🏇 Disciplines and Training
Horse disciplines allow players to specialize horses for specific styles of riding and competition. Disciplines influence stat development and create a clearer role for each horse over time.
Discipline Registration
A horse’s discipline is registered at the Discipline Registry in Ventura (Arynvahl).
Once assigned, a discipline can be changed, but changing it has a `72-hour cooldown`cooldown.
Discipline Progression
Each discipline contains `15`15 levels.
Every level requires `1000 XP`.XP
As a horse gains discipline levels, its stats are adjusted to better fit that specialty. In practice, this means a horse may gain stronger performance in key areas for that discipline while becoming less optimized in unrelated areas.
For example, a racing horse may gain improvements to speed and stamina while becoming weaker in jump-related performance.
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Training Races
Training races are an important part of horse progression. These races are located around Ventura and nearby regions.
Players can locate them by:
1. Opening `/quest`
2. Selecting `Races`
3. Choosing a race
4. Pressing `Set Compass Point`
The compass marker will then guide the player to the correct location.
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Special Gaits
Only some disciplines currently include custom gaits or special movement behavior. At present, the main disciplines with special movement support are:
- Dressage
- Western Pleasure
- Saddleseat (partial)
- Hunter Jumpers (partial)
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Riding XP
Mounted progression is tied directly to activity.
While riding, players receive:
- `5 player XP`XP per minute
- `15 horse XP`XP per minute
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Leaderboard Rewards
Race leaderboards reward long-term competitive performance. If a player holds a top-three leaderboard position for `28 days`, they receive the following:
- 1st place: `$10,000`000 and `250 XP`XP
- 2nd place: `$7,500`500 and `175 XP`XP
- 3rd place: `$5,000`000 and `100 XP`XP
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Performance and Welfare
Horse speed and responsiveness are also affected by welfare and nutrition. A horse that is underfed or poorly maintained may appear unusually slow even if its base stats are strong.