Bareback Horse Riding

🐎 Allows riding horses without a saddle with tweaked game mechanics.
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About the mod

Bareback Horse Riding allows players to ride horses without having a saddle. You can take that horse you've just found with you, without having to leave it and look through dungeon chests for a saddle. By default, riding a horse without a saddle will give the player and horse the Slowness effect. You can also enable receiving damage every 15 seconds in the config. Wearing leather pants will prevent the slowness/damage, but lower its durability every time it negates. Everything is configurable and features can be toggled.

Tame functionality remains the same. And a horse can only be steered once it's friendly and tamed.



Dependencies

Requires Collective
Included in The Vanilla ExperienceIncluded in Serilum's RPG Bundle
Environment: Client & Server




Configurable

Configuration guide

   All available config options:

shouldReceiveSlownessDuringRidingWithoutSaddle  default true
If the player (and horse) should receive the slowness effect when riding a horse without a saddle.

shouldDamageDuringRidingWithoutSaddle  default false
If the player should be damaged when riding a horse without a saddle.

leatherPantsNegateEffect  default true
If wearing leather pants should prevent the player from being damaged or received slowness, if enabled, when riding without a saddle.

ticksBetweenDamage  default 300, min 1, max 72000
How often the player should be damaged, if enabled, during riding without a saddle in ticks. 1 second = 20 ticks

halfHeartDamageAmount  default 2, min 1, max 100
How much damage should be done to the player from riding without a saddle.

leatherPantsLoseDurabilityOnNegation  default true
If leather pants should lose durability each time it prevents damage.




Showcase

A horse can be ridden without a saddle:

 
It'll give the slowness effect with 'shouldReceiveSlownessDuringRidingWithoutSaddle' enabled:

 
Or occasional damage with 'shouldDamageDuringRidingWithoutSaddle' enabled:

 
Wearing leather pants will prevent the slowness/damage from happening. It does use durability:




Notes and links

You may freely use this mod in any modpack, as long as the download remains hosted within the CurseForge or Modrinth ecosystem.

Serilum.com contains an overview and more information on all mods available.

Comments are disabled as I'm unable to keep track of them across so many separate mod pages.
For issues, ideas, suggestions or anything else there is the Github repo. Thanks!


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