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Ner's Horse Armor Upgrades

Horse Armor Upgrades is a Vanilla+ datapack featuring sequential crafting and smithing upgrade path with better armor & toughness. Designed to make horse companions more durable, reliable, and rewarding to equip throughout the survival progression.
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HorseArmorUpgrades-v1.0.4.zip

File nameHorseArmorUpgrades-v1.0.4.zip
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NerArthNerArth
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Oct 27, 2026
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9347536
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R
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Supported game versions
  • 26.3

What's new

1.0.4

  • Fixed: Knockback resistance attributes were incorrectly set 10x higher than intended.

1.0.3

  • Fixed: Auto-upgrading of vanilla horse armor items was not working correctly.
  • Fixed: Recipe advancement triggers were not working correctly for new recipes.

1.0.2

  • Fix: Fixed some issues where JSON validation was failing, which would cause the datapack to not load correctly.

1.0.0

Initial release.

Horse Armor Upgrades is a Vanilla+ datapack designed to make horse companions more durable, reliable, and rewarding to equip throughout the survival progression.

No longer locked entirely behind structure loot RNG, horse armor now features a sequential crafting and smithing upgrade path. Every tier has also been rebalanced with better armor, toughness, and knockback resistance values.

Horse Armor can also now be enchanted with standard defensive enchantments using the Enchanting Table and Anvil.

  • Feature: Leather Horse Armor has new crafting progression recipes:

Tiers between copper and diamond can now be crafted via a new Leather -> Copper -> Gold -> Iron -> Diamond recipe chain.

  • Feature: Horse Armor values have been tweaked and generally provide more protection at lower tiers.
  • Feature: Horse Armor can now be enchanted with the same enchantments as chestplate armor pieces.
  • Feature: Dedicated horse_armor tag grouping all vanilla horse armor items.
  • Feature: Automatic application of rebalanced Horse Armor modifiers to items in inventory or on horses.

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