# 09. Breeding and Foals

Breeding requirements, foal lifecycle, and adopted foal care. (Picture is of player Rhino and a brand new foal!)

# Breeding and Foals

Breeding in ModN Equine uses a custom system. It is not vanilla Minecraft horse breeding.

Breeding has its own requirements, items, cooldowns, and foal lifecycle.

## Basic Requirements of Parents

To breed two horses, the system requires:

- a mare and a stallion
- both horses owned by you and from your /h panel
- neither horse already involved in another breeding lifecycle or listed for sale
- the mare fed today
- both parents in good energy and health condition
- two Horse Breeding Potions in your inventory
- if one is a fjord, the other horse must be the same kind of fjord

## Horse Breeding Potions

Breeding uses **Horse Breeding Potions**.

You can obtain these from the following places:

1. /shop *(for real life money)*
2. /questshop *(for tokens you can earn on /questboard)*
3. /ah *(when players list them for sale)*
4. from winning the Breeder's Cup race
5. /warp docks (*for points you can earn from winning races, winning YeGods (pvp), and chat games; by clicking on the Shady guy at the end of the dock)*

[![image.png](https://wiki.pinecraftequestrian.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-07/scaled-1680-/RKDimage.png)](https://wiki.pinecraftequestrian.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-07/RKDimage.png)

## Foal Stats

Foals inherit information from their parents.

1. the mare's breed
2. the coat color *(50% to get the stallion's color and 50% to get the mare's color)*
3. the coat pattern *(50% to get the stallion's pattern and 50% to get the mare's pattern)*
4. an average of the parent's speed and jump stats *(add the two speed stats and divide by 2. do the same for jump)*

## Foal Lifecycle

After breeding starts, the foal is not immediately a mature horse.

The system tracks the foal through a lifecycle. You will receive status messages about pregnant mares, nursing mares, or foals that need care every time you join the game.

In the beginning, a foal is only an egg icon in your /h panel, and not a physical foal. Once one week passes, the foal is born (with a message in chat) and grows for two more weeks before becoming an adult horse.

Foals are unrideable and do not need feeding. To keep a foal alive, you must feed its mother daily until that foal has grown into an adult.

## Adopted Foals

Adopted foals have special feeding rules.

They must be fed with a **bucket of milk** each day until they mature.

Normal horse food cannot be used as a substitute for milk.