[Event] The Ephemeral Breeds: Appaloosa

By AmOwzing, 13th January 2026 13:03:45
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Ephemeral Breeds



On this brand-new event: Ephemeral Breeds, breed a line of horses alongside the other breeds in the game, increase their genetic potential, become the best breeder of this ephemeral breed, and win gifts.


This event will end on 03/02/2026 15:00[/b:0].

This time matches the time zone chosen on your account.


How to play?


[spoiler] Collect ephemeral horseshoes by completing objectives with your ephemeral horses. These horseshoes allow you to progress through the Season Pass and unlock rewards.

There are 2 types of objectives:

Daily: Can be completed once per day and reset at the daily update.

Seasonal: Can be completed as many times as you wish each day. Some of them change every day.

Once the Season Pass is fully completed, you cannot earn additional rewards or restart the event. [/spoiler:0]

Breeding

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In this first edition, you will raise Ephemeral Appaloosas with the following features:
↪ Immortal
↪ Age in 6-month increments
↪ Specialized in Western
↪ Cannot be registered in an Equestrian Center
↪ Can carry the following Black Market items:
➞ Always allowed: Ploutos' Parchment, Black Orchid, Hypnos' Blanket, Philosopher's Stone.
➞ Allowed this season: Philotes' Stroke, Chronos' Timer, Aphrodite's Tears, Zeus' Lightning Bolt.
↪ Disappear from your breeding farm at the end of the season.

They can be aged using Ephemeral Horse Aging Points.

Two horses are available for sale every day:
↪ For Passes: BLUP 100, 10-year-old horse of the opposite gender to your horse with the best genetic potential.
↪ For Equus: A foal with random gender and a similar genetic potential to your best horse.

Breeding:
↪ Only possible between the horses on your own ephemeral breeding farm.
↪ Veterinary fees double with each covering and reset daily.
↪ After breeding five ephemeral foals, you unlock the ranking.


Ephemeral Aging Points

[spoiler] Obtain them:

On login (15 per day).

Thanks to your loyalty (15 if you log in 5 days straight).

Randomly, when the ephemeral horses you are taking care of wake up.

With Passes (up to 4 times per day). [/spoiler:0]

Season Key

[spoiler] The Season Key, purchasable with real money, allows you to:
↪ Unlock Premium rewards, including a Rainbow horse of your choice.
↪ Earn +5 Ephemeral Horseshoes per completed daily objective. [/spoiler:0]

Ranking

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Unlock the player’s ranking after five ephemeral foals' births. Players are ranked based on their horse with the highest genetic potential.
The higher your rank, the more valuable the rewards are, including a Precious Metal horse of your choice for first place.


Rewards

Through the Season Pass:
➞ Ephemeral Appaloosa avatar frame
➞ Passes
➞ Black Market items
➞ For top players: a Rainbow Horse of choice
➞ And more…

Through the final leaderboard:
➞ 1st place: A Precious Metal horse of choice
➞ 1st to 2nd place: 2 months of Fertility's Privilege
➞ 1st to 3rd place: 4x Golden Fleece

Rewards are cumulative (just like in the Great Challenge).

Season Badge
Get a Season Badge thanks to your position in the players' ranking:
➞ 1st to 2nd: Season Badge diamond
➞ 2nd to 5th: Season Badge gold
➞ 5th to 12th: Season Badge silver
➞ 12th to 20th: Season Badge bronze


Heritage Horses

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Breed at least 5 Ephemeral Foals to see your Ephemeral Appaloosa with the highest Genetic Potential transform into a special horse Heritage Appaloosa once the event is over.


Mobile version


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The mobile version is not available for this event.


Have fun discovering this new event!
The Howrse Team
AmOwzing
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By Song_Eunhye, 20th January 2026 13:15:19
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Strongly dislike the aging/training mechanics with these horses. I have found it impossible to reach 100 BLUP at 10 years because of the lack of benefits regular horses have such as EC specialty and water trough+shower perks. I have managed to BLUP roughly one horse per day but it has been tedious and I feel like I waste so many AP. There is also very little strategy in competitions besides just hoping wins will come. Wish they made this strategic like regular BLUPs and not just busy work. I like the idea of small-scale personal BLUPing because sometimes team BLUPs can get a bit much, but not with this many debuffs. I think there is quite a bit of improvement needed to make this a worthwhile investment, and, as many others have said, more than just an obvious cash grab. Getting a bit tired with all the pay to win events howrse is introducing as great opportunities to build the game. Sometimes less is more, howrse!
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By AmOwzing, 20th January 2026 15:50:38
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Hello everyone,

We created a FAQ about this event.default smiley (ow)

If you still have an unanswered question, please let us know so we can add it to the FAQ topic.

If you are experiencing a bug, please contact Support directly.

Thank you!
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By Jigokun, 22nd January 2026 10:32:26
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Some opt-out feature would be nice. Without having visited the event page once, much less having started the tutorial, I'm still harrassed by the ugly purple tab in both Sales and my Breeding Farms.

Forcing a time intensive, paywalled, pay to win mode on players is not how to go about making the game more appealing.

There's nothing innvoative about it either you just combined the Great Challenge with the Wanderer's event concept tied to the normal breeding mechanic and then attached that to the UFO Battle ranking principle.
Only you made everything worse by taking the worst part of the GC, the Key, and making it money instead of passes, making the taking care of horses even more tedious than the Wanderer's event and making the ranking full on pay to win and without an alternative (aka just bagging all the gifts the UFOs give instead of trying for the very few top spots with actual good prizes).
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