Stable Handbook

The in-game guide. Same ground as this wiki, readable without alt-tabbing.

  1. Crafting
  2. What’s inside
  3. Spares
  4. Related pages

Crafting

Book Chest
Stable Handbook Stable Handbook

Plus any one Better Horses item — a plain Chest counts, so this is craftable on day one.

A shapeless recipe: one Book plus any Better Horses item.

Any of these work as the second ingredient:

Since a plain vanilla Chest counts, you can make a handbook before crafting anything else in the mod. A book and a chest is a first-day recipe.

Crafting one earns the Stable Reading advancement.

What’s inside

The handbook is powered by Modonomicon and organised into three categories:

Category Covers
Barn Door Basics Claiming and bonding, the info screen, owner-only riding, breeding and traits, riding improvements, config
Tack Room Every craft in the mod, with a note on when each piece is worth making
Breeds A field guide to all fifteen breeds: appearance, coats, and where each lives

Recipes render as real crafting grids inside the book, so you don’t need to memorise layouts.

Spares

It’s cheap to remake, so keep one in your travel chest and one at home. Handing a spare to another player is the fastest way to explain the mod to them.

Modonomicon is a required dependency of Better Horses, so the handbook is always available. You’ll never have a world where the mod loads but the book recipe doesn’t.