[UPDATED] Devs' Corner: May 2026

And I am also not happy with Yggdrasil. It's essentially a cool-looking way to rip people off. I have 2 horses in Heaven, both with MA, and he's only about 60 now. I will need 7 more horses to get the black orchid, which is in no way worth 2 MA plus a bunch of aging points.

Having 100 passes per dead horse could get you one black orchid per death, plus an extra one after 9 die. For 9 horses with Yggdrasil, you get one black orchid.

Well, I can't speak from a strong position, since I wasn't all that dedicated to using pass horses, but impressions I got from the slow change of rules regarding pass horses, (and yes, I've been on here longer than my account shows - I started in the first month this server opened), they were never meant to be farmed and used to earn passes; just a way of rewarding players that looked after their howrses well enough for the howrse to reach 30 years old.
Yggy takes us back to that basic premise of looking after your howrses, since the older your howrse is when you send them to heaven, the more years you get on Yggy... as to the time and effort it takes to reach rewards, I'm still coming to terms with that one

I popped by to say that I think they replaced the pegasus wings objective with "run an ultrasound on a mare". A perfectly doable objective that I got for the first time today. Thank you Howrse. I'm grateful that you didn't add something ridiculous to the objectives pool.

Now if you can just get rid of the unicorn horn objective . I'll NEVER mutilate my horses just because you will give me 20 passes or 50 points to do so. Ever.
And the give birth to a uni objective too. Even as a unicorn breeder I still have to age up 12 mares just to get a single unicorn foal thanks to the "1/5" chance. And then I need to age those mares back up to covering age for just in case I get that objective again. Talk about wasting APs. I even remember a time when I aged up all my mares and used BOTH covering sessions and STILL didn't get a unicorn foal and couldn't complete the objective. That objective is nothing but an annoyance, especially on day 6 or 7, and it would be really nice if you could get rid of it. I may have more than enough mares to breed now but I know that those streaks of 25+ fails are just going to start again at some point. I have actually started keeping a record of my highest fail streak now thanks to my "bad luck".
Or if you don't remove it, then at least higher the chances of breeding a unicorn for only the first unicorn foal that you get for the day on the day that you get the objective.

Oh yes, also remove the sell a horse at auction objective. We can't even complete that on the same day because the horse only gets sold on the following day.. IF it gets sold. Now I've got breed x horses every day just so that I can put x horses up for auction every day for just in case I get that objective the next day. ..And then I'll get the objective after the one day that I forget to so. Lol.

I dont recall ever having an objective to 'sell' a horse at auction. I have had 'place' a horse up for auction and sell a horse for xxx however the sell one does not specify auction.

You know, after playing Howrse for 12 years, starting when I was 8 years old, I never really had the chance to learn the game mechanics. Starting off so young and a lover of horses, I was just happy to have horses, but I never really understood the genetic potential and skilling systems. Here I am 12 years later, now 20 years old, barely began to play competitively about 2-3 years ago, and Howrse has ripped away the opportunities of pass horses and many other features from me right as I began to understand the game. I also agree that these events and promotions, that happen all the time now it seems, have gotten much harder to complete without using/buying passes. I appreciated the previous challenge of these events where it was doable if you were dedicated. Now, regardless of your dedication, you'd have to buy passes anyway. Now tell me, how do you keep players' loyalty if you practically force them to buy passes at every turn? It hardly seems fair anymore

Yeah, I don’t even try to complete them now, just go for a few prizes I want that are usually smaller.... and if one of them it to far from where I am I skip it (even if it’s something I need or have been wanting for a long time)

I think the worst objective is to purchase a horse in auction. It just takes forever to get one with all the auctions resetting 30 seconds every time you make a bid.

Yeah, to get a horse in auctions you have to have a lot of free dough on hand, because if you don't, you'll get outbid...

I would just leave one mare with hestua gift uncovered but they are hard to find.