
Unicorns have a white coat with a long horn protruding from their head, and a yellow white mane.However, they are purely decorative and do not cause fires or damage to mobs or players. Nightmares have a fiery-red animated coat, with "embers" or "fireballs" which fly out of their coat, much like lava.Some fairy horses have wings that resemble butterfly wings. Fairy horses come with many colors with unique wing patterns, which vary depending on what dye was fed to them.Skeleton horses are only bones, although skeletal unicorns still retain their horn, and skeletal pegasus retain their wings.Undead horses or zombie horses, are green-skinned with greyish eyes, and have animated flesh for their coat.They appear to float slightly above the ground. Ghost horses are transparent and green, or grey if the ghost horse is a flying ghost horse, with visible eye sockets.Zonkeys are similar to zorses, but have longer ears and make the same sounds as mules and donkeys.Zorses have stripes like and long ears, much like zebras, but have more of a greyish coat.Zebras have a distinctive black and white striped coat.


The horse spawn egg will only spawn zebras and three out of four tier 2 horses.

Mules, zorses, zonkeys, and horses that can only be obtained with essences or by breeding do not spawn naturally, and can only be spawned naturally by cross-breeding. Zebras have a 10% chance to spawn with herds. Occasionally, babies will also spawn in herds. Horses spawn on grass blocks at light levels of 9 or more with at least 2 block space above, usually in herds of 2–6.
