Horses are useful mobs in Minecraft that allow you to traverse great distances while saving both time and your hunger bar. While they can be tied to a fence post with a lead to keep them from running away, that method provides neither protection nor storage for their supplies. Instead, take inspiration from these ten horse stable builds to give your horses the home they deserve!

Beginner’s Horse Stable

Creator: Balzy on YouTube

Tutorial: Available on YouTube

This Minecraft stable is the perfect place to start if you’ve never built one before. It uses mainly wooden planks, stairs, barrels, and cobblestone walls, each of which is relatively easy to get at the beginning of the game. The hardest is the barrel, which can easily be substituted for a similar full-size block. Most beginning Minecraft players won’t have many horses, so the two-pen system is a great way to keep them safe without wasting materials that can be used more efficiently elsewhere.

Pastel Pink Stables

Creator: Polar Cat on YouTube

Tutorial: Available on YouTube

We’ve all seen pink bridges, pink houses, and, of course, pink gazebos, but our horses deserve some of the cherry love too! This cherry horse stable uses several types of cherry blocks, cherry leaves, and glow berries for a whimsical yet simple stable. As is shown here, adding a cauldron filled with water is an easy way to add extra decoration to your stable while staying on theme.

Modern Horse Stable

Creator: Yumimi Gaming on YouTube

Tutorial: Available on YouTube

For those who strictly play vanilla Minecraft, there can be a lot of inspiration to be found in builds using resource packs and mods. While some of the extra details of this build cannot be replicated, the combination of brick walls, dark oak wood, and cream-colored blocks is something that can be recreated in the base game. It’s further unique in the fact that rather than a door, the entrance into the building feels more like a tunnel.

Cottagecore Horse Stable Design

Creator: Jiuyue Architecture on YouTube

Tutorial: Available on YouTube

This stable design combines the idea of a stable with simply tying your horses to a fence pole in the best way possible. Each stall holds several horses, each of which is tied to one of the fences at the front to prevent them from running amok. While there are no walls on three of the sides, there is an intricate back wall and roof that makes this build a “stable” rather than a set of pens. The added slabs, azalea trees, and haybales add an extra whimsical touch that makes my cottagecore-loving heart sing.

Barn-Style Stables

Creator: Croissant Cat on YouTube

Tutorial: Available on YouTube

These stables take the beloved image of a barnyard, lighten it up, and leave it for the horses. Two small paddocks rest on the side, one of which holds a small garden growing wheat. It’s almost like a horse spa rather than a stable—it’s got everything a horse could ever need, plus anything they could ever want, in a cute and sweet package. The only thing it’s missing is an apple tree, and perhaps a few carrots in the garden.

Dramatic Medieval Horse Stables

Creator: NeatCraft on YouTube

Tutorial: Available on YouTube

Medieval-era stables have their special flare resulting from the intricate wooden detailing, cream bases, and pointy spires. This particular stable adds vine, moss, and leafy detailing to bring a little extra color and texture into the build. The outside has six horse pens, while the inside would make a nice place to store saddles, armor, and anything else your horses may need.

Glow Berry Horse Stable Design

Creator: Polar Cat on YouTube

Tutorial: Available on YouTube

This horse stable caught my eye from the first time I saw it on Pinterest. It’s a simple stable in that it doesn’t have four walls, but it’s still so pleasing to look at. The use of barrels in the back wall adds a black detailing that would have been impossible with any other block while the glow berries add a green touch regular Minecraft plants would have missed. This stable is truly a lesson in using blocks wisely and in ways you wouldn’t use in every other build. Don’t be afraid to experiment with your builds— you never know what small thing will become a smash hit.

Simple Medieval Stable

Creator: jlnGaming on YouTube

Tutorial: Available on YouTube

While the previous Medieval stall was on the large side, this one is tiny but mighty. Its use of coarse dirt as flooring in combination with the mossy cobblestone, stripped spruce wood, and deepslate tiles give it a realistic look that can be hard to achieve in vanilla Minecraft. The way jlnGaming surrounded the hay bales with spruce trapdoors to create feeders is something that I haven’t seen commonly and absolutely love.

Woodsy Stables

Creator: Flash on Youtube

Tutorial: Available on Youtube

This L-shaped stable comes complete with its own garden, dirt pathway, and area for storage. If you like having everything you need for a task in its own self-sufficient area, this is the stable to take inspiration from. It has enough room for six horses to not only fit comfortably but roam a little in the dirt area. The wall is constructed with oak logs topped with oak slabs connected by singular cobblestone walls. This should prevent the horses from jumping out of the pasture without looking like one of the security fences from Jurassic World.

Rustic Horse Stables

Creator: Krista McCay from MinecraftVault.com

Tutorial: Not Available

This stable contains room for both horses and their supplies with a walkway cutting through the middle. The left and right sections are divided into three parts— two are turned into horse pens, while the third can be used for a variety of tasks. In my stable, I turned one of the open parts into a storage area and filled the second with hay bales. Rather than leaving open spaces, fences are used to add interest while preventing any mobs from entering.