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Horses should be able to swim

This would make horses far more convenient to travel with. This is something that players already want in the game.
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    A horse which "swims" is squeleton horse, which you can go underwater

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    They could swim in the legacy console editions, they should bring that to Java and Bedrock.

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    Well, there is a leak about this. So, maybe they have listened to us

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    They don't swim with players on their backs as we are added weight pulling them down.

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    I cannot tell you how many times I have crossed a river with a horse only to be dismounted XD Equal parts frustrating and annoying

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    aren't horses great swimmers irl too?

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    I think there should be either a depth limit or a time limit a player can ride on a horse in the water / have the horse swim with the player riding. That way players can ride their horses across relatively small rivers without being kicked off. However I think if the river is too wide or more specifically if it is too deep ( i.e. the oceans or lakes) then that's when the player gets kicked from the horse and a boat is required. 

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    horses in real life can swim, horses can swim when not ridden by player, horses should not dismount you, there is many rivers deeper than single block (almost every is) and horse swimming should be still relatively slow, but it should be possible to cross deeper rivers so you dont need to build bridges everywhere all the time when exploring
    at least giving you time to swim on it, slowly draining jump stamina bar and till depleted, you can ride it, realism or not, gameplay decision of not making horses unable to carry you in water always only bothered me, it dont add anything except unnecessary obstacle to transport method many players skip entirely, what makes game better by horses not carry you
    skeleton horses SOMEWHAT counter this issue however skeleton horses are rather rare and not durable at all, with relatively poor horse stats compared to horses bred by players, unable to use any armor, so these horses are not good decision for exploration trip, especially then if you lead donkey/mule or llamas too

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    Put frost walker and soul speed on horse armor. Fits the goal (get across water) without requiring recoding the horses. You can already do this with datapacks actually, so it should be simple to implement in the base-game. 

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    if they can’t swim with riders then allow us to put boot enchants on horse armor like frost walker.

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    Just have them swim like normally as you ride them. Which, currently is slow enough to so you can't cross a ocean but maybe the occasional river.
    This has already been added to GreenJab's mod. Please check out his channel.

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    it is gonna be added in mounts of mayhem