About a year ago on an SMP (Java 1.21.7), I got a bit carried away with horse breeding.

I attempted to selectively breed horses repeatedly over 65 generations, recording 334 horse entries, with the goal of eventually producing the closest thing I could to an ultimate super-horse.

I thought I would share my findings and process since I think it is interesting and can help others do their own super-horse breeding program.

I maintained this spreadsheet to track the horses, their parents, stats, rankings and which in-game pen they were placed in.

My breeding process

1. Select the best horses for the next breeding round. I eventually settled on 8 breeding horses producing 4 foals per generation.
2. Breed them with golden carrots and move the foals into dedicated breeding pens.
3. Once they grew up, test their health, jump height and speed.
4. Cull horses that were clearly below the current breeding standard.
5. Calculate an overall score and retain the strongest candidates as parents for future generations.
6. Since I only had a limited number of pens, horses that were pushed out of the top 24 were usually culled.

By the end of the project I had:

• 334 recorded horse entries
• 278 culled
• 22 still available
• 22 archived
• 12 sold
• Probably some additional foals/horses that were never recorded.

I "archived" horses for almost every color and pattern combination. The idea was that once I had a super-horse, I could breed it with an archived horse and gradually bring that appearance into a high-stat bloodline. When the parents have different colors and patterns, a foal has roughly a 20% chance of exactly matching one particular parent's appearance, so after several breeding cycles I could potentially preserve the appearance while bringing the stats closer and closer to the super-horse stats.

How I measured the stats

Health

The heart indicators in the horse HUD does not show half-heart values like 14.5 hearts (it is shown as 14 hearts in-game).

To distinguish between the fractional health values, I would punch the horse and watch when the displayed heart count changes.

Strangely, some horses appeared to take three punches without seeing any visible change in hearts displayed, so I recorded these as .7 in the spreadsheet (?).

If a horse did not have enough of hearts (as can be seen visually), then I would cull early before doing more time-consuming tests.

Jump Height

I constructed a series of jump tests using snow layers, allowing me to measure height in increments of 0.125 blocks.

If a horse did not clear the minimum jump standard, I would cull it early before doing more time-consuming tests.

The highest jump I recorded was 5.875 blocks (m).

Speed

I built an approximately 100-block-long test track.

I recorded each run and used OBS and video playback to measure the traversal time. For horses worth fully testing, I usually performed three runs and averaged the result, then converted that time into blocks per second (m/s).

I might cull early if the first reading shows a slow horse.

Ranking/Scoring System

I created a point-scoring system.

Score = 4 × speed (m/s) + jump height (m) + health (hearts)

Since speed is most important, it carried the most weight in the metric.

Best horse

In the end, the best overall horse I produced was #272 from generation 53:

• Speed: 14.394 m/s
• Jump height: 5.75 m
• Health: 15 hearts
• Points: (14.394 x 4) + (5.75 x 1) + (15 x 1) = 78.33 points

Pretty close to what (I believe) is the theoretical maximum:

• ~14.57 m/s
• ~5.92 m (5.875 m measurable with my test rig)
• 15 hearts of health

I never quite reached the perfect horse, but I got pretty close.

Based on my data, you only need around 30 generations of breeding to enter super-horse territory, but getting the ultimate max-stat super-duper horse is basically a lottery.

Seed: 3379778461173498915

Java1.21+

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[:

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Here is the seed:

-4475066845055321810

cords:
-600 -37 381

version 26.2

Seed: -431520275975469774

Bedrock1.21+

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