The Foal Pastures are a feature on Horse Reality owned by the NPC Kai Walker and referred to as "Kai's Estate" sometimes. He offers his spacious pastures for your foals to grow up in. The Foal Pastures allow players to temporarily free up some stable space. Until the foals return, they won't count towards your stable capacity. The Foal Pastures can be found under “Personal” in the left menu of the Horse Reality website.
¶ Sending Foals to Kai
You can send foals between 6 months and 3 years of age to the foal pastures. Select a foal from the drop-down menu and pay the fee in HRC by clicking the orange “Leave for X HRC” button. You can leave a maximum of 40 foals with Kai but the fee increases with the number of foals you board.
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¶ Returning the Foals
Once a foal becomes 3 years old, it automatically returns to your stables and you will receive a notification of this event. Players also receive one notification 1 week and another notification 1 day before this happens in order to prepare an empty stable space but the notifications can be turned off in settings. Should you not have room, the horse still returns to your estate, but keep in mind you can't breed while being over capacity.
You can retrieve your foals at any time prior to this. Just go to the foal pastures and click the black “Return now” button under the foal that you want to come home. Note that you will not get your money back for the remaining days, and will have to pay the full price again should you choose to send the foal back to Kai.
¶ Advantages
When you send a foal to Kai, it does not take up a stable at your estate and therefore will not count towards your capacity. During its time at the pastures, the foal gets fully cared for and pampered by Kai and its physical fitness and affection won't drop.
¶ Blocked Game Features
While your foal is not with you but with Kai, several game features are blocked:
- You can't see the care buttons, since Kai handles the caretaking.
- You won't be able to artificially age the foal up.
- You can't test its colour genes in the laboratory.
- You won't be able to use Veterinary services on your foal.
- You can neither train your foal nor see its training progress.
- You can't remove items from it.
- You can't enter it in conformation shows.
You can still do the following while your foal is in boarding with Kai:
- You can access the foal's Summary, Genetics, Achievements, Offspring, Health, and Update tabs. You can change the name, tagline and stable block of your foal.
- You can sell it or take it off sale. If the foal was for sale prior to boarding, it will just remain on sale. You can also put it up for sale when it's already at the foal pastures.
- You can send it to the retirement home without having to retrieve it from the pastures first.
¶ Pricing System
Each slot charges a fee of HRC per use. The fee gets paid upfront when sending a foal to Kai and covers its current stay. You won't need to make subsequent payments, regardless of how long the boarding is. Should you retrieve a foal before it naturally returns to your estate, the fee will not get refunded. If you want to board the same foal again, you'll need to pay for boarding again.
Starting at 250 HRC for the first slot, the price increases by 250 HRC per slot, and the final one is 10.000 HRC to use. Simply put, whatever you need to pay for boarding another foal depends on how many foals you're already boarding.
If a foal returns from the pastures, a slot opens up. Thus, boarding becomes cheaper as your number of foals at Kai's pastures drops. Example: You have 3 foals at the pastures, the next one would take up slot #4 and cost 1.000 HRC to board. If one of those other 3 foals returns first, this opens up a slot. Thus, the next foal would instead take slot #3 and only cost 750 HRC.
¶ Changelog
- On October 31 2019, the Foals Pastures were added to the game[1]
- On October 14th 2020, the Foal Pastures page was moved to V2[2]
- On November 4th 2020, a small bugfix was implemented[3]
- On June 2th 2021, a small bugfix was implemented[4]
- On June 16th 2021, a small bugfix was implemented[5]
- On May 5th 2023, a small bugfix was implemented[6]
- On June 28th 2023, a small bugfix was implemented[7]
- On September 18th 2023, a small bugfix was implemented[8]
- On August 23 2023l some bugfixes and QoL changes were implemented[9]
¶ References
- https://www.horsereality.com/forum/topic_16422/oct-31st-foal-pastures-breeding-cap-and-halloween-background
- https://v2.horsereality.com/news/34/birthday-surprise-new-horse-colour-variations-small-community-update-v2-transfer-bugfixes
- https://v2.horsereality.com/news/36/community-update-faq-about-the-v2-transfer
- https://v2.horsereality.com/news/63/community-update-conformation-show-update-breed-specific-competitions-development-schedule-next-updates
- https://v2.horsereality.com/news/64/community-update-todays-code-update-next-development-plans-a-surprise
- https://v2.horsereality.com/news/129/community-update-bug-fixes-plans-for-missing-colours-new-foundation-horses-poll-results-oldenburg-redo-poll-writing-contest
- https://v2.horsereality.com/news/136/community-update-foundation-batch-2-qol-features-release-date-shetlands-more
- https://v2.horsereality.com/news/124/community-update-v2-delta-store-development-plans-quarter-horses-are-coming-artwork-survey-more
- https://v2.horsereality.com/news/139/community-update-qol-update-bug-fixes-writing-contest-more