Forget horses, let's plunk a saddle on a Sea Monster and let us ride that.

Or maybe we'll be able to enslave Jotun to our will and ride on their back like Master Blaster. "Who own Valheim-town? Say louder!"

We can ride loxes, and we can ridde them while full to the brim with iron ingots.

Originally posted by Drunken Monk:

We can ride loxes, and we can ridde them while full to the brim with iron ingots.

Yep. Totally aware of that. Was in the patch notes and stuff ;)

Horses would be different. There has been a lot of talk about including horses since launch amongst the community. Then they adopted a horse.

I for sure thought a horse was on deck.

Originally posted by Mollerz:

Originally posted by Drunken Monk:

We can ride loxes, and we can ridde them while full to the brim with iron ingots.

Yep. Totally aware of that. Was in the patch notes and stuff ;)

Horses would be different. There has been a lot of talk about including horses since launch amongst the community. Then they adopted a horse.

I for sure thought a horse was on deck.

They? you mean the community mamanger did right?

Vikings ate horses. If they get added, they'll be a tier above deer, harvested for their meat and a source of glue.

I'm hoping to see a horse similar to sleipnir in the mistlands. I'm not sure if they mentioned that they were intending to add horses, but I'd hope that it's a bit more than just a plain horse if they do add something.

Originally posted by Drunken Monk:

Originally posted by Mollerz:

Yep. Totally aware of that. Was in the patch notes and stuff ;)

Horses would be different. There has been a lot of talk about including horses since launch amongst the community. Then they adopted a horse.

I for sure thought a horse was on deck.

They? you mean the community mamanger did right?

IS it even worth splitting hairs on PR lmao.

Originally posted by Panfilo:

Vikings ate horses. If they get added, they'll be a tier above deer, harvested for their meat and a source of glue.

+1

Great adds.

They still eat horse in Iceland I hear.

Originally posted by Lil Drizzle || NeckRope:

I'm hoping to see a horse similar to sleipnir in the mistlands. I'm not sure if they mentioned that they were intending to add horses, but I'd hope that it's a bit more than just a plain horse if they do add something.

So you'd see a horse as a late game thing. I kind of agree. The only issue with that is then they are not used as much. I would almost say the lox is the main ride-able tame, and the horses should be an earlier tame. They haul less but are faster.

We also need an ark level boat to transport animals.

At first I was, because running around was pretty boring, but honestly horses would kill a lot of the threat of the world, and long-distance travel can be handled by ships and portals anyways. Assuming that horses couldn't go through portals, I wouldn't have a use for one even if I had one. Maybe at most it would replace my cart for moving resources from my dock to my crafting areas.

That said, if we get more interesting maps that have more landmass, I could see a horse being the replacement for a ship in a mostly-land-based map.

Originally posted by Mollerz:

Especially with the whole horse adoption thing. Kind of a PR misstep.

You can't be serious, dogg. They literally said in that VERY post that this didn't mean they were adding horses to the game.

You will definitely see more of her in the future. (This does not mean that we’ll introduce horses to the game, but it does mean that Iron Gate will take field trips to the stables to meet our four legged colleague)

https://steamcommunity.com/games/892970/announcements/detail/3035968700877261598

Originally posted by Anarchist Jurisdictor:

Originally posted by Mollerz:

Especially with the whole horse adoption thing. Kind of a PR misstep.

You can't be serious, dogg. They literally said in that VERY post that this didn't mean they were adding horses to the game.

You will definitely see more of her in the future. (This does not mean that we’ll introduce horses to the game, but it does mean that Iron Gate will take field trips to the stables to meet our four legged colleague)

https://steamcommunity.com/games/892970/announcements/detail/3035968700877261598

LMAO,

I will file this in discussions not worth having.

Originally posted by Midas:

At first I was, because running around was pretty boring, but honestly horses would kill a lot of the threat of the world, and long-distance travel can be handled by ships and portals anyways. Assuming that horses couldn't go through portals, I wouldn't have a use for one even if I had one. Maybe at most it would replace my cart for moving resources from my dock to my crafting areas.

That said, if we get more interesting maps that have more landmass, I could see a horse being the replacement for a ship in a mostly-land-based map.

But.. what if your horse can die?

IMHO you'd have to be pretty careful with them. Certain biomes like the swamp or mountains would be super tough on them.

And to truly take advantage of them you'd need to build a trail/road system.

Originally posted by Mollerz:

Originally posted by Midas:

At first I was, because running around was pretty boring, but honestly horses would kill a lot of the threat of the world, and long-distance travel can be handled by ships and portals anyways. Assuming that horses couldn't go through portals, I wouldn't have a use for one even if I had one. Maybe at most it would replace my cart for moving resources from my dock to my crafting areas.

That said, if we get more interesting maps that have more landmass, I could see a horse being the replacement for a ship in a mostly-land-based map.

But.. what if your horse can die?

IMHO you'd have to be pretty careful with them. Certain biomes like the swamp or mountains would be super tough on them.

And to truly take advantage of them you'd need to build a trail/road system.

Some terrain would be worse than others, but honestly most of the land is pretty flat. Also, it could be something like a stag instead, due to the mythological aspect, or something like that. I would imagine either way they'd be tamable and replaceable like any other tame.

Ah yes, the Horse and Home update. How could they not have horses?

...why horses in particular? some sort of beast of burden, sure. Oh and they have that - loxes. It's not lore-friendly to Vikings to ride horses (not that valheim is super specific to viking culture). Sorry you didn't get what you wanted, but I'm 100% fine without "horses" specifically. I just have a goal of animal-based land transport, and my needs are met.