The saddle is one of the few items you cannot craft in Minecraft. Here are a few ways you can find them in the game.
Minecraft is a survival sandbox game released by Mojang Studios, where players need to survive in the vast open world, and the only way to survive is to collect resources and explore the world.
In the game, the players will face hostile creatures and have to craft tools and weapons to defeat them. Players can also tame animals in Minecraft and ride them to explore the world.
Having said that, you must find a saddle to ride and control animals or mobs in Minecraft. However, the saddle is one of the only items in Minecraft that you cannot craft in the game.
You can obtain a saddle in Minecraft, and there are a few ways to get it. One saddle will also take up a single space in your inventory in Minecraft.
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Here are a few ways you can find a saddle in Minecraft.
Ways to Find a Saddle in Minecraft
There are a few certain ways you can find a saddle in Minecraft. You can find a saddle in Minecraft from treasure chests, trading, fishing, and hunting different mobs. Once you find a saddle, you can ride and control horses, pigs, and striders (only found in the Nether).
Treasure Chests

You can find one or more saddles in treasure chests in Minecraft. Treasure chests can be found in these locations: Dungeons, Desert Pyramids, Bastion Remnants, End Cities, Nether Fortresses, Strongholds, and sometimes in village chests.
The chances of finding a saddle from a treasure chest will differ at different locations. There is a 35.3% chance that you will find a saddle from a treasure chest in a Nether Fortress.
From a Desert Pyramid treasure chest, you have a 23.5% chance that you will find a saddle, or a 28.3% chance from a Dungeon chest. You can also find saddles from buried treasure chests, which you must find using a treasure map.
Fishing

You can fish with a fishing rod in ponds and rivers, and there is a chance that you will get a saddle. However, you can find any item while fishing, but there is less than a 1% chance of getting a saddle.
You can increase the odds of finding a saddle by using Luck of the Sea enchantment on your fishing rod. Use the Lure III enchantment on your fishing rod to speed up your fishing process for a better chance of getting items.
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Trading with a Master Leatherworker

Trading with the Master Leatherworker is another way to acquire a saddle in Minecraft. Find a Leatherworker in a village and trade emeralds with them in exchange for a saddle.
If you do not find a Leatherworker in a village, you can turn any non-employed villager into one after placing a cauldron near them.
Trade with the Leatherworker until they reach Level 5 – Master status, and you will find them offering a saddle in exchange for some emeralds. On the Bedrock edition of Minecraft, there is a 50% chance that a Master Leatherworker will sell you a saddle.
However, if you’re on the Java edition, there is a 100% chance that a Master Leatherworker will offer you a saddle for some emeralds.
Hunting Mobs

Finally, you can kill a Ravager, which will drop a saddle. Ravagers are powerful enemies that look like bulls and will accompany pillagers while they raid a village. When you kill a Ravager during raids, they are guaranteed to drop a saddle.
To start a raid, you have to find a Pillager Outpost and kill the Patrol Leader, giving you the Bad Omen status effect. After getting the Bad Omen effect, a group of hostile pillagers will spawn and attack any village you enter, starting a Raid. You will find a couple of Ravager accompanying pillagers during a raid.
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How to Use a Saddle

After you obtain a saddle, you can use it to ride animals and mobs like horses, donkeys, etc. You have to tame the animals by mounting them repeatedly until they stop bucking you off.
After climbing them a few times, you will successfully tame an animal, and hearts will appear above it. Once you ride a horse or donkey, you will see another health bar appear opposite of yours.

You can get the saddle on by right-clicking on the tamed animal or getting the option to put it on them while you open the inventory while you’re mounting them. After placing the saddle on the animals, you can control them and move around.
That is how you can get a saddle on any tamed animals in Minecraft.
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