Piñatas: Sea mammals


Open your Piñatas and collect their gifts!

� How to play

You can open your piñatas:

By clicking on them;

Thanks to clicks from your friends (5 damage points per click from a friend);

By completing special objectives.


Buy the Premium Key to get +5 damage points per click and collect some extra gifts.

� Jackpots


Sea mammals companions
Win a new Sea mammal companion each time you open a piñata.


Premium key: Water starry aura
Buy the Premium Key to get more gifts and win a Water starry aura!
Turn your horse into a Star and win fragments of the divine horses from the Water series (Snow, Mist, Frost, Cascade, Rain, Dew).


A new divine horse: Blue Hypergiant
Get fragments for this new divine horse of the Stellar series in Tyche's Crowns, by opening piñatas, or by achieving your Daily Objectives.Perk is a Phanes egg

Is there any more information on the new divine yet?

Doors: Dragon's fortress

We are excited to announce that the Doors Event is returning with a new theme.

� How to play?

Welcome to the Dragon’s fortress! You are an Axolotl Dragon and must escape by going through multiple rooms! You must use your sword skills to defeat the monsters guarding them, open the doors and get the prizes inside.

To progress in the event, you must open doors with attacks . Each attack consumes energy .

Inside the rooms you can find:

Prizes

Sleeping Beauty divine fragments

An objective proposed by a quest-giver

Gifts to send to a friend

Gifts sent by friends

Elixirs to improve your Axolotl Dragon’s skills


You will have a choice between multiple rooms to open. Some require more attacks to be opened, and some use more energy than others as well.
You can see the amount of energy used when you hover over the room you wish to open. If you are out of energy, you will have to wait for a refill.


How does the energy refill?

● The energy refills over time (you can accelerate regeneration by reducing the time with elixirs).

● You can buy more energy points with passes (discounted on weekends).

How do you improve your Dragon’s skills?

On your way, you will find elixirs to improve your Axolotl Dragon’s skills.

There are 3 different types of improvements:

Regeneration: Energy is restored more frequently.

Attack: Each click is worth 1 more attack point.

Energy capacity: Increase the maximum amount of energy you can have.

Get to the last room to win the Jackpot!




� Jackpot – The Sisyphus Stone x3



The Sisyphus Stone doubles your horse’s mission earnings. You can earn twice as many skills and equus by completing missions. It also applies to the mission earnings of your equestrian center.

Draft horses can be equipped with a Sisyphus Stone and, since they already double the Equestrian Center mission earnings, you can quadruple the earnings!


� New divine from the Fairy Tale series: Sleeping Beauty!


You can find fragments of Sleeping Beauty throughout the Doors event, in the Tyche’s Crown and by completing daily objectives.

Find the 4 plot elements by reading a story every day. Once the plot is complete you get a prize amongst: Cronos’ Timer, 5x Aging point, Hypnos Blanket.

Carousel change


From now on, all the carousel information is centralized and accessible with one click.

You just have to click on the arrow which was previously used to showcase all the offers/events with multiple clicks.

You will find information about current horses in luck items, different packs available, the ongoing event, as well as a link to the Ascent of Olympus and the Piggy Bank.

What do you think about this change?

Best regards,
The Howrse Team

Five new trophies


We’re adding 5 new trophies in this update.


Four of them are in the “Breeding” category:

Horse breeder: To give birth to X horses.

Draught horse breeder: Produce X draught horses.

Unicorn breeder: Give birth to X unicorns.

Donkey breeder: To give birth to X donkeys.


Important note: These trophies are retroactive for a period of one year. There are two reasons for applying a partial retroactivity on these trophies:

● The first one is that a total retroactivity implies a review of all the horses in the game, and therefore, a substantial maintenance that we would like to avoid.

● The second, is the disparity between the old and the new players which makes the progression non-existent for the former (their trophies would already all be completed) and impossible for the latter (the figure required to progress in the trophy would have been too high).


The other new trophy is in the "Community" category:

Creative space: Vote for X creative space creations.


Important note: This trophy does not take into account Creation space votes from previous months. It is not retroactive.

Please let us know what do you think about these new trophies.

Best regards,
The Howrse Team

The Great Challenge

and Festivities


The Great Challenge is back, and this time it will be followed by the Lottery.



� How to play


As usual, this contest takes place in two parts:

The Great Challenge phase: Collect horseshoes by completing in-game objectives.

The Festivities (Lottery) phase: Collect and buy lottery tickets to participate in Lottery Draws.




� Part 1: The Great Challenge


Collect Horseshoes: Every day, perform various actions to collect up to 100 horseshoes. 120 if I have bought the Premium Key.

Unlock Gifts: As you gather horseshoes, you'll unlock awesome gifts at certain thresholds, like game items, fragments for the Jackpot, and more.

� Special Jackpots: Keep an eye out for the free Jackpot and other bonuses that await.

Community Goals: When you claim a gift, you also contribute to a community goal. Achieving this goal means more draws for everyone in the Lottery phase!



� Premium Key


Buy the Premium Key with passes to access:

� Marvelous Premium Gifts: Gain access to more gifts, more fragments, Jackpot premium, 1 golden lottery ticket for each draw;

Extra Horseshoes: Increase your daily horseshoe limit to 120, helping you catch up or get ahead faster.

Buy the Premium Key early for maximum benefit, but remember, it's never too late!

The gifts that have been unlocked but not claimed during the Great Challenge phase are automatically given when the Festivities starts.




� Jackpots



Zebra is the free Jackpot in the Great Challenge! You can also win Jenny (with new markings) thanks to the Premium Key!



� Tyche's Crown


Throughout the contest, you can find fragments of the new divine horse Pop Art, from the new Art History series.



� Part 2: Festivities - the Lottery

Earn tickets by buying them with Equus, winning competitions, getting help from friends, catching UFOs, and participating in the Great Challenge.

Pop Art is part of the Art History horses.

Each time you wake him up, you can find a piece of the painting.

Complete the painting and Pop Art will give you a gift:

1 x Hestia's Gift

This horse can't be sold and you can increase his skills by using your Passes.

1.
In an effort to reduce the significant gap between horses' minimum and maximum innate skills, we have made changes to the system. Innate skills are determined by Genetic Potential and parents' BLUP, to which we add a random factor. With this update, we have adjusted this random element to reduce excessive variability.

Closing this gap makes it easier to achieve high skills for horses. A larger gap made this task more difficult and required many more foals to be born to achieve good results. It is important to note that we are talking here about the case where the BLUP is 100. For example, parents with a BLUP of 100 could previously produce foals with innate skills between 7200 and 7800, a gap of 600 points. Now, these same parents will produce foals with innate skills between 7575 and 7800, a difference of only 225 points.

Concretely, this means that the innate skills of the foals will now be more balanced and less subject to large variations. The minimum will be lower than before, while retaining the maximum.

2.
For this update, we have also disabled classic UFOs for the duration of the raffle. This decision was made in order to focus players' attention on the raffle and ensure better distribution of rewards specific to this event.

3. (devs' corner)
- Fixed a bug that incorrectly displayed the VIP badge on donkeys when a Phanes egg was present.
- Fixed Ascension of Olympus sorting being messy when cards were not clickable

Wow, another new divine series! That's the fifth one this year (if you count the Spice series that started with the Christmas packs).

Does anyone know what the next Greek God divine will be for the next ascent? Or when they might release it?

Hercules

Artemis

Cyberhorse, that’s so cool!! I hope it is! Can’t wait to see.

Hike in Paris


It's time for a new edition of the Hike event, this time we're going to Paris!


� How to play?


Spend tokens to activate your cards to move forward across the board. Cross the checkpoints to claim the rewards.

There are 4 different types of cards:

Switch - Change the line.

Move - Move forward by 1, 2, or 3 km.

Counter-obstacle - Find the right card to counter the obstacles you face on the way.

Joker - Counter any obstacle blocking your way.


On your way, you can collect useful items during your hike:

Tokens

Gifts from the game

Gifts to send to a friend

Gifts from a friend

To receive them, you have to pass through the square they are on.

� Obstacles and how to counter them


� How to get tokens


There are several ways to get tokens:

By connecting every day on the game (with a bonus if you connect 5 days in-a-row);

By completing daily actions in the event;

By finding them on the board;

By buying them with passes (95 passes).

� Jackpot


Get to the last checkpoint to win a donkey of a brand-new breed: Poitou Donkey!

� A new divine horse

Perk is the Fire Element.
Get fragments from the new divine horse of the Fire series: Flame in Tyche's Crowns, by playing the Hike event, or by achieving your Daily Objectives.

Donkeys are being renamed

Following the introduction of the new donkey breed (Poitou Donkey), the "donkey" species is being renamed as "Regular Donkey".


More customization possibilities

More customization possibilities for the donkeys and draft horses.

Donkeys are now able to receive any customization items, except for the Tail Braids and the Button plaiting.

In addition to that, it is now possible to give a Vintage Apple to draft horses.

Thank you in advance for your help!

Best regards,
The Howrse Team

HellOw,

In order to harmonize the behavior of Ràn and Hipparion with that of Kaktos, we've revised their gift-giving behavior.

Previously, players could get the new breed thanks to these divine horses directly after the game update.

However, to align with the system used for Kaktos, we are changing the way we give the gifts for Ràn and Hipparion: players will now need to wait until at least one player gets the new breed before you can get it using your divine horses.

This change is to prevent the spread of a new breed before it's officially introduced with an event or commercial operation.



Best regards,
The Howrse Team

Ride: Sports


The Summer games are just around the corner… fancy a Ride?

We made some UI changes for this edition. The most important one is that the board will turn grey when you need to choose between two squares, except for the two available squares.

� How to play?

Move inside the board by using the spinning wheel. The pawn will automatically move from 1 to 3 squares at once.

Sometimes, you will have the choice between two squares. In that case, the pawn moves only after you have clicked on the square where you want to go among the possible ones.


Special squares

During your ride, you can stop on special squares:

Bonus: Makes you move some steps forward.

Malus: Makes you move some steps backwards.

Obstacle: You must answer correctly to a horse-riding question to move +1 square forward.

Gift box: Grants a reward of your choice among 3 possible gifts.

Divine fragments: Grants some fragments to get Snow White


How to get roulette spins?

By connecting every day on the game, with a bonus for 5 days in-a-row.

By doing rides with your horses.

By winning competitions with your horses.

By buying them with Passes.


Joker

You can pay to get a Joker instead of spinning the wheel. That way, you can move to the space of your choice within a radius of 3 spaces in front of the pawn.

� Jackpot


Complete all the boards to win 4 Dressage & Show Jumping Heracles’ Horseshoe. Turn your horse into a champion of Dressage (+17 Dressage, +5 Gallop, +8 Trot) or Show Jumping (+8 Speed, +8 Dressage, +14 Jumping)


� New divine horse – Yellow Dwarf

Collect enough stardust to fill the gauge and get:

1 x Champion Seed

Throughout the event, you can find fragments of the stellar horse Yellow Dwarf in Tyche's Crowns. You can also collect more fragments on the board game, and by achieving daily objectives.

Changes on the Champion seed

and Gaïa’s Foal


Multiple changes will be applied to the Champion Seed & the Gaia’s Foal:

� Players can now choose between any breed available in-game. Selection remains between 10 random breeds (swaps each week).

� Common selection pool between the two items.

� Foals born with these 2 items will benefit from significantly more skill points (calculated on the best horses of each server).

� New store page and UI for better comparison between breeds.


Change on the default Black Market payment

choice

We also changed the default payment for Black Market items.

From now on, the inventory will be the default choice if the player has the object in stock and wants to apply it to their horse.

Let us know what you think about these changes.

Best regards,
The Howrse Team

Dressage & Show

Jumping Heracles

Horseshoe


Turn your horse into a champion of Dressage or Show Jumping, by providing a competition bonus that matches your horse's profile.


The Heracles' Horseshoe Dressage provides the following bonuses:
Dressage: +17
Gallop: +5
Trot: +8


The Heracles' Horseshoe Show jumping provides the following bonuses:
Speed: +8
Dressage: +8
Jumping: +14

You can get 4 of them as a final prize for the current event, but your horse can wear only one variation of the Hercules' Horseshoe at a time.

Please let us know what do you think about these new items.

Best regards,
The Howrse Team

I just obtained vanilla. Is that a new spice divine? I don’t remember seeing a release for it

Any news on what the next hero/ god divine might be?

Any idea when Tormentas Tack items will be back?