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Artificial Selection

Artificial Selection

Breed a mule from a horse and a donkey.

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How to unlock the Artificial Selection achievement in Minecraft - Definitive Guide

Simply find a horse and donkey, tame them and group them together in fences or walls. Feed them a golden carrot (8 gold nuggets around a carrot) or a golden apple (8 gold nuggets around an apple) and let the magic happen! It took over a minute once the mule was born for the achievement to pop.

Edit: this unlocked on a brand new world for myself and wasn't able to activate love mode on imported worlds. There are messages conflicting so if your imported world doesn't work, try the seed from the cartographer achievement guide as it spawns you next to three villages and on my version, had a donkey and a horse near the first village.
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04 Oct 2017 13:58

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Worked fine for my world that I imported from the Xbox One Version
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By Tranierx on 06 Oct 2017 00:02
Must of been fixed with 1.2.2, I'll update the guide.
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By Chaos2Keres on 06 Oct 2017 21:43
do you need to feed both a golden carrot or apple? or just one
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By ResinousHashish on 09 Oct 2017 18:32
Just one, can feed them two carrots, two apples or one of each
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By Chaos2Keres on 11 Oct 2017 11:15
I'm not getting the love mode to
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By Chaos Mythology on 15 Oct 2017 20:25
Originally, this achievement was bugged that you could only unlock it on brand new worlds, not imported world. I got this achievement on a world level I created and had a friend joined who also got it so it isn't host only. Not sure if there was something special from trainers world to unlock it
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By Chaos2Keres on 15 Oct 2017 22:19
I can't figure out how to feed the golden carrot to the donkey to get it to enter love mode. Horses enter love mode no problem. Any thoughts? 1.2.3 on xbo
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By RyanK#4867 on 19 Nov 2017 20:50
Did you tame both the horse and donkey before feeding? And are they both within 8 blocks of each other?
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By lightsup55 on 19 Nov 2017 21:24
I can’t for the life of me get a tamed horse to enter love mode. Is it confirmed this can’t be on an imported world?
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By thepack1221 on 08 Dec 2017 06:18
I do not have Windows 10. If you’d be willing to do that, I would greatly appreciate it!
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By thepack1221 on 09 Dec 2017 02:10
Got on imported world. Tamed a horse and donkey, fed them each a Golden Apple/Carrot (it will not say "Love Mode" at the bottom of the screen; it will say "Feed"), a mule popped out, and the achievement popped once I checked my list.
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By ShadowFlame117 on 17 Jan 2018 08:50
thepack1221, do you have Windows 10? You can host a world from Minecraft (Windows), join it using your Xbox One using the same Gamertag, as long as both are on the same local network (wired/wireless).
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By lightsup55 on 29 Jan 2018 17:40
I can confirm that I got this on an imported world! Once you either spawn a donkey and a horse or tame a donkey and a horse simply feed a carrot or Apple to them and love mode will happen
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By Oliversuddenn on 30 Apr 2018 22:01
Also got this on an imported world. Easy cheevo, just give both animals apples until they are tamed (you can mount them). Then feed them both 2 apples each and a little horse thing should spawn next to them. Cheevo should pop shortly after.
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By Interracial on 10 Sep 2018 22:54
If anyone is needing help with any achievements for minecraft, I’ve created a world specifically for achievements, few free to message me what one you need help with and I’ll gladly help when I can.

GT: Leo Deo Neo
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By Leo Deo Neo on 04 Aug 2020 19:14
I fed them gaps and it didnt work, is there anything you think that could cause this to happen?
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By AlIiums on 04 Sep 2021 15:35
Still have an achievement world for anyone who’s needing help with achievements. GT: Leo Deo Neo
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By Leo Deo Neo on 02 Jan 2023 15:38
Great solution ✔️
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By on 10 Sep 2023 13:06
Thumbs up from me 👍
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By on 18 Dec 2023 00:00
I tried to help someone else unlock this achievement in my world, but no love mode mode happened. Is this bugged as a host-only achievement?

Note: The host and joining players were on beta version 1.2.3.3 and we were on an old tutorial world synced over from Minecraft: Xbox One Edition. And yes, "Activate Cheats" was and had always been disabled from the first time the world got loaded.
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By lightsup55 on 15 Oct 2017 17:26
Did you tame the horse and the donkey (without an item in hand) first? They won't enter love mode unless they are tamed.

You should get the Saddle Up achievement once you have a tamed horse.
MinecraftSaddle UpThe Saddle Up achievement in Minecraft worth 26 pointsTame a horse.


Further reading:
Breeding – Official Minecraft Wiki
Horse – Official Minecraft Wiki
Donkey – Official Minecraft Wiki
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By lightsup55 on 04 Sep 2021 16:13
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So for this I got a bit confused whilst following the other guides but this is what worked for me, also tried with another account and worked perfect.

I used a lead (took one from a traveler) to grab a donkey and horse and bring them to my farm and fence them in. Now make sure you tame them!! I wasted 5 golden apples trying to feed them but got it first time after making sure they were both tamed (for me the donkey wouldn't enter love mode until he had been previously tamed).

After taming both the animals then feed the donkey a golden carrot and the horse a golden apple (i'm not sure if either or both work for them but this is what I used.) and they will both be in love mode and next thing you know, you are now 30 Gamerscore richer!
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07 Jun 2019 06:42

BulletLukey has made an awesome world for this. You can join our realm (as long as it still runs) or download the world yourself.



In this world, simply go to the respective area. Simply spawn a horse and a donkey, then tame them, before giving them both some of the golden carrots to breed them.
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