SO at first I thought Mojang finally decided to add a great thing, at last all those medieval servers will be miles better.

But now I'm not so sure... Videos of people pvping found it very hard to hit etc, horses move quite fast. Horse archery is even harder the shoot is messed up by the speed so it takes some skill hitting a target whilst galloping. Getting there tho. They should be slower, fighting on laggy servers will be hard especially as an archer.

A couple of things which I'd want.

1. Horse armour AND player armour reduces the speed of the horse. This will induce more tactics, horse archers will want more speed to hit and run.

2. Like minecarts, when a horse crashes into you, you should be dealt some damage, the more heavier the horse (more armour on player and horse) the more damage dealt so knights will be a deadly force when charging. This'll develop Minecraft warfare further from a bunch of barbarians to possibly a somewhat organised battle on bigger servers.

3. Horses should rear when attacked as a defensive tactic, players 1 blocks away from the rear are given small depending on how near they are damage. Maybe a small knock back as well.

4. Horse armour should be better, horses will probably be targeted more than the player as its a somewhat bigger target, therefore if they are killed too easily like they are now, then the effort in finding, taming, breeding, feeding, arming, probably won't be worth it. Apparently you can heal them but to do this in the middle of combat.... I'm not too sure.

5. As the above options are very much in favour of horses becoming the most dominant way to pvp, ADD SPEARS! Hit 2-3 blocks away and when the player braces (aka crouches with spear aiming at horse) return the charge damage from an charging horse back to the horse and the player.

6. Add Shields. Shields when used block most damage from the front. leather to diamond types (no stone). With leather having the least durability and diamond having the most. Shields will reduce damage from charges by 25%. Shields should be crafted with 3 wood in arrow shape with stick inbetween and then with another arrow of the material you want your shield to be made out of on top of the wood arrow: D = diamond W=wood S= Stick
D W
D W S
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7. Add different bows. Ugh long have I been waiting for mojang to add this. Wood to diamond. There should be more to archery!!!

I guess that's it for now, if you like/agree with my ideas then please diamond this blog, this'll help to spread the ideas around and maybe one day a plugin will be made or mojang might actually incoperate this into the game. Omg and watch this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5B-uz57PJc

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