Spawn Events for Horse in Minecraft

This Minecraft tutorial explains the spawn events that you can use for a horse in Minecraft Bedrock Edition (PE, Win10, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch) and Education Edition.

Background

In the latest version of Minecraft Bedrock Edition and Education Edition, the entity value for a horse is horse. The horse entity has a unique set of spawn events that can be used in Minecraft commands such as: /summon and /event. (The spawn event parameter is called spawnEvent in the Minecraft help for the /summon command and eventName in the Minecraft help for the /event command.)

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What is a Spawn Event?

Spawn events allow you to trigger certain in-game events for an entity in Bedrock Edition (PE, Win10, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch) and Education Edition. Currently, you can only trigger one spawn event at a time when you use the /summon or /event commands.

List of Spawn Events

Here is a list of the spawn events that you can use for a horse in Minecraft Bedrock Edition (PE, Win10, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch) and Minecraft Education Edition:

Minecraft ID Description Bedrock Edition
(Added in)
minecraft:make_black Horse is black in color 1.12.0
minecraft:make_brown Horse is brown in color 1.12.0
minecraft:make_chestnut Horse is chestnut in color 1.12.0
minecraft:make_creamy Horse is creamy in color 1.12.0
minecraft:make_darkbrown Horse is dark brown in color 1.12.0
minecraft:make_gray Horse is gray in color 1.12.0
minecraft:make_white Horse is white in color 1.12.0
minecraft:ageable_grow_up Horse has grown up 1.12.0
minecraft:entity_born Horse has been born (which means it is a baby) 1.12.0
minecraft:horse_saddled Horse is wearing a saddle 1.12.0
minecraft:horse_unsaddled Horse is not wearing a saddle 1.12.0
minecraft:on_tame Horse is tame 1.12.0
minecraft:entity_spawned Horse has spawned 1.12.0

Spawn Event Example

To summon a chestnut-colored horse in Bedrock Edition (PE, Win10, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch) or Education Edition:

/summon horse ~ ~ ~ minecraft:make_chestnut

Next, learn how to use the game commands in Minecraft.

Command Examples

Here are some game command examples for a horse in Minecraft:

Command Generators

If you need help, you can use these tools to automatically generate commands for you: