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Overview<\/p>\n# Vanilla* Horses<\/p>\n
Ride horses in your world again!<\/p>\n
This mod is a long-needed update to horses that still stays within the spirit of vanilla Minecraft. It improves horse movement, lets you trim and enchant horse armor, adds horseshoes for walking across rivers, and more.<\/p>\n
## Overview<\/p>\n
Horses are slow compared to endgame modes of transportation like elytras. They should be attractive early- and midgame, but they\u2019re impractical in face of common terrain features like forests and rivers. They\u2019re also very outdated\u2014except for breeding tweaks in 2023 (JE 1.19.4\/BE 1.19.70), they\u2019ve seen no meaningful improvements in their mechanics since their first introduction in 2013 (JE 1.6.1).<\/p>\n
This mod catches up horses to modern Minecraft and makes them a viable, competitive and pleasant mode of transportation.<\/p>\n
(Bonus: This also makes the Frost Walker enchantment useful instead of a novelty. Applied to horseshoes, it lets your horse run across water with ease.)<\/p>\n
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All Changes<\/p>\n
### Horse Movement<\/p>\n
– **Remove leaves collision in certain cases** for ridden horses (and other ridden animals), especially under trees
\n – Leaves lose collision if at your horse\u2019s eye level and above a non-collidable block.
\n – This means your horse can navigate forests with ease as well as run on treetops as before.
\n– **Automatically leash** horses (and other rideable animals) **when automatically dismounting underwater**, if leads are in the player\u2019s inventory
\n– Horses (and donkeys and mules) **move faster in water**\u2014horses in real life are excellent swimmers!<\/p>\n
### Horse Armor<\/p>\n
– Add **netherite horse armor** ![\"Netherite](\"https:\/\/raw.githubusercontent.com\/sam-k\/vanillastar-horses\/main\/.github\/assets\/netherite_horse_armor.png\")
, crafted by upgrading diamond horse armor
\n– Support **enchanting** with all generic and armor-specific enchantments (e.g., Protection, Thorns)
\n– Support **trimming** with all armor trims
\n– Add **durability** according to its material
\n– Miscellaneous fixes for existing bugs:
\n – `MC-16829`: ~~The horse armor model does not show the enchantment glint effect~~ (Fixed in JE 1.21.2)
\n – `MC-275395`: Some model parts of horse armor do not have a visible 0.1F cube deformation
\n – `MC-275574`: Rendered horse armor textures are asymmetric<\/p>\n
### Horseshoe<\/p>\n
– Add **horseshoes** ![\"Horseshoe\"](\"https:\/\/raw.githubusercontent.com\/sam-k\/vanillastar-horses\/main\/.github\/assets\/horseshoe.png\")
, crafted with copper ingots
\n– **Speeds up horses** (and donkeys and mules) when equipped in the new horseshoe slot
\n– Support **enchanting** with all generic and boots-specific enchantments (Depth Strider, Feather Falling, Frost Walker, Soul Speed)
\n– De-facto fixes for existing bugs:
\n – `MC-268935`: The frost walker enchantment doesn\u2019t function on horse armor
\n – `MC-268936`: The soul speed enchantment doesn\u2019t function on horse armor<\/p>\n
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Installation<\/p>\n
### Requirements<\/p>\n
As a Fabric mod, this mod requires the Fabric Loader. It also needs the following dependencies:<\/p>\n
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Fabric API
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Fabric Language Kotlin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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