Happy Saturday! After a wild week of work, we’ve managed to chip away a bit more on our lengthy list. 

 

🏆 Club Shows

After many requests to have them added, club shows have finally made their way into Horse Fable!

 

Not all clubs will be included; only official crossbreed clubs and clubs with crossbreed campaigns will have shows generated. Like breed registry shows, a horse must be registered in the club to enter the show. In the case of clubs with crossbreed campaigns, the horse must also be entered into the campaign to enter shows.

 

Club shows work just like other halter shows. Instead of going off breed standards for a purebred, they go off of the breed standard of the recognized crossbreed or crossbreed campaign breed you are entering.

 

⭐ Other Club/Halter Show Improvements

• Clubs now have a breed filter. This should make it easier to find what you’re looking for as clubs grow in number.
• Game-owned clubs are now officially marked in the list.
• Clubs with crossbreed campaigns are now officially marked in the list as crossbreed clubs.
• Official game clubs are now displayed as purple stars.
• Crossbreed Campaign horses will now have teal stars.
• Unrecognized crosses or any horse not fitting the above 2 points now have grey stars.

• The Halter Arena now shows yellow stars and the show types now have different colors.

 

📦 Tack Uses

Items equipped to horses now lose a use when either removed from a horse or the horse retires. Your Storage Room is now sorted into groups based on uses left. Once an item is used, it will disappear from your Storage Room. We are adding uses to tack items and all items in your inventory will be updated to have the max number of uses. This means that a currently equipped item with 2 uses when removed from the horse will have 1.

 

Your Storage Room should also show all items alphabetically!

 

Based on using one tack set for the lifetime of a horse tack items can last up to 19 - 27 weeks. Current use totals for tack are:

• Year-round tack has 2 uses.
• Limited edition tack has 3 uses.
• Ingot bought tack has 6 uses.
• Gem encrusting tack adds +1 use.

We want to note here that behind the scenes, we are mulling over a few options of expanding tack to be repaired and potentially some forever uses. We also have plans for the option to view tack on horses before equipping.

 

❄️ Tab Freezing

Per a long-awaited player request, you can now freeze tabs! You will see frozen tabs show up as a blue color on your stable page to signify the tab is frozen. Tabs that are frozen will have all horses in the tab freeze just as if they're on an account that is frozen. Any horses moving into and out of a tab will freeze and unfreeze appropriately. 

Other tab improvements:

• There is now a confirmation message for moving horses to tabs.
• There is now a clear “save” button for tab management.
• You can now see the total number of horses in each tab on both the tab management page and in your stable.

 

🔖 Emails & Promo Code System

In the next few days, we will be adding automated emails that go out for new joins and people who haven’t logged in for a while. Many of these emails will have a promo code for items, ingots, and bits to help give a boost once you join. We also plan to use promo codes on social media, at events, and for special occasions. 

Promo codes can be redeemed at Town Hall by clicking Town > Town Hall then on the banner “Have a code to redeem?”. If you’ve read this, use promo code icanread to receive a gift! Limited to the first 25 to use the code.

 

🙌 Player-created Shows Table

With discipline shows making a comeback and the random option for Enter All 1 now working, player-made shows are becoming more important. If you’re wondering which shows to make, you can now check the Create Shows page and view which shows have already been made per discipline and level.

 

🖼️ Custom Horse Backgrounds

If you have a platinum account, you can now set custom backgrounds on horses for their profiles. This has been missing up until now. As a note, all art used must be credited and allowed to be used on-site. Ex. Using adobe stock images requires credit to Adobe Stock on the image. Google images is not a proper credit and will be removed. If you are unsure about proper crediting we suggest reading this forum post and this post or asking a moderator.  

 

💪 Training Manual Fixes

Up until now, it hasn’t been possible to train horses in secondary disciplines with the Training Manual. This has now been fixed.

 

There was also an error that wouldn’t allow you to train horses at all if they had less than 5 trainings for the week. This has also been fixed.

 

📌 Sticky Tabs Update

After last week’s update, we realized that no one really knew what we were referring to when we said “sticky tabs.” Sticky tabs are when tabs stay the same when using the arrows on the horse page. 

 

To help this be more usable, we had added an auto collapse of the horse’s image, but the feedback was the players would rather see the horse image. It will now remember if you’ve opened or collapsed the image from page to page. 

 

👥 Game Role Icons

There are now icons for admins, moderators, welcome wagon, and artists by profile pictures in the forums and online list. We hope this helps any confusion some may have had about who is on staff or not. We will continue to add these icons around the game.

 

✨ Join Us on the Socials

We have social media accounts we believe you should follow! Now that we have a promo code system in place, we will be posting social media exclusive promo codes! Be sure to follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to be one of the first to see the exclusive promo code for rare in-game items, ingots, or bits! Heck, we might even have a social media promo code exclusive item sometimes. 👀

Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter! 

 

🦟 Bug Fixes

• My Clubs should now show all of your joined clubs.
• When using a Spectral Token and you unselect a white marking, the variation will now reset and the points will be removed.
• Horses now show as grade in horse auctions.
• You can no longer submit horses with pending club registrations into a crossbreed campaign.

 

🔮 Upcoming

We still have so much left to do and we are busy in the studio squishing bugs and adding new things!

 

• BreyerFest is in 2 weeks! During BreyerFest, we will be releasing a new breed and have numerous forum events you can participate in and more! 

• We are continuing to work on bug fixes and hope to have them all squished soon. 
• Problem areas with site speed are being looked into and will have changes done in the next few weeks.
• A new set of quests are coming soon!
• We will release the first version of the explore system with quite a few fun things to do. 

 

Have a great weekend everyone!

 

Cheers,

Bedouin & Curly