How the valley works

Getting started

Every new stable begins with 2,000, a small supply of feed and apples, a grooming kit to keep, and room for 2 horses.

1. Find a horse: choose a breed, coat, age and name at the Sale Barn, or give a rescue a second chance at the Rescue Center. Youngsters (up to 2 years old) are free; started and seasoned horses cost Coppers and arrive with some training already done.
2. Feed and groom every day or two so your horses stay content.
3. Spend time together once a day to build trust and get to know their personality.
4. Train their abilities, then enter shows to earn Coppers.
5. Grow your stable with more land, divisions for your herd, and foals of your own.

Bramblevale

Pasturely takes place in Bramblevale, a quiet valley of blackberry brambles, cherry trees and good neighbors. The places in the valley are the parts of the game you already use, so you'll see their names around the site:

You'll also meet Barnaby, the valley's chestnut pony in the yellow straw hat. He helps Mae with the Almanac, greets every new horse at Willowrest, and never misses a Blossom Festival. If you're new and not sure where to go, follow Barnaby.

Explore Around Bramblevale → Its history, the seasons, the neighbors and the valley's traditions.

Coppers

Coppers are the valley’s money. Every one you earn or spend is listed in your ledger (click your balance in the top bar).

Daily care

Each horse has two needs that slowly drop over time, even while you’re away.

Apple treats add 3 trust and 10 hunger. Moochy horses get more trust from a treat but get hungry faster. Supplies are bought in the Stable Store.

Trust & mood

Trust (0–100) is the bond between you and your horse, and it matters more than any other number. It changes slowly on its own based on care:

• When hunger and cleanliness average 75 or more, trust rises about 0.5 per hour.
• When they average below 40, trust falls at the same rate.
• In between, trust holds steady.

Temperament changes these speeds, and treats and bonding add trust directly. High trust reveals quirks, helps in Dressage and Jumping, and moves rescues through rehab.

Mood is worked out from trust (half the weight) plus hunger and cleanliness (a quarter each): Joyful, Content, Settling in, Uneasy or Withdrawn.

Spending time together

Once per day, choose an activity on your horse’s profile: hand grazing, quiet grooming, leading practice or liberty play.

• Every session gives +1 trust.
• +1 if it’s your horse’s secret favorite activity. Try them all to find it.
• +1 if your horse is well cared for (hunger and cleanliness both 75+).
• +1 from temperament: Velcro horses love any time together, and each temperament has an activity it naturally enjoys.
• Up to +4 per day. Horses at 90+ trust gain +1 at most, since there’s not much further to go.

Temperaments

Every horse has one of 6 temperaments. It shapes how they respond to you; none is better than another. Foals usually take after a parent, with a small chance of something new.

Quirks

Every horse has two hidden quirks, little habits and secrets like a love of peppermints or a talent for opening gate latches. The first is revealed at around 55 trust and the second at around 80 (it varies a little per horse). Your horse’s profile shows how close you are.

Aptitudes

Every horse has one hidden aptitude, a small natural strength. Existing horses and new arrivals have the same discovery opportunities. An aptitude stays with a horse when it changes homes.

Discovery needs at least 55 trust, plus either a successful relevant training session with that ability at 60 or above, or 3 completed starts in the matching show class. Versatile training discovery needs all four abilities at 60 or above. Past starts count; wins aren’t required.

Once discovered, it adds 2% to future scores in its matching class, before day-to-day variation. It gives no bonus in other classes. Discovery appears in the journal and the horse’s profile; training also announces it. A discovery at the end of a show helps future shows, not the result just scored. Aptitudes do not change potential or show-level eligibility.

The journal

Each horse keeps a journal of their life: arriving at your stable, being born, show ribbons, discovered quirks, rescue milestones and time spent together. It’s dated on the valley calendar and stays with the horse, even if they change homes.

Training

Horses have four trainable abilities, each with a potential: a ceiling set by breed and bloodline.

• Abilities: Speed, Stamina, Agility, Discipline.
• Each session costs 5. Normal adult training adds +2, up to the horse’s potential.
• Each ability can be trained once every 4 hours.
• Youngstock ages 1–2 practise groundwork at half the normal base gain (usually +1): leading and transitions, in-hand walking, footwork and balance, and manners and focus. Full training, showing and breeding start at 3.
• Seniors train at half speed. Foals and elders can’t train. Expecting mares rest. Coat effects and the minimum gain of 1 still apply.

Aging & life stages

Horses age on the valley clock: 84 real days (12 weeks) = 1 horse year. Want an older horse right away? Choose an age at the Sale Barn:

Age	Years	Cost
Surprise me	1–12	Free
Weanling	about 6 months	Free
Youngster	1–2	Free
Started	3–7	60
Seasoned	8–14	100
Golden years	15–20	20

From age 29 a horse is Frail: very old, and moving slower. From 30 a frail horse may pass away peacefully, and very few live past 36. It only happens while you’re playing (never during vacation mode), and each horse who passes gets a free memorial page where you can write a few words about them.

Seasons & calendar

The valley has its own calendar. Each season lasts 3 real weeks, so a full year (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter) takes 12 weeks, the same length as one horse year.

Right now it’s Winter, Year 30 (day 14 of 21). Every horse’s profile shows the season and year they were born. Breeding is open in Spring and Summer (see Breeding).

Pasture & weather

Every horse is either in the stall or turned out in one of your paddocks. Your land decides how many paddocks you have, and each holds up to 10 horses. Move horses on the Pasture page.

Grass

Grass regrows on its own, fastest in Spring and barely at all in Winter. Each horse eats a little every hour (ponies less, drafts more), so a crowded paddock thins out. Empty a paddock and rest it to regrow twice as fast. Each season also has a maximum: as Autumn and Winter set in, grass above it dies back over a couple of days, and it comes back as Spring arrives.

Weather

Each day brings weather for the whole valley, shown next to the season badge.

• Sunny: A fine day to be out on the grass.
• Overcast: Grey skies and quiet grazing.
• Rain: Muddy legs outside, but the grass loves it.
• Thunderstorm: Horses outside huddle up instead of grazing, and get very muddy.
• Foggy: Damp and still. Dew on every blade.
• Heat Wave: Flies are out in force and the grass is wilting. Fly masks help.
• Frost: A hard frost. The grass stops growing; blankets keep the chill off.
• Snow: Grass is buried. Horses outside need blankets and hay.

Gear

A horse wears one item per slot (rug, head, halter, muzzle, legs). Gear is reusable: you can dress as many horses at once as you own pieces. Put it on from the horse’s Pasture tab or the Pasture page. It’s made in your stable colors (Stable Settings), and a division can dress its horses in its own color.

• Turnout Blanket ( 25): Worn by one horse. Cold weather no longer makes them hungrier. Reusable.
• Rain Sheet ( 25): A waterproof rug with no fill. Far less mud in rain and storms, but no warmth.
• Fly Sheet ( 20): A light mesh rug. No fly grime on the body, and a little cleaner outside.
• Cooler ( 30): Wicks away sweat: training under a winter coat costs half the Cleanliness.
• Fly Mask ( 15): Worn by one horse. Flies in summer and heat no longer make them grubby. Reusable.
• Ear Bonnet ( 15): Keeps the noise down in the ring: show scores +3%. Worn instead of a fly mask.
• Leather Halter ( 20): A classic leather halter with brass fittings. For looks.
• Nylon Halter ( 10): A bright nylon halter in your stable color. For looks.
• Grazing Muzzle ( 15): Slows grazing: the paddock lasts much longer, with a little less help for hunger.
• Leg Wraps ( 15): Protects the legs in work: training this horse rests 3 hours instead of 4.
• Salt Lick ( 20): Place in a paddock for 14 days: horses there get hungry a little slower and make friends faster.

Winter coats & clipping

Every horse grows a winter coat through Autumn, wears it all Winter and sheds it out by mid-Spring. A thick coat keeps out up to 60% of the cold outside, but a woolly horse sweats when it works: training gains drop by up to 50%, each session costs up to 25 Cleanliness, show scores dip by up to 8%, and turned-out horses get muddy 25% faster.

With Clippers ( 40, twelve uses) you can clip a horse from the Pasture tab of its profile. A clip grows back over 4 weeks and can be touched up after 7 days. The more you clip, the cooler the horse works and the colder it gets, so heavily clipped horses want a blanket or a stall.

Friendships

Horses sharing a paddock become friends after about 2 days together and best friends after about 10. A friend in the same paddock slowly builds trust (a best friend even more). Friendships fade slowly when horses are kept apart. Quirks matter outside too: a horse that hates rain won’t graze in it, and a roller gets dirty fast.

Shows

Any player can open a show in one of 8 classes. It stays open for anywhere from 4 hours to 5 days, then results are scored automatically.

• Entry fee 10 per horse. Pasturely matches the fees ×2, and the purse splits 50 / 30 / 20 between 1st, 2nd and 3rd.
• The class weights above give a horse’s base skill score. Life stage, temperament, coat preparation, equipment and a discovered matching aptitude then modify it. Finally, day-to-day variation (up to ±10) is added, and the result is rounded with a minimum of zero.
• Temperament nudges scores by a few percent in classes that suit (or don’t suit) a horse.
• Consistency: Easygoing horses start with a narrower variation range; Bold horses have a wider range. Every 25 trust narrows the range by one point, and every five completed starts in that class narrows it by another point, up to three from experience. Every temperament can settle to a minimum range of ±3 before preparation. Variation is symmetric: it can help or hurt equally.
• A horse can enter a new show every 4 hours. Adults and seniors can show.

Choose a preparation

Choose one warm-up when entering a show. Focus Practice is selected by default, and preparation costs no extra Coppers. The choice stays with that entry.

• Quiet Warm-up: Steadier results with slightly less energy (−1% score; variation range −2).
• Focus Practice: A balanced default: normal score and a little more consistency (variation range −1).
• Forward Warm-up: A small score lift with more variation (+1% score; variation range +2).

Preparation adjusts the variation range after temperament, trust and experience. Quiet Warm-up can narrow it to ±2; the others have a minimum of ±3. No preparation widens it beyond ±10. The performance report records the chosen warm-up, its score effect and the final variation range.

Three show levels

Each class has its own progress. A horse can be ready for Open jumping while still learning dressage. Hosts choose a level when they create a show:

Eligibility is checked when you enter. Wins aren’t required to progress, and you can always choose a higher level. Completed starts from every level count toward that class, including past shows and starts with a previous owner. An entry in a show that hasn’t finished does not count yet.

Your horse’s Show record tab lists class starts, current base skill and suggested levels. Level limits use base skill before age, temperament, coat, equipment or day-to-day variation. Entry fees, cooldowns and prize shares are the same at every level. Existing shows are Open.

Reading a performance report

Expand Performance report in recent show results or your horse’s Show record. It explains which attributes were strongest and shows the weighted skill contributions, modifiers, preparation, consistency range, variation and final score. Reports save the actual values used when results are scored; later training won’t change them. Scores use the horse’s stats when results are calculated, so training before scoring can still help. Older results keep their scores, but reports are only available for shows scored after this upgrade.

Breeding

Breeding season is closed. It opens with Spring (in 8 days, Nov 9).

• Breeding season runs through Spring and Summer. Mares can only be bred then, but a pregnancy that starts in season always finishes, even if the foal arrives after the season ends.
• Adult and senior mares and stallions can breed. Breed to your own stallion for free, or to another player’s stallion for their stud fee.
• Pregnancy lasts 48 hours. Both parents then rest 96 hours before breeding again.
• Foals take one parent’s body type and breed (mixed pairs make a “Cross”), either parent’s coat, a height between the two, and a potential based on both parents. They start out small and grow into it with training.
• Temperament usually comes from one parent. Every foal gets new quirks.
• List a stallion at stud on the Breed page and set your own fee. Listings stay up all year, so your stallion is ready when the season opens.

Land & stalls

Your land sets how many horses you can keep. Upgrade in the Stable Store.

Land	Stalls	Paddocks	Cost
Little Paddock	2	1	Free
Cozy Homestead	4	2	100
Meadow Farm	7	2	250
Rolling Acres Ranch	12	3	500
Country Estate	24	4	1,000
Heritage Stud Farm	50	6	2,000
Riverside Show Park	75	7	3,000
Grand Equestrian Center	100	8	4,000

Divisions & stable settings

• Divisions sort your herd into groups, like a Show Barn or Broodmares. You can make up to 12, each with its own color and icon. They share your stalls, and deleting one never removes horses.
• Rename your stable once every 7 days. Names must be unique.
• Each horse can be renamed once, from its card on your herd page.
• Both live in Stable settings, linked from your herd page.
• Stable themes change the look of the whole site for you (colors of the barn, leather, brass and parchment). Tack Room and Classic Red Barn are free; others are bought once with Coppers. Preview any theme first from Stable Themes. Themes are looks only and never change how the game plays.
• Decor dresses up your paddocks (trees, shelters, fences, flowers and signs) and your stable page (a banner, a nameplate and a companion). Paddock decor shows behind your horses whenever they’re turned out there. Try anything on before you place it, from Decorate. Some pieces are free, most are bought once with Coppers, and a few are for supporters. Decor is for looks only.
• Supporting Pasturely is optional. Hedgerow Members and Valley Patrons (through Ko-fi) get a weekly stipend with their salary (+ 50 or + 100), extra stalls and paddocks, longer vacations, stable themes and decor, Barn Rounds and training plans, full journal history and a badge. Trust, care and bonding are never for sale. If a membership ends, nothing is taken from your horses.

Rescue Center

New rescues arrive in the valley at the start of each week, when the season turns. They’ve had a hard time, so they start with low trust and are often a bit older.

• Adoption costs 15 and needs a free stall.
• Rescues go through rehab, with milestones at 40, 60, 80 trust.
• At 80 trust they’re Rehabilitated, a permanent badge, and you receive 50.

Trading, selling & gifts

Horses can move between stables, and friends can help each other out. There are two ways to find a horse a new home:

• Offer a horse to someone. Open the horse's Transfer tab, or go to Community → Transfers & Gifts. Pick a stable and set a price, or leave it at 0 to give the horse as a gift. The horse stays with you until they accept. Offers last 7 days, and you can withdraw one any time before it's answered.
• List a horse on the Horse Market. Under Community → Community & Market, anyone can buy a listed horse right away. A price of 0 lists them as free to a good home. Listings stay up for 30 days, and you can withdraw yours whenever you like.

When a horse moves

• Their journal, stats, potential and show wins go with them. Every horse has a story, and it keeps growing.
• Trust is with a person, so a horse brings 60% of their trust to a new home (never less than 25) and rebuilds the rest with their new person.
• They leave their old division and paddock, and any blanket or fly mask stays with the old stable. A stallion's stud listing ends.
• The new owner needs a free stall and enough Coppers for the price. The money goes straight to the seller, and both ledgers show it.
• You'll get a note on your herd page when a horse you offered or listed finds a new home, or when an offer is declined or runs out.

Horses that can't move yet

• Rescues still in rehab. Once they're Rehabilitated, they're free to go.
• Mares who are expecting, until their foal arrives.
• Horses entered in a show that hasn't closed.
• Horses already offered or listed. Withdraw the first one before trying something else.
• Horses who moved in during the last 3 days. Give them time to settle.

Sending Coppers

• Send Coppers to any stable from Transfers & Gifts, or with the button on their stable page. You can add a note.
• Each stable can send up to 2,000 a day in total. It resets at midnight.
• New stables can start sending after their first 0 days.

Time away

Life happens, and the valley understands.

• If a stable has no activity for 60 days, its horses are cared for at the Rescue Center. Their journals go with them.
• When you come back, bring them home for free as long as no one else has adopted them.
• Expecting mares and horses entered in an open show stay home until that’s finished.
• Planning a long break? Turn on Vacation mode in Stable settings and your horses stay home for up to 14 days at a time (30 for Hedgerow Members, 60 for Valley Patrons). You can turn it on again when it ends. (Needs still drop while you’re away, so expect some hungry faces when you return.)
• Life happens. If something comes up and you can’t log in to turn it on yourself, message Pasturely staff on Discord and we can put your stable on vacation for as long as you need.

Valley rules

Pasturely is a cozy place, and these keep it that way:

1. Be kind. No harassment, hate or bullying, in the game or on Discord.
2. Keep it all-ages. Stable names, horse names and messages should be friendly for everyone.
3. One stable per person. Extra accounts used to farm Coppers, pass horses or Coppers to yourself, or prop up shows may be removed.
4. Play fair. Found a bug or exploit? Report it on Discord instead of using it. Thank you!
5. Respect other players’ horses. Stud fees, shows and rescues are shared spaces.
6. Moderators have the final say. Rule-breaking may lead to a warning, renamed content, or a suspended account.