Horse keeps following me

[Elaol]

I know that horse is programmed to follow me. I've downloaded this mod and I command it to wait, but it keeps following me.

I've finally bought everything for Glenvar castle and I want to have horse, but just to be there, it looks nice. I've bought Black horse and it got lost because of that stupid fast travel.

[David Brasher]

Oblivion has a stupid design characteristic. If you fast travel, the game designers think you absolutely must have used your horse. They think it is not possible that anyone would walk. So your horse always gets teleported to the nearest stable or location where you are.

 

If you want a horse at your castle, just for looking at, I think you should go into the CS and add one to an existing mod, or create a new mod with the horse. You would have to be sure to never actually mount the horse, because then it would start following you. Unless you were to do some scripting or some sort of a workaround. A simple workaround would be to have the horse belong to someone else. Every time you mounted it, you would be stealing a horse, and you wouldn't want anyone to see you do this. But the horse would not follow you and would walk back home if you you rode it out somewhere and then dismounted.

[Elaol]

Thanks for the help :biggrin:

[vvk78]

Command Mounts and Horses is actually a very useful and simplistic mod, since it allows you to summon your mounts even in other worldspaces, with ease (mount doesn't even need to be near you)! The beauty of this mod is that it provides a single lesser power called Command Mount that allows Summon/Follow/Wait for any ridable mount, including from custom mods.

 

To make the horse stop following you permanently, you need to understand how the mod works.

 

If your horse is following you currently, cast the Command Mount spell to make it wait. Do this in a stable or your permanent home, so that you don't misplace the horse.

 

Now switch over to an unsummonable mount, such as Akatosh mount (ridable dragon mod). Summon it using its own custom summon spell (e.g., Call Fire Drake), then command it again with the Command Mount spell, so that it is following you. Now you can use the custom summon spell again to get the popup menu to unsummon it and send it home.

 

Now your horse will always be waiting for you in that stable, and you can switch over to any other horse or mount now (including the Akatosh dragon, if you so wish).

 

Always make sure if you make your horse follow/wait with the Command Mount spell, then do not use it on another horse, unless you made your first horse wait in a stable or other location that you won't forget. There's no way to summon previous horses/mounts, if you have switched to a new mount.

 

If you want a more versatile alternative to Command Mount and Horses mod, try the Horse Commands mod. It provides lots of features, but might be more complicated for your needs.