Pets & Horses Horse Updates

Here are some ideas to make horses more realistic and such.
Horses should be damageable by mobs. Instead of you getting damaged while riding a horse through mobs, your horse gets damaged instead, but they can also regen health. You can quickly heal your horse by feeding it wheat or something.
Horse armor should be added into the game and it can change the horse's stats, such as speed, jumping ability, and how much health it has.
Iron horse armor can give the horse a jump and slight speed boost.
Gold horse armor can give the horse a jump and speed boost, and a slight health increase.
Diamond horse armor can give the horse major jump, speed, and health boosts.
You can find horse armor at the ends of quests, dungeons, or they can drop very rarely from mobs.
Thanks for reading

 

Yeah no.
I'm fine with horse armor, but horses being able to take damage? No thanks.
White horses are already really rare, the last thing someone needs is their 40/40 to die from a zombie while going afk.

 

As Iivory said, the horse taking damage thing is bad, and the horse armours would kill the market... Horses are fine
Just a little glitchy
not to forget they are working on the follow up update/powders and would postpone the release date and thats one thing we dont want to happen again

 

how about horses taking damage and if they die there is a cooldown time
besides if you have a white horse out just get off of it or go to a city to go afk.

 

there isn't any sense in armor giving a speed buff to horses, if anything it should slow them down.
the horse health and damage taking may sound great in theory but you don't have any way to implement it, there are 4 tiers of horses, 4 tiers for the 66 levels you have between getting your first horse to maxing out the game, that's a tier for ~17 levels. that will mean each tier will have to have enough health to survive at the next two biomes while not being invincible in the current one. if you add the 3 armor tiers you will soften that up a bit but there still isn't really a reason for this to be a thing in game.