New features

We need to be able to check which divine appears on the levels in ascent, on mobile, so we can decide what route to take. It's annoying to have to go to the classic version to check them back to mobile to play.

Also on mobile the daily objectives need to be fixed so that when you complete it appears on the count bar. It's annoying to either have to refresh the page or leave page and come back, especially when it is time to collect the horn of plenty.

I'm excited to check out the new Donkey

"There are no longer any restrictions on the types of coats you can give your horses. Donkeys, horses, ponies and draft horses all have access to all types of coats."

I actually do not like this. Do you guys realise how many Golden Apples and Harmony Packs I, and I am sure many others, have used on coats that were the "best available" towards trophies within a species? And that I would have spent on completely different coats if they had all been available across species?

Like not only have you ruined the trophies and made no apologies, but now you also make a bit of a mockery of that.

I double-checked, and thankfully it looks like Golden Apples are still species specific. I tried to apply a pony coat to a horse, and it wouldn't let me. Same with a couple of others I tried.

I hope the species restriction to Golden Apple coats never changes, because it would make finding specific coats in the sales nearly impossible, and would render the species categories for the coats redundant (and also take away the purpose of breeding specific species for coats pointless, much as I dislike donkey breeding).

Like what others have said, I’m not thrilled about the change to coats. I quite enjoy being able to only put certain coats on certain species and this seems like it’s going to be harder to find certain coats in sales. If I’m looking for a donkey specific coat, I don’t want to look through horses and ponies to find it.

i think the issue is they don't want people getting the new donkeys because of these divines on thurs before the promo where they are being released. the promo doesn't start at the update. so if you get your random foal from these divines before the promo started on thurs with the old way you could get the new donkey. they don't want that. if you want the new donkey from these divines and can do it thurs just wait til after the promo starts.

here's my question with the new donkey. can you breed them to the old donkeys? i know you can't breed them to horses, ponies and drafts but can they breed to the old ones like the different draft breeds can be bred together

Yes, donkeys can now be crossbred

As someone who just started working on the Donkey Breeder trophy I'm glad there's finally new donkeys. The poor things are just so boring otherwise. Cute, but boring.

Question about the Sisyphus Stone... Can you still earn x2 equus after 25?

"Earn twice as many skills and equus by completing missions with your horse.
This also applies to the mission earnings of your equestrian center.
This item cannot be collected with the Water of Youth item.
This applies up to birthday number 25 included."

The skills stop of course but I see no reason to take away that double equus.

Hiram Farmer - as they just changed them to prevent us getting new breeds early, that wouldn't be an issue if Hipparion's perk was changed to a random breed when we currently have everything on the game, instead of missing out when we do.

This change made my heart sink...i absolutely do NOT want them all mixed together. It'll be awful if they do! Coat release will be an absolute nightmare if this happens. I do not want to wade through everything then or any other time, especially as someone who loves to match up correct breeds and coats, etc. Please please PLEASE do not mix them all together!

Agree with what was said about Hipparion - I don't even have a desire to own him because of the perk shut-off, even though I love Ran. But with new breeds only getting released a few times a year Hipparion quickly becomes useless unless you're still in the process of the coat collection trophy, he really should work the way Ran does.

I love the new donkey, it's cute and I'm glad after so long that donkeys are getting some new breeds.

I don't know how the Draft VA thing works because I haven't tested it but it sounds like you can give one of the VA coats to a Draft now, not that they added new coats to the VA? If they added new VA Draft coats I have mixed feelings since that's not really what the item was for, but if it's just that you can put VAs on Drafts now, that's fine.

I do want the GA to remain species-specific as others do (as far as I understand it still is), but the VA I don't mind if it's less exclusive. There were only 3 species on it anyway, one of which only had 3 coats and all the rest could be crossed to dozens of the "wrong" breed and some coat combos which don't even exist on the game so I don't think the change is that dire.

Finally the customization of donkeys, very good! That was long overdue. It's so difficult to BLUP them that giving them a boost in the form of the more perk-ified custom coats will hopefully be a benefit!

Correct, there are no new coats, just the ability to put VA on a draft, and all species can wear all the special coats (excluding Golden Apples, as those are still species specific)

Really sad to hear golden apples aren't included in the change. I was really excited to not have to deal with the set species anymore. Oh, well.

I am glad that we can put the special coats on donkeys now! And i'm glad i saved my Mycroft Holmes coat, which i just put on a donkey...yay!

Where can you get the new donkey? I can't search for it by breed in sales yet and an event just ended, it will probably be a prize in the next one, but why announce it if its not available yet?

It's in the next event, as for why it was announced before release I'm not sure. My guess is because they updated the donkey's name to "Standard donkey" and wanted to explain why that was.

I don't know if this goes here or if it's already, like, a perk for folks who subscribe to Howrse, but I had the idea the other day that it'd be really helpful to have a little notepad on each horse's private page to keep track of their training and stuff. I find it a little annoying and inconvenient to have to pause my horse care and click away to a BLUP schedule when I'm unsure of the next steps. It'd be neat to have something right there while I'm taking care of my horses for reference. I feel like it'd be good for team communication and blupping, too.

We already have that, but it's part of the subscriptions.

Yikes, all right, that's embarrassing. Thanks for letting me know!

I love how plentiful the events are! However now that a personal factor (for me) played out I couldn’t get the important rewards of a long time player needed and I fear I will have to pay direly for it now, it did not feel very well. I presumed a lot of new players have complained about the difficulty, and therefor it would be easier, but that should me more of a “rank difficulty” because carrying the same for all people no whatever the rank you will have to force the players to be “pay to win”. And for a game I love this much. I do not want to see you go down this route

I did really love the idea of any and everyone being able to get the rewards through the event, but I sadly had to change my normal schedule to care for a sudden sickness in my family. And the event that I had started couldn’t be finished. Sure I was already down on my luck but I feel that when there is an event dependent on a realease of a new coat or breed it shouldn’t take a persons full time to maintain that they get the reward?