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Horse Rework

Horses in Minecraft are currently seen as useless, they are slower than other transportation methods, and usage in combat (a very common usage of horses before industrialization) is practically impossible due to how attacking on a horse works.

**MOVEMENT**
Currently horses move like players, in whatever direction you are looking with a speed penalty for side to side
This means when you want to attack something, you are charging headfirst and easily killed.

Solution - Make horse movement similar to boats. Pressing foward moves the in the horses direction, left and right turns the horse. Not only would this make things better, it would also be more realistic than a horse doing in instant 180. 
This would also allow the player to look in a different direction, maybe attack or place things to the side of the horse while they ride forward

Implementation - Id imagine fairly easy, just reuse some of the code from boats

 

**SPEED**

The average horse runs about 30 miles per hour, 48280 meters per hour, or 13.11 blocks per second (1 block = 1 meter)

Increase the max speed obtainable by breeding to some degree, a well-bred horse can run up to 40 miles per hour, with the fastest nearing 45. Minecraft's perfect, most well bred horses currently only barely surpass 30 (14.5 blocks per second, 32 MPH)

Implementation - Adjust the stats of horses so that the max is much higher. Natural horses should spawn in the same stat range. Allow breeding to reach higher speeds (18 m/s) to make breeding rewarding

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    Additional notes since the character limit crept up on me:

    Horses should be able to swim, realistically they can do this while being ridden but in Minecraft they buck you off, which is annoying when you cant really put them in a boat in Java, and in Bedrock its near impossible to get them OUT of boats without killing them.

    Implementation - Id imagine just remove the code that makes them pull down when ridden (or slow it dramatically) while keeping their slow swimming speed