Horses. Horses. Horses.

Hey folks!

I hope you are all doing well. As you know, I still work on other projects, but I try to implement certain features for Bannerlord whenever I have time. This time, it's about horses.

After replaying RDR2 and coming back to Bannerlord, I realized how mechanical it felt to ride the horses. I also noticed how much extra attention I was giving to my horse in RDR2, because you feel a connection with that animal (also, they're not cheap). So I thought, why don't I create a similar system in Bannerlord, where you can bond with your horse based on how much you use them and so on. I also wanted to address something that was bugging me since day one - not being able to select the coat of your horse. So I decided to create this mod.

What is this?

It's a mod that brings more control over your favorite companion in the game.

Why?

It's strange that in a game called "Mount&Blade" - mounts are treated like an afterthought. They seem unimportant, you barely feel bad after your mount gets killed in battle and so on. So I said, why not make them better? Why not make them feel like actual companions?

How does it work?

By default, your mount is a simple mount. No name, no connection. You need to take your horse to a stable in any town and give it a name. Or, you can also buy any horse you want, with any coat color you want.

After initial naming, your horse will be unique. Once you name your horse, you will immediately create a connection with that horse. You will be able to see that name on the horse in everywhere (scenes, inventory screen, etc.) and you will specifically have a relationship with that horse.

Every day you spend on your mount in your campaign map days will increase the bond progress with your horse. Once you reach 100, your bonding level will increase. This will increase the speed, maneuverability, and charge damage of your horse depending on your bonding level. Higher bonding you will have, faster it will go and so on. You will also be able to track certain information about your horse in stables, such as your progress, how many days you used the horse, how many battles you participated in. Joining battles in person with your horse will also increase your bonding progress.

It also works very nicely with other horse mods (I only know one from Terco)

Future Features that I'm planning but unsure about

Please let me know if you desire any of these features. I didn't want to go ahead and implement something that I wasn't sure if it would get the attention of the players.

• Ability to call your horse: After a certain bonding level, holding Q will whistle your horse and allow it to run to you on the battlefield.
• Ability to refill arrows: After a certain bonding level, you will be able to approach your horse and refill arrows (or perhaps I can just duplicate the amount you have)
• Ability to kick with your horse: I need to check if this is feasible, though.

Anyway, let me know if any of these features get your attention, and I might try to implement them before I release this publicly. You can comment here or just give your other ideas in Discord Questions channel.

Bugs? Let me know from Discord channel.

Tested for v1.1.6 - seems to be working fine.

Languages:  Turkish, Ukrainian, German, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Spanish (all of them LLM translation so might be wonky) 

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