Private Horses — Protection for Your Mount Animals

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

⚙️ New Game Rule: private-horses.disable_damage

Want extra protection for your tamed animals?
Activate the new game rule 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 allows you to easily share access to your horse, donkey, or mule or reclaim it for yourself.

🔄 Ownership Transfer

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

To do this:

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

Done! They are now the proud new owner.

Default Settings

# 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 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.