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A closeup of a baby mule, foal, and baby donkey standing in front of hay bales
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Sofia Dankis
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Sofia Dankis
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1/15/26

Test baby mounts with new looks

Giddy-up in Java snapshot now!

Drop everything! At once! Or maybe keep hold of your reins? Because just in time for the Year of the Horse, new versions of baby mounts gallop into testing! Our cutest game drop yet brings five more reimagined baby mobs, each one cuter than the last no matter which order you go in.

These aren’t just foals. They’re BABIES. Adorable, tiny, and pure of heart. I cannot handle how small they are, so let’s look at which ones are riding into Java snapshot today, and into Bedrock preview* soon, before I smash my computer into a wall. Yee-haw!

Foals

A player stands outside a wooden stable surrounded by foals with different coat patterns, a baby donkey, and a baby mule. Hay bales, fences, trees, a river, and rolling grassland appear in the background.
A foal and an adult horse face each other in a grassy field at sunset. The foal us smaller, stubbier, and lighter than the adult.
Two Minecraft players travel across a river between rocky hills. One rides a black horse through the water, while another floats with a foal using a small boat.

We’re just entering the Year of the Horse, so it’s only fitting that we’re blessed with stubby, soft-coated foals! They even come in all variations. White? Check. Chestnut? Check! Cream? CHECK! And so it goes. I would list them all, but that only takes more time away from spending time with them. And hearing that foals now also have custom sounds, I'm not wasting another second not hearing their adorable new neighing and whinnying!

Baby mules

A gray foal with white spots, a baby mule, and a baby donkey stand together on a grassy hill covered with pink petals. Cherry blossom trees surround them, and the sun sets in the distance, casting warm light across the scene.

Half donkey. Half horse. All! Baby! The baby mule wasn’t on my ranching mood board because I did not dare to dream that big! They are so cute, wandering around all small yet big-eared. What more can I ask for? Only more baby mules. Now!

Skeleton foals

Babies made of bones? My Halloween dreams are coming true! The new version of the skeleton foal is ready to click-clack through the night in Creative mode, casting a shadow as eerie as it is adorable. Imagine a rattling moonlight stampede of them? I’m sorry, it’s too much for me. I need to breathe into a bag for a second, the cuteness is out of control.

Zombie foals

Zombie horses only rode fully into Minecraft recently, and we’re already in love. And that love is about to turn into LOVE (in all caps!) because new versions of zombie foals are thundering into Creative mode! They are so cute it’s scary and I am ready to ride through the night on my zombie horse, flanked by my zombie foal. This is how I roll now and I’m never going back.

Baby donkeys

A baby donkey stands on grass near stacked yellow hay bales at night. A white cat peers from behind the hay. In the background, lit wooden houses sit against a forested hillside.

OK, I’m back! The baby donkeys are giving me life and some sort of level of control. They’re so steadfast, which is impressive considering that they’re BABIES. I’ve filled my entire base with baby donkeys. They’re on the plains, they’re on the roof, they’re in the baseme– wait. Did I say roof? Baby donkey, I’m coming! Stay where you are!

How can I test these features?

You can test these features by enabling snapshots for Minecraft: Java Edition, or by enabling previews/beta* for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition. To install a snapshot, open up the Minecraft Launcher and enable snapshots in the "Installations" tab. To turn on an experiment in preview/beta for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition follow these instructions.

Send us your feedback!   

These features are all still in development, which means that the details outlined above might change as we iterate on them. So then why have we released them into testing? Because we want your feedback! Send your thoughts here, and report bugs at bugs.mojang.com!

 

*New features are coming in the future and will require Minecraft Bedrock Edition or Java Edition (each sold separately). As development is ongoing, the features shown and their descriptions are subject to change. Feedback from the community will help us iterate these features into their final versions.

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