Tack

Tack is made out of a bridle, a saddle pad, a saddle, plushies, blanket, hat, tail decorations, knee tack, hood tack and fetlocks. The bare necessities needed for riding are a bridle, a saddle pad and a saddle. Others help with raising a horse's stats, quick stopping or are just decoration.

Basic tack is needed for riding your horses, otherwise you fall off. Bareback riding is possible with 250k player experience and 50k horse experience.

Tack styles
If your horse is not responding to your commands as it should and it is not a personality problem, consider switching between tack styles, as some horses have a preference.

Western
A functional leather tack set is the classic set of cowboy tack.

English
A sleek tack is the classic set of English tack and is suitable for many disciplines.

Getting your first tack
Your first tack piece will probably not be crafted by you. It takes a lot of resources from different biomes and an already built workshop and textile workshop on your ranch to be able to craft, so the fastest way to get tack and start riding is by buying from other players or player stores in Clubs.

Crafting
Crafting a basic tack set requires 7 leathers, 2 wood, 6 wool, 2 iron and 16 flax (crafted into two Linen Bolts). You need a Textile Workshop to craft Fabric Bolts and a Workshop to craft the tack.

Imbuement
Imbuement means adding crystals to your horse's tack in order to improve their performance. It is done after your horse's stats have been maxed with training.

All crystals can be found in different caves or bought from player stores. You can imbued tack at Imbuement Station in most Clubs.

Saddle: 30 additional points in every stat

Bridle: 20 additional points in every stat

Saddle Pad: 10 additional points in every stat

Cost
Level 1 imbuement takes 1 crystal and 1000 gold dust, level 2 takes 3 Crystals, level 3 takes 6 crystals, level 4 takes 16 crystals, and you can have up to 7 levels.

Crystal Colors
Blue crystal raises the Agility stat, Green raises Endurance, Purple raises Intelligence, Yellow raises Speed and Red Crystals raise Strength.

Plushie
Plushies give the same imbuement as a saddle pad, but unlike other tack they cannot be adjusted. You find them in Caves, where the magic has soaked into them giving them their stat levels. Your horse can only have one plushie at a time, so you need to decide which stat you want to raise the most.

Every plush has some sort of imbuement, but the boost is random. The absolute minimum boost is +7 overall and the maximum is +50 (which is +10 on every stat). They come in a wide variety of animals, from chickens and dogs to rhino and octopus.

With Lucky Plushie library tome, the minimum random imbuement is increased from +7 to +14 (overall). Plushie crates don't respawn in the same location, but will spawn continuously in caves.