• Announcing Neovision+! All of your favourite Neopian shows and movies, all on one convenient platform, all for one convenient price. Explore the latest and greatest Neopets streaming service, Neovision+!

  

  

• The Caption Contest winners have been posted! Go check out the winning captions and get those creative juices flowing for the next contest!

  

• A new Mystery Picture has arrived, so don't forget to submit your best guess for a chance to win a piece of the next prize pool!

  

• The Art Gallery has been updated with a wonderful array of April Fool's themed submissions to get you through the week! Check them out!

  

• A new selection of Poems for Chet Flash/April Fool's Day awaits! Did any of your verses make the cut?

  

• NC MALL NEWS: A new NC Collectible has been released! Stop by the NC Mall today to check out the Grundo Programmer Servers and Screens Collectible. Since this is the final collectible of the Lost in Space 2 series, you will receive a bonus today if you have bought all of the previous collectibles for this series!

  

° New Companion!

After much searching and digging, we have finally managed to find enough of our new companion to add them to the General Store! The Earthworm is a cute little companion which will keep your horse company, bust a move doing the worm, or maybe even just crawl back in the dirt. We honestly aren't sure what they¢ll do alongside your horse but, they do give a small show and twin boost. According to our sources, the earthworms have decided to only be in the General Store until April 2nd at midnight.  

 

°´ Breed of the Month

This month's breed of the month is the Shetland Pony ...or as we know them today, Sheepland Poe Knees! Be sure to check out the forum to enter!

 

Enjoy the rest of your day everyone!

Cheers,

The Dev Team

Hello and welcome to Eqcetera¢s biggest update ever. Boy has this update taken some work, but it is well worth it!

 

Please note that there are a lot of fundamental changes to the game in this update. Each section in this news post links to additional information on the help site. It was entirely too much information to fit into a single post. We understand that when there are major changes, there are bound to be questions. We are here and available to help answer any questions and concerns that you have!

 

We hope you¢re as excited as we are to see Eqcetera grow and expand. Before we get to all the changes we want to note that these new changes are designed to cater to new play styles and have only slightly changed the old gameplay style. This means for most of these new features, you can opt to do them or not but still be successful in the game. 

 

Now onto the details of each new change!

 

¢¡ Horse Energy

Horses now have energy. This determines how many actions you can do with your horse each day. This was decided to level the playing field for basic players and make a few requested adjustments to breeding.

¢¡Read more about energy ¢¡

 

Energy brings about a couple of major fundamental changes. 

1. Both upgraded and basic players can now compete with their horses the same number of times each day. This will put everyone on a level playing field.

2. There will no longer be breeding fail wait times. You can breed your horse (while it has energy) until the breeding succeeds. Successful breeding cooldown still applies.

3. There will no longer be any retrieval fail wait times. You can retrieve from the horse as energy allows. Weekly limits and successful retrieval cooldown still applies.

4. You will have to make choices each day on what to do with your horse. All horses will start with 100% energy at rollover. If you breed, train, or show, this will decrease your horse¢s energy. 

 

° Regular Showing

Important! Please read.  The show formula has changed to add more weight to a horse's breed standards. Over our time of development, we have had lots of feedback on adding more weight to BS. The new formula will not be disclosed like our old formula. The show formula only uses breed standard and performance stats.

 

° Read the updated help post °

 

°§  Personalities

What¢s a horse without a personality? Horses on Eqcetera now have personalities which incorporate traits of gregariousness, predictability, reactivity, and sensitivity. 

 

°§  Read more about personalities °§ 

 

All horses in-game have randomly been assigned a personality. All foals from this update onward must have personality revealed via foal training, see more info in the article above.

 

°¼ Careers 

For horses that don¢t seem to fit into discipline shows or halter shows, the third option is to enter them into careers! Careers allow horses to go to ¢work¢ and earn skills. Careers use skills, personality, and at a very low weight, performance stats. 

 

There are currently 4 careers available:

• Working Draft - works on the Farm.

• Education Horse - works in the Education Center.

• Therapy Horse - works in the Therapy Center.

• Lesson Horse - works in the Riding School.

 

°¼ Read more about careers °¼

°ª Skills 

Over time, horses develop skills beyond just performance stats. There are 6 skills that are gained through competing in a halter show or completing a job in a horse¢s career. Horses may complete jobs every 30 minutes at a career center.

 

°ª Read more about skills °ª

 

All horses in-game have been randomly assigned a skill percentage between 0 and 20%.

 

° Foal Training

No RL horse is born to automatically enter competitions. To bring a little more realism into Eqcetera, there is now foal training! Foal training reveals your foal¢s personality, earns their training boost, and can allow them to enter halter shows early.

 

° Read more about foal training °

 

All existing horses over 1 year old have had their foal training automatically completed. 

 

° Breed Registries 

Breed Registries, previously Associations, are now complete! The registries will work as associations did previously and allow you to join and register horses to their associated breed registry. These registries now have forums and halter shows which run hourly!

 

° Read more about breed registries °

 

No More Presidents

Unlike V2¢s associations, breed registries will no longer have presidents. We felt that it was unfair for a single player to manage an entire breed. Therefore, all breed registries will be managed by Eqcetera. 

 

Halter Shows

Halter shows are tiered based on a horse's star rating and gender and are open to foals that have completed foal training. Halter shows run based on the number of entrants and reward halter points toward titles.

 

° Read more about halter shows °

 

Herd Management

There are now new tabs in herd management. These tabs are for: halter horses ,career horses, discipline horses, and foals. Each of these gives an overview of important information for each such as, age day for foals, personality for horses, and career tier.

 

° Small Changes

• ¢Regular¢ players in club member rosters have been renamed to ¢Member.¢

• There is now a Crossbreed Campaigns link on the Clubs page. This page lists out all active crossbreed campaigns, their breed composition, and their current completion percentage. 

• The forum previously named ¢Association Hub¢ has been renamed to ¢Club & Registry Hub.¢

• The Welsh Registry has been renamed to Welsh Pony & Cob Registry.

• Individual show pages should now show the countdown timer correctly.

• Breed Registries now have links to horses from the horse roster.

• The roleplay forum will no longer show up in recent posts due to the higher volume posted in a single thread.

 

° Bug Fixes

• Failed stud/brood breedings that did not result in a true failure but only an error will no longer take a failed breeding fee.

• Horses under 3 years old should no longer show up in breeding management.

• Fixed where long horse names were throwing errors in some places.

• Crossbreed campaigns should now allow decimals in breed percentages. 

• Horse age has been fixed on the registered horses list in breed registries.

• Horse names now link to the horse in the registered horses list in breed registries.

 

°¥³ Chat Party!!!

We know this is quite a big update to take in but, we will be hosting a chat party tonight on our Discord at 8PM EST/Game time to answer all your questions. A forum with a live update GoogleDoc will be posted for those of you without a Discord and Q&A available in the same forum. 

 

Cheers,

The Dev Team

The votes have been tallied, and it's time to announce the winners of Member of the Month (MOTM for short)! For this month's Yet to Win MOTM, everyone congratulate...

@WildFloof

Thank you for making IcePets a better place!



Next up, the winner of the Free for All MOTM, please congratulate...

@Gnelmik

Thank you for your continuing contributions to our community!



Both of these fantastic members will receive 100,000 IcePoints and either the exclusive Member of the Month Avatar, or, if they already have it, the Honoured Member Trophy.







While member votes were tallying for MOTM, Staff votes tallied for SOTM, and this month's winner is...

@Travis

To acknowledge their contributions to the team, we've created the following Item in their honour!


Worst Pie in Terrafrost





As we move into April, new Items can be found in the I.C.E Shop for the duration of the month! Head on over to pick up Fish Fin Blanket and Scale, along with the returning Peridot Infused Scythe. Each of these is priced at 500 IceCash (or 450 IceCash for Gold Members)!



Additionally, a few of our resident shopkeepers have added some new Items to their stock! The Skytten can be found at Jacobi's Companion Reserve while the Capricorn Plush can be found at the Plushie Palace. The Book Quest will reward the Capricorn Plush immediately, but it will be requested by the Plushie Quest in one week. Be sure to stock up in advance!

I wonder what is going on with the site appearance today. Will this be permanent?

oh, uh, there's a thing happening, I think? you probably just go to the biomes and pick the option that tells you get a special egg and then you maybe get a special egg.

 

if you don't, then well idk ¯\_(£)_/¯

 

check it out today because I don't think it's gonna be around tomorrow.

Featured Lythian This month's Featured Lythian is...

NU258 Rudi Mimosa
Owned by: Nekoehh
Congratulations!

Gifting Gacha Increased Rates Items with increased rates in this month's Gifting Gacha are:

New Monthly Contest A new monthly contest has begun. You can read more on the Monthly Contest: Visual Art page!

Congratulations to the winner of last month's Monthly Contest!
"Soft paws treaded a gently winding path, crushing fallen, browned leaves underfoot. Easily enough he could be using his wings, but the early morning dew was cool on his paw pads, and he liked it more than the biting chill of the wind in the mornings. The sun was just beginning to peek over the crest of the trees, and that gave way to the songbirds who hadn't travelled to warmer weather already, echoing out a shrill song through the forest. It was music to his ears, and he closed his eyes against it, a smile tugging at his lips. Mornings were his favorite part of the day, they always had bee..."
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Submission by: SunglassesArlo

Featured Lythian This month's Featured Lythian is...

NU258 Rudi Mimosa
Owned by: Nekoehh
Congratulations!

Gifting Gacha Increased Rates Items with increased rates in this month's Gifting Gacha are:

New Monthly Contest A new monthly contest has begun. You can read more on the Monthly Contest: Visual Art page!

Congratulations to the winner of last month's Monthly Contest!
"Soft paws treaded a gently winding path, crushing fallen, browned leaves underfoot. Easily enough he could be using his wings, but the early morning dew was cool on his paw pads, and he liked it more than the biting chill of the wind in the mornings. The sun was just beginning to peek over the crest of the trees, and that gave way to the songbirds who hadn't travelled to warmer weather already, echoing out a shrill song through the forest. It was music to his ears, and he closed his eyes against it, a smile tugging at his lips. Mornings were his favorite part of the day, they always had bee..."
Read more
Submission by: SunglassesArlo

A brand new month has arrived, which means we also have a new Premium Gift!




This Premium Gift is available until the end of the month for all upgraded users. Head to your Index Control Panel to accept this month's gift whenever you are ready! Don't forget to open it and see what is inside. :)


Not yet Premium? CLICK HERE for more details, or head to the TE Items Shop to buy an upgrade item! Enjoy!

Pocket has returned for Easter and is looking for the long Lost Eggs again! You can help him find them by doing various things on the site (Doing Quests, buying from Mushroom Shops and catching the Easter Bunny). You can do one Pocket Quest per hour!



Spend your Pocket Credit points in Pocket Treasures. 10 Credits gets you a random easter item, 40 gets you a rare one and 100 allows you to attempt to gain the Easter Avatar!



EasterBunny will appear randomly in Announcements to give you a chance to find Pocket's Lost Egg #8!

Pocket will be in Ichua April 1 - April 22!

Congratulations to our Snapz! of the week winner: dutch


If you want to have a chance to win next week, make sure to keep your Snapz! updated and current for the season.

Today's winning Mega Money Madness number is: 5397

There were NO winners.

If you want to be a winner next time, check out the Mega Money Madness under the GAMES icon.

Here are your new mayors for April!

Labrador City - BearCatSparkles
Kuvasz City - Newtatious
Pony City - -Twixy-
Collie City - RainbowGlass
Sheepdog City - TiquiOBrat
Dolphin City - RedMist
Wolfox City - steenbokker
Eagle City - fifercats
Gecko City - fulpgirls
Polar City - delight
Somali City - No Mayor

It appears peggscapes is not functioning properly. We will work on converting all the images from flash this weekend and hope to have you up and running shortly after this.

Thanks for your patience.

• The Petpet Protection League is back for another weekly surprise as we announce our winner for Week 798 - Faerie Mauket!

  

• NC MALL NEWS Just a friendly reminder that the Spring Shop is now open! Be sure to swing by the NC Mall and check out some of these Springtastic items!

  

EARLY POSTING!