Ingot

To make an Iron ingot in Minecraft, you will have to smelt an Iron ore in a blazing Furnace. Mining iron ore now drops Raw Iron instead of the block itself. Smelt raw Iron in a furnace or blast furnace to get 1 Iron Ingot.

Obtaining Leather

You can obtain leather in various ways. Killing Cows or mooshrooms drops one leather, which you can use. They can appear in the treasure while fishing or in loot chests. You can also craft leather by placing 4 rabbit hides in a 2×2 square in the crafting grid, which will give you 1 Leather. You can also learn about more such recipes in our complete Minecraft guide.

How to Make a Saddle in Minecraft

Those who want to know how to create a saddle in Minecraft, follow the given steps below:

• Open the 3x3 crafting table grid from your inventory.
• Place the sole Iron Ingot in the middle box of the bottom row.
• Place three leather around the ingot.
• Place 2 of them in the remaining boxes in the bottom row, and the last leather in the middle box of the 2nd row.
• Craft the ingredients and you'll have a brand new leather for yourself.

How to Get a Saddle in Minecraft

You can get the saddle in Minecraft in different ways:

• Crafting: You can now craft a saddle in the latest versions which wasn't possible before. The steps for crafting the saddle are given above.
• Looting: You can get Saddles from Dungeons, spawner rooms underground, weaponsmith’s chest or tannery in the villages, desert temples, jungle temples, Bastion Remnants, End Cities, Strongholds, and Nether Fortresses.
• Trading: Leatherworker villagers (journeyman level or higher) will trade saddles for emeralds.
• Fishing: Saddles can appear as a treasure catch while fishing.
• Killing Ravagers: During a Pillager Raid, killing a Ravager always drops 1 Saddle.

How to Use a Saddle in Minecraft

You can use the saddle in Minecraft to control the animal you have domesticated. You can ride different passive Mobs such as horses, mules, pigs, or tame striders and use a saddle to navigate the lava sea in the Nether world. Here's how to make a saddle in Minecraft and use it on different breeds:

• Using a Saddle on Land Mobs: You can use a saddle on horses, mules, and donkeys by right-clicking on the mob with empty hands till it's tamed. Open inventory while mounted (press E on PC). Once done, place the saddle in the saddle slot, and you're ready to go.
• Saddle on a Pig: To use a saddle on a pig, keep it ready in your hands and use the Right-click on the pig to put the saddle on. To control the pig, craft a Carrot on a Stick and hold it in front of the pig.
• Using a Saddle on a Strider: To use a saddle on a Strider, keep the saddle in your hands and Right-click on the Strider to put the saddle on. To control the strider across lava, craft a Warped Fungus on a Stick.

Saddles are special tools in the sense that they can't corrode or wear out over time. Therefore, they also don't need any enchantments or potions sprayed over them to protect. They are also indestructible. Once you break a saddle over any animal, they will automatically drop to the ground and won't disappear. We also recently covered how to breed horses in Minecraft, so you can visit our website to learn more.