immersive horse

A complete overhaul of Skyrim's horses.

This mod is a doozy if I do say so myself. You could tell it was a horse of different colors - several even. A complete horse and carriage, if you will. A dark horse so to speak. You get it straight from the horse’s mouth because it…

Now hold your horse - let's not put the horse in front of the horse. This is not a horse town! True, but this mod is not a one pony. Good people know not to see a gift horse in the mouth. Why not play pony like they say? Okay, okay, quit! No need to beat a dead horse. After all, you can take a horse to water, but you can't make him drink...

Immersive Horses is Skyrim's lightweight overhaul built on SKSE64 and SkyUI SE. The goal of Immersive Horses is to improve nearly every aspect of Skyrim Horses while remaining as authentic to the original game as possible. Immersive Horses adds a range of new commands and related options for horses, as well as an integrated ownership and following system designed specifically for horses.

Any horse can now be purchased, stolen or adopted from vanilla Skyrim. Horses you purchase at the stables, as well as unique horses you find on quests, can be owned permanently once you claim them. Many horses in the game are temporary encounters, meaning they cannot be owned except by taking them permanently. Horses from other mods can only be owned temporarily unless special changes are made to those mods to allow permanent compatibility with Immersive Horses. Please note that horses added to the game by other mods may not be available.

Any horses you acquire permanently during your journey will automatically be added to your herd. You can manage and summon the horses in your herd almost anywhere in the game, including other world spaces from other mods. If you find or steal a temporary horse and want to keep it, you must first ride it to a different location and then dismount there to take ownership. When you're stuck on a stolen horse, you can't wait, fast travel, or use any of the other horse options. Once claimed, use the Horse menu or Horse Ownership powers to adopt the horse and make the current location its new home, allowing you to keep the horse permanently. Choose wisely as each horse can only do this once.

Activating a horse you own while standing, sneaking, or mounted will display the options menu by default, but these actions can be changed in the Mod Configuration Menu (MCM), along with optional hotkeys for the various horse commands. Options in the MCM include the ability to protect your horse from death, force your horse to ignore combat, make your horse wait while dismounted, and more...

Basic commands for all horses:

"Ride" or "get off" - the normal action of mounting or dismounting a horse.

"Follow me" or "Wait here" - Command the horse to follow you or wait for it.

"Talk" - Talk to NPC (when installed). Also used to search for NPC corpses from horseback.

"Show Statistics" - Shows the horse's statistics: health, stamina, speed, etc.

"Adopt" - Adopt a horse and give it a home (only available for horses in the vanilla game).

Commands for horses you own:

"Whistle" - A whistle for the horse to appear and follow you.

"Open Inventory" - Access the horse's inventory and add/remove items.

"Sacked" - The sacked horse returns home.

"Change ownership..." - Change who owns the horse or give it up entirely.

"Change Aggression..." - Options: Not Aggressive, Aggressive, Very Aggressive, Crazy.

"Changing confidence..." - Options: Cowardly, Cautious, Average, Brave, Foolish.

"Rename..." - Change the horse's name.

"Swap places..." - Swap the horse's place with another horse in the list.

"Add Ridable Worldspace..." - Adds the current worldspace to the list of available worldspaces.

"Delete Ridable Worldspace..." - Removes the current worldspace from the list of ridable worldspaces.

Orders for the whole herd:

"Follower" - Commands all active horses to follow you.

"Herd Waiting" - Command all active horses to wait for you.

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