Lead

Lead

Rarity tier	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)

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Leads are utilities used to leash and lead some mobs.

Obtaining

Mob loot

Wandering traders always spawn with 2 trader llamas, each held with a lead. When a trader llama is detached, either by killing it or the wandering trader, dragging them far apart, or putting the llama in a boat or a minecart, the lead drops at the llama's position.

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	[hide]Chance
Java Edition
Lead	Ancient City	Chest	1	16.1% { "item": "Lead", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.16110641166159667, "structure": "Ancient City", "container": "Chest" }
	Trail Ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	2.2% { "item": "Lead", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.022222222222222254, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }
	Woodland Mansion	Chest	1	28.3% { "item": "Lead", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.28319573699514855, "structure": "Woodland Mansion", "container": "Chest" }
Bedrock Edition
Lead	Ancient City	Chest	1	16.1% { "item": "Lead", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.16110641166159667, "structure": "Ancient City", "container": "Chest" }
	Buried Treasure	Chest	1–3	34.3% { "item": "Lead", "stacksize": "1–3", "chance": 0.3433494144021395, "structure": "Buried Treasure", "container": "Chest" }
	Trail Ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	2.2% { "item": "Lead", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.021739130434782594, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }
	Woodland Mansion	Chest	1	27.9% { "item": "Lead", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.2792703864726873, "structure": "Woodland Mansion", "container": "Chest" }

Crafting

Ingredients	[hide]Crafting recipe
String + Slimeball	2

Usage

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	[hide]Description
Balloon	Latex + Matching Dye + Helium + Lead		‌
White Balloon or Blue Balloon or Brown Balloon or Black Balloon	Latex + Bone Meal or Lapis Lazuli or Cocoa Beans or Ink Sac + Helium + Lead		‌

Leashing mobs

One block tall mobs, such as pigs, suspend at 7 blocks above the ground.

Two block tall mobs, such as cows, also suspend at 7 blocks above the ground.

Using a lead on a mob ties the lead to the mob, allowing it to be moved by the player. Multiple mobs can be held by leads at once, but each mob held requires its own lead. Mobs can also be attached to other mobs with leads.​

It is possible to leash the following mobs and other entities:

• Allay
• Armadillo
• Axolotl
• Bee
• Boat
• Boat with Chest
• Camel
• Cat
• Chicken
• Cow
• Dolphin
• Donkey
• Fox
• Frog
• Glow Squid
• Goat
• Happy Ghast​
• Hoglin
• Horse
• Iron Golem
• Llama
• Mooshroom
• Mule
• Ocelot
• Parrot
• Pig
• Polar Bear
• Rabbit
• Sheep
• Skeleton Horse
• Sniffer
• Snow Golem
• Squid
• Strider
• Trader Llama
• Wolf
• Zoglin
• Zombie Horse

Additionally, bats, pandas, fish, tadpoles, turtles, villagers, wandering traders, NPCs, agents, and monsters can be leashed using a map editor or NBT editor.

With a mob on a lead held by the player, using the lead on any type of fence (or wall‌) attaches the lead to it with a visible knot, tying the mob to it. To attach it to a wall on Bedrock Edition, the player must hold a lead in the main hand. Multiple leads may be attached to one fence post. A mob tied to a fence tends to stay within 5 blocks of the fence post.

Pressing the use item control on a leash knot will leash any player-leashed mobs to the leash knot, or if the player is not currently leashing any mobs, leash all mobs leashed to the leash knot to the player.

Sneaking and pressing the use item control on a leashable mob while already having other mobs leashed will leash any leashed mobs to the new mob.​ If a boat or any leashable mob that cannot fit into a boat is leashed to a happy ghast (aside from another happy ghast), it will be attached in a four-leash configuration hanging below the happy ghast.​

A lead is broken by pressing the use item control on the leashed mob again, hitting the knot, removing or pushing the attached fence post, or using shears on a leashed mob or a leash knot.​ Leads also break when hit by projectiles. Whenever a lead is removed or broken, it drops as an item at the location of the mob. However, it does not drop when unleashed in Creative mode.‌ A lead does not break if the attached animal dies.

A lead can stretch a maximum of 10‌ / 12​ blocks (16 if the leashed mob is a happy ghast​). If the mob is able to move toward the player or fence post, it does so. If not, or if the mob is moving quickly away from the player, the lead breaks.

When the player or the knot is more than 7 blocks above the ground, the mob being leashed becomes suspended.

Most mobs that can be leashed can still be leashed even if attacking the player leashing them, and any attached leads do not break.

Wolves cannot be leashed after becoming angry. Despite this, if they become angry while already leashed, the lead does not break, but it cannot be reattached when broken through other methods while the wolf is still angry.

A lead does not prevent mobs from despawning if they normally would despawn.

When moving downward and accelerating toward the ground, leashed mobs accumulate fall damage and take it if they hit the ground while still accelerating. When moving up or decelerating (such as when the lead is stretched to its limit), the fall distance is set to one block and the mob therefore does not take any fall damage if it touches the ground.

If the player walks into and back out of a nether portal while holding a lead connected to a mob, the lead remains attached to the mob. However, if a mob attached to a lead walks into a nether portal, the lead breaks and drops as an item in the other dimension.

A lead can be used to remove a mob from a boat without needing to break the boat, if the mob can normally be leashed.

In Bedrock Edition, if a chunk unloads while containing a leashed mob (either by the player walking too far away, or traveling to another dimension via a portal), sometimes the lead breaks and drops as an item, leaving the mob free to wander around.

Boats are unaffected by leads if a player is a direct passenger to a boat. Leads still work on boats with a player riding a mob that is riding the boat.

Sounds

Java Edition:

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Leash Knot broken	Friendly Creatures	When a leash knot is destroyed	entity.leash_knot.break	subtitles.entity.leashknot.break​	1.0	1.0	16
	​Leash Knot tied	Friendly Creatures	When a leash knot is placed on a fence	entity.leash_knot.place	subtitles.entity.leashknot.place​	1.0	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Friendly Creatures	When a leash knot is broken by interacting with it	leashknot.break	1.0	1.0
	Friendly Creatures	When a leash knot is placed on a fence or wall	leashknot.place	1.0	1.0

Leash Knot

A leash knot is an entity created when the player right-clicks a fence or a wall post while having a mob leashed.

Summoning

Using the command /summon minecraft:leash_knot <X Y Z>, it is possible to summon a leash knot without using a fence, it can be destroyed by attacking it. Also, it doesn't have a leash attached to it.

Leash Knot

Hitbox size	Height: 0.5 blocks Width: 0.375 blocks

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Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	[hide]Translation key
Leash Knot	leash_knot	entity.minecraft.leash_knot

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	[hide]Translation key
Leash Knot	leash_knot	88	entity.leash_knot.name

Entity data

Leash knots have entity data that define various properties of the entity.

Java Edition:

• [NBT Compound / JSON Object] Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template[show]

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	[hide]Translation key
Lead	lead	Item	item.minecraft.lead

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	[hide]Translation key
Lead	lead	547	Item	item.lead.name

Achievements

[hide]
Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		So I Got That Going for Me	Lead a Caravan containing at least 5 Llamas	—	20	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	When the Squad Hops into Town	Get each Frog variant on a Lead	The frogs don't need to be leashed at the same time.

History

[hide]Java Edition
1.6.1			13w16a				Added leads.
							Leads do not currently have a tooltip and are called “leashes” in the change notes.
			13w16b				Leads have been given a tooltip.
			13w18a				Leads have been given a crafting recipe.
1.9			15w50a				Added a sound for leads: entity.leashknot.place.
1.11			16w39a				Leads can now be found in woodland mansion chests.
1.14			18w43a				The texture of leads has been changed.
			19w05a				Added wandering traders, which are naturally equipped with leads.
1.15			19w34a				Added bees, which can be leashed.
1.16			20w09a				Skeleton horses and zombie horses can now be leashed.
			20w14a				Hoglins can now be leashed.
1.16.2			20w27a				Zoglins can now be leashed.
1.17			20w51a				Added axolotls, which can be leashed.
			21w19a				Squids and glow squids can now be leashed.
1.19			22w11a				Added frogs, which can be leashed.
			22w13a				Leads may now be found in ancient city chests.
1.19.3 Experiment Update 1.20			22w42a				Added camels, which can be leashed.
							Mobs no longer accumulate fall damage when dangling on leads.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20			23w07a				Added sniffers, which can be leashed.
1.20			23w12a				Leads can now be found in suspicious gravel and suspicious sand in trail ruins.
			23w16a				Leads no longer generate in suspicious sand in trail ruins.
							Due to the split of the archaeological loot tables for the suspicious gravel within the trail ruins; leads are now in the common loot table.
1.20.5			23w51a				Added armadillos, which can be leashed.
1.21			Pre-release 1				Boats and boat with chests can now be leashed.
[hide]Upcoming Java Edition
1.21.6			25w15a				Added happy ghasts, which can be leashed.
			25w16a				Using a firework rocket while gliding with elytra will now break any attached leads.
							Leashed leads are now rendered twice as thick.
							Leads can now leash two mobs together.
							Leashed leads can now be snipped by using shears.
							When leashing an already leashed mob, the current leash will now snap and the mob will be leashed to the player.
							Interactions with leash knots and fences have been changed.
							Boats and large mobs that can be leashed but not fit in a boat can now be leashed in a 4-leash configuration to a happy ghast.
							Leash snapping distance has been increased to 12 blocks.
							Happy ghast leash is now longer, with a free roaming distance of 10 blocks and snapping distance of 16 blocks.
[hide]Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.15.0			build 1				Added leads.
[hide]Pocket Edition
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				Leads now have better "physics".
							Leads can now be found inside woodland mansion chests.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.4.0			beta 1.2.14.2				Leads can now be found inside buried treasure chests.
							Leads can now be used on boats.
1.4.0			beta 1.2.20.1				Leads can now be used to craft balloons.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The texture of leads has been changed.
							Wandering traders now drop leads after they are detached from trader llamas.
1.14.0			beta 1.14.0.1				Leads can now be used on polar bears, ocelots, parrots, dolphins and old villagers.
1.19.0			beta 1.19.0.20				Allays can now be leashed.
[hide]Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.21.90			Preview 1.21.90.20				Using a firework rocket while gliding with elytra will now break any attached leads.
							Leads can now leash two mobs together.
							Leashed leads can now be snipped by using shears.
							When leashing an already leashed mob, the current leash will now snap and the mob will be leashed to the player.
							Interactions with leash knots and fences have been changed
							Boats and large mobs that can be leashed but not fit in a boat can now be leashed in a 4-leash configuration to a happy ghast.
							Leash snapping distance has been increased to 12 blocks.
							Happy ghast leash is now longer, with a free roaming distance of 10 blocks and snapping distance of 16 blocks.
[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 leads.
TU43	CU33	1.36	1.36	1.36	Patch 13		Sounds have been added for leads.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Leads can now be found in woodland mansion chests.
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Leads can now be found inside buried treasure chests.
			1.90				The texture of leads has been changed.
			1.91				Added wandering traders, which are naturally equipped with leads.
[hide]New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added leads.

Data history

[hide]Java Edition
1.11			16w32a				The entity ID of the knot has been changed from LeashKnot to leash_knot.
1.13			17w47a				Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 420.​
[hide]Pocket Edition
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				The entity ID of the knot has been changed from leashknot to leash_knot.

Issues

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

Trivia

• The lead is named "leash" in the texture file.
• If a player goes to sleep while holding a mob on a lead, the lead remains attached.
• In Java Edition, when using the /item command to put a lead in a player's head slot, the item gets rotated and positioned in such a way that it looks like the player is wearing a monocle.

Gallery

Screenshots

• 

  Many animals can be tied to one fence post.

• 

  A horse wearing golden horse armor that is leashed to a fence post.

• 

  Three sheep tied to the same fence.

• 

  A shot of all the mobs that could be tied with leads as of 1.6.1, except donkeys and mules.

• 

  With the use of the leash, it is possible to suspend animals in the air by tying the leash on high-up fence posts.

• 

  A donkey with the Grumm/Dinnerbone name tag easter egg tied to a fence with a lead to make a yo-yo.

• 

  Several sheep hanging in the air in Creative mode.

Mojang screenshots

• 

  First image of a lead in Bedrock Edition.

• 

  An ocelot leashed by a player.

• 

  Leash mobs to entities like boats.

• 

  Kai Leashes multiple mobs together.

• 

  Kai and Noor riding a happy ghast.

• 

  Sunny stealing borrowing leads easily to leash mobs.

• 

  Noor leashing too many mobs.

• 

  A happy ghast leashed to some mobs.

• 

  Kai leashing a wolf.

• 

  Happy ghasts leashed to boats.

• 

  Sunny riding a happy ghast that is leashed to a boat with mobs.

• 

  Kai riding a happy ghast leashed to a pig in a boat.

• 

  A happy ghast leashed to a frog.

• 

  A happy ghast leashed to a pig, a panda, and a wolf.

• 

  Sunny with a leashed snow fox, a leashed cold pig, and a leashed cold cow.

External links

• Taking Inventory: Lead – Minecraft.net on April 8, 2022