[UPDATED] Devs' Corner: March 2026

Correct. Iris Coat does not count as a Special Coat. Having collected all the Iris Coats does nothing anymore in terms of game progress, and adding them to a horse will not make your trophy progress further.

The same is true for Vintage Apples, although there IS still a collection for those.

And yes, the 4 5th Element trophies are now gone and there is no point anymore in owning multiple Metal element horses. Which, I suppose is good for newer players who now only need to get lucky one time to get the trophy, but it certainly stings for players like me who spent well over 1000 passes for the Pegasus one.

I got the trophy using only iris coats, so they counted as a special coats a few days ago at least, i'd imagine they still do

I've just come on here to voice my complaint again, Sorry i know this has been said before.

I don't think i can sigh hard enough about this Trophy page. The more i look at it the more it annoys me. I can't work toward trophies if i don't know what they are. I can't effectively use a trophy page that doesn't explain itself well.

I can't tell if the meter means i have that level of trophy or I'm working toward that level, I'm supposed to have won 3 gold levels, what are they? How far from Platinum am i?

I don't know.

Please add some explanations or fix this Howrse. i don't think i can sigh any harder.

Came here to say this...

@MsArine
Its snuffed me out as well currently giving my stuff away as we speak

Please look into the competition delay that has been going on more or less since the trophy change. The competitions do run eventually, but when you are on a team or someone that blups multiple a day it really slows you down.

It has been reported and is being worked on

Deep inside I know your right. I just SO wished it wasn't so.
Howrse seems dead set on forcing me to play competitively again - and/or only collect divine. NOT happening

Quoting Funnyone because I cannot quote a post with quotes;

"I take offense at the implication that mods and admin are somehow dishonest in our communications with players. That is simply not the case. If we say that we are passing along your feedback, then be assured that we are.

We are not privy as to who makes what decisions about how the game changes and/or progresses. Howrse is an Owlient game owned by Ubisoft. Do you know how many layers of management and development teams that may involve? I sure don't. But I can tell you, mods and admin are low in the hierarchy of the company. We only know what we are told and strive to give players the most accurate information that we have available, which often isn't a whole lot. We had no input in the change if the trophy system, just like we had no input in the removal of pass horses.

You may think we don't hear you but we do. You might think we don't listen but we do. You might think we don't care but we do. We simply do not have the power that players think we have. That is not our function on the game. We pass info, complaints, etc. on to those directly above us and they do the same. What the powers that be decide to do with that information is not in our control.

So while it is perfectly OK for players to voice thier opinions about changes that happen on the game, it is not ok to take your frustrations out on others. Calm, rational criticism of changes and offered solutions to improve on changes are more than welcome and appreciated."

Funnyone, I meant no offense, certainly not that the admins or mods are dishonest. I believe there has been a misunderstanding of what I was saying due to my inaccurate wording, and vague definition of what Howrse Team means. I will make what I was saying clear:

The fact is, the players want changes. At the very least, they want to know why the changes are happening, a good explanation of them, and, to know that if they have suggestions, that they are considered. But the only concrete affirmation of those things would be changes made that reflect the player requests, or an official statement by the Howrse Team addressing the requests.

And there is simply little to none of that. There is no proof anything makes it's way to the right people or that if it does, it's heard, that is all. Whether it is the fault of the admin or mods not providing feedback, or that whoever receives your comments is not moving forward with it, so on, so forth, the point and problem is that whoever makes the decisions is either ignoring us or not getting the information. I did not mean to imply it is the dishonesty of the mods or admins that is the problem. Actually the last two paragraphs of my statement that you quotes were directed at the Howrse Team that is able to take action that changes the course of the game, or whoever decides to send out informational PMs to all players. Not to the mods or admins. I merely included the mods and admins in my statement because you are the first link in the chain of communication, and there was no clear statement of what exactly your role is, based off the comments and misconceptions of some players.

Players are directing their ire at you because they DO think you have some influence or say in what happens to the game. Where did that mentality come from? Who knows.
But in order to prevent illful comments like that in the future, diffuse that misconception. From what you have said, it seems like your function is more or less similar to Contact Us. You receive complaints, suggestions, info, and pass it on, alert us to the incoming fixes not yet implemented to the changes, but already planned out, and that is all. I appreciate your statement because I sense it wasn't really clear to some players what you can and cannot do, based on the amount of misdirected comments. But I feel what you have said makes it exactly clear what your role is. There is no reason to direct any responsibility onto you if it is not your responsibility at all.

So there you have it folks, we are in a Contact Us fishbowl. In which case, here is my request: Dear Howrse Team, whoever presents our suggestions to those who can actually act upon them and, those of you who do make those changes, please address our comments and suggestions, and/or adjust some of the changes of the game to reflect what we ask for. A kindly written letter of address should not be too much to ask for from those powers that be in charge.

You should probably send something like that off to Contact Us so hopefully they will present it to whom ever is on the ladder above them. I very much doubt that those who actually do make the decisions have ever read any of these threads or ever will. When this game was sold to Ubifail everything changed....not for the good.