Oblivion:Horse Mode

Horse Mode

Category: Horse Behavior.

Version Compatibility

v1.0	v1.1.511	v1.20214	v1.2.0416
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Details

Found By:	Haskell
Date Found:	7/22/2023
Archaeologist:	N/A
Date Recovered:	N/A
Original Source:	Link

Horse Mode is a glitch with many strange effects. However two very notable effects are caused by Horse Warping. Some warp doors and their collision disappear, allowing for a quick and effective way to escape city walls, and disabling random encounters.

Instructions

Entering Horse Mode

1. Position a horse next to a chair.
2. Sit in the chair, then mount the horse from the chair. You will appear to have teleported to a glitchy area.
3. Create a save (Save #1) and load that save (Save #1).
4. Enter a city close enough that the horse is still loaded, then load warp (Save #1) back out through the city gates. After loading completes, you are now in horse mode, continue to set up for Horse Warp.
5. (Optional) Begin blocking and, without letting go of block, complete step 6. (Doing this step ends horse mode when warping with this save, which prevents crashes.)
6. Create another save (Save #2) that can be used for smoother Horse Warping.

Horse Warping

1. Follow the instructions for entering Horse Mode including the optional step 5 or (not recommended) the 6th step.
2. Load Warp the horse mode save into an area such as a dungeon or a city. Random encounters should be nonexistent, and certain doors should not be loaded and/or should have no collision.

Additional Notes

• Horse Warping without completing the 4th step in Entering Horse Mode can cause cause crashes when interacting with warp doors, interactable objects (not items), chairs, or the open air. This is seemingly because these are actions which usually cause the player to dismount the horse they're riding, which is in an unloaded cell as a result of horse warping.

Mechanics

Horse Mode (horse in loaded cell)

• Sitting in a chair teleports the player onto the horse.

- Blocking, attacking, or casting a spell is not interrupted by this teleport. Attacks and spells can hit and affect the horse while riding it.

• Interacting with anything that would normally cause the player to dismount cause the dismount animation to play for a single frame.

- Blocking, attacking, or casting a spell extends the "animation" for the duration of the action. This effect persists through loading zones.

• Fast traveling places the player on their horse, except when traveling to cities, like normal.
• Killing the horse ends horse mode, seemingly without further consequence.
• Horse mode can be saved and loaded without issue, persisting through saves.
• Looking down seems to be prevented in the same way it would on a horse.
• Saving and loading, including quicksave and quickload end horse mode.

Horse Mode (horse in un-loaded cell)

• (Sometimes) Fast traveling or being warped in any way seems to end horse mode, though some effects persist such as naked NPCs and unloaded doors. (May be a case of misinterpreting documentation.)
• (Other times) Fast traveling crashes the game. (Definitely happens.)
• Looking down seems to be prevented in the same way it would on a horse.
• The game crashes when the game when interacting with [chairs, doors, the open air, interactable objects] but not [npcs, items, containers].
• Saving and loading, including quicksave and quickload end horse mode.

Horse Warp

• Makes some but not all npcs naked via Nude Warping
• Horse warping injects atmospheric effects from original horse mode save to the new area, including time-of-day lighting and weather.
• Bizarrely, the game crashes when entering 3rd person mode.
• This unloads some doors and/or their collision. (may be useful for getting out of bounds in some indoor areas as well as cities)
• Random encounters in a cell don't seem to load when horse warping into it. (further research is needed)

This glitch requires further research to fully understand its mechanics. Some information in this section is currently speculation.

The full range of effects of both horse mode, and horse warping is still not fully understood. There are many points where the game crashes that might be avoided by setting up differently. One interaction that hasn't been tested yet is what happens when an owned horse is horse moded, and the owner of that horse mounts it. Very likely, a crash may occur, horse mode might be ended, or the owner simply won't mount their horse.