Conan Exiles Horse Locations & Mounts Guide: Foals, Rhinos & Bear Pets

Conan Exiles has exactly two rideable mount families — horses and rhinos — and getting either is a hunt: you find a wild foal or calf, raise it in a Stable or Animal Pen, craft a saddle, and only then do you ride. There is no "mount shop" and, disappointingly for everyone who asks, no rideable bear — bears are pets, not mounts. This guide covers where horse foals and rhino calves actually spawn, the taming pipeline step by step, the Siptah DLC requirement that catches rhino riders off guard, and what the community does about the missing bear mount.

Here's what you'll learn:

• Where horse foals spawn and the reliable hunting grounds
• The Stable pipeline: catch foal → raise → saddle → ride
• Rhino calves, the Animal Pen, and the Siptah saddle requirement
• Why there's no bear mount (and what the mod scene does about it)
• Mounted combat basics and the saddle/armour craftables
• Which mount is right for which job

Horse Locations: Where the Foals Are

Horses in Conan Exiles start as foals — young horses that roam in wild herds. You don't capture adults; you find a foal and raise it. The community-confirmed hunting grounds on the Exiled Lands:

• Open grasslands and savannah — the big flat zones are where herds gather. New players most commonly find foals around the Sentinels statues area (the plains south of the highlands) and the grassland stretches between the desert and the highlands.
• The northern savannah — the zone between the river and the tundra holds several herds.
• On the Isle of Siptah — foals spawn in the island's central plains; Siptah guides point at the same pattern: find the herd, look for the foal.

The honest caveat: herd positions shift with patches, and a current interactive map with the animal filter is more reliable than any fixed coordinate list — Funcom shuffles spawns regularly. What doesn't change is the method: foals are small, fast, and easy to miss in tall grass, so look for the adult herd first.

Per the official wiki's Mount page, mounts were a long-awaited feature: "Mounts were originally supposed to be available in one of the first patches after Early Access" and finally arrived with Update 38, which introduced both riding and mounted combat to the game.

How to Tame a Horse: The Stable Pipeline

Horses are raised in a Stable (a building you unlock from the knowledge tree), not an Animal Pen. The pipeline:

1. Find a foal and approach carefully — foals bolt. Corral it or just catch it with the interact key.
2. Place it in a Stable and feed it — foals mature over time on a diet of fodder/animal feed.
3. Craft a saddle at the Saddler's Worktable (leather-heavy recipes — the building materials guide covers the leather chain).
4. Ride. Once mature and saddled, mount up — riding uses your stamina for sprint, and horses take fall damage like you do.

Mounted combat arrived in Update 38 (the official blog "Mounts and Mounted Combat!" documents it): you can fight from the saddle with melee and bows, and horses get combat behaviours. For the PvP crowd, a well-bred horse with good stamina is a genuine advantage — the breeding system (breeding better foals from strong adults) is a whole side-economy on long-lived servers.

Rhino Mounts: Calves, Animal Pens and the Siptah Catch

Rhinos are the second mount family — and the wiki's Mount page carries the requirement that surprises everyone:

Per the official Mount wiki page: "Rhinos can be mounts only if the player has the Isle of Siptah DLC" — the rhino saddle is the DLC-gated piece, not the animal.

The pipeline differs from horses:

• Rhino calves are captured from the wild — the classic spot the community cites is the Pride Rock area (grid 7G) for calves on the Exiled Lands, plus Siptah's own savannah.
• Calves go into an Animal Pen (not a Stable) — the same pen used for pets like wolves and bears.
• The saddle is the Siptah-DLC item; without the DLC you can raise a perfectly happy pet rhino that you cannot ride.

Rhinos are slower than horses but tankier — the "heavy mount" choice for players who want a living battering ram with high carry. The full Siptah value discussion is in our DLC guide.

Why There's No Bear Mount (and What People Do About It)

"Conan exiles bear mount" is a perennial search, and the answer is consistent: Conan Exiles has no rideable bear. Bears exist as pets — you tame a bear cub in the Animal Pen and it fights and carries for you, but it's a follower, not a mount. The community has asked Funcom for rideable bears since the mounts update (the "Future Mounts" threads on r/ConanExiles keep the hope alive), and the mod scene stepped in:

• ASOUM Pets and Mounts is the best-known mod adding rideable bears (and zebras, bison and more) — a staple on modded servers.
• On vanilla, the practical substitute is the rhino: same heavy-mount niche, actually rideable.

If you're playing modded, the best mods guide lists where to find these; if you're on vanilla, adjust expectations — bear is a pet, horse is the all-rounder, rhino is the tank.

Which Mount for Which Job

The practical advice: get a horse first (it changes the whole early game — travel time is the game's real difficulty), add a rhino when you're hauling heavy loads, and treat "fastest mount" searches with suspicion — speed numbers come from community testing rather than official stat sheets, and patch changes reset the leaderboard every few updates.

FAQ

Where can I find horses in Conan Exiles? Look for wild herds on the open grasslands and savannah — classic spots are the plains around the Sentinels and the grassland between the desert and highlands; Siptah's central plains also have herds. Foals roam with the herd, so find the adults first. Herd positions shift per patch, so check a current interactive map for pins.

How do you tame a horse in Conan Exiles? Catch a foal, place it in a Stable, feed it until it matures, craft a saddle at the Saddler's Worktable, then ride. Build the Stable near the herd so you don't drag foals across the map.

Can you ride bears in Conan Exiles? No — bears are pets, not mounts, in vanilla Conan Exiles. You tame bear cubs in the Animal Pen as fighting followers, but rideable bears only exist via mods like ASOUM Pets and Mounts on private servers.

Do you need the Isle of Siptah DLC for rhino mounts? Yes — per the official wiki, "Rhinos can be mounts only if the player has the Isle of Siptah DLC": the rhino saddle is the DLC-gated item. You can capture and raise a rhino calf without it, you just can't ride it.

What is the fastest mount in Conan Exiles? The horse family is the fast travel option — swift-bred horses beat rhinos by a wide margin. Speed stats aren't officially published and shift with patches; the community consensus is horse for speed, rhino for tanking.

Related Guides

• Conan Exiles DLC Guide
• Conan Exiles Thralls Guide
• Conan Exiles Building Materials Guide
• Conan Exiles Gameplay Guide
• Conan Exiles Interactive Map Guide
• Conan Exiles Best Mods Guide

Official resources: Steam store page · Official wiki — Mount · Official blog — Update 38: Mounts and Mounted Combat

Last Updated: August 13, 2026