What is needed in a stable?
You should build a pen with fences, or make a barn with separate stalls. The exit would be a fence gate and the walls could either be 2 fences high or 3 block high walls. You could then open the fence gate and use a lead to bring them to the desired location and back again (unless you have a saddle, in which case you could obviously ride the horse to and from the desired location).
I found a solution. while testing out Timtech's idea I found that horses could go over a single fence. I doubled that. So with a two fence tall wall surrounding the horse I then added two trapdoors. These could be opened by hand on the horse. When reentering the stall the horse would step on two pressure plates. This closes the gate so I could tie up my horse and he wouldn't escape.
- Stalls
- Pastures
- Fences
- Gates
- Animals despawn if that can't move at least 20 blocks in any direction so make large stalls or stalls leading out to a fenced in pasture!
- I've never had any problems with horses jumping 1 post tall fences. If I'm riding a horse, I want to be able to jump the fence with it because they don't fit through gates.
- I recommend at least 1 hay bale per stall (so the horse can heal).
- It's always fun to have a racetrack or jumping arena.
- As Sylvia said, it's good to have a tack/feed room with chests of saddles, feed, etc.
- It's good to have a corral for new horses that don't have stalls yet.
- Have an anvil and name tags, or just plain signs, to put the names of the horses on.
- Have leads and fences around to tie horses up so they don't get lost. They aren't like dogs. They don't follow you, saddle or no saddle.
- If you plan on riding horses into their stalls, make sure the roof is high enough that you don't hit your head.
- And most of all, make your stable unique!!!!