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Being mounted provides a very substantial advantage in combat. It's is usually much easier to kill a strong opponent when riding. In addition, mounts are unaffected by the rider's [[stamina ]] and [[health]], which makes it possible to retreat from combat even with low stamina or critical wounds. Riding a fast mount is often the only way of succesfully successfully escaping some of the faster mobs (like aged [[troll]]s or [[crocodile]]s). This is especially true when carrying loads above a bare minimum, because horses are not slowed as much as players are when carrying a lot.

They can be [[lead]] by anybody without being tamed, but they are [[Mounts|ride-able]] only with 21 [[Body Control]]. Horses can be tamed [[tame]]d with [[seeds]] and some vegetables[[vegetable]]s. However, as mobs attack tamed mounts before the rider and horses do not withstand much damage, it's usually wise to ride them untamed (to untame simply tame another animal).

A horse without speed affecting traits or equipment will have a max speed of ~18 kph (when riding it). Riding speed is completely unaffected by terrain type. It's is the same everywhere on and offroadoff-road. [[Saddle]]s and [[horse shoe]]s will raise the maximum speed. A horse's gear can only be accessed or changed when tamed, and only by the tamer. When riding down 20+ slopes the rider will not receive wounds like when walking, and mounts will go neither up nor down slopes over a certain max, so it can be wise to ride to avoid falling off mountains.

Any [[Animal husbandry|traits]], the horse's [[hunger]], [[terrain ]] steepness (uphill only) and the rider's [[inventory ]] [[weight ]] can affect the speed of the horse when riding.

Bred horses have individual (but not unique) [[horse names|names]] randomly chosen at birth. They can have traits affecting their speed and other [[animal conditions|characteristics]].

Bred horses have 2 [[foal ]] stages (young foal and adolescent foal) before they grow to young horses. All foals are bred, not wild.