✨ Bridle

"Unleash a deeper connection with your mounts! Bridle redesigns how you ride, steer, and customize creatures for a more logical and satisfying journey."

Bridle completely rebuilds the mount mechanics of Minecraft, transforming the inconsistent vanilla behaviors into a cohesive, immersive system. Saddles serve as the foundation to mount any beast, but you must equip specialized items like bridles, goggles, or hearts of the sea to steer them. Dress your creatures in cozy blankets, dive deep with water breathing on a Nautilus, and enjoy a polished riding experience.

🎯 What does this mod do?

Ever felt that Minecraft's mounts lack structure? Some creatures require a saddle to control, others only to be sat on, and their steering tools vary wildly. Bridle introduces logical rules: a saddle gets you on the creature, but you need the right guide tool to steer.

Saddle. Steer. Ride.

🎭 Dynamic Customization System

Each accessory equipped on your mount changes its appearance and serves a different purpose as it is equipped (shown below using the Happy Ghast as a modular example for saddle, goggles, and blanket slots):

Happy Ghast Accessory Combinations Showcase

✨ Key Features

Icon	Feature Description
🐎	Saddle Foundation: Saddles are required to mount any creature, separating riding from steering.
🧭	Tactile Steering: Control mounts with specific tools (Bridles, Goggles, Hearts of the Sea, or Sticks).
🧵	Cozy Blankets: Unified decoration system for Llamas and Happy Ghasts in all 16 colors.
🐚	Nautilus Conduit Power: Equip a Heart of the Sea on a Nautilus to open its eye and gain Nautilus Breath.
🎒	Secure Loot: Mounts safely drop all equipped gear intact with custom names upon death.
🌐	Localizations: Full support for US English, multiple Spanish dialects, Brazilian Portuguese, and French.

🧭 Universal Saddles & Steerability

In Bridle, mounting a creature is a separate skill from guiding it:

Equines & Camels: Place a saddle on your Horse, Donkey, Mule, Skeleton & Zombie Horse, or Camel to mount them. To steer them, you must equip a Bridle in their gear slot.
Happy Ghasts: Ride them with a saddle. To guide them, you must equip Goggles in their gear slot.
Nautilus: Ride it with a saddle. To guide it, you must equip the Heart of the Sea.
Pigs & Striders: Enforce the saddle requirement, and use a Carrot on a Stick or Warped Fungus on a Stick to steer them.

🛠️ Crafting Recipes

Equip yourself with the tools required to guide your new mounts:

Item	Crafting Recipe
Bridle
Goggles

🧵 Cozy Color Blankets

Llamas and Happy Ghasts share a unified color customization system:

Llamas: Llamas no longer use carpets for decoration, but wear blankets of all 16 colors.
Happy Ghasts: Happy Ghasts no longer use harnesses. Instead, they share the exact same blankets system for color customization.

Customization	Rainbow Blankets Crafting
Color Blankets: Personalize your Llamas and Happy Ghasts with any of the 16 colors.

🐚 Nautilus Conduit Interaction

In vanilla, riding or standing near a Nautilus simply prevented your air meter from depleting. Bridle reworks this behavior to make it more logical and immersive:

Simply riding a Nautilus doesn't grant you control or breathing benefits.
To guide the Nautilus and get the Nautilus Breath effect (which prevents your oxygen meter from depleting), you must equip the Heart of the Sea on it.
Doing so activates its glowing conduit eye, granting you steerability and the protection of the Nautilus Breath under the waves.

🐴 Overhauled Mounts Showcase

Here is the visual transition (Unequipped ↔ Fully Equipped) for all 14 rideable mounts:

Mount	Comparison
Horse
Donkey
Mule
Skeleton Horse
Zombie Horse
Camel
Zombified Camel (Husk)
Llama
Trader Llama
Nautilus
Zombie Nautilus
Pig
Strider
Happy Ghast

🎮 Compatibility

Spec	Detail
Minecraft Version	`26.2`
Mod Loader	`Fabric`
Dependencies	Requires`Fabric API`

📥 Installation

Download and install Fabric Loader.
Download and install Fabric API.
Download the latest release of Bridle.
Place the downloaded .jar file into your Minecraft mods folder.
Launch the game and enjoy!

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Do I need a saddle for all mounts?

A: Yes! Saddles are now a universal requirement to mount any rideable creature, separating the physical act of riding from steering them.

Q: Can I steer a mount without its steering guide tool?

A: No. While placing a saddle lets you sit on a mount, you must equip the specific tool (like a Bridle, Goggles, or a Heart of the Sea) to guide its direction.

Q: Where do Happy Ghasts and Llamas get their colored blankets?

A: They share a unified customization system using Blankets, which are available in all 16 colors to dress them up.

Q: Does the Nautilus give water breathing to everyone nearby?

A: No, the Nautilus Breath effect is focused on the rider. Equipping the Heart of the Sea activates its conduit power to prevent your oxygen meter from depleting while you steer it.

Q: Do mounts drop their gear upon death?

A: Yes! When a mount dies, it safely drops its equipped gear (saddles, blankets, goggles, etc.) intact so you don't lose your customized items.

"A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles, and a mount is the best friend you can have on the road."

Developer: Shamy]® Creative Studio

License: LicenseRef-All-Rights-Reserved

Version: 0.1.1

Bridle – Unified Riding