The bug
For a very, very long time, the horse jumping sound has mysteriously went unused as of today. When you jump while riding on a horse, only the landing sound is played. The horse jumping sound can only played when using the playsound
command.
The playsound commands
/playsound minecraft:entity.horse.jump player @s
/playsound minecraft:entity.skeleton_horse.jump_water player @s
Not only the horse jumping sound is unused but the subtitle "Horse jumps" is also unused. All the "Music & Sound" settings are left untouched. And I'm pretty sure that anyone might have not noticed this.
How to reproduce
(Optional) Enable subtitles
Tame a horse
Jump
→ ❌ There is no sound for when horses jump, only the landing sound is heard. With subtitles on, the subtitle for the horse jumping sound is absent as well.
Note: This has been reported as MC-145437, but the reason why I created the issue is that the user themselves has been inactive as their last activity was in March 2019 with no response at all. I can confirm that this is still an issue as of the latest version (1.15.2) and the latest snapshot.
I also attached the sound file itself here of what it sounds like when it used to play in game.
I literally forgot about this sound. I played 1.8 when this sound still existed, and I think fixing this would make riding horses more satisfying.