Draught Horses:
A new type of horse is making their long awaited entrance on Howrse; the draught breeds.

The first horse from this new “species” is the Percheron!

Draught horses can:
- Receive the same items than Donkeys.

The special coats of the following items will use the same image as horses and ponies:
- 5th Element
- Bewitched Pumpkin
- Seal of the Apocalypse

Draught horses can be equipped and take part in the same competitions as riding horses and ponies. The equipment is visible on the horse’s illustration. *see image*

Like donkeys the draught horses:
- Can only be bred with another draught horse
- Cannot breed more than three times during his life
- When a draught horse is put up for sale any issued but unused coverings are cancelled

Weight and feed
The need for fodder is larger with a draught horse than with other species
The requirement for oats works the same way as for horses or ponies.

Missions:
When a draught horse takes part in a mission:
He earns twice as many skills as a regular horse
His owner earns twice as many equus

The Equestrian Centre earns twice as many resources

The mission button on their page is slightly modified to show it’s doubled compared to other horses.

You can search draught horses in breeding farms, sales and in public coverings.
When you are looking for a covering for your draught mare the setting is automatically set to search for a draught horse of the same breed in exactly the same way as donkeys.

In the other direction, when looking for a covering for a classical riding breed you cannot select the setting to search for a draught horse.

Rankings:
The draught horses are ranked as any other type of specie.
Their ranking goes between the ones for ponies and donkeys.

Creative Space:
We add the opportunity of proposing creations for draught horses in the Creative Space.
On the Black pearl page the sentence “Draught horses aren’t accepted” is removed.
Trophies

The Percheron is added to the breed and coats for all breed trophies as well as creating a trophy in Talented Breeder => breeds.

The species is also added to the species trophy, species Golden Apple and retired Golden Apple trophies.

Species riding horse

To avoid unnecessary confusion the species “horse” is renamed “riding horse”. *and Drafts will be called 'Draft Horse'

This terminology is used on the horse’s page under species, in the horse’s breed description, in the search drop down menus, in the sales, when looking for coverings, in your breeding farms, trophies, species, in the rankings …

Help section
An entry is added for draught horses in the section 4.1 – breeding.
In the EC help under missions in section 2.3 an entry is also added

Best Regards
The Howrse Team

Images of a Percheron's page and the Breed's Page;





*bonus - Percheron Foal*


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The Percheron will be released as a prize you can find in the upcoming maze promotion - along with a new Rainbow Divine. There are two of them (Percherons) in total in the Maze. The following is a screen shot of the maze and where everything is*, as well as a route to follow to reach the end:



To move through the maze - you'll select a horse from your breeding farm (while using this horse, you won't be able to care for it - so choose wisely). Your horse will start off with 100% energy (this is different than the energy on his page) and you can make 1 move per 20% of energy. The horse will recover between 2 to 5% of energy per hour (the recovery rate is dependent on the horse's skills).

*Note that the location of Gifts might be changed slightly - also, you won't know what a gift spot contains until you reach it (so there's no way to know in advance where the Percherons are.

The second Draft Breed is going to be the Shire Horse.

However - other than these three images showing the three colors it comes in - Nothing else is known about this particular Draft at this time:





This means we don't know how it will be released, its skills, etc.

the maze, then the Sunken Sands. We know nothing beyond this at present time

Will the Percheron's be able to have Fertility Wands and/or Hera's Packs used on them?

Can receive the same items as Donkeys. So this means things like the Hera Pack and the items it contains can be used on them. They will work the same as they do on regular horses (so you'd get two foals instead of one with a Fertility Wand)

Does Forest Green have a fixed GP? Or will the BLUP of Lovely Blue and Shiny Yellow change the outcome of the foal?

Anyone else thinking the maze will come on Monday? The flower fight is only a week long so I'm assuming Howrse is useing it to make sure everything is ready for the drafts and the maze. This is just a guess but I have some big assumptions that it will come next Monday.

maze is the promo the drafts are coming in. It will happen this month. No one had draft horses yet since it hasn't started yet.

These are two routes through the Maze



The 'Red Line' route is the shortest in terms of spaces you move BUT it has the cost of being a bit slower due to the lack of treats

The 'White Dot' route is longer in terms of spaces BUT it has proven to be a bit faster as you get additional moves from Treats at the cost of needing to 'back-track' a little.

If all you care about is getting the Divine as quick as possible - either the Red Line or White Dot path is the way to go.

If you care about the Divine - but want to get other things along the way - the White Dot is better.

If you don't care about the Divine and just want to try for as many gifts as you can get - make your own route with this untouched map showing where everything is*:


*note the location of gifts is rumored to be changing to make things a bit more interesting. Treats and Spyglasses (Binoculars) will still be in the same spots.

And for those who might not have seen it/want to know the prizes to plan their course of action - here's the Prize list and how many of each (the blue number) is found in the Maze;

might add additional draft breeds?