# Vanilla* Horses Ride horses in your world again! This mod is a long-needed update to horses that still stays within the spirit of vanilla Minecraft. It improves horse movement, lets you customize horse armor, adds horseshoes for walking across rivers, and more. ## Spyglass

Overview Horses are slow compared to endgame modes of transportation like elytras. They should be attractive early- and midgame, but they’re impractical in face of common terrain features like forests and rivers. They’re also very outdated—except for breeding tweaks in 2023 ([JE 1.19.4](https://minecraft.wiki/w/Java_Edition_1.19.4)/[BE 1.19.70](https://minecraft.wiki/w/Bedrock_Edition_1.19.70)), they’ve seen no meaningful improvements in their mechanics since their first introduction in 2013 ([JE 1.6.1](https://minecraft.wiki/w/Java_Edition_1.6.1)). This mod catches up horses to modern Minecraft and makes them a viable, competitive and pleasant mode of transportation. (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.)

Black horse with gold-trimmed netherite armor and horseshoes standing on a frosted river

All Changes ### Horse Movement - **Remove leaves collision in certain cases** for ridden horses (and other ridden animals), especially under trees - Leaves lose collision if at your horse’s eye level and above a non-collidable block. - This means your horse can navigate forests with ease as well as run on treetops as before. - **Automatically leash** horses (and other rideable animals) **when automatically dismounting underwater**, if leads are in the player’s inventory - Horses (and donkeys and mules) **move faster in water**—horses in real life are excellent swimmers! ### Horse Armor - Add **netherite horse armor**

, crafted by upgrading diamond horse armor - Support **enchanting** with all generic and armor-specific enchantments (e.g., Protection, Thorns) - Support **trimming** with all armor trims - Add **durability** according to its material - Miscellaneous fixes for existing bugs: - [`MC-16829`](https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-16829): ~~The horse armor model does not show the enchantment glint effect~~ (Fixed in [JE 1.21.2](https://minecraft.wiki/w/Java_Edition_1.21.2)) - [`MC-275395`](https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-275395): Some model parts of horse armor do not have a visible 0.1F cube deformation - [`MC-275574`](https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-275574): Rendered horse armor textures are asymmetric ### Horseshoe - Add **horseshoes**

, crafted with copper ingots - **Speeds up horses** (and donkeys and mules) when equipped in the new horseshoe slot - Support **enchanting** with all generic and boots-specific enchantments (Depth Strider, Feather Falling, Frost Walker, Soul Speed) - De-facto fixes for existing bugs: - [`MC-268935`](https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-268935): The frost walker enchantment doesn’t function on horse armor - [`MC-268936`](https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-268936): The soul speed enchantment doesn’t function on horse armor ## Filled Map

Installation ### Requirements As a Fabric mod, this mod requires the [Fabric Loader](https://fabricmc.net/). It also needs the following dependencies: -

[Fabric API](https://modrinth.com/mod/fabric-api) -

[Fabric Language Kotlin](https://modrinth.com/mod/fabric-language-kotlin)

Vanilla* Horses

Vanilla* Horses

Horse inventory

Armor trims