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Bonding and Skills

Skills

The SWEM horse has the capacity to upgrade 'skills' that increase their stats or abilities in various areas. These skills start at 0 when a horse is tamed and experience points are gained through various training methods, increasing until the horse reaches the next level. It is the increase of levels themselves that result in stat or ability upgrades and not the experience amount of a level.

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Speed

Speed is the skill that dictates how fast your horse can move at certain gaits.gaits. It is also important to note that Walk, Trot, and Canter are universal speeds and are not altered by speed levellingleveling - these universal speeds were added for convenience of multiplayer servers where certain disciplines or leisure activities might require players to ride at a uniform speed. 

A rider can increase a horse's speedSpeed skill by riding it. Speed potions can be increased by: 

  • Riding the horse (particularly in faster gaits)
  • Using Speed or All XP potions found in loot chests or acquired from the creative inventory,inventory
    • which will increase speed skill by a small amount per use. 


 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5
Experience Req. --- 1350 3038 4050 5063
Walk 3bps 3bps 3bps 3bps 3bps
Trot 5bps 5bps 5bps 5bps 5bps
Canter 11bps 11bps 11bps 11bps 11bps
Extended Canter 11bps 13bps 15bps 17bps 19bps
Gallop 13bps 15bps 18bps 20bps 22bps

These are the default experience values. The required experience will differ on servers/games with non-default configs.

Other information about speed:

  • The gait will reset to Walk when a rider no longer moves the horse forward (pressing W) or following a refusal.
  • A horse that is hungry and thirsty cannot go into canter, extended canter, or gallop.

Jump

Jump is the skill that increases the height (in blocks)blocks that your horse can jump. All horses can jump 1 block initially, and up to 5 blocks (or slightly above for clearance) maximum.

A rider can increase a horse's jumpJump skill by jumping the horse. Jump potions can be increased by:

  • Jumping during riding
  • Using Jump or All XP potions found in loot chests or acquired from the creative inventory,inventory
    • which
  • Leveling willup increaseAffinity - reaching level 3 (Tolerant) automatically increases a jump skillto byLevel aII small(2)
    • amount per use. 


 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5
Experience Req. --- 1350 3038 4050 5063
Height 1.75b 2.75b 3.75b 4.75b 5.75b

Horses automatically receive Jump L2 on reaching Affinity L3 (Tolerant)

These are the default experience values. If players or servers adjust the config values,The required experience will bediffer different.on servers/games with non-default configs.

A horse's jump has a natural arc that increases after 'launch' and declines before they land, and their jump height refers to the highest point of that arc. This means that SWEM horses need more space between jumps to allow the rider to approach, charge their jump, release to launch and make it over the obstacle at the highest point of the jump. 

  • Jumping will be on the spot (no movement) unless the rider must press W to initiate forward movement.
  • Jump refusals are very common at low level affinity so it is easier to train jump after some bonding has occurred. 
  • Jumps are either successful (jumps) or they are not (refuses) - there is no acknowledgement of jump collision (faults).
  • Jumping has a short couple second cooldown so the best courses are well-spaced to account for this stride.
  • Jumps at lower level have a shorter animation (less height and time in the air) so travel a shorter distance over a jump.
  • Jumps at higher levels have a longer animation (more height and time in the air) and can achieve either height at their peak jump phase, or distance over a gap. A maxed jump and speed horse could cover up to 11 blocks on a flat jump.
  • Jump distance is influenced by speed - a higher gait will increase the distance a horse covers during a jump. 

Fact: The most difficult jump that a SWEM horse and rider can complete is a 5B tall triple bar jump that spans 5B distance. It is only possible at a gallop and needs to be perfectly timed for charge, takeoff and launching phase to make it far enough and over all 3 bars. 

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Shown: The most challenging Olympic level jump - a 5 wide triple bar 3/4/5 blocks height, possible only in gallop.

Affinity

Affinity is thea skillstatus that determines a horse's connection with riders whichand impacts their chances of refusing to jump or increase gaits. Lower level horses regularly refuse often,commands where- especially in gaits above walk and trot or when jumping, whereas higher levels or maximum bonded horsesrefuse dofar soless rarely.frequently.

AAffinity riderlevel can increasebe aincreased horse'sby:

affinity
Level Experience (To Level) Bonding Level
1 (Untamed)--- Unwilling
2 100 Reluctant
3 850 Tolerant
4 2000 Indifferent
5 3000 Accepting
6 4000 Willing
7 6000 Committed
8 9000 Trusted
9 11000 Friends
10 14000 Best Friends
11 15000 Inseparable
12 16000 Bonded

These are the default experience values. If players or servers adjust the config values,The required experience will bediffer different.on servers/games with non-default configs.

Health

Health is the attribute that increases the hitpoints (heart) of a SWEM horse, Horses start with 20HP (10 hearts) of health and can increase up to 40HP (20 hearts) maximum.

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Health valuelevel can be increased byby:

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    daily
  • Daily nutrition via food points
  • Using Health or healthAll XP potions found in loot chests whichor offeracquired afrom 250XPthe bonuscreative toinventory
    • health levels per use.

Horses meal points contribute points (XP) towards their health stat; feeding your horse sufficient daily points, plus grain, is the best way to maximize a horse's daily health XP gain. Horses that are fed their maximum points daily will progress faster through the levels, by virtue of eating more, than those who miss meals.
If a horse is not fed, it does not lose XP from the health stat, though their maximum health will decrease until recovered.

Negative Debuffs
When a horse is starving or thirsty, their maximum health value will decrease at 0.5 hearts (1HP) per day they are starving. If they are starving and thirsty at the same time, that results in a combined 1 heart (2HP) loss per day.

 
  • Maximum HP will keep decreasing until a horse is missing 0 meals (fed) and 0 drinks (satisfied)
  • Maximum HP will be capped at 3 hearts (6HP) at the lowest
  • Actual HP will not decrease unless a horse takes physical damage
  • Maximum HP will recover gradually each day the horse is not missing any meals and drinks

Horses with low health (5 Hearts | 10HP) will display the sad stand and walk animation - allowing riders to see when their horse needs urgent care - use fly spray, glistening melon or a healing item (SWPM).


 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5
'Experience' Req. ---- --1350 --3037.5 --40505062.5
Hearts | HP 10 | 20HP 11 | 22HP 13 | 26HP 16 | 32HP 20 | 40HP

These are the default experience values. The required experience will differ on servers/games with non-default configs.

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Shown: The most challenging Olympic level jump - a 5 wide triple bar 3/4/5 block increments.

Known Issues

If you find an issue, please report it to our bugs channel on Discord. We ask that you look to see if your issue was reported first!

  • [~] Gait speed does not always reset to walk on stopping, and resumes from that speed on next gait-up command.
  • [~] Horse stats reset to L1 (0XP) - possible factors are significant updates (unlikely unless the update significant overhauls horses and skills) and server related updates or alterations. Very rare and unknown cause/solution.

Changelog

View Changes

This is not a complete list of version changes / fixes. It is a changelog of relevant wiki-related version information.

MC Version Release Notes
1.18.2
 1.18.2-1.3.0 [Beta]
 Chat message is displayed when a horse levels up a skill during riding.
Horses with low health stand and walk in the sad animation.
1.18.2-1.2.7 Food system (new) contributes points towards the health system.

Other information

Continue reading this chapter to learn more about our Horses!

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