Horse Fabool Bash!

October 23 through October 31 all things Halloween join us for the spooky season.

The cauldron bubbles on a table nearby.

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Spooky potions

Costumes galore

So many things at the store!

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Cauldrons overflowing

The wilds are howling

The town is sporting fun decor!

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Tricks or treats

What a spooky feat

It’s Halloween in HoFa once more!

✨ Witch’s Cauldron Returns! ✨

Take your chance at mixing up potions! Find your items, throw them in the cauldron and hope to discover something better! The Witch's Cauldron will be brewing until November 2 at 11:59 pm ET/ game time. Find items such as witch hats, dyes, horns, and more and see what you can cook up! Test your luck with various potion combos and hope for a resulting better item or the cauldron may spit everything back out! The cauldron is a tricky piece of equipment so community effort may lead to quicker potion discoveries. 👀

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🎃 Trick or Treat! 🎃

Smell my feet! There's something good to eat…when you explore the Haunted Forest! The locals have out done themselves decorating the Haunted Forest map and have begun their own Trick or Treating event! Candy has been strewn about in the Haunted Forest for all to find in a fun Trick or Treating event. Occasionally, you will also find tricks and treats across the site!

Take your chance at trick or treating to collect candy treat items. When picking up your candy consider, is it a trick…or maybe a treat? Find out and either get your candy treat or enjoy an unfortunate trick! These yummy treats offer player energy and are useful in the Witch’s Cauldron… Explore and find items until November 2 at 11:59 pm ET/ game time.

Candies

Will you find one of the four halloween candies while exploring? Discover the Halloween Caramel, Halloween Chocolate, Gummy Horse, or Spooky Sour Apple!

Halloween Treat Bucket

You might get lucky and discover a bucket full of candy! This item, when opened, offers 5 random candy items or on rare occasion, Halloween items! This item is also for sale in the emporium for an ingot cost.

Halloween Items

Various Halloween items can also be found in explore! Walk around while trick or treating and you may find yourself a new costume or pieces to use in the Witch’s Cauldron.

🕸 Halloween at the Emporium 🕸

Just like magic, over night a wide selection of potions and costumes have appeared in the Emporium! Many potions hint at their effects but are you prepared for their results? Snake oil, slime, and fires contained! Oh my what a frightening scene! All costume items are available until November 2nd at 11:59PM ET/ game time. One of our newest backgrounds will be around forever!

Snake Oil Potions

Several slithery snakes have been made into questionable potions. These potions give a +5% discipline showing boost to intelligence, flexibility and reduces horses explore injuries by 10%. Equips as decor.

Slime Potions

Eeeeeeeeew SLIME! Look at how moist and drippy it is. Gross…but fascinating… These potion bottles are full of icky bubbly slime. They give a +5% discipline showing boost to speed, endurance and reduces horses' explore injuries by 10%. Equips as decor.

Slime Canopy

Enjoy even more slimy goo with the dripping slime canopy! Don’t worry, this gooey mess does come with some benefit, it reduces horse explore injuries by 5% and gives a +1% discipline showing boost in speed and endurance. 

Caution Tape

Don’t worry friend, if you find yourself dealing with some toxic slime, we have caution tape for that. Equips as a harness and offers a show score boost.

Fire Potions

Potions swirling in flames that contain scales and bits of dragon horn. These potions give a +5% discipline showing boost to power, agility and reduce horses explore injuries by 10%. Equips as costume.

Pirate Costume

Sail the 7 seas and cosplay as a pirate with this two-piece pirate get up. A fancy pirate hat adorned with peacock feathers and a sword to boot! The Pirate Hat equips it as a hat and offers  a +2% power boost in discipline showing. The Pirate Sword word equips as a harness and offers a show boost and +2% to intelligence in discipline showing. You need a few extra smarts to wield a weapon, right? Riiiight?

Beach Background

Ah, sit back and relax for a while. All those scary items means we need a break. Joining us today, and forever, to help get your pirate horses all dolled up is the Beach Background! Added by popular demand, this background shows a peaceful coastline and the vast ocean. This background offers a 5% twin boost. Is that a crab crawling around?

Plague Doctor

Knock knock! *cough cough* Who's there?! The doctor has arrived! The plague is not here but the creepy Plague Mask and doctor's lantern are! This Plague Mask equips as a hat and adds +2% to endurance for discipline showing and reduces explore injuries by 5%. The lantern lights your way and offers +2% to agility for discipline showing reduces explore injuries by 5%.

Frankenstein Paint

Don’t get too tore up, you can dress to impress with this crafty Frankenstein paint! Painted stitches across your horse offer a bit of spooky Halloween flair. Frankenstein Paint offers a +0.5% show boost.

Flaming Horseshoes

Who knew you could harness the power of fire through hexed horseshoes? Offered in a variety of colors, these horseshoes light up your horses hooves! They also add +2% to your horse's speed as a boost in discipline showing.

Stickers!

Some of us like to make things a bit less frightening. These two cute stickers, Bat and Pumpkin, equip as paint to your horses rump. How cute! As a mini delight, they offer a 1% twin boost. 

Pumpkin Face Paint

Spruce up your herd with some fun paint in the shape of a glowing pumpkin face! Equips as paint to the side of your horse and enjoy a 1% twin boost. It just makes you want to grin doesn’t it?

Bat & Pumpkin Blanket

Brrr it’s cold out there! The autumn weather means blankets are essential! Why not use some Halloween themed blankets? These cute blankets feature bats or pumpkins and offer a teeny twin boost.

Dark Forest Green or Purple Hue Backgrounds

Go green or party til’ you’re purple with our new green and purple hued Dark Forest Backgrounds. These are variants of our regular Dark Forest Background that offer more color options to match all of your green and purple items to! Each background offers a 5% twin boost.

The Void

Not feeling festive? Want to just stare into the abyss of darkness? Same. You’re in luck! The Void background is a plain black background that represents, well, the Void! It offers a 5% explore injury reduction. If you look long enough you might find something.

Sparkling Magic

Halloween isn’t complete without a bit of extra magic. Enjoy the full rainbow of magic colors that equip as a background overlay. Magic wouldn’t be magic without offering a special benefit. These sparkles reduce explore injuries by 5%  and add +1% show score boost. OoOo AHHHHHH! Oh sorry, we weren’t supposed to scream in delight?

Colored Mist

(To be read in a ghostly voice) OooOoooOoooo here comes a spooky mist with a bit of colorful flare. New misty background overlays offer more color matching options. These come in our ROYGBIV colors and both pastel and regular rainbow. They also offer a 5% explore injury reduction and +1% show score boost.

Wanting to view our new items on horses? The full selection can be found in Curly's stable in her “Halloween Horses” Tab! Oogle at them all starting with Mr. Franken here.

Our old Halloween items are returning as well! Just note, many of these are retiring this year! Many of these items have also had new benefits added! Returning items are:

• Elusive Black Cat - Retiring
• Bats - Retiring
• Haunted Frames - Retiring
• Pumpkin Bundles - Retiring
• Heart Jack-o-Lantern - Retiring
• Cat Jack-o-Lantern - Retiring
• Sinister or Mysterious Candles  - Retiring
• Werewolf - Retiring
• Spooky Tattered Cloth
• Wispy and Cloudy Fog
• Dark Forest Background
• Unicorn Horns
• Tonics & Spicy Tonic
• Skeleton Paint

🐱 Cats! (Not the Musical) 🐱

A herd of Halloween kitties have begun to prowl around the town. All with their own personality and special benefits. Do be aware, one special kitty holds a power far greater than most. To celebrate the 400th birthday of Salem, MA, the black cat Salem and friends have arrived! Our colony of cats are available until November 2 at 11:59PM ET/ game time with one cat, Salem, never to return.

Salem - Retiring

Salem offers a rare benefit to the horse she is equipped to. She extends a horse's life to 26 years of age. Your horse will not begin to retire until their 27th birthday. Once her magical companionship is complete, she disappears! Salem will only be joining us for this one lucky Halloween. She will retire November 3, 2026.

Gourd

Gourd is a very large orange cat with plenty of orange cat personality to boot! When equipped, Gourd imparts a +5% bonus to the power stat for your horse's discipline shows.

Jolene

Jolene is a small auburn colored cat with eyes of emerald green. When equipped, Joelene imparts a +5% bonus to the agility stat for your horse's discipline shows.

Hex

Hex is a sly and quiet black cat who shares plenty of knowledge with others. When equipped, Hex imparts a +5% bonus to the intelligence stat for your horse's discipline shows.

Hazel

Hazel has plenty of skills but her enduring spirit is most admirable! When equipped, Hazel imparts a +5% bonus to the endurance stat for your horse's discipline shows.

🐴 New Themed Markings! 🐴

Many moons ago, the crescent face marking joined us as a Halloween treat and is available year-round. The tradition continues with three new face makings and one new leg marking based on many Halloween tales and fables! OoooOoooOOOoooo! AHHHHH!

Our spooky new costumes and decor are exciting enough. To make it even better, new themed markings are also joining us today! Some of you may have caught glimpses of these markings on the HoFa Socials!

Eyemask

Just like a Plague Doctor, our eye mask face marking covers the eyes of the breeds that can sport it. All breeds except: Friesian, Norwegian Fjord, and Percheron can possibly get the eyemask marking through the foundation store, wilds, and design lab.

Eyepatch

Arrrg mateys! Don’t let us shiver your timbers too much! Ye ol’ eyepatch face marking has made an appearance for our pirate lovers. All breeds except: Friesian, Norwegian Fjord, and Percheron can possibly get the eyepatch marking through the foundation store, wilds, and design lab.

Lightning Stripe & Lightning Marks

Thunder and lightning crashed down as Frankenstein came to life! Now lightning shows on some horses' faces and legs! All breeds can possibly get the lightning stripe face marking through the foundation store, wilds, and custom tokens. 

Leg Lightning Marks now possibly occur in breeds that commonly have the Lp gene (Appaloosas, Mustangs & Knabstruppers) through the foundation store, wilds, and in the design lab. Lp Irish Cobs and Tennessee Walking Horses leg lightning marks will not generate anywhere.

🏆 Horse Fabool Bash Contests! 🏆

Costume Contest!

Show off your fancy horses and their halloween goodies with our costume contest! Our top 4 decked out entrants will win 250,000 bits each. Entries are open until October 31 at 11:59 PM ET/ game time.

Million Bit Ghost!

Curly has hidden a ghost cat somewhere on the site on a random unsuspecting horse. If you find the ghost, you’ll win a portion of the prize pot of 1,000,000 bits! The fewer who find the ghost cat, the larger the winner's bit prize will be! Does your horse have the ghost? View the forum post.

🐎 Extra Special Auction Horses 🐎

By popular request we are bringing back the game-owned auction horses for Horse Fabool Bash! These horses have lots of color, a few rare genes, high stats, low BV and a generous training boost. All auctions start at 500 ingots with a minimum bid increase of 25 ingots. These auctions will end 3 days! Take a look at the list of auction horses in Curlys “Auction Horses” tab!

Enjoy the spooky season everyone. We’ll see you back here with an exciting end to our Fabool bash later!

Cheers,

The HoFa Team