Horse vs Ox?

[Soto_Black]

I may have missed it in the tutorial, but does anyone know what the difference is? I know the ox can pull large resources like logs. What do horses do?

[ZX Horace]

Horses are to speed up your traders. Ox is for moving staff about your town and mules for between settlements.

[OSculton]

Its confusing as concepts are not being explained well in the game and tooltips lack any kind of specifics, this could be just fixed in a short phrase under each of the "Orther X animal" button.
Ox are for moving logs, aka "Timber", plowing farm fields and transport farms cargo (only with the improvement).
Horses are for trading.
Mules are for transport goods between your cities.
None of them can perform any other activity, just because.

[MEGACHAD]

Yeah this game needs tooltips.

[BluD]

They should really make horses and above capable of doing ox work but slight faster but obviously limit oxen from doing above tasks that only horse and mules can do exclusively.

[DustyDinklemen]

Originally posted by MEGACHAD:

Yeah this game needs tooltips.

no it doesn't...
trial and error....
just like banished.... its ok to make mistakes and redo all over again...
its just a game.
obviously the devs have considered this but then it would make the game too easy....