Day 791:
I can confirm that there are at least two skeleton horses, because I had one to my left when I came out the eastern entrance this morning and one to my right. No picture because the weird crystal is not a panoramic weird crystal.
The one that was to my right was friendly, had a saddle, and may or may not have been the one that the skeleton was riding yesterday. Anyway, I mounted it and it very nicely took me over to the mountain. That by itself saved me like fifteen minutes so hey, horse “ownership” pays off immediately!
I let it wander while I mined. It didn’t mind all the hammering and banging and just grazed on the grass. (I guess skeleton horses eat? I haven’t seen any of the other monsters eat.)
(Or maybe they were once regular horses and habits are hard to break?)
(Yes, the grass falls right through the throat.)
At the end of the day I rode the skeleton horse back to the ranch area where I keep all my other animals. And the zombie pigs with the swords at the bottom of the pond. (Do they count as animals or monsters?) The skeleton horses got along fine with everyone else, so I left them there and headed inside for dinner and bed.
Tomorrow I’m going to put up a hitching post near the east entrance so I can get to my horse more easily.
I think this makes me a horse person!
