Hello hello!! Welcome! This game takes awhile to get going, but once you’ve got it rolling it’s SUPER fun! The key to making money in the game is by making your equestrian center work for you. You’ll want to get the largest pasture you can afford and put longhorns on it. Then in 30 days when you get the leather, use it in your biggest workshop you can afford to make lunges. Lunges sell for a lot so you can reinvest in the EC until you have all large pastures & large workshops. Also set up your EC to be a mountain so you get iron for missions, it’s worth more than wood and sand. Within a couple months you’ll be able to make real $$$ in the game!! Otherwise just have fun

When you start the game it's always a little slow at first because you just don't have the numbers of horses. Just do your beginner objectives diligently and you'll start to accumulate horses and items

An important part of the game is events! You can find them at the top of the page, the current one is called Ride: Sports. From that, you can get lots of gifts and items, and it gives you a few more things to do with your horses!

Another thing is the Ascent Of Olympus, which you can find under your 'Breeding Farm' tab. It's a mini game that helps you get fragments towards some special divine horses, and it's a cute little strategy game to boot, very fun in my personal opinion!

Otherwise, you can always do thing like care for your EC, as the person above mentioned, you can scroll through the forums - there is a ton of wisdom and game advice in them - or congratulate people/look at pages, some people have specialized UFOs you can catch that'll give you items!

@odelicious how do you assign your own horses to your equestrian?

One thing I wish I hadn't done: don't use up all your colored tack as you get it. I had my horses all prettied up without realizing that was a limited resource.

Hijacking someone else's topic is considered rude in the online community. You are better off, starting your own topic.
However, to board at your own EC you can reserve the boxes to yourself - just make sure your horses meet the criteria for your EC

@jsniper Great advice! My biggest struggle right now is accumulating horses, particularly adults. For getting horses, is there any strategy to the auction house or is it more dependent on how much money and the other bidders have? I'm trying to get more but I'm almost always outbidded, lol!

Play the promos/games usually alot of free stuff. Decide what works best for you the game in a way is design to accommodate a wide variety of people who like equines. Collector, breeder of alot of horses, highest skilled horses, if you want yggdrasil and ap farming etc

I'd recommend saving up any luck items (tyche's crowns, golden fleeces, titan's challenges) that you get, as well as any passes you get from daily objectives. It takes time, but if you save them, you can eventually get to a point where you can be certain of getting a divine horse. These horses can be very helpful to have. Just save up, watch what's available in events and luck items, and pick your first one based on how you want to play (they have many abilities that can give you different kinds of boosts).

Also I'd recommend playing the ascent of olympus, as that can get you divines much faster (save up your drachmas for the ones you want more)

i realized this but wish other people would realize it.
have a realistic goal for your EC. you do NOT have to have a top top ec to get boarders. you don't need all 3 star boxes and tack and ammenities to get boarders. To have this costs a ton of time and money. you don't need it. I have 420 boxes (no 3*, only a handful of 2*), just a handful of troughs and showers, offer all tack including 1*bridles and 2*saddles, offer all food. i charge 23e a night. Guess what i'm full EVERY day. I make and grow everything i offer and sell the extras. people are going to tell you to make money you got to grow 6 big meadows of cows. but then you can't do anything else. and it takes a month for cows to finish. I do one large pasture of cows. one of apples. and then have a rotation for the rest. i haven't had to buy anything other than seeds to make or grow anything i offer in yrs. The only thing i splurge on every month is 100 passes for an instructor so i don't have to worry about boarders. My goal is 60% prestige so i can use 4 workshops. If i didn't use the instructor i'd have to pay attention to my boarders. My other goal is anyone can use my EC so limiting my skill kind of defeats that. and every like 300 months i spend another 100 passes to change my location to stock up on the other resources.
People are going to try to tell you that the only way to have a successful EC is to have all the top stuff. but they don't help you realize how expensive that is. you don't need the top stuff. there are plenty of players with plenty of horses that don't care about that.

The biggest money maker I found recently was to save the Black market items aka BMI that I get from events I don't use and sell them in the exchanges! Make sure to read the handbook also, so you can make sure you don't have your account docked for a rule you didn't know about. I cannot stress enough that BMI CANNOT be sold for passes, that's considered pass trafficking and you can lose your account if caught. Above all, have fun and I hope you enjoy the game!

I didn't know how/why to BLUP or what comps to put a horse in ... Took me AGES to accidentally stumble into the concept. Read a few guides!

1. save your passes. I notice a lot of new players will buy expensive pass horses that serve them no purpose in their game at all. I've had a newer player buy a 150p mustang from me, and to this day it is *still* untouched. Passes are a very limited resource. People who dont spend money on this game can only get 900-930p a month for free (not counting sales of course, but considering new players don't have horse players would willingly spend a decent bit on, I wont be counting sales). You dont need to buy a 30p unicorn mare when you could buy one for eq (a resource that is MUCH more easy to obtain)

2. Don't go for divines just because they're divines. A pastry horse without it's pair is pretty much useless if you don't have their partner (aside from completing the divine objective, but you get free divines from the ascent so its easier to complete)
Find divines that will help your game play (like if you breed unicorns, qilin would be a good one to own)

3. when playing the events, don't go for store items. Choose bmi, no matter how useless they are. Even a fortune is better than carrots or mash. I say this because some events have objectives that new players cannot finish and they allow people to skip them by offering a bmi. So you can use the useless bmi like fortunes or parchments and you can skip those objectives.

4. Any coat bmis you get, like wanderers or whatnot, you can sell for eq or passes. I've seen wanderers go for 90p or a few hundred thousand eq. And GA's tend to go for 60p-90p or 300k eq on average.

5. If you don't plan to do anything with your ec then its still very much worth it to have six 25 acre meadows with troughs to raise cattle in. When you have that you can consistently get 1m eq a month in leather alone. It is more than worth it to do that. Once you have all your meadows set up you wont need to spend anymore eq on it.

6. The ascent is a very good way to get divines. If you do 1 round every day along with using drachmas, you should get a decent portion of the frags for the divines offered and should get the main ascent divine as well (As long as you take time to develop a strategy or understand how the game works, it makes it easy to get wins) The God divines from the ascent have high skills. You can comp them daily and make thousands of eq a day from them.

7. Save any and all coloured tack you get. This tack is hard to come by for newer players and there are often objectives where you're asking to give the color bonus or a specific color tack to a horse. Like another player mentioned, they used all theirs before realizing how hard it was to get when they needed it the most. You can get this tack from divines, watching ads, opening luck items, or events.

8. Save your ap. you may want to use it to speed up a mares birth or to age a foal to breed quicker but gaining ap is a slow and tedious process unless you farm all your horses every single day. And with poor luck you'll likely get the "use 12 ap" objective on a day where you have none and already farmed.

Forgot to add this to number 6, but every so often howrse will repeat about 2 divines every season for the ascent that have previously been in there. So if you play daily theres a chance that a divine will pop up you already have almost half a meter for. So you'll likely get that divine for free

I know I’m still technically a new player (I don’t have all the bigshot stuff that more senior players have), but I have some useful advice! When I started, I usually bidded on crossbred foals that weren’t top GP or so because those are usually less sought after by players. Therefore, I had a bunch of horses to farm APs from. (That quickly blossomed into what I called the 53 breeds challenge, which was a great motivation for me to play! I wrote some of my new player fiascos in my equestrian center forum post about this. )

When I had enough equus, I managed to buy a mare and a stallion to do all the “adult” horse stuff with, including breed for the birthing/covering objectives. (Try to get “cover a mare” and “make 1 covering offer” at the same time so you can do them at once! Making public covering offers isn’t THAT useful if your stallion isn’t a high-GP, 100-BLUPed stud, or isn’t a uni/foundie/Iris Coat etc.)

If you get an objective to sell a horse, try flipping horses. Basically just buy a horse for less equus than the horse would usually sell (like at auction), then sell it for slightly more (at direct sale). This will allow you to gain profit for anything you need to do. (It also works for daily objectives, such as dehorn a unicorn, cover a unicorn, draft mare, etc.) If you ever get an objective relating to horses you don’t have and that you can’t afford to buy, then you can buy one for passes (the same amount as the objective gives you) then do whatever the objective asks, then resell it for equus to turn profit that way. Make sure to have enough passes on hand in case an objective comes that needs you to spend passes for this reason.

Also, there will be two Grand Prix objectives later on, that is to enter 2 horses and to enter 4 horses into the Grand Prix. They both come pretty close to each other, so try to get them next to each other when entering horses so you don’t have to do them on separate days. (I didn’t do this and it turned out to be the weekend, so I had to wait two more days, when I had 30 days of seniority, to do it. )

When you get an equestrian center, try boarding some skilled horses so that when you do missions with them, you can get resources needed to build important buildings and enhancements, but also keep a box open in case you ever get an objective to board a horse at your center. You don’t have to make it the top like Hiram Farmer said, but it’s useful to upgrade your amenities to get more prestige so you can run more workshops at once. Also, getting Water Troughs and Showers is important to have if you want to board any horses you want to train. Obviously get 6 Large Meadows and start growing Longhorn Cows, but you might want to grow some oats, carrots and flax beforehand, since those are pretty expensive to buy as a new player.

There’s a vet tax and sales tax in the game, too. The vet tax is usually 1% of your equus reserve rounded up to a multiple of 100, but it caps at 2500 (when you have more than 250000 equus). If you don’t want to be taxed so much (it CAN add up after a while if you breed horses a lot), I suggest keeping most of your equus reserve in leather (from the cows) and Lunges (what you make in the workshop with that leather). If you ever go over 10000, buy some wood, sand or iron (something your equestrian center doesn’t give) since you’ll need that to build things with. (You don’t need to do this ALL the time, though, only when you need to breed horses since it only applies to the vet tax, after all.) So if you ever need a bulk sum of equus, just sell a bunch of leather and Lunges until you have that.

The sales tax is 10% of the price of whatever you sell, so if you sell something for 500, you’ll only get 450 back. It also applies for passes. You can’t go around the sales tax unless you don’t sell horses, though (unless you’re selling to the Safe Haven). These go into a Piggy Bank that allows you to get 2 BMIs at a time for equus (which only lasts for 24 hours), so that can be useful if there’s something you don’t want to spend so many passes on, but have enough equus for. They’re pretty expensive for someone who doesn’t have a lot of equus, so keep track of the ones you want to use in the future. They might also be cheaper than the offers that you get in the Item Exchange. For example, I saved up enough equus and waited for some BMI offers, and then I managed to use 2 Zeus’ Bolts for 139,000 equus each and some Helios’ Rays for 99,000 each on my horses!

Also, this is just a motivational suggestion, but if you ever want to breed unicorns, try to find some meaningful purpose for the uni fails (there’s only a 1/5 chance to get a unicorn foal, 2/5 for limited covering unicorns, when you breed them, so you’ll get regular foals majority of the time) so you don’t end up utterly disappointed when you get one. It might also give meaningful purpose to the unicorns since it can encourage you to keep breeding unicorns (especially if it’s your first time) even if you keep getting regular foals. For example, my Marwari uni duds are non-inbred, meaning they don’t have any shared ancestors. It’s a kind of challenge which can be interesting to do! Since these uni fails are still useful to the challenge, it still keeps my motivation to breed them. Similarly, with my draft uni fails, I can have an AP farm, and whenever they do missions, they’ll also make twice the equus! (They can also do comps because I usually BLUP my unicorns!) So if I ever get uni fails, I’m still assured that they can be farmed for APs and equus.

If you ever want to participate in any competitive comps (like rosettes or Grand Prix), try to save up enough BMIs beforehand (like Bonus Packs, Iris Coats, Pieces of Cloud, etc.) so that way when you want to professionally skill a horse, you don’t have to shell out so many passes buying the BMIs manually. There’s TONS of BMIs you need to put on those professional skillers (not including the price to buy a top GP horse) so that could easily add up to thousands of passes otherwise. There are teams which usually try to breed the top GP horses in the game, and some of those are Prix teams, meaning they sell you their top GP stock with top skills (though they are unbreedable). These horses do the best in these competitive competitions because they have the most inborn and learned skills, but they can get very expensive due to the cost to the teams producing them. You can try breeding your own by purchasing the top breedable horses, but that can be difficult to do since top teams’ GP are usually higher than ones in the horse sales, and you’ll need to use a bunch of Aphrodite’s Tears to get a very good skiller horse (there’s a random chance to this). (The latter might be circumvented if you collected a bunch of Tears that you would use for nothing else in your gameplay, though.)

I think other people suggested target training, meaning to not train the primary skill, but train the other two skills before getting 20 wins. (You can check the skill overview by hovering over the comp, or by clicking on the comp page, then you’ll see a skill box of the horse with the order of the skills for the comp from top to bottom.) So primary is the most important because it decides difficulty, secondary is next important and tertiary is the third important skill. If your horse qualifies for low-level comps, then don’t train the secondary or tertiary skills to the max, either. Depending on their GP, leave some room for the skills to increase as they do comps. This is because there’s a skill limit for those comps (I think it’s currently 3210?) which you shouldn’t cross over with any individual skill. (You can still have multiple skills directly under the threshold though.) You should definitely do low-level comps if the horse qualifies because those competitions are designed to help horses with much lower GP than the top GP to get wins easily, especially if their skills can get close to 3210. (It’s still a bit harder for foundies and the like to do those because they only have around 2000 in their top skill, but you can check each horse of each competition to determine if they have lower skills than your horse.) Also make sure to filter for lowest difficulty comps to target train the most efficiently. If you want the comps to run faster though (some can take a few days or even a week to run) then try filtering for most participants, but still choose the lowest difficulty comps out of those. Once your horse gets 20 wins, then train all skills to the max because they won’t qualify anymore anyways.

I hope these tips help you in your Howrse gameplay!

Well this is all very helpful but this forum is for questions about how to play, not for discussions or opinions. Everyone on here plays a different game. I am locking now. When you have a specific question please feel free to come back.

Hello! I'm a returning player (I played off and on for random extended periods from 2011 to about 2017 ish). There's a lot of new stuff going on so I'm basically here to gather information to help me with questions I may now have. I am confused by the teams aspect of the game though and was wondering, how many of yall find the teams beneficial vs continuing on solo?

Personally I would carry on solo until you have a lot more experience and resources. Look through the team pages from Achievements/best teams on classic view to see what they might ask you to do.

i agree with this.

The divines are all wastes of passes and money. Even the "useful" ones that drop items or passes don't drop them nearly enough to recoup the cost of spent passes. If you are going to go after divines, only do so if you have VIP and only go after the ones that give QOL improvements (ex: rain, buce, etc).

I think one of the most important things I wish I knew before I got serious was that teams don't just require you to be able to commit to a certain amount of blups, but that they also require you to be able to manage the pressure and expectations that comes with the territory. I had a lot of fun being on teams, but after a while I started getting really burnt out and it caused me to stop enjoying the game for quite a long time.

If you do decide to join a team, make sure you are ready to commit and are prepared for the potential stress and pressure that comes along with it. I fully recommend a team that doesn't have a weekly requirement, one that is really relaxed with the rules, plus a more relaxed breed if you ever do decide to try them out.

Teams are a very rewarding experience and are a great way to make friends and play with others, but loads of people join them without being prepared for what is expected.

I wish I'd known how addictive this game was lol lol
I'm joking obviously but I am truly obsessed with my Howrse game. I hope it never ends! I'll happily be playing Howrse when I'm very old & grey.

If you got money to spare and in need of BMs - check Item exchange couple times per day. I catch P. Stones, Harmony Packs, even Nyx Packs there being sold for equus every week. I know it might sound like a really beginner advice, but I realised this only YEARS into game, I just thought only mostly useless stuff was sold there for equus lol

"Validate 4 special features" - these are the features at the bottom of the newbie goals page that unlock as you complete the rest of the objectives

When you change your avatar, you need to clear the cache or refresh your player page tab without cache (Ctrl + F5) to see the new one. Other players will see your new avatar without any additional actions.

In the game, autumn begins on the first day of each real month. Since autumn lasts a week of real time, winter begins on the 8th of each month, spring on the 15th, and summer on the 22nd. Summer lasts until the end of the calendar month.

The morale and health of a horse have a STRONG impact on how well it performs in a competitions. Also, when calculating the results, the skills, health and morale of the horse are taken from the time of registration into the competitions (not at the time of running of the competition).

Most of the Divines you get from the weekend offers will take so long to return their value that you will likely quit playing before you get your passes back (5, 10, and sometimes even 30 REAL years). Therefore, it is worth focusing on divines that make the game easier or bring something that cannot be bought or exchanged.

The mobile version sucks. With few exceptions, everything you do on it will take longer and require more effort than on a PC. Many features simply don't exist.

It does suck lol, and that's all I can play on