Simple Kelpies
by Altias
Simple Kelpies brings kelpies into Minecraft, water-dwelling horse-like mobs that players can tame and ride along the coasts of beaches, rivers and oceans.
What it does
Kelpies appear as white horses near beaches and rivers, close to oceans. Attempting to ride one drags the rider toward the water, where a kelpie in water is far stronger than on land and can drown or eat them. A kelpie can be tamed with a bridle, and the mod states that a tamed kelpie moves faster and jumps higher than an ordinary horse. The golden bridle is rare, found in dungeons, shipwrecks and underwater ruins, with the shipwreck source less rare than the others.
Kelpies eat meat such as salmon and cod, which players offer to heal them. Kelpies only breed with other kelpies, and crossbreeding with horses is not possible. Breeding two kelpies can produce a rare black kelpie. The mod is client and server, so the server and every player need it, and it is published for Fabric and Forge across six release versions, 1.19.2 – 1.20.2, under the MIT License and open source.
Key features
Tameable water horses
Kelpies can be tamed with a bridle and then ridden, with a faster gait and higher jumps than a normal horse.
Dangerous wild kelpies
Wild kelpies pull riders into the water, where they are much stronger and can drown or eat the player.
Feeding and healing
Kelpies eat meat such as salmon and cod, and offering food is how a player heals a kelpie.
Rare breeding results
Only kelpies breed with kelpies, and two of them can occasionally produce a rare black kelpie.
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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.
Use cases
Who it’s for: Players who want a water-based mob with a riding and taming mechanic, and server owners who add mobs to a shared world, will find the kelpies useful. The mod is client and server, so it must be installed on the server and on every player's client.
How it compares
Simple Kelpies is open source under the MIT License and runs on Fabric and Forge for 1.19.2 – 1.20.2. Horse armors is also open source under the MIT License and covers 1.19.3 – 1.20.2 on Fabric, Forge and Quilt, but it adds armor for horses rather than a new water mob. RideablePolarBears is open source under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later and runs on Fabric, Forge and NeoForge for 1.20.1 – 1.21.8, adding rideable polar bears instead of kelpies.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simple Kelpies | Fabric and Forge | 1.19.2 – 1.20.2 | Client and server | 2023-11-27 |
| Horse armors | Fabric, Forge and Quilt | 1.19.3 – 1.20.2 | Client and server | 2024-01-12 |
| RideablePolarBears | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.8 | Client and server | 2026-01-07 |
Questions
Does Simple Kelpies need to be installed on the server?
Which loaders does Simple Kelpies support?
Where are the golden bridles found?
In the catalog
Simple Kelpies is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,189 Mobs mods for Fabric. 12,076 mods support Minecraft 1.20.2.
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What the author says
Simple Kelpies, as the name suggests, adds kelpies to Minecraft! Kelpies are mythical beings, said to take the form of (usually white) horses in order to lure people onto their backs so they can take them into the water and drown/eat them.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/simple-kelpies
- Owner
- Altias
- Published
- 2023-05-04
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2023-11-27
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15