Hello everyone and happy update day! Today, we are rolling out part 1 of 2 for the Club and Association changes. This update comes with quite a few changes to crossbreeds and even introduces something very exciting¢¦

¢­ Clubs

In V2, clubs were only used to bring together those who share a common interest in something and only offered a forum and the possibility to register horses. We wanted to expand the idea of clubs to not only create more of a community but also expand crossbreed gameplay. You can view more information about club features in this help site article.

With the launch of V3 clubs,  there are a few club types to know about:

• Community Clubs: Clubs can opt to be just community-based, meaning the club is used as a place to talk about a common interest. Ex. A club that focuses on equine news. These types of clubs can register horses and default to accepting all breeds and all disciplines.

• Breeding & Discipline Clubs: Those who wish to have a club with breed or discipline guidelines can do so in the club settings. Clubs can choose to be breed- and/or discipline-based. Horses can be registered in these clubs and club owners may pick what breed(s) or discipline(s) are allowed. Ex. Flaxen Breeders Club or Show Jumping Arabians Club. 

• Crossbreed Clubs: There is now a new club type which is replacing the Crossbreed Association (Read more in Associations below). These clubs are for each of the game recognized crossbreeds where these breeds can be registered. These are game owned and auto accept all those who register. A crossbreed-specific club will be created for each new game-recognized crossbreed. And speaking of...

°´ Create Your Own Game-Recognized Crossbreed!

On top of these changes to clubs, we have added in a new highly requested feature which we are calling ¢Crossbreed Campaigns¢. In the past, players have often asked about being able to create their own crossbreed and previously, we did not have a good solution or answers as to how or when this would be possible. Worry no more! Starting today, it is now possible for players to join together, create, and crowdsource their own in-game crossbreed which will receive its own artwork and breed designation! Do you want to breed Arabaloosadales, maybe Mustland Ponies, or even Friesian Cobs? Now you can! Through Crossbreed Campaigns, you will be able to create any crossbreed you want, but there are some steps required to do so. More information about Crossbreed Campaigns can be viewed here.

¢¨ Club Stars

Since crossbreeds no longer have a registry, they now earn stars by being registered with a club. Horses that get their stars from a club now have purple stars rather than yellow stars. Along with this star change, all horses registered in a club will also receive stars such as generic crossbreeds or purebreds that aren't in a registry. Note, if a horse is in a registry it will display yellow stars, not purple.

° Old Clubs

Clubs that had previously been made have been transferred with members and horses registered removed. Fees and images have also been removed and all clubs are currently set to private. If you had a club in V2 that you no longer wish to keep, please message Curly or email support to have the refund credited to your account. Refunds for V2 clubs will be honored until March 28th, 2021.

° Breeding in New Colors

We have also added in a new and exciting change which involves being able to breed colors back into any breed. This was previously done using the Brumby in which breeding any color into a Brumby was possible. Now, it is possible to breed any color into any breed, but this comes with a few things to know.

Breeding Back & Grade Horses

Breeding back to at least 95% of a breed now means that horse will convert to 100% of that breed. For example, if you bred a line of Clydesdale crosses to have tobiano and eventually had one with 95% Clydesdale and tobiano, it would revert to 100% Clydesdale and display a tobiano pattern on the Clydesdale base. Horses that have had a color bred into them like this will have a designation of ¢Grade¢ in front of their breed, Ex. Grade Clydesdale, and are not eligible for association registry.  Read more about grade horses in this help article.

With grade designation, the breed standard for grade horses will be based on the purebred they are shown as. Ex. A Grade Clydesdale will have a breed standard the same as a purebred Clydesdale. This is to simplify the breed standard calculation for players to more easily know what their grade horses ideal BS is. In order to get a star value for grade horses, they must be registered into a club.

Artwork

As color is bred into a breed, artwork will be made for them. Should you be able to create a grade of a breed that needs artwork done, please post to this forum post with a link to the horse. These artwork layers will be made on a rolling basis and, depending on demand, may take up to 1 month.

Wild Type Breeds

In-game we currently have two ¢wild¢ breeds, Brumbies and Mustangs. Brumbies have previously been able to have color bred back into them but never could be 100% Brumby even though they displayed the Brumby base. With the change of breeding in color and ¢grade¢ designation, we have excluded these wild breeds from being labeled as ¢Grade,¢ meaning they will be able to be registered in their breed association. Now, any Brumby or Mustang that is 95% Brumby or Mustang will revert to 100% purebred and have their Breed Standards based on Brumby or Mustang standard and will not have ¢Grade¢ before the breed name.

°¥ Associations

Associations have been renamed to ¢Breed Registries¢ and will only be used to register purebred horses.  We have also removed the discipline associations so players may make their own clubs centered around a discipline or a breed and a discipline. We will be completing associations in next month's update with personalities and careers. 

° Forums

Several of the forums have been cleaned and some categories have had rule updates. Please read all rules before posting.

Hope you all enjoy these changes and have a wonderful weekend!

Cheers,

The Dev Team

Happy Birthday to all Zirafas!

Every Ichumon Species Day Duke will be giving away a Birthday Cake for that day only. Today is no exception! Claim your Zirafa Birthday Cake at the Prize Claim Center!

On Ichumon Species Days you have a 50% chance of getting that Ichumon's Berry from the Luwhut Tree in Fargo's Forest. If you don't have a Zirafa, you can now!

If you have a Zirafa enjoy free healing of HP and Diseases at the Heal Center in Lightest Tower all day long for your Zirafas.

We did this yesterday afternoon, but here's a round for my early peeps. Don't forget your ID. If you had to name a waja the last thing you ate + the closest object to the left of you, what would it's name be? Keep it pg 13. One entry per person. Ends at 7 am. I will then staff only it. 10 users will win 1 cwp.

The bait has been hooked, fishing line cast and we have caught bumpergirl89 for this weeks aquarium contest winner!

....Congrats!

¢¢Remember, make sure you feed and care for your fish/tank and collect your nessies bonus daily, if you want a chance to win next week!

It's time to head over to Miles Magic Box and see if you can figure out which item is depicted by the artistic rendering. If you do before next week, you'll win a cool prize!

Some whimsical new Companions have scuttled into Terrafrost! It loves adventures, snacking on cheese cubes, and making themselves nice and cozy in your coat pockets. The Ratbes are the perfect new Companion to keep you and your Pets on their toes. They even comes in four different variants -- the White, Brown, Grey, and Black Ratbe! These adorable new additions were funded by @Lokki.

All four Ratbes can be found a Jacobi's Companion Reserve. Head on over if you'd like this Companion to be a part of your family!

Don't forget your ID. If you had to name a waja the last thing you ate + the closest object to the left of you, what would it's name be? Keep it pg 13. One entry per person. Ends at 12 pm. I will then staff only it. 10 users will win 1 cwp.

Etsy Shop Just a quick notice that this is the last week for 10% off of our Etsy store. Prices will go back to normal soon. After that I will give it a week (time for stuff to get shipped/delivered), and announce our next Social Media contest. As always, thank you everyone who is able to support us. We are very blessed to have a wonderful community and we love and appreciate everyone of you. Have a fantastic week. PS. There might be a "surprise" live soon (in the next little bit) hosted by Sadi featuring games and the like.

Congratulations to the following winners of Luck of the Draw, winning $100,000 PB :
Gible
Diosa
Diosa
Diosa
barbchin

If you want to be a winner next time, check out the Luck of the Draw - Available at the House of Luck in Badgeria!

Today's winning Mega Money Madness number is: 2582

There were NO winners.

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

Happy St. Patrick¢s Day Everyone!

°°» New Tack!

Two new pads are now available in the General Store for $2,500 each, the Shamrock Green English Pad & Festive Orange English Pad! These will be available from today until midnight on March 21st. One of each of the new pads has been sent to everyone active in the past week to celebrate the holiday. 

¢¯¸ St. Pattys Day Contest

Hurry on over to the forms and get your guess in to enter our St. Patrick's Day contest. A total of 7 prizes will be sent out which includes horses, tack, and breed coins!

¢¢° Leopard Irish Cob Embryo

As a reminder, one leopard Irish Cob embryo will be auctioned off for 48 hours after the closing of the St. Patrick's Day contest. This embryo is made from my beloved leopard Irish Cobs, Imma Spotted Rarity and Spotted Across the Room.  Should the embryo winner produce a failed breeding, a new embryo will be made and sent.

Enjoy the rest of your day!

Cheers,

The Dev Team

Happy Friday everyone! We hope the week has been well for you. 

°¸ Spring Ingot Sale!

To celebrate spring being right around the corner we will be having an ingot sale until March 22nd at midnight EST/game time! Ingot packages are up to 35% off!

¢¨ Magic & Spectral Tokens

With the spring sale, magic and spectral tokens are for sale in the general store until March 22nd at midnight EST/Game time. 

°¦ New Somatic Mutations!

We have quite a few new somatic mutation horses going up for auction! Irish Draughts, Shetlands, Welsh B, Welsh C, Brumbies, and Irish Sport Horses now have somatic mutations. Auctions for these are going up shortly!

Enjoy the weekend everyone! Hope it includes some beautiful spring weather!

Cheers,

The Dev Team

Raffle Result

This weeks raffle was won by Samarra.

They received 2,484,900 IP!

Game Trophies

The latest trophies have been awarded, and the leaders are as follows:

First Place, with a score of 231:

Fransis

First Place, with a score of 63950:

HyperHare88
Second Place, with a score of 39260:

tishybug
Third Place, with a score of 26290:

Eunoia

First Place, with a score of 35795:

Wooziness
Second Place, with a score of 22050:

rotundusbat
Third Place, with a score of 15295:

fuball

First Place, with a score of 120:

VampireQueenBrittany
Second Place, with a score of 75:

Fransis

First Place, with a score of 1412:

Fearless
Second Place, with a score of 1156:

Silvally
Third Place, with a score of 1079:

HyperHare88

First Place, with a score of 4:

whereisthend, Tchaikovsky
Second Place, with a score of 2:

Fransis
Third Place, with a score of 1:

WildFloof

First Place, with a score of 12400:

Wooziness
Second Place, with a score of 10150:

rotundusbat, Silvally
Third Place, with a score of 5060:

HyperHare88

First Place, with a score of 115:

Fransis
Second Place, with a score of 3:

whereisthend

Wraetlic won last week's Battle Royale with a time of 79 seconds! All who completed the Battle Royale have been awarded their cP prize and first, second, and third place have also won trophies for their profiles.

Sign up your Ichumon in this week's Battle Royale Contest!

You will need to kill 9 Stego in the Battle Royale Map as fast as you can. The quickest user to complete the battles will receive the top prize of 25,000 cP!

Today, we've got five fun questions about fantastic frogs. Enjoy!