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Arkinhallow
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ARKHAL HORSES

2026 Update


Happy Year of the Horse! In celebration of the new year, all of my horse textures have been given a makeover! These textures were created to bring a bit more accuracy and realism to Minecraft's horses, while keeping true to the vanilla Minecraft style. This shiny new update brings more features as well as stylistic consistency.
  • All textures were redrawn from the ground up, giving them an organic variance to vanilla textures.
  • Textures now have a limited, set colour palette, bringing them in line with both each other and other Minecraft assets.
  • Completely original saddle textures are now included! New saddles show on horses, donkeys, mules, as well as skeleton and zombie horses.

A complete list of changes can be found below:
Base Colours:
  • "brown" re-coloured to be silver black.
  • "creamy" recoloured to be palomino rather than dun.
  • "dark brown" is now seal bay.
  • "chestnut" no longer has a flaxen mane.
  • "white" is now dominant white, rather than a fully greyed out grey horse.
  • "black" is less blue and less saturated for a truer black colour.
  • "grey" is now a more varied dapple grey.
Markings
  • "black dots" is now the frame overo marking.
  • "white" is a blaze and stockings with softer, more natural stockings and a longer, bolder face marking.
  • "white dots" is redone to look like a near-leopard appaloosa.
  • "white field" is redone as a more accurate tobiano.

If you would like just the markings or just the base colours, simply delete the relevant png files in "assets\minecraft\textures\entity\horse" inside the resource pack folder.

Do not:
  • Modify the contents of this pack with the intent to share the changed version
  • Distribute the original or a modified version of this pack
  • Download this pack from other online sources
except with explicit permission. If you see this texture pack uploaded on any other site or as part of a texture masterpack, it is not done with my permission. The only download of this pack that I have or will ever supply will be this one on PlanetMinecraft.

You may:
  • Provide this pack to users on your server(s) - ideally through minecraft's prompt-to-download mechanism or behind a whitelist (e.g. download only available in a private Discord server)
  • Modify the contents solely for your own use.

4 Update Logs

Changelog V3.0 [Year of the Horse Update!] : by Arkinhallow 03/17/2026 11:54:30 pmMarch 18 @ 3:54 am UTC

Happy Year of the Horse!

Changes:
  • Updated game version to 1.21.11; currently compatible from 1.21.5 - 1.21.11.
  • Added saddle textures.
  • Saddle textures now separate from horse textures per Minecraft vers. 1.21.5 changes; new saddles now also apply to donkeys, mules, skeleton and zombie horses.
  • Updated all textures for horses. Almost all textures have been entirely remade or at the very least brought in line with a new self-imposed style guide to improved stylistic cohesion.
  • Eye colours changed on all base textures.
  • Black, Palomino, Seal bay, Chestnut and Dominant white bases now use a redrawn, original texture as their base. Each texture now uses a limited colour palette.
  • Seal bay base has adjusted 'seal' areas that better blend between the legs and body, and between different body parts.
  • Silver Black base adjusted to a limited palette. Some texture adjustments. This texture was already an original texture so most of it was kept the same.
  • Dapple grey texture remade using Silver black as a base, with some adjustments. It also adheres to a limited palette.
  • Dominant white replaces the 'horse_white' base - previously a completely greyed out horse with a dark muzzle - with one that has the dominant white gene instead of the grey gene. It now has blue eyes, light hooves and frogs (under-hooves), and a pink muzzle.
  • Silver black replaces the Bay 'horse_brown' design. It now has a light mane and dark brown-grey dappled body, instead of a black mane and reddish body.
  • Palomino replaces the Dun 'horse_creamy' design. It now has a light mane and cream body, rather a black mane and dark cream body.
  • All white markings now use the new Dominant white texture as their base; as such they all have the new redrawn textures applied to them, and where white crosses the hooves, eyes or muzzle they inherit their colour from the Dom. white texture.
  • Overo replaces the Splash 'horse_markings_black dots' design. It now has a sharp, patchy design mostly restricted to the interior of the body and the face, instead of a 'dipped-in-paint' look.
  • Blaze and stockings replaces the 'horse_markings_white' design. The face marking now extends fully down the face and onto the muzzle.
  • Minor other adjustments to Tobiano and Appaloosa textures.

Future roadmap:

While I can't guarantee these things will definitely be done, they are in my mind as good future updates <3
  • Appaloosa texture edge cleanup to bring in line with new style rules.
  • Revisit alternate textures for bases and markings.
  • Add optional other bases and markings, possibly as an 'alternate' pack (bring back splash, bay base, etc).
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User6536883G
• 06/28/2026 4:58 pm
• Level 1 : New Miner
Love this! Was there ever a Bedrock version?
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Toady
• 06/18/2023 2:09 pm
• Level 1 : New Collective
Omg I love this!! you should make a donkey and mule texture!!
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Ensis
• 08/03/2022 3:26 am
• Level 77 : Legendary Ninja
Look good!
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TheBlackPeanut
• 05/30/2022 11:15 am
• Level 1 : New Miner
Hey I found this texture pack and downloaded it, I didn’t realize that it was only for Java, all the textures on bedrock are just messed up, I’m probably not the only one who’s asked this, but if it isn’t a lot of trouble are you able to make this texture pack for bedrock, only if you want to.!
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Cirtus
• 11/04/2022 10:46 pm
• Level 2 : Apprentice Farmer
u can easily do that by downloading texture pack converter in the play store
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The-Jennarator
• 12/22/2021 6:20 pm
• Level 1 : New Miner
Hello! Will this be updated for the 1.18.1 release?
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Arkinhallow
• 12/28/2021 8:01 am
They/Them • Level 48 : Master Wisp
The current version is technically compatible with all versions that use the current horse model - including versions before and after the one it is currently set to (1.17). Minecraft will warn you that it may be incompatible but you can just use it anyway ^^



That said I will be updating this soon, as I try to keep it compatible with the latest minecraft version!
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xRazzzy
• 12/20/2021 9:52 am
• Level 1 : New Miner
Hello!
Ive been using this texture pack combined with optifine, and im noticing some issues with the textures. I cant seem to see the appaloosa textures. I know its an issue with optifine, do you know anything that might be causing the issue and how to resolve it?
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xRazzzy
• 12/20/2021 10:02 am
• Level 1 : New Miner
After some testing i realized that its the shader im using (sildurs) that is causing the problem, not optifine, which is good!
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Arkinhallow
• 12/28/2021 8:02 am
They/Them • Level 48 : Master Wisp
I've not encountered this issue before with Sildur's. If it continues to be a problem and you are using the latest version of Sildur's, Optifine, and Minecraft, please let me know and I will look into it!
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