The last plant promo was 7 month ago with an egyptian divine (Amun) as prize

you can buy them in the sales, but archimedes rarely gets sold

What do you mean by fresh new Harlequin divines? I've been trying to obtain Harlequin for a long time!

didn't know if it should have a banner so I put one. Two things. One: When and what is the next promo (I hate the great challenge)? Two: What is this points thing everyone is talking about? I just started playing again after taking a break.

yggdrasil? Does he actually do anything besides gain points as old horses die?

Basically, you can only make boarding extensions once your horse has less than 30 days of board left. Once that happens you can still extend up to 100 days. But if you have more than 30 days of board left, you have to wait to extend

New Trophies:
Vintage Apple - collect a number of horses wearing a Vintage Apple coat, (12 trophies)
Helios Ray - collect a number of horses with a Helios Ray landscape. (12 trophies)
Ow's Helios Ray - collect a number of horses with an Ow's Helios ray landscape. (6 trophies)

New search filters for Ow's Ray when you go to apply one:
Popularity
Color
Not yet owned
Favorites

In this edition you can request friends to give you water (up to 4 a day).
To make the divine plant grow you give him flies instead of the fertilizer we gave it last time. Special offer is the Gardner Pack: buy one random pack of 2 seeds + 25 liters of water for just 1 pass

Basically:
The aim is to collect each version of each type of prize plant in existence. There are a total of 12 plants you can collect:
4 versions of the yellow plant => 1x fly
4 versions of the green plant => 2 x red seeds
2 versions of the red plant => 15 x water
2 versions of the orange plant => 4 x flies

I could be incorrect, but by "version" I beleive it means the image of the plant, as the plants look different even if they are the same color (a happy yellow plant, a grouchy looking yellow plant).
When you collect (harvest) all of them you get a Horn Of Plenty
When you harvest the number shown of each version you get the prize listed. So harvest 4 yellow plants to get 1 fly, collect 4 green plants to get 2 red seeds etc.

Back in November on 3 different servers a new pass system replaced the current method we have of obtaining passes from older horses sent to heaven. Last week that same system was introduced to the Russian server as well. We don't know when it is coming here.

How the new system will work:
Instead of the possible 30 passes from pass horses a month + the 1 from loyal player pass, you can only get up to 10 passes a month with a new loyal player pass system. You get max 10 points per day and when you get 30 points you get a pass. Similar to the monthly pass meter we have now, Howrse will not tell us how to get points with the new meter. So 31 potential free passes becomes a potential 10 free passes.

When you send 10 horses 25 yrs+ to heaven you get a divine called Yggdrasil that you can't care for or do anything with. All that happens is when you keep sending older horses to heaven you get tree rings to apply to him and he "gets older" and grows and you get a little photo album where you can scroll through his growing process. Other than helping him grow the only "interactive" thing you can do is change his name.

There will also be a "horses sent to Safe Haven this month" ranking as well as "all age horses sent to heaven" and "older horses (25yrs+) sent to heaven" rankings

For the VA and HR trophy will they be like the GA trophy? Cause in LegacyAnn's post it says there are 12 trophies a piece. I'm just a little confused on what they will be like. Also do we know when they will be up on the site?

the first week of the month. Not always though.
The new trophies will work like the Golden Apple trophies you have now. You have to colloect X coats/backgrounds to reach the next trophy milestone and you can get up to 12 trophies for the VA and Helio's Ray, and up to 6 trophies for Ow's ray.I have my VA trophy expanded in this image

Has there been any news or changes regarding the pass changes?

Regarding the EC boarding change - it has been cancelled....

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Hello everyone,

While the update is not yet on the test site, I wanted to provide you with an important notice about EC Boarding Extension.

Based on player feedback, we have decided to remove this limitation and players will not have to wait 30 days before the expiration of boarding in order to extend it.
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every day fully for a year you will get 10 or 11 Hestia's gifts.

max amount of droppings you cam give him a day? That is a fair amount of Gifts really. More than the one Egyptian drops, I think

a player on prepod posted it was 200 - he needs 2000 to unlock the gift.
What I wonder though - is if there is a difference in how much he "grows". Does he gain less in fall and winter? Or does the season not have any impact at all?

And then there is the hole concept of unis entirely - as a friend said -- will this wreck uni breeding entirely?

Dont worry. You can get only 1 Carnivorus from the promo, and as Asfridur said he needs to reach 2000 skills to be pruned. You can use only 200 droppings per day to fertilize him
200 droppings = 60 points.

If my math is correct,it takes you around 33 days to gain 1000 skills for this divine. so it will take you around 2 months time to reach 2000 skills to prune him and get hestias gift.
Even if someone will use hestias gift here and there doubt the uni breeding will be wrecked. We already have Caicias that offer Hestias gift (not to mention its much easier to get that hesitas gift from her than Carnivorus ) and I dont see the uni breeding being wrecked by that. Hestia or not, uni breeders still need to wait 10h between breedings so... have fun XD

200 a day, he gains 60 skills when you do that.

200 = 60 points
wowzers 2 months? Definite not a uni wrecker then.

true there is still the 10 hour "grace" period

Liana then. His skill gain is dependent on the season it is as well, so that might change the estimated drop rate either a little or a lot. I didn't even think of that until now otherwise I would have finished the event on preprod sooner to get him before the season changed. Though preprod is open until the 27th so we will see summer before it ends to see how many skills it gains then. Thanks guys!

Do we have any master post displaying the prizes of the GC lottery? I've been looking around with any success.