Lead – as its name – is an item used to lead passive and hostile mobs in Minecraft. At first, you can’t craft a lead and can only find it by looting chests. Later on, with the 1.6.1 update ...

To successfully leash certain mobs in Minecraft, you need to craft a Lead, which requires some peculiar items.

Players can bring tame animals and some mobs along with them in Minecraft with the help of a lead, but the recipe to make a lead is unintuitive.