° Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays!

As a gift from the staff to you for being such awesome players, you¢ll find a new Winter Background - announced below - in your inventory if you were active in December. Hope everyone stays safe and enjoys the holidays! °¤

¢¯¸ NEW Winter Background

To celebrate the winter season, we now have a new background. This background will be available all of January and February and will retire until next winter on February 28th at midnight. 

As a last hoorah for 2020, we¢ve also managed to round up some bugs. Please see the list of fixes below.

°¦ Items and Inventory

• You can no longer equip duplicate types of items from the horse¢s page.

• When you equip and remove items on the horse¢s page, the equip item list will now be updated to include allowable item types.

• Horses that have that item type already equipped will no longer show up in the dropdown on the equip item page.

• Horses that have an item type equipped should no longer show up as an option in the mass equip tool.

°ª Logging In

• If you¢re logging in on a page that is not the main page, it will now keep you on that page after logging in.

• If you¢re logged in and view the main page, you will now see the welcome page instead.

°ª Private Messages

• The bug where you would sometimes get a notification that an error occurred while sending a message reply should now be fixed.

• After sending a message reply, the page now refreshes.

• Private messages should now be ordered correctly.

• Unread messages should now show correctly.

• You can now delete private messages.

• There is now a list of users subscribed to a message thread on the page.

• If you are the only user in the thread, you won¢t be able to reply to it.

° Horses

• All Silver Silver horses have been fixed. This issue does not appear to have happened after late August so it should be completely fixed now.

• All silver chestnut horses should no longer have silver in their name or image.

• Pony foal grey overlay layer has been fixed.

• Grullo horses with silver should now display silver in their color.

• Blue roan horses with silver should now display silver in their color.

• Silver dapple roan horses should now show correctly in the custom generator.

° General Site

• You should no longer see a 403 forbidden error if you are typing in ¢www¢ in the url. This should now redirect to the non-www version of the game.

°° Auctions

• Item and currency auctions should now return your escrow when auto bought by someone else.

° Herd Management

• Breeding tab now allows you to sort by BS.

The bugs are slowly getting squashed!

We'll be going live in about an hour. We hope to see you there! To catch all of our lives, subscribe to us on Youtube Be sure to read our FAQ's regarding Youtube Also keep your eyes peeled for an important message from yours truly (it's Sadi), in a bit. It's still being worked on.

Congratulations to ariel, who has just won the Ichu Lottery! The jackpot was worth 70,000 iP and the item prize was Draco Egg!

This week's item prize will be Luna Plushie! Lottery is drawn every Wednesday.

Congratulations to our Snapz! of the week winner: -Mystik-


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

While taking a relaxing sleigh ride through the fresh fallen snow, admiring winters wonderland, we came to a sudden halt!
Our eyes opened wide, dancing in delight, we snuck between trees, to have a closer look.
It was a magical snowscape created by lor. Making this player todays snowscape winner!

CONGRATS! This player has won a FESTIVE TROPHY for their profile and a FREE ACCOUNT UPGRADE!

Sign up here for your chance to win tomorrow!

While taking a relaxing sleigh ride through the fresh fallen snow, admiring winters wonderland, we came to a sudden halt!
Our eyes opened wide, dancing in delight, we snuck between trees, to have a closer look.
It was a magical snowscape created by poetrist. Making this player todays snowscape winner!

CONGRATS! This player has won a FESTIVE TROPHY for their profile and a FREE ACCOUNT UPGRADE!

Sign up here for your chance to win tomorrow!

Every week, we will be selecting a random pet's blog from the Pet Zone. Only up-to-date blogs will apply for this.

This week, the award goes to Duke, who is a new addition to the family! -- (read the blog to find out more)

For having an up-to-date blog with cute pictures, they have earned their owner AnitaCupaCoffee a free account upgrade! Congrats!

Make sure you don't forget to put your real life pet images in the Pet Zoneand ADD/keep UPDATED BLOGS to your pet images, so you have a chance to win!

Who knows, they might win the next weekly Pet Zone contest.

Yesterday's correct answer was Merry Christmas Baby.


Guess what Christmas song this image represents! Once you have figured out what the answer is, send it via pmail (with the name of the song in the Subject line) before midnight to SWEETFIRE (DO NOT POST YOUR ANSWER IN COMMENTS). You may only submit ONE answer. For each correct answer you will receive 5 points which will be added to your total Sweet tally.

Make sure to try and get into the top 10 of the appointed games for bonus points!

Good luck!

Congratulations to our Snapz! of the week winner: mikeyjaycat


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

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!

The bait has been hooked, fishing line cast and we have caught Eanda 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!

Yesterday's correct answer was Santa Claus is coming to town.


Guess what Christmas song this image represents! Once you have figured out what the answer is, send it via pmail (with the name of the song in the Subject line) before midnight to SWEETFIRE (DO NOT POST YOUR ANSWER IN COMMENTS). You may only submit ONE answer. For each correct answer you will receive 5 points which will be added to your total Sweet tally.

Make sure to try and get into the top 10 of the appointed games for bonus points!

Good luck!

Now's a better time than ever to update your Plushie collections, because we have five new adorable additions just waiting to be cuddled! Starting today, you can get your very own Black Dovu, Brown Traptur, Brown Zabeu, Cottoncandy Zabeu, and Snowdrift Zabeu Plushies. You can find the Black Dovu and Brown Traptur Plushies at restocking at the Plushie Palace. However, the new Zabeu Plushes, along with all the other Basic Zabeu Plushes, have been moved from the Plot Store and found a new home over at the Quest Store where they will all be available for 150 Quest Points each. The Book Quest will also be rewarding the Black Dovu and Brown Traptur Plushies now, while Samuel over at the Plushie Quest will be looking for them in one week's time.





And that's not all! The basic colors of the Dovu, Zabeu, and Traptur Plushie series have all been given a fresh new design. Your Plushie collection will be looking sharper than ever!

Last but not least, nine Avatars featuring some Basic Colour Pets have also been updated! If you have the Ducky Love, Ducky Ducky Lugra, Ice Ice Baby, Pink Addicted, Shepherd, Spoiled Jakrit, True Rebel, Zabeu Tamer, and Unsurprising avatars in your collection, be sure to check out these spiffy new designs!





If you are having trouble seeing the new artwork, try doing a hard refresh using Ctrl+F5 on Windows or Cmd+Shift+R on Mac.

Happy art update day! Today we have quite a few fun new additions for you to round out our year! Per request, poll results for additions are listed with their features.

°¦ Andalusian Update

The Andalusian art has been updated to suit the new art style. Solo has kept their original position and updated them to have braids per our poll where 47% of votes wanted more braided manes. In the future, other highly voted requests will also be incorporated into new art. To celebrate another art update, Andalusian coins are 10% off in the General Store until December 20th at midnight.

Somatic Mutations

Andalusians now have somatic mutations which can be discovered in the foundation store or through breeding. To view both mutations or place a bid for 1 mare and 1 stallion can be viewed here.

° Tack Update!

New Tack

Our recent poll on tack colors had black leather tack as the #1 choice for new leather color with 74.8% of votes. Both the Black English Bridle and Black English Saddle have been added to the general store and be equipped to your horses.

Holiday Pads

Also added today are two festive colored holiday pads. Both the Red Holiday Pad and Green Holiday Pad are in the General Store.  These are our first seasonal pads which means they will be in the General Store until January 1st at midnight and return December 2021. 

Tack Bonuses

All of the new tack has the same show bonuses as the original tack sets. All bonuses and tack info can be viewed here. 

Tack Adjustments

Some tack pieces have been adjusted and new images uploaded. There were a few masking and fits that have now been fixed for various breeds. To view these changes you must clear your cache to view the newest version of the images.

°¶ New Companion

A new companion has frolicked into Eqcetera! Vega is a German Shepherd Dog owned by our dev Bedouin. Vega can now be bought in the General Store and is available until January 1st at midnight. She will rejoin us around her birthday in July to celebrate. :)

°¥³ Name Generator

Over 4,000 new words and names have been added to the name generator! These will now show up when randomly generating names. 

¢ Holiday Sale

Don't forget the holiday sale ends December 26th at midnight! Ingots are up to 35% off and a few packages are available for purchase which includes our newest item, the Breeders Promise. Check it all out at the Ingot Store.

Spectral & Magic Tokens

Now until December 26th at midnight both Spectral and Magic Tokens may be bought as singles. We have noticed requests for this and are happy to open them up for those of you who do not wish to purchase the 6 pack of them in the ingot store. NOTE, the packages in the ingot store are 6 for the price of 5. Both tokens can now be found in the General Store for their single token value. To check out their benefits view the Item Catalogue here.

°´ New Breeds

Per a poll question ¢Would you like to know a list of up-coming new breeds or be surprised?¢:

• 37.5% voted ¢I want to know breeds and their release order. (Ex. List of breeds being added in-order with rough date)¢

• 30.4% voted ¢I'm good with anything. I just like new shiny horses.¢

•  19.6% voted ¢I'd like to know the new breed but not in order. (Ex. List of new breeds being added within the year)¢

• 12.5% voted ¢I'd like it to be a surprise. Don't tell me!¢

We have decided a good middle ground for everyone is to give hints on the next new breed via social media so you can speculate amongst each other. A hint has already occurred in an older news post for our January new breed but, a second hint is always nice! Keep an eye out on our social media for the next hint! Follow us on Instagram and Facebook to more easily keep up!

¢¯¸ Coming Soon

Keep an eye out for a small update next week which will include a new winter background! 

¢¨ 2020 Round Up

It has been quite a long year with a lot of unexpected changes for Eqcetera. We want to thank our playerbase for sticking around through all of our bumps, trials and errors, and the big transition to V3. We are so proud of where we have managed to come in the development of Eqcetera with the help of our playerbase. We want to let you all know that our update on January 2nd  will be a large outline of changes coming in 2021 which includes answers to lots of your questions and some exciting planned additions. I have worked the past month on our full outline for 2021 and am excited to share with you where your feedback, our vision for Eqcetera, and a few surprises have come together. 

We hope you all have a wonderful end of the year and enjoy the holiday season. Both Bedouin and I will be taking a long awaited break from development to be with our families from now until January 2nd. During this time,  if you need any help or have questions don¢t hesitate to contact staff through Discord and/or the support email. 

Cheers,

The Dev Team

Congratulations to our Snapz! of the week winner: skylar1


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