For the third candle I got this clue, Why don't we see which players are celebrating their birthday today?" I have no idea where to look. Can I get some help?

https://www.howrse.com/member/user/birthday

https://www.howrse.com/joueur/parrainage

Next big event after Ow's Memories is the Wandering Horses. Like last time we’ll have to wait to unlock some of the horses so not all will be available right from the start. You don’t do anything special to unlock them we just have to wait a few days. The length I had to wait differs from what Equideow players are reporting so it’s possible the wait times will change when this goes live, and as such I didn’t write down what the times were, but the order in which I’m listing them should be the order they unlock with at least two unlocking a day.

You can also give these horses x number of colored crystals, which give 1 point each, to unlock instead of only doing the objectives. I indicated next to each horse what color crystal it requires. Regardless, you have to reach 100 points through the objective/crystal to obtain each Wanderer. You get crystals from: UFOs (players can put them as personal UFOs as well), buying with passes throughout the contest or buying them in Crystal Packs.

List of W.Horses including: crystal color, objective, points give per objective, **my** estimate, and prize.

Taiga: Won at end of tutorial
=Prizes: x100 carrots, 1 Fertility Wand, 1000equus

Rainforest: (red crystal) Log in for the first time each day-6 points per day.
-Estimate: About 17 log ins required or 100 red crystals
-Prizes: Philotes Stroke, Medusa’s Blood

Bush: (orange crystal) Take part in competitions- 0.1 points per competition ***NOTE*** the points earned per competition entered will likely depend on the number of horses you have so players with less horses should likely get more points per participation.
-Estimate: 1000 competitions for me at .1 point per comp. Or 100 orange crystals
-Prizes: Philosopher’s Stone, Achilles’ Heel

Desert: (Yellow crystal): Give crystals to other horses- 0.3 points per crystal given. ***NOTE*** giving crystals to the community Wanderer does NOT count towards Desert.
-Estimate: 334 crystals given to other horses or 100 yellow crystals given to Desert
-Prizes: Shower, Themis Scales

Tundra: (Red crystal) Be congratulated-1 point per congratulations.
-Estimate: 100 congratulations or 100 red crystals
-Prize: 10,000 equus, Bonus Pack

Mangrove: (purple crystal) Play foal games with foals-1 point per 30 minutes of play
-Estimate: 50 hours of foal games or 100 purple crystals
-Prizes: x50 flax, x1 Pink 2** polo wraps, Croesus’ Fortune

Moor: (Yellow crystal) Celebrate the ___ birthday of horses- 15 points per horse **NOTE** the birthday noted on preprod is a horse’s 30th birthday but they said it will be higher when this goes live. It was a horse’s 50th birthday last time, and is the birthday noted on Equideow so it’s *possible* a horse has to reach its 50th this time. Placing a Piece of Cloud Pack on your horse and aging it back worked last edition and worked on preprod as well.
-Estimate: 7 horses aged to __ year or 100 yellow crystals
-Prizes: 5th Element, Horseshoe Studs

Forest: (blue crystals) Give apples to other player’s horses-1 point per apple
-Estimate: give 100 apples to horses or 100 blue crystals
-Prizes: x100 leather, x1 2** saddle cloth, x10 aging points

Reef: (red crystal) Donate horses to Ow-10 points per horse
-Estimate: 10 horses donated or 100 red crystals
-Prizes: Tractor, 50,000 equus

Swamp: (purple crystal) Donate store items to your friends- 17 points per donated item
-Estimate: 6 items to donate or 100 purple crystals
-Prizes: 3*** Classical Saddle, Spurs, Ploutos’ Parchment

Abyss: (orange crystal) Give birth to unicorns- 10 points per unicorn born
**NOTE** Twins will work for this so if you have a Hestia's Gift+Fertility Wand then you can really swipe this out easily
-Estimate: 10 unicorn foals born or 100 orange crystals
-Prizes: Horn of Plenty, x20 aging points

Ice: (blue crystals) Go on rides with horses - .25 points per 30 minutes of ride **NOTE** points given for this may also depend on how many horses you own. Also, rides with your Solar divines do count for this.
-Estimate: 200 hours of rides for me or 100 blue crystals
-Prizes: 2**ear bonnet, 3*** classical bridle, Apollo’s Lyre

Savanna: (orange crystal) Remove wings from Pegasus, Winged Unicorns or Winged Drafts- 5 points per horse
-Estimate: 20 Winged horses or 100 orange crystals
-Prizes: Harmony Pack, Z. Lightning Bolt

Steppe: (purple crystal) give mashes to horses- 10 points per mash
-Estimate: 10 mashes given or 100 purple crystals
-Prizes: 5,000 equus, Bell Boots, Black Orchid

Atoll (yellow crystals) Open Horns of Plenty - 6 points per HoP opened
-Estimate: 17 HoPs or 100 yellow crystals
-Prizes: Water of Youth, Nyx Pack

Foreshore: Get all the other Wandering Horses - 7 points per Wanderer obtained
Prize: the divine horse Alga

We’re getting crystals in Crystal Packs.

Crystal Packs (1 pass or 10 diamonds): Each pack contains
6 x Blue crystal
6 x Purple crystal
6 x Red crystal
6 x Orange crystal
6 x Yellow crystal

I listed all the prizes next to each corresponding Wanderer in the spoiler above, but here is an overview with Alga’s description

Read through the list of Wanderer objectives to see what you’ll need for each and stock up beforehand since the cost of older horses and Pegasus in sales will go up. During the contest make sure you read when each Wanderer will unlock because points for it won’t count until it’s unlocked. For example, on day one you open Horns of Plenty, but you won’t get points for the Atoll Wanderer because he isn’t unlocked yet.
-Catch all crystal UFOs possible. Though you might want to pass on colors you don’t need so the next crystal UFO will hopefully be a color you do need. EX: Savanna requires you to remove Pegasus wings and he also takes orange crystals. You may want to pass on the blue crystals that go towards easy Wanderer objectives in favor of finding orange crystal UFOs

*****Overall spending:******
There is some crafty math involved here thanks to Desert (give 334 crystals to other horses or 100 crystals to him) but being strategic about how you do this can decrease your pass cost considerably, especially if you already have HoPs in stock because then you only need to buy Crystal Packs. Make sure you leave at least 1 Wanderer of each color crystal unfinished that you can give crystals to to earn points for Desert.

I'd suggest leaving the colors with harder objectives unfinished so you don't have to do that action several times (example, leave the orange crystal horse Savanna unfinished if you don't want to de-wing loads of Pegasi). It will help to list each Wanderer under its corresponding crystal color so you'll easily see which horse needs which color crystal.

My overall advice for this one is to just read each Wanderer information now so you can stock up on items/horses and read the instructions carefully when the contest starts so you know which Wanderer unlocks when.

The Community Wandering Horse
Each time the community gives 2000 crystals to the horse, a Wandering Community Horse is triggered and will wander from player account to player account even after the contest ends and until the next edition of wandering horses.

The goal is that the entire community gives enough crystals to the community horse to activate its appearance on the game.

The number of crystals to give to the community horse to activate a copy is 2,000.

As soon as this goal is reached, the progress bar returns to 0 and you can begin again to give crystals to activate an additional copy of the community wandering horse.

Each copy of the community horse stays on the game after the contest ends until a new edition of the Wandering Horse contest arrives on the game.
Where does the community horse begin?

When a copy of the Community Wandering Horse has been enabled, it arrives in Ow's breeding farm.

Starting from the following daily update, the horse leaves Ow's breeding farm and visits another player's breeding farm for a duration of 24 hours. When this 24-hour period is over, the horse leaves that player's breeding farm to go and visit another player's breeding farm, and so on and so on.

The player who receives the visit from the community nomad is selected from all the players:
- who logged in the day before
- having completed the tutorial
- having not been visited by another Community horse in the last 30 days

When a player receives a visit from the community nomad, they are notified by a private message.

In addition to receiving a visit from the community wandering horse, we offer this player a chance to buy the Wanderer's Spirit item on the Black Market during that period of time.

****note*** it’s possible that more than one community Wanderer could be enabled and float around the game after the contest ends. Underneath his picture you can see we've activated two copies so far on preprod.

We can buy crystal packs, but I also noticed we could possibly individual crystals, such as click on the color we need and then buy them? Correct me if I'm wrong. Anyways, if that's the case, then how many crystals do we get, just one 1 crystal for 1 pass?

You can buy each crystal color separately. The event ended for us on preprod and the permanent offer wasn't available for us to test so I can't answer how much you'll get for 1 pass firsthand.

Info from Equideow shows varying amounts depending on the crystal color though. Blue crystals are the cheapest at 10 per pass for the minimum, and it goes up to 50 passes for 650 blue crystals.

I knew that you didn't have that option on the prepod (unfortunately), but I just wondered if the admin said anything. I wanted to try and figure out if it would be cheaper to buy crystal packs or just buy what crystal you want yourself.

Especially for the Desert wanderer. I'm pretty sure I can manage every one of them wanderers besides Desert. I need to find some loopholes for that one. XD

Thanks for answering my Q!

the rumored pass changes and removal of the pass horse system?

It's still being tested on other servers. We have no idea weather or not it will be tested here or if they're just going to trash the idea. We'll just have to be patient.

changes to the pass horses

So we have another week of Memory, event, and knowing howrse they'll dive immediately in to the W.H event that next Thursday so I'm trying to figure out if I have about 2 weeks to prepare or if it's possibly sooner. My calendar is making my head spin so I can't seem to get the answer like a normal person.

Also: I *think* I understood that crystals are earned by actions, but will there be other options? Example: I don't want to dewing pegasi or send horses to Ow, other than passes, is there any way to get around those?

It's been discussed several different times and I can't remember all instances to give you page numbers, but best I can suggest is to look around October/early November posts and February/March is the last time we rent in depth with it I think. There was brief discussion on page 2071-ish as well.

Wandering Horses will *likely* start May 4, which is next Thursday. Crystals can be found through UFOs (normal or on player's pages if they set them) or mainly buying them from the Black Market. Crystals aren't earned by actions/objectives at all. You get *points* for the Wanderers by completing its action. i.e, to get Bush you get x points for each competition you enter. You can give it a crystal if you want for 1 point per crystal and when you give Wanderers crystals that earns you points for Desert. If you don't want to de-wing Pegasus to get Savanna then you can give it crystals instead or a combination of de-winging and crystals.

Do you know if the normal UFO crystals will just be one, or will there be the possibility of multiple in one UFO, like there is with the aging points? Also, will the colour of the crystal be displayed so you can strategically ignore unwanted UFOs until you get the one you want?

Since the event ended on preprod I can't check my crystal history to be sure, but I think I got 2 crystals every time I caught a UFO. You can see the color UFO when you catch it. If a blue crystal floats across the screen then you will get a blue crystal(s) when you click on it

Yes you can remove wings from any horse that had wings. Drafts, horse, ponies, winged unicorns. The only issue with removing wings is that it will also remove a GA coat