The Snowball Fight

Find out about the 2017 Snowball Fight here

Edit - This is an old post relating to the snowball fight in 2012:

Once again the Snowball Fight is upon us. Well the format is the same as always. Whilst you're logged on to the game, you will see, from time to time, snowball 'UFO's floating around your screen. Just click on them and you can win yourself a nice little prize.

The prizes are mainly small things such as aging points, apples etc but you can also get BM items and even Horns of Plenty. And the great thing about the snowball fight is that whatever you win, you get a second one to give (throw) at someone on your friends' list.

And when the contest finishes at 12:00 (game time) on January 16th, the players who have thrown the most snowballs (gifts) will win items including a Nyx Pack, 100,000 equus and an Achilles' Heel.

So get throwing and good luck!


Lucy

The highest-skilled Donkey on Howrse?

We rarely talk about Donkeys on Ultimate Howrse, but I have always loved them and found to be intriguing to breed. I know many players love their 'Donks' and enjoy breeding them too. Now as you may or not know, Donkeys are designed to work differently from Horses in the game.

When you breed Horses, you increase their GP by blupping and training properly. This way, Horses's GP and inborn skills increase with each generation. Donkeys are different.

If you BLUP and train your Donkey correctly, the next generation will be born with a LOWER GP. So to increase a Donkey's skills is unusual. Only careful BAD(!) breeding and no training will increase the Donkeys' GP. Strange but true.

Thanks to some wonderful breeders, who have produced Donkeys with very high GP's, I was lucky enough to get two such foals. From these two I bred Taffy.

So I have now have my  rather splendid Donkey - Taffy who, I think may well be the highest-skilled Donkey on Howrse right now with an amazing 702 skills. And whether he is or isn't the highest-skilled, he is still a Donkey and as long as Howrse have them, I will be very happy. So if you haven't thought about breeding Donkeys, why not give it a go?

Now if only we could breed Mules ....

Patsy

Palomino Sleipnirs are here

Happy New Year everyone and what better way to start 2012 than with a new Divine. Yes, for those of you who managed to get  all 12 Greyfells in the Christmas Card competition, today (the 1st of the month) you can transform one of your Greyfells into a gorgeous Palomino Sleipnir.

I was up early, despite it being New Year's Day and was the third player on Howrse to transform one of my Greyfells into the new Sleipnir. This was done by finding the one Greyfell which had an 'Action' button added to its page. Clicking this gives you a message box and then an email which confirms that your Greyfell is 'transforming' into a Palomino Sleipnir. A minute later - he arrives!

They are the same as the existing Sleipnirs - 1500 skills, all male, cannot reproduce but they can be sold. They are 422 years old and 16.3 hands high. They also have a GP of 1080 with 54 greenstars. 

So here he is in all his glory. For those of you, who have been lucky enough to get one, remember - he can't run away now so you can relax, enjoy your beautiful new Sleipy as well as the New Year!

Patsy