Akhal-Tekes, New Breed, Items + MORE!
Hello everyone! It’s update day which means new things and most excitingly, new horse art! Today we have our new Akhal-Teke art, a new breed, new items, QoL changes, new previewer, bug fixes, and our October event announcement!
🐴 Breed Update: Akhal-Tekes!!
What a wonderfully exciting day to welcome this wonderfully unique breed! Thunderbolt and Brumby have done an excellent job in bringing the revamped Akhal-Teke breed to HoFa. This breed is thin, shiny, and known for their unique looks. Akhal-Tekes are a rare HoFa breed and are only available in the Foundation store on 17th of each month for 10,000 bits each. They also require a level of 25 or higher to breed and are limited to 5 live breedings and 3 successful breeding clinic pulls.
🐎 New Breed!
A huge congratulations to the Nordic Mountain Curl Pony campaign! They have successfully completed their campaign and the Nordic Mountain Curl Pony has joined us in HoFa!!
✨ New: Player Items!
We have five new player items today! These incorporate some requests and expand our guides for explore.
First Aid Kit: For 24 hour injuries in explore are 0.
Binoculars: For 24 hours NPC quest interactions occur 3x as often.
Dye Bottle: For 24 hours finding dyed increases 3x.
Nature Guide: For 24 hours food items are found at 3x the rate.
Clinic Guide: For 24 hours egg/straw retrievals and embryo creation fail chance is 0.
⭐ New Player Changes
We are continuing our efforts to update the new player experience! Today we have released:
- Descriptions on the construction estate expansion tabs. These explain what each expansion type does.
- Intro Quest: The given Breed Coin to design your first horse is now the only option to use in the design lab. No more option to purchase another coin with ingots or go over the color points.
- Intro Quest: We have removed the “Game gave you item” notification for the Breed Coin. This will help keep folks on track.
- Intro Quests: Now a banner displays at the top of the screen of your active quest step or need to start the next one.
🍁 QoL Updates
We have several QoL updates as well!
- Horses with their star value revealed now show that star value in auction, market, stud/brood market, and breeding grounds requests.
- When using custom coins a notification above the purchase button now says “You haven't allocated all of your performance stats.”
- The Foal Predictor has moved from the Town dropdown to the Breeding Ground page in the top right.
- Additionally, the foal predictor now lets you pull in home owned horses with 0 energy or are on cooldown.
- Optimized the HoF to reduce load time.
- Dyes now have their own section in your Storage Room drop down list.
- New Icons: The horse page now has edit, preview, and equipper icons that match the forward and back arrows.
- New Icons: Along with our new icons the top banner portion for the previewer and equipper now mimic the horse page if you go to them from a horses page.
🐎 New Horse Viewer!
Per request, a new horse viewer has been added so you can view all possible variations of genes and markings for a horse breed. Go to Design Lab>Select Breed>Freestyle Mode! Have fun looking at all those pretty pretty horses!
📝 User Log
We have expanded the user log to include more logging events for you to view:
- Bank deposits and withdrawals
- Bank transfers between accounts
- Weekly interest of bits or ingots
- Ingot transfers, ingot purchases
- General store + emporium + grooming station purchases
- Horse purchases (sale, auction, foundation store, trades)
- Items used
- Horse sales (sale, auction, trades)
- Estate purchases (transport slots, boarding center stalls, freezer storage)
- Promo code redemption
- Referral prize redemption
- Admin sends you money
- Campaign coin donations
- Grooming tool uses
- Player boosts / boost items
- Capture tool uses
- Mass equipping items
- Equippable horse items
- If an item was used during breeding
- Admin sending you items
🍂 BOTM & DOTM
Entries for October BOTM and DOTM are open! We also have our winners for September BOTM and DOTM! These two events are great ways to have some community fun and try something new. Be sure to review all of the rules and get your horses ready for the BOTM and DOTM start date of October 3!
👻 Horse Fabool Bash!
Mark your calendars for our Horse Fabool Bash from October 23 through October 31. We are celebrating all things spooky with fun new items, explore map event, and more!
🏠 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 ability to get skewed roans via design lab.
- Fixed foal predictor to pull skewed roan layer.
- TWH, IC, and Cob Walkers now show Lp variants. These are in queue to finish updating in the next 24-48 hours.
- Fixed issue with some skewed dun horses somehow being dun variation 6! Pesky pesky dun. These should update within 24.
- Some horses kicked from boarding stayed in your stables. These now properly kick. Any horses that aren’t actually properly boarded will move to your transport soon.
- Fixed issue with Antique Tracker then use of horse capture boost. Now both show properly.
- Updated how layer work on retired horses to fix forever load pedigrees. These should finish updating within 24.
- Some markings still had issues showing tail white overlays. These should now show within 24-48 hours.
- Fix problem with being able to equip generic drafts with polos + assorted tack layers. These will update in 24-48 hours.
- Fixed found issue of wild horse variants switching on KIT genes from foal > adult view.
- Found and fixed a problem with an overlay covering an icon while wild horse capturing.
Have a wonderful and cozy autumn weekend everyone!
Cheers,
The HoFa Team
@Kobold - Constructive criticism is always welcome, but at this point, not much can be corrected or changed in regards to the breed's look.
In the current workflow, all the breed redos have their sketches submitted for players' feedback on the premium corner before the base is worked on. If You have any criticism towards the proportions, pose etc, commenting at that stage would be a more helpful and more effective way to give your feedback.
@Kobold - Also, I have to note: You're absolutely allowed to not like the art. Everyone has a different taste, and that's okay. However, a lot of work is going into the game art, and it's not only my work. To suggest not only incompetence, but also ignorance and lack of care of me, Brumby, and everyone who put time and effort into reviewing the sketch is not only blatantly incorrect, but also simply rude. The conceptual phase is very transparent and open to suggestions, and I never work without references - I use both photos found by myself and provided by the community. To claim that I don't put effort into keeping the breed's features accurate is simply unfair.
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@Thunderbolt, please don't take this person's insults to heart. I remember them being salty about the art style switch ever since the Thoroughbred update, and instead of just admitting it's not to their personal taste, they keep making up these supposed “issues” with your work. This is not constructive criticism, and therefore, doesn't deserve consideration.
Akhal-Tekes are my favourite breed ever, and I find their new rendition fantastic! Their hooded eyes, sleek long-legged build, and metallic shine are captured with great care. It actually made me plan to return to the game after my several-year break. So never doubt that your art is great <3
- my kingdom for a horse -
Your art is gorgeous! And you captured the Teke's lean build beautifully. Some people are just miserable and don't know how to give thoughtful feedback so they project their misery onto others instead. Pretty sad!
We appreciate you Thunderbolt :)
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