Hello everyone and happy update day! We are pushing our update on a Thursday rather than closer to the weekend to ensure our new images are finished and ready for the weekend. We have been able to optimize load times and image load times across the site, fix a few bugs, and add quite a few exciting new things! Oh, we also welcome new American Paint Horse art!

🐎 Breed Redo: American Paint Horse!

Today we release the v2 art for our American Paint Horse! Did you see our sneak peek on HoFa Socials? American Paint Horses now all have new art. These may take some time to load due to our new image system so be sure to clear your cache and refresh pages. 🙂

📸 New Image System

We have moved horses into a new image system which has greatly improved site speed. This new image system pulls most horse images as a single layer rather than multiple layers. Each horse will have its image kept as a single layer which will be displayed on their page, in gene trees, and various other places across the site. Expect 24 to 48 hours for all images to fully flatten.

Variation Gene Testing

This change removed the ability to see layers thus, removed knowing variations. We have added gene variation testing to the vet gene test. This test reveals the variations of genes in the horses gene tab.

Layered Images

Several places around the site will keep images layered. These include the Design Lab, wild horses, and previewer.

🐴 NEW: Multiple Markings!

With our new image system we are able to do something previously thought impossible, multiple markings! Now, horses can have several markings per face, body, or leg location. Your dream star snip face markings are now a reality! With this multi marking option we have made several changes to design lab, foundation, and breeding:

Breed Coins: 1 marking per face/body/leg location

Magic Token: 2 markings per face/body/leg location

Spectral Token: : 3 markings per face/body/leg location

Chincoteague Coin: : 3 markings per face/body/leg location

Foundation Store: Max 2 markings on face only.

Wild Horses: 3 markings per face/body/leg location

Breeding: All markings are able to pass at the usual rate. Note: We have fixed a bug where leg markings were not passing at a high enough rate as they should. You should see leg markings pass and generate at random more often while breeding.

🎄 REMINDER: Christmas in July Sale!

We have a large amount of limited edition and single release items in the Emporium until July 31 at midnight ET/ game time. Several of these items will never return to the emporium and are being added to our “retired” list. Items that meet this criteria are below. 

Retiring items are:

• German Harnesses: Fairytale and German
• German Hats
• Under the Sea Hat
• Flower Crowns
• Flower Wreath
• Flower Harness
• Winter 2024 Tack Set - Flowy chiffon with wings set
• Winter 2023 Tack Set - Rocking horse set
• Winter 2023 Tack Set - Blue glitter set

✨ Campaign Updates!

Campaigns that are 100% complete and have responded to Curly’s message are now official crossbreeds! If your campaign was not included please let Curly know. Congrats to our newest crossbreed additions:

• Staverden
• Ashgabat
• Brindabella Mountain Pony
• Sugarbush
• Hildr
• Georgian Grande
• Celtic Cob
• Harlequin Warmblood

Many of these breeds have pending art bases that will be joining us soon!

📱 HoFa Socials!

Do you follow us on Facebook or Instagram? You should! HoFa posts many secret sneak peeks on our socials. Our lovely American Paints made an appearance a few days ago!

👤 Staff Changes

Our Community Manager, Cali, has stepped out of the role. A big thank you to Cali for the amazing work the last several months! We wish her the best of luck in her new endeavors! 

🦟 Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with family trees not loading
• Fixed broken retired horses
• Attempted fix with breeding clinic forever loading
• Design lab missing manes and tails for foals fixed
• Fixed failed breeding when foal has super long name
• Fixed grey manes and tails

Have a wonderful week everyone!

Cheers,

The HoFa Team