Private Horses

🐴 Private Horses — keep your mount yours!

This mod ensures that only the owner can interact with their horse, donkey, or mule — no more random riders jumping on your beloved steed!
Exceptions apply only to server operators and players with the private-horses.interact permission.

⚙️ New Gamerule: private-horses.disable_damage

Want extra protection for your tamed animals?
Enable the new gamerule private-horses.disable_damage to prevent any damage to your horse, donkey, or mule — except for fall damage and damage caused by the owner.
By default, this rule is disabled.

🔐 Public or private? You decide.

You can freely switch your mount’s accessibility:

• Make it public – Sneak and right-click with sugar
• Make it private again – Sneak and right-click with wheat

This lets you easily share or reclaim access to your horse, donkey, or mule.

🔄 Transfer ownership

Inspired by the Transferable Pets mod, this mod also lets you give your animal to another player.

To do so:

1. Put the animal on a lead (leash).
2. Sneak and right-click the player you want to transfer it to.

Done! They’re now the proud new owner.

Default config values

# Message translations
message:
  # 'AnimalName' is owned by 'PlayerName'
  owned_by: '%s is owned by %s'

  # 'PlayerName' is new owner of 'AnimalName'
  new_owner: '%s is new owner of %s'

  # 'PlayerName' transferred 'AnimalName' to you
  transfer: '%s transferred %s to you'

# Use the above translations instead of a polymer translation
ignore_polymer: false

Note: If a player tries to equip horse armor on someone else's horse, it will appear equipped due to a client-side visual bug. However, the armor will remain in the player's inventory.

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