
!! Deprecation Notice !!
Horse Buff's entire feature-set can be found in HorseMan 1.3.0+
Horse Buff
About
Improve horses by removing stupid stuff and adding useful stuff.
Server Changes:
Horses Sit in RaftsRafts only because its impossible to break boats when they are in a boat. Works with horses, donkeys, mules, zombie horses, skeleton horses, camels and llamas.


Normally being mounted on a horse makes you mine at 1/5 the speed. Now you can actually do stuff on horseback

Increases horse step-height from 1 block to 1.1 blocks.
This makes riding horses around path blocks way less frustrating.

Client Changes:
Allow swimming while MountedNormally Horses will sink in water when you are riding them. This makes you float on the surface as if they weren't mounted. The default config turns this ability off for undead horses and camels.

Normally horses will randomly "Buck", stopping dead in their tracks while you are riding them. This prevents them from doing that.
Fade Horse as you look downThe same applies to donkeys, mules, zombie horses, skeleton horses, camels and llamas.

Option to lower horse's head down up to 45 degrees to improve visibility. Works with horses, donkeys, mules, zombie horses and skeleton horses.

The same can be applied to donkeys, mules, camels, llamas, zombie horses and skeleton horses.


- Pre 1.20.2
- Horse Buff pulls from your Minecraft keybinds, so if you change your inventory/sprint key, that will change what you need to press to access your survival inventory
- Post 1.20.2
- A keybind for opening your inventory while on a horse has been added. ALT + Inv (ALT + E) is now the default, but you can change it to whatever you like
Legacy features (removed due to them being added to the game officially)
[Server Side] Fix rubber banding on stairs/slabs "Horse moved wrongly!" (
Minecraft Bug Tracker (MC-67) [Fixed]

- Take average of the parents' traits
- Random amount added/subtracted from said average
- +/- 10% of range between max and min
- clamp to vanilla min/max stat
Related:
Server Side:
- Can't find your horse? Get Horse Trumpet (highlights your horse) or Horse Whistle (horse runs/tps to you)
- Stop banging your head into stuff and taking damage VehicleFix Ride through forests with ease
- Horse stat overhaul (horses get better the more you use them) Superb Steeds
- Upgrade horse speed with Horseshoes
Client Side:
- See how good your horse is Horse Stats Vanilla
- Better Mount HUD
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.20.1
- 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 HorseBuff-1.20.1-2.1.3.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 1.3 MB
- Download link checked 27 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.
