Guide to Mounts

Mounts in Fractured Online

Mounts are a necessary part of the everyday life in Fractured Online.

You travel over long distances with the Harbors as the only way to fast travel between locations, which still leaves a certain distance to travel on land toward your intended destination.

Mounts help you move around faster.

Using a Mount

Mounts act as items in the game which can be equipped. Once you have equipped one, you can press a button to bring out your mount (default key: A). How long it takes to get on a mount depends on your current attitude.

• If you are in peaceful attitude, mounting up will require only one second.
• If you are in aggressive attitude, mounting up will require four seconds.

You can get down from your mount whenever you want by pressing again the mount button, but there are the following limitations:

• You must wait 3 seconds to mount again after dismounting.
• If you are in aggressive mode and dismount close to another player in aggressive mode, all of your skills will go on cooldown.

While mounted you can't attack or use any skills. Any damage you receive will instead hit the mount and reduce its HP. If the mount HP go to zero you will be force dismounted and will have to wait 8 seconds to mount up again.

Mounts are never lost if they are equipped. They don't have a durability. This may change in the future as it isn't the intended final state according to the developers.

Obtaining a Mount

You will obtain your first mount right in the tutorial (because you didn't skip the tutorial... right?), which will explain to you how to catch one by crafting an animal net and taming it. I will assume that you have done that part of the tutorial so I won't repeat those steps here, but if you didn't you can check this quick video here on how to catch a mount. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uzeW8M6IhI It is from a very old version of the game, but it still has the right info.

After your first mount, you will want to get new ones as soon as possible, because the one provided in the tutorial is a very bad one. Since mounts are items that can be traded, you can simply buy one from other players.

Alternatively you will catch new ones exactly as you did in the tutorial, by randomly finding Mount events in the world.

Whenever you see an horseshoe icon on the minimap, it means that you will find a tamable horse there (sometimes 2). If you find none, it means that another player already got there before you and the event didn't despawn yet.

More rarely you may find different indications on the minimap instead of the horseshoe. On Aerhen you may find Wolf Paws and on Terra you may find bird footprints. The first one means that you have found a tamable wolf spawn, the second one means that you have found a tamable Peckodon. Those events a lot rarer than the horse ones.

Mount Stats

Mounts are not identical to each other, each time you catch one it will be generated with random stats. There are 3 stats for each mount:

• Health: Determines how many HPs your mount has. Once those are removed, you are forcibly dismounted.
• Speed: How fast your mount goes when you are on it.
• Status Resistance: How much Willpower and Fortitude your mount has. While mounted your own values won't matter to determine the duration of effects, only the mount ones will count.

There are also 3 different types of mounts. Horses, wolves (also called Howlers) and Jungle Runners (also called Peckodons).

Other than having different visuals, they also have widely different stats.

In particular, wolves are slower than horses but a lot more health and status resistance.

Peckodons have higher speed but lower health and status resistance.

Note that the stats indicated on the mount refer to the baseline of that specific mount! An howler with 3 in health has A LOT more health than a Peckodon with 3 in health.