What to do with rabbit hide in Minecraft?

In Minecraft, you will find all kinds of animals and unique creatures to interact with and fight against. While tackling bigger mobs, you might overlook the little ones like rabbits that dwell in several biomes. These are passive and shy creatures that hop around an area and can be easily killed. Upon death, they usually drop their hide.

Here is a short guide on how to get and use rabbit hide in Minecraft.

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Rabbit hide in Minecraft: How to get and use the item

How to get rabbit hide in Minecraft?

Rabbit can be found in several biomes. (Image via Mojang Studios)

As mentioned above, rabbit hide can be obtained by killing rabbits. They have a 100% chance of dropping their skin upon death, and its number can increase if your weapon has a looting enchantment on it.

First, however, you must find know where rabbits spawn in the world. These small creatures pop up in biomes like deserts, meadows, taigas, flower forests, cherry groves, ice spikes, groves, snowy taigas, etc. They are common in spawn rate, but harder to spot due to their size.

Once a rabbit dies, the rabbit hide can be picked up by walking towards it.

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How to use rabbit's hide in Minecraft?

When players obtain a rabbit hide, there are essentially three ways you can use them in Minecraft.

1) Crafting leather item

Crafting recipe for leather (Image via Mojang Studios)

Rabbit hide comes from a relatively smaller animal. Hence, it is essentially a smaller version of leather that players get by eliminating cows. This is why rabbit hide can also be crafted into one leather item. Players can place four rabbit hide items in the crafting table as shown in the picture above to get one leather item.

2) Crafting bundle (in the future)

Crafting recipe for bundles (Image via Mojang Studios)

Rabbit hide can also be used to craft bundles in Minecraft. These are useful pouch-like items in which players can store a stack worth of items. Either one item can be stacked to 64 units, or different items can be stored up to 64 units. This item only takes one inventory space and can also be shared with friends by dropping it without spilling out any of its contents.

The bundle can be crafted with six rabbit hides and two strings as shown in the picture above.

It is worth noting that bundles are not yet out in the game. However, Mojang Studios recently mentioned they are introducing it in upcoming beta and preview versions. It will soon be officially added with an update.

3) Trading for emeralds

Trade rabbit hide with leatherworker villager (Image via Mojang Studios)

Finally, the last use of a rabbit hide is to trade with a leatherworker villager. As the name suggests, this professional villager deals with all kinds of leather and hides. Once it reaches journeyman level, you can trade nine rabbit hides for one emerald.