Horseman

Horseman

Improved horses: faster hitching, smooth riding, QOL features and more...

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Free Camera
Slot for Leads

About this Mod


Horseman

Riding horses sometimes annoys you? Wait, what do you mean by "No"?

Well, then this mods adds horse improvements you haven't thought you needed.


Features:

Fastest Lead In the West

When mounted, clicking on a fence will leash the horse to it. Requires Lead in the special slot that's added to horse inventory.

When the leash is removed or broken - Lead will not drop and will remain in the slot.

How it looks:

Loudest Horn in the East

1.21+

Copper Horn is back. And it can be used to summon a horse from any location in the world.

  • Firstly you need to bind the horse to your instrument with [Sneak+Use].
  • Then you can call your horse by just tooting the horn.
  • Different players can use the same sound for different horses, because the animal can tell who toots the horn somehow.
    • Probably due to slight differences in horn use (it would be hard to toot exactly like the other person).
  • The horse remembers it's owner, so you can't bind the horse that's already bound to another player.

Note: you bind the horse to the sound, not to the horn itself. If you lose the horn, you can call the horse with new one, provided it has the same instrument.

1.21.10+
No longer has instruments - horn has single unique sound instead. Binds only one horse.

Sink Rate, Pull Up!

Up to 1.21.11

Ridden horses can swim now. Press jump (spacebar) when in water.

Camels, Skeleton and Zombie horses are exceptions, by default. Configurable with '#horseman:cannot_swim' entity tag.

How it looks:

Get In a Boat and Set Course With a Horse

Horses now fit in boats.

How it looks: Swimming demonstration

Trees? What do you mean there's trees out there?

1.21+

Makes traversing forests easier by tweaking Leaves collision. You'll get stuck on leaves much less now. Or you can turn off all leaves collision when mounted, if you hate them that much.


What Are You Doing, Step-Height?

Increases horse step height by 10%. Allows riding up a path to a full block and not get stuck.

How it looks:

Experienced Miner

When mounted, your mining speed will remain the same as on ground. Removes 80% block break speed penalty when mounted.

How it looks:

Get Rotated, Horse

Keeps player's looking direction when mounting a horse. Rotates horse instead of you.


Look Around

When horse is not moving, player can move the camera independently of the ridden horse, up to 100 degrees (after which horse will follow the rotation).


Keep Your Speed

Reduces slowdown when riding down blocks (looks like opposite of step-up).

Keeps greater portion of horse's ground speed when airborne. Improves horizontal jump distance.


Moved Correctly

Fixes jitter and reset back when riding up blocks (especially stairs). Mojang bug: MC-100830


Patient Horse

Saddled horse will not go too far from where it was left by it's owner. Limits horse wandering distance.

Default radius is 16, to not make hitching obsolete.


Magic Trick

Makes horse disappear (almost) when rider is looking down. Watch your step!

How it looks:

Inventory Switcheroo

Adds a button and a hotkey to switch between horse inventory and yours.

How it looks:
Inventory Switch demonstration

Heads Up (Display)

Improves GUI when mounted: Jumping meter will only show up when jumping; Makes hunger bar always visible;

How it looks:
Mount GUI demonstration

Heads Down

Slightly improves visibility by lowering horse head position as well as rotating it forward.


Stop Killing Horses To Make Chests

Using Shears on a Donkey, Mule or Llama with a chest attached will remove the chest and drop it's contents.


Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth

1.21+

Tooltip with horse stats will show when holding a food item that horse likes.


Other

  • Fixes horizontal camera lag when mounted. MC-259512.
  • Using saddle on a horse when in creative mode will instantly tame it.
  • Jump meter will not fill up when swimming.
  • Horses "jeb_" will become the rainbow. (Up to 1.21.8)
  • Leather Horse Armor allows walking on Powder Snow.
  • Dismount in the looking direction.
  • Backported Leash Knot sounds from 1.21.6.


Everything is, of horse, configurable.


Did you know that Donkeys, Mules, Llamas and Camels are Abstract Horses?

At least they a considered as such in Minecraft's code. 

That means that most of the features of Horseman are applicable to these creatures as well.


Some of the features in Horseman are ported or adapted from the mod Horse Buff.

Author of Horse Buff is stopping development on it, and asked me if I want to include their features in my mod.


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Enjoying the mod? Your support would allow me to continue working on it and on other mods!

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Available Versions

Horseman - 1.3.16release
MC 1.20.1fabric, quilt
June 22, 2026
Horseman - 1.3.16release
MC 1.20.1forge
June 22, 2026
Horseman - 1.5.11release
MC 1.21.1fabric
June 22, 2026
Horseman - 1.5.11release
MC 1.21.1neoforge
June 22, 2026
Horseman - 1.5.10release
MC 1.21.1fabric
May 29, 2026

How to Install Horseman on Your Server

1

Order Server

Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).

2

Set fabric Loader

In the panel under "Egg", select the fabric loader and matching Minecraft version (26.1.2).

3

Install Mod

Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Horseman". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

fabricforgeneoforgequilt

Minecraft Versions

26.1.2, 26.1.1, 26.1 (+7 more)

Server-side

Required

Recommended RAM

4 GB(min. 3 GB)

Frequently Asked Questions

Horseman server crashes on startup – what to do?

Most common cause: wrong fabric version or insufficient RAM. Check the server log (latest.log) for "OutOfMemoryError" or "Mixin" errors. With Mado Hosting: ensure at least 3 GB RAM is allocated and the loader matches the mod version (26.1.2). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.

Is Horseman compatible with fabric and forge and neoforge and quilt?

Horseman officially supports fabric, forge, neoforge, quilt for Minecraft 26.1.2, 26.1.1, 26.1. Note: Forge and Fabric mods are NOT cross-compatible – pick one loader and stick with it. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.

Server lagging with Horseman – how to optimize performance?

Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Horseman consumes the most tick time. Common fixes: reduce server view-distance to 8-10, install "performant" or "starlight" as supplementary mods on Forge. With Mado Hosting, your server runs on NVMe SSDs with dedicated CPU cores for minimal latency.

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Details

License
MIT License
Server-side
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Supported Versions

26.1.226.1.126.11.21.111.21.101.21.81.21.51.21.41.21.11.20.1