<b>The prestige value of the meadows owned by the equestrian center in which your horse is boarded gives you a share of fodder for free</b>. If fodder is provided by the equestrian center, the fodder taken from the meadows will not be taken from storage.

So it is highly possible that even if you can't find an ec with a large amount of Fodder avaible, you might still be able to get some for free. I'll do a little more research into this as well to see if this is the case (and if anything would come out of your inventory)

In regards to Centers providing free food:

This is the current Prestige of my Center on Preprod - note the Prestige of my meadows.


Now, this is my stock of items - I have sold off almost all the Fodder I had in inventory for the purpose of this test:


This is the Feed Action Page of a horse boarded in my Center:
Note that the bar is all blue, meaning nothing is coming out of my Personal stock and is instead coming from the EC.

Now if we look at my stock of items again:

You'll notice the center (and thus myself as the inventories are combined) - still has the original 21 units of Fodder, and that it was only the 2 units of Oat taken from the center stock (The original image shows 368,736 Oat - while this one shows 268,734)

So even though a Center does not have enough fodder to make it available to boarders (or only has a little so that while it doesn't show as a benefit, you can still use it) - my horse was still able to feed without me (or the center) losing anything.

I don't know about you, but I think that will help save both the horse owners and the center owners money and/or resources

We'll use the Water Trough for this example:

At present time - a single Water Trough is selling for 30,238e in the Store

So for that price, I have a trough instantly that I can use in a box (more expensive, but faster)

Likewise, every Center will be given a Small Workshop with this change. A small workshop can craft 1 Water Trough in a period of 10 hours. *note the time period to craft items is the same regardless of amount and workshop size

To do so, you need 1,500 Iron in your inventory.

If your center is in the Mountains - you'll have this resource brought to you by missions (saving you money), likewise - you can also buy Iron in the store (Beach and Forest Centers will need to do this).

Iron sells for 10e a unit

Since we need 1,500 units - this is a price of 15,000e.

Already - compared to buying one at the store, we've saved about half the cost (and even more was saved for a Mountain center that doesn't need to buy as much), but of course - the downfall is that it will take a lot longer for us to get the Trough.

To sum it up:

If you want to have items quickly - you'll have to pay more
If you want to pay less - you'll need to wait for your items

*Think of it like ordering something online - you can pay an extra $10 for overnight shipping, or you can pay $3 and receive it sometime within the next 3 to 5 days.

Of course, you could always do a little bit of both (buy Mashes from the store, but have things like Saddles be crafted)

How were the drafts released on the test server?
What is the production time and requirement of the manure (and how many at once can a small workshop make?)
Same as above for mashes.
What are the sizes of workshops that you can have?