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Icy's Horse Breeds

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Multiple new models, textures, and armors for your horses to spice up your world!
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⚠️ EMF and ETF are required dependencies for this resource pack.

Icy's Horse Breeds

A companion resource pack for Icy's Better Horses. Fifteen new breeds for vanilla horses, no mod required.

Icy's Horse Breeds is for players who want the look without the system. No breeding, no bonding, no tack, and none of the mechanics from the full mod. Just vanilla horses that finally look like different animals instead of the same body with different paint jobs.

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What's in the pack

Your world stops spawning one horse shape. You'll run into fifteen real breeds, from the small and stocky Icelandic to shires that genuinely dwarf a player. Every breed carries its own coat set, so two horses looking alike is rare, and foals get their own models.

  • 15 breeds
  • Foals with unique models
  • Saddles and armor fitted per breed
  • Fresh-Animations-style motion, with walking, trotting, galloping, and swimming tuned for each breed

It's visual only. Underneath, these are still plain vanilla horses. Taming, breeding, and riding behave exactly as they always have.

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What you need

EMF (Entity Model Features) and ETF (Entity Texture Features). The pack is built on OptiFine's model format.

Recommended, not required

Simple Horse QOL. On its own, this pack has one side effect: the big breeds are tall, and riding one puts a wall of horse neck in your face. Simple Horse QOL ships with a camera fix built specifically for this pack. The resource pack works fine without it, but I highly recommend adding it.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Does this need Icy's Better Horses to work?

No. It's a standalone resource pack for vanilla horses. If you already run the mod, the two aren't related. This pack skins vanilla horses, while the mod adds its own horses on top of vanilla's.

Q: Can I use this in a modpack?

Yes, feel free to include it.

Q: Can I repost this to another site?

No, you cannot.

Credits

  • FreshLX — creator of Fresh Animations, and for letting this pack modify and retarget those animations across all fifteen breeds
  • Funado — most of the adult horse models, coat textures, and armor

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icys-horse-breeds-1.0.2.zip
MC 26.3
Release 2026-09-15 Get
icys-horse-breeds-1.0.1.zip
MC 1.21.9, 1.21.10, 1.21.11, 26.1, 26.1.1, 26.1.2, 26.2
Release 2026-09-13 Get
icys-horse-breeds-1.0.0-1.20.1.zip
MC 1.20.1
Release 2026-09-13 Get
icys-horse-breeds-1.0.0-1.21.1.zip
MC 1.21.1
Release 2026-09-13 Get
icys-horse-breeds-1.0.0.zip
MC 26.2
Release 2026-09-03 Get

Requirements & install

How to use this resource pack in Minecraft
Resolution
128x
Minecraft
1.21.9 – 26.3
Install folder
.minecraft/resourcepacks

How to install resource packs

  1. Download the resource pack .zip file (do not extract it).
  2. In Minecraft open Options → Resource Packs → Open Pack Folder.
  3. Drop the .zip into the resourcepacks folder (.minecraft/resourcepacks).
  4. Move the pack to the Selected column and click Done.

Packs from 128x upwards need more video memory: install a performance mod such as Sodium for smooth frame rates.

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