Skeleton Horse

A skeleton horse is an undead neutral variant of the horse. It sometimes spawns when lightning strikes.
== Spawning ==
A “skeleton trap horse” is a neutral skeleton horse that has a chance of spawning in a lightning strike during a naturally occurring thunderstorm (0.75–1.5% chance on Easy, 1.5–4% on Normal, and 2.25–6.75% on Hard, depending on regional difficulty). 
The skeleton trap horse is triggered when a player comes within 10 blocks of it, resulting in a second lightning strike. When struck, the skeleton trap horse transforms into a skeleton horseman: a skeleton riding a skeleton horse. It also spawns three additional skeleton horsemen in the vicinity.
The skeleton will be equipped with an enchanted iron helmet and an enchanted bow. both the horse and horseman have damage immunity for 3 seconds after spawning. , both the horse and horseman are always immune to lightning.
Trap skeleton horse can be spawned in Java Edition using the command .
, both the lightning that spawns a trap horse, and the lightning that triggers the trap don't strike nearby entities or spawn fires. Lightning strikes caused by a Channeling-enchanted trident and lightning strikes on a lightning rod never spawn a skeleton trap horse. The trap horse despawns after 15 minutes if not triggered. 
== Drops ==
Upon death, a skeleton horse drops:
* 0–2 s. The maximum amount is increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 0–5 with Looting III.
* when killed by a player or tamed wolf.
If saddled, it drops a saddle.
Killing a baby skeleton horse yields no items or experience. , killing a trap skeleton horse also yields no items or experience. 
== Usage ==
Skeleton horses can be used as one of the fastest means of transportation in the game, though they are unable to fit through single block-wide openings. When ridden, they can also be used to climb hills and jump fences because the skeleton horses can jump up to five block heights, versus the player's maximum of one (without jump boost).
They can be ridden in water in any depth, and do so faster than non-skeleton horses. Skeleton horses sink in the water and can be ridden along the ocean or river floor.
Skeleton horses can be pulled using a lead.
=== Equipment ===
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Skeleton horses have the following slot available:
* Saddle Slot: For equipping a saddle.
Saddles can be placed on a tamed skeleton horse by holding it and then on the skeleton horse, or by accessing its inventory. A skeleton horse's inventory can be accessed by mounting the skeleton horse and using control, or by and then on the skeleton horse.
Baby skeleton horses cannot be equipped.
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A skeleton horse does not have an inventory and cannot be equipped with a saddle or armor. Despite this, the default texture file, like those of normal horses, donkeys and mules, includes a chest.
=== Riding ===
, skeleton horses can be controlled by the player without a saddle. However, , skeleton horses can be equipped with a saddle and then controlled. Like riding other entities, it is impossible for a player to use a nether portal or end portal while on a skeleton horse.
The player can control a tamed (and saddled ) skeleton horse with standard directional controls, , and the mouse. The player dismounts using the control.
A player controlled skeleton horse automatically runs up any one block high slope. The skeleton horse and rider can safely fit through a space as low as 2.75 blocks high. Lower clearance risks suffocating the rider if the rider's head enters a non-transparent block. The horse itself can enter gaps as low as 1.625 blocks high, but may itself take suffocation damage when clearance is less than 1.75 blocks. Skeleton horses cannot fit through a 1-block-wide gap.
Player controlled skeleton horses have the ability of "jumping charging". When the player rides them, the experience bar on HUD is replaced by jumping charging bar. A controlled skeleton horses can be made to and holding the control charges for a higher leap. Skeleton horses are not affected by jump boost beacons or potions.
Unlike normal horses, a skeleton horse does not force the player to dismount when it is under water; rather, it can be ridden underwater without drowning. The player can still drown underwater without the proper potions or enchantments, even when mounted on the skeleton horse. When underwater, its running speed and jump remain the same although it has a slower rate of descent.
== Behavior ==
The skeleton horse is an undead mob that is initially neutral, but become passive after their rider is killed. Skeleton horses behave like normal horses, roaming idly and occasionally stopping to rear or lower their heads as though eating the grass. Unlike sheep, the eating animation does not actually cause any grass to be consumed. Skeleton horses can breathe in water.
Unlike other animal mobs, skeleton horses slowly regenerate health evident by their health bar while the player rides it. This is the same case for normal horses.
Skeleton horses cannot be bred or fed.
Skeleton horses, in common with other undead mobs, take damage when affected by a Potion of Healing and are healed by a Potion of Harming. They are also affected by the Smite enchantment.
Other notes:
* , skeleton horses spawned by skeleton horse traps spawn tamed. , skeleton horses are always tamed regardless of spawning conditions.
* The skeleton horses are passive if the player kills the skeleton rider.
* The skeleton wears an iron helmet, unless it randomly spawned with some other headgear.
* The skeleton's bow and helmet are enchanted as if on an enchantment table at level 5–22. The exact level depends on regional difficulty; on Easy it is always a level-5 enchantment.
* The skeleton trap horse and the skeleton horse in a jockey are always adult. , the skeleton trap horse is not an adult nor a baby, though it looks like an adult.
** Baby skeleton horses can be spawned with a spawn egg. Baby skeleton horses cannot grow up normally .
* The skeleton in a naturally spawned skeleton horseman jockey does not despawn.
* A trap horse may spawn in areas that a regular horse may not, such as the middle of an ocean.
* A trap horse can trigger normally in clear weather (and often a player encounters a trap horse after the thunderstorm has cleared).
* The skeleton drops more experience orbs.
* If the difficulty is set to Peaceful, the skeleton riders disappear but the horses remain.
* The skeleton does not shoot any mob that attacks the skeleton horse.
* , skeleton horses will be killed by the Conduit like any regular hostile mob, despite being tamed.
== Statistics ==
All horses have three "equine stats" that vary from horse to horse: health, maximum movement speed, and jump strength. These stats are created once the horse is born or spawned, and are not affected by food.
=== Spawned values ===
When spawned in any way except breeding – for instance, using commands, spawning naturally, spawning as part of a skeleton trap, or using spawn eggs – horses are assigned their stats within certain ranges, specific according to their horse type.
==== Health ====
A skeleton horse's health is always 15. Displayed hearts are health, divided by two, rounded down. A horse with an odd number of health points (15, 17, 19, etc.) does not show the last half-heart. If the horse has lost one health point lower than the inflicted damage and did not regenerate, it has an odd number of health points, otherwise, it has an even number of health points.
==== Movement speed ====
Skeleton horse's speed is always 0.2;
the player's normal walking speed is 0.1. The speed listed does not include any status effect that affects the speed of a horse or a player.
See transportation to compare the speeds of various transportation methods.
==== Jump strength ====
Jump strength ranges from 0.4 to 1.0, averaging 0.7.
A jump strength of 0.5 is enough to clear blocks, while 1.0 is enough to clear blocks.
The jump strengths required to clear several block heights are:
Jump Strength	Blocks
0.967 	5.00
0.848 	4.00
0.716 	3.00
0.565 	2.00
0.431 	1.25 (player's jump height)
== Sounds ==
Skeleton horse sounds are the sounds of the regular horse but lower pitched and slowed with reverb.
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Skeleton horses use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.
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== Data values ==
=== ID ===
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=== Entity data ===
Skeleton horses have entity data associated with them that contain various properties.
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: See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.
== Advancements ==
== History ==
== Issues ==
== Trivia ==
* Dr. Zhark appears in the credits after the End Poem as the creator of the horses, including skeleton horses.
* , skeleton horses can be transported in a boat by riding the skeleton horse and jumping into the boat then dismounting (leaving the horse behind in the boat) and activating the boat from underneath/underwater. Attempting to activate the boat in order to pilot it from above results in the player being mounted on the horse again rather than being placed inside the boat to pilot it.
== Gallery ==
=== Screenshots ===
File:Skeleton HorseIngame.png|A skeleton horse spawned in.
File:Dinnerbone skeleton traps.png|The four variations of skeleton traps using "Grumm" or "Dinnerbone" name tags.
File:Skeletalhorse.png|Skeleton horses spawned from a trapped skeleton horse.
File:Player ridden skeleton horse.png|A player riding a skeleton horse, having killed the skeleton rider.
File:Skeleton horse underwater.png|A player riding a skeleton horse underwater. It can run and jump.
File:Skeleton Horse with Saddle Survival.png|Skeleton horse with saddle in survival after defeating the skeleton horse trap.
File:Skeleton Horse (MinecraftEdu).png|A skeleton horse .
=== In other media ===
File:LEGO Skeleton Horse.jpg|Lego Minecraft Skeleton Horse.
== See also ==
* Horse
* Donkey
* Mule
* Skeleton
== References ==
Category:Neutral mobs
Category:Tameable mobs
Category:Undead mobs
Category:Monster mobs
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