[UPDATED] Devs' Corner: April 2024

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I am checking out mobile updates right now and it seems to be that I am missing something. My breeding farm can only be sorted and displayed by age/ breed/ name or date of birth; and no longer by genetic potential. Right now, I needed to loan my best genetic potential horse, in a certain tab, to a friend. Rip to sorting breeding farms by genetic potential on mobile </3 default smiley :( I am neutral about the pegasus objective being removed. it isnt as important to me as being able to sort my breeding farm on mobile.default smiley (y)
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Famousamos wrote:

I'm confused about the 5th Element thing...they look no different to me? Maybe because I'm on my mobile (on classical version though)?


On the Devs page it says it looks different according to breed when it really means according to species. So unicorns, pegasus...etc will show the horn or wings on the item page before you apply it to the horse.
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By Retired breeder, 27th October 2020 15:58:09
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Hello Howrse team!
This is my first itme on howrse and it is very good for me default smiley :d I am having so much fun. Everything is very good on game but there are something which you should change default smiley ;)

Thing should Change:
-All customisations have a little icon which is located before horse's name but only bewitched pumpkind don't have icon. Please add icons to Bewitched punpkin coats. default smiley :)

-please remove "remove unicorn horn" and "give birt to a unicorn" objectives. Since I am new player, They are the dardest objectives for me. default smiley :)

-please also remove cover a "donkey or draft horse" objective. it is hard again because both species can only breed 3 times in their life.

-there are some competitions which is between 40%-55% difficulty but there is aslo divine horses which has more than 25k skill. Please prevent them from lower level competitions. They can enter nondivine competitions for only 1 time at day but they always win. default smiley :(

These are the thing I don't like about game default smiley :) And I want to thank you for the last event. it is the first event which I completed 100% default smiley <:o) it was good, rewarding and fun. default smiley :d

Thank you default smiley ^) default smiley (l)
so if the two worst objectives, the Pegasus one gets removed but the unicorn one doesn't? it's a good start, but uh. of the two, the latter is significantly worse imo.

still, it's progress. just took a good few years of feedback against it to happen, lol.
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I am very happy to see the pegasus objective removed. It was honestly a huge waste of passes. Here's to having the unicorn one removed next!
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answrs wrote:

so if the two worst objectives, the Pegasus one gets removed but the unicorn one doesn't? it's a good start, but uh. of the two, the latter is significantly worse imo.

still, it's progress. just took a good few years of feedback against it to happen, lol.


Unicorns only cost 10p in the direct sales though default smiley (8) I am super happy to see the pegasus one removed! WOY removal is at least helpful after 25, and the additional issue of the removal of the GA with wings I think makes that the most important one to remove. Thank you!
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Yay! I hated that objective! default smiley <:o)
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Glad they removed that objective. Do not mind keeping remove the horn off a unicorn at least you are given a bonus on your uni for doing so hence the sting is less.

But would like them to take the water of youth objective off as well at least for the daily objectives part will not mind it staying in the great challenge objectives though.
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Hooray for removing the objective to remove a Pegasus's wings. Now please get rid of the objective to remove a unicorn's horn!The bonus you get from doing it does not offset how hard they are to get. With the pegasus and the removing of a Water of Youth at least I can go back and add those to the horse again. With dehorning unicorns there is no going back! I work too hard to get my unicorns: I will never dehorn one!
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By Retired breeder, 27th October 2020 17:10:26
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The app no longer lets me access my objectives as of yesterday, 10/26. It pops up and says "this page is inaccessible" and that I need to go back to the tutorial to unlock them. I've finished the tutorial and have completed multiple objectives since then, I don't understand why I'm locked out.

Thanks in advance !
It is nice to have the pegasus removal gone but I mostly use them when blupping to add that bit of bonus unless I have a really nice horse I want to trick out so it doesn't matter to me personally that much. I do think that the removal of a horn would have been a better one to get rid of though. It is especially hard for newer players that don't have the means to breed or purchase a uni. Also the donkey and draft covering is a very hard one too considering the limitied amount of coverings they can have.
And may I also add, to replace the objective that was removed could we please add one to remove parchments? Since the arrival of the plant horses that you really need droppings for this would be a great thing to be able to dodefault smiley ;)
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Maddy Hunter wrote:

Howrse ! remove wings not a bother, we can put them back with a Medusas Blood

but; remove unicorns horn !!! Thats a bother!! A unicorn horn cannot be replaced,
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Faux Pas ,, Howrse Faux pas !!


I agree 100%!default smiley (y)default smiley (y)default smiley (y)
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So glad they got rid of the objective to remove a Pegasus wings. Now if they'd get rid of the one to remove a unicorn's horn. I got that one today and I refuse to do it. Unicorns are precious and so hard to get! So my meter will be reset to zero and I'll have to start over to get the HOP. And I never get this objective on day one. It is always when I'm close to getting the HOP. *sigh* default smiley :@
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Thank you Howrse for removing the objective for removing the pegasus wings. So many times I was close to getting the objective Horn of Plenty but couldn't because of that objective and others that I don't want to do. I guess I wouldn't mind removing unicorn horns if they eventually grew back.
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"Removal of the "Remove a Pegasus' Wings" objective from the daily objectives" default smiley (o)

I *liked* that one. All the thumbs down. No snaps for you. No complimentary After Eight mint, either -- put the box down!! default smiley (o)default smiley (n)
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Very happy about the removal of that objective, it prevented me winging and giving winged coats because I had no idea if I would need to sacrifice the wings at some point. Would also be great if dehorning, win a rosette, and give birth a unicorn could be removed as well.
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I don't really mind the removing a horn, cause I breed unicorns. And rosettes, cause I breed some pretty darn good horses lol. But the one I dislike the most is the workshop ones.
I can't use all my workshops that I worked hard to get, in case I get the "start production in a workshop" objective. Unless I cancel a workhop, which I most definitely will not do.
I don't get it often, and I could have had 6 more lunges every 4 days but the thought of getting the "start a production" objective gives me major anxiety. It'd be so sudden and chances are I'd have days or hours left on all products and the game resets in the next few minutes. Cause my lazy self waits last minute. But I can tolerate the remove a pegs wings or remove a horn, etc. But I absolutely despise the workshop objectives.
Hoping to see those gone soon, as it takes away from the time it would have originally taken to use all my leather for lunges.
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iamhalfvast wrote:

Unicorns are precious and so hard to get!


Maybe it's the fact that I do my objectives, regardless of what it is. Or maybe it's my privilege of having a proper farm of unis, or possibly even the fact that I always have over 1m equus at all times. But you can literally get a unicorn for 10 passes. Yeah, it's counterproductive, unless its the 20 pass objective. But 9/10 times you'll see at least 1 unicorn up for 10 passes or less than 50k. I'd gladly trade 50k or less for 10 passes.
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By Retired breeder, 27th October 2020 19:39:02
Thank you for removing the objective.
I am on my phone. I have previously been able to access and complete my objectives. This is a new account because I haven't used my old one so it was delete. I'm on objectives 18 22 and I think 23. But I it's this page is unavailable finish the tutorial to access it. Well I already did the tutorial and have completed several objectives already hence the whole me being on objectives 18, 22, and 23. Is this a glitch? And how do you fix it? Any advice?
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rosepetal2002 wrote:

I am on my phone. I have previously been able to access and complete my objectives. This is a new account because I haven't used my old one so it was delete. I'm on objectives 18 22 and I think 23. But I it's this page is unavailable finish the tutorial to access it. Well I already did the tutorial and have completed several objectives already hence the whole me being on objectives 18, 22, and 23. Is this a glitch? And how do you fix it? Any advice?


Firstly, this is a question more suited for the game play forum, as you're more than likely to get a quick answer than in these forums. Secondly, you should send a ticket to contact us, us players cant exactly help with things like this other than give advice.
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I have no problem with "remove a unicorn's horn". I just pick up a cheap one in sales and remove the horn. The horse went into my app farm.

The pegasus wings, I'm with the others, easy to put back on.

The rosette could be a chore but I usually won one.

Not a fan of breeding the draft horse or donkey due to their limited breeding ability. Nor do I care for the usage of so many aging points, just for some passes. I like to keep as many as I can.
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Rogin wrote:


On the Devs page it says it looks different according to breed when it really means according to species. So unicorns, pegasus...etc will show the horn or wings on the item page before you apply it to the horse.


Thanks Rogin! That's confusing since breed and species have two different meanings. Too bad too...I was rather excited to see some new element versions for different breeds!

In other news, I would love to see the "recieve a gift" objective removed! What a pain...gifts are rare for me, and it can be hard to get someone to freely give you something in a timely matter, especially someone like me, who is usually on pretty late in the Howrse day. I think someone suggested changing it to give a gift rather than receive...I like that idea much better!
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By Retired breeder, 27th October 2020 22:04:38
I'm on the mobile app and I frequently find myself wanting to bid on a specific breed at the auction but the search doesn't work even a little, it just reloads the page
Thank you for taking the remove a Pegasus Wings daily objective away. It is a great improvement. I have played from many years and seen many changes to the game. When the daily objectives started to get passes each day, many player's hated this objective. At the time Unicorn's where more expensive than Pegasus, now it is the other way around. I am not sure why this has happened because it is easier to get Medusa's Blood than it is to breed a Unicorn in my opinion.
From playing for many years I had a great number of Pegasus, horses with Water of Youth and Unicorns. Now my numbers of these have greatly disappeared and my game looks very, very different.
I believe the removal of a Unicorn's horn and the removal of a Water of Youth should also be removed from the daily objectives. The ratio of theses objectives appearing is way too high and far too often. The odds of winning these BMI's in a promotion has become way too low.
Also the odds of getting these BMI's from doing daily objectives is way too low. I am annoyed at doing objectives all week, and for example, just getting a Western saddle as the top reward.
This really does not motive me to play the game and is just disappointing.
It is time to reassess the daily objectives after making this great advancement of removing the objective of removing a Pegasus wings, and make the game more player friendly and fun again. At the moment the daily objectives are making the game very high pressured to play a particular way. How about, let's bring the fun back into Howrse.
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