Minecraft Guide: How to Tame and Ride a Skeleton Horse?
Skeleton Horses are easy to find in Minecraft but to tame and ride them is not as simple as it looks. To tame and ride a Skeleton Horse in Minecraft, you can utilize the saddle by putting it on the horse. Saddle helps to control and move the Skeleton Horse in Minecraft.
However, you can follow this Minecraft Guide describing How to Tame and Ride a Skeleton Horse in Minecraft.
Required things to Ride the Skeleton Horse:
The following two are the main resources to ride a skeleton horse in Minecraft:
- A Saddle
- A Skeleton Horse
Guide to Tame and Ride a Skeleton Horse in Minecraft
You can follow these steps to tame and ride the Skeleton Horse using the saddle:
1. Find a Skeleton Horse
To tame a Skeleton Horse in Minecraft, You have to find one in the gamer first. Skeleton Horses appear in Minecraft when lightning struck on a normal Horse. However, if you are not getting in touch with a skeleton horse you can always use a skeleton horse spawn egg or you can summon one by using tricks.
2. Tame the Skeleton Horse in Minecraft
After finding a Skeleton Horse, pick an empty slot in your Hotbar first (because you must use your hand to tame the skeleton horse). You may tame a skeleton horse by continuously attempting to mount it and failing because of the animal’s bucking.
The game control for taming the skeleton horse varies depending on the Minecraft version:
- Press the LT button on the Xbox controller for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
- Press the PS controller’s L2 button for the PS3 and PS4.
- Press the ZL button on the controller for Wii U.
- Press the ZL button on the controller for Nintendo Switch.
Every time you attempt to sit down on the skeleton horse, it will kick you off. To get it to settle down and allow you to sit on it, you must keep trying. When hearts are floating around the horse, you know it has been tamed.
At this stage, the skeletal horse is available for riding, but until a saddle is attached, you are unable to control the animal’s movement. So let’s attempt mounting the skeleton horse with a saddle.
3. Place a saddle on the skeleton horse
Select the saddle on your Hotbar to mount a saddle on a skeleton horse. Depending on the version of Minecraft, the player can use the following controls to saddle the skeleton horse:
- To mount the skeleton horse on Xbox 360 and Xbox One, hit the LT button on the controller, and then click the Y button to access your inventory.
- To mount the skeleton horse on PS3 and PS4, hit the L2 button on the PS controller. To access your inventory, press the P3 button Triangle button.
- To mount the skeleton horse on the Wii U, hit the ZL button on the gamepad. Then, press the X button to access your inventory.
- To mount the skeleton horse on the Nintendo Switch, click the ZL button on the controller, and then press X to access your inventory.
Your skeleton horse should appear in a window that shows the gear it is wearing.
Place the saddle in the saddle box on the left side of the drawing of the skeleton horse by moving it from the Hotbar.
You can observe how your skeleton horse’s look changes when the saddle is worn after you place the saddle in the saddle box.
Returning to the game now should reveal the saddle-wearing skeleton horse. Let’s start by learning to ride the skeleton horse.
4. Ride the Skeleton Horse
To mount and ride the skeleton horse, you can use the same controls that you used to walk as yourself in Minecraft. The version of Minecraft you are using will determine how you control the skeleton horse:
- Right-click the skeleton horse in Java Edition (PC/Mac).
- You position your pointer over the skeletal horse in the Pocket Edition (PE) and click the Ride button.
- Press the LT button on the Xbox controller for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
- Press the L2 button on the PS controller for the PS3 and PS4.
- Press the ZL button on the controller for Wii U.
- Press the ZL button on the controller to control it on the Nintendo Switch.
- Right-click the skeleton horse to access it in the Windows 10 Edition.
- Right-click the skeleton horse to ride it in the Education Edition.
5. Dismount from the Skeleton Horse
The version of Minecraft you are using will determine how you dismount the skeleton horse:
- Press the left shift key for Java Edition (PC/Mac).
- Press the Center button (also known as the crouch or sneak button) twice on the Pocket Edition (PE).
- Press the Right Stick (RS) on the Xbox controller for Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
- Press the Right Stick (RS) on the PS controller for the PS3 and PS4.
- Press the Right Stick (RS) on the controller for Wii U.
- Press the Right Stick (RS) on the controller for the Nintendo Switch.
- Press the left shift key while using Windows 10 Edition.
- Press the left shift key for the Education Edition.
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