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SUPER ULTIMATE HORSE MOD
Tired of having to wait for that specific moment in the story to get the horse you want? You want that one horse right now, but don't really want to spawn it with Rampage or other mods because it breaks MUH IMMERSION? You want to see that one horse you want in the wild and tame it yourself, but then you ask yourself what the heck is a high-born Arabian hanging out with a bunch of lowlife Tennessee Walkers? Say no more...
THE TIME HAS COME
Changes:
Every horse can be tamed/stolen in natural manners without having to wait for the next mission/chapter. Horse spawns are also 100% consistent now. In vanilla, the game would rarely mix and match some breeds, and if certain conditions are met, spawn them in the wild. This was incredibly inconsistent, making people look for ages for a specific horse because they read somewhere that someone found one in that spot but realistically, it might just not spawn for you ever in that same spot. Well, no more of that. Every stable horse is available for purchase from the start. Don't feel like stealing a Black Arabian, want to be an exemplary feller and purchase one instead, but don't want to wait until Chapter 4? Now you can! (At their respective stables though, of course). No more missable horses, or epilogue exclusives. Already went through Arcadia for Amateurs III and those random events where the lady needed a ride so you missed your chance of having that Silver Dapple Pinto Missouri Fox Trotter as Arthur? Say less. You can find it at any moment now. Though of course, it is a rare breed. NPCs can be seen riding a wider variety of horses now. I can understand the average country feller can't really afford anything else than a Morgan but realistically some of them must be doing better, right? Speaking of doing better, men of the law live off of our damn taxes, so now that's gonna be seen reflected on the damn good horses they ride. Originally, US Marshals would be dispatched at Wanted Level 5 in big towns like St. Denis and Blackwater. Now they will do so at Wanted Level 4 while Pinkertons will come to kill you at Level 5. Bounty thresholds have been modified as well, so they're more consistent with this change: Wanted Level 1: $1 (no change) Wanted Level 2: $100 (from $50) Wanted Level 3: $250 (from $150) Wanted Level 4: $500 (from $250) Wanted Level 5: $1000 (no change) On the same vein, Pinkertons originally have an accuracy of 100%, which of course would be too much if you intend to kindly ask for one of their horses. This accuracy has been toned down to 77.5%, so they would still be better gunmen than Marshals (75%) but a bit worse than Sharpshooters (80% acc). Bounties for horse related crimes have also been modified. Horse theft now tilts more heads from nearby witnesses, while also making nearby lawmen to promptly act accordingly. Same with horse jacking (aka kindly asking a feller to lend you their horse for world saving purposes), its bounty has been upped from $10 to $12 (to remain consistent, bounty for murder is set to $15 lol) and will call the attention of more nearby lawmen as well.
2 of some unused horses in Story Mode have been replaced to provide you with 2 of the (in my opinion) best looking horses in the game: Chestnut Turkoman Black Overo Mustang
You will now come across new hitching posts throughout the land with special properties and strategically placed. Found a new horse cigarette card? You will be able to see a horse of that breed hitched nearby! These special hitching posts will always have a horse of that breed hitched, so if you see one of them before the card, that will tell you a horse cig card is close by! It's not the coat you were looking for? Don't worry! Leave the area and come again!
Unique vanilla horses (White Arabian, Tiger Striped Bay Mustang, Red Chestnut Arabian, Warped Brindle Arabian and Perlino Andalusian) always spawn and now they do so in groups, giving the player a chance to obtain one of these horses male or female. In the vanilla game, the White Arabian was always a female, for example.
Unused horses have been brought back and they're working just as any other horse! You can tame them, bond with them and stable them! Now, be it in the wild, in towns or throughout the entire land, you will see 4 new horse coats: Black Snowflake Appaloosa Golden Dun Mustang Sable Champagne Missouri Fox Trotter Liver Chestnut Hungarian Half-bred
Some ramps have been added to Fort Wallace to provide an escape if the player dares to try a hit on the place. In case you didn't know, a Turkoman horse card can be found inside. So what would that mean now?
Exclusives like the Reverse Dapple Black Thoroughbred and Iron Gray Roan Ardennes (commonly known as War Horse) are no longer exclusive and can be found just like any other horse in the game.
Towns will be a bit more lively, with more people leaving their horses parked. Originally, NPCs would never use some hitching posts, leaving them solely for the player. This is changed so every single hitching post in towns are free to use for everyone and anyone, providing a little more realism.
Speaking about realism, women did in fact ride horses far less often than men back then, but you can't really see that in the game. The women that ride horses are only unique ones, set by the story or by scripted random events. I didn't like that. So now you will be able to see women riding in towns as well! More rarely than men though, of course, and the common town girl won't go out and ride in the wilderness. Wouldn't be safe for them, would it?
All the compendium entries for horses have been modified to reflect all these changes, while also providing tips on where to find the rarest breeds.
GOOGLE SHEET CHART
I've also made a SUPER ULTIMATE HORSE CHART, that also includes vanilla horses locations, to help players locate any horse they want, including the new ones this mod adds.

Known Issues:
Black Overo Mustang's type appears blank. This is in the scripts and can't be fixed. Chestnut Turkoman's name, coat and type are wrong (they will appear as an Arabian) when you stable the horse (its info card is fine though). Due to how I edited these horses in, this can't be modified as these strings are set for every single Arabian so if I change them, they will change for all the other Arabians as well.
INSTALLATION:
Download Script Hook for RDR2 and follow the instructions Download Lenny's Mod Loader. Follow LML's instructions on how to install it. Download this mod and place the "SUHM" folder inside the "lml" folder. The path for Steam users should be:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Red Dead Redemption 2\lml"
NOTES:
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delete version.dll.
You don't need it. If any mod says they need it for Online assets, just get Online Content Unlocker instead.
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You don't need Online Content Unlocker for SUHM, but if you use it for other mods, give SUHM priority over OCU, so it replaces their files, as in the image below (mods further down the list have higher priority as their files get loaded last):

(remember to click on the save button to the left after any changes you've made on that screen so they take effect).
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The mod is now fully compatible with Red Dead Offline and WhyEm's DLC, installed individually or together.
The order in which you install RD Offline, WhyEm's or SUHM doesn't matter, as long as the load order in the Mod Manager is correct. Make sure SUHM is last in the list (so it gets loaded last) and click on the "overwrite" check. Also don't forget to replace the files with the one of your choice in the SUHM Compatibility Patches zip.
STEP BY STEP:
1. Install SUHM (assuming Script Hook and LML are already installed as per SUHM's installation instructions).
2. Install RD Offline, WhyEm's, or both. If you install both, follow the instructions in WhyEm's mod page. If you already had them installed before SUHM, ignore this step.
3. Install the SUHM Compatibility Patch according to your case (I used RD Offline + WhyEm's for this example).
4. Open the Mod Manager and arrange the mods as per the image below and save.
(remember to click on the save button to the left after any changes you've made on that screen so they take effect).
PD: WhyEm's DLC: Red Dead Offline Edition is the one from WhyEm's download section. That's the one that's compatible with Read Dead Offline and the one I used for the patch.
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It is compatible with both Crime and Law Rebalance and Enhancement and LAW. Just give those mods higher priority (so they load after SUHM) than this mod (though you might need to merge the file dispatch.meta if you want to keep my mod's feature of lawmen riding better horses).
This mod is incompatible with mods like Zen, Serenity, Roleplayer's Dream, etc or any other mod that modifies code.meta. Unless you know how to merge them (should really be the only main file that should conflict, also a fairly easy file to merge) and you know what you're doing, please don't try to play the game with this mod and one or all of those mods installed at the same time, as it is very likely to cause issues.
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Thank you for enjoying my mod.
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Description
The mod adds 134 new bandit hideouts, 46 ambush points, a bandit posse on horseback that will chase and hunt you,
random roaming bandits on foot, horse, or wagon. Hire up to 9 gunmen at saloons, and fight against zombies.
Players can customize all features through various settings with the included Bandit_Hideouts.ini file.
Bandit Hideouts is a standalone mod it is a highly upgraded version of all the AMJM Transport mod bandit features,
created by crossed99 and Gunter Severloh
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Warning - Before you install!
For those installing the mod for the first time and want to also play the story/missions.
So you understand what this mod does, it adds 130+ bandit hideouts
and ambush points all over the map, thats everywhere and anywhere except towns (settlements).
That means there are some hideouts that will spawn at story, and mission
locations. There are also ambush points that will spawn bandits that may
interfere with story missions, or while riding to them.
There are also other bandit features like the bandit posse on horseback
that will spawn and attack the player anywhere, anytime.
That means they may come when your in the middle of a story mission, or traveling
with another character from the story during a mission.
If you do play the story and dont like the idea of hideouts, and bandits interfering
during the story and missions.
There is a Bandit_Hideouts.ini file included in the download, it is a configuration file that will
allow you to configure every feature in the mod, this includes being able to disable the mod while ingame,
or disabling certain features, hideouts, and ambush points that could interfere with the story.
As said everything in the mod is configurable, it can be enabled, disabled, or adjusted if it uses numbers.
Do not install the mod if you are not at least in chapter 2 of the story!
Any questions or problems review the articles, or ask on the post tab!
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Features
Bandit Hideouts
The Bandit Hideouts mod adds many new hideouts across the RDR2 map for the player to discover and clear out.
Each hideout ranges in the number of bandits, but you can define in the ini of the mod how many bandits
a hideout will have, what gang will spawn there, and how many reinforcements will come if any,
even if zombies will spawn there instead of bandits.
Hideout Locations Map
The hideout locations map is a high resolution map of the RDR2 world you can download and use it as a reference to
see where all the hideouts, & ambush locations are at in the world.
The legend on the map will tell you what region a hideout or ambush location is in, what gang is at each hideout/ambush
point. All hideouts and ambush points are marked with a colored skull icon to represent a hideout, and an X to represent an ambush location,
both a numbered and listed in the legend accordingly. Icons on the map will indicate their exact locations.
Download
Google Drive: 59.5mb https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1iLI3Yjmay0uw22f-0MUg0j0__DAEYlGK?usp=sharing
Credits: LittleBigSmoak & Moth-man
Ingame Blips & Icons
Hideout Locations Blip (icon)

A blip (icon) of a house with a skull inside it, will show up at the bottom left corner of your screen
it means a hideout has spawned in and is nearby.
If you pass by a hideout without attacking it, the map blip (icon) will disappear once your out of range of the hideout.
If you attack and clear the hideout then the blip on the map will be removed and your screen until the hideout timer is up.
You can disable this icon if you wish through the included bandit hideouts.ini
Default spawned in hideout map blip
When a hideout spawns in, by default this icon will be showing on the map at the location of the hideout,
the player has 3 other choices of map icons they can use if they want to change it which can be done through the ini
Persistent Blip (icon)
The Persistent blip icon will show on every hideout location on the map whether your near a hideout or not,
if you clear a hideout the blip icon on the map will be removed until the spawn time for that hideout has returned.
The persistent blip icons have their own icon type vs the one on screen. The icon can also be disabled in the ini, and
only the blip icon of a hideout will show on the map when the hideout spawns in.
Types of bandit hideouts
Each bandit hideout can be a house, camp, cabin, abandoned building, cave, mine, fort, ruin, and other places.
Hideouts will spawn bandits in by chance when you're nearby, this means that if set in the Bandit Hideouts.ini
you set the chance to 100 then each time you come close to an area where a hideout would be then bandits
will spawn there for sure, the lower the chance then it becomes random or less.
Cleared hideout message
A small feature by default is if you cleared a hideout a message will show on the screen saying
"You have cleared the hideout!"
you can disable this in the ini if you wish.
Earn money from clearing hideouts!
Yes you read that right, after killing all the bandits in a hideout, you will earn a random
amount of money ranging from $25 - $150
You can customize the amount you want to earn in the ini or set it to 0 to disable it.
Cleared hideout respawn
Once you clear a hideout you can set in the ini the cool down of how long before they respawn again.
If you set the respawn to 1 for example then in one hour from when you cleared the hideout bandits will spawn in again.
Hideout bandit/gang types
Each hideout will be populated with gang members for the area the hideout is in, for example:
Valentine area will have O'Driscoll members or a generic gang. Lemoyne/ Rhodes area will have Lemoyne Raiders, and a generic gang. Annesburg area will have Murfree gang members. Saint Denis area may have either Nightfolk, or a generic gang. Tall Trees area you will see the Skinner brothers gang. New Austin area you will see the Del Lobo gang. Grizzlies West (snow region) area will have a generic gang. Grizzlies East (snow region) area will have a generic gang. Guarma will have the Cuban Army and Nightfolk.
Disable individual Hideouts and Ambush points
This feature allows the player to disable any individual hideout and ambush point in the mod through the included ini
all you need to do is locate the hideout you want to disable through the downloadable map and then change the number from a 1 to a 0.
There is a list for both hideouts and ambush points in the ini.
Custom Gangs in hideouts
Each hideout listed in the ini for the Disable Individual Hideouts list can either be disabled, or changed so it spawns another gang.
The gang types to choose from are the following:
// Gang Type Reference //
Generic gang - 7 Murfree Brood - 8 Lemoyne Raiders - 9 O'Driscoll Boys - 10 Skinner Brothers - 11 Del Lobo gang - 12 Nightfolk -13 Cuban Army -14 Ku Klux Klan - 15 Wapiti Warriors - 16 United States Army - 17 Laramie gang - 18 Micah's gang - 19 Angelo Bronte's Mob - 20 Cornwall Goons - 21 Braithwaites - 22 Gray Family - 23 Foreman Brothers - 24 Bounty Hunters - 25 Pinkertons National Detective Agency - 26 Chelonians - 27 Vampires - 28 Here is an example hideout in the ini that is listed in the Disable Individual Hideouts list:
ENABLE_ABANDONED_FACTORY=1
- With the setting at 1 the hideout spawns its default gang.
- With its setting at 0 the hideout is disabled and wont spawn.
- If the number is changed to a number from either 7-28 seen in the list above, then that hideout will spawn that gang based on the number.
For example if we changed the number to say
ENABLE_ABANDONED_FACTORY=18
then the Laramies gang will spawn at that hideout instead of the default gang.
Here is an article on how this works in more detail with a video demonstration/guide
https://www.nexusmods.com/reddeadredemption2/articles/435
Custom Gangs in Regions
A feature where you can define what gangs will spawn in what regions for hideouts, a list in the ini of all the regions
or areas on the map, each region has a default number, the number represents what gang will spawn in that region.
From the reference in the ini, you can change the number for the region for whatever gang you want to
spawn at the hideouts in those regions. This feature is disabled by default.
Exact or random number of bandits in a hideout
The amount of bandits you can encounter in a hideout will be defined in the Bandit Hideouts.ini
there you can set the minimum and maximum numbers you will encounter, this is for all hideouts.
If you set the number for both min/max the same you will get that exact amount, if you set the number to
exceed the default random min and max then the extra bandits will come as reinforcements.
Bandit Reinforcements
Bandits at hideouts can call in reinforcements, they will show up on horses and or on foot.
Reinforcements is set by chance in the ini, the higher the percentage (chance) then reinforcements will show.
Reinforcements also has a setting where you can define how many bandits will come, and if you only wanted
bandits on horses, or foot, or both, you also can disable reinforcements from coming in the ini.
Bandit Spawn Amount
In the included bandit hideouts.ini there is a list called spawn amount, this list will list every hideout/ambush point
and allow you to set a specific number that you want to spawn at a or each individual hideout.
This lets you customize hideouts based on how you want to play.
Each hideout and ambush point has a default or base number of spawn points you can use this article reference
to get the base default number of each hideout: LINK
Knowing the base number of a hideout or ambush point will tell you how many bandits can be spawned there.
For example: If you chose a hideout that had 10 bandits spawn positions that means if you set the spawn amount
to say 5 then only 5 bandits would spawn. If you set the number to say 15 then the extra 5 bandits would spawn
at the reinforcement spawn points.
The would respawn at the reinforcement spawn points because there are only 10 available spawn points
at the hideout. The same applies to ambush points.
Bandits will chase the player
Bandits will chase you if you ride off or run away after attacking their hideout.
Bandit Ambushes
Ambushes are not dynamic they are built the same as hideouts and are at set locations.
Each ambush location can vary between 2-6 bandits that will attack you on foot if you enter an ambush location.
If you run away on foot or on horse the bandits at the ambush location will chase after you either on foot or get on a horse.
Ambush locations are marked on the downloadable map with an X
Enable/Disable individual Ambush Points
This feature introduced in v1.18 gives the player the option to enable or disable an individual ambush location through the included ini,
all you need to do is refer to the map linked for download and decide which ambush location you want to disable for whatever reason,
you open up the ini file, locate the ambush point in the list, and just set the setting accordingly.
Ambushes can also be customized to have a certain amount of bandits spawn using the spawn amount setting.
Bandit Posse on Horseback
As players explore the game world, they will randomly be attacked by bandits on horseback, these encounters can happen at any time.
In the Bandit Hideouts.ini you can define how often (how many ingame hrs) bandits will attack,
and a minimum and maximum number of bandits on horseback that will attack, you can disable this feature in the ini if you want to.
Random Roaming Bandits
Bandits roaming the world, they will spawn in the area you are in and will be bandit/gang members
from that area so if your in Valentine Area then you might see a small group of O'Driscolls wandering around.
These bandits may be on foot, on horseback alone, in a group, or on a wagon, or both.
You can also set in the ini if they attack you on sight or not, and set how often they will spawn.
Hired Gunmen
Players can hire up to 9 gunmen to fight alongside them, to do so just talk to the barkeep in any saloon.
These hired guns will assist the player in combat, making it easier to take on large groups of bandits or zombies.
You can hire up to 9 gunmen at a time. You can hire a random gunmen with their own gear and weapons. You can customize what they wear, and the weapons they carry. Set how much it costs to hire a gunmen. Hired Guns will not fight while in a town (can change this in the ini). Story characters are also available. You can use the 'Rest & Recover' option in the menu that will teleport your hired guns to you in case you got separated, they'll be cleaned and their hats and weapons will be recovered if they lost them.
They automatically go into "sneak and hold fire" mode while you're crouching / sneaking outside of combat. If the "Allow revive" option is enabled, instead of dying they will go down into an injured state and be revived by crouching close to their head until the 'Help' prompt fills up (10 seconds).
Using the 'Wait for signal' command will make them stay and don't do anything until you signal to them by whistling. The 'Ride with me' command will prevent them from spawning in their own horse. If there's another free horse around they'll use that, but if not they'll ride with you on your horse.
Commands menu:
You can also give commands to them through their command menu, Numpad 1-9 keys by default.
Hired Gunmen Voice Lines
When you tell your hired gunmen to stay or follow, Arthur or John will actually say out loud those commands,
and when your crouched and you tell your gunmen to stay Arthur or John will say it in a quiet voice.
This feature can also be enabled and disabled in the ini, and is enabled by default.
The command menu has some extra commands:
Aim at person while the menu is up: Attack target, lasso target. Aim at dead / hogtied person: pick up target. Aim at horse: put carried body on horse. Aim at downed hired gun: help up (it'll take them the same amount of time as for you). Press numpad 0 to make all hired guns stay / follow Zombies
As if bandits weren't enough to deal with, the mod also adds zombies to the game world.
Disabled by default, you can enable them in the Bandit Hideouts.ini
There are some options in the ini to customize them, like the following:
Spawn frequency - this is how much more or less you will see of them. Day/night detection - this is a setting where you can set if the zombies detect you. Zombie health - this is how much a zombie can take before you kill them. Min/max spawn amount - this will be the group size of how many groups of zombies. Min/max number - number of zombies that can spawn during day or night. Min/max spawn time - how often they will spawn in seconds. Zombies burst into flames upon dieing. Zombie lairs - this will change all the bandit hideouts to zombie lairs, so instead of bandits spawning, zombies will.
Customization
All of the features in the mod can be customized by editing the Bandit Hideouts.ini file.
Each setting in the ini has a description on what it does and how to enable/disable it or adjust it.
Open the ini file with notepad to edit it, also run it as administrator if you are being denied access.
Installation
Move the following files:
Bandit_Hideouts.asi Bandit_Hideouts.ini Bandit_Hideouts_CustomPeds.txt to your RDR2 directory which can be found here:
C:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Red Dead Redemption 2
Requirements
Scripthook by Alexander Blade is required to run the mod.
https://www.dev-c.com/rdr2/scripthookrdr2/
If AB Scripthook gives you issues with the mod then try using
ScriptHookRDR2 V2
https://www.nexusmods.com/reddeadredemption2/mods/1472
Credits
Crossed99 for his help and support, and patience in helping me create and update this version of his great mod!
LittleBigSmoak & Moth-man for their help in creating the Bandit Hideouts map showing all the locations
of the hideouts, and sorting them based on color and gang.
Bandit Hideouts Youtube Channel
Gunter Severloh RDR2
Check out the Bandit Hideouts Youtube Channel for gameplay, guides and how to videos on the mod.