How To Make A Lead In Minecraft

What You Need to Make a Lead

Using the resources listed below, the crafting recipe for a lead always gives two items at once. The resources are:

4 strings 1 slimeball Crafting table

String is a drop from the spider mob in Minecraft. These arachnids can drop 0-2 strings after they are defeated. Slimeballs are mob drops as well, which you can get by killing slimes. Only the smallest slimes drop slimeballs and the quantity is the same as string from spiders. You also need a crafting table, a block used to perform complex crafting actions.

How to Craft Lead in Minecraft

After you get your slimeball and string, follow the steps below to make a lead in the game. With the upcoming Minecraft 1.21 update, you will be able to automate the process using the new crafter block. It’s similar to a crafting table, but it supports only automated crafting using a redstone signal. You can use a button, lever, redstone block, or redstone clock.

Other Ways to Get Lead in Minecraft

Apart from crafting, you can obtain a lead in a couple of different ways. The first of them is by looting chests in the following locations:

Ancient City (16.1%) Woodland Mansion (28.3% in Java and 27.9% in Bedrock) Buried Treasure in Bedrock Edition Only (34.3%)

Furthermore, there is about a 2.2% chance that you will unearth a lead item while brushing the suspicious gravel blocks in the trail ruins structures. Unexpectedly, however, the most common way to get leads is by buying them from the wandering trader. This special merchant spawns with two llamas near your location now and then.
The llamas will always be on a lead and guided by the trader. You can take the lead by killing the llamas or the trader. Another easy and much calmer way to “steal” leads is to put the llamas in a boat or a minecart. This will instantly break the leads dropping them as items.

Using a Lead to Leash and Move Mobs

The only use of a lead is to leash mobs in Minecraft. You can do this by having the lead selected on your hotbar and then right-clicking a mob. Not every mob can be leashed though. So, we have prepared a whole list of the mobs you can leash right here:

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

It’s also possible to put a lead on a boat in Bedrock edition, even though it seems strange. When the mob is leashed, they will follow the player closely in the direction of the movement. To take the lead off of a mob, you can right-click the mob again. Also, if you get far away from the leashed mob (more than 10 blocks), the lead will break and be dropped near that mob.
Amazing fact about the lead is that you can have multiple mobs on leads at once. However, every mob requires its own lead item. This will allow you to easily transport many mobs across a short distance. When you reach your destination, it’s possible to strap a lead to any type of a fence post, to keep the mob(s) in a certain area. To do this, you can right-click the fence block. Moreover, you can also tie the lead to a wall in the Bedrock edition, which is not possible on the Java version.
You may lead a mob both horizontally and vertically using a lead. If the mob is seven or more blocks away from the player holding the lead, it will get suspended in the air. However, this can go wrong quickly, as the mob in the air can gather momentum over time when they are bobbing up and down. This means even if they drop from a one-block-tall height, the damage may be equal to a 100-block fall. This can also work in reverse, depending on whether the mob is accelerating or not. But, it’s better not to take this risk with a rare mob.
To sum it up, leads are useful little items that can make some time-consuming and frustrating tasks a lot more manageable. Their crafting recipe is not overly expensive either, but you may just take them from the wandering trader for free. So, what do you think of leads? How often do you use them in your world? Tell us in the comment section below!