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Horseman

by mortuusars · for Minecraft

Improved horses: faster hitching, smooth riding, QOL features and more...

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MITLicense
Fabric · Forge +2Loaders

About Horseman

From Modrinth

Improved horses: faster hitching, smooth riding, QOL features and more...


Horseman



Riding horses sometimes annoys you? Wait, what do you mean by "No"? 

Well, then this mods adds horse improvements you haven't thought you needed.


Features:

Fastest Lead In the West

When mounted, clicking on a fence will leash the horse to it. Requires Lead in the special slot that's added to horse inventory.

When the leash is removed or broken - Lead will not drop and will remain in the slot.

How it looks: <video width="700" controls> <source src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mortuusars/resources/main/media/horseman/horseman_hitch.mp4" type="video/mp4"> Your browser does not support the video. </video>

Loudest Horn in the East

1.21+

Copper Horn is back. And it can be used to summon a horse from any location in the world.

  • Firstly you need to bind the horse to your instrument with [Sneak+Use].
  • Then you can call your horse by just tooting the horn.
  • Different players can use the same sound for different horses, because the animal can tell who toots the horn somehow.
  • Probably due to slight differences in horn use (it would be hard to toot exactly like the other person).
  • The horse remembers it's owner, so you can't bind the horse that's already bound to another player.

Note: you bind the horse to the sound, not to the horn itself. If you lose the horn, you can call the horse with new one, provided it has the same instrument.

1.21.10+ No longer has instruments - horn has single unique sound instead. Binds only one horse.

Sink Rate, Pull Up!

Up to 1.21.11

Ridden horses can swim now. Press jump (spacebar) when in water.

Camels, Skeleton and Zombie horses are exceptions, by default. Configurable with '#horseman:cannot_swim' entity tag.

How it looks: <video width="700" controls> <source src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mortuusars/resources/main/media/horseman/horseman_swim.mp4" type="video/mp4"> Your browser does not support the video. </video>

Get In a Boat and Set Course With a Horse

Horses now fit in boats.

How it looks: Swimming demonstration

Trees? What do you mean there's trees out there?

1.21+

Makes traversing forests easier by tweaking Leaves collision. You'll get stuck on leaves much less now. Or you can turn off all leaves collision when mounted, if you hate them that much.


What Are You Doing, Step-Height?

Increases horse step height by 10%. Allows riding up a path to a full block and not get stuck.

How it looks: <video width="700" controls> <source src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mortuusars/resources/main/media/horseman/horseman_step_up.mp4" type="video/mp4"> Your browser does not support the video. </video>

Experienced Miner

When mounted, your mining speed will remain the same as on ground. Removes 80% block break speed penalty when mounted.

How it looks: <video width="700" controls> <source src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mortuusars/resources/main/media/horseman/horseman_block_breaking.mp4" type="video/mp4"> Your browser does not support the video. </video>

Get Rotated, Horse

Keeps player's looking direction when mounting a horse. Rotates horse instead of you.


Look Around

When horse is not moving, player can move the camera independently of the ridden horse, up to 100 degrees (after which horse will follow the rotation).


Keep Your Speed

Reduces slowdown when riding down blocks (looks like opposite of step-up).

Keeps greater portion of horse's ground speed when airborne. Improves horizontal jump distance.


Moved Correctly

Fixes jitter and reset back when riding up blocks (especially stairs). Mojang bug: MC-100830


Patient Horse

Saddled horse will not go too far from where it was left by it's owner. Limits horse wandering distance.

Default radius is 16, to not make hitching obsolete.


Magic Trick

Makes horse disappear (almost) when rider is looking down. Watch your step!

How it looks: <video width="700" controls> <source src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mortuusars/resources/main/media/horseman/horseman_fade.mp4" type="video/mp4"> Your browser does not support the video. </video>

Inventory Switcheroo

Adds a button and a hotkey to switch between horse inventory and yours.

How it looks:
Inventory Switch demonstration


Heads Up (Display)

Improves GUI when mounted: Jumping meter will only show up when jumping; Makes hunger bar always visible;

How it looks:
Mount GUI demonstration

Heads Down

Slightly improves visibility by lowering horse head position as well as rotating it forward.


Stop Killing Horses To Make Chests

Using Shears on a Donkey, Mule or Llama with a chest attached will remove the chest and drop it's contents.


Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth

1.21+

Tooltip with horse stats will show when holding a food item that horse likes.


Other

Read the full description on Modrinth →

Highlights

From source data

Game versions

Supports 12 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.3.

Loaders

Runs on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt.

Footprint

Rated a light load on a server.

Horseman 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
Required on the server
Server type needed
Fabric, Forge, NeoForge, Quilt
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
1.7.5, released 2026-10-05

Game versions by loader

LoaderGame versionsNewest
Fabric1.21.1 to 26.3 (6 versions)26.3
NeoForge1.21.1 to 26.3 (3 versions)26.3

From 7 recorded builds of Horseman.

Recent builds

BuildReleasedGame versionsLoaders
1.7.52026-10-0526.3Fabric
1.7.52026-10-0526.3NeoForge
1.7.52026-08-2526.2Fabric
1.7.52026-08-2526.2NeoForge
1.5.132026-08-251.21.1Fabric
1.5.132026-08-251.21.1NeoForge

Dependencies

  • Required: modrinth project ohNO6lps (modrinth, not in our catalogue)
  • Required: modrinth project P7dR8mSH (modrinth, not in our catalogue)

Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.

Run Horseman 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 catalog
Listed on Modrinth as “Mods”

Quality of life & UI

Small conveniences, tweaks and interface improvements players notice straight away.

Runs on your server

From source side support

Modrinth lists Horseman as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.

Compatibility

Game
Minecraft
Loaders
FabricForgeNeoForgeQuilt
Runs on
Serverrequired on the server
Game versions
26.3 and 11 earlier

Verified at the source

  • ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-05Open ↗
  • ✓Authormortuusars, as published on Modrinth
  • ✓LicenseMITFree

Horseman, answered

Generated from the mod’s own source data.

Do my players need to install Horseman?

Modrinth lists Horseman as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.

Which loaders does it support?

Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt.

Is it free?

Yes. Horseman is free to download from Modrinth. Its license is MIT.

How do I add it to my Nxeon server?

Use “Add to a server” on this page, or open NxLabs from your dashboard. We install it, restart your server and switch it on.

NxLabs

Run Horseman on a Minecraft server.

Deploy in about a minute from $4.99 a month, then add Horseman in one click.