About Horse Buff
From ModrinthQOL tweaks for horses
!! Deprecation Notice !!
Horse Buff's entire feature-set can be found in HorseMan 1.3.0+
Horse Buff
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About
Improve horses by removing stupid stuff and adding useful stuff.
Server Changes:
Horses Sit in Rafts
Rafts only because its impossible to break boats when they are in a boat. Works with horses, donkeys, mules, zombie horses, skeleton horses, camels and llamas.
Saddled Horses don't wander
Remove break speed debuff
Normally being mounted on a horse makes you mine at 1/5 the speed. Now you can actually do stuff on horseback
Improve "Step Height" capability
Increases horse step-height from 1 block to 1.1 blocks.\ This makes riding horses around path blocks way less frustrating.
Client Changes:
Allow swimming while Mounted
Normally Horses will sink in water when you are riding them. This makes you float on the surface as if they weren't mounted. The default config turns this ability off for undead horses and camels.
Prevent "Bucking"
Normally horses will randomly "Buck", stopping dead in their tracks while you are riding them. This prevents them from doing that.
Fade Horse as you look down
The same applies to donkeys, mules, zombie horses, skeleton horses, camels and llamas.
Horse Head Pitch offset
Option to lower horse's head down up to 45 degrees to improve visibility. Works with horses, donkeys, mules, zombie horses and skeleton horses.
Horses named jeb_ become rainbow
The same can be applied to donkeys, mules, camels, llamas, zombie horses and skeleton horses.
Hotkey to open survival inventory
- Pre 1.20.2
- Horse Buff pulls from your Minecraft keybinds, so if you change your inventory/sprint key, that will change what you need to press to access your survival inventory
- Post 1.20.2
- A keybind for opening your inventory while on a horse has been added. ALT + Inv (ALT + E) is now the default, but you can change it to whatever you like
Legacy features (removed due to them being added to the game officially)
[Server Side] Fix rubber banding on stairs/slabs "Horse moved wrongly!" (MC-100830) (1.16.5 - 1.21.3)
[Server Side] Allow travel through portals without dismounting (1.16.5 - 1.20.6)
[Server Side] Better Breeding Logic (1.16.5 - 1.19.3)
- Take average of the parents' traits
- Random amount added/subtracted from said average
- +/- 10% of range between max and min
- clamp to vanilla min/max stat
Related:
Server Side:
- Can't find your horse? Get Horse Trumpet (highlights your horse) or Horse Whistle (horse runs/tps to you)
- Stop banging your head into stuff and taking damage VehicleFix Ride through forests with ease
- Horse stat overhaul (horses get better the more you use them) Superb Steeds
- Upgrade horse speed with Horseshoes
Client Side:
- See how good your horse is Horse Stats Vanilla
- Better Mount HUD
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 28 Minecraft versions, the newest being 1.21.4.
Loaders
Runs on Fabric.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Horse Buff on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Minecraft servers. We download it from Modrinth, place it, and restart the server.
- Server side
- Optional on the server
- Server type needed
- Fabric
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Minecraft — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 2.1.3, released 2025-03-25
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Fabric | 1.20.1 to 1.21.4 (5 versions) | 1.21.4 |
From 5 recorded builds of Horse Buff.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.1.3 | 2025-03-25 | 1.20.1 | Fabric |
| 2.2.1 | 2025-01-29 | 1.21.4 | Fabric |
| 2.2.0 | 2025-01-06 | 1.21.4 | Fabric |
| 2.2.0 | 2025-01-06 | 1.21.3 | Fabric |
| 2.1.8 | 2024-06-22 | 1.21 to 1.21.1 (2 versions) | Fabric |
Run Horse Buff on a Minecraft server
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogQuality of life & UI
Small conveniences, tweaks and interface improvements players notice straight away.
Works on a server
From source side supportModrinth lists server-side support for Horse Buff as optional: it can run on a server, but isn’t required there.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- Fabric
- Runs on
- Serveroptional on the server
- Game versions
- 1.21.4 and 27 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓AuthorCassieNya, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseCC-BY-NC-SA-4.0Free
