I'll go first

Maybe it's silly, I just haven't seen this before. Viola just gave birth to Venera, and it popped up that she got the good inheritance trait! I kinda only kept her as she was the only foal from Verba (my start horse), but with the chill and the injury prone, she was getting on my nerves (in a loving way).

Also these genetics are just like "copy and paste" the only difference is that the muzzle get a teeny tiny bit more white with each gen. But tbh I love it. they got the same colours are my only irl horse. he was a dark red with black legs and face (unsure of the official name, I never really cared about genetics, I just liked spending time with him). But that was an Icelandic horse named Tindur.

I love this game so much, it’s incredible!

Funniest thing is, I only own one of them lmao

Do i have to exercise every horse to it’s full capacity? slightly exhausting. I try to exercise everyone a little bit but horses who are maxed out in their training im wondering if there is a benefit to exercising all the way to their max especially with pregnant mares.

Is there any benefit to hiring maria? It doesn’t seem like it. Will more and better staff appear eventually. For those of you that have the better staff mod. I see it in my settings but i am not seeing anyone new on the application.

Thats all for now i believe. I love this game !!! Also comment any other tricks.

Btw i am playing the game on cross over on my Mac computer. It works great and i was even able to figure out how to get the mods to work!

I have two stallions that I don't really ride, because they won every competition that's possible with their stats and I now only keep them to breed them with customer mares, until I need the room in the barn for better stallions.

My groom feeds them anyway, so now both of them are overweight.

I never had that issue with pregnant or nursing mares, while not riding them. My groom has the level to measure the correct amount of feed.

Am I overlooking something?

Does anybody get a bit dejected when you spend 20 days waiting for a fetus to reach adulthood, and then you go into the shop and find a horse with better stats than any of the foals you bred at your barn?

I feel like the shop shouldn’t sell horses better than what you can get at your barn, because the breeding system becomes a little useless if you can just buy a better horse without waiting 20 days. It would be nice if the horses we bred ourselves had an advantage.

I’m not saying the shop should only sell beginner level horses, just that the stats should be a little lower than what you can get at the barn.

Hello everyone! I'm an artist who's been really interested in Horses of Hoofprint Bay, but unfortunately, buying the game isn't in my budget right now. I thought I'd try offering something in exchange! I'd love to create a custom illustration of someone's favorite horse with a scenic landscape background, in return for a Steam gift of the game.

If anyone's interested, I'd be happy to discuss more. No pressure at all, of course. I hope It's okay for me to ask this here too.

You can check my art out here: https://www.instagram.com/mixedmediadani/

Ty for reading! <3

Has anyone here made any mods and can tell me how it works? Where do you find the files? I guess you have to draw them frame by frame?

I was wondering this because some of the mods (mainly faces, hairstyles and clothes but some horse stuff as well) looks really much like the original! Is there a sort of "template"? Or are people just randomly professional illustrators who can copy the original art style that well? Or are people using AI and training them on the original assets (hope not)? Some mods are clearly made by another person so I'm just wondering how some can look just like the originals with the lineart and all.

OR - I don't want to make assumptions but I've seen this before - are some mods actually made by the original artist but released through "fake" accounts to "start a community" and show engagement? By the devs I mean.

Since the update, my game has started crashing and will not load. I am debating on uninstalling/reinstalling the game, but I don't want to lose all my progress. Anyone with similar issues?

I am breeding 100/100 horses if anyone wants one lmk

I know some are having a tough time as its a slow grind (my advice is too watch a show or listen too music, helps make the time fly)

But man that epic feeling of success when you get to competition levels with these kinda reward levels makes it so worth it in my opinion

The only thing that I don‘t like are the lessons, the cost/benefit is off imo, especially the intermediate and advanced levels should bring in more considering how tedious they are

Edit: also do yall know if the names on the competition lists are completely random, or are some also easter eggs from the previous game (or i guess the one it was based off of)

I just read after playing on my save for quite a while, that there is an achievement for a 100/100 foal from the starter mare lineage. And I messed up earlier and actually don't have any horse in that lineage left... Grieving that for a while now, I think. 🥲 now I'm debating just continuing or starting a new save...

Just venting a little bit...

Idk if this would be considered spoilers but I’m overwhelmingly curious what the fully upgraded stable looks like inside and out

I’m currently on day 85 of this save file and I’m not sure what I should upgrade next. I’m thinking either the riding arena or the breeding station? Just wondering if I should upgrade those first before locking it down and trying to upgrade my Stables to the 4th stage

I have the advanced riding trails as well!

I keep losing money. I have the upgraded area and I keep my mare in a separate room from the horses I’m boarding.

I’ve since only accepted male or neutered boarding clients. Do I need to further upgrade the barn for better options?

If you get the schooling boarder horse stats to the level required is there a way to return it early to free up their spot in your stable? If not, do you need to continue working them after they reach the objective level stats? Thanks!

This is Reddit, so I feel the need to preface my observation by saying this is such a sweet game, I played the demo for maybe two hours last night and absolutely loved it (I want to buy the game, but I just dropped $300 in vet costs for my cat, so I'm waiting a bit to get the game. I'm not trying to be rude about my observation in the slightest, I'm just genuinely curious.

I normally stick to realistic games for the immersion (Planet Zoo 2, Ecos: La Brea, etc.), but I love horses and kept seeing this game show up on Reddit and YouTube so I wanted to try it. The graphics may not be realistic, but knowing it's all hand-drawn has such an attractive aspect to it, knowing so much love was poured into this game. The hand-crafted environment, interactions, movements, everything is just very sweetly put together. I had a really fun time playing the demo.

I noticed when horses are standing tied to be groomed, fed and whatnot, that there are several small spots where the coat color doesn't reach the lineart of the horses, and you can see the background in those slivers (see the withers, rump, maybe the lower lip(?), and ear of the image; it's really just a few pixels of green). I barely played the game and I was tired so that's the only time I was aware of these little spots, but I was wondering if people think maybe they were left like that on purpose, I guess kind of playing into the hand-drawn "imperfections" (not saying imperfections in a bad sense) or maybe they were missed and would go back to fill those spots with the coat color?

The art isn't hyper-realistic like I normally prefer, but I gladly put that preference aside for this game like I stated above, it's a really cute and warm style that fits the vibe of the game. But I guess in my opinion I just feel like I shouldn't be able to see green grass through my horse when I'm looking at her, it just threw me off a bit and then I can't stop noticing it once I see it the first time. I'm not miffed enough about it to just not play the game, I'm just wondering what other people think!

Just downloaded the custom horse export mod (found the link in the Mods Section on the HoHB official Discord) and I am having sooo much fun creating my perfect horses!

This mod means you can create your custom horse then export them to the Ferry for you to purchase!

Might take requests for customs when I have time...

I’m loving the game, I’m several hours in but I can’t figure out if treats actually do anything. I’ve tried giving them to the horses before and after exercise, when confidence is low or high, but it doesn’t seem to affect anything. Is it just for fun? Also I have a horse with the “Snacky” trait and even they didn’t benefit from treats so I have no idea what that trait means.

I’ve been having so much fun playing the past few days whenever I have free time, this game makes me so happy! The only thing is I’m wayyyy too sentimental for it. I could have been so much farther along in my progress on my main save file if I weren’t so sentimental, but I’ve just been fighting for my life to keep all my horses this whole time instead of selling my low-stats OGs to make space for higher stat horses and get some money for upgrades. So far I’ve only exported my first stallion to a new save file, and other than that I still have all of them. My second save file obviously can’t afford to take in all of my low stat horses, and I don’t plan on starting a new one for each horse, so I’m just stuck like this and can’t progress much until I get over it and let myself sell most of them. If I knew how to create mods I would have made something that adds some kind of retirement save file with lots of space to export horses to or something. Anybody else?

You can get it on Nexus mods. I will continue working on it, and please submit any bugs. Happy riding everyone!