PokéRider

Ride your Pokémon with smooth, physics-based movement and immersive animations in Cobblemon 1.5.2.

PokéRider transforms Pokémon into fully interactive mounts, featuring realistic riding positions, advanced flight mechanics, surfing, diving, creature carrying, and extensive customization for every species.

✨ Features

🦅 Realistic Mounting

Players are attached directly to configurable bones on each Pokémon's 3D model, creating a natural-looking riding position that matches every species.

• Bone-based rider attachment
• Per-species seating positions
• Realistic mounting animations
• Seamless integration with Cobblemon

🌪️ Physics-Based Flight

Take to the skies with responsive and immersive flying controls.

• Smooth flight physics
• Dynamic pitching and rolling
• Barrel rolls while dodging
• Wing trails generated from the actual wing tips
• Fast, responsive aerial movement

🌊 Surf & Dive

Aquatic Pokémon are no longer limited to flying.

• Swim naturally across the water surface
• Dive underwater in full 3D
• Move freely beneath the ocean
• No drowning while mounted
• Improved underwater visibility

Perfect for exploring rivers, lakes, and oceans.

🤝 Pokémon Pickup

Never worry about falling again.

Press Shift + F while not mounted and your Pokémon will:

• Fly to your position
• Predict your movement during free fall
• Catch you in mid-air
• Automatically place you onto its back

💪 Carry Mobs

Some Pokémon can carry more than just you.

Species with the appropriate anatomy can:

• Pick up mobs
• Carry other players
• Transport creatures while flying

Press G to grab or release.

🪑 Multiple Riding Poses

Choose how you ride.

• Standard seated position
• Forward-leaning "piggyback" riding pose
• Automatic option that changes the riding pose between ground and flying

Each Pokémon can have its own customized seating style.

⚙️ In-Game Seat Editor

Fine-tune every mount without leaving the game.

Press ; while riding to open the editor.

Adjust in real time:

• Rider position
• Seat offsets
• Flight speed
• Acceleration
• Species-specific settings

See every change instantly with an orbiting preview camera. And preview different animation states (Walk, Sleep, Swim, Fly, Hover)

🔧 Highly Configurable

Everything is configurable.

Using:

config/pokerider.json

you can customize every Pokémon individually.

Including:

• Seat bone
• Pivot point
• Position offsets
• Rotation offsets
• Flight speed
• Acceleration
• Movement settings
• Special abilities

Over 35 Pokémon are already configured by default, and adding support for new species is straightforward.

🎮 Controls

🤝 Compatibility

Compatible with:

• ✅ Cobblemon 1.5.2
• ✅ Leawind's Third Person

🚀 What's Next?

PokéRider is just getting started.

Planned features include:

• 🐎 Ground Mounts with their own movement physics and animations.
• ⚔️ Mounted Combat and real-time attack systems.
• 🦘 Additional movement abilities and mount interactions.
• 🐉 Support for many more Pokémon species.
• 🎨 More animations, polish, and quality-of-life improvements.
• ⚙️ Expanded configuration options for server owners and modpack creators.

Feedback, bug reports, and suggestions are always welcome and help shape the future of the project.

💡 Inspiration

The physics and flight mechanics were heavily inspired by the incredible Saint Dragons mod.

Many thanks to its creators for inspiring this project.

More Pokémon, additional mount types, improved animations, and new mechanics are planned for future updates as PokéRider continues to evolve.