Jan 26 2010
Starting Your EC
Don’t jump into everything right away – start off with just purchasing several meadows and seeds to grow crops. You need to earn equus before buying boxes and starting your EC for business.
Overall Summary:
- I strongly suggest to use a pass to purchase at least one 15 acre fertile meadow; this will really help with crop production. If not, purchase about three medium sized meadows and save equus to purchase a 15 acre meadow.
- Buy flax seeds (spring), wheat seeds(summer), and horse dung. Use the horse dung to create manure to use as fertilizer. Plant flax in the spring, sell the flax product but keep most of the bedding for your EC. Plant wheat in the summer and sell both the bedding and wheat product. (Flax is a better quality product)
- Get competitions running while waiting for crops to grow
- If a extra pass is available, purchase a green house to jump start crop production.
- Once you have at least 500,000e or more, begin to add boxes. If you want top prestige, wait until you can get passes to purchase the 18 meter boxes, otherwise earn the money by growing crops. Smaller boxes will drop prestige.
- Make sure to grow carrots in the spring, once you are done trying to earn money through crops. This will encourage boarders.
Competitions:
To have a top EC, a high prestige is needed. Running competitions is hard to start, but easy to maintain and will bring up prestige. The easiest way to do this, but not necessarily the cheapest, is to buy a high skilled horse, around 1,000 skills or more, and enter it in your competitions. For further information on how to do this, read the next post below. You should try to work on competitions early on, as they can take some time to build up the prestige.
Growing Crops:
Sell a horse in the Private Sales for a pass or two or buy a pass with your reserve. Try your best to get some passes on your hands. Use these to purchase ideally five 15 acre meadows, or at least one. This allows you to continue to save up your EC money instead of using some to buy meadows. No matter how many fifteen acre meadows you have, purchase two or three six acre meadows for resident horses. If you cannot afford 15 acres meadows, use the starting equus of 25,000e to purchase three medium sized meadows.
As soon as spring starts, grow flax with horse dung that you make into manure. Once you harvest them, sell just the flax to the store. Keep the bedding; you can use this for boarding horses. With one 15 acre meadow, you can get about 10,000e, (just flax) depending on the weather. In the summer, do the same thing except with wheat seeds. Once that harvests, sell both products – straw bedding and wheat. This alone can give you about 25,000e. Those three six acre meadows will also help bring in money. Buying horse dung to create manure to sell back to the shop will also bring in a profit. Only a few hundred equus. This is very time consuming, so I don’t suggest doing this often, as there isn’t much of a profit. Purchasing a greenhouse can really help. This allows you to grow crops in all seasons or just provide carrots for the boarding horses. Just remember – if you buy a greenhouse, buy it from the secret market so it will cost one pass instead of equus from your EC.
Adding Some Boxes and Extras:
Once you reach 200,000 equus, think of all the things you will need first. Boxes, (18 by 18 will bring the most prestige) flax bedding, employees, and clean/fertile meadows. You can also get some extra things like showers for you stall, but this won’t have an affect on the prestige. The more boxes (with horses boarding) you have, the more the prestige will rise.
Hiring Employees:
Wait until you are ready for boarders to hire employees, or at least a few days before so you have offers posted. It can be difficult to have a player accept your offer, but over time, you can hire more and more temporary employees.
Setting the Price:
Over time, money from the boarders can build up, but it’s a slow way to earn money. I always keep my EC priced at 10e. The cheaper price not only encourages boarders, but encourages the length of their stay. I would go no higher than 15e; the best way to earn equus is from growing crops.
I have to say, I don’t think you have to wait so long to start buying boxes and stuff. I only have about 130,000 E, but I have employees, pets, and boxes. My prestige is at 53%. I’m doing better everyday.
I have several greenhouses and large meadows. I plant turnips and crops and sell them. It’s not that hard to do well early.
That’s just my advice. :)
You do have a point with starting earlier…However, in order to get your EC in the top 500, you need to have great prestige – at least 79%. Mine has been at a steady 74% and is ranked 1,000. I guess I could re-word it so you can buy boxes and pets once some money is made, but focusing on growing crops is key. Plus, in order to achieve full prestige, you need to have the biggest boxes which cost 100,000e. So unless pays are available, the players needs to save up a lot of money for that.
I didn’t have much Equus left because I don’t have passes nor will I ask my parents if I can buy them because they wouldn’t, so I did the manure thing and in two days I went from 300 equus to 2000, so it works if you’re low on money.
If you wait a bit to buy passes you have the option to get four for the price of one. Wait until you catch a +2 pass UFO. This way, you get two extra passes. Then, buy one pass. If it is the first pass you buy, you automatically get another. If you have a hard time convincing your parents, you could bring that up. Also add that it could be a birthday or holiday gift. ;)
I discovered something useful! If you grow a field of wheat you should then buy a greenhouse. Plant more wheat in the greenhouse, and then sell that. Buy another greenhouse once you have enough equus. Keep buying greenhouses until you have 3. That way you can grow 3 things at once no matter what the season: Carrots, Flax, and Wheat. It may not generate as much as a 15-acre meadow but it still generates a decent amount of equus.
That’s an excellent idea, but sadly, players can only purchase one greenhouse.
I do think that you should change the tips so that they suit people who DON’T have passes. Keep what you have, but change it so that those of us who can’t buy passes with real money can have advice. I learned that buying 3 unfertile 15-acre meadows and planting them with wheat/flax with manure fertilizer generates around 20,000 equus per field, even when you lost around 15% of your crop due to storms.
I agree with Anna. I love Howrse, but I (nor my parents) are willing to spend money on a web game. I think giving tips without passes are best. Plus, you can still do well without buying passes with real money. If your EC is more important to you, spend passes on that. If you want to focus more on your howrses, use passes on them. You just save and choose what will help you best.
Oh, also, my parents only let me get on 20 minutes a week (pathetic, I know,) but I don’t get a lot of time to grow crops and everything. What’s the profit for the different crops like wheat, apples, stuff like that? I’ve only planted flax, turnips, and carrots.
Thanks so much for this website, I love it!
Yes, passes are definitely not necessary for the game. I have bought one, but only because of the +2 UFO and since it was my first pass, I got an extra one. I only did it because I really wanted access to the Private Sales and I was one point away. Buying that one pass allowed me to help out the donkeys as well, which gave me about two more karma points (at two different times). Actually, I think your parents are making the right decision with the limited time on a computer. I think it’s almost like a black hole that sucks you in and spits you out, hours later. xD
Flax and Wheat are the best – with five 15 acre meadows, you can usually make about 140,000e. I don’t know the profits for each different crop since it varies depending on storms, scarecrows, and fertilizer. I wouldn’t grow turnips anymore due to the dramatic decrease in sales prices for them.
The thing about flax/wheat prices:
Flax generates around 5,000e per UNFERTILE 15-acre meadow with manure with no part of the crop lost to storms. Wheat will generate 20,000e-25,000e per unfertile 15-acre meadow with manure depending on storms (I know this because I lost around 15% of my first wheat crop (1 unfertile 15-acre meadow) and still made a little over 20,000e, and my first flax crop just came in today and I made around 15,000e with 3 fields planted, I sold a little bedding as well). Wheat is the crop that brings more money. Flax gives bedding. That’s why rotating the two is best.
ADD: The only reason to grow other things (Turnips, oats, etc.) is to make mashes. That’s all you need them for.
I have to disagree on one thing, though. For the greenhouse, if you can’t buy passes, don’t waste a pass on buying a greenhouse. Buy it from your EC reserve; spend your pass on the 15 acre meadow.
That’s a very good point, actually. I checked the EC store and greenhouses are selling for as little as 12,000e! I’ll add that tip as soon as I can. ;)
Hi, i was just giving a tip for all you who needs more money to their EC. Allways log in every day, buy 50 pounds of horse droppins, make maure, sell the manure, buy, make, sell, buy make, sell and so on until there comes a message that says you have reached your 1000 droppings limit. My log in on howrse is meltsku
No space, no points or anythuing. Just text.
Thank you, meltsku
So would you suggest to get a medow first to try and get some more equus?
Yes – any size will do, but 15 is the most successful.
And what one would be better? The meadow or the fertile meadow?
Definitely the fertile meadow. Sorry if I forgot to list that in the post.
Non-fertile meadows won’t make it past 50%, making it very hard to grow crops.
hey i started out buying 3 6acre places then farmed them with turnips and now im waiting im gunna give my ec a few howrse years then im gonna get boxes with the money from my plants is that good idea or no
Hm…well, lately turnips haven’t been the best crops to use. Since about September of 2009, the prices dropped so low, players brought up a fuss about it. I would suggest to just grow them this time and then plant wheat in the summer and flax in the spring. As far as the boxes, I would wait for that until you reach your 100,000e achievement. I understand that you would probably want to jump right into everything, but it saves much more time to just wait a bit.
Starting out with that size meadows was a good idea. Hopefully you will be able to purchase 15 acre fertile meadows as your EC improves.
As a side note: I have a new service I provide on Howrse – I pretty much evaluate your EC and post in your forum on what to work on to help improve your EC. There is a post about it here on HowrseHelper (right on the home page) or on my forum on Howrse.
Thanx 4 the tips!!!Hope they work!!! I really need to pass achievement 7!!!
How do you get your prestige up, and your cleanliness, space, and fertility for your meadow?
For space, you need to have enough meadows for your horses and some fallow. To improve fertility, lay them fallow for some time. Cleanliness will gradually improve.
it would be so easy to get to 100000 equus at my ec if i had passes but i dont know how to buy them apart from paying in real life? any tips?
Hm..Buy them with your reserve and try to buy some from other people…It will be very expensive though. Try training foals and selling them for passes. You could just work with one 15 acre meadow, it will just take about one Spring & Summer on Howrse, if you start growing crops as soon as the seasons start.
Have you or anyone you know had problems with buying passes with your credit card? Is it safe?
I bought only one pass my whole time on the game and I used PayPal. It’s completely safe and you will get the pass(es) within minutes of the purchase. Other methods, like phone calls, usually have delays in sending the passes…or at least that’s what I heard.
I’ve got an idea too!!
When I first started I bought heaps of medows. Then I planted heaps and heaps of turips and apples. Then sold most of the apples and turips till I had 1000 of each. I used the 1000 to make health mashes.
Also When you start a new game these days you can take test thingys with the little mokey mascot. You can heaps of money and other things like black market items too!!!!!!
I wish I hand of found this page earlier – I might not be fretting over the 100,000e thing before the end of March.
Right well I have the flax and the manure waiting for spring. By the way, how long does it take to grow flax?
Um..I’m not too sure. I think it’s about 9 days…It will say once you start to grow it
Any idea on how to get passes without using money from your reserve, payal or anything like that?
P.S
My name on howrse is Horsey-girl. Please mail me!!
How do you make manure out of droppings? Everyone seems to think it’s a good idea to make money out of manure, but i don’t know how to!!!
1. Buy manure in the shop (try to get 50)
2. Go to your meadows. Towards the top of the page, there are two buttons – one for mash and the other for manure.
3. On the manure page, it will give you the option to make manure out of how ever many droppings you bought..that’s it!
Well,
I was very worried about the achievements leaving and that I wouldn’t be able to get all these BM items, but now Howrse has added them back again? Good thing they also mentioned a new achievement system!
The (little) greenhouses cost 20,148e and its Winter. I just started my EC and am wondering if I should buy the greenhouse using the 25,000e I have or just buy a meadow and let half of my crop rot? I learned that wheat sells most and flax is useful, so Im going to buy those as well. So, which one? Greenhouse or meadow? I would really appreciate your advice.
I have 1 pass to spend… should I use it on a horn of lushness or a meadow? I have a scarecrow, but I want to wait until I get a meadow. So do you think I should risk it? Two of my friends got a 18m box, which one of them also got a medium box, and the other person got a 15 acre meadow… but with HoL you also get other stuff.
Can you please PM me the answer?
where do you get pass seeds? I heard they’re very useful even though they take a month to grow.
I’ve got 2 questions that I’m stuck on:-
1. I’ve just bought a scarecrow. It came up with a message saying it had been added to my inventory, but I can’t find anywhere that allows me to put it in my biggest meadow.
2. I can’t remember which seeds I needs to grow wheat oat.
Can anyone help?
Thank you.
Pass Seeds come out very rarely. When they are available, Howrse usually has an announcement. They are available at the store at that time; if not, Howrse will announce it.
I found the scarecrow….but can’t find anything to grow wheatoat….
Also, what crops would be best in terms of profit? I have a greenhouse and about 3 big fertile meadows and some smaller ones…
Thank you.
I’ve been on howrse for a while, but I’m still having trouble with my showjumping comp. I’ve tried to enter my horse in it, (I’ve checked the skills) but it won’t show up. Do you know why?
Wheat seed can be found at the EC store.
The best crops are flax and wheat as you will get the biggest profit.
Many players have had trouble finding comps for some reason..Check that it’s open for registrations and make sure the skill level is set at least 2 below the skills of your horse.
will making manure help get you more money?
Even though you are buying manure, you sell it back to the store, giving you a small profit.
A good way of getting a pass is with your equus. If you are over 50 days old, you can buy one pass for 20% of your reserve every 30 days (1pass every 30 days). I know so many people want to make their howrses immortal and keep them forever, but its not really worth it. If you are trying to get some more money in your EC, buy something from the Secret market (don’t bother with the Zebras) e.g. Large Fertile Meadow or DH Box. Don’t bother with the Horn of Lushness, the Scarecrow or the Zebras and Little Greenhouses. Greenhouses are selling cheap at the moment (3,500e?) so use your EC reserve. Horn of Lushness are a bit of a waste of time, although they can give you passes and things, its not worth wasting a pass on such a thing because there’s always a chance you will get a bogus net (500e, 5 Turnip seeds etc.)
The best thing you can go with is the meadow. It will give bigger crops, growing passes (when seeds are available), therefore a better profit. (Unless you have a few of the 15-acre meadows, don’t use them for pasture for the horses!)
Also, look carefully around the site, or in the responses before you ask your questions, because i’m sure Jessica would be getting sick of answering the same questions all the time :P
Can you pleeeease make one without all the passes? I’m trying to not let howrse suc up my whole life and i need the money in real life. I know it is possible to play howrse without passes and enjoying it, but I’m having a hard time starting my ec.
I’d be very happy if you could do this ^^
I have only bought one pass on Howrse after using a +2 UFO. Since it was my first pass, I got an extra. This gave me a total of four passes for the price of one. There are many ways to get passes on Howrse without purchasing them. I received a total of probably about 20 passes with just purchasing one.
what is a +2UFO?
To Jay re the scarecrow – you must let a field go fallow, then an icon will appear that allows you to add the scarecrow.
To whom ever figured out about making fertilizer – a good amount of change can be made in the run of a week – tks
There are pass UFOs that can be spotted occasionally. A +2UFO is a pass UFO that gives you the option to receive two passes for free after buying one within the next 30 minutes that you receive the UFO.
I bought a 6 acre field and it still says to buy 4 more acres. What did I do wrong. Should I have just bought 2 3 acre fields?
i know a great way to make equus for you equestrian center: buy as much horse dung as you can, turn it into manure and sell it. then repeat the process. i have made like 20000 equus from it.
I’ve just started my EC today and trying to buy the dung to make manure but everytime I buy some they disappear from my account and I cannot make any manure, what has happened to it?
as to the horse manure you can buy 1000 a day for 6000e, make the manure which turns into 40, sell the 40 manure for 7600e total, you can make 1600e every day you want to do it if you have the 6000, and before you have that you can buy as much as you can make it then come back and buy more
How do you find your equestrian centre’s page?
Go to your page and click on the EC link or go to EC > The Office > EC page
Hi, I noticed there was a new item for boxes; Showers, would you recommend buying one at an earlier stage to increase prestige?
Actually, they don’t count towards prestige; they will only help attract more boarders. I would say wait to do that, as it costs passes.
How do scarecrows work? I have one and put it in a fallow meadow. Do you only put them in fallow meadows because I can’t seem to put it in any meadow growing anything.
Also, does it come back or is it a one time thing? And does 1 work for all the meadows?
I’m confused about this item and there is no topic either here or Howrse about it.
Scarecrows stay in one meadow forever. They cannot be moved (I think) and only apply to one meadow. They increase the crop harvest once crops are planted. The meadow can still be used for horses, but will have no effect on them; only on the crops.
Thanks. And what crops are good to grow in the fall? I have a greenhouse and plan on growing carrots this winter but what do I do now? I harvest my wheat tomorrow.
The only crops that can be grown in the meadow during the fall are apples, which can be used for mashes. Otherwise, you can start using your greenhouse early and grow carrots and some flax.
Thanks for all this advise
If only I had seen this before DX I have a Groom, 3 12 m² boxes (I deleted 2 or 3), 3 6 acre meadows and a 3 acre meadow. The moment the 3 horses in the boxes I have are gone, I will delete the boxes. Also, I won’t have to have a meadow for the boarders so the 3 acre one wouldn’t be needed. Is there any way to get more money in the fall or winter, other than selling apples and manure? And do you get more equus if you save apples, carrots etc. for mashes? Just wondering.
MY TIP:
If you can, buy as many cheap, old, non-immortal horses (around 26 years+ is good, 500e-600e is a good price) They don’t seem like much, but keep them going just until they reach 30 years. DO NOT use aging points on them or give them turnips or mashes, this is now a waste. If you want you can work the horse(s) down below 5% and put them to bed. The next day you’ll have plenty of passes.
Howrse logged me out and deleted around 5 000 000 000 words that I have worked over 4 hours on.
DX
what do you mean by meadow sized meadows?
Pretty sure it means 15 acre meadows,in other words the best meadow possible!!! :)
15 acres is large, 6 acres is medium
I can’t destroy any of my boxes,it doesn’t give me an option.How do destroy boxes? All of mine have boarders but I have had others destroy a box on me!So why can’t I?
I think you can’t destroy a box when a boarder is in it…although I do remember previously that was possible. Maybe it was changed? As for your experiences, that might have been because the EC owner did not repair the worn box, so it got destroyed on its own. Sorry I’m not much of a help with this.
That’s fine I will try again! Thank you so much for trying though!
I can’t don’t know whats wrong!
I made health mashes for my EC, and they show up on my EC’s page, but they don’t show up as an advantage. Why?
It’ll take a day for Howrse to update the numbers.
I wqent back on today and they still don’t show up- my EC is called Sunshine and the Seashore- see for yourself. Does the fact that I only have 164 of them make a difference?
Hey there,
All of this has been really helpful, but one thing I am having problems with is that I have meadows and I have boxes with bedding in them, and i have a groom, but it just won’t show up on my page! I dont know what to do! :(
If it was just added today, you’ll have to wait a day for it to update on the page.
But it’s been on for about a week and it still doesn’t show up… :(
Hoe do you change the rate of your EC? I can’t seem to find a place to do it!
EC > Office > Boarding tab
Is there a way to restart your EC?
@The Rebel
Yes, there is a way to restart your ec. Go to your office and click on (I have restarted my EC and I’m not bothered to retrace my steps!) the tabs and scroll down until there are two options saying to ‘restart’ your EC and to ‘Delete’ your ec!
How can I decide the minimum skills of the boarders? How much does it effect the prestige?
What sizes are the medows? It only says small, medium and large?
Don’t worry I got it!!! What should you plant in Fall?
Deciding on the minimum skills affects lesson price, but should be only done if you think certain horses deserve your EC. Mine is set at 500 – the well-trained horses can board so my EC looks better.
It does affect prestige, because the horses go under the stabling prestige.
Plant apples in one field and harvest every fall. Do not plant two fields of apples; you will find it annoying when you want to grow other things.
If you can’t afford the 15m large fertile meadow I’d suggest getting the unfertile large meadows for a bigger harvest at once.
The medium meadows are what I use for pasture, they are 6m. I have never used the smalls.
Can you help? How else can I get money? it’s winter and you can’t grown nothing. and competition signups don’t start for another 1-2 days
How can I board my own horse at my Equestrian Center?
Hello,
I have a bit of a problem, I can’t find a way to buy passes with my reserve or my own money. I can’t access the private sales. How else can I get passes?
Thanks
You will have to wait for your 50th day on Howrse to purchase passes with your reserve. You can find it on the passes page.
OK, so all I understood is this;
Im not supposed to start with boxes. You want me to just grow crops and run competitions. Once I have a good amount of money I can buy box stalls???
Is this right? also how do I get Saddles/Horeshoes/ Bridles for my EC.
Also could you PM me on howrse.
@kiche132
@kiche132 You get Saddles and Bridles for employing a saddler and you get horseshoes for employing a farrier.
If I ever get my hands on a pass, is it a better idea to get a greenhouse or a large fertile meadow?
I have enough equus in my EC to buy a greenhouse but I’m not sure if I should use them on that? It might be a good thing in the long run..
A greenhouse will help you start up your center and keep it active for half of the month (when Howrse is in the winter and fall stages). I used one in the beginning but once I made 700,000e, I barely worried about growing crops. The meadow is what will help you overtime, at least that was my personal experience.
Hola. I was doing the manure-resell-for-40e-profit-tip, and just wanted to let you guys know, that there’s a 1,000 purchase limit on droppings per day :P
Hey I was wondering when you have a box with a shower in it and you decide to destroy it does the shower disappear??
Yes, I believe the shower will disappear.
Does the money i earn from competitions go straight to my account or do i have to stop hosting the competition?
I don’t believe any money is earned from competitions; it is just awarded to the participating horses. You’ll have to double check on that though.
I had just Figured out a money making tip that might be helpful!
buy the daily maximum of dung for the day, turn it into manure, and then sell it! you gain 80e per bag! which, if my calculations are correct, will gain you 20000e a day at max! but it is best to keep a few in your inventory for crop growing, but if its winter or fall and you dont own a greenhouse (or you have already begun growing in it) dont worry about saving some for there is nothing to grow anyways!
I hope this is helpful!
hey! im trying to make my EC only for me and me friends but i dont know how. please help me! thanks! email me at amrains@live.com!
Just reserve the boxes for them, if you only want friends to board. (Click on the plus sign next to the box on the boxes page to reserve a box)
What do you suggest to do if you are starting your EC in the winter and can’t grow crops? If I buy a green house it will use all my Equs up.
Simply wait a week ;) Possibly use the manure trick to try to rack up equus a while.
Thank you for the help :).
I keep hearing buy passes with your “reserve”, could you explain that more and how do I go about doing that? I have looked on the pass page but see nothing about buying passes with your reserve. Also what is your reserve? This might sound like a dumb question, LOL. Sorry, still trying to get the hang of the game.
Reserve is another word for the equus you have on the game. You need to have 50 days of seniority to purchase a pass with your equus.
Ok, I get it, thank you :). If I can’t sell any of my horses for a pass then I will need to wait 14 more days….. Oooooo the agony! LOL. Must have patience! By the way, your site rocks!
What do you suggest to grow and sell in the fall? :)
I usually just keep my meadows fallow to prepare for spring. You can plant apples, but they harvest once a month, so it’s not worth it.
ummm, 2 questions…
1. I’m finding it difficult selling my horses for 1 pass each, what would would you recommend?
2. I was looking up the info on how to get Karma and it said:
‘you earn a point each time 5 people you have sponsored obtain their first
karma point.’ How do you sponser somebody?
thx! :)