The Underwater Excavation is supposed to be next.

The Underwater Excavation is supposed to be next.

Does anyone know which VIP benefit will be with Indigo?

he halves the energy consumption in dressage and trail class competitions on saturdays.

Underwater Excavations. If you were here for the Cursed Sands of 2013 - it's the same thing.

If you were not here/Just want a refresher course:

Excavate the sea bead to find gifts that were lost at sea. Beware of the traps!

*How do I excavate?

• Choose the area you want to excavate
• Discover what is hidden there
• Be patient between excavations
• Exchange your tools and the relics you’ve found for more powerful tools

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Basically - you'll have a screen showing various patches of dirt. You dig in these patches to find Items (regular & black market items), Relics (which you trade for better tools over time), or Bones (which are needed to complete the skeleton to win the Divine horse - Devoted Indigo). There is also a chance you'll find a Trap - which will delay you from digging for 6 hours unless you complete an objective.

Here are some screen shots of the Underwater Excavations:


Finding some equus


Finding a bone - sorry, it's in French. You need to collect all 162 bones before Devoted Indigo will be yours.


Finding a relic


The Prize list for the promotion.

There will also be 'UFOs' offering Bones, Relics, and Prizes that you can find around Howrse. However, unlike regular UFOs which move around - these will be static images that do not move, so you need to pay close attention:

Relic UFO


These two images are from the Cursed Sands (the 2013 variant of this promotion) but the 'UFOs' used for the Underwater Excavations look very similar. As I lack screen shots of the proper ones, I'm showing these to help people get an idea of what to look for:

Prize UFO *Clicking on this will reward you one of the possible prizes (note that it will be a brown chest with a blue background as opposed to the gold one of this image)


Bone UFO *Clicking on this will give you 1 bone for your skeleton (note that it will be a white bone with no adornment on a blue background as opposed to the gold and brown in this image)


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You need to trade your tools and Relics for better tools - what tool you have determines how many times you can dig in a day:

Snorkel and Mask (10 digs)

Oxygen Tank (15 digs)

Propeller (25 digs)

Robot (30 digs)

After you have the Robot tool - you'll also have the option to trade 12 Relics for 1 mine (which gives you 1 additional dig per mine)

There isn't much you can do to prepare for this event except save your Passes/Diamonds as extra digs will be gotten in the form of Mine Packs.

Mine Packs are 1 pass each - and they give you 3 mines. Each mine is worth 1 extra dig (so 1 pass for 3 extra digs). The good thing about mines is that they have a higher chance of awarding Bones, Relics, or Prizes - and a reduced chance of you finding a trap (Some say they have 0 chance of you finding a trap when digging with them, but just to be safe, I'm saying they have a reduced chance).

There will also be a period where Double Mines are offered for sale. This will be 6 mines for the price of 1 pass. If you don't have a lot of passes - I recommend holding on to your passes for this event as you'll get more digs for the same amount.

I also recommend waiting as long as possible before using Mines to get in as many digs as you can. In addition - before trading for the next tool...Use ALL your digs for your current tool. If you upgrade without using your current tools digs - they are lost and you'll be left with however many digs your new tool allows. So if you have the Snorkel (which gives 10 digs) and you trade it after only using 5 digs...The Oxygen tank (15 digs) will not have 20 digs (5 from the Snorkel + 15 from the tank), but rather it will only have its 15 digs.

Devoted Indigo is one of the Horses of the Rainbow.

He gives you one diamond every Saturday (after the daily update), provided you logged in at least once over the previous 3 days.

Once you own all the 7 Horses of the Rainbow, you can obtain Secret Rainbow.

Game:
1 x diamond every Saturday
VIP:
Energy consumption for dressage or trail class competitions on Saturdays is halved

This horse cannot be sold.

Brave Purple is one of the Horses of the Rainbow.

He gives you one diamond every Sunday (after the daily update), provided you logged in at least once over the previous 3 days.

Once you own all the 7 Horses of the Rainbow, you can obtain Secret Rainbow.
Game:
1 x diamond every Sunday
VIP:
Energy consumption when your horses perform missions on Sundays is halved

This horse cannot be sold.

**Brave Purple is going to be released in the Summer Ride promotion (a summer variant of the winter/holiday Magic Ride). He is the final prize to collect on the last board.

Also, here's Secret Rainbow - apologies that all we have is his image and not what he does;