Mounted Followers

MOUNTED FOLLOWERS =================

By Crom, why is your bodyguard JOGGING?

You thunder across the Exiled Lands on your warhorse while your faithful thrall sprints behind you like a peasant chasing a runaway cart. Pathetic. You are a warlord. Warlords ride with a RETINUE.

Mounted Followers puts every humanoid follower in a saddle of their own the moment you mount up. Your warband rides when you ride. Dismount, and they swing down beside you, ready to spill blood on foot.

HOW IT WORKS - Bring your followers AND enough spare (tamed, following) horses. - Mount up. Every humanoid follower claims their own horse and saddles up. - Ride out and the whole retinue rides with you, following at whatever distance you've set them to - the mod leaves your follow-distance alone. - Dismount and the whole retinue dismounts with you.

FEATURES - One horse per follower - no clown-stacking. - Raises your Mount follower cap (+5 by default) so the warband actually fits - and touches ONLY the Mount group, so it won't fight thrall-cap mods like Better Thralls. - Set the retinue size yourself: admins (and solo players, who are their own admin) run `dc MFHorses N` to change the extra mounted slots per player. Takes effect live, no restart, and it sticks across reloads. - Works in single-player AND multiplayer. - Pure logic mod: no map edits, no asset overrides, no replaced files. Stacks peacefully with your other 40 mods.

THE HONEST CORNER - Followers will not fight from the saddle - mounted combat is hardcoded player-only in Conan's engine. Dismount to brawl; your crew unsaddles with you. Working as intended: even Conan got off his horse to kill. - Riders hold a seated pose while mounted (they are passengers, not jockeys). The horses do the running. - On relog everything respawns clean - worst case your thralls are standing, not broken. - Multiplayer: EVERY player's retinue rides - each player is tracked server-side, and a rider whose owner logs out mid-ride is calmly put back on their feet. Listen servers are the tested path; dedicated-server reports are especially welcome.

EXPERIMENTAL - RIDE AT THE FRONT OF THE CHARGE This is an early release. It is tested in single-player and on a listen server, but the Exiled Lands are vast and server setups are many. PLEASE report what you find - especially multiplayer quirks (dedicated servers, high follower counts, mod conflicts): drop a comment here, or open an issue at https://github.com/sinkingsugar/bpkit. Every report makes the warband ride harder.

A PEDIGREE OF SADDLES From the author of the ORIGINAL Mounted Followers for Skyrim (Nexus Mods, many endorsements, back when shouting at dragons was novel). Some of us have spent fifteen years refusing to let followers walk.

FORGED BY AN AI - YES, REALLY This mod's Blueprint logic was authored end-to-end by Claude (Anthropic's AI) driving the Conan Exiles Dev Kit from outside the editor, through bpkit - a free, open-source toolkit we built for exactly this. No C++, no runtime hacks, no injected DLLs: real compiled Blueprints, same as hand-made, reviewed and battle-tested by a human who has been modding since Skyrim was young.

Want a mod that doesn't exist? With bpkit you can DESCRIBE it to an AI and watch it get built - node graphs, compiles and all. And even if you never build a thing, it is outrageously good for simply INTERROGATING the game: point the AI at the dev kit and ask how any mechanic actually works - it reads the game's own Blueprints and tells you. The forge is open to everyone, for Conan and (in principle) any UE5 content-only dev kit:

https://github.com/sinkingsugar/bpkit

The haters may sharpen their quills. The rest of us will be riding.

No DLC required. Load order: anywhere sane.

Now go. The steppe does not conquer itself, and your warband finally has the legs to keep up.