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 ...

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.

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