realistic horse control

Vanilla horse riding is compared to sitting in a shopping cart, and this mod tries to fix that. The camera follows the horse: during a gallop it gradually turns toward the direction the horse is heading, the way a rider's body naturally faces forward, while the player can still look around freely. Looking far enough turns the view with the horse. The first-person horse body stays in place, and looking down past 30 degrees fades it out, then it returns when the player looks back up.

Gaits are handled separately. A walk barely moves the view, a trot is a simple single beat, and a gallop adds a two-beat bounce, lateral sway, a slight forward rock on landing and screen shake at full speed. Stamina limits sprinting: holding sprint makes the horse gallop, and running too long forces a trot until the stamina bar recovers. Every part, including the fade range and how transparent the body gets, can be tuned in the configuration.

The mod runs on the client and on the server, so both the server and every player need it. It requires Fabric API, Fabric Language Kotlin and Cloth Config on Fabric, and Fabric Loader 0.16.5 or newer. Files are published for Fabric only, for Minecraft 1.21.1, with 1.0.1 as the latest file. It is released under the MIT License and is not open source.