Basic Howrse Care Tutorial

Please watch in HD, it is much better that way!

This was fun to make, and it’s a lot easier (or at least quicker) for me to explain stuff in a tutorial video, than if I had written a blog post. Because I can now record my screen, I will probably keep up with my Howrse blog a lot better now.

Release the Horses!

‘Release the Horses!’ is the newest Howrse contest!

In this contest, there are different horses that you have to release–as the name would suggest.  Basically you’ve got to click the horse every certain amount of hours, which will earn you one point.

But your friends can also click your horse(s) for you if you ask for help!  Just go to the contest page and find the button below the picture of the horse that says ‘Friends’.  You can then click a different button that should let you ask for help from your friends.  And there should be a list of your friends who are also asking for clicks–so it’d be nice if you could click their horses for them too.

Once you get a certain amount of points, you’ll get a key and be able to set the horse free so that you can ‘unlock’ a different horse.

Locked horse.

Released horse.

You get prizes for each horse that you free.

There are also Objectives that you have to complete so that you can do stuff like be able to click your horse sooner or be able to ask for even more help from friends.

The more horses that you release, the harder it gets to release them!  You will have to click each horse more times than you had to with the last one–but I think that the prizes get better. 

Antarctico

The mystery horse for the Wandering Horses contest has been revealed!

And it’s…

Antarctico!

Antarctico is simple enough to get, and his prize is, although common, quite valuable.

To get Antarctico you just have to give apples to horses/ponies that you like.  So just go stock up on a bunch of apples and feed them to other horses players if you don’t already have a bunch of apples.  They’re cheap enough to buy.

As for the prize–it’s a Fertility Wand!  Yes, I know.

A Fertility Wand, really?

Yes, really.  But Fertility Wands are good.

You know that thing where you try to breed horses with super high Genetic Potential and skills?  And how it takes sooo long to get a bunch of good horses like that?  Well with the Fertility Wand, your horse will produce twins.   (It will only work once per Fertility Wand).

 

 

Wandering Horses

The newest Howrse contest (lasting from until 23rd January 2013 05:00) is called the ‘Wandering Horses’.

It’s simple enough–actually, I think that it has been made much easier for the younger players.  But is still hard for the older players.

This Wandering Horse contest is ocean themed, whereas the last Wandering Horse contest was ancient Greece themed.

For instance, here’s a horse from the last Wandering Horse contest.

Aphrodite. (Aphrodite is a wandering horse that went from player to player offering a gift.)

Now here is one of the horses from the current Wandering Horses contest.

Caraïbiana.  (Caraïbianais a Wandering Horse that is going from one player to another and that offers: Harmony Pack)

Each Wandering Horse has an Objective that you must complete before you can get it and whatever gift that it is offering.  For some horses the gift is better than others–but each Wandering Horse will stay with you for five days if you complete its Objective.  During its stay with you, you can do riding lessons with it, enter it in competitions and take care of it.  However you cannot breed it.

There is a mystery Wandering Horse that will be revealed in two days and thirteen hours!  (At the time of me writing this).  I don’t know what the mystery horse looks like or what gift it will have to offer–but if it’s a mystery, it’s probably something good!

There is also a Wandering Horse named Pacifico and to get him you have to get all of the other Wandering Horses.  (There are six Wandering Horses, without counting Pacifico).  The gift that comes with Pacifico is a good one however…

It’s Zephyrus, the Divine horse!

I will be making a post about the mystery horse, when that comes out.  So drop on by three days from now to read about it!

 

Merry Christmas, Howrsers!

Merry Christmas everyone!  Can you all believe that Christmas is just five days away?

And to celebrate…  Howrse.com is holding a Christmas contest called the ‘The Magic Ride‘!

It’s a pretty exciting contest so far, you just click to flip a switch every few hours or so and it lets you move your piece a few spaces on the game board!  Okay, so flipping a switch isn’t very fun, well that’s not the exciting part.  The exciting part is that you can collect presents like these.    Once you find them, they go underneath your Christmas tree and can only be opened on December 25th–Christmas!

And if you get all 25 keys that are scattered over the different boards, you can open the ‘Wind Gate’ and get…

Eurus the Wind Divine!

Yup, there’s a new Divine on Howrse and he’s got a very stormy attitude.

One more thing.  The Howrse staff have been kind enough to present us with a Christmas carol, sung by a choir of specially chosen singers…

The New Kaimanawa Wild Horse!

Please welcome the arrival of the new…

Kaimanawa Wild Horse!  The Kaimanawa Wild Horse has just arrived on Howrse a few days ago,–>

As you can see from reading the message in the picture above, the new Kaimanawa Wild Horse is no longer in the Reserved Sales.

But perhaps you could ask somebody who has one if you could buy it from them.  Although–if they had to buy it for 12 passes; they will not be willing to just sell it to you for cheap.  So even if it probably won’t work, you could try a trade with them; like if you have a divine horse that you don’t really want–you could say, “I will give you my Divine horse named _____ if you give me your Kaimanawa Wild Horse.”

Then they might ask you how do they know that they can trust you not to scam them if they give you their horse first.  So make sure that you know this person very well–maybe you might even know them from real life, and make sure that they know you are a trustworthy player too, before trading with them!

The Wild Horse Lottery

Guess what fellow Howrsers–the Lottery is back on Howrse.com!  (Yes!)

In case you weren’t around for the previous time the Lottery was on Howrse, I’ll explain! 

This is a Ticket for the Lottery.

“The Lottery”, is one of the contests held on Howrse every so often.  It’s exactly what it sounds like; a lottery!  You can buy Tickets, and each Ticket wins you something!  And not just equus or the occasional Bonus–good stuff, I mean, with this contest you could strike it rich!  Here’s the list of items that you can win with your Tickets!See, what I tell you; good stuff!   And that’s not all the stuff that you could win!  You could also win a–

Hermes Winged Staff: Hermes’s Winged Staff allows you to acquire any item on the Black Market, regardless of how many passes it is worth.

Or a–>

Or even a Wild Horse!!! :O  Oh that’s right; I haven’t told you the best part of this Lottery! 

This time around in the Lottery, you could when a Wild Horse!  They will have a certain breed of Wild Horse up that you could win for a certain amount of time, than a new breed comes up that you could win when that ones time is up!  Wild Horses are horses such as these–Each one comes with the background that you see behind it!  Pretty cool, right?

Every time you buy a Ticket, the price doubles.  So the starting price for a Ticket is 100 equus, but the more Tickets you buy, the more equus (money) it costs!  But, your friends can send you Tickets!  Or if you want to send a Ticket to a friend, it will cost you 100 equus.

If you don’t have very many equus, than here’s a handy trick to earn you some Tickets!

Go to your page and click the “Change” button to edit it.  Then write something along the lines of– NOTICE: I AM IN NEED OF LOTTERY TICKETS!  I DO NOT HAVE VERY MANY EQUUS TO BUY TICKETS WITH, WHICH IS WHY I CAN’T BUY THEM MYSELF.  PLEASE BUY ME TICKETS AND I WILL BUY YOU ONE IN RETURN, OR I’LL GIVE YOU AN AGING POINT IN RETURN IF I HAVE ANY.

So, it’s always good to give a friendly shout out on your page if you ever need something!  But it works best if you include a bribe, such as giving them an Aging Point in return, or Congratulating them.  Or even just giving an apple to one of their favorite horses or ponies could work!

When someone sends you a Ticket, you can tell by looking at your Lottery Tickets that you’ve bought for the next draw and there will be one with the persons name on it.  You should be able to click the name and go to the persons page.  But if you don’t regularly check your Lottery Tickets to see if you’ve been sent one, you might never know and than when the person who sent you a Ticket doesn’t get anything in return, they will most likely think that you’ve scammed them!  So when asking for Tickets, also include that if they send you one, for them to please PM (Private message) you about it!

Then, there is one more thing about asking for Tickets; just because they sent you a PM saying that they did, doesn’t mean that they really did–so always go check your Tickets to see if there is one with their name on it before giving them whatever you have promised in return!

Oh, and since only friends can send you Tickets, it’s good to have lots of friends; and since some people don’t read all the way to the bottom of somebodies page, put your notice that you need Tickets up at the top of your page.

H.T.H.H.H!  (Hope This Helped and Happy Howrseing!)

 

Neptune!

A brand new Divine horse has come to Howrse for the “Companion Journey Contest!”  It’s name is–Neptune!  Here is a screenshot of Ow’s Neptune.

Pretty isn’t he? Neptune is part of the Solar system horses. You can take him for rides around Pluto to increase his skills.
Neptune earns you 3 diamonds every 10 days you log in.

 

Ok, that’s all for today!

The Companion Journey Contest!

On the Howrse.com home page with the new Howrse news, I saw this message.  Please read it!

 

The Companion Journey! – 16th July 2012

The companions are returning to their natural habitat with a little help from your behalf!

Today until the 2nd of August at noon game time, we will be helping the companions return to their natural habitat by giving you the opportunity to send them on a journey.
They will travel far and wide to bring you gifts before they finally return to their homes.

There are 5 different natural habitats that give different gifts and are the home of different companions:

~ Farm
~ Prairie
~ Forest
~ Savannah
~ Divine

It is possible to send your companions on journeys up until the very end of the contest which is on the 2nd of August at noon game time, even if this means they will give you your gift after the contest is over.
It isn’t possible to have more than 5 different journeys proceeding at the same time.
The amount of companions to complete a journey to get the same gift triples each time that journey is completed.

 

The time required however stays the same.
The Neptune isn’t directly available at the beginning of the contest.
First you need to send your companions on 25 journeys completed or not.

Also please note that you can only win Neptune once during this contest.

How can I get companions?

On top of the companions you had in your inventory, it’s possible to gather more companions to complete your journeys.

~When you connect for the first time of the day
~By finishing last in competitions (Max 4 times a day)
~By finishing first in competitions (Max 4 times a day)
~In the store (only regular shop buyable companions)
~In UFOs
~In Horns of Plenty (4 in each Horn)
~In the companion trades

The companion trades:

A special companion trade is available during the contest. It looks the same as the item exchanges.

Each day you get one free trade.
If you want to do one more exchange it’ll cost you 4000 Equus.
The price is multiplied by five for each new trade.
The price of the trades is reset at each daily update. A trade expires after 3 days like the regular item exchange.
The maximal amount of companions you can offer for a trade is 100 for classical companions and 5 for divines. The amount of companions you can search for is 5.

At the end of the contest, all the companions that are still in your inventory are definitely removed from the game. You earn 100 equus per companion that you have leftover.

 

For more details please check the Companion Journey Contest page and the Event forum.
Best of luck!
The Howrse Team

 

Alright!  Awesome right?  Here is the link to the Companion Journey Contest page!

If you don’t know what the Item Exchange is, I’ll tell you.

The normal Item Exchange is just this.  You have to give the Howrse Team your parent’s (Or your) E-mail address.  Then you are aloud to trade Black Market Items with other players!  Go to the Store than click the button there at the top with the Exchange thing.  Or just click THIS link!

Reminder for the Removal of the Companions!

Yesterday I got a PM from the makers of Howrse.  (A PM means a message.)  Its subject title read “Reminder for the Removal of the Companions!”

I’m not sure what to think about the up coming Companion Journey Contest.  I’m slightly bummed about what’s happening and also slightly happy at the same time.  Fifty-fifty.

Anyways.  I don’t currently have any Companions in my inventory.  So I better start stocking up on the ones that they won’t take away.  Yes I am going to enter in Companion Journey Contest.  And this is because–All contests have good items or money to win.  Sometimes even new horses or ponies!  Although I highly doubt any new breeds will come from this contest–what with the just newly introduced Curly horse and all.  And this must be a very big contest because they actually notified everybody about it ahead of time.  I know that they notified everybody and not just a few people, because I had the same message on another account.

I do not know what prizes will be won from the Companion Journey Contest, what the point of it is, if the companions they take away will be given back, the rules–nothing.  But when the contest comes out on July 16th, I will soon afterwords post about it.

For now please read the message below that they sent all Howrse.com players.  You should have it in your messages too.

Oh!  One more thing before I forget again.  I would advise buying expensive companions of better quality, they will most likely have more quality for the ‘Companion Journey Contest’.

So here is the message.–>

Hello,

We would like to remind you that on the 16^th of July at noon game time, the companion feature is going to be completely modified!

 

You will not be able to assign the companions you have in your inventory to a horse.

However all the horses that already have a companion will keep it.

Some of the companions that you may have in your inventory will be released as they will not be used for the Companion Journey Contest.

Here is the list of the companions that will be released into their natural environment directly on the 16^th for which you will receive a 500 equus compensation if you did not assign them to a horse before then:

 

Monkeys, Bees, Ladybugs, Kangaroos, Bears, Penguins and Camels.

All the other companions that remain in your inventory on the 16^th of July, will stay there and be used for the Companion Journey Contest.

It will also be possible to get some companions during the contest, so no worries if you haven’t got a large stock of companions already.

Companions that you won’t have sent back to their natural habitat at the end of the contest will be removed from your inventory and you will receive 100 equus for each one.

This means that you have to plan your strategy wisely before and during the contest to have the least possible leftover companions in your stock.

 

We encourage you to decide right now if you’d rather assign the companions you currently have in your inventory to a horse or use them for the contest.

It won’t be possible to assign companions on horses starting on the 16^th of July , so don’t wait to make your choice!

It will also be impossible to put the Horn of Gold on a companion.

If you want to give a customized image to the companions assigned to your horses then you can do so until the 16th of July without using a Pack of Harmony as the Horn of Gold is available directly on the Black Market.

 

 You can also find information regarding the changes that will occur for game play by checking out the Change Log!

For more detailed information regarding these changes please join us in the Event forum!

Best Regards

The Howrse Team

Alright, I hope this helped you understand more about this exciting upcoming event on Howrse.com!  Thegirlnamedjack signing out–Happy Howrseing!