Lead in Minecraft allows the user to move mobs easily and quickly. They are especially useful if you want your animals, such as sheep or cows, to make slight movements to place them at a certain spot. In this post, we will learn how to make a Lead in Minecraft, where you can naturally find them, and how to use them. We will also learn how to craft Lead without slime.
What is Minecraft Lead?
Lead in Minecraft is a useful addition to your mob arsenal. They can be crafted using a couple of items that we will see hereinafter but can be useful to leash other mobs. Especially if you want to place mobs such as animals into their correct spots, you must get hold of a Lead. Let us now see how you can make one in Minecraft.
How to make a Lead in Minecraft
To make a Lead in Minecraft, we need to find the following ingredients.
- Strings: You need 4 Strings to craft the Lead. Spiders drop 0-2 strings after they are defeated.
- Slimeball: We require 1 slimeball that can be obtained by killing slimes.
- Crafting table: Finally, we need a crafting table to craft lead.
Once you have all these ingredients, follow the steps mentioned below to craft a Lead.
- Bring out the crafting UI of the crafting table.
- Now, in the first two topmost sections of the table, you need to put two strings.
- Then, in the first section of the second row, place another string.
- Next, in the last section of the last row, place your final string.
- Now, in the centermost slot, which is the middle slot of the second row.
- It will produce Lead that you can add to your inventory.
This will do the job for you.
How to find Lead in Minecraft?
Crafting lead is not the only way to obtain the mob, there are few other ways to get Lead. If you go to Ancient City, Woodland Mansion, or Buried Treasure (only in Bedrock edition), you will be able to find Lead in by looting chests.
There is also a slight chance, of approximately 2.2, that you will find a lead item while brushing gravel that’s looking a little skeptical in the trail runs strictures.
If you think all of this is a hassle and you have some change, one of the easiest ways to obtain leads is to buy them from the wandering traders.
How to use Lead in Minecraft?
Leads in Minecraft are used to keep mobs on a leash. To use a lead, you must select it on your hotbar and then right-click on a mob. However, not all mobs can be leashed. To help you out, we have compiled a list of mobs that can be leashed in Minecraft.
- Allay
- Axolotl
- Bee
- Camel
- Cat
- Chicken
- Cow
- Dolphin
- Donkey
- Fox
- Frog
- Glow Squid
- Goat
- Hoglin
- Horse
- Iron Golem
- Llama
- Mooshroom
- Mule
- Ocelot
- Parrot
- Pig
- Polar Bear
- Rabbit
- Sheep
- Skeleton Horse
- Sniffer
- Snow Golem
- Squid
- Strider
- Trader Llama
- Wolf
- Zoglin
- Zombie Horse
When you want to leash a mob, all you need to do is right-click on it. You also need to make sure that you don’t separate from the mob, if you go away from it for more than 10 blocks, the leash will break.
How to make a Lead in Minecraft without Slime
Even though you can not craft a Lead in Minecraft, you can obtain it from other sources. You can get it by killing or separating the llamas from a wandering trader. Not just that, one can look for leads in woodland mansions from chests.
Read: How to craft Fireworks in Minecraft
Can you lead a villager in Minecraft?
You can leash a boat and pull it using lead, on top of which, you can board villagers in Minecraft Bedrock edition. However, it is not the most efficient way. What you should do instead is move one villager inside your boat and the other two into a different boat that you can tow using a lead.
Read: How to get Moss in Minecraft
What is the easiest way to get a lead in Minecraft?
Even though there are ways by which you can obtain lead, making one is not difficult in Minecraft. You need to get your hands on a few ingredients, place them in the grid as instructed earlier, and you will be able to make a lead without any hassle.
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