
Swimming Horses
Allows you to ride your horses THROUGH the river
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About this Mod
Swimming Horses
Ride your horses THROUGH the river
Traveling with your horse can be a lot of fun - until you have to cross a river.
With this mod you can simply stay on the horse and ride it through the water (or even lava!) without sinking or being thrown off.
The swimming is implemented in a very vanilla-like way as to not add any unbalances to the game.
Simply get the mod from either GitHub or Modrinth to make traveling with your horse even more fun and stress-free!
Horse Buff compatible!
You like using Horse Buff? Then give this mod a try as well! Swimming Horses is 100% compatible with Horse Buff and greatly improves Horse Buff's inbuilt swimming mechanism:
- This mod's swimming animation is designed to be very smooth and pleasing to the eye. Glide through the water smoothly, without any tacky movements!
- At some point during your journey you might find yourself and your horse fully submerged in water. Maybe you jumped off a cliff or were dragged under by magma blocks. Without this mod you would automatically be thrown off the horse. If inside a bubble column you would even have to follow the horse down and save it! (Try it out, horses die to magma blocks if they are not pushed out of the bubble column) With Swimming Horses you get to stay on your horse, even when submerged - it will simply swim back up to the surface once it is able to do so.
- There may come a point where you want to ride your horse across lava. Which means you better come prepared! With a splash potion of fire resistance and a copy of this mod even a lake of lava stops being an obstacle in your horse riding adventures.
To use Swimming Horses with Horse Buff, simply disalbe Horse Buff's inbuilt swimming mechanism.
Happy trails!
Available Versions
How to Install Swimming Horses on Your Server
Order Server
Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).
Set fabric Loader
In the panel under "Egg", select the fabric loader and matching Minecraft version (1.21).
Install Mod
Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Swimming Horses". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.
Compatibility
Mod Loaders
Minecraft Versions
1.21, 1.20.6, 1.20.5 (+4 more)
Server-side
✓ RequiredRecommended RAM
4 GB(min. 3 GB)Frequently Asked Questions
Swimming Horses 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 (1.21). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.
Is Swimming Horses compatible with fabric?
Swimming Horses officially supports fabric for Minecraft 1.21, 1.20.6, 1.20.5. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.
Server lagging with Swimming Horses – how to optimize performance?
Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Swimming Horses 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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