Breeding Grounds Revamp + Updates!
Hello everyone and happy update day! Today’s update comes with plenty of long awaited changes, image updates, and a few bug fixes. How exciting!!
🐎 Breeding Grounds Update!
Breeding Ground View Update + Outgoing Requests
We are back again with QoL updates and changes per player requests! We have overhauled the Breeding Grounds page to make this page more useful and a bit nicer looking. Along with those changes you can now see incoming breeding requests with additional info, including horse image, PS, level, breeding price and more! You can also view your outgoing breeding requests! These are below your incoming requests. Additionally, you can view past requests, if you or other players accepted/reject them, and the cost.
Stud/Brood Request Requirements + Rejections
Along with updating the Breeding Grounds page we have also added in several requests that improve QoL when breeding to studs/broods. Now, you can:
- Restrict public breeding requests based on breed, minimum PS and/or level.
- Restrict private breeding requests based on breed , minimum PS and/or level.
- Add a message for rejected breedings.
- Added an ⛔ icon in the stud/brood market and applicable pages that indicates a horse has breeding restrictions.
Auto Accept
We also have added a tab for you to select players who you will auto accept private breedings from. Breedings from these players are accepted automatically, as long as their horse meets your breeding restrictions and both horses can breed at the time. If they do not meet these requirements, they wait for you on the Requests tab.
Board at Home
Lastly as a new QoL change, we have added a “Board at Home” option when breeding your horses if you have the stall space and are a Platinum player.
🪙New Mass Action: Ingot Sales
Per request, you can now use your mass actions to put horses up for ingot sale!
⭐ New: Send Trade
We also now have a ‘Send Trade” button on player profile pages for others to more easily send someone a trade.
📁 New: Tab Updates
Tabs also have a few added requests! Now horse names are hyperlinked and there is a new “Select All with No Tab” button.
🔍 New: Forum Search!
Another request we have had for quite awhile is to have the option to search forums. If you are viewing a specific forum section you can search that forum for key words. This searches both titles, initial post content, and comments.
🔨 Construction Builds!
New Construction!
It’s been awhile since we added some new construction builds. Today we are adding the Large Reservoir which holds 5,000 water and Large Silo which holds 5,000 feed! These can be bought at Construction. These water and feed upgrades hold water or feed which can auto feed or water your horses after each day's rollover. Using this feature is beneficial to folks who have studs and broods up and need to keep them cared for so others can more easily breed to them. As a note, you must buy water and feed to fill these upgrades.
New Construction Images
As some of you may have noticed, we also are refreshing our stall, feed, and water images to reflect our updated art style. This includes the new unique art for the lean-to and extra large stall block upgrades as well.
Description Updates
We have updated the descriptions for the Employees to include information about well…what they do! This should now be more clear for folks when considering to or purchasing the Employee construction additions.
✨ New Player Changes
We are working through feedback from our new player poll and have a few changes to add today. Some feedback we got most often was trouble earning money. Today we have made the following changes for new accounts (0 to 31 days old):
- New accounts now have a 3x bonus boost which pays out 3x the bit winnings for discipline, halter, and careers into the bank. This bonus will show on the player page.
- New accounts earn a bonus 5,000 bits each Sunday if they logged in the week prior. This bonus will show on the player page.
- New players now start with 100k vs. 75k starting bits.
- Also, new player account NewPlayer#### generated display names have been shortened to include 5 numbers at the end.
💰 Bank Update
We have added back in info about the bank offering interest on Sundays! With this change, we have also updated the interest earned. This interest is only earned via total money in the bank and is only given if you log in the week prior. Interest is also higher for upgraded accounts. Interest totals are:
- <$250,000 - basic = 1.75%, upgraded = 2.0%
- $250k - $499,999 - basic = 1.5%, upgraded = 1.75%
- $500k - $999,999 - basic = 1.25%, upgraded = 1.5%
- $1m - $2,499,999 - basic = 1%, upgraded = 1.25%
- $2.5m+ - basic = 0.75%, upgraded = 1%
Total weekly earned interest is paid only on the first $2,500,000 bits.
📝 Feature Request Page Changes
To aid in better planning and lessen the mass number of feature requests, we have changed how this feature works. Now feature requests will only be open for submission and voting during select times. The new flow of the feature request system will be:
- Admin opens feature requests during a set date time.
- Players may submit feature request ideas and vote on currently submitted feature requests.
- Submissions and voting will close at the set date. Feature requests with 60+ votes will automatically be sent to admin for approval or rejection. For our current open request time, this threshold is 45 votes. Admins will also review all submissions for additional ideas regardless of their votes.
- Admin will review all other requests and accept or reject based on: Not Enough Support, Rejected by Admin, or Not Currently Feasible. For rejected by admin requests a reason will be given and is displayed on the request page.
- Accepted requests will be worked on prior to opening the next feature request dates.
Our feature request date is open until November 1, 2026 at midnight EST/game time. After that date submissions and voting will close and review begins. Feature Requests we have added, in whole, part, or added with adjustments, are currently being marked as complete.
🏠 Reminder: Campaign Deletions
As a reminder, we will be doing a round of campaign deletions on October 10, 2026. Campaigns that have <25% completion and are older than 1/1/2025 will be removed.
🦟 Bug Fixes
- Fixed issue with sniping on auctions. Now it will be more difficult.
- Fixed inability to save game avatars.
Have a great weekend everyone!
Cheers,
The HoFa Team
How exciting
Bigger silos let's GO
I was MsRunner #467 on V1 ^^ hello!
Being able to set limits on public breeding is a great idea! Although I will probably stick with private so I can make sure both horses are groomed.
Is really impressive how quickly you are rolling out these updates. You’re spoiling us!
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Really happy to see the new player assists being added in! Managing funds on a new account has always been my biggest peeve lol. Seems like a great way to fix that hurdle ^^
I am loving all the breeding updates, new player assistance, etc. Its such a nice update to be waking up to.
🔥 I am so happy to see the bank updates, I know a lot of players didnt know about the weekly interest so hopefully here on out we see a lot less confusion about that existing and players can better utilize the ability/resource. OH AND EDITING TO ADD, SEARCH FORUM FUNCTION WAHOO
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FaminesRose of Willow Ridge Stables
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🥰 Please keep going! The community (I'm sure I'm far from the only one) appreciates all your and the team's hard work.
Yay super cool thanks
Loving all the new updates, thank you so much
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Danzita
Breeder of quality Andalusians, Marwari and Andwari horses.
Not sure if I like the 60+ votes needed for a feature request, since it's at 45+ right now.
With this change, can we have the Player Ideas page, actually be shut down or locked? I swore when it was rolling over to the new year, that forum page/area was supposed to be locked as the change was supposed to go to Feature Requests, but new players do not seem to know about the location for Feature Requests and I've had to direct them there to it.
Grateful to see my cousin's Breeding Restrictions are added in. It seems to be a nice QoL update and I am gonna go in and tinker with some of my horses already set up for private and make it easier.
Glad to see the addition for breeding requests sent out. It's gotten to be a nuisance and tiresome to have players, send in a request and instead of waiting for me to accept it, they are impatient and go breed to someone else as this happened to me recently and I didn't get to it within barely 15 minutes of it being sent and the Owner of the request, got impatient and instead of alerting me Hey, I no longer want to breed with your horse, or whatever have you, I have to go manually check if it's been bred and have to reject it myself because it was bred. Hopefully this can help negate this issue.
60+ does seem like a LOT. Normally I see 20-30 players online at any given time. I'm in England so maybe it's a location thing. But I'd imagine only a certain % of active players regularly check the feature requests. I'm online everyday, but I've only looked at feature requests once. I'm mostly just staring at pixel ponies and charting my horses and looking for rare colours. 45 seems more reasonable
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