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Learn how to craft and use leads in Minecraft to transport passive and neutral mobs, including tips and lesser-known features.
Transporting neutral and passive mobs in Minecraft is simplified with the proper use of leads. Leads are effective tools that can be crafted using two ingredients, one of which is uncommon. They are especially useful for leading animals into pens to create a livestock farm, taming horses, and gathering a variety of mobs in a common area.
Lead Crafting Ingredients
To make a lead, you’ll need strings and a slimeball.
- String x 4: The most common source is from killing spiders, which have a chance to drop string upon defeat. Alternatively, breaking cobwebs—preferably with a sword—will drop string.
- Slimeball x 1: Collect slimeballs by killing slimes, which spawn in swamp biomes during the night or in slime chunks underground. A slime must be in its smallest form to drop slimeballs. You’ll need a sword or other weapon to kill the slimes and collect their drops.
Lead Crafting Recipe in Minecraft
Once you have the required ingredients, open your crafting table and place the items as follows:
- Top row: String | String | (empty)
- Middle row: String | Slimeball | (empty)
- Bottom row: (empty) | (empty) | String
This recipe produces 2 leads in the output slot.
How To Use a Lead in Minecraft
Use the lead by right-clicking a passive mob to leash it. All passive mobs and some neutral mobs can be leashed. Here are some key points to keep in mind about using the lead:
- Non-hostile mobs will follow the player holding the lead.
- Right-clicking a leashed mob with a lead will drop the lead.
- Multiple mobs can be held with leads at once
- Right-clicking a fence or wall (Bedrock Edition) with a lead will create a knot and tie all leashed mobs to it.
- Mobs leashed to a fence will stay within 5 blocks of it.
- Leads break if the leashed mob is further than 10 blocks away and not following the player.
- Leashed Mobs become suspended mid-air if the leading player or knot is more than 7 blocks above them.
- Leashed mobs do not despawn.
Which Mobs Can Leads Be Used On?
Here is a list of all the passive and neutral mobs that can be leashed. Passive mobs do not attack the player. Neutral mobs can be hostile to the player, usually when the player attacks them first. If a neutral mob becomes hostile, they cannot be leashed using a lead. However, if they are already leashed, they will still try to attack the player when they become hostile.
Passive Mobs
- Axolotl
- Camel
- Cat
- Chicken
- Cow
- Donkey
- Frog
- Glow Squid
- Ghastling
- Happy Ghast
- Horse
- Mooshroom
- Mule
- Ocelot
- Parrot
- Pig
- Rabbit
- Sheep
- Sniffer
- Snow Golem
- Squid
- Strider
- Zombie Horse
Neutral Mobs
- Bee
- Dolphin
- Fox
- Goat
- Iron Golem
- Llama
- Polar Bear
- Trader Llama
- Wolf
- Hoglin
- Zoglin (if a leashed Hoglin turns into a Zoglin)
- Chicken Jockey (only the chicken)
- Skeleton Horse
- Skeleton Horseman (only the horse)
Boats can also be leashed and pulled.
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