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Breeding

   UP TO DATE FOR LITE RELEASE VERSION 1.20.1-1.1.1 AND ABOVE    
    UNDER CONSTRUCTION - INFORMATION MAY BE INCOMPLETE    

Introduction

Breeding is the process of pairing a male and female horse to produce a foal.

Readiness

Breeding requires two horses of opposite genders who are "ready", as indicated by the small icon in the horse inventory.

M Ready.png

F Ready.png

 Ready to breed.

M Unready.png

F Unready.png

 Not ready to breed.

Love Mode 

Love mode is a vanilla Minecraft feature that makes entities search for a compatible partner to breed with.

  • Love mode lasts for 120 seconds (2 minutes).
  • Horses require a  SUGAR CUBE  to activate love mode. 
  • Horses emit heart particles when love mode is activated successfully.
  • Horses will seek out opposite genders also in love mode to breed.
  • Successful breeding produces a foal immediately.

Cooldown

Horses have a cooldown period of 300 seconds (5 minutes) after breeding, during which they are "unready" to breed.
Hover over the gender icon in the horse inventory to see a tooltip for cooldown duration (seconds). 

Foals

Appearance
  • Adult horses have at least one of seven coat "tags" that apply to their coat texture.
  • Foals inherit one tag at random from either of their parents.
  • Foals can use one of two coat textures for their color tag.
  • Foals roll for a random coat that uses their tag when growing up.
Foal Coat Options
Tag Variant Coat
Creamy
 swem:foal_creamy_0_arishant  TBC 
swem:foal_creamy_1_arishant  TBC 
Chestnut
 swem:foal_chestnut_0_arishant  TBC 
swem:foal_chestnut_1_arishant  TBC 
Brown
 swem:foal_brown_0_arishant   TBC 
swem:foal_brown_1_arishant  TBC 
Dark Brown
 swem:foal_dark_brown_0_arishant   TBC 
swem:foal_dark_brown_1_arishant   TBC 
Black
 swem:foal_black_0_arishant   TBC 
swem:foal_black_1_arishant   TBC 
Gray
 swem:foal_gray_0_arishant   TBC 
swem:foal_gray_1_arishant   TBC 
White
 swem:foal_white_0_arishant  TBC 
swem:foal_white_1_arishant  TBC 
Behavior

Foals will follow any adult horse, and may idle wander in a small radius. If no adult is around, they will stand or wander.

Interaction

 TBC  Foals can be led by their owner, this is automatically set to the player who owns the mare (mother). 
Foals do not have an accessible inventory menu so cannot be equipped with any tack items. 

Growth

Foals grow up after 20 minutes, equivalent to 24000 ticks. Growth can be accelerated with  SUGAR CUBES 

More Information

Age

Lite does not offer any configs for foal growth time. However, this can be set for individual foals in-game using commands.

/data modify entity @e[type=swem:swem_horse,sort=nearest,limit=1] Age set value -#

Change # to the number of ticks until age up. 6000 is equal to 5 minutes. Use -999999999 for "permanent" foals.

Summon

You can summon foals with specific coats and growth durations using commands.

/summon swem:swem_horse ~ ~ ~ {Age: -#, Behaviors: [{Id: "swem:coat", Coat: "swem:foal_TYPE"}]}

Change # as above and add a valid coat entry for swem:foal_TYPE. See Foal Coat Options (dropdown) above.

Transfer

You can transfer ownership of foals using commands.

/data modify entity @e[type=swem:swem_horse,sort=nearest,limit=1] Owner set value PLAYERSFULLUUIDHERE

Change PLAYERSFULLUUID to that of a valid player using MCUUID.

This does not automatically update the ownerName value, which is displayed in the horse inventory (adult horses).
Owner name gets set automatically when horses are tamed or transferred using mod commands, but not with the above option.

/data modify entity @e[type=swem:swem_horse,sort=nearest,limit=1] ownerName set value PLAYERNAME

Change PLAYERNAME to that of a player. It should not cause any issues if invalid, but aim to use valid names anyway.

Additional

  • Breeding has a very small chance (1/1000) of a twin birth.

Known Issues

You can report any mod issues to our bugs forum on Discord - please check for duplicate reports first!

  • 1.1.0 Breeding fails to produce a foal in some cases. Bug Report
  • 1.1.0 Breeding does not trigger a cooldown for stallions. Bug Report

Changelog

View Changes

This is not a complete list of changes or features. It is a log of wiki-related version information and may be outdated.

MC Version Release Notes
1.20.1 1.1.1 Page established - Information prior to 1.1.1 is not specifically included but is likely the same.
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