NOTE: The Vintage Apple and its promotion are a ONE DAY event only - September 8th, 2015. If you miss it - that's it as it is not known at this time if this item will ever return

*Copied from the Preprod topic:

The 8 September, we will celebrate the Owlient’s 10 years birthday. At this occasion, we wanted to propose to you a little special contest that will last the all day.

The purpose of this contest is to find 10 candles spread on the game with the help of clues. If you find all the candles, you will receive a very special gift (you need to click on it on the contest page to get it!) : the Vintage Apple, guaranteed nostalgic effect for the early players !

The Vintage Apple allows you to personalize a horse with the old coats from the game (the ones just before the actual ones, previous horses cannot be used because they cannot be integrated on the game background)

Be careful: a horse wearing this item cannot be sold anymore.

This item CAN :
► be given via personalized UFO’s on the page of pegasus and VIP players
► be given to horses from 18 months
► be given to saddle horses, ponies, pegasus, unicorns, winged unicorns, donkeys.
► is compatible with the Helios' Ray
► it gives a +5 “Vintage Apple” bonus to each horse skill

This item CANNOT:

► be bought with passes
► be exchanged in the item exchange system
► be given to draft horses, divines horses, wild horses and legendary horses.
► be cumulated with other special coat items (it overwrites the previous item)

The coat is selected on the same principle as Golden Apple coats : we propose all the coats compatibles with the horse species, and you choose the one you want among the selection.

A horse from a certain species cannot receive a coat from another species. On the other hand the coat variety makes no difference. For example, you can get an old light sports coat for a massive sports horse.

When a horse with this kind of coat is given Medusa's Blood, the coat picture updates to match the new breed of horse (winged version), in the same way as the 5th Element coats.
This also updates when wings or horns are removed from a horse as part of a contest goal.

As with the other special coats, tack is not visible on pictures of horses with Vintage Apple coats.

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*Remember - a horse can only be given a coat that matches its species. So this means that your choices for each species are:

Riding Horse = Riding Horse coats
Pony = Pony coats
Donkey = Donkey coats
Pegasus - Riding Horse breed = Pegasus Riding Horse coats
Pegasus - Pony breed = Pegasus Pony coats
Unicorn - Riding Horse breed = Unicorn Riding Horse coats
Unicorn - Pony breed = Unicorn Pony coats
Winged Unicorn - Riding Horse breed = Winged Unicorn Riding Horse coats
Winged Unicorn - Pony breed = Winged Unicorn Pony coats

Drafts, Wilds, Divines, and Legendary Horses can NOT be given this item

However - a horse is not limited by its breed - so you can put a Fjord coat on a Shetland pony. A Curly coat on a Friesian, etc. Here are some shots of potential choices:

Using it on a Riding Horse:


Using it on a Pony:


Using it on a Pegasus - Riding Horse breed:


Using it on a Unicorn - Pony breed:


Using it on a Winged Unicorn - Pony breed:


And here's what you see when you choose a coat to give the horse:


*note the warning saying you can no longer sell the horse*

Once you've hit confirmed - you'll be taken to the horse's page and see the new coat:



You will also notice that the only option now for selling the horse is to send it to the Safe Haven;



Other Information

Remember that the Vintage Apple is just a customization item. It will NOT actually change the breed, skills, species, etc. of your horse:


Take this horse for example - while the image shown is that of a Dun Shetland, you'll notice her breed is still listed as Quarter Pony, her coat color as Black Tobiano, and her genetics match that of a Foundation Quarter Pony. Thus - she still counts as a Quarter Pony for trophies, breeding purposes, etc.

Vintage Apple Horses can NOT be sold - except to the Safe Haven.

A player will only be able to win ONE Vintage Apple by finding the Candles - as such, you will not be able to have more than one Vintage Apple Horse.

However, while the VA can not be traded, gifted, or sold through the Item Exchange - it can be offered as a Custom UFO for Pegasus/VIP account holders - so a player could find an extra one via this method should someone make their VA into a UFO. *Yes, I have more than one in these screen shots - but that's only because on Testing, they gave us more than one to work with to make sure we could find all the bugs and the like!

*While the clues for this promotion are incredibly easy to solve...if anyone wants them - link to a post where I posted the first 7 of the 10 (the 8th one is a bit buggy right now on Preprod so I can't seem to get past it again)

Personally, I wouldn't read too much into the Vintage Apple being a prelude to the return of the Diamond Apple...mostly because the Vintage Apple is just a return of old static images that are compatible with Helios' Ray and nothing more.

a picture of the second section of the treasure hunt with the items circled? I could really use it. Thanks so much!

candle which we will collect during 10th birthday of Owlient

when the next Wanderer promo will be?

There are hints on where to go and once you find one candle the hint for the next one will show up.

Here are some of the hints

Clue no. 1: The first candle is located on this page! *the promo page*
The candle is sitting on the table near the stack of plates

Clue no. 2 : do you know where to go when you're looking for a player?
Community > Directories > The candle will be sitting next to the 'See Today's Birthdays' button

Clue no. 3 : why don't we see which players are celebrating their birthday today?
Community > Directories > Click 'See Today's Birthdays' > the candle will be sitting near the background image (two people on horse back)

Clue no. 4 : how about you, have you already filled in your birthday in-game?
My Account > The candle will be sitting right next to where it says 'My personal info'

Clue no. 5 : let's go visit the players whose birthday it is!
Community > Directories > See Today's Birthdays > Then visit the profile page of a player whose birthday it is > the Candle will be next to their username

Clue no. 6 : a Birthday trophy could one day be yours. What level have you got to?
Achievements > My Trophies > Then scroll to the bottom where it shows the 'Birthday Trophy' > the candle will be there

Clue no. 7 : have you noticed in sales that you can sort horses by the month and year they were born?
Trade > Sales > more criteria > the candle will be in the middle of the box

Clue no 8: find a horse with a Sept 8 birthday

Clue no 9: Sorry but can't find this one..default smiley

Clue no 10: Feel free to invite someone to play Howrse. #10
Community>> Invite players