About Bareback Horse Riding
From Modrinth🐎 Allows riding horses without a saddle with tweaked game mechanics.
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.
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All available config options:
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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:
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It'll give the slowness effect with 'shouldReceiveSlownessDuringRidingWithoutSaddle' enabled:
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Or occasional damage with 'shouldDamageDuringRidingWithoutSaddle' enabled:
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Wearing leather pants will prevent the slowness/damage from happening. It does use durability:
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You may freely use this mod in any modpack, as long as the download remains hosted within the CurseForge or Modrinth ecosystem.
Serilum.com contains an overview and more information on all mods available.
For issues, ideas, suggestions or anything else there is the Github repo. Thanks!
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 23 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.3.
Loaders
Runs on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogGameplay & overhauls
New mechanics, content and overhauls that change how the game plays.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists Bareback Horse Riding as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- FabricForgeNeoForgeQuilt
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 26.3 and 22 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-03Open ↗
- ✓AuthorSerilum, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseLicenseRef-All-Rights-ReservedFree
