Horses in Minecraft are often overlooked due to their lack of utility compared to other types of transportation, such as elytra or boats. This plugin aims to make horses more useful by enhancing the breeding process, allowing players to breed horses with improved stats. By modifying attributes such as movement speed, jump strength, and health, players can create exceptionally fast, high-jumping, and healthy horses that are more competitive with other forms of transportation.
And it is just fun to breed horses and see what you get!
- Download the version of the plugin you need from Modrinth.
- Place the downloaded JAR file in the
pluginsdirectory of your server. - Start or reload your server. (It is recommended to restart the server to ensure the plugin is loaded correctly.)
- Configure the plugin to your liking by editing the
config.ymlfile in theplugins/PerfectlyBalancedHorsesdirectory. - Reload the plugin using the
/pbhreloadcommand or by restarting the server. - Enjoy breeding perfectly balanced horses!
Tip
It is recommended to use the Horse Power client-side mod to view the horse's stats. This mod displays the horse's speed, jump height, and health in the horse's inventory screen. It is available at the following link: Horse Power.
PerfectlyBalancedHorses is a Minecraft plugin that enhances horse breeding by allowing players to breed horses with improved stats. It modifies attributes such as movement speed, jump strength, and health, enabling the creation of exceptionally fast, high-jumping, and healthy horses.
The plugin is also designed to be highly configurable, allowing server owners to customize the breeding process to suit their server's needs. This includes the ability to adjust each attribute's maximum value, as well as the range of values that can be inherited by offspring. The configuration options cover movement speed, jump strength, and health, with additional settings to control whether excess or deficit attribute values should be ignored.
The plugin's configuration file, config.yml, is located in the plugins/PerfectlyBalancedHorses directory. It is
divided into three sections, each corresponding to a different attribute: speed, jump, and health. Each section
contains the following settings:
- modify: A boolean value that determines whether the attribute should be modified during breeding.
- multiplier: A double value that determines how much the attribute should be multiplied by when breeding.
- offspringRange: A range of double values that determine the value that is applied to the parent's attribute value
when breeding. The range is defined by a
startandendvalue. If thestartvalue is greater than 0, the offspring will inherit a value that is always greater than the parent's attribute average. Note that theendvalue must be greater than thestartvalue. The math is as follows:parentAverage + (parentDifference + rangeBuffer) * randomFactorrandomFactoris a random value between thestartandendvalues.rangeBufferis 0.3 * the difference between the maximum (vanilla or custom) and vanilla minimum attribute value.parentDifferenceis the absolute difference between the parent's attribute values.
- ignoreExcess: A boolean value that determines whether excess attribute values should be ignored.
- ignoreDeficit: A boolean value that determines whether deficit attribute values should be ignored.
The use-vanilla-offspring-attribute-range setting controls whether to use Minecraft's default offspring attribute
range. Set it to true for balanced attributes. If set to false, the offspringRange in the config file will be
used, which can result in very high or low attributes that can result in an unbalanced breeding system without steady
progression. It is recommended to set this to true for balanced gameplay.
Here is an example configuration file:
use-vanilla-offspring-attribute-range: true
attributes:
movement-speed:
modify: true
multiplier: 150.0
offspring-attribute-range:
start: -0.5
end: 0.5
ignore-excess: false
ignore-deficit: false
jump-strength:
modify: true
multiplier: 150.0
offspring-attribute-range:
start: -0.5
end: 0.5
ignore-excess: false
ignore-deficit: false
health:
modify: true
multiplier: 150.0
offspring-attribute-range:
start: -0.5
end: 0.5
ignore-excess: false
ignore-deficit: falseImportant
The multiplier setting is a percentage value. For example, a multiplier of 150.0 will increase the attributes
max value by 50%.
The plugin provides the following commands:
/pbhreload: Reloads the plugin's configuration file. Requires thepbh.reloadpermission.
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Warning
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