Feb 15 2010
Game Play Tips
By following these tips, you can improve your overall game play and ranking. If you are having trouble with Achievements, there are tips at the end of each Achievement Level page for those.
Training & BLUPing a Horse:
Many players have specific training schedules for each breed. However, they all follow the same pattern, just with different skills gained at different times. This is a basic training schedule that should work with every breed. How it works is you first BLUP your horse and then fully train it.
BM Items:
There are many BM items available to train your horse but only a few are necessary. If you are concerned about aging points, put Morpheus’ Arms on at the age of three. Even though Water of Youth can seem to be annoying, they allow you to get 50 more skill gain in your top two skills. And finally, training will go much faster if using a Chronos’ Timer. A tack pack will also be helpful, but not necessary. Because of the Philotes’ Stroke, you can get at most 14% more energy.
~Start each day off with 1 hour to 1 hour and 30 minutes in pasture, grooming, salt block, and two lessons. The two lessons will be very helpful in the future since much more skill will be gained. However, training could take about a (horse) year longer.
~First, finish all rides in it’s top three categories. (i.e. long jumping rides, short gallop ride, long gallop rides, etc..)
~Once rides are finished, start to train in the top three skills for training. If Dressage is one, wait until your closer to ending the training since a horse only needs 4% energy to train in Dressage. This means, if you have any bit of energy left over at the end of the day, some training can be done in Dressage.
~After training is almost done or is completed, enter your horse in the competitions dealing with it’s top three skills. It will be helpful to check the competing horses. If their skills are too high, try to find a different competition with lower-skilled horses, or start your own. Therefor, when it comes to winning twenty competitions for full BLUP, you’re almost there. Don’t forget to continue doing lessons!
~Your horse should be at, or close to, twenty competition wins. If it isn’t there yet, check the competing horses and enter if their skills are lower than your horse’s.
~Once your horse gets to 100 BLUP, you can finish training in it’s lower skills. Follow the same steps as above – complete rides, train, and enter competitions to get full gain.
~After all training is done, your horse should be about 12 to 13 years old, depending on how much training you got in for each year.
1. Earning Equus:
Are you having trouble earning equus? If you are very desperate, you can sell items your items to the store. However, there are much easier ways. For example, put your horse in the pasture until it has ate the complete amount. (Be careful and don’t have your horse in too long!) This helps cut down on the amount of money you spend for feeding. Just keep watch on the seasons and how clean the pasture is so your horse won’t get sick.
Two more easy things to do are to stroke a horse in Safe Haven or to stroke an Xanthos. An Xanthos is a divine horse and when you stroke it, you could win 1,000 equus and a Horn of Plenty! Click here to view the list. All you need to just is click on it Xanthos link and it strokes it for you!
2. Just Starting:
The goal of Howrse is to raise and breed the best horses. To do that, your foal needs a high Generic Potential (or GP). When you first start, your horse only has a potential of 350. You can raise that by about one point by having it participate in foal games. (It can start this at 8 months) First put your horse in the pasture for a hour or a hour and a half, give it a salt stone, and have it play for as many hours as possible. Once the games are done, stroke it, groom it, feed it, and give your horse treats. That is the best way to raise it’s potential.
Normally when people just start, they want to rush into everything – buying everything, breed your horse, and so on. It is best to only buy what you would use and sell what you won’t. Don’t breed your horse until he/she has a high amount of skills or reached it’s potential.
Try to accomplish as many achievements as you can. Doing these will help improve your game play and earn your money, Black Market items, and for the high levels, you can earn passes! If there is one accomplishment you need to wait to complete, take a look at the next level to see what is next. (All achievement levels are provided)
Get a job as a groom as soon as possible. This will help bring in some money for you. If you are having money issues, read the posts above.
3. Crossbreeding:
Crossbreeding can result in a good thing and a bad thing. Crossbreeding can allow your horse to have more skills, but it depends which breeds are crossed. It is best to cross breeds that have similar top skills, that way, those skills can improve. Arabian, Brumby, and Canadian, all have high skills in Stamina, Galloping, Jumping, and Dressage, therefore, making them good cross breeders.
Hello.
I just want to ask a question. When you say that after all rides and training are done, you need 20 wins. Must the 20 wins come from the same competition?
Eg.
I have 10 wins in gallop and 10 wins in trot. Must it all be 20 wins in gallop?
Nope. You can have two wins in Gallops, five in Trot, four in Stanima, three in Dressage, three in Speed, and three in Jumping. It could be scattered all over the place.
Hello,
I think it was a great idea to post these these tips. I was wondering what you meant by finish all rides in its top 3.
There are three different rides you could take your horse on – Trot, Gallop, and Steep Slope.
Hi! My Harlequin had 100 BLUP, and now only has 74.97. Why is his BLUP going down? I entered him in a few Competitions, and I can’t train him. What’s wrong with him?
Honestly, I have no idea. I have never heard of that before..
Usually, when someone receives a divine horse, it’s BLUP is at about 70 – meaning that by entering competitions and winning first place, it should go up. My guess is that there was a problem when you first received him and his BLUP was 100. Then Howrse fixed the problem and it lowered back. I suggest to continue to enter him in comps and just wait a day or two to see if it improves at all.
OK thanks! I also sold my Harlequin to my friend to enter it in my parade, and she sold it back, and i can’t get it for another 10 days!! :P
OK, I also just bred my 900 + skill mare to a 900 + skill stally, and I got 2 twenty star fillies, and only 200 skills? why can’t i get a high skill foal with two high skill parents?? and also, both of the horses i bred had 100 blup, and now my foals have -100 blup!!!!! i just dont get it!! howrse is confusing me!!!! :(
That’s great that they have 200 skills! Usually horses are born with twenty to no skills at all. The parents only have 900 skills and 100 BLUP because they were trained. You now have to train your foals to at least 10 years of age and work on BLUPing them. Once fully trained, they should reach around 900 skills, depending if they have BM items and what the GP is.
How do you finish all of the rides? I know that there are three different rides, but how do you finish them?
Continue to train with the rides. You will know that you are done when there is no more skill gain.
how do u get the 20 wins???? i only ever get 3rd 4th or 5th in comps and i train the horses and enter the least difficult ones!!!!! :)
oops i meant to put in a :( there not a :) ah well. ;)
Always enter in the lowest-skilled competition possible. This way, you aren’t competing against higher skilled horses, especially is you have a foundation horse. Enter as many competitions as you can; it could take a while until you win 20. It usually takes me a few hours, even a few days.
@ jessica Thank You! I was surprised with my results. I’m going to try to breed her again. I need major help with BLUPing and training my foals. I don’t know how to get that many skills! And I can’t really buy passes.
Hi, I know you explain a lot in the above, but it includes bm items. I don’t know about you, but I can’t buy passes and am not that great at saving passes. Any advice?
Have you ever bought or traded BM items with another player? That’s how I get my BM items. Of the ones I explain, I would suggest to get a WOY. Many players sell those since they don’t like that it takes longer to age their horse. It actually gives them much more skills. Make sure you board your horse/foal in the highest EC you can with a rabbit for a pet. If it have a potential of 630 or higher, look in the EC Classifieds on Howrse to see if there are any EC willing to take your foal. Don’t settle for anything less than 20e or even 21e lessons. You could probably buy a WOY for around 4,500e, possibly 3,500e.
Hey jess!! I was wondering, how do you skill a howrse?? I made a couple new accts. because I wanted to see if anything was new… and I got free passes, BM items, turnips, apples, and aging points. I also got a free horse so I could breed! They even give your horse skills.
As in training?
Um…I understand that you want to see if there are changes, but that’s considered multi-accounting, especially if you send items between accounts. I would suggest to close all but one as soon as possible.
Just did. I wanted to experiment because I heard that there was a new intro. And what color horse will I get if i breed a roan with a black?
You could get any possible coat colors from that breed; Howrse randomly selects a coat.
How to increase horse´s skills?
Hi. I don’t know what BULPing a horse is. I don’t even know what BULP means! Could you explain?
zam28
Okay, I have a few questions.
1. How do you buy or trade BM items?
2. What is BLUPing? What does it mean? How do you do it?
3. Is it possible to buy passes with equus? Can you trade them or gift them to people?
4. I’m running really low on money. Like, only a couple thousand. What do I do? I’ve already sold everything I can, and I get paid for lessons and jobs, but it’s just not enough! What do I do? Please help me!
1. You must have 10 days of senority to use the gift giving feature. If you buy a BM item, the player will give you the BM item and you will purchase their horse in the auction or private sales for the selected amount – this is the only way for players to get their money. If you trade, then the player sends on item and you send the other. It is best to discuss how you will buy/trade with the owner of the BM item to make sure everything is clear.
2. It’s best if you wait till you have access to it, as explaining it really doesn’t make sense. Bsically, it’s a way to tell if you horse is fully trained. You complete it by training your horse in it’s top three skills, winning first place in 20 comps, and being at least ten years of age.
3. Yes, you can but them with equus. After your 50th day, you can buy it every 30 days for 20% of your reserve. The only way to give it to someone is if they put a horse for sale in the private sales for one pass and you purchase it.
4. Sell BM items, train and sell horses…if you are a newer player, it is expected to have a lower amount of equus.
Hi r the eggs getting deleted on the 8th of July? cause i realywant to hatch my egg but its no were ner finished and lets face it, on howrse im a nobody :( so could ppl lpease add me so i can hatch my egg and get the arabellla fingey inside! Please???
Oh by the way my user name is HecateGodess
They are being deleted tomorrow. The main way the egg grows is by sponsoring family members on the game.
anyone got one selling cheap? will pay 15000e and if u save it for about 3 days if my horses sell i shall pay 20000e? any sugestions on anyone who will sell cheap…ish?
The Falabellas? Nope, sorry. Cheapest I saw one posted in the auctions for was 50,000e, but have been going for 200,000e and 20 passes or 600,000e.
Ok can you please vote on my back up plan for Farabrllas:
A) Find a seller and beg them to keep the Farabellla and then sell praticaly all my horses
B) Go mad on buying horns of plenty (Before i can do that i will need to beg my dad to buy me some passes!)
Please choose 1, poitnless but i need a good plan so i can find a Farablla
anyone know how many have been found?
My guess is most of them are found. I saw several Fallabellas in the sales today for 500e and 20 passes…Maybe try to just buy a pack of passes instead.
Hi its me agian, (soz to keep bothering you) its jsut that i want to give them your email adress but each time i press update
The date of birth you have typed is invalid
but theres no were for me to enter my birth date
My e-mail address or yours? Is this on your profile on Howrse? There might be a spot for your birth date on the My Account page or on the Edit My Account page.
no i tried that, nothing.
P.S I ment my email adress not yours soz for the confuseion
It’s fine.
That’s weird..I’m not sure what’s wrong, as that’s a problem with Howrse’s coding probably. Try contacting a mod.
Hi,
I got this letter and it said I had been given a mustang unicorn as a gift…
then I needed to enter the transaction code.
WHAT IS THAT?!?!?!?
plz help me I am desperate!
from Jeannie98
From the Howrse board game, the buyer would received a mustang unicorn. Did you buy the board game?
Also, make sure the message is from Howrse and not a player.
I have never even heard of this board game thing, and when I went on the forum
thing to see if people could help me, it had happened to them as well! and it WAS from howrse, because I clicked on this link and it showed me the unicorn, and I had to rite in my transaction code to get it. IS there any possible way for me to get that unicorn?
I don’t know if I can help much, as I don’t have a code. I’m guessing if you enter the code there, you will receive the unicorn. Or, maybe on the card page?
Okay, I have a ton of questions. I just started playing so.. What is BLUP. What does it stand for? What does it mean? How do I raise it? Where can I see how much BLUP I have? Same with IBS and GP. Some really basic stuff for those of us who really have NO CLUE would be helpful on this page.
PS: Add me. I need friends. =)
BLUP is just a way to tell if your horse is fully trained. You should only breed your horse if it has 100 BLUP. Raise it by completing training in the top three skills (meaning they are bolded), win 20 comps in first place, and the horse must be at least 10 years of age. Check the BLUP for your horse on the genetic tab; you must pass the 4th riding level in order to see this.
IBS (in-born/bred skills) can only raise if the parents have high skills; same with genetic potential.
Hi i have a question. How do you delete some of your accounts? thanks:)
Go to Profile > My Account > Edit My Account (the one with the paperclip next to it) > Scroll down to the bottom of the page > Enter your password and click Delete My Game