Minecraft ride command guide

Updated: 30 October 2026

Ride the nearest pig

The rider comes first and the vehicle second. Without a saddle you can sit on a pig or horse but not steer it.

Dismount

On Bedrock, /ride @e[type=boat,c=1] evict_riders removes everyone from a vehicle.

Make a jockey

/ride @e[type=minecraft:skeleton,limit=1,sort=nearest] mount @e[type=minecraft:spider,limit=1,sort=nearest]

Both the rider and the vehicle must be a single entity, so use limit=1. To spawn them already stacked, use Passengers:

/summon minecraft:spider ~ ~ ~ {Passengers:[{id:"minecraft:skeleton"}]}

Bedrock extras

• /ride @e[type=horse,c=1] summon_rider zombie spawns a zombie riding the horse.
• /ride @s summon_ride horse spawns a horse under you.
• Add teleport_ride after start_riding to move the vehicle to the rider instead of the rider to the vehicle.

Stack more than two mobs

Passengers can hold their own Passengers, so one /summon builds a whole tower. This spawns three slimes stacked on top of each other:

/summon minecraft:slime ~ ~ ~ {Passengers:[{id:"minecraft:slime",Passengers:[{id:"minecraft:slime"}]}]}

A chicken jockey works the same way, with a baby zombie as the rider:

/summon minecraft:chicken ~ ~ ~ {Passengers:[{id:"minecraft:zombie",IsBaby:1b}]}

Put a player in a minecart or boat

/ride @p mount @e[type=minecraft:minecart,limit=1,sort=nearest]

For boats, the entity ID depends on the version. Java 1.21.2 and later use one ID per wood type, such as minecraft:oak_boat or minecraft:spruce_chest_boat. Older versions use minecraft:boat with a Type tag.

Steering after you mount

• Pig: needs a saddle, then hold a carrot on a stick to steer.
• Strider: needs a saddle and a warped fungus on a stick.
• Horse, donkey, mule, camel: must be tamed and saddled. Summon a tamed horse with /summon minecraft:horse ~ ~ ~ {Tame:1b} and put a saddle in its inventory.
• Other mobs: you can sit on them with /ride, but they keep walking on their own.

Run commands on the vehicle or the riders

Java 1.19.4 also added execute on, which switches to the entity a player is riding, or to the entities riding something.

/execute as @a on vehicle run effect give @s minecraft:speed 10 1

This gives Speed to every mount that currently carries a player. Players who are not riding anything are skipped, so the same line also works as a "who is riding" test. Use on passengers to go the other way, for example to dismount everyone from the nearest horse:

/execute as @e[type=minecraft:horse,limit=1,sort=nearest] on passengers run ride @s dismount

Keeping a player seated

Players can always get off by pressing sneak. If a map needs them to stay seated, run the mount command again from a repeating command block, and give the vehicle NoAI:1b so it does not wander. Expect a short flicker each time the player is put back.

Common problems

• Unknown command (Java): /ride needs 1.19.4 or later. Use Passengers on older versions.
• Too many targets (Java): add limit=1,sort=nearest.
• Cannot ride a player (Java): players cannot be vehicles.
• Already riding: dismount first.
• Bedrock refuses the vehicle: only rideable entities such as horses, pigs, minecarts and boats work.

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