Donkey

Donkey

• Donkey
• Saddled
• Chested
• Saddled Chested
• Baby

Health points	15HP × 7.5 to 30HP × 15
Behavior	Passive
Mob type	Animal
Hitbox size	In Java Edition: Adult: Height: 1.5 blocks Width: 1.3965 blocks Baby: Height: 0.75 blocks Width: 0.6982 blocks In Bedrock Edition: Adult: Height: 1.6 blocks Width: 1.4 blocks Baby: Height: 0.8 blocks Width: 0.7 blocks
Spawn	Meadow Plains Sunflower Plains Savanna Savanna Plateau Windswept Savanna
Usable items	Lead Saddle Chest plus contents Sugar Wheat Apple Golden Carrot Golden Apple Enchanted Golden Apple Hay Bale

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Donkeys are a type of mob similar to horses that, when tamed, can be ridden and equipped with chests.

Spawning

In Java Edition, donkeys spawn commonly in meadows in groups of 1-2, and less commonly in plains in groups of 1-3 and savannas in groups of 1. 20% of all individual donkeys naturally spawn as babies. All donkeys spawn as adults when using spawn eggs, unless the spawn egg is used on a donkey.

In Bedrock Edition, 2-6 donkeys spawn only in plains at light level 7 or above.

Appearance

Adult donkeys are 1.4 blocks wide and long, and 1.6 blocks high. Baby donkeys start at half the size of adults and in Bedrock Edition, get progressively bigger as they age. Unlike wolves and cats, donkeys do not change appearance once they have been tamed, though tamed donkeys may be differentiated by giving them equipment.

Donkeys are smaller than horses and sport long, erect ears. Their manes do not protrude, but rather are drawn directly on the back of their heads and necks. All donkeys have gray-brown coats with darker ankles, ears, manes, and tails. Donkeys can be equipped with a saddle but cannot wear horse armor, and they can also be equipped with chests to store up to 15 stacks of items.

Unlike almost all other mobs, donkeys with equipped saddles or chests do not render these when under the effect of Invisibility.

Drops

Breeding

1–7XP experience orbs upon a successful breeding.

On death

Item		Roll Chance	Quantity (Roll Chance)
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Leather	100%	0–2	0–3	0–4	0–5

• 1–3XP, when killed by a player or tamed wolf.
• If equipped with a chest or saddle, they drop those items. They also drop the contents of the chest.

Killing a baby donkey yields no items nor experience.

Usage

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. They can also be used to climb hills and jump fences, which the player can't generally.

Donkeys cannot float on water when being controlled by a player. They can be ridden in water up to 2 blocks deep. In deeper water, the player is automatically dismounted.

Donkeys can be equipped with chests and used as pack animals. They can also be pulled along and tied up using a lead.

Equipment

GUI of a donkey, when equipped with a chest.

Tamed donkeys can have the following slots available:

• Saddle Slot: For equipping a saddle.
• An additional 15 inventory slots, provided the donkey has been equipped with a chest.

Equipment can be placed on a donkey by holding left shift and then using on the donkey, or by accessing its inventory. 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.

A donkey can be equipped with a chest by using a chest on a donkey. The chest cannot be removed except by killing the donkey, which causes the chest and its contents to drop.

Baby donkeys cannot be equipped with anything.

Riding

Once a donkey is tamed and saddled, the player can control it with the standard directional controls, jump, and the mouse. The player dismounts using the dismount control. Like riding other entities, it is impossible for a player to use a nether portal or end portal while on a donkey.

A ridden saddled donkey automatically runs up any one block high slope. The donkey and rider can safely fit through a space as low as 2.75 blocks high. Lower clearance risks suffocating the rider if the rider's head enters a non-transparent block. 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. They cannot fit through a 1-block-wide gap.

Unlike horses, all naturally spawned donkeys have the same movement speed and jump strength. Donkeys are slow-moving backward and about as fast as the player when moving sideways.

Ridden saddled donkeys have the ability of "jump charging". In Java Edition, when the player rides them, the experience bar on HUD is replaced by the jump bar, and the hunger bar is replaced by the donkey's health bar. In Bedrock Edition, both bars display, and the experience bar is replaced by the jump bar only when jumping, with the experience level number remaining visible. A ridden saddled donkey can be made to jump, and holding the control charges for a higher leap. Donkeys are not affected by Jump Boost beacons.

Behavior

Donkeys roam around idly, occasionally stopping to rear, swish their tails, or lower their heads as though eating the grass. Unlike sheep, the eating animation does not actually cause any grass to be consumed. A donkey may turn to look at a player who comes near. Any donkey, even a wild one, allows itself to be attached to a lead without protest. However, if the player attempts to saddle an untamed donkey, it rears and flails its front hooves. Donkeys remain passive, even when hit.

Donkeys can safely fall 6 blocks before they begin to accumulate fall damage, unlike most mobs, which can only safely fall 3 blocks. Donkeys also take half of the normal fall damage (rounded up) that most other mobs take (0.5HP × 0.25 damage per block over the safe distance instead of 1HP). If an entity is riding a donkey, they receive the same fall damage as the donkey.

Donkeys occasionally emit a braying sound.

Adult donkeys cannot ride a boat, though babies can.

Unlike other passive mobs, donkeys slowly regenerate health.

Taming

Adult donkeys can be tamed. In Java Edition, a player mounts a donkey by pressing use on it with an empty hand. In Bedrock Edition, the player can also hold an object that cannot be used on a donkey. A player tames an adult donkey by repeatedly mounting it until the donkey stops bucking off the player and shows hearts. It is necessary to tame a donkey in order to breed it, give it equipment, or ride it for any length of time.

Taming depends on the donkey's "temper". They begin with a temper of 0 out of 100. When a player is riding the donkey, a random number between 0 and 99 is chosen. The donkey becomes tame if this number is less than the temper, otherwise, the temper is increased by 5 and the player is bucked off. Temper can also be increased by feeding the donkey.

While riding an untamed donkey, a galloping sound is audible, more or less rapid. This gives a general idea of the donkey's speed.

Like all tamed animals, a death message is displayed to their owner if they are killed.‌

Breeding

Feeding tamed donkeys golden apples or golden carrots activates love mode.

The offspring appear more spindly than adults and grow progressively larger with time until they reach their full size. The offspring is not automatically tamed and must be tamed after it grows into an adult. The baby donkey can be fed to make it mature faster.

Cross-breeding a donkey with a horse creates a mule baby. Mules cannot breed.

Food

Feeding a donkey food may alter its behavior and cause it to grow (if it is not yet an adult; baby donkeys normally take 20 minutes to fully mature if not fed), and restore its health.

In Bedrock Edition, the health of baby donkeys cannot be restored by feeding.

In Java Edition, feeding tamed donkeys at full health has no sound effect and movements. In Bedrock Edition, while temper is at max value, untamed donkeys can be fed any food except hay bale.

To feed a donkey, hold a valid food item and press use on the donkey.

The table below lists the effects of the various foods donkeys can consume.

Food	Heals	Speeds growth by	Increases temper	Notes
Sugar	1HP	30 sec	+3
Wheat	2HP	20 sec	+3
Apple	3HP	1 min	+3
Golden carrot	4HP	1 min	+5	Activates love mode in tamed donkey.
Golden apple	10HP	4 min	+10	Activates love mode in tamed donkey. Enchanted golden apples also work.
Hay bale	20HP × 10	3 min	N/A	In Bedrock Edition, adult donkey in full health cannot be fed.

Statistics

All donkeys have three "equine stats": health, (maximum) movement speed, and jump strength. In Java Edition, each of these can vary between individual donkeys. In Bedrock Edition, only health can vary. These stats are created once the donkey is born or spawned, and are not affected by food.

Spawned values

When spawned in any way except breeding – for instance, using commands, spawning naturally or using spawn eggs – donkeys are assigned their stats within certain ranges, specific according to their horse type.

Health

Donkey's health ranges from 15–30, with an average of 22.5HP × 11.25. A donkey with an odd number of health points does not show the last half-heart.

Movement speed

A spawned donkey's speed value is always 0.175, but it moves at the slightly reduced 7.38 blocks/sec. For reference, the player's normal walking speed is 0.1, equivalent to 4.3 blocks/sec. and the player's sprinting speed is equivalent to 5.6 blocks/sec. The speed listed does not include any status effect that affects the speed of a horse or a player.

See transportation to compare the speeds of various transportation methods.

Jump strength

A spawned donkey's jump strength is always 0.5, enough to clear 1 ⁹⁄₁₆ blocks.

Bred values

When breeding two donkeys, the baby's stats are determined by a variation of the average of both parents' stats, randomly determined the same way horses' stats are.

Movement Speed

In Bedrock Edition, all donkeys have a speed value of 0.175 regardless of whether they were spawned or bred.

In Java Edition, a bred donkey's speed value has the same limits as other horses, between 0.1125 and 0.3375. See Horse#Movement speed.

Jump Strength

In Bedrock Edition, all donkeys have a jump strength of 0.5, regardless of whether they were spawned or bred.

In Java Edition, A bred donkey's jump strength has the same limits as other horses, between 0.4 and 1.0. See Tutorials/Horses#Jump_Strength.

Sounds

Java Edition:
Donkeys use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Donkey hee-haws	Friendly Creatures	Randomly	entity.donkey.ambient	subtitles.entity.donkey.ambient​	0.8	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)	16
	​Donkey neighs	Friendly Creatures	When a player is bucked off by a donkey or fails to interact with a donkey	entity.donkey.angry	subtitles.entity.donkey.angry​	0.8	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)	16
	​Donkey Chest equips	Friendly Creatures	When a donkey equips a chest	entity.donkey.chest	subtitles.entity.donkey.chest​	1.0	0.8-1.2	16
	​Donkey dies	Friendly Creatures	When a donkey dies	entity.donkey.death	subtitles.entity.donkey.death​	0.8	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)	16
	​Donkey eats	Friendly Creatures	When a donkey eats an item	entity.donkey.eat	subtitles.entity.donkey.eat​	1.0	0.8-1.2	16
	​Donkey jumps	Friendly Creatures	When a donkey begins a leap	entity.donkey.jump	subtitles.entity.donkey.jump​	0.4	1.0	16
	​Something fell	Friendly Creatures	When a donkey falls from more than 1 block	entity.horse.land	subtitles.entity.generic.big_fall​	0.4	1.0	16
	​Donkey hurts	Friendly Creatures	When a donkey is damaged	entity.donkey.hurt	subtitles.entity.donkey.hurt​	0.8	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)	16
	​Footsteps	Friendly Creatures	While a donkey is walking	entity.horse.step	subtitles.generic.block.footsteps​	Block-Dependent	Block-Dependent	16
	​Footsteps	Friendly Creatures	While a donkey is walking on wood	entity.horse.step_wood	subtitles.generic.block.footsteps​	Block-Dependent	Block-Dependent	16
	​Saddle equips	Friendly Creatures	When a donkey equips a saddle	entity.horse.saddle	subtitles.entity.horse.saddle​	0.5	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Friendly Creatures	Randomly	mob.horse.donkey.idle	0.8	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
	Friendly Creatures	When a player is bucked off by a donkey	mob.horse.donkey.angry	0.8	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
	Friendly Creatures	Unused sound event	mob.horse.armor	0.6	1.0
	Friendly Creatures	When a donkey equips a chest	mob.horse.armor	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Friendly Creatures	Unused sound event	mob.horse.breath	0.7	1.0
	Friendly Creatures	When a donkey dies	mob.horse.donkey.death	0.8	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
	Friendly Creatures	When a donkey eats an item	mob.horse.eat	0.5-1.5	0.8-1.2
	Friendly Creatures	When a donkey begins a leap	mob.horse.jump	0.4	1.0
	Friendly Creatures	When a donkey falls from more than 1 block	mob.horse.land	0.4	1.0
	Friendly Creatures	When a donkey is damaged	mob.horse.donkey.hit	0.8	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
	Friendly Creatures	While a donkey is walking	mob.horse.soft	0.45	0.9-1.1
	Friendly Creatures	While a donkey is walking on wood	mob.horse.wood	0.45	0.9-1.1
	Friendly Creatures	When a donkey equips a saddle	mob.horse.leather	0.5	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Entity tags	[hide]Translation key
Donkey	donkey	dismounts_underwater	entity.minecraft.donkey

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	[hide]Translation key
Donkey	donkey	24	entity.donkey.name

Entity data

Donkeys have entity data associated with them that contain various properties.

Java Edition:

• [NBT Compound / JSON Object] Entity data
  • Additional fields for mobs that can breed see Template:Nbt inherit/breedable/template[show]
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template[show]
  • Tags common to all mobs see Template:Nbt inherit/mob/template[show]
  • Tags common to all horses see Template:Nbt inherit/horse/template[show]
  • [Byte] ChestedHorse: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if the horse has chests. A chested horse that is not a donkey or a mule crashes the game.
  • [NBT List / JSON Array] Items: List of items. Exists only if ChestedHorse is true.
    • [NBT Compound / JSON Object] An item, including the Slot tag. Slots are numbered 2 to 16 for donkeys and mules, and none exist for all other horses.
      • Tags common to all items see Template:Nbt inherit/item/template[show]

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements

[hide]
Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Artificial Selection	Breed a mule from a horse and a donkey.	—	30	Bronze
		Cow Tipper	Harvest some leather.	Pick up leather from the ground or via fishing.	15	Bronze
		It Spreads	Kill a mob next to a catalyst	—	10	Bronze
		Overkill	Deal nine hearts of damage in a single hit.	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have nine hearts of health overall.	30	Bronze
		Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	—	20	Silver
		Saddle Up	Tame a horse.	—	20	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	A Throwaway Joke	Throw a Trident at something. Note: Throwing away your only weapon is not a good idea.	Hit a mob with a thrown trident.
	Adventure	Adventure, exploration and combat	Kill any mob, or be killed by any living entity.
	Arbalistic	Kill five unique mobs with one crossbow shot	Armor Stand also counts for this advancement. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.
	Best Friends Forever	Tame an animal	Tame one of these 8 tameable mobs: Skeleton Horse and Zombie Horse can be tamed in the same way as a regular horse to gain this advancement with the ride command.
	It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Kill one of these 73 mobs near a sculk catalyst:[show] Mobs that drop no experience as well as the ender dragon are ignored for this advancement.
	Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	–
	Take Aim	Shoot something with an Arrow	Using a bow or a crossbow, shoot a mob with an arrow, tipped arrow, or spectral arrow.
	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed two animals together	Breed a pair of any of these 26 mobs:[hide] A mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breedable together. Other breedable mobs are ignored for this advancement.
	Two by Two	Breed all the animals!	Breed a pair of each of these 25 mobs:[hide] A trader llama does not count as a llama, and a mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breedable together. Other breedable mobs can be bred, but are ignored for this advancement.

History

[hide]Java Edition
1.6.1			13w16a				Added donkeys, assisted by DrZhark (John Olarte), creator of the Mo' Creatures mod, whose horses are a baseline for Minecraft's donkey models.
			13w16b				Donkeys have been made slower and they have been reduced from gliding so much.
			13w18a				Horse saddles have been removed. Donkeys are now controlled using the saddle.
			13w19a				Access to the donkey inventory by sneaking and interacting has been enabled.
			13w21a				Added a new GUI for donkeys, to control their saddle and inventory.
			13w22a				Added new sound effects for donkeys.
			Release				Donkeys can now be fed with golden carrots in addition to both types of golden apples.
1.7.2			13w36a				Donkeys now spawn in savannas.
1.8			14w26c				Donkeys can no longer be fed bread for taming, healing, or growing.
							Wheat's acceleration of baby donkey growth has been reduced.
1.9			15w47b				Added sounds for donkeys eating food given by a player.
1.10			16w20a				Added a donkey spawn egg.
			pre2				The donkey spawn egg has been removed.
1.11			16w32a				The donkey spawn egg has been re-added.
							Donkeys can no longer spawn from horse spawn eggs.
1.13			17w45a				The models of donkeys have been changed.
			17w46a				The new models of donkeys have been slightly tweaked.
			18w03a				The models of donkeys have been changed again and the textures have been slightly altered.
1.14			18w43a				Changed the textures of the donkeys. The color channel of transparent pixels are now filled to black.
			18w43b				Changed the textures of the donkeys. However, some pixels are missing.
			18w44a				Changed the textures of the donkeys. The missing pixels from 18w43b have been fixed.
1.16			20w15a				Tamed donkeys can now be saddled by dispensers.
							Dispensers can now put chests on tamed donkeys.
1.18			Experimental Snapshot 1				Donkeys now spawn in the newly added meadows.
			experimental snapshot 2				Donkeys now spawn less frequently in meadows.
			experimental snapshot 6				Donkeys now follow players that are holding golden carrots, golden apples, or enchanted golden apples.
1.19.4			23w03a				The texture of the donkey has been changed.
1.19.4			23w07a				The speed, jump height and health of a baby is now a variation of the average of the parents' attributes, rather than being biased toward the average possible value.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20			23w07a				Donkeys now spawn in cherry groves.
			1.19.4-pre1				Donkeys no longer spawn in cherry groves.
1.20.5			24w09a				Added sound event entity.donkey.jump to replace entity.horse.jump.
[hide]Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.15.0			build 1				Added donkeys.
v0.16.0			build 1				Donkeys can now be fed using enchanted golden apples.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.2.5			release				Donkeys no longer follow players that are holding food.
1.2.6			beta 1.2.6.2				The models of donkeys have been changed to the 17w45a donkey models.
1.2.9							Donkeys no longer open their mouths when bucking the player off or taking damage.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				Changed the textures of the donkeys.
1.17.40 Experiment Caves and Cliffs			beta 1.17.40.20				Donkeys now spawn in meadows.
1.20.10			Preview 1.20.10.20				Donkeys now follow players that are holding golden carrots, golden apples, or enchanted golden apples.
1.21.70			Preview 1.21.70.20				Donkeys now spawn in savannas.
[hide]Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU19	CU7	1.12	1.12	1.12	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added donkeys.
TU22	CU10	1.15	1.15	1.15			Added quick move to the donkey inventory.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Baby donkey growth can now be accelerated using wheat.
TU43	CU33	1.36	1.36	1.36	Patch 13		Added sounds for donkeys.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Donkeys can no longer spawn from horse spawn eggs.
TU60	CU51	1.64	1.64	1.64	Patch 30	1.0.11	The models of donkeys have been changed to the 1.13 donkey models.
[hide]New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added donkeys.

Data history

[hide]Java Edition
1.11			16w32a				Donkeys now have a separate ID from horses: donkey.
1.13			17w47a				Numeric IDs for entities were presumably deprecated in this version.​

Issues

Issues relating to "Donkey" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• If a player picks up leather dropped by an adult donkey, they receive the "Cow Tipper" achievement. This is due to the achievement being given when a player picks up any piece of leather instead of being given when killing a cow.
• A player riding a donkey is dragged along if the donkey is being pulled by a lead, and can even be lifted up in the air in the same way.
• Using commands, it is possible to make a donkey with no armor slot, but also no way to equip a chest.
• In the Bedrock Edition, the donkey can be transported in a boat by riding the donkey and jumping into the boat then dismounting (leaving the donkey behind in the boat) and activating the boat from underneath/underwater. Attempting to activate the boat to pilot it from above results in the player being mounted on the donkey again rather than being placed inside the boat to pilot it.

Gallery

Screenshots

• 

  The first image of the donkey chest inventory.

• 

  A donkey and a mule.

• 

  A herd of donkeys and horses spawned next to each other.

Textures

• 

  Donkey texture file.

In other media

• 

  LEGO Minecraft Donkey.

• 

  A donkey with several other animals.

See also

• Horse
• Zombie Horse
• Skeleton Horse
• Mule
• Llama

External links

• Donkey article on Wikipedia