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Ammit · May 2, 2023 9:13 AM

HuntAndJump was officially opened on June 1st, 2006 and every year we hold a big anniversary celebration in the month of June. It just so happened though that I am unavailable on May 21st through June 2nd, and June 8th through 23rd. That means packing a whole bunch of awesome stuff into June this year is going to be tough. So instead of trying to make it all work in June, I am spreading out the load. You will get some stuff in May, some in June, and some in July.

Every year we have a theme. This year it is "Hold Your Head Up High!" We are celebrating our diversity and what makes us all unique this year. And that means adding some more diversity to our income horses in lots of ways. Is this and all the saddlebred and friesian talked linked ... it's a mystery. ;) What could this possibly mean?! :)) (Here is a hint, it is related to those new breeds you have been making.)

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We are kicking off herd diversification with a huge and mean HUUUUUUGE change up to herd helpers. I have gone through and made 53 previously special event-only herd helpers, now available for random creations. Next month we will get getting a bunch of new herd helpers that will be all normal perfect create ability. I wanted to make sure our exceptional breeders still got lots of new horses to play with. The best way I could think to do that was to throw open the door on our huge library of prior herd helpers and let members create the ones they love the most. Some of these are very rare and have not been released in years.

Every herd helper listed below can now be obtained randomly. No special event required. Events marked with an 'e' are exceptional.

A Rhythm of Four -e
All Washed Up -e
Black Sea
Blue Hawaiian
Bone Fire -e
Breaking Break
Bring Back The Sun -e
Candle Glow
Candy Appleloosa -e
Candy Corn -e
Chocolate Cupcake
Christmas Cracker -e
Clean Slate
Conversation Hearts -e
Creamsicle -e
Dark Chocolate
Dove of Peace -e
Eye of the Tiger
Festival of Lights
Fireflies
First Snow -e
Good China -e
Hail Science!
Harps of Gold -e
Heart of the Holidays -e
Heels and Pearls
Imani
Irish Cream
King's Ransom
Legendary Lights
Liberation Actualization -e
Light In the Dark -e
Made in the Shade
Mistletoe -e
Mountain Mist
New Coke -e
Olive Branch -e
Orca
Ostara -e
Out With A Bang -e
Paradise Play
Pretzel Twist -e
Pumpkin Spice -e
Red, White & Blue Roan -e
Song of Sleipnir -e
Sparkling Cider -e
Spiked Eggnog -e
Storm Warning -e
Tan Lines
Trick Or Treat -e
Whipped Cream
White Sand -e
Yule Log Ashes

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I can't wait to share all the amazing things we have coming for you. In the meantime enjoy these herd helpers. Oh and one more thing.

Reroll price drop to 2, 000 hb's (down from 5,000) for all of May and June!

SeahorseFarms · May 2, 2023 9:17 AM

Thank you! I was hoping it wasn't a bug. :))

Mensie · May 2, 2023 9:20 AM

How awesome! Thanks Ammit!

Cavalynn · May 2, 2023 10:40 AM

Thanks, Ammit! I just rolled a Made in the Shade herd helper. They're perfect. :x

CLRS14 MadeInTheShade17573434

CLRS14 MadeInTheShade17573435

Fiddler · May 2, 2023 4:48 PM

Holy cow, just what I needed, another distraction!

lecobb8 · May 3, 2023 4:51 AM

Ammmmmmmmiiiiitttttt, I was trying to SAVE up money! Now you've gone and made the options too amazing to resist!

Herzeloyde · May 3, 2023 5:43 AM

This is the best gift I could recieve!

Wingedeagle · May 3, 2023 8:56 AM

Yay!

CheshireFarms · May 3, 2023 9:18 AM

Happy Early Birthday! Also, love the theme <3

Soliloquy · May 3, 2023 3:32 PM

This is exciting news! Thank you!

Herzeloyde · May 3, 2023 4:51 PM

I was incredibly lucky and got Rhythm of Four as my 2nd RS! I know we have many fancy Rank Specials out there, but there really is something special with a mahogany-colored buckskin. They are my favourites

Fiddler · May 3, 2023 4:54 PM

@herzeloyde sounds lovely

Herzeloyde · May 3, 2023 5:06 PM

Here is the first one I got many years ago. On this one, I removed the creme to make a HaJ-version of my IRL horse, and they are very similar. His coat is lighter in the photos due to sun fading.

x Brasil de Almeida

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10158112964555339&set=a.10150573424195339
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10159452797530339&set=a.10150573424195339

RedtailFoxFarm · May 3, 2023 6:10 PM

@Herzeloyde He’s gorgeous!

Fiddler · May 3, 2023 7:19 PM

@herzeloyde gorgeous horse! May i ask what breed he is?

Herzeloyde · May 3, 2023 7:26 PM

Thank you! He is a Lusitano

Fiddler · May 3, 2023 7:28 PM

Oooo Lusitano!

OopsDotCom · May 3, 2023 10:05 PM

I think I'll check myself into the hospital more often if I'm coming home to stuff like this lol. What a supreme month we're going to have. Months.

annismyrph · May 4, 2023 4:23 AM

@Herzeloyde ; he is simply Stunning! is he a stud or gelding?

OopsDotCom · May 4, 2023 9:42 AM

Where do we find this gift please?

Cavalynn · May 4, 2023 9:54 AM

The first gift is the previously special event only herd helpers now being available to roll and activate at random on the create a horse page. Also the fee to roll for a new herd helper has been discounted from 5000hbs to 2000hbs for the next two months.

Herzeloyde · May 4, 2023 1:54 PM

@OopsDotCom like @Cavalynn says, and for what it is worth, it seems that there is now about a 1/30th chance of rolling a rank special. Only Ammit knows the real number, but that is what I have been getting so far (*)

@Annismyrph: he is a breeding-approved stallion, and have some offsprings, I have a daughter of him that I hope to use as a broodmare in the future
:x

Ammit · May 4, 2023 2:37 PM

The odds of getting a rank special have not changed at all, but the ones you can get are much more varied.

Herzeloyde · May 4, 2023 2:46 PM

Thank you so much for this gift!

Ammit · May 10, 2023 7:05 AM

I wanted to share the rough calendar of what is coming out this celebration season.

May

-We have the herd helper reroll price drop and the big herd helper release posted about above.
-We also have the discounted gene price sale, based on your votes.
-Gift exchange entries open on the 15th!

June

-Gift exchange assignments go out sometime on the 1st!
-New RGS genes available every day, game items on discount change very few hours.
-Special event herd helpers start appearing this month. Not every day has one but I tried to get every Thursday through Sunday. There is a huge number of brand new herd helpers this month, many with very fancy limited genes.
-We are going to TRY and get breed characteristics out in the second half of the month but this is a huge project (more info to come) and the next month is very disrupted. If they are not out in June they will be out asap in July.

July

-Special event herd helpers continue for the rest of this month.

Something very important you need to know! We will be rebuilding our payment processing system later this year. That will include improving how subscriptions are managed, and a price increase on subscriptions. We have never increased the price of any item in the game before and premium subscriptions are about 15 years old. Because of inflation, we get about 30% less money per sub than we used too. Our game is also a lot more expensive to run now because of the features we have added, hiring people, server cost increases, and our living expense increases because of inflation. The subscription should cost around 11 dollars if we straight inflation adjusted which I feel is too big of a jump. In the fall this year we will be upping the price to $9.50. This will not impact already existing subscriptions. We will grandfather those in, so if you were contemplating a sub and want to get one before the price goes up later this year you should jump on that. You will also need a subscription to take full advantage of the new breed characteristics, though it will not be mandatory.

Starstruck2 · May 10, 2023 7:12 AM

Ooh, I got nervous seeing a price increase because I would be pretty sad if I couldn't budget it in, but that's not bad at all. Totally understand why it's needed. Excited about all the upcoming events and additions!

Fiddler · May 10, 2023 8:24 AM

I'm pretty sure all of us that are subscribers can afford a few more dollars a month, and it is overdue. thank you, I am very excited about these new breed characteristics.. oboy

Ammit · May 11, 2023 5:28 AM

Oh man I forgot. Of course, Sea Ponies are out in July!

CheshireFarms · May 11, 2023 6:36 AM

@Ammit if we wanted to pay your new price, would we cancel our subs though PayPal and renew it through the game platform?

Ammit · May 11, 2023 6:40 AM

Yup! I can't believe how many people have asked if they can do that. It is really touching and sweet. I will set up some kind of reward system for people if they do that as a thank you.

Fiddler · May 11, 2023 7:02 AM

Let us know when to do that

Xzeina · May 11, 2023 8:02 PM

Wait, so: with the subscription update, we'll be able to pay directly through the game rather than going through PayPal?
I want to know if I understand this correctly.

CheshireFarms · May 11, 2023 11:50 PM

@Xzeina no, to cancel the subscription you have to do it through your PayPal account. And then if you want to renew, you don't normally. It's because it's a subscription, the controls behind it are through PayPal.

Ammit · May 12, 2023 3:41 AM

we'll be able to pay directly through the game

No, and you would never ever want that. You don't want a small business directly handling your credit card numbers or ever even seeing them. It makes them a huge hacking target and there is no possible way we can ever be as secure as PayPal is. We will however start taking I think vemo and google pay, maybe apple pay. I am not 100% sure.

Ammit · May 17, 2023 4:02 AM

Some more updates today.

The GMT lab can now update ALL horses even altered ones.
The Height Regulator gene has had its licensing restrictions removed. Tiny ponies for all!

Ammit · May 17, 2023 4:43 AM

One more!

I added a new Bulk AFPT update option to the bulk testing area of the barn page for all premium members.

Starstruck2 · May 17, 2023 12:16 PM

Yay I hope we see more tiny ponies now! :D

annismyrph · May 17, 2023 12:22 PM

I just put a lot of Tiny Bois up for sale. Thank you Ammit!

DarkwatchStables · May 24, 2023 6:40 AM

Question for Ammit - when would be the ideal time to unsubscribe and resubscribe? I have zero issues paying the new price, but I've got a brain like Swiss cheese and I don't want to lose any subscriber benefits by forgetting to resubscribe!

Ammit · May 24, 2023 8:33 PM

There will be plenty of announcements when it happens and we will let everyone know what sort of thank-you reward we are going to give out and everything. You have a while still.

DustyVampire · May 25, 2023 2:48 PM

Thank you Ammit, this is coming at a good time for me. I've got some major life changes coming my way that'll hopefully give me time to be more active on this site (Note how I'm just now seeing this 21 days later). While mine isn't diversity related, the message still resonates.

AlterEgoAcres · May 30, 2023 4:50 AM

Absolutely beside myself. One of the most exciting things to happen in all the years I’ve been playing! Very much looking forward to it. Thank you for all your hard work on this game

Ammit · May 30, 2023 8:30 AM

From today's change log!

5/30/2023 3:39 AM Ammit added:
I moved Sea Ponies to July last year and was planning to run it then this year as well, but it is clearly people really are hoping for those June ones. So SUPRISE! You will be getting them in June and July this year!

HorseAngel · May 30, 2023 9:15 AM

No way, Sea Ponies for a whole 2 months? I'm going to explode! @-)

Starstruck2 · May 30, 2023 10:13 AM

Wow! Super excited :D

TintagelDrafts · Jun 1, 2023 8:24 AM

How exciting!!

Wingedeagle · Jun 1, 2023 3:45 PM

Awesome! I really like giving candy ponies at Christmas as an easy way to gift GMTs, but was a little disappointed I couldn’t do that for the summer exchange. Now I can!

Ammit · Jun 5, 2023 4:31 AM

New celebration surprise just landed

I have added 5 new clubs to the breeder club list

*Wild Bay
*Brown
Pangare+
Fantasy: Onyx
Fantasy: Rainbow Riot 2

* I split the Bay club into Bay, Brown, and Wild Bay. If you had horses with brown in the color name they have been removed from the Bay Club. You will need to re-register your horses in the new Brown Club.
Any Bay horses who have the agouti promoter gene have also been removed from the Bay club. They can be entered in the new Wild Bay club.

Don't forget you can look at any club to see the entry rules, and there is an --ENTER ALL-- option on club registration so you can mass register horses for these new clubs.

eajames1991 · Jun 5, 2023 7:25 AM

Thanks so much for the new breeder clubs Ammit! I always breed for brown and just added onyx and pangare+, so this is perfect!

Cavalynn · Jun 5, 2023 10:36 AM

Yay! Thanks, Ammit! I'm particularly excited about the brown, the pangare+, and the rainbow riot 2 clubs. Toner and void are my favorite rainbow riot genes so I'm glad I can enter those horses in another club now. :)

RKO · Jun 5, 2023 5:38 PM

Happy 17th Anniversary HJ, I have been playing since the beginning, before this newer version was out. I remember having to get referrals to open the tack accessories and I had many a stable go inactive because I forgot to log on with in the 6 months. I made this stable 2012 and made sure I logged on lol. I love seeing how much this game has changed through the years and for me the game just gets better and better. Thank you Admin for creating a very cool game.

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