Icy's Better Horses

> **⚠️ GeckoLib and Modonomicon are required dependencies for this mod.** # Icy's Better Horses _A complete overhaul of horse progression, travel, breeding, ownership, and mounted gameplay for Minecraft._ **Icy's Better Horses** turns horses from disposable transport into long-term companions. Ownership and bonding, fifteen real breeds with genetics, dedicated tack, carts, a command wheel, a roster of every horse you own, and a stack of riding fixes that make travel by horse actually feel good. <p align="center"><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Icywhenhot/Icy-s-Better-Horses/26.2-fab/assets/separator.png" alt="" width="663" style="image-rendering: pixelated"></p> # Better Horses 1.2 is here The biggest update yet, and this one is about how the mod **looks and feels**, not just what it does. ## Hand-drawn, animated interfaces Every screen in the mod has been rebuilt from scratch on **custom painted artwork**. No more flat vanilla grey boxes — wood-framed parchment panels, dark-ink lettering, and hand-made buttons and card plates. ## Horse Management Press **G** to open **Your Horses**: a live roster of every horse registered to you, no matter where it is in the world. Owned horses are now **stored persistently**. A horse sitting in an unloaded chunk shows as **Resting** — it still exists, still keeps its bond, and comes back the moment you call it. ## The Stable Handbook A full **Modonomicon** guidebook written to teach the mod from scratch: Shapeless recipe: **1 Book + any Better Horses item**. A vanilla Chest counts, so you can make one on day one. ## Horse Carts Craft a cart, hitch it to your horse, and pull it behind you. * **Four** seats, two on the driver's bench, two in the bed; whoever sits first **drives the horse** * Fit a **Chest** for a full **double chest** of cargo, with a lid that swings open as you browse * Carts take **anything a boat would**, animals wander into the bed on their own, so you can herd livestock home instead of leading them one at a time * **Park one on the ground** as a standalone prop; it still takes a chest, making a market-stall decoration The cart shares the stabilizer slot ## Other 1.2 additions * 13 new Advancements! * **Chests now render on the horse** — fit one and you can see the pouches on its flanks * A full **(https://icywhenhot.github.io/Icy-s-Better-Horses/)** covering every system, item, breed and config option * Coat/marking rendering bug fixed, plus a long list of smaller fixes <p align="center"><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Icywhenhot/Icy-s-Better-Horses/26.2-fab/assets/separator.png" alt="" width="663" style="image-rendering: pixelated"></p> # Ownership, Bonding & Commands Tame a horse and it becomes **permanently yours**, that's what switches the rest of the mod on for that horse. ## Bond Every owned horse has a **Bond** stat from **0 → 100**, saved with the horse: | Source | Gain | |:---|:---| | Standing near your horse | **+1 per minute** (within 10 blocks) | | Name Tag | **+10**, once per horse | | Golden Apple | **+2**, repeatable | Every 20 bond adds **+15%** speed and jump, up to **+75% at max bond**. Because it multiplies the horse's own base stats, a well-bred horse gains far more from bonding than a mediocre one — bonding and breeding stack. ## Horse Whistle — **P** Your active horse answers from anywhere. Within 32 blocks it walks to you; beyond that it teleports. Whistling also clears **Stay** and returns the horse to following you. ## Command Wheel — **R** A radial menu on any horse you own: * **Follow** — trails you at 1.2× speed, stopping short so it doesn't shove you * **Stay** — holds position, even across logouts * **Wander** — grazes freely inside a 32×32 area * **Set Home** — saves this spot as its home * **Return Home** — sends it back there ## Owner-Only Riding Nobody takes your horse. A non-owner who tries to mount as the primary rider is bucked off, and can't open its gear or shear off its saddle. They *can* ride along as a second rider while you're in the saddle. Servers running shared stables can turn this off. <p align="center"><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Icywhenhot/Icy-s-Better-Horses/26.2-fab/assets/separator.png" alt="" width="663" style="image-rendering: pixelated"></p> # Horse Info Screen — **P** while mounted A full profile of the horse you're riding: **gender, breed, coat, bond, speed, jump and health**, each with an animated bar and exact value. Bars fill toward the mod's ceilings — **25.5 blk/s**, **9.5 block jump**, **30 HP** — so a short bar tells you there's room to grow through bonding or breeding. Don't want to mount up? **Hold an Upgraded Saddle and look at any horse**, wild or tame, for a Horse Stats overlay above your hotbar. Scan a whole herd before you commit to taming one. <p align="center"><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Icywhenhot/Icy-s-Better-Horses/26.2-fab/assets/separator.png" alt="" width="66