[MC-107057] Tamed horse does kicking animation while you ride it, temporarily keeping you from controlling the horse

The bug

Horses do a kicking animation randomly as an ambient feature, but now they can do this while you ride the horse, keeping you from controlling it.

How to reproduce

Ride a horse
→ ❌ When it kicks around (a random event), you cannot move or jump using the horse for a small amount of time.

Linked issues

is duplicated by 2

MC-111810 Horse movement issue Resolved

MC-113701 Horse randomly rears occasionally while riding without player influence Resolved

Attachments

horse bug.mp4

Comments 29

[Mod]Les3awe 2016-09-18T06:03:42Z

This issue duplicates MC-97157.

gaspoweredpick 2016-09-19T03:31:28Z

this is about WHEN riding a tamed horse, not WHILE taming the horse, as you ride a tamed horse, it does a kicking animation, keeping you from controlling the horse.

[Mod]Les3awe 2016-09-19T11:38:27Z

Please provide a video or screenshot.

EchoBlade 2016-09-19T18:14:26Z

Confirmed for 1.10.2

Jeuv 2016-11-27T14:45:30Z

This is not a duplicate. I attached a video displaying the bug, taken in 1.11.

19 more comments

Jeuv 2017-01-19T00:40:07Z

Confirmed for 1.11.2

wobst.michael 2018-05-21T12:32:20Z

Is this still an issue in the most recent versions (currently that is 1.12.2, or the latest 1.13 development snapshot 18w20c) of Minecraft? If so, please update the affected versions and help us keeping this ticket updated from time to time. If you are the owner/reporter of this ticket, you can modify the affected version(s) yourself.

wobst.michael 2018-08-07T18:32:35Z

Is this still an issue in the most recent versions (currently that is 1.13, or the latest snapshot 18w31a) of Minecraft? If so, please update the affected versions and help us keeping this ticket updated from time to time. If you are the owner/reporter of this ticket, you can modify the affected version(s) yourself.

onnowhere 2019-06-07T23:08:34Z

Confirmed 1.14.3 pre-2

bdm68 2019-07-24T23:23:09Z

Still an issue in 1.14.4.

MartyMacGyver 2019-12-23T03:06:36Z

Horses have always done this in my experience, but only today did I bother to read up on why... but here we are and apparently, it's not normal after all.

I'm running 1.15.1 (Java edition), and it happened a bit ago while out riding. Oddly, it's not easy to reproduce this (I just now ran around an are for a couple of minutes and it didn't happen). Is it related to chunk loading perhaps? If I get any useful data I'll reply with it.

Avoma 2020-11-28T15:46:43Z

Can confirm in 20w48a.

Avoma 2021-01-25T08:25:53Z

Can confirm in 21w03a.

Avoma 2021-02-07T12:35:58Z

Can confirm in 21w05b.

Avoma 2021-02-22T09:05:28Z

Can confirm in 21w07a.

Avoma 2021-03-29T14:31:39Z

Can confirm in 21w11a.

Avoma 2021-04-25T09:56:31Z

Can confirm in 21w16a.

Gerrygames 2021-06-04T10:22:01Z

This is caused by this code in AbstractHorse:

@Nullable
  protected SoundEvent getAmbientSound() {
    if (this.random.nextInt(10) == 0 && !isImmobile())
      stand(); 
    return null;
  }

Neither the NoAI nor the Silent flag have any impact on this behavior.
Even modifying the server can't resolve this issue because getAmbientSound() gets called by both the client and the server.
This unfortunately breaks horse racing games.

Also confirmed for 1.17-pre4 (and presumably pre5 as well).

Foorcee 2021-06-21T09:18:17Z

Can confirm in 1.17.1-pre1

Foorcee 2021-06-30T11:14:30Z

Can confirm in 1.17.1-pre2

ampolive 2021-10-06T14:27:08Z

Can confirm in 21w39a.

Gerrygames 2021-10-14T08:25:00Z

Can confirm for 21w41a

Gerrygames 2022-06-09T11:01:36Z

Can confirm for 1.19

sqvk 2022-07-25T21:27:24Z

can confirm in 1.19

sqvk 2022-07-26T11:03:08Z

can confirm for 21w39a

Avoma 2022-09-07T17:55:08Z

Can confirm in 1.19.2.

Gerrygames 2022-10-04T08:14:50Z

As this was closed as "works as intended" I want to add a clarification:
I understand that the main issue here might work as intended.
However there is another issue within this "issue" then. The animation is triggered by the client riding the horse. That means that the server and thus other clients are not aware of this animation being played. So the client riding the horse sees the horse standing up, but other clients just see the horse and rider randomly standing still for a short time for no apparent reason. This is a desync issue and can't be classified as working as intended.
Maybe a new issue should be opened for this underlying issue?

ampolive 2022-10-05T16:43:50Z

@unknown Please create a new ticket for this issue.

MrKinau 2023-02-11T00:00:32Z

Seems to be fixed in 1.19.3, thank you Mojang