This is a little selfish but with the overall western theme of HoFa I would LOVE to see more desert-inspired backgrounds? Like canyons, red rocks, maybe a big storm rolling in in the background?

My item request: https://horsefable.com/feature-request/205

Maybe also something to boost the chance of certain colors or markings (save for somatics of course)?

I would love a desert background for the Arabians.  Maybe even something Egyptian to go along with it.

I love backgrounds. Something with water would be pretty be it a river or the ocean or a lake with a waterfall.

I think the western discipline people would like an arena with barrels, cows or maybe just a red barn in the background.

As soon as I'm home from work, I'm going on a tack shopping spree.  I missed a couple of years worth of special release tack. Thank you for bringing them back

The Mountains of Petra would be really kinda cool for Arabians.

Personally, from the PNW where we have lots of evergreen forests, I would love to see representation of those. I'd love to see a number of animals added as companions, just a few including moose, elk, bison, pronghorn, all animals that can be found mixing with horses, domesticated and wild. I think having the montana or midwest prairie scenes as background would be absolutely stunning. I also think adding different waterfall like scenes as backgrounds would also be absolutely gorgeous. 

As for boosts, I think halters should give a halter showing boost. I think it would be cool if each tack set had more influence on the disciplines for their group. So like English tack would have better influence on English disciplines. Example: Baseline show boost is 5% with any tack, but if someone has a horse that is in Hunter under Saddle, attaching English tack would give another 2-5% boost. I know this may not be achievable, but it would give more purpose to the tack sets. And like Harnesses could give a career boost or something like that.

I would love to have an item where I could increase the chances of certain mutations. So things like Calico, Variations or even Dapples. Or an increased chance of a marking passing. So like if I'm struggling with getting leopard, or Manchado to pass, you apply an item and there's a slightly higher chance that that marking will pass to your baby ponies. 

Well…. There goes my money and ingots! I'm personally happy to see some of the items come back. I enjoyed the 2022/2024 tack. 

I need a chicken companion PLEASE

But also maybe have a community vote on a select set of animals for companions? You could even do themes like “barnyard buddies” and have like cows, chickens, goats, pigs, etc. and then have the community vote on which animal from that “set” they want to see the most. I also think a user-made background contest could be fun! Maybe they could be set around a theme like a biome, season, or geographic location. Idk just spit-balling some ideas here haha! 

As for boosts, perhaps there could be variation boosts, inborn skill boosts, an explore buff (make certain items (dye, flowers, ingredients, etc) more likely to appear.) Other boosts could reduce the chance of a breeding failing or increase the chance for a certain gender of foal. Idk just some ideas! 

I like Westernwinds idea of more companions and the player vote for which ones! I'd personally love to see some wild and big cat companions

Ooo i love the changes!!

I don’t have any ideas or requests other than: NONE of the tack will ever come back? including summer sales, holiday sales etc?

Some background ideas:

• a beach scene (a black sand beach would be fun)
• a flower field
• a redwood/forest trail
• a desert oasis
• an indoor arena
• a dressage arena
• marshland
• a paddock/ pasture
• a racetrack
• the outback