Bareback Horse Riding
Java mod listed for Minecraft 1.19–1.21. Downloads from the MC Java Mods app on Android.
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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.
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.
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:
You may freely use this mod in any modpack, as long as the download remains hosted within the CurseForge or Modrinth ecosystem.
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- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21.11, 1.21.10, 1.21.9
- 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 CurseForge — 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 barebackhorseriding-26.2.0-2.4.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 53 KB
- Download link checked 26 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.