LLS Equestrian

RidingFour real gaits, and wind instead of a stamina bar.

Saddle up and double-tap forward to step up a gait: walk, trot, canter, gallop. Tap back to step down, hold back from a stop to rein back, let go to slow and stop. On a controller or touch stick, a light push walks and a full push builds up on its own, but the gallop always needs the double-tap, so you never bolt by accident.

• Wind, not a stamina bar. A gallop lasts about ten seconds, then the horse drops back, blows and flicks its ears, and tells you when it’s ready to go again
• A second seat for a friend behind you. Only the owner drives

Bay, chestnut, black, palomino, buckskin, cremello, the duns, grulla and more, with dapple grey, roan, pinto or appaloosa patterns and face and leg white on top. Every horse carries real genes, so a black horse can secretly carry chestnut and pass it on. Look at a horse and run /scriptevent llseq:genes for its breed, coat, sex, age, genes and ancestry.

Every piece goes on separately: right-click the horse with it, or crouch and drag it into the horse’s own screen. Pads, wraps, bonnets and blankets come white and take any of the 16 dyes at a crafting table; the saddles and bridle come in their own leather.

Saddle (English or Western) · Bridle · Saddle Pad · Leg Wraps · Ear Bonnet · Turnout Blanket

The blanket keeps off rain and mud. With LLS Seasons, a horse out in winter without one feels the cold, and one left in it in summer sun overheats until you take it off.

He comes every other day, 8am to 8pm, and sets up a short walk from your bed. Every breed comes as a mare or a stallion, tame and yours.

He also sells saddles, bridles, pads, wraps, bonnets, a brush, the Horse Whistle and the Breeding Certificate.

Use a Breeding Certificate on your stallion, then give the signed certificate to your mare. When she’s due, a filly or colt arrives beside her with its coat and breed from both parents. It starts all legs, stays near its mother, plays with other foals, and can be ridden once it’s grown. Crosses get their real names: Appendix Quarter Horse, Anglo-Arab, Pony Cross and so on.

Care, bond and the stableBrush it, feed it, pick its hooves, and it comes home at dusk.

• Bond (0 to 10) grows with daily brushing, treats from your hand and riding together, and unlocks how much of its genes your horse reaches
• Grime builds from rain, mud, rolling and hard work; a brush or a swim cleans it off
• Hooves grow and wear: pick them daily, rasp them about every eight days, shoe them for roads, or it tires sooner and gets thrush
• Stalls are wherever you lay straw or shavings. At dusk your horses walk to the nearest bedding and bed down; muck out the droppings with a Muck Fork, and the manure composts
• Troughs for feed and water: at noon your horses walk over, eat and drink. Two side by side join into a double that holds three times as much

Horses fall ill now and then, mostly when they aren’t looked after. A sick horse hangs its head, and the Vet Kit reads its temperature, pulse and breathing and tells you what to do.

At worst a horse is laid up and can’t be ridden until it’s treated. Foals don’t fall ill.

TrainingYour horse levels up as you ride it, from Green to Elite.

Two skills level up: Speed (a gallop up to about 20% faster, so it covers more ground) and Jump (from about 2.5 blocks up to about 4.5). The levels are Green, Started, Schooled, Seasoned, Advanced, Elite. Each skill gains at most one level a day, then stops counting until tomorrow. Training never fades, and breeding sets the ceiling: a Thoroughbred makes a racer and a Warmblood a jumper.

• Lunging: a Lunge Line and Lunge Whip work your horse in a circle round you. It trains Speed up to Schooled; Seasoned and up are earned in the saddle. Lunging and riding share the one Speed level a day
• Arena gear: jump poles (set low, medium or high), ground poles, cavaletti, barrels and cones
• Round pen: one kit puts up a 19-block pen; turn your horse loose, crack the whip, and it works the rail by itself for about six minutes, training at half the lunge line’s pace

The Horse Whistle brings your nearest horse within about 96 blocks cantering over. The Horse Radar pairs to one horse and points the way, out to 256 blocks and beyond; a blinking amber dot marks where it was last seen when its part of the world isn’t loaded.