How not to lose my horse every time I fight something

[vakarr]

It seems every time I get off my horse to go and shoot something with my bow, the horse disappears. Same for any combat really. What was really bad was I was creeping up on an enemy and the horse decided to ride in and attack them, never saw it again so I suppose it was killed. How do you stop your horse from attacking and why does it disappear if I get off it to go hunting? Yeah, I know I can get it back by fast travelling, but I'm always over weight so can't fast travel a lot of the time. The rest of the time I get Lydia to carry the stuff and it all gets marked stolen.

[go杉田go]

enchanting hands, feet, amulet and ring to fortify carry weight and no need to ride horse anymore

[go杉田go]

and you can get a never dying ghost horse when exploring soul cairn （dawngaurd DLC content）

[matt]

You can use a mod. There are many mods that make horses easier to use, such as Convenient Horses.[www.nexusmods.com] I don't use them, though, because I like using Arvak,[en.uesp.net] and Arvak solves most of my complaints. He's immortal, and you can summon him at will using a spell. Plus, he's got a great model, and you can add some really great retextures to make him even more of a flaming skeleton horse:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2438689223

[76561198140601386]

They flee to avoid dying - which is understandable, but there's no way to call them back, fast travel doesn't work in Survival mode...
tl;dr: It's a very flawed design.

I recommend installing a mod that allows you to call them, there are several:
"Simple Horse SE" by tktk is probably the most straightforward (requires SKSE + SkyUI).

"Simplest Horses" by hackfield is my favorite, it also adds a saddle feature (though there are extra requirements: SKSE + SkyUI + MCM Helper + SPID)

Or of course, any horse overhaul, such as "Convenient Horses" or "Immersive Horses" - but they add dozens of other features that I never use.

[abcd]

Cast calm on them.

[masternoxx1]

You have to often fast travel to get your horse back.. often

[RedRobed]

Don't use one. They are garbage. Not only are they slow, but they handle like a Tonka Truck, can barely take any amount of damage from magic. Even using mods or immortal mounts doesn't fix this.

Take a companion instead, and load them up. Just as useless and equally as aggravating, however they won't run away, and if they do, they come right back. They are not slowed either.

Just be prepared to deal with the fact they will always trigger traps, always attract enemy attention, and always stand in your way. In return you get infinite storage mules. At least unpatched.

[Docsprock]

Convenient Horses or Immersive Horses. Either one will give our equine friends a reason to be rode.

[vakarr]

Originally posted by RedRobed:

Don't use one. They are garbage. Not only are they slow, but they handle like a Tonka Truck, can barely take any amount of damage from magic. Even using mods or immortal mounts doesn't fix this.

Take a companion instead, and load them up. Just as useless and equally as aggravating, however they won't run away, and if they do, they come right back. They are not slowed either.

Just be prepared to deal with the fact they will always trigger traps, always attract enemy attention, and always stand in your way. In return you get infinite storage mules. At least unpatched.

Yeah, that's my experience, although anything stored past the normal limit of a follower gets classed as stolen, making it impossible to sell my huge pile of loot (the fence in Riften has a pathetically small purse)

[Adam]

I summon my Arvak but mostly when I am overweight and need to fast travel. The horse is very easy to get and summoned like a pokemon.

The first horse I bought was brave and I believe it died hours after purchasing it and wasn't even worth it IMO

[Smugass Braixen-Chan]

Horses are not worth it.

The amount of time you save in travel time, due to higher speed, is more than squandered by your horse getting in the way and being annoying during every single encounter with every single wolf from Whiterun to Riften, then hiding somewhere off the road when the fight ends.

If you shave 5 minutes off a 15 minute trip, but then spend a total of half an hour looking for your horse, you aren't exactly saving time.

[Eat3n]

Originally posted by Adam:

I summon my Arvak but mostly when I am overweight and need to fast travel. The horse is very easy to get and summoned like a pokemon.

The first horse I bought was brave and I believe it died hours after purchasing it and wasn't even worth it IMO

Arvak and Shadowmere are both great horses because you can't really lose them, you summon them. And, a major plus, they are basically impossible to kill. I've bought too many horses and had them die from enemies or i've gotten cocky going up and down mountains and accidentally killed them...it's the same reason i rarely take followers.

[alexander_dougherty]

If you have the CC mod "The Cause" then the Daedric Horse is a good option.

[Vlad 254]

As mny have said there's Arvark and there's Shadowmere who can carrry your burdens.

Arvak (obtained durning the questline) who can be summoned where and when you need him including if he gets killed, and there's Shadowmere (obtaind durn the Dark Brotherhood questline) who has 1,637 HP and 198 Stamina.

And for your followers if you use Nethers Follwer Framework you can assign them horses and how they react in combat.

And like Alexander said there's the Daedric horse from the Cause, you get a spell tome to summon it, and there's the Dwarven Horse which comes with the "Forgotten Seasons" creation. The Dwarven Horse can sprint forever, literally! And it's also invincible, literally. And you can't lose the Dwarven Horse as he always stays where you leave him.