How do you get Leather in Minecraft?

Kill cows, mooshrooms, horses, donkeys, mules, llamas or hoglins - they drop 0-2 leather Craft 4 rabbit hide into 1 leather, or fish it up as a 1% junk catch Barter gold ingots with piglins: about 8.5% come back as 2-4 leather; foxes can even spawn holding one

What is Leather used for?

Craft leather armor - the only armor you can dye, in millions of colors Craft books (1 leather + 3 paper) to fuel bookshelves and the enchantment economy Craft item frames to display your trophies and map walls Repair leather armor on an anvil and use it for leather horse armor

Leather

Material Stack: 64 Since Alpha v1.0.8

Quick answer: Kill cows, mooshrooms, horses, donkeys, mules, llamas or hoglins - they drop 0-2 leather.

How to get it

Kill cows, mooshrooms, horses, donkeys, mules, llamas or hoglins - they drop 0-2 leather
Craft 4 rabbit hide into 1 leather, or fish it up as a 1% junk catch
Barter gold ingots with piglins: about 8.5% come back as 2-4 leather; foxes can even spawn holding one

Uses

Craft leather armor - the only armor you can dye, in millions of colors
Craft books (1 leather + 3 paper) to fuel bookshelves and the enchantment economy
Craft item frames to display your trophies and map walls
Repair leather armor on an anvil and use it for leather horse armor

Renewability

Renewable: cow farms produce leather forever.

Java vs Bedrock

Identical in Java and Bedrock.

Related: Paper Rabbit's Foot

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