[UPDATED] Devs' Corner: May 2026

I feel that this will cause an even bigger divide. Don't get me wrong, it's nice to see some new challenges thrown in, but most of them are out of reach for a good chunk of the players. Needing to get the fala bonus, for example, is way out of reach of most, especially when you factor in they don't go for equus outside of auction, but with these new tasks making the objectives harder to complete, how are players going to be able to get a fala without spending ages gathering up luck items and passes? Challenge is good, but when that challenge is out of reach for most, it takes all of the fun out of trying to achieve it; having to care for any special/divine should be the most when it comes to that.

I have to agree that some of these new objectives are tricky, not to mention time and resource consuming for established players, so how are they welcoming to newer accounts?

The ability to swap one out is great BUT only if you don't get a worse one in the process, i often use it if i get cover a draft for example, but sometimes it bites you!

Some of these are just not worth even bothering with, some of us do have lots of items hanging around, but that doesn't mean we really want to use them wily nily. I already have a fair few draft and donkey uni's sat with breeding items on from the current objectives list.

These more difficult objectives should definitely take into account the players account, if there are no divines then they should not be getting impossible objectives like trigger the fala bonus or an account with only 3/4 horses needing to do 40 hours of rides or missions.

No, sorry not appreciative of having to work harder for the passes, I thought we were getting an additional objective.

Not a fan of this new update and objectives. I agree with most of the above, these will be especially hard for beginning players. There were lots of better options to choose from than what they did.

Drop the requirements for removing unicorn horns and medusa bloods, and water of youth. No requirements should be made for doing anything with a specific divine, plus many players don't have a divine at all.
We shouldn't have to spend hard earned and saved BMI's to get a few passes as the BMI's are worth way more.

Agree with all of the sentiments expressed above. Adding an increasing number of difficult objectives is just going to upset players and restrict the number of passes coming into the game economy. Although, let's all be honest with ourselves here, Howrse isn't too terribly concerned about the second half.

These objectives aren't the pass horse system, but *that* system was at least something that most players could participate in. The objectives used to be the same way, but these new objectives are slowly chiseling away at that.

Why was there even a need to add more objectives, players have been asking for certain objectives to be deleted (especially uni related) but NO Howrse thinks it’s a good idea to add even more that will annoy everyone, you would think that a company would actually like to please their players and make this game an enjoyable experience, but they seem to go out of their way to continually annoy us

"New daily objectives have been added and the number of objectives available for each player has increased."

Does that mean we'll have more than two objectives per day, thus a chance to win more passes than before? Or that instead of x number of possible objectives, there are x + y number of possible objectives now (with most of the y ones generally seen as more difficult than the others) thus we have less of a chance to win passes than before?

There's hardly ever an objective that I can't do since I've been here longer than I ever should have been and have so much stuff hoarded on my account, but players shouldn't have to be rich to get rich... If I was starting from scratch today, I don't know if I'd stick around. The only reason I have a steady flow of passes these days is all my rainbow divines, love divines, and a few others that provide me passive pass-income. I get free passes every day without doing anything, but if I were new and had no divines, these objectives would be it... and they're hardest for new people. That's sad.

Sounds like we're moving toward free passes being a thing of the past... Or just so rare that they might as well be. (Especially for new people - the rich will keep getting richer, and new players aren't going to stick around...)

If this comes with a third objective for 30 passes, with that being the hardest one... I'll be happy... But judging from the comments of others, I'm not expecting that to be the case.

I've sent a ticket through to Contact Us requesting further clarification on the new player objectives - lets see if Admin follow through.

More objectives have been added to the pool. We still only get 2 per day.

i have no problem with adding new obj. i feel it was needed. but some of the obj they added are ridiculous. some are fine. reach 13 with a horse we already do 15 and 20 13 no big deal. play 20 hours with a foal no big deal. start a new production that's a problem. the add a new companion isn't a huge deal i have hundreds that are unused (people will just need to start always having a few on hand) . they just need to make the wording more clear