Breeding and Foals

Breeding in ModN Equine uses a custom system. It is not vanilla Minecraft horse breeding.

Breeding has its own requirements, items, cooldowns, and foal lifecycle.

Basic Requirements of Parents

To breed two horses, the system requires:

• a mare and a stallion
• both horses owned by you and from your /h panel
  
• neither horse already involved in another breeding lifecycle or listed for sale
  
• the mare fed today
• both parents in good energy and health condition
  
• two Horse Breeding Potions in your inventory
• if one is a fjord, the other horse must be the same kind of fjord

Horse Breeding Potions

Breeding uses Horse Breeding Potions.

You can obtain these from the following places:

1. /shop (for real life money)
2. /questshop (for tokens you can earn on /questboard)
3. /ah (when players list them for sale)
4. from winning the Breeder's Cup race
5. /warp docks (for points you can earn from winning races, winning YeGods (pvp), and chat games; by clicking on the Shady guy at the end of the dock)

Foal Stats

Foals inherit information from their parents.

1. the mare's breed
2. the coat color (50% to get the stallion's color and 50% to get the mare's color)
3. the coat pattern (50% to get the stallion's pattern and 50% to get the mare's pattern)
4. an average of the parent's speed and jump stats (add the two speed stats and divide by 2. do the same for jump)

Foal Lifecycle

After breeding starts, the foal is not immediately a mature horse.

The system tracks the foal through a lifecycle. You will receive status messages about pregnant mares, nursing mares, or foals that need care every time you join the game.

In the beginning, a foal is only an egg icon in your /h panel, and not a physical foal. Once one week passes, the foal is born (with a message in chat) and grows for two more weeks before becoming an adult horse.

Foals are unrideable and do not need feeding. To keep a foal alive, you must feed its mother daily until that foal has grown into an adult.

Adopted Foals

Adopted foals have special feeding rules.

They must be fed with a bucket of milk each day until they mature.

Normal horse food cannot be used as a substitute for milk.