Mounts

Ride big custom animals in Survival. Every mount has its own model, its own quest in the biome it really lives in, and levels up as you ride.

The mounts

Mount	Tier	Biome for the quest	Herd Alpha	Base speed	Base health
Dire Wolf	1	Taiga or forest	Greymane, the Pack Alpha	Medium	40
Ember Fox	1	Old-growth taiga or grove	Ashtail, the Old Vixen	Fast	34
Mountain Ram	1	Mountain peaks or meadow	Old Crag, the Horn King	Medium (best jump)	40
Tiger	2	Jungle or bamboo jungle	Stripe-Eye, the Jungle Queen	Fast	40
Lion	2	Savanna	Sunmane, the Pride King	Medium	44
Leopard	2	Sparse jungle	Shadowpelt, the Silent One	Fastest	34
Frost Bear	3	Ice spikes or frozen peaks	Whiteclaw, the Glacier Bear	Slow	60
Bamboo Bear	3	Bamboo jungle	Old Bo, the Grove Keeper	Slowest	60
Crimson Boar	3	Dark forest	Tuskfire, the Wild Sow	Medium	48

Tier 1 opens after Orin’s tour. Tier 2 needs a mount at level 10 and Power 20. Tier 3 needs a mount at level 20 and Power 30.

See them all up close in the showcase pens at Wren’s Ranch; right-click one for its quest.

Mount quests

Wren Halloway, the Stablemaster, gives the quests at her ranch. One quest at a time, six steps, all in the mount’s biome in Survival:

1. Find the herd. Once you’re in the right biome, a Tracker’s Compass points the way.
2. Bring Wren the supplies (below).
3. Clear the threats: kill hostile mobs in those biomes (25 for tier 1, 30 for tier 2, 40 for tier 3).
4. Earn the herd’s trust: right-click one of the herd with its food on three different days.
5. Beat the Herd Alpha, a guardian of the herd (Level 18 to 34), at the herd.
6. The riding trial: ride the wild one for 60 seconds without being thrown.

Mount	Supplies for Wren	Trust food	Companion reward
Dire Wolf	32 bones, 16 raw beef, 32 spruce logs	Raw beef	Frost Pup
Ember Fox	64 sweet berries, 12 raw chicken, 6 rabbit hide	Sweet berries	-
Mountain Ram	64 wheat, 8 hay bales, 8 iron ingots	Wheat	-
Tiger	32 raw beef, 64 bamboo, 8 gold ingots	Raw beef	Tiger Cub
Lion	48 raw beef, 16 leather, 8 gold ingots	Raw beef	-
Leopard	32 raw chicken, 32 cocoa beans, 4 emeralds	Raw chicken	-
Frost Bear	32 raw cod, 32 raw salmon, 32 packed ice	Raw salmon	Frost Pup
Bamboo Bear	128 bamboo, 32 sugar cane, 1 cake	Bamboo	-
Crimson Boar	64 carrots, 64 potatoes, 16 red mushrooms	Carrot	-

Rewards: every step pays 150 Stardust × the tier, and finishing the quest pays 500 Stardust × the tier, the mount, and the companion where listed.

New herds never turn up near Wren’s Ranch.

Riding

• /mount lists your mounts, /mount <name> calls one, /mount dismiss sends it home.
• W/A/S/D to move, Space to jump, Sprint to run (30% faster), Shift to get off.
• One mount out at a time. Survival only: not in the lobby, Mining, dungeons, the Spire or duels.
• You never take fall damage while riding.
• Mounts are yours alone: nobody else can ride or hurt them, and they can’t be traded.

Levels

Mounts level from 1 to 30 as you ride (1 XP for every 4 blocks). Every level makes them 2% faster, so a level 30 mount is 58% faster than at level 1. Reaching the next level takes 200 + 60 × the current level XP.

Mounts can’t die

Hurt one too badly and it bolts: a puff of smoke and it’s gone, and you land on your feet. Call it again after a cooldown: 5 minutes, shrinking to 2 minutes at level 30. It comes back at full health.

Barding

Barding is armour for your mount. It shows on the model as plate armour (netherite comes with gold trim). Buy it from Wren, one tier at a time:

Barding	Mount level	Cost	Extra health	Damage taken
Leather	1	20 Cinders	+10	−5%
Copper	5	40 Cinders + 2 Rift Shards	+18	−10%
Iron	10	80 Cinders + 5 Rift Shards	+26	−15%
Gold	15	120 Cinders + 8 Rift Shards	+32	−18%
Diamond	20	200 Cinders + 12 Rift Shards	+40	−24%
Netherite	25	300 Cinders + 20 Rift Shards	+50	−30%

Barding never changes speed; levels do.

Elytra barding: flying mounts

At mount level 20, Wren fits elytra barding for a plain elytra (no name or enchantments), 8 phantom membranes and 15 Rift Shards. Then press Space twice to take off and fly.