Well with the 1.6 Release, one of the biggest additions was Horses and Horse related items. being a mod writer i am intrigued buy the idea of adding Horse armor to my mods. but because Mojang loves its hard coded and lazy methods of programing it is imposable to add horse armor without base class editing or using a core mod. beside base class editing being completely out of the question, core mod isn't a great idea ether because it would make the mod incompatible with other mods doing the same thing. So my suggestion is to add a few Hooks for adding horse armor(and maybe even the same functions for saddles) similar to the hooks for regular armor. Hooks in the item class like

 

-boolean isValidHorseArmor(ItemStack stack, EntityHorse entity)

-String getHorseArmorTexture(ItemStack stack, EntityHorse entity)

-int getHorseArmorValue(ItemStack stack, EntityHorse entity)

 

and maybe even hooks for custom models and colors

-ModelBase getHorseArmorModel(ItemStack stack, EntityHorse entity)

-int getHorseArmorColor(ItemStack stack, EntityHorse entity)

 

I have actually started writing the code to do this and was going to submit a pull request to the forge git-hub page(when i finished) but i wanted to see if any of the forge devs had started work on this idea or if i did submit that it wouldn't be instantly rejected.

 

Yes, please do this someone!

I started work on some source for it but i will not do nearly as much as i wanted to due to a the way horse armor is programmed. ill see if i can fix it up and get a pull request up soon.

cpw please add this function to forge it would be very helpful /\

Totally agreed, 1.6 has one obvious addition in horses, and the limited amount of horse armors needs to be expanded.

Ugh drama drama drama, Anyways if someone submits a PR I'll look into it.

I would also be interested in the ability to add new horse breeds and such, with the ability to set custom models and textures. I'd like to change the unicorns in my mod over to the new horses without making a clone of the horse class.