A gust of wind has blown the latest news to you. Nearby a crow stands with a tired expression.

Happy Thursday! We’ve got a few things for you.

📒 Developer Log

A request was sent to the capital by Eqcetera locals that we do better to inform them of all of our antics in “bug squishing” and “changing” the town. Because everything is moving at such a rapid pace right now and changes are being made to the game throughout the day, we’ve added a way for you to know what has changed. There is now a Developer Log which you can find to the right side of the news (for desktop). Here, you’ll find:

1. Bug Fixes - Every bug fixed in the Bug Box will be logged here. We could also add something manually fixed if it wasn’t an issue.
2. Art Fixes - Sometimes the horse art likes to have a mind of its own and has to be wrangled back into place. If any art fixes happen, they will have this tag in the Developer Log.
3. Small Changes - This is too small of a change to be dubbed a new feature but could be something different you notice.
4. New Features - This is something completely new to the game. It will most likely have a news post accompanying it but there may be smaller features that appear before they are announced.
5. Other types TBD - If there are any other tags that are needed for the Developer Log, we will add them as necessary.

Updates will still be posted to the #dev-log channel in Discord. At this time, no notifications go out when there is a log added into the game so you’ll just have to check back and see if anything new has happened.

🦟 Bug Box Improvement

The bugs continue to descend on us from the wilds but no worries there! While we’ve been battling the bugs, we’ve noticed quite a few duplicates of issues. We are working on streamlining this process to make it both easier for you as the player and us as staff to get everything reported fixed. That said, you will start to see bug box report merging. If a report is merged into another report, a new comment will be made on the report it’s being merged into with all the details. Anyone experiencing the report being merged will receive a notification of the merge and automatically be marked as experiencing the report it’s being merged into.

We’ll be working on merging current bug reports over the next day or so. We’ll also change report titles to be very specific to what is being reported if it isn’t already so. Hopefully this helps the Bug Box be more helpful for everyone involved!

🐛 Bug Fixes

WHAM! BAM! Squish! We’ve managed to knock out a few bugs since our last update. We are proud to say we squished the following bugs:

• Training centers are no longer editable by non-owners.
• Herd Management should now show stars for halter horses.
• You can now use the icon next to your player name to switch accounts. Note that this icon won’t appear until you’ve linked at least one account.
• You should now be able to use a Breed Coin directly from the use item page.
• The intro quest should no longer give multiple breed coins.
• Most players who were stuck in the first quest should now be able to move forward. If you can’t, please create a new bug report so we can investigate.
• Retired horses are no longer dirty. Whew, that took a while to clean all *checks notes* tens of thousands of them. 🤪

💬 Quest Conversations

Curly has been in deep conversation with the locals attempting to get them all to stop talking in circles and recite their lines correctly. As of now, a few edits to their conversations have been made to remove a few typos. However, Mason seems to enjoy talking in circles. We will be investing in some index cards for the poor guy and working this week to make sure he is good to go.

🔮 Coming Soon

This week has been dedicated to prioritizing important bugs over adding new features or working on quests and explore. Thank you all for having the patience to play and report the bugs you find. We’re slowly wrangling them all and hope to bring a better game experience to you with each fix. 

Quests 

We have many quests written for you! The intro quests are a good test to knock out all the bugs and we hope to have the full set of introduction quests in by the end of next week. This will be our focus after the biggest bugs have been squashed.

Other Features

In our first development update, we had some interesting features listed as coming soon. We will keep you updated as they progress behind the scenes! However, as mentioned above, first bugs then quests then on to some exciting new features. 🤗

Update Schedule

As you can see, we’re working as fast as we possibly can. This means that changes to the game are pushed throughout the day and logged in the Development Log. We do not have a set update schedule and do not plan to have one for some time. So enjoy the surprise updates as we get through the very long list of things to do! 

New Breed

Don’t forget Aren has predicted a new breed will be joining us on Saturday! You can read more about the details of new breed releases here.

Cheers,

Bedouin & Curly