Cura Equi - Care of the Horse

I think the spark for this idea originally came from RainyKnight in the community Discord — though to be fair, I was already drifting toward this rabbit hole myself. If I had known where I was about to step… Jesus.

With systems like this, it’s always a balance between realism, usability, and player expectations. Everyone wants a slightly different level of challenge. I’ve tried hard to build something that feels grounded but not annoying, and from the start I promised myself I would create a simple, reliable foundation first (yeah… that plan didn’t exactly survive contact with reality). In truth, I ended up trying to build something better than the horse system in RDR2, and the project grew far larger and deeper than I ever imagined.

This is a huge project, and there is simply no way I can test every scenario, story segment, edge case, horse variant, and save-state combination on my own. Kingdom Come has many unusual sequences — different characters, temporary mounts, scripted scenes — and Cura Equi now reacts to the same engine systems the game uses. That means most things “just work”… but sometimes unexpected behaviours appear, like the Godwin sequence discovering its own horse-care arc.

So while I’ve spent countless hours refining and stabilizing this system, there will be bugs I haven’t found yet. If you encounter one, please don’t assume it’s intentional or that I ignored it — just report it. Every report helps make the mod stronger for everyone.

3qxf5JP6l20Cura Equi Introduction Video (recommend watching this before installing)

🎠If you don’t own a horse yet

Cura Equi stays idle. It performs a light 10s probe until it detects your first owned horse, then activates on first mount. If you're interested what it does during this "waiting for owned horse" time and hunger tracking - read below. If you already own a horse, getting a new horse doesn’t restart or reset anything — the system keeps running and simply hands over the active tracking to whichever horse the game now considers your PlayerHorse.

🎠One real owned horse at a time

Cura Equi tracks your current owned stable horse, not every mount you ride:

• []Stolen horses in game are not player owned and don't have inventory. You can mount stolen horses → your real horse still tracks hunger in background.

  []You can swap to a newly purchased stable horse → it becomes the tracked horse immediately

  If you enjoy knowing how things work under the hood, here’s a peek at what Cu