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🐴 BetterHorses – Advanced Horse Plugin

BetterHorses is a Minecraft plugin that completely reworks the vanilla horse system by introducing realistic genetics, mutations, breeding mechanics, abilities, realism-improvements and item-based horse storage. Designed with realism and flexibility in mind, every single feature and value is customizable and toggleable, it’s perfect for survival servers, RPGs, or just better vanilla gameplay.

✨ Features

• 🧬 Genetics & Mutation
  Horses pass down Health, Speed, and Jump Strength to their offspring.
  A configurable mutation factor adds random variation to keep things interesting and realistic.

• 👫 Gender System
  Every horse has a gender (♂ / ♀) assigned at spawn or birth. Two horses of the same gender cannot breed unless enabled

• 🐏 Horse Trampling & Rider Buffs Horse trampling allows horses to stomp away enemies in their path while dealing a considerable amount of damage, in addition there are numerous configuration options that allow the rider of a horse to either deal more damage, or be invincible while mounted on a horse.

• 🏳️ Language Customization
  Every text generated by the plugin can be customized in the language.yml file. All generated text supports Placeholder API and MiniMessage format.

• 🦴 Growth System
  Horses now realistically grow up and increase in size over time, making the transition from baby to adult seemless, the final size of a horse as well as the time it takes to grow up can be customized in the config

• ✂️ Castration System
  Players can use /horse neuter to castrate a horse item.
  Castrated horses are marked and cannot breed, just like same-gender pairs.
  The status is permanently stored in the item and displayed in the lore.

• 🔥 Horse Traits (Abilities)
  Horses can be born or created with special traits that provide passive or active effects such as:

  • Hellmare – Leaves a trail of fire when the ability is used
  • Fireheart – The horse and its rider are immune to fire
  • Feather Hooves – The horse and its rider can glide
  • Frost Hooves – Freezes water below the horse
  • Dashboost - Increases the horse's movement speed significantly for a short amount of time when the ability is used
  • Kickback - The horse knocks away all enemies when the ability is used
  • Ghosthorse - You and the horse enter the realm of the undead and become invisible for a short amount of time when the ability is used
  • Heaven Hooves - The horse can fly by jumping, similar to flappy bird movement

  Active traits can be used by pressing F (or the swap hands keybind).

  All traits are fully configurable and toggleable in the config.yml:

  • Enable or disable the whole trait-feature
  • Set trait chance
  • Enable/disable individual traits
  • Define duration, cooldown, radius, intensity and more

• NEW Camels, Skeleton Horses, Zombie Horses, Mules and Donkeys are now supported by the plugin if enabled in the config!

⚙️ Commands

• 🎒 /horse despawn
  Converts a tamed horse you're riding into a horse item that stores all it's data until respawned. A horse can only be despawned by its owner.

• ✂️ /horse neuter
  Castrates the horse item in your mainhand. Castration is permanent and cannot be undone.

• 🧲 /horse spawn
  Respawns your horse using the stored data in the horse item. Additionally a horse can be spawned by rightclicking while holding the horse item.

• ⚙️ /horse info Administrator command that is only active when the debug mode is activated. When used, it gives all information that exist about the currently ridden horse or the currently held horse item.

• 🔄 /horse reload Administrator command that reloads the entire plugin configuration and language file, certain features however require a full restart of the server after being enabled.

• 🛠 /horsecreate [health] [speed] [jump] [gender] [name] [trait] [growth] [mounttype] [neutered]
  Administrator command to generate a custom horse item with your own stats, name, and optional specific trait.
  If no trait is provided, one is selected randomly based on configured chances, traits can only be selected if enabled in the config.