Realistic Horse Genetics

# Description

This mod adds biologically accurate genetics for Minecraft horses.
It adds also better models and textures to the hourse.

There are two other add on Mods that add even more to your horses.

# The Horses

## Colors

Horses can be dun, palomino, bay, black, buckskin, chestnut, gray, roan, white, pinto, leopard spotted, and many other colors. If this is all new to you, don't worry, just breed the colors that you like and there's a good chance you'll get more of them. You may even get an unexpected color from recessive genes.

The color genes include extension, agouti, dun, cream and pearl, gray, silver dapple, tobiano, roan, frame overo, splashed white, sabino and dominant white, leopard complex, mushroom, champagne, and tiger eye. These genes are testable in real life and likewise they can be tested in game by using a book on a horse. There are also hidden genes, not testable, controlling traits with genetics that are not known in real life. Flaxen, seal brown, sooty, rabicano, shade variation, and how quickly or slowly a gray horse changes color are all affected by these hidden genes.

## Speed, health, and jump strength

In vanilla Minecraft, it is sometimes easier to just find a good horse than to breed one. With genes controlling the stats, there is actually a reason to breed. Horses will typically spawn with stats that are pretty close to average. However, foals are just as likely to be better than their parents as they are to be worse. This is an important difference from the vanilla system, where once the parents are very good their foals are almost always worse than them. That means once you have good horses, it is easier to breed very good horses with genes than with the vanilla system. In exchange, you need to be careful - there are some pairs of horses that will always produce foals that are exactly as good as them, never better nor worse. This happens if horses are too inbred. You can avoid inbreeding by keeping a larger population of horses, or if your horses are already too inbred you can reduce it by breeding them to an unrelated horse.

All of the usual ways to measure stats still work, plus you can get more detailed info by right clicking a tame horse with a book. If your horse is named the book will have its name as the title if not if will be called Breeding Guide Book.

## Sizes

Horses can have a wide range of sizes. Most that spawn will be 12-15 hands high, but you can breed to get miniature horses, draft horses, or any size in between. Smaller horses can fit in smaller spaces (sometimes even on boats!) while larger horses have more health and can carry two Riders.

### Features

This mod adds lots of Features to the game to make playing with horses more real.

Genes control color, speed, health, jump height, and size, as described above

Put a carpet in the horse armor slot to use it as a decorative saddle cloth

Genetic testing, right click on a horse with a book

Like the mutations in vanilla Minecraft, there is a small chance an allele may be chosen randomly instead of inherited from the parents

Horses spawned in village pens have a small chance to start off tamed and saddled

The ability to upgrade Diamond Horse aromor into Netherite horse armor

Genders, including pregnancy. (Mare Carries the foal for 7 Minecraft Days) Stallions can be bred much more often than mares. (Staillons Breed Once Per Minecraft Day. Where as Mares breed once per 10 minecraft days.) Gender is visible from the horse's inventory screen.

All horses are trained to ground tie and will stay still while saddled

Foals grow gradually into their adult size and shape (Takes 5 Minecraft Days)

## Genes Cheat Sheet

Extension:

```
   E - black

```

```
   e - red (chestnut)

```

Agouti:

```
   A - bay or brown

```

```
   a - black

```

Agouti has no effect on the color if extension is e/e

Dun:

```
   D - dun, light in color with a dark stripe down the back

```

```
   nd1 - Non-dun 1, not dun, "dark" (normal) color but stripe
         down the back still visible

```

```
   nd2 - Non-dun 2, not dun, "dark" (normal) color

```

Gray:

```
   G - gray (will turn white with age)

```

```
   g - not gray

```

Cream:

```
   + - normal

```

```
   Cr - cream

```

```
   prl - pearl

```

```
   sn - snowdrop (a very rare and recently
        discovered dilution)

```

Silver dapple:

```
   Z - silver dapple

```

```
   z - not silver dapple

```

KIT: This is sometimes also called the white locus

```
   + - normal

```

```
   To - tobiano

```

```
   Rn - roan

```

```
   Sb1 - sabino 1

```

```
   W - any variant of dominant white that makes the all
       or most of the horse white, dominantly. I don't distinguish
       between W1, W2, W3, and W4.

```

```
   W20 - increases white markings

```

```
   To+W20 - both tobiano and W20 combined on the same allele, see here

```

Frame overo:

```
   O - Frame overo / lethal white syndrome

```

```
   + - normal

```

MITF (splashed white):

```
   + - normal

```

```
   SW1 - splashed white 1

```

Leopard complex:

```
   + - normal

```

```
   Lp - leopard complex

```

Pattern 1:

```
   + - normal

```

```
   PATN - pattern 1

```

Mushroom:

```
   + - normal

```

```
   mu - mushroom

```

LCORL has normal and large alleles, which are self-explanatory, and likewise HMGA2 has normal and small. Most genes affecting height are still unknown, and height is not entirely genetic.

# Horse Tack

97 textures in total, 6 categories, 16 colors each plus a cart harness for your working horses!
90+ Blankets for under your saddles
Included categories are Racing, Western, English (otherwise Dressage), Jumping (otherwise Show Jumping or Cross Country), Halters and basic Riding Saddle Pads for your general trail riding needs. And Blankets for when they are in the field or barn.

## Horse Carts

All carts can be attached and detached by pressing R once while riding an entity with a cart nearby. This hotkey can be changed in the controls. Simply look for "Action Key". (Please go into your hotkey config and change this as it over laps with other mods)

If the cart is going too fast, try toggling the slow mode by pressing sprint once while riding.

### Supply Cart

This cart is the oldest of this mod. It comes with a double chest inventory and has room for a friend of yours to sit comfortably on its back. Good luck on the adventures you shall overcome together.

Controls: The carts inventory can be accessed by sneaking while right clicking it. If you right click it without sneaking, you will start riding the cart instead.

### Plow

The plow is a useful cart. Not only can you put hoes in its inventory slots to till up to 3 blocks at once, but also shovels to turn dirt into a path for connecting interesting places within your world.

Controls:
The plowing mode can be toggled by right clicking it. Just like the cart, it's inventory can be accessed by sneaking while right clicking it.

### Animal Cart

This cart is a boat on wheels. Use it to allow both your human and non-human friends to travel alongside you without sweating.

Controls:
You can push entities into the cart to take them along with you and release them by right clicking the cart while sneaking. Right click it while not sneaking and you will start riding the cart yourself.