It would be great if horses got an upgrade with this update! With so many cool mounts present (happy ghast, skeleton horse) and even more coming up (nautilus, zombie horse), the horse will get overshadowed very fast.
There could be a "potential" system, where depending on what you trained the horse for (speed, jump, stamina), it would improve that stat specifically. It would eventually run out and each horse could have a different amount of potential they could tap into, so it's not the same for every horse. Some traits could potentially be passed down to foals, like a horse that is better with jump training or one that only wants to eat carrots, it would give them more character that way, like real horses!
It also seems unfair that the player gets dismounted whenever the horse gets in water, cuz horses are actually good swimmers! Maybe what could happen instead is the horse gets much slower if it falls in water while mounted. This might make it more likely for horses to be picked as a mount for exploration. Something maybe like a horse flute could help with finding the horse; if it'd be hard to make it run to you when used, it could instead indicate how close the player is to the horse, or the direction they need to go to find where it is.
Some changes could also be done to the horse models and animations, to give it more life like other mobs. Maybe the horse does a little dance when it's fed its favorite food, or it runs around when it's left in a field without a saddle.
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