
Horse Guard
Horse guard helps protect the horses on your server while giving you the ability to trust other players to ride them!
⬇ Download on Modrinth


🐴 Horse Guard
The ultimate horse protection plugin for Minecraft SMP servers.
Automatically protects tamed horses from unwanted interaction, while allowing you to trust others or transfer ownership with simple commands or a GUI.
🎥 Quick Demo:
🔐 Key Features
- 🐎 Automatically protects any horse you tame
- 👥 Allows trusted players to ride and lead (but not harm) your horse
- 🔁 Transfer horse ownership to another player at any time
- 🌍 Disable horse protection in specific worlds via config
- 🧭 Easy-to-use in-game GUI with
/horse
💡 Perfect for survival, RPG, and roleplay servers
📦 Installation
- Download the plugin and drop it into your
/pluginsfolder. - Restart your Bukkit, Spigot, Paper, or Purpur server.
- You're good to go! Horses are protected automatically once tamed.
🛠️ Commands
All commands must be used while sitting on the horse you own.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
/horse |
Opens the in-game GUI to manage trust and ownership |
/horse trustlist |
Shows all players trusted for the horse you're riding |
/horse trust <player> |
Grants ride/lead access to a player |
/horse untrust <player> |
Revokes trust from a player |
/horse transfer <player> |
Transfers ownership to another player |
/horse reload |
Reloads the plugin configuration (admin only) |
🔐 Permissions
| Node | Description |
|---|---|
shantek.horseguard.ride |
Allows riding/leading any horse regardless of ownership |
shantek.horseguard.damage |
Allows damaging any horse, ignoring protection |
shantek.horseguard.reload |
Allows reloading the plugin config |
📈 Metrics
🌐 External Links
- 💬 Join the Discord
- 🐞 Report Issues or Suggest Features
- 🛠️ GitHub Repository
- ❤️ Support via Patreon
- ☕ Donate via PayPal
- 🚧 Dev Builds (GitHub)
📄 License
Horse Guard is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.
Forked or inspired servers and public contributions welcome!
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as HorseGuard-1.3.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 46 KB
- Download link checked 1 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.