How to Make a Saddle in Minecraft

In this tutorial, we will show you how to make a saddle in Minecraft. This sandbox video game hardly needs an introduction or two. For the unaware, the game has a procedurally generated 3D world where you explore and find for raw materials and learn crafting techniques. Furthermore, you could also build structures and earthworks. Along the same lines, you also have to compete against other players or even computer-controlled enemies. There’s a survival mode, where you have to fight for limited resources and then there’s a creative mode, with unlimited resources at hand.

Although building houses and structures is not that hard from the user’s perspective, there are some issues related to saddle. A lot of users are recently having trouble creating a saddle in Minecraft. So if you have no clue as to how you could build this, this tutorial will come in handy. Here is everything you need to know in this regard.

How to Make a Saddle in Minecraft

Now that you have tamed a horse and looking for a saddle, well we have got some bad news for you out there. Unfortunately, the game doesn’t allow you to do so. In Minecraft, you can’t make a Saddle. But wait, you could still get your hands on one of them. No, we are aren’t contradicting ourselves. The thing is although making a saddle isn’t possible, yet you could get them via other means like trades, exploration, and fishing. Let’s check out each of these methods in detail.

From Chests

The first and easiest way of getting a saddle in Minecraft is via CHest. You could find these chests lying all around in Minecraft. There are many locations along with the map where you could get your hands on these chests. For example, these could be found in Stronghold Altar Chests, Village Weaponsmith Chests, Dungeon Chests, Savanna Village Chests, Nether Fortress Chests, Jungle Temp Chests, Desert Temple Chests, End City Chests, and Village Tannery Chests. Among them, the Dungeon Chest and the Nether Fortress Chest have the highest probability of giving you a saddle in Minecraft.

Here’s the probability of finding a saddle all the above-mentioned chests:

• Desert temples (23.5%)
• Dungeons (28.3%)
• End City (13.3%)
• Jungle temples (12.9%)
• Nether Fortress (35.3%)
• Strongholds (2.5%)
• Savanna house chests – 11.3%
• Tanner chests – 17.3%Villages (varies)
• Blacksmith chests – 16.2%

Fishing

If you do too much fishing in Minecraft, then this tip will come in handy. The thing is if you are lucky enough you might hook up a saddle via the fishing rod. Use three sticks with two pieces of string, create a fishing rod, and then capture your bait aka saddle. Do keep in mind that this method is completely based on luck, you only have a meager 0.8% of getting a saddle.

Trade with Villagers

Leatherworking Villagers usually sells these for around 8-9 emeralds. On the other hand, the Master-Level Leatherworker sells them much cheaper, for around 6 emeralds, however, they are quite difficult to find. Furthermore, villagers could qualify for trading saddles in Minecraft, once they reach level 3. So start trading things like emeralds, leather, rabbit hide, flint and help them (villagers) increase their level pretty quickly. Once the Leatherworker reaches Level 5 (Master), the probability of getting a saddle from him increases by 50%.

Kill of Ravagers

Next up, you could also get these saddles by killing the ravagers. These are quite dangerous animals, that have recently been added to the game. These hostile monsters are always looking for the prey and as and when they find one, they attack in that instance itself. So kill him as soon as possible and earn yourself a reward in the form of saddles. For that, you will first have to initiate a raid, the Bad Omen status effect will come useful in this regard. This in turn could be obtained by killing the Illager Captain (usually residing in Pillager Outposts). Now wave three raids to spawn a ravager and kill him, you should surely get a saddle.

Use Cheats

Well if nothing works out, then a cheat or two might come in handy. To begin with, there’s always a creative mode available that will fills up your inventory with everything. But if you have already created a world, then having a new creative world that turns out to be a good idea after all. In that regard, here is how you could access the cheat modes across different platforms:

• Java Edition – Open to LAN > Allow Cheats: On > Start the LAN World (keep in mind that you will have to do this every time you load the world)
• Windows 10 / Mobile – Head over to Settings > Game > Select the Activate Cheats option
• Console – Go to Settings followed by Cheats and select Activate Cheats.

Now you could enter the cheats as follows:

• PC – Press the Enter or even T key could do it.
• Console – Press right on the D-Pad.
• Mobile – You could tap on the Chat button

On the other hand, if you are looking for saddle-related cheats, have a look below:

• /give playername saddle 1
• /summon EntityHorse ~ ~ ~ {Tame:1,SaddleItem:{id:329,Count:1}}

Which Animals Could You Ride?

Now that you have got a saddle in Minecraft. the next question that might come to your mind which animals could you go for. To begin with, once you tame the Horse, Pig, Donkey, or Mule, you could place the saddle on them. However, out of all the animals, pigs are the most difficult to control. To effectively manage it, you might have to use the Carrot and Stick tool. The pig will now follow you in the direction of the carrot.

Conclusion

So this was all from this guide on how to get a Saddle in Minecraft. Although you can’t create one, still getting them is quite easy, if you follow the given instructions, Out of all the above-mentioned tips, killing the ravagers and trading with villagers seems the two most viable and easiest options. On that note, do let us know which method you ultimately settled for, in the comments section below. Rounding off, don’t forget to check out our iPhone Tips and Tricks, PC tips and tricks, and Android Tips and Trick section.