You cannot craft a saddle in the current official versions of Minecraft. Saddles must be found or obtained through other means in the game
How to Get a Saddle in Minecraft
- Looting Chests: Saddles can be found in chests located in dungeons, desert temples, strongholds, bastion remnants, nether fortresses, jungle temples, and certain village houses
- Mob Drops: Killing specific mobs can yield saddles:
- Ravagers, which appear during villager raids, always drop a saddle when killed.
- Striders ridden by zombified piglins also drop saddles when killed, though they are rarer
- Fishing: Saddles can be caught as treasure while fishing, with a base chance of 0.8%, which can be increased using enchanted fishing rods with the Luck of the Sea enchantment
- Trading: In Java Edition, master-level leatherworker villagers sell saddles for emeralds. In Bedrock Edition, they offer saddles about half the time
- Creative Mode: Saddles can be accessed directly from the creative inventory or given via commands like
/give @p saddle 1
Recent Updates on Crafting Saddles
As of May 2025, a new update introduced the ability to craft saddles in Minecraft using a simple recipe of 3 leather and 1 iron ingot. This feature is available in the latest beta and snapshot versions and is expected to be included in the official release after summer 2025
Crafting Recipe (Beta/Snapshot 2025+)
- 3 Leather
- 1 Iron Ingot
Arrange these materials in the crafting table to create a saddle
. In summary, while traditionally saddles could only be found or obtained through gameplay methods, the latest Minecraft updates have introduced a crafting recipe for saddles, making them craftable with leather and iron ingots in recent versions. If you are playing a version before this update, you will need to find saddles through exploration, mob drops, fishing, or trading.
