Horse Overhaul Mod
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 1.1% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #98 of 208 Gameplay mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Looking for the best ambient horse mod out there? This might just be the mod for you!
-I've added a hundred ambient horses (most of which have custom textures) that will be ridden in towns, missions, be seen in pastures, and spawn in the wild so you don't get tired of seeing the same horses over and over again, I wanted to make them unique but still blend in with the environment well.
- I added around fifteen draft horses of various breeds including Mules, Friesians with a model by bolju, Percherons and many more crossbreeds.
- Gave all stable and gang horses unique coats, although you can easily use others in their place, and I recommend doing so if you end up wanting to use a horse from a different mod as your own.
- Gave some characters who were important to the story their own unique horses. This includes Rains Fall, Colm O'Driscoll, Beau Gray, Leviticus Cornwall, Levi Simon, Paytah, the Braithwaites, Captain Monroe, and more!
- The stat cards will simply say "Horse" instead of displaying incorrect breed and coat color information.
- Most NPC horses will now be gelded, while wild and some special horses will remain stallions. This is all optional and easy to delete or edit.
- More tack variety for NPCs including varying numbers and metals for horseshoes, saddles without a back girth, mismatched stirrups, a chance to not have a bedroll and more.
- I have worked hard to try and make this mod as bug free of an experience as possible, and will continue to fix any bugs that get reported within reason.
- Foals now spawn in the world in pastures and in the wild; rarely. You also won't see non-wild horses in the wild and there are special wild variants that look thinner and have unkempt manes, although these parts of the mod are completely optional.
- A few of the horses in the mod will have heterochromia.
- Added ~14 crossbreeds and every single horse in the mod has an entirely unique height based on their breed's actual height IRL.
- Removed the shine effect applied to horses, if for some reason you prefer the shine delete the "ShineFix" folder. Big thanks to KristianD3 for making this part of the mod, go check out some of the mods made by them.
- I have bigger plans for the future of this mod, so as always: stay tuned
How To Install
- For all of the files in this mod excluding the Individual Files (see the file description for more details), simply find the folder that has an install.xml inside of it and drop that folder into your "LML" folder and the mod should be installed.
- There are a handful of horse mods that edit the base game Vanilla horse textures, some of which are utilized by this mod. This might result in some horses looking a little different than how they were intended to, but may also be completely fine in most cases.
- The main version of this mod edits ambientpedmodelsets in order to spawn foals and make it so only wild horses will spawn in the wild. You can fix this conflict by either following the merge tutorial included with the mod or deleting ambientpedmodelsets.
Known Unresolved Issues:
- Any horses that are not typically available in the stables or given as a mission reward will revert to a bay when saved as your own. There is currently no way around this, if you wish to save a specific coat from an ambient horse you will need to download the individual file for said horse and replace a different horse with the coat you want
- On very rare occasions, a man will be seen brushing the air. This can be fixed by removing the ambientpedmodelsets file, though foals will no longer spawn and non-wild horses will appear in the wild.
- Clay Davies will occasionally mention the breed of the horse you sell to him.
- The final horseman challenge cannot be completed if you have the ambientpedmodelsets installed. This can be fixed using an optional file for the mod provided by lexo1000.
- You cannot lock onto or lasso foals.
-This is significantly larger than any other mod I've made so there's bound to be some errors, if you find any: let me know. Do try to make sure that you are able to replicate any bugs you find and ensure
Horse Overhaul Mod adds 100 ambient horses with custom textures, 15 draft horse breeds, unique coats for stable and gang horses, and story-specific horses for characters like Rains Fall and Colm O'Driscoll. It also includes optional features like gelding, tack variety, and wild variants. A comprehensive ambient horse overhaul for Red Dead Redemption 2, popular with 232 endorsements.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Massive variety with 100 ambient horses and 15 draft breeds—you'll never see the same horse twice.
- Story characters get their own unique horses, adding a personal touch to missions.
- Optional features like gelding and wild variants let you tailor the mod to your taste.
⚠️ Cons
- Custom textures might clash with other horse mods, so compatibility could be an issue.
- The mod changes stat cards to just 'Horse', which might annoy players who like detailed info.
- With 100+ horses, performance could take a hit on lower-end systems.
For Red Dead Redemption 2 players who want more variety in horse appearances and enjoy immersive details like story-specific horses. Also great for roleplayers who want a living world. Skip if you prefer vanilla horse breeds or don't care about visual variety.
💡 Beginner Tips
- If you use other horse mods, load this one after them to ensure its textures take priority.
- The optional features like gelding and wild variants are easy to delete or edit—check the mod files for instructions.
- For the best experience, start a new game or load a save before entering a town to see the new horses spawn.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- RDR2 Mods
- Author
- goldenplaysterraria
- Version
- 1.04.165
- Downloads
- 21,254
- Endorsements
- 237
- Category
- Gameplay
- Created
- 8/22/2023
- Updated
- 8/15/2026
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