This Minecraft tutorial explains all about mules with screenshots and step-by-step instructions. Let’s learn about mules in Minecraft.

Background

A mule is a variant of horse in Minecraft and the offspring of a horse and a donkey. The following is a picture of what a mule looks like in the game:

Hostility Level Passive Mob
Health Points 15 health points (up to 30 health points)
x 7.5 (up to  x 15)
Where to Find Does not spawn naturally
(must be created through breeding)
Weapon None
Attack Method Will never attack you
Drops  0-2 Leather
 1 Saddle (if equipped)
 1 Chest (if equipped)
Experience Points 1-3 experience points
Special Skills Can be tamed and ridden

A mule can not wear horse armor, but you can put a saddle on a mule and ride it. You can also equip a mule with a chest and store up to 15 stackable items.

Hostility Level (Passive)

A mule is a passive mob. The term mob is short for mobile and is used to refer to all living, moving creatures in the game such as chickens, creepers, and mules. Because a mule is a passive mob, it will never attack you in the game (Creative or Survival mode).

Health Points

In Minecraft, a mule has between 7.5 hearts  and 15 hearts for health, depending on the type of mule. This gives a mule 15 and 30 health points (because 1 heart = 2 health points). To kill a mule, you need to inflict between 15 and 30 points of damage depending on the mule.

Where to Find Mules

Mules do not spawn naturally in the game, but can be created through breeding. If you are having trouble breeding a mule, you can also summon a mule using a cheat or you can use a spawn egg.

Weapon

A mule does not carry a weapon.

Attack Method

You are safe to walk near a mule and it will not attack or cause you any damage. And if you attack a mule, it will just try to run away. It will not attack you back.

Drops

When you kill a mule in Minecraft, it will drop leather.

If the mule was wearing a saddle or chest, these items would also have been dropped when the mule was killed.

Make sure you pick up any dropped items before they disappear. They are useful and should be kept in your inventory to be used later.

Experience Points

As you play the game, you will gain experience. The most common way to gain experience is by killing mobs. When a mob is killed you will see tiny green and yellow balls appear and move towards you.

These orbs represent experience points. When you kill a mule, you will gain 1-3 experience points.

Foods to Feed a Mule

In Minecraft, you can restore a mule’s health by feeding it and you can also speed up how fast a baby mule grows by feeding it food.

TIP: A mule will only eat food if its health bar is down or if it is a baby mule that is growing. If you try to feed a mule otherwise, it will not eat the food.

In Minecraft, these are the foods that you can feed a mule:

Name Health Restored Speeds Growth By
Sugar 1 health point
( x 0.5)		 30 seconds
Wheat 2 health points
( x 1)		 20 seconds
Apple 3 health points
( x 1.5)		 1 minute
Golden Carrot 4 health points
( x 2)		 1 minute
Golden Apple 10 health points
( x 5)		 4 minutes
Enchanted Golden Apple 10 health points
( x 5)		 4 minutes
Hay Bale 20 health points
( x 10)		 3 minutes

Note: The chart above shows the amount of health restored for each type of food eaten by a mule. It also displays the amount of time that it speeds up growth if you feed the food to a baby mule.

Spawn Egg for Mule

You can spawn a mule using the following spawn egg:

 Mule Spawn Egg

Things to Do with Mules

Here are some activities that you can do with mules in Minecraft:

  How to Feed a Mule

How to Breed Mules

How to Tame and Ride a Mule

Mule Generator

Need some help generating the /summon command for a mule carrying a chest of items? Try our command generator:

Summon Mule with Chest Generator

Summon Mule with Chest Generator

Summon Mule with Chest Generator

Summon Mule with Chest Generator

Command Examples

Here are some game command examples for a mule in Minecraft:

How to Summon a Mule

NBT Tags for Mule (Java Edition)

Here are the NBT tags (formerly called data tags) that you can use in game commands for a mule in Java Edition:

NBT Tags for Mule

Spawn Events for Mule (Bedrock/Education)

Here are the spawn events that you can use in game commands for a mule in Bedrock Edition and Education Edition:

Spawn Events for Mule

Other Mobs

Here are some of the other mobs in Minecraft:

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