Howdy Ranchers! 🐴✨ The final content update is now available! This update includes the town festivals, villager friendships, farm animals, pets, a ranch expansion, achievements, new quests, new tack, and a whole lot of new horse coats!

This last roadmap update contains a ton of new content, so get ready for our longest devlog yet!

Keep in mind that this devlog contains a lot of spoilers! If you'd prefer to experience it yourself, feel free to skip this and dive right into the game to discover what's new!

Twice per season, Rivershine Town will host an equestrian festival! During these, you’ll be able to participate in multiple activities… Including new gymkhana competitions!

The gymkhana competitions are held in the town’s arena, and offer a generous first place prize, but you can only try it once per festival! Luckily, you’ll be able to do practice rounds before starting the competition. Either way, be sure to bring your fastest and most flexible horse!

Following the gymkhana, it's time to head over to the auction house! Faraway vendors have brought in unique mealy horses that can’t be found anywhere else in Rivershine. You’ll be able to check their skills and coats, and bring your favorite horses home!

The mealy pattern is available in five different strengths, from minimum to maximum. It can also be overlaid with other patterns, such as tobiano and dapples, to create unique horses!

Finally, head over to the townsquare to check out the new pop up shop the saddler has set up! Festival exclusive tack will be available to purchase, including a new baroque set. More seasonal accessories are also available, such as antlers in the winter and flower crowns in the spring!

The baroque set includes multiple pieces and color variations, which can be collected over various festivals!

Learn more about the villagers living in Rivershine as you develop your friendship with them! Each of them now has a unique story they’ll share with you over time about their past, their dreams and their worries.

They now also have more dynamic dialogues based on the weather, the season and the festivals!

As your friendship progresses, you will be rewarded with unique gifts from each of them. The handwoven tack set seen here can be completed by befriending everyone in town!

Additionally, once you’ve completed your friendship progress with a villager, they will sometimes come by your ranch to lend you a hand. Each of them will complete different tasks on your ranch. For example, the farmer will feed your horses, while the carpenter will help clean their stalls!

A new ranch?! Don’t worry, it hasn’t changed too much! Since I’ve added a lot of new buildings and areas to the ranch during the Early Access, I wanted to revisit the layout to make sure everything was in the best place… So a few things got moved around!

You’ll find it now takes less time to walk between your house, the stable, the retirement pasture and the farm fields. There’s also a few more buildings behind your house…

A new barn and coop are now available on your ranch! You’ll be able to house a dozen chickens in the coop, along with eight sheep and goats in the barn. Be sure to feed your animals daily, which will allow you to collect eggs, fur and wool to sell for a profit!

The farm animals are available to purchase from Aisha once you reach your second festival.
During the festivals, she’ll set up a small enclosure in the marketplace, where you can see which animals she has available that day!

The retirement paddock has moved to greener pastures! Your retired horses will now have more space to wander about on your ranch, and you’ll be able to see them more easily when riding around.

You’ll be able to purchase a new upgrade for the retirement pasture, allowing you to keep up to 36 horses. The price of all the retirement pasture upgrades have been reduced in the carpenter’s store.

Additionally, the retirement pasture gates can now be opened, allowing you to walk up to your horses and check on them. That’s still the only interaction you’ll have with them though… They’ve earned their right to be pasture ornaments!

House expansions are now available to purchase from the carpenter's shop! Expanding your house will add new rooms, including a bedroom and a kitchen, to your house. But most importantly, it will allow you more space to keep some new companions...

A dog, a bunny and a cat are ready to join you on your adventures! You'll be able to adopt these three furry friends as you expand your house. Choose to leave them to rest at home or bring them along on the trails, where they'll help you by gathering forage!

In addition to the new tack you’ll be able to purchase during festivals and receive from the villagers, the saddlery has been restocked! Visit it to shop for two new thematic sets.

Almost 200 new tack pieces have been added in total, doubling the customization options for your horses in this update! The price for tack has also been reduced to build your collection more easily.

This new race themed set includes saddle pads, bridles and leg wraps. Match it with your favorite race saddle!

This cute bow set includes new blankets, leg wraps and halters!

These new nature themed accessories will be available to purchase either in the saddlery, or during the festivals!

Discover a ton of new pattern variations for your horses! New variations are available for tobiano, overo, appaloosa, splash, tovero and pintaloosa horses.

In addition to coat patterns, new face markings have also been added to the game! These include a lot of new badger and bald face markings to allow you to find more unique horses each time you play!

Hard to keep track of all of these morning notifications?

The calendar is here to help you! Consult it any time during the day as a reminder of where wild horses are, which villager is visiting the town or what's happening with your horses. You'll also be able to view when the festivals are in town and when your new foals are due!

If you've been waiting to start a new save file, now is the perfect time to do so! The tutorial now includes a short cinematic to introduce the story of Rivershine and your role as you arrive in town...

After winning your last competition, you'll unlock a new quest to complete the full storyline of Rivershine. This quest includes a new statue being built on your ranch, and bringing forward the mystery horse the villagers have been seeing around town...

This legendary horse will reveal himself to you once you are ready... He has a unique brindle coat color and manchado coat pattern, and will surely bring forward a new generation of champions to Rivershine!

All of you will see a different variation of the mystical horse, with a random brindle color and manchado pattern for each player!

Try to pair your new brindle horse with a cream horse to discover more breeding exclusive coat color variations!

Steam achievements have made their way to Rivershine! You'll now be able to unlock over 20 achievements as you progress on your ranch.

While some achievement will unlock on older saves, you'll need to play on a new save file to unlock 100% of the achievements.

• Added new save slots for a total of 6 saves available.
  
• Added new gates to directly ride into the second and third pastures.
  
• Added new sheep colors.
  
• Changed how certain interfaces open and close to be quicker.
  
• Fixed the dialogue interface being cut off in certain screen resolutions.
  
• Fixed various issues with the crop farming.
  
• Increased the chance to find horses with brown or black eyes in the auction house.
  
• Updated the horse eye colors.
  
• …And a ton of smaller fixes!

As we've now reached the end of the roadmap for Rivershine, I'll only be updating the game to fix bugs and add small quality of life improvements. I've loved the years I've spent working on this game, and I know a lot of players would enjoy more content, but it's become increasingly challenging to add more to the game with each update. I think the full release is the perfect time to wrap up my work on Rivershine!

But, it's not the end for Cozy Bee Games! I've collected a ton of new game ideas while working on Rivershine that I'm really excited about. I can't wait to announce my next project to you all, and while I can't say much about it for now, it will most likely be a new cozy animal life sim!

Who knows, there might even be another horse game coming in the future!

Thank you all so much for following me on this journey and bringing Rivershine to life together!

Éloïse

Hey Ranchers! 🐴✨

As we're approaching the full release of the game, I wanted to give out a special thank you to the community. Because of your support, we’re able to give back in a way that feels so meaningful to us and to the spirit of The Ranch of Rivershine.

Cozy Bee Games will be donating $10,000 to A Horse Tale Rescue, a non-profit horse rescue center that provides care, comfort, and a safe forever home to horses who have been neglected, abandoned, or are simply in need of a second chance.❤️

This donation is happening because of you! You’ve helped The Ranch of Rivershine grow into something truly special, a community full of kindness, compassion, and love. We know many of you are passionate about horses, so it felt only right to support an organization that’s doing incredible work for horses who need it most.

If this cause speaks to you and you’d like to help out as well, you can learn more or donate directly here![www.ahtrescue.org]

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for being part of the Ranch of Rivershine community and thank you for making a real-world impact alongside us!

Éloïse

Cozy Bee Games is partnering with Makeship to create a cuddly horse plushie for fans of The Ranch of Rivershine!

Here is the full process to make our horse plushie design come to life, and the next steps if the petition is successful!

1️⃣ Sign the Petition & Pledge $2
Head over to the petition and pledge just $2 to show your support for the Rivershine Horse plushie! 🐴
By pledging, you’re automatically locking in your plushie once the campaign goes live. 🎉

2️⃣ Pre-Order When the Campaign Starts
Once we hit the goal for the petition, we’ll launch the official campaign! You’ll get an email notification, and you'll be able to officially pre-order your Rivershine Horse plushie. 🧸
Your $2 pledge will count toward the total, so you’re already set!

3️⃣ The Plushie Gets Made & Shipped!
If we hit the pre-order goal, the plushie is made and shipped straight to you! If we don’t reach the goal, you’ll get your $2 pledge back! 🙌

You can view more detail about the Makeship process, production timeline and plushie costs by following the petition link.

Thank you all for your support!
Éloïse

Howdy Ranchers! 🐴🌧️ The eight content update is here with a ton of new features, including a new villager, new forage, a weather system, and new coat colors! As we’re approaching the end of Early Access, I’ve also been spending more time on bug fixing and quality of life improvements to prepare for the full release. You can view the full list of changes below!

Meet your new neighbour, Dr. Amelia Trotter! She’ll be waiting for you in the veterinary clinic in Rivershine Town. Her clinic offers an array of remedies and poultices to treat your horses, in addition to a few… mysterious… tonics to boost your horses!

Your horses can now become ill, depending on how they are cared for. A healthy horse will be very unlikely to fall sick, while an unhealthy horse surely will. Which illness they get will depend on their satiety, care, energy, the weather and the season.

For example, dirty horses might become ill with mud fever, which can be treated with a poultice. Low satiety can cause malnourishment, while low energy brings on exhaustion. These are treated with remedies, either purchased from the veterinarian or crafted yourself from medicinal forage!

Additionally, you might now encounter sick horses when catching them in the wild. If you choose to adopt them, it’ll be up to you to get them back in good shape!

While all remedies are available for sale at the veterinary clinic, it might be worth your time to craft them yourself instead!

First, you’ll have to purchase the recipes in Amelia’s shop, and then gather the necessary ingredients. New medicinal forage can be found to craft these recipes, such as garlic, ginger, clay and peppermint. Explore the trails to discover where they grow!

In addition to remedies, Amelia sells boosts you can use for various effects on your horses. For example, you can now grow your horse’s hair faster, or freeze it to stay at the same length!

The veterinarian also offers potent tonics to boost your horse’s growth. Complete your mare’s pregnancy or help your foal grow up overnight… No need to skip days, as long as you can cover the vet’s expensive fees for her potions!

Get ready to face the elements! There is now a chance for sunny, cloudy, rainy or snowy days, depending on the season.

Keep in mind that on rainy and snowy days, your unhealthy horses have a chance to develop rain rot if they are left outside without a blanket. Healthy horses shouldn’t have much trouble with it, and it can always be treated with a poultice!

I’ve also added a new setting named “Forever Sunny” that can be turned on to prevent all weather events. This can be used if the new weather is too demanding on your computer and causes lag, or just if you prefer to keep the skies clear!

As a little addition to foal care, you can now bottle feed your foals to gain extra trust while they’re growing up! Collect the milk from your nursing mare’s stall and give it yourself to your foal for that extra bond.

Discover nine new breeding exclusive coat colors by mixing roan and cream horses together! These include coats such as palomino roan, buckskin roan and smoky cream roan. Some of these are my new favorites - I hope you’ll enjoy them too!

• Added four new arena obstacle courses for sale in River’s shop.
  
• Added a new brush for sale in George’s shop.
  
• Added a “Keyboard Control” setting that can be turned on to control the camera with the keyboard instead of the mouse. This setting should be particularly useful for players using a touchpad.
  
• Added a “Forever Spring” setting to keep the foliage and environment colors in spring all year long.
  
• Added a new quest with Madelaine to explain how the auction house upgrades in her shop work.
  
• Added a name randomizer in the horse’s interface.
  
• Increased the space available in the retirement pasture from each upgrade, with the last upgrade now granting a total of 24 spaces instead of 16. There will be additional changes to the retirement pasture in the next update.
  
• Increased the chance for the leg markings to be the same height on horses found in the auction house and in the wild.
  
• Added more coat colors for the NPC horses.
  
• Added two new travel stones in Rivershine Town.
  
• Added the pasture doors being open or closed to the save data.
  
• Changed the mouse cursor to a custom cursor.
  
• Changed the recipe list to be divided in categories for clarity.
  
• Added a “Notes” section in the inventory to record your own memos.
  
• Fixed an issue with the boots flickering on the male player character.
  
• Fixed an issue with the intermediate flower fence course caused by the obstacles being too close to each other.
  
• Fixed an issue where taking a horse out of the pasture to ride did not work correctly.
  
• Fixed an issue where wandering horses could trigger travelling to a new area.
  
• Fixed an issue where the arena jumps would sometimes disappear after selecting a course.
  
• Fixed various issues caused by pressing pause during competitions, which resulted in game breaking bugs.
  
• Fixed an issue where a competition could be completed multiple times from a single competition, creating various bugs.
  
• Changed the dapple colors on bay base horses to be lighter and more visible.
  
• Changed the foal behaviour so that they stay with their mom in the correct pasture. They will still be in separate pastures on the first load but after placing them together, they will stay together.
  
• Fixed an issue that would set a mare as not nursing while she still had a foal.
  
• Fixed an audio issue at the start of the game when loading in a save file.
  
• Fixed Gallant Deer’s name not being visible on his statue.
  
• Fixed the square saddle pad clipping with the pregnant mare model’s belly.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Coastal Chase competition to be marked as complete without participating in it.
  
• Fixed various issues with hair dyes not appearing correctly.
  
• Updated the tips displayed on the loading screens.
  
• Changed the Azure Coast competition winning times to be slightly easier.
  
• Removed the tameness loss from retiring a horse.
  
• Fixed various trail jumps in Pine Forest.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the player to be invisible during the statue blessing cinematic if they were in first person.
  
• Fixed an issue that allowed horses to walk on the auction house’s roof.
  
• Fixed an animation stutter when mounting tall horses.
  
• Fixed placement issues with the first person camera.
  
• Fixed various typos.

There are also known issues with the farming and the retirement pasture, and these will be worked on in the next update.
After doing some planning for the full release, I’ve decided to combine the last two updates on the roadmap, Home Sweet Home and Village Life, into a single bigger content update that will mark the full release of the game!

As planned, this update will include new additions to your ranch, pets, seasonal events and villager friendships. I have a few more surprises in store for this update to make it exciting for both new players and for those who have been playing The Ranch of Rivershine over the last two years!

Thank you for reading and enjoy your time in Rivershine!
Éloïse

Howdy Ranchers! 🐴☀️ We’re starting 2025 strong with our seventh content update! It's time to ride along the Azure Coast trail… and discover a ton of new content in it! Catch wild rabicano horses, train your horse’s trust, participate in coastal competitions, equip new tack and learn new recipes!

Ride along vast beaches, listen to the sounds of waves and shelter under palm trees in this final region expansion! Collect new forage, such as watermelon and sand, and discover six new hidden chests scattered across Azure Coast.

You might even see some shoals of fish swimming in the ocean!

Participate in four new competitions, from beginner to expert, set on the sandy shores of Azure Coast. Once the trail is open, you’ll soon receive an invitation to compete in these new courses!

Herds of wild rabicano horses will be roaming around Azure Coast… Be sure to build the wild horse pen, and get ready to catch them! The rabicano pattern comes in 8 new variations.

Get into the beachy vibes by listening to the new Azure Coast track![soundcloud.com]

Walk with your horse through shallow waters, navigating around large rocks and shoals of fish to increase their trust for you. The trainer will help you get the new trust arena set up on the coast!

Visit the saddler’s shop to see what new inventory is available! Equip your horse with a bitless knit bridle, a lantern accessory, or with new sheepskin saddle pad colors. Remember that some of the new pieces will be hidden throughout Azure Coast!

Travelling to a new area has never been prettier! The loading screen now features unique illustrations for each area and useful gameplay tips.

Thank you to our community members who shared their gameplay tips!

• Added flags on the sides of cross country jumps.
  
• Added an option in the settings menu to change the camera's vertical height while on horseback.
  
• Fixed the green square saddle pad not being available for sale in the saddler’s shop.
  
• Fixed collision issues with the flowers.
  
• Fixed issues with horses disappearing out of the retirement pasture.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the player to fall through the map when using travel stones.
  
• Fixed the competition outfit becoming permanent due to restarting a race.
  
• Forageable items now have a chance to give seeds again.

Following the roadmap, the next update will focus on caring for your horse’s health, gathering new ingredients, crafting remedies, and meeting the last villager… The veterinarian! She’ll be moving into the long abandoned clinic in Rivershine Town.

Here’s an early look at your new neighbour!
Thank you all for your support and I'll be back with more news soon! ❤️

Howdy Ranchers! 🐴🎁 We’re wrapping up 2024 with our sixth content update for The Ranch of Rivershine. This update brings you a whole new wardrobe to customize your character, a new villager to meet, and new breeding exclusive coat colors!

I hope you’ll all have some time to cozy up and take a look at the new features over the holidays. ❄️❤️

Classic, western or casual? Your choice! Mix and match pieces from each type for a unique look, and be sure to collect all of the colors available to be ready for every occasion! In addition to the new outfits, you can now wear a hat! Wear a helmet to stay safe while taming wild horses… or just for the style!

Make sure to save your favorite outfits to quickly swap between them, and to pick your competition outfit. This outfit will be automatically equipped when you enter into a competition!

Here are some inspirations for your outfits! You could have a classic aesthetic...

Or sport a good old western fit...

Or try a more casual look for visiting the town!

No need to start a new game to update your player’s look, simply visit the wardrobe in your house to browse through the new clothes. Your old outfit and hairstyle will be reset with the new options, so make sure to refresh your fit!

New hairstyles are now available for a total of 16 different hairstyles! In addition, you'll be able to dye your hair in new colors, including pastel tones!

Meet your new friendly neighbour! Daphne will move into Crystal Lake and open her boutique, where you’ll be able to purchase all of the new clothing options. Her store will feature a rotating inventory with different pants, shirts, shoes and hats every day so make sure to visit her often!

Discover new breeding exclusive coat colors that you’ll be able to create in your own stables! Breed together two horses with a dun coat and a cream coat for a chance to have a dunalino, dunskin or grulla foal. A total of 9 new coat colors are now available!

New random horse names can now be discovered in the auction house, when catching wild horses and when raising foals! Each category now has more than double the amount of names available to create more diversity and uniqueness with the horses you find.

Special thanks to our community members who shared their suggestions to add to the horse names! <3

• Translated all new content to French.
  
• Added five new eye colors.
  
• Added new clothes and hairstyles for the visitors in Rivershine Town.
  
• Fixed an issue where the player would not be visible if entering the wardrobe in first person mode.
  
• Reduced the cost of the wild horse pen upgrades.

We’re back on track with the roadmap, which means that the next update will be Azure Coast! In addition to a whole new area to explore, this beachy landscape will also introduce new cross country competitions, a trust training course and rabicano wild horses!

Happy holidays everyone, I’ll see you in 2025! 🎄

Howdy Ranchers! 🐴🎨 The Mane Salon update is here, bringing a ton of new content for your horses in this fifth roadmap milestone! Cut, style and dye your horse's mane and tail, meet the stylist, learn crafting recipes and collect new ingredients for your concoctions.

Learn how to style your horse’s mane and tail 20 different ways, from short to very long! Some of the new styles include different types of braids, straight and wavy cuts.

While these are only for your horses, worry not, as the character customization update is coming up soon!

To further customize your horse’s look, add a pop of color to their mane and tail with dye! Choose from 15 colors to match your horse’s hair to their tack or pick a more neutral look.

Keep an eye out for the new flower fields! Each trail will now feature a unique flower color that can be transformed into hair dye. Find chests to learn the crafting recipes, and mix the flowers together to create different dye colors!

Turn your forage, crops and even manure into useful items! The farmer will help you get started with a few fertilizer recipes that can now be crafted from your inventory.

While only fertilizers and dyes can be crafted for now, I have plans for further recipes and ingredients to be added, especially in the upcoming veterinarian update!

Meet Orion, the new villager who just opened the Mane Salon in Rocky Mountain! You’ll be able to learn how to style your horse’s mane and tail from his store. He’ll also help you learn how to craft your own dyes!

Get ready to breed unique coat patterns on your ranch! Tovero horses can now be bred from a pair of tobiano and overo parents, while pintaloosa horses can be born from a pair of tobiano and appaloosa parents.

What other unique pattern mix would you like to see in Rivershine?

Take a closer look at the horses you catch in the wild or purchase in the auction house… They’ll now have a whole new range of eye colors! While eye colors were previously limited to specific coats, all horses can now have all eye colors. Mix and match to find your perfect horse!

• Added “Farm” category items available for the player to sell, such as seeds and fertilizer.
  
• Removed the compost bin.
  
• Increased the statue's fame gained from stone circles.
  
• Increased the cleaning speed of the brushes.
  
• Improved the brushing particle effects.
  
• Fixed issues with the screen staying black after screen transitions.
  
• Fixed a bug where you could use the fast travel before selecting a location.
  
• Changed how items spawn to create more clusters and more forageable items overall.

While I initially planned on the roadmap to add Azure Coast next, I’ll switch the next two updates around and instead add the Fashion Boutique update first! It will allow you to customize your character better and purchase more outfits from a new cozy villager… You’ll soon be riding your horses in style!

Thank you for following the development of The Ranch of Rivershine!

Éloïse

Hi Ranchers! 🐴🌷 We have a ton of new content packed in our fourth roadmap milestone, including discovering your horse’s personality traits, lungeing foals in the round pen, raising horses of different heights and fast traveling to key locations!

The round pen on your ranch can now be restored! Build it to lunge your foals and wild horses and prepare them for riding. While both foals and adults can use the round pen, foals learn twice as fast while they’re young.

You can train all four skills by changing your horse's gait, adding jumps in the round pen or shortening the lead's length to train your horse's flexibility. If your horse doesn’t respond to your command, make sure to calm them down to improve their tameness!

Wild horses and foals aren’t so tame anymore! You’ll now need to train a new skill for your horses: Tameness!

This skill will impact how well a horse responds to your commands. For example, an untamed horse might just rear or buck when you ask them to accelerate, but as they improve, they’ll listen to you more and more often until they are fully tamed.

Tame your horses by lungeing or by riding them and calming them down when they buck. Wild horses are untamed, but luckily, horses bought at the auction house are fully tame, so you won’t have to worry about them!

All of your horses will now have three unique personality traits! Each trait falls under a category:

• Training: This trait impacts how fast and where your horse can be better trained, for example by training in speed twice a fast or by losing less energy when training at home.
  
  
• Caring: This trait changes how your horse needs to be cared for, for example by always having a clean coat or being able to eat two treats daily.
  
  
• Earning: This trait allows you to earn gold in various ways with your horse, for example by finding gold while riding on the trails or by earning extra gold from the competitions.

Your current horses will all receive personality traits at random when you load up your save file! For future horses, you’ll be able to see their traits in the auction house and your foals will have a chance to inherit their parent’s traits.

Since this feature was highly requested, I decided to include it as a bonus in this update! All of the horses you’ll encounter in Rivershine will now have varying heights, from 14H to 16.2H. Your current horses will stay the same size and stand at 15H tall.

When breeding horses, your foals will have about the average of their parents, and you’ll see their height go up each day as they grow. Young adults will now also grow over time and reach their full height once they become adults!

Mysterious stones have appeared in key locations across all of Rivershine… It might be useful to take a closer look at them, as they will allow you to fast travel around the trails!

Help the villagers of Rivershine to learn more about the stones and gain the ability to travel through them. The villagers will also shine more light onto the mystery of the town, but there will still be more left to discover…

Along with the travel stones, you’ll find stone circles around the town and trails. These will reward you for exploring and grant money, potential, energy or statue fame as you pass through them.

• Translated all new content to French.
  
• Improved the horse jump animations.
  
• Added four new shades of base black coat colors.
  
• Added more random colors for the NPC’s horses.
  
• Added coat genetic information to the fertility pasture interface.
  
• Fixed a game-breaking bug that caused the player to get stuck when trying to adopt a wild horse.
  
• Changed horse energy to be replenished after spending a night in the fertility pasture.
  
• Fixed a bug where the Rocky Mountain statue would charge up before the quest for it is available.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the competition start and end gates to stay visible after finishing the race.
  
• Fixed the foal brushing hitbox.
  
• Fixed foals being able to reach 100% care.
  
• Fixed horses losing their dapple coat color when they are placed in retirement. This won’t restore dapples for previous horses but it won’t happen again with future horses.
  
• Fixed the jump training arena in Crystal Lake not unlocking correctly after purchase.
  
• Changed the indoor arena and grain descriptions to clarify how they impact training.
  
• Increased the foragable item spawn chance.
  
• Changed where grains spawn to match the trail’s training bonus.
  
• Fixed the Rocky Mountain music stopping abruptly.
  
• Reduced all tack cost by half.
  
• Increased the time required to break quickly to reduce instances of stopping by accident.
  
• Change the questline so that the Lupine Meadow and Rocky Mountain expert races don’t unlock at the same time.
  
• Fixed an issue where the horse’s energy bar wouldn’t visually increase after feeding a treat or resting at a hitching post.
  
• Added sound effects for the foal’s footsteps.
  
• Fixed the horses and foals not being led correctly out of the stable.
  
• Fixed issues with horses being duplicated when loading a save.
  
• Removed the ability to “ride” foals by resetting to the map’s entrance.

The next content update will be focused on opening the stylist’s boutique! Along with meeting a new villager, you’ll learn how to cut your horse’s hair in new styles… And more ways to make your herd look pretty!

Thank you for following the development of The Ranch of Rivershine!

Éloïse

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!

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![soundcloud.com]

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!

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.

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!

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!

• Reduced the cost of early upgrades and tack items.
  
• Changed all competition times to be a little easier.

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[discord.gg]!

Thank you for reading and happy trail riding everyone!
Éloïse