We hope everyone is having a peaceful Memorial Day. Today, we have a mix of game tweaks, new features, and bug fixes. Buckle up as we explain it all.

🏠 Boarding Change

You now must board with boarding centers that have the appropriate training facilities in the attached training center. While this has always been stated as part of Horse Fable’s boarding system, it was actually missing until we had a bit more boarding center activity. Now when boarding, you will see less boarding available once you select disciplines. Each discipline change will update the boarding list.

When mass boarding through the horse directory, there wasn’t a check to see if horses have the appropriate discipline and/or career. This has been updated and they must have a discipline or career set to be boarded. 

On the boarding page itself, you can get a quick idea of which disciplines the boarding center supports through a new list. 

🥰 Friends

You now send and accept friend requests! You can send a request through a player’s profile page. Friends can be found under Account -> Friends. Friends will play a larger role in the game soon.

🙅🏻‍♀️ Blocking

You can now block other players by going to their profile page. This can also be found under Account -> Friends. Blocking another player means you will no longer receive their messages and they can not add you as a friend. If you try to message another player that has blocked you, you will receive an error message. 

We have a few other ideas for friends and blocking and are looking for community feedback. This poll has those options listed for you to vote on.

🛑 Inactive Campaigns

We are in the planning stages of what to do for inactive campaigns. Currently planned is for campaigns to be set as “inactive” 60 days after the last horse was submitted to the campaign. If no horses have been submitted for the first generation, then the campaign goes inactive after 90 days.

However, we know others in the community may have other thoughts on the inactivity of campaigns. If you have thoughts or suggestions beyond what we have planned please let us know! 

🎨 Previewer Update

The previewer has received an update on all new item types! You can now preview harnesses, halters, polos, blankets, decor items, and more. 

This fixes bug #739.

⚒️ Small Tweaks

• In the user banner, there is now a distinction if you are completing the intro, continuing a fable, or have fables waiting on you.
• The text for fables and capturing horses now pulses slightly to catch your attention.
• Fixed an issue where horses were staying in a tab even after you removed them from your boarding.
• Disciplines are now alphabetically ordered in some places in the game.

🦟 Bug Squashes

• Bug #1024 and bug #1027 and bug #1047 - If you bred to a horse up for private stud/brood from its page, it was sending a breeding request instead of breeding normally. This was then throwing an error “You own both horses!” which shouldn’t be an issue normally. Now, it will no longer send as a breeding request if you own the horse up for private stud/brood.
• Bug #1036 - If you tried to use a coin from your inventory, the Design Lab was infinitely loading. This should now be fixed and you can use coins from your inventory again.
• Bug #896 - It is now no longer possible to receive 2 coins from the first quest. We are still watching the flow around giving the coin so if you encounter any errors, please report it.
• Bug #591 - You can no longer do a deposit or withdrawal in the bank without putting in an amount.
• Bug #364 and bug #869 and bug #899 and bug #944 and bug #992 - Work has been completed on progressing through quests so it happens a lot more seamlessly at the beginning and when completing. 
• Bug #998 - The Enter All no longer only looks at the first 10 shows. Now if you set criteria, it should look at the full set of available shows and enter into the appropriate ones.

This puts us at under 100 bugs in the game!!

Note: As we’re going through bugs, we may mark a bug as “Fixed” or “Not a Bug” if we can no longer replicate it. If this happens to you but you’re still experiencing the bug, please make a new report with some current examples.

Cheers,

Bedouin & Curly