Conan Exiles

Conan Exiles

Extended Mounts
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kazilzare  [developer] 7 Apr, 2021 @ 8:48pm
Upcoming Content and Ideas
Upcoming Content

Herds:
The spawners that I added are just initial ones to get a feel for how they will fit into the world and how to do it. The colors at each spawner are not yet finalized and neither are the positions. Once I have a better idea of where the best locations for the different types are the spawners will be adjusted.

Saddles and more:
Larger variety of saddles. Most of the ones in-game are to some degree warhorse saddles and designed for defense. I'm looking at widening that usage and making some saddles that while they might not be multipurpose, they are ones that are missing from the game. I will not make unbalanced saddles, they will all stay mostly in line with the official ones. If I raise one stat i will lower another stat, for example trading defense for speed or stamina regen. I have no intention to create saddles that will be over powered.

I am planning on overhauling the saddles I added and having them make sense. Having heavy saddles that give more defense but are more draining to use, ones geared for maneuvering, ones geared for travel with no defensive stats. I'll see about doing a couple sets using the available models and doing some simple recolors or new skins on them.

Horses:
The changed horse meshes are kind of an experiment. They are quick edits and may end up being reverted or adjusted depending how things go. Same thing with the new scale, things may end up needing some tweaking even though they are based on realworld sizes.

I am also looking at having different stat growth chances and movement speeds for different types of horses. For example the large draft horses would be stronger and have more health while the smaller and lighter riding horses and ponies are quicker with more endurance but not very strong.


Ideas:

Baby Animals:
If the placable / pet foals are successful and enough people like it, then I eventually will be doing similar for the other baby animals in the game.

Warpaint
Adding warpaint for horses so you can further customize the look of your mount. Still looking into how to implement this with the least amount of changes possible.

More Skins:
With the number of skins in this mod now there are only a small range thats not avaliable for horses. I might add them a few at a time with sets similar to the mixed set (random skins with nothing in common) and then move the skins into new sets as I get enough to make a full set of the type.

Future skins (if this isn't enough for everyone) can include other black based versions, lighter strawberry reds, grays, and maybe some pale colors like champagne, silver, very light blues, and very light reds.

I will not be adding skins that are very close or minor edits of the DLC skins. I also will not be adding skins that are of specific characters, any skins that happen to be close to the look of any characters is entirely by chance since all these skins are done from photo references of real horses and combined with a little artistic creativity.

Rhinos
Rhinos will eventually be getting more skins too. I plan to fill out at least a full set of 12 skins for each of the 3 models. Like the horses, they are roughly based on actual photos (or at least artistic representations of likely colorations). For an idea of what to expect, the plain rhino is of course going from photos of rhinos, the furry version I'm using images for woolly rhino and other similar extinct species, the tusk version i am doing as a mix between rhinos and boars (and similar animals).

Other Mounts:
This mod is currently focused on horses and rhinos. With the rhinos I was able to convert the furry and tusked rhinos into mounts, they weren't set up for it but they already used the rhino skeleton and animations.

If I can figure out how to add other animals as mounts with full features and proper animations then it is possible that I will add some. They would be done by feeding a baby animal a special food, just like my horses, to get a mount version instead of a pet version. But I will not add them if I can't have them work as smoothly as the horses do (correct animations for each motion and rider). I have tried the animal mounts from several different mods and they all have the same flaws in movement and animation.

Several requests for other animal mounts without seeming to have read that last 2 paragraphs. There are currently no other mount types being worked on, as i barely have time right now to just maintain the mod and keep it working. There are things planned but horses and rhinos come first. Any new mounts are a LONG way off unless the devs add them first so I can give them the same treatment as I have the current official mounts. You can suggest species to add (only ones actually in the game and not mod added), just keep in mind they might never happen. If a suggested animal uses the skeleton and animations of either the horses or rhino and the current saddles will work on them, then I can put them on the list of things to look into. Right now that and being officially added as a mount are the only 2 things that will have me adding more mount species. If things go well irl, this will likely change in the next 6-8 months or so as i would have time to dig into actually creating new mounts that work like the official ones (no jumping without an animation for example and proper movement handling) though there are several started projects for this mod I have to finish first.
Last edited by kazilzare; 12 Oct, 2022 @ 5:53pm
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Raven 27 Oct, 2021 @ 2:24am 
absolutly owesome dude. long overdue since the vanilla horses cause eyecancer :)
RandomMajin 29 Jun, 2022 @ 5:24pm 
Have you tried boars? It'd be cool to be able to ride boars!
Awan 11 Sep, 2022 @ 12:40pm 
Hyenas, spiders and boars are mount options I've been waiting for since horses were announced. Excited to see where this goes.
Relentless 25 Sep, 2022 @ 7:12am 
Would love to see the dragons as mount or pet :P
Ivah 29 Sep, 2022 @ 12:49pm 
I love this mod! Is it possible to get every color of horse in small size? I end up throwing away 90% of my horses because I prefer the littler ones. Also, any chance of getting cremello and perlino colors? No matter, this is the best horse mod yet! Thank you!
Varrgas 2.0 9 Oct, 2022 @ 1:31am 
Hi, i add my idea there.

Very simple, +1 Horse avaible as Follower.
To explain why, it's because for me and for other players i talk with, we like to sometime not use the Respec lotus potion to be able to carry all we want, and want to use a more immersive way.
Until then i was basicly using Thrall bearer + mod to have more than 1 Thrall, but now with the new Grit System and the +1 Thrall avaible, it's interesting and i feel this more immersive and logical than carrying all the stuff.

But then, i have seen the Bearrer skin for Rhino and Elephant that that are in the "Treasures of Turan Pack" and was wondering if there is a mod to be able to have 1 more Rhino or Horse, like a follower, to travel with him and use it as a bearer

In fact it's logical and i don't understand why there isn't this possibility in CE.
I can even imagine the player using the Leather Binding and use it on the pet (horse/rhino, etc) and then jump on mine to travel with the leash of the other one in my hand.

After all, we can use it mounted to travel with our fresh new captured Thrall to our base.
(I'm not sure if that a mod who let me do this, but if i'm right we can do this in the base game)

Well, I think I said everything, it will be amazing, even if it is not implemented in this mod but as a separate project
I shared this idea in some other place to increase my chance to see something like this happen ^^'


And thank you for your hard work and time for this mod who is really nice and a cool addition to the game :cozybethesda:
Good luck
kazilzare  [developer] 12 Oct, 2022 @ 6:03pm 
Originally posted by Ivah:
I love this mod! Is it possible to get every color of horse in small size? I end up throwing away 90% of my horses because I prefer the littler ones. Also, any chance of getting cremello and perlino colors? No matter, this is the best horse mod yet! Thank you!

the horse "breeds" are scattered through all the color sets so every set is avaliable in the smaller sizes (except zebra). the wild and mixed sets are the only ones that i think wouldnt give a similar horse in each size since those were made up of random skins and not developed as a set. eventually i hope to break the mixed set into multiple ones with a more even group of skins in each (existing horses with those skins wont be effected).

as for the colors, thanks for the suggestion. ill stick it on the list of ones left to do. had started on some dilutes when doing the mixed set. I wont do solid or even almost solid white or black on any of my horses since that is paid content for the official horses, but im fine adding more dilutes to the range of colors. only problem is that with how textures turn out, the lighter skins can appear almost solid white to the point where you have to have it next to a white to see it has any color (same problem for darker skins and black).
kazilzare  [developer] 12 Oct, 2022 @ 6:13pm 
Originally posted by Varrgas 2.0:
Hi, i add my idea there.

Very simple, +1 Horse avaible as Follower.
To explain why, it's because for me and for other players i talk with, we like to sometime not use the Respec lotus potion to be able to carry all we want, and want to use a more immersive way.
Until then i was basicly using Thrall bearer + mod to have more than 1 Thrall, but now with the new Grit System and the +1 Thrall avaible, it's interesting and i feel this more immersive and logical than carrying all the stuff.

But then, i have seen the Bearrer skin for Rhino and Elephant that that are in the "Treasures of Turan Pack" and was wondering if there is a mod to be able to have 1 more Rhino or Horse, like a follower, to travel with him and use it as a bearer

In fact it's logical and i don't understand why there isn't this possibility in CE.
I can even imagine the player using the Leather Binding and use it on the pet (horse/rhino, etc) and then jump on mine to travel with the leash of the other one in my hand.

After all, we can use it mounted to travel with our fresh new captured Thrall to our base.
(I'm not sure if that a mod who let me do this, but if i'm right we can do this in the base game)

Well, I think I said everything, it will be amazing, even if it is not implemented in this mod but as a separate project
I shared this idea in some other place to increase my chance to see something like this happen ^^'


And thank you for your hard work and time for this mod who is really nice and a cool addition to the game :cozybethesda:
Good luck

i dont know of any mod that increases mount type followers (they are a different npc type then pets and thralls) and dont have any idea on how to even consider changing it myself.

I am attempting to create a pack saddle type item but keep running into exploits. essentially it would turn a mount into a pack animal with a decent bag size in exchange for not being able to ride it or to ride it at a much slower speed and endurance rate. Exploit is that once the items are on the mount you can swap the saddle to a riding one and still carry everything it was holding without being slowed down. Getting the saddle made and reducing stats is easy, need to find a way to either block the pack from being removed if its in use (more then default bag space is filled) or to have it drop everything in the extra slots when removed and i dont know how to do either.

I could also look into allowing horses as pets and seeing if i can do the pack saddle for them (best would be pack on its considered a pet, pack off its a pet, riding saddle on its a mount). wild horses if you have run across my herds ingame do fight, its the mount system that stops them from doing so. and having them register as pets instead of mounts should make them work with the thrall mods for more followers. still no real idea where to start that but if its possible i can look into it.
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