Hi Ranchers! 🐴🌻 We’ve now reached the third milestone on The Ranch of Rivershine’s roadmap: The Rocky Mountain trail! This area opens up a ton of new content including new competitions, wild dapple horses, new tack colors, a flexibility training arena, and a new horse statue!
Additionally, The Ranch of Rivershine is currently on sale! It’s a perfect time to grab the game and head onto the mountain trails!
New Trail
The Rocky Mountain trail features steep inclines, hanging bridges, and herds of wild goats! You’ll be able to ride around this new area and upgrade it with cross country obstacles, a wild horse pen, and a flexibility arena... And don't forget to look for the three hidden tack chests!
A new lively track will also be playing on this trail... Give it a listen here!
New Competitions
After opening the Rocky Mountain trail, you'll have access to four new cross country competitions. If you've already unlocked all the competitions, these will all become available instantly. If not, you'll unlock them as you progress through the questline!
I've also created two new obstacle sets to decorate these new courses!
Flexibility Arena
The flexibility arena is finally here! Wave around a line of barrels to pass through the flexibility checkpoints and quickly train your horse.
Purchase this arena from River and upgrade it twice after that to use it multiple times per day.
Dapple Coats
The wild horses sighted in Rocky Mountain have interesting coat colors… It's dapples! After building the Rocky Mountain wild horse pen, you'll be able to catch these horses and add them to your stables.
Dapples are a new type of coat modifier and can be mixed with all coat colors and patterns. This results in a ton of new coat color combinations to discover! Dapples are available in five different strengths, from minimum to maximum.
Here’s an example of how the different dapples look on a black horse!
Tack Colors
All the tack is available in new colors at the saddlery! The fabric tack has four new shades: pink, purple, teal and orange! The leather tack also has two additional shades: light brown and dark brown.
Here's a preview of the new fabric color range!
Since the horse interface was getting a bit too cluttered with all the equipment, I’ve also reworked it to make it easier to find the color you want!
Balance Changes
- Reduced the cost of early upgrades and tack items.
- Changed all competition times to be a little easier.
What's Next?
For the next content update, I'll be tackling the foal training! This will allow you to interact with your foal in new ways and do more activities with them. Alongside that, I'll also implement horse personalities to make each of your horse more unique!
If you'd like to see more development news and participate in beta testing for upcoming updates, be sure to join the official The Ranch of Rivershine Discord!
Thank you for reading and happy trail riding everyone!
Éloïse