Hey, what is the next promotion? I know that will be VA at 8 September, but which promotion is after that ? cards or pinatas?

cards for Tormenta

How many points do you need for the last search area to find the clue/Amira's medallion?

So the pinatas are coming back? Is it in prepod now? Or do people know anything about what objectives there are yet? Thanks in advance.

I believe ShorahNagi posted something about the objectives a page or two back. Take a look and see if you can find anything.

Does anyone have pictures of what the old Howrse coats look like? I'm trying to decide what coat I want when the VA comes out.

It's Equideow's Preprod at present time - which means we'll probably get the start of it sometime in the next week or so (as I've said before, they test first and work out some large bugs, we test second for some additional refining/bug hunts).

And thanks to Equideow testing, the objectives are known (though my translations might be a little off on what they are/what the prize is. If you are interested, this post contains all the info I was able to find on the Pinatas this time around from Equideow.

Though apologies a lot of these are small thumbnail images - but these are some 'action shots' of using the VA:

Old Fjord (Unicorn) Coats:


Old Gypsy Vanner (Pegasus) Coats:


Old Curly (Pegasus) Coats:


Old Mustang (Pegasus & Normal) Coats:

*This shot is from a display error, where Pegasus coats were showing without wings in preview - but you can see both the Normal and Pegasus variant of the old Mustang coat shape.

Old Shetland (Unicorn) Coats:


For further ideas on how the Old Coat Shapes (The V3 coats looked) - look at Diamond Apple Horses. The shape of their coats is the old V3 shape (however, with the Vintage Apple - you are only able to choose from the BASE colors for the breed, and can NOT add any sort of markings to the coat. I only mention DA horses as a way to see additional V3 coat shapes.

Just remember that - while a horse will not be limited by its Breed (ex. you'll notice the image with the Curly coats is a Hanoverian) - it is limited by its species (So you can't put a Shetland pony coat on your Thoroughbred for example)

How would we get the vintage apples? How does the VA promo work? And is it only for the one day (Sep. 8th?) Thanks in advance!

Also, will there be coats for horses like paints or appaloosas? Will they have patches/spots, or is that included in markings? Sorry for all of the questions, but I just wanted to check.

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. You do NOT need passes or anything else for this event.

*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.

*If you want to see some images of the VA in action/what the old coats looked like - the spoiler in this post contains some images.

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.

You can only choose from the BASE coat colors for a breed - so, if a coat-shape only comes in 5 colors (ex. Fjords only have 5 colors) - you can only pick from those 5 colors if you want the Fjord coat shape.

Vintage Apple coats are the old V3 graphics (Those we had before the current ones) - as stated, the older V1 and V2 graphics can not be used due to issues they would have with the new base backgrounds and Helios' Ray background.

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

The Vintage Apple image is one of the few customization items that updates as the horse's species changes. So if you give a VA to your Riding Horse, then add a Medusa's Blood - the picture will update to being that of a Pegasus. *supposedly, according to the official topic - when Wings/Horns are removed for a contest - the coat will update as well (so you'd go from a Winged Unicorn VA to just a Unicorn VA if you removed the wings *I can not confirm this however, so just be careful if you do decide to remove the Wings/Horn from a VA horse*)

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 the mentioned screen shots, but that's only because on testing they gave out extras for testing purposes.

*While the clues for this promotion are incredibly easy to solve...if anyone wants them - Apologies that this only contains clues 1 to 7 confirmed - Clues 8 and 10, I'm 95% certain I have correct. Clue 9 is unknown *Due to issues with clue 8 during testing*

Am i doing this right?

So is there not usually two divines with the Pinata promos?

A couple things~ So do all the candles hide in the same place for everyone, or is it all random?

Will you be able to use the vintage apple on a horse with a golden apple? Will the vintage apple show on it? Thank you!

What do you do when you find candles?