Shire and Haflinger skill sets?

what do the shires look like

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 as a prize


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)

Additional help will be given in the form of Mine Packs. 1 Pass gets you 3 mines - which give you 3 additional digs. There will also be an event offering double mines (so 6 mines for 1 pass)

Summer Ride as the upcoming one will be called. It's the same as the Magic Ride event from the last few Winters.

If you were not here for that - it works like this:

The Summer ride is a board game type event. You log in each day and can roll a die to make moves (rolls happen at certain times like pinata clicks, and you can get more rolls per hour, closes times, etc. as the event rolls on by doing objectives).

The main objective is to collect all the keys on a board and move to the next one with the final goal being to reach the 'Divine' or last board and win the Divine horse located there.

Along the way - you'll find Gifts to to collect. When you land on a gift space - you are given a prize at random from those allowed for the gift type you landed on *apologies I lack an image for the 4th gift type - the Friend Gift*:


Additional help will also be given in the form of Dice Packs - these give you 2 rolls for the price of 1 pass/10 diamonds.

The new Draft Breed is the Shire - it's a prize in the Medium gifts for the Summer Ride:


Apologies that I can't seem to find the screen shot showing the page for the Haflinger (which will be the new Pony Breed we are getting in the Underwater Excavations)

While it is the Fastest route in terms of moving - how fast it will be is dependent on what you roll...As for example...from the Player Token (the gold horse head) in the first picture...it's 8 spaces away from a Key.

If you are lucky - you'll use 2 rolls and roll a combination that equals 8 with them. If you are not so lucky, you might be dancing around that key for days as you just can't seem to roll the number you need to land on it.

So while this might be the 'fastest' route in overall spaces moved...it still is heavily dependent on your luck when rolling.