Drowned & Dried [horse variant]
by ilmenis
Drowned & Dried adds six undead horse variants to Minecraft, each with its own ride-time ability, for players on Forge and NeoForge.
What it does
Each variant comes from a vanilla setting: a husk horse spits at a target to provide hunger, a drowned horse gives effects useful under water, a stray horse leaves a slowing trail of smoke, a wither skeleton horse hits hard with an amplified wither effect, and a bogged skeleton horse stays away from players and tames through red fungus. A zombie horse can be obtained by using a water bucket on a horse in survival, and a husk horse rehydrates into a rideable form.
The mod changes the saddle rules as well. Right-clicking while holding shift removes a saddle, and clicking a horse with a saddle still equips it as in vanilla. Some variants need specific steps, such as killing a mushroom parasite first or crafting an infected apple, so the mod is read as a set of linked progression goals. Installation needs Forge or NeoForge only, and the environment is client and server, so the server and every player need it. The project is published for 1.19.4, 1.20.1 and 1.21.1, with 1.0.4 as the latest file on Forge and NeoForge, and the code is under All rights reserved rather than an open license.
Key features
Six undead horse variants
Husk, drowned, stray, wither skeleton, bogged and zombie horses each spawn in their own biome or structure settings.
Ride-time abilities
Pressing F while riding a husk horse fires its spit at whatever creature is aimed at.
Saddle removal
Right-clicking while holding shift removes a saddle from a horse, so the item can be recovered without a separate tool.
Healing and rehydration
Undead horses, including vanilla ones, can be healed with wheat, and husk horses rehydrate into a rideable state.
Infected apple taming
An apple crafted with a mushroom parasite in the crafting grid produces an infected apple used to tame bogged skeleton horses.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
Undead Horse Variants is a different take on the same idea, built for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt on 1.21.5 – 1.21.10. It is server-side required and optional on the client, and it is released under the Apache License 2.0. Following Horses is also a server mod with a client-optional setup, but it covers 1.21 – 1.21.5 and is released under the MIT License. Drowned & Dried needs both sides, targets 1.19.4 – 1.21.1 and is not open source.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drowned & Dried [horse variant] | Forge and NeoForge | 1.19.4 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-07-08 |
| Undead Horse Variants | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.5 – 1.21.10 | Server required, client optional | 2025-10-11 |
| Following Horses | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21 – 1.21.5 | Server required, client optional | 2025-04-22 |
Questions
Does Drowned & Dried need to be installed on the server?
Which loaders does Drowned & Dried support?
How do players tame a bogged skeleton horse?
In the catalog
Drowned & Dried [horse variant] is one of 3,932 Transportation mods on ModsFinder, and one of 1,908 Transportation mods for Forge. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
You can heal every undead horses (uncluding vanilla undead horses) with some wheat! (example in media) Now if you manage to get a zombie horse by rehydrating a husk horse it will be rideable!
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/drowned-dried
- Owner
- ilmenis
- Published
- 2025-10-12
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-07-08
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15