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I guess this question would consist of two sub-questions. I'm currently unable to test this myself so I figured someone else probably already has or is willing to try this. I was wondering, since mobs can teleport through the nether-portal (since a few updates back,) is it possible to get your horse to follow you to this place of horror and disaster? And if the answer to that question is "yes" then i would also like to know if horses are affected by any slowing effects. In this example in particular I meant soul-sand, but I guess this would also count as potions, etc.

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  • At this point, getting a fast horse onto the roof of the Nether is the fastest way to reach the world border - about 3 days of afking on horseback with 'forward' key jammed. Make the portal larger than usual or you'll risk the horse suffocating in it.
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    Dec 9, 2020 at 10:45

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Yes, you can transport horses through the nether. I've successfully transported horses from one base to another via paths through the nether, avoiding oceans, so I know they can go through the gate. It's a little tricky getting them through; for whatever reason, I found that when handling several horses, they would avoid going through the direction I was pushing them but easily wander back out of the nether on their own. Pretty sure that's a quirk of randomness, but you'll want to have leads and fenceposts handy so you can immediately confine them far enough away from the portal that they don't walk back out.

I play in multiplayer primarily, so I found it handy to have one person behind the horses pushing and one person in the nether grabbing them with leads. The leads will break when you and your horse are in opposite dimensions, so it's not exactly trivial to go through. They will not go through while being ridden, so you have to make do with pushing and pulling.

I ran a test just now; horses are definitely affected by soul-sand. Splash potions of slowness are a lot less effective: I could hardly tell a difference in horse speed, but the particle effect indicated the horse was being affected by the potion. They also have trouble with one-block-wide tunnels and even two-block-wide tunnels sometimes, particularly around corners, so it's recommended you carve a three-wide, three- or four-tall path for riding in the nether.

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  • Thanks for the quick response. Could you test the soul-sand and splash-potion part just to be sure?
    – Marco Geertsma
    Apr 16, 2014 at 11:33
  • @MarcoGeertsma Updated :)
    – Yamikuronue
    Apr 16, 2014 at 11:44
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    Horses should have problems with one-wide tunnels ALL of the time, since they are 2 blocks wide themselves.
    – MrLemon
    Apr 16, 2014 at 14:24
  • @MrLemon This is true! I was thinking of my existing two-wide tunnels and mixed up that sentence a bit. Horses need lots of space.
    – Yamikuronue
    Apr 16, 2014 at 14:54
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    Please do not make a path so large a ghast can spawn inside.
    – Mindwin Remember Monica
    Aug 28, 2015 at 13:16

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