Leads are basically harnesses in Minecraft used to rein passive mobs, utility mobs, hoglins, and zoglins. Leads can also be used to leash animals to buildings, trees, fences, or other blocks to keep them still. Leads can also be used to make balloons to decorate for Minecraft parties. They are not especially rare items in Minecraft, but the ingredients used to make one are not intuitive. Leads can be made or found in some treasure chests and off of certain NPCs.
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Finding a Lead
In order to get a lead without bothering to make one, players can get two leads by detaching or killing a wandering trader or found as loot from chests. Leads are found in Woodland mansion chests in every edition and buried treasure chests in the Minecraft Bedrock Edition. There is about a 30% chance of leads spawning in either one of these chests.
Making a Lead
Leads can be made by combining string and slimeballs together. String is dropped from spiders, cats, and striders when killed, and it can be found in a variety of chests, including Dungeon, Bastion, Bridge, Generic, Desert temple, Pillager Outpost, and Woodland mansion chests. Slimeballs are looted from dead slimes that hang out in the Minecraft swamp biomes, and can also be dropped by baby pandas when they sneeze. Slimeballs can also be created by breaking down a slimeblock.
Minecraft players will need 4 strings and one slimeball to make 2 leads.
Using a Lead
In order to use a lead, players need to first find an animal they want to lead or leash to something. Put the lead in the action bar and select it, then use the Use the Tool button on the animal. The Use Tool button is right click on PC, LT on Xbox controllers, L2 on PlayStation controllers, and ZL on Switch. Now the animal or mob that a player is trying to lead should be attached to one end with the other end in the player’s hand.
Connect the lead to something else, like a fence post, will keep the animal from leaving the immediate area. In order to do this, players just need to have the lead in their hand and the other end attached to the animal, then use the Use Tool button on a block. Now the animal will be leashed to the chosen block.
Minecraft is available on Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
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Source: MinecraftGamepedia, DigMinecraft
