Where to Find Lead in Minecraft

The Transportation category of Minecraft holds Lead, a crafted item, and this guide sets out the 3 locations, the 3 methods behind it, and the quickest way to hold Lead yourself. If you want Lead today, head for All Overworld biomes (crafting), Woodland Mansions, and Ancient Cities. Craft using 4 String and 1 Slimeball. Finding Lead is rated easy (2/5): most players can secure it within their first in-game day with basic tools. Practically speaking, no distant biome is involved in getting Lead: a Crafting Table makes it, so the rest of this guide is about lining up the ingredients and picking the moment to make one.

Biomes & Dimensions

• All Overworld biomes (crafting)
• Woodland Mansions
• Ancient Cities

All Methods

1. 1Craft using 4 String and 1 Slimeball
2. 2Found in Woodland Mansion and Ancient City chests
3. 3Dropped by Wandering Traders when their llamas are leashed

• Slimeballs from Slimes (Swamp at night or Slime Chunks below Y 40)
• Attach mobs to fences to keep them in one area
• Works on most passive mobs, horses, wolves, and some hostile mobs
• Wandering Traders spawn randomly near the player with leashed Trader Llamas; killing the trader drops the leads

Crafts 2 leads at a time. Maximum range of 10 blocks before breaking. Works on most passive mobs.

A lead is four string and a slime ball, and the slime ball is the awkward half: slimes spawn in swamps at night or in slime chunks deep underground. Wandering traders also arrive with two leads on their llamas, and killing the trader is the fastest lead source most players ever find.

Two leads from four string and a slimeball, and a lead moves any passive mob overland without a boat or a trail of wheat. Tied to a fence post it keeps the mob there, and a boat plus a lead is how most players move villagers, which is otherwise one of the hardest jobs in the game.