New Manes & Tails, Rare Patterns, Crafting & New Villager! 🐴🎨 Update 1.5.0.2

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.

Mane & Tail Styles

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!

Hair Dye

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.

Flower Fields

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!

Handy Crafting

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!

New Villager

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!

Tovero & Pintaloosa

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?

Eye Colors

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!

General Changes

• 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.

What’s Next?

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