Breeding Grounds Revamp + Updates!
Hello everyone and happy update day! Todayโs update comes with plenty of long awaited changes, image updates, and a few bug fixes. How exciting!!
๐ 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 โ 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 โBoard at Homeโ option when breeding your horses if you have the stall space and are a Platinum player.
๐ชNew Mass Action: Ingot Sales
Per request, you can now use your mass actions to put horses up for ingot sale!
โญ New: Send Trade
We also now have a โSend Tradeโ button on player profile pages for others to more easily send someone a trade.
๐ New: Tab Updates
Tabs also have a few added requests! Now horse names are hyperlinked and there is a new โSelect All with No Tabโ button.
๐ 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.
๐จ Construction Builds!
New Construction!
Itโs 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 wellโฆwhat they do! This should now be more clear for folks when considering to or purchasing the Employee construction additions.
โจ 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.
๐ฐ 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.
๐ 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.
๐ 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.
๐ฆ 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
Mmmm, you aren't off the mark there, Brambles. I tend to see that amount during my playtimes too and I'm in the US. On occasion? I do see 30 to 50, but that varies. Mostly 20 to 40 I'd say is what I see.
And I don't know if we can use our alts to help the voting process along too, so 60+ feels like punishment for us.
Hi so you marked my feature request as complete but didn't implement it at all?? the grooming page is identical to how it was before https://horsefable.com/feature-request/222
Edit: reading over everything else, wow that voting thing is a choice for sure. 60 votes? what about features that only affect premium players? or only basic players? or only a gene that not everyone understands?? The number of votes only sometimes correlates to the quality of a suggestion, when a suggestion will affect & is understood by a majority of players. Not everyone is going to bother voting on suggestions that might not affect their gameplay. That doesn't mean a suggestion won't be a massive improvement for those who do understand/use said mechanics.
This will also heavily exlude any disability friendly features to improve the site for poor/low vision issues, colourblindness etc. Only the few affected by bad contrast/colour combos will vote for something to change that. That doesn't mean it shouldn't be improved though.
Tldr; a voting threshhold with a tiny playerbase is a terrible voting model that will excude minorities from having a say.
Another edit:
Another question I have about this update.
What exactly is the point & benefit to restricting the times players can make, comment on and vote on feature requests? How does restricting them help anyone? how did not restricting them hurt anyone?
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ooo the news section still doesn't have a search function, will that be added eventually? ๐
adding to the conversation, i'd like to point out that a lot of the activity on the feature requests page is due to FaminesRose regularly encouraging everyone to view and vote on suggestions. so in a way the current numbers are actually inflated in a way? like we'd have even fewer votes across the board if players on the forums and discord weren't reminded to vote, much lower than 60. so i think i'm not sure how it'll work if the requests page is meant to self-maintain itself, considering that without Rose bringing attention to feature requests, there's not really anybody else on the team encouraging and reminding players to vote.
additionally, total login numbers can easily mislead. lots of players have 3 accounts, many do not socialize and purely log in to play the game, and some people log in but don't do anything at all. as an extreme example, say 300 people logged in per day, that could translate into just 100 people with 3 accounts. and of those 100, how many are actually invested in voting on developmental ideas on their own with nobody reminding them and bringing attention to it?
@WirelessMouse: i'm guessing your request might have been mistaken for the Mass Grooming one which was actually implementedโฆ? either way it's definitely a mistake.
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omgg that must have been so much work to pull off and you all did amazinggg!! TYSM!
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