Simple Horse Utilities - Saddlebags and Follow-Wait Commands

Simple Horse Utilities

Requirements:

Horse Armor DLC

Description

This mod implements simple, vanilla-friendly saddlebags and horse follow/wait commands. It is essentially a ground up reimplementation and update of Simple Saddlebags and Command Mounts and Horses with tweaked saddlebag assets from Horse Utilities. It covers all vanilla horses with simpler implementation and no setup spells or quests. I mainly made this because I wanted a comprehensive horse saddlebag mod that supported armoured horses and that was as un-intrusive as possible.

All vanilla horses and horses from the official Horse Armor DLC now have saddlebag models added to them. To access a horse’s saddlebags, activate the horse whilst sneaking.

Saddlebags have a limited capacity depending on your horse's Strength attribute. To access saddlebags, you must own the horse and it must be your last ridden horse. These checks prevent you from accessing the saddlebag inventory of a horse you’ve stolen or otherwise don't own.

The saddlebag inventory is shared between horses, so you don't need to retrieve your items if your horse dies; all items will appear in your new horse's saddlebags.

Horse Whistle

If you have ridden a horse, you will be granted a Horse Whistle power. Using the power when your horse is nearby will swap it between wait and follow modes. If your horse is further away, it will teleport to you and start following you. All changes in follow/wait state are complete with sound effects.

Changes from previous versions of these concepts:

[]No setup spells, quests, or menus.

[]Saddlebags cover all vanilla horses and horses from the Horse Armor DLC.

[]All fixes from the unofficial patches are included.

[]Extra checks have been added to make sure you can’t access saddlebags or use Horse Whistle on stolen horses.

[]Saddlebags have limited capacity for better game balance.

[]The follow distance for horses has been increased so it’s no longer following you closer than an awkward friend at a party.

[]The distance at which a horse will swap to follow mode rather than teleport to you has been increased slightly.

[]Horses will teleport directly to your location, rather than teleporting nearby and running to you. The way this was handled in the original Command Mounts and Horses mod meant that your horse often took fall damage and could even be killed if you used the Horse Whistle