OdinHorse

📖 About

Horse is a custom creature mod that adds a new rideable animal and a variety of new items to Valheim. You can tame it, ride it, fight and joust from its saddle, have it pull your horse cart, breed it, and store items in its saddlebags.

⚠️ Note: This mod may not be compatible with SkilledCarryWeight.
⚠️ Reminder: Use this mod at your own risk. Always back up your character and world files before installing or updating.

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⚒️ Core Features

• Horses spawn in the Meadows biome, and only on sunny days — so they are intentionally rare.
• Horses may spawn with different coat textures and patterns.
• Horses can be equipped with horse armor, granting a bonus to health.
• Horses can be commanded to Wait Here with a configurable hotkey.
• Horses can jump — press Jump while riding to leap (Use dismounts). Jump force and stamina cost are configurable.
• Horses can pull the horse cart. The cart's storage size (rows and columns) is configurable.
• Horses can be tamed using Blueberries, Carrots, Cloudberries, and Barley.
• Tamed, saddled horses can carry a saddlebag inventory, accessible with a configurable hotkey (default: B). Saddlebag size is fully configurable. Items stored in the saddlebags will drop on the ground if the horse dies. Disabled by default — enable in the config when ready.
• Horse offspring will flee from players — keep the area enclosed when breeding.
• Taming and growth times are roughly equivalent to those of the Lox.
• All of the above is configurable via the config file, and syncs with server/admin settings.

⚔️ Mounted Combat

• Fight from the saddle with swords, axes, maces, clubs, torches, spears, bows and crossbows — every attack has its own seated animation, your legs stay in the stirrups.
• Draw and fire bows, throw spears and fire crossbows on horseback. Thrown spears are picked up automatically while riding.
• Hold block to raise your shield or weapon while riding.
• Your rider turns in the saddle to follow your aim — up to 90° left and right — and your attacks, arrows and spears go where you aim. Melee can reach enemies at your horse's feet.
• Riders hold what they carry: weapons and torches at the ready, shields up, bows in hand, free hands on the reins.
• Weapons without mounted animations (two-handers, knives, atgeirs, pickaxes, staves, fists) still dismount you when you attack. Your own horse can't be hurt by your attacks unless PvP is on.
• Turn limits, reach, aim speed and more are configurable in [Mounted Combat]. All players need the mod.

🏇 Jousting Lance

• Craft the Odin Lance at a Forge (level 2) with 20 Iron and 3 Fine Wood. Choose from 8 styles in the crafting window.
• While riding, hold attack to lower the lance and charge. Release to raise it again.
• Charge hits scale with your horse's speed — the faster you ride, the harder you hit and the farther you knock enemies back. Too slow and the lance just pushes past.
• Keep it lowered to keep hitting: anything still on the lance is hit again every second. Holding it lowered drains stamina, like holding a shield up.
• Only creatures and players are hit — riding past your buildings, trees and rocks won't damage them.
• PvP: a hard enough hit knocks another rider off their mount (both players need PvP on).
• Carry a shield or torch in your off hand while jousting, and block with the lance raised.
• On foot, the lance stabs like a one-handed spear.
• Recipe, damage, speed scaling, stamina drain, unhorsing and aim limits are configurable.

🛡️ Armor Set Bonuses

Set	Status Effects
Horseaker	Max carry weight +25 · Resistant to Fire · Movement speed +5% · Riding skill +30 levels
Skogarmadr	Jump stamina drain -10% · Run stamina drain -10% · Stamina regeneration +20% · Noise -10% · Sneaking +10% · Movement speed +10% · Fall damage -25% · Knives skill +20 levels
Drapmadr	Jump stamina drain -20% · Run stamina drain -20% · Stamina regeneration +30% · Noise -30% · Sneaking +30% · Movement speed +15% · Fall damage -30% · Knives skill +40 levels

⚙️ Configuration Groups

Creature | Spawn | Horse Procreation | Horse Offspring | Hotkeys | Saddlebags | Cart | Mounted Combat | Map Icons | Items & Food

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