Ride Along
Moving villagers, pets, and livestock across your world has always been a chore in Minecraft. You push them, lure them with food, or build elaborate minecart systems just to relocate a single cat. The Ride Along mod solves this problem with a simple, elegant mechanic: it lets smaller creatures ride on the backs of larger ones. Whether you are herding villagers to a new trading hall or hauling chickens home from a distant biome, this add-on turns tedious escort missions into quick horseback trips.
What Ride Along Does
Ride Along allows villagers and smaller animals to ride larger animals. The mod calculates "small" and "large" automatically based on hitbox size, so it works reasonably well even for modded entities you might have installed. You do not need to configure each mob individually; the system figures out who can carry whom.
Some practical uses include:
- Put a villager on a horse and lead him somewhere safe
- Get animals into and out of boats more easily
- Bring your cat somewhere on horseback, especially with mods like Realistic Horse Genetics that allow horses to carry two riders
- Transport that one rare Genetic Animals chicken you finally found back to your base
If you run a modded world with custom creatures, the hitbox-based logic means most entities will just work. A large modded beast can often carry a small vanilla pet without any extra patches.
How to Mount and Dismount Entities
Two Mounting Methods
There are two ways to place a passenger onto a mount:
- While riding a mount or vehicle that can carry more than one passenger, such as a boat, press Ctrl and right-click on the rider.
- Attach the mount to a lead, then press Ctrl and right-click on the rider.
To dismount all passengers at once, simply press Ctrl and right-click on the mount. By default the modifier key is Left Control, but it is fully rebindable to whatever key you prefer in your controls menu.
Version Support and Loaders
Ride Along is available for Minecraft 1.17 and newer, including current releases, and is distributed for both Fabric and Forge. If you play on Minecraft 1.15 or 1.16, this feature was originally part of Realistic Horse Genetics, so you should use that mod instead on those older versions. Starting with Minecraft 1.17, Ride Along became its own independent mod, which means cleaner updates and fewer dependencies.
If you want a hassle-free setup, the foxygame.net launcher offers a one-click install for Ride Along, dropping the correct build straight into your mods folder without any manual file shuffling. Its built-in add-on catalog also keeps track of version compatibility, so you always grab a build that matches your Minecraft release and loader.
Why Players Keep It Installed
Vanilla Minecraft gives you almost no tools for moving passive mobs efficiently. Boats work for land animals only in awkward ways, minecarts need rails, and leads break constantly. Ride Along fills that gap without adding new items, blocks, or GUI screens. It is a quality-of-life mod in the purest sense: small, focused, and immediately useful the moment you load a world.
For builders, the mod is a quiet blessing. Relocating an entire village population to a custom trading district becomes a series of short horse rides instead of a thirty-minute pushing session. For adventurers, it means your cat can join every expedition rather than waiting at home. For modpack authors, the automatic hitbox detection reduces the patching work normally required to make cross-mod interactions function.
How to Install Ride Along
The installation process is straightforward for anyone familiar with modded Minecraft:
- Confirm your Minecraft version is 1.17 or later.
- Install Fabric or Forge for that version.
- Download Ride Along for Minecraft from your preferred mod source.
- Place the .jar file into your mods folder.
- Launch the game and test the Ctrl plus right-click combination on a boat or lead-attached mount.
If the key combination does not respond, check your controls menu and confirm the modifier is bound to Left Control, or rebind it to a key that does not conflict with another mod.
Final Thoughts
Ride Along proves that the best mods are often the simplest. It does one thing, does it well, and works across vanilla and modded content thanks to automatic hitbox calculations. Whether you are a villager relocator, a pet enthusiast, or a modpack curator, this add-on earns its place in your load order. Download Ride Along, bind your modifier key, and start giving your small companions a lift.