Plugin category: FUN, MECHANICS Suggested name: SwimmingHorses What I want: I would like a plugin that allows horses to swim in deep water. Currently, the game actually does have the ability to have horses swim, however, they can only swim in one block deep water. The plugin I want is to make the game not push you off your horse when you're in deep water, and act as if you're in shallow water while you are actually in deep water. To me it seems possible without actually adding blocks to make the water shallow, but I'm not sure because I'm not a plugin developer. Ideas for commands: No commands are really needed for this plugin, unless there is a configuration for it, in which case a /swimminghorses reload command would be somewhat useful. Ideas for permissions: swimminghorses.swim - give to a player to allow that player to use their horses in deep water. Although permissions are pretty optional, so I wouldn't mind if you left this out. When I'd like it by: A few days to a week or so, don't rush, but soon would be nice. Thank you for taking the time to read my plugin request. I am pretty sure that this plugin would be possible, but if it's not please let me know. Basically, I believe the way it would work is "tricking" the game into somehow thinking that deep water is really shallow water, allowing the horse to swim. Since horses CAN actually swim, but only in one block deep water, there would be no need for adding animations which are impossible without client modifications.
Sadly, I do not think that this would be possible without adding blocks. This is just how MineCraft is codded and something that cannot be changed. Most plugins use features that MineCraft has to add things to the game play. I am not a "heavy" dev myself, but I do believe that this is impossible considering there would be no way to change this. Also, if you have nocheat plus or any other hack prevention plugin the plugin would think something is "up" since it would expect the player to be kicked off. So it could pose problems in that realm of ideas. So overall, I do not think this would be possible just because of how MineCraft is coded. However, do not quote me, I hope I could help too. Best Regards, Tyler M.
I second the notion that this is impossible without a client side mod. My gates plugin had all kinds of issues with horses and water that I almost gave up with it. You can lead a horse to water, but he's gonna kick you off when you make him enter it.
What about if somebody made a plugin where they were able to board a barge or something like that to cross a river. That would be so awesome!
