How to Make Lead in Minecraft: Materials, Crafting Guide, Uses, Tips & FAQs × Enchantments Mods Tutorials Passive Mobs Neutral Mobs Hostile Mobs Boss Mobs Other Mobs Crafting Potions Smelting Tools Armors Consumables Dimensions Overworld Nether The End Sky Dimension Projects Create Edit Log in Manage your profile Editing Story Queue Video Queue Editing Stats Writer Home SEO Redirection Admin Gaming Wiki Edits Taxonomy Home Edit Site Menu Mapping Dashboard Tag Pages Community Social Feed Queue Feed Center Notification Center Affiliate Home Manage Pages Bottom Tagline Dash Timeless Stories Logout Minecraft Wiki How to make a Lead in Minecraft Minecraft Wiki 833 pages • Updated: Oct 07 Enchantments Mods Tutorials Passive Mobs Neutral Mobs Hostile Mobs Boss Mobs Other Mobs Crafting Potions Smelting Tools Armors Consumables Dimensions Overworld Nether The End Sky Dimension Projects In: Minecraft Items, Crafting How to make a Lead in Minecraft Edit Improve this page How to make lead in Minecraft In a Nutshell br To make a lead, place two strings in the first two boxes of the first row, and a string and slimeball directly below. Then place a string in the last box of the last row and simply move the lead made to your Minecraft inventory. br A lead in Minecraft is a leash usable on any passive “mob” or mobile creatures, like sheep, cats, dogs, and more. It can be used one way to trail the creatures behind you, or two-way to tie them up to a fencepost for instance. br Required Materials to make a Minecraft lead br The materials you will need in order to craft a lead in the game are: 1 Slimeball4 Strings br A string can be reasonably easy to find, but to get it, you will have to partake in a bit of combat. We've detailed some of the ways below to get it. br In Minecraft Mines: br If you're next to an abandoned mine, then you can find a whole lot of them inside. Mines typically have quite a few cobwebs in them. They can be harvested by striking them with a sword. br br Slaying Spiders: br This method is perhaps the easiest, and most common of all. You have to wait for the night to dawn, upon which creatures with glowing red eyes will wander the world. Killing them will result in strings being dropped as loot. It is advisable to use a sword to eliminate them. br br Slimeball: br To build a lead, you need one of these as well. Fallen Slimes can be found bouncing about in the Swampland biomes, and defeating them will cause a slimeball to drop. Multiple slimeballs can be gathered from one battle alone. br br How to make a Lead in Minecraft br Step-by-Step Guide with Pictures Here is the step-by-step pictorial guide you need to follow to make a lead in Minecraft: br Step-1 Open Your Crafting Menu br First, open your crafting table so that you have the 3x3 crafting grid similar to the picture below: br To find out more about how to make a crafting table, use this guide. br Step-2 Add the Strings br In the crafting menu, you should see a crafting area that is made up of a 3x3 crafting grid. To make a lead, you need to place a total of 4 strings and 1 slimeball. Place one string each in the top and middle square in the left column. Place one string into the top square in the middle column. Place one string into the bottom square in the right column. br br Step-3 Place the Slimeball br Place one slimeball into the middle square in the middle column. br br Step-4 Drag the resulting two leads down into your inventory br br Give command for lead: /give @p minecraft:lead 1 br Video on how to make lead in Minecraft br br List of Minecraft Mobs animals you can use Lead on br Leads are quite useful when you're looking to get mobs or animals into certain areas in Minecraft. You can use these on: beescats chickencowdolphinsdonkeyfoxeshoglinhorsesiron golemllamamooshroomsmulesocelotsparrotspigspolar bearsrabbitssheepsnow golems squid, striderswolves, and zoglin! br Once you have your animal on, you can bring them over to a fence and connect them to it. br FAQs br Q Can you use lead on a villager in Minecraft br No, you can't use lead on a villager, so you can't drag them to a new location; however, you can use a mine cart or boat to accomplish your task. br Q How do you use a lead on a horse br You can leash the horse by tying one end of the lead to the horse by simply right-clicking on the horse while the lead is equipped. You can now see one end of the lead bound around the neck of the horse and the other end of the lead in your hand. While you are holding the lead in your hand, you can guide the movements of the horse and get it to walk in the direction that you want. br You can untie the lead by right-clicking the horse again or attach it to the fencepost. With one end of the lead tied around the horse's neck and the other end of the lead in your hand, position your pointer on one of the fence posts and right-click the fence. br Conclusion br Congratulations! You have learnt successfully how to craft a lead. The lead is a useful tool for leashing up various mobs and animals that you'd like to bring to a certain place. This is especially the case for things that can't be tamed, because they will not follow you. So take a lead, and make some of the aforementioned creatures follow you around. br Other Minecraft Guides br How to tame a cat in MinecraftHow to make a lantern in MinecraftHow to make an enchanting table in MinecraftHow to make a splash potion in MinecraftHow to cure a zombie villager in MinecraftHow to make an end portal in MinecraftHow to make potions in MinecraftHow to make a beacon in MinecraftHow to make an ender chest in MinecraftHow to make strength potions in MinecraftHow to make fireworks in Minecraft br Thanks! Help us improve this page Edit Rate this Content! Thanks! 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