Hello Everyone,

The Christmas contest has 2 parts.

Part One: Advent Calendar
The Calendar begins the 1st of December and finishes the 24th.

► Click on the box of the day to win the gift it contains.

► The gifts are given randomly each day. There is a special gift the 24th that is the same for everybody.

► On Sundays and the 24th, there is a small chance that you will win a Divine horse instead of the day's gift.

► You can win decorations for the Christmas trees that will be useful for part 2 of the contest.

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Hello again everyone!

As previously mentioned, the Christmas Contest has two parts.

Part two: Decorating Christmas trees
This event begins 10 days after the beginning of the Advent Calendar.

The objective is to search for Christmas trees with your horses and come back to decorate them. When you decorate a tree, you receive a gift.

There are different forests and different trees that give different gifts. You can have 3 rides on the way at the same time.

Collect trees

Horses

You have to choose 2 horses to bring back a Christmas tree. You cannot look after them or sell them when they are on their way to bring a tree back.

The characteristics of the horses determines the time it will take to bring back the tree.

Forest

There are several types of forests. Some are far away and others are nearer: that will determine the time your horses will take to bring back trees. The trees available in each forest will offer you different gifts.

The divine forest becomes accessible when you have decorated 15 trees or you can wait for 25th December when it will become available for everybody.

Christmas trees

When you have chosen the forest you can choose the tree you want to bring back, considering the decorations it requests.

► Then you send your horses that will bring back the tree in the allotted time.
You can avoid the wait by paying passes (or diamonds) to get your horses back immediately with the tree.

Decorate the trees

There are 3 kinds of decorations that can be won in several ways (described on the contest page).

► You have to put the requested decorations on the tree. When a tree has all the requested decorations, you receive a gift. The divine forest trees give a divine horse.

View the contest page for details.

Community Tree

At a certain time during the contest, there will be a common Christmas tree. Every player can give decorations to this tree.

The first community who is able to complete their tree will see a UFO launch on its version, until the end of the contest. Those UFOs will be decorations for Christmas trees. This is only for the fastest one, so you must be quick!

The number of decorations requested depends on the number of active players on the version.

Happy Christmas Testing!

The Howrse Team

**There is also a small Snowball Fight event going to be happening as well - the prizes for that are:

Rainbow Divines*, Nyx pack, Horn of Plenty, Golden Apple, Achilles' Heel, Medusa’s Blood and Apollo’s Lyre

**Right now, FOrest Green is showing as a prize - not sure if this in intentional or not, so I'm waiting to hear from the Admins before posting the prize list

Sagittarius is one of the horses of the Zodiac.

If you were born under this sign, Sagittarius will give you 1 x The 5th Element every year, on your birthday, if you log in on that day.

She can breed with Scorpio to give birth to Capricorn.
By collecting all 12 horses of the Zodiac, you will get the horse, Serpentarius

This mare cannot be sold.
*Foal*
Capricorn is one of the horses of the Zodiac.

If you were born under this sign, Capricorn will give you 1 x The 5th Element every year, on your birthday, if you log in on that day.

He is the son of Sagittarius and Scorpio.
By collecting all 12 horses of the Zodiac, you will get the horse, Serpentarius

This horse cannot be sold.

The Snowball Fight

Up until 14th November 2015 11:00, join the Great Snowball Fight on Howrse!

Principle
The regular UFO have been replaced by snowballs containing gifts.
These gifts come in twos which allows you to offer the second one to your friends. For that simply throw them the snowball!
Happy Snowball Fight to all!
Rewards
At the end of the contest, the players who have thrown the most gifts will receive:

1st Charming Red
2nd Cool Carrot
3rd Shiny Yellow
4th Forest Green
5th Lovely Blue
6th Devoted Indigo
7th Brave Purple
8th to 15th 1 x Nyx Pack
16th to 50th 1 x Horn of Plenty
51th to 100th 1 x Golden Apple
101th to 200th 1 x Achilles' Heel
201th to 500th 1 x Medusa's Blood
501th to 18000th 1 x Apollo's Lyre

Throw Snowballs
You can only throw a snowball to players who received less than 15 in the last 7 days.
I want to throw a snowball containing:

Take the prize list with a grain of salt for now - the fact that a Breed only divine is showing on the list might indicate a coding issue (ex. he's not actually supposed to be offered - this happened with the Water Divines too if memory serves when they were offered as prizes for a UFO throwing event)