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Welcome to the wonderful world of Hunt and Jump.

HTRanch has given you good advice. Here are some sources to explore as well:

https://hj2.huntandjump.com/forum/discussion/66419/basic-information-for-new-players#Item_11

FAQ User Guide and the Genetics Guide under Resources in the left menu.

The Chat Room for helping new members is now called Player Support.

This is an incredibly complex game, so don't feel badly about being lost as you start out. Every player went through the same thing. Our "opponent" in the game is it's life-like variability, not our fellow players. Since we're not in competition with each other, we have developed a welcoming, helpful and supportive community, something that the game's creator and owner, Ammit, strongly enforces.

Developing a strong herd of neutered show horses is a better way of making money in the game than trying to breed to sell.

Welcome! HTRanch summed up some of the best advice. Just going to add on.

In the Herd Helpers that are in rotation, Exceptionally Perfects are both great show horses and great breeders and they come in with a B/Red paper and 10.40 PT. Perfect Foundations are also good breeders and showers but they come in at C/Yellow and 9.90 PT. Exceptional Producers are great for breeding but not necessarily so great at showing. Exceptional Show are the opposite of Exceptional Producers. You also have special Herd Helpers in rotation you'll see occasionally such as Catch a Blue Moon, Silver Pocket Watch, Starry Eyed Surprise, etc. You'll know them by their distinctive names and it will say Rank 5 before their Herd Helper Name (which also gets tattooed on them automatically so you can look them up by herd helper name in the search just type in the slot for Tattoo name) These herd helpers are either Perfect Foundations or Exceptionally Perfect. Some are limited edition/special event only. For example on June 1st, Ammit will be sharing a herd helper with us that is going to be called The Diamond Age, this will be your only chance to create this specific herd helper. Herd Helpers shared directly from Ammit to us can only create one horse and you have 24 hours to create it before it's gone. Some of the more limited herd helpers can sell for a fair amount of HBs especially if they have genes people have to generally pay real life money or use a lot of IVs for GMTs to add to a foundation horse or are high in points like HTRamch said.

Papers tell you your "breeding" level. Stallions go from Show Only to C to B to A to Star. Mares go from Failed to Yellow to Red to Blue to Gold. (foundation horses only create up to B/Red but if you want to expend money you can "boost them" usually a 5% boost will put them up a paper level but that can get pretty pricey pretty quick. PT or Performance Testing can give you an idea of how they might show they higher the PT generally the better it will show because if I recall (someone please correct me if I'm wrong) PT tells you to what age the horse will continue to train tell and the more training usually the better they do in shows. I believe the lowest PT currently is 0.20 (not a good show horse) and the highest PT bred in game is up in the 14.00s

Some people in game are sticklers about breeding even generation only, so foundation horse to foundation horse and their babies to other babies from foundation to foundation crosses, so on and so forth so basically you click on their pedigree and its even across the board not one bloodline longer then the other etc. Some people breed uneven or "bootstrap" as a lot of us call it. That's when they generally find a Star papered stud with the highest PT they can, breed it to whatever mares they are inclined too and then when the foals age up breed it back up the stud. Bootstrap is a good way to build your own show herd. Eventually you start getting Gold/Star papers and high pts that way, generally most Bootstrappers BA (BA is breeding advice, and will snip horses that shouldn't breed, SBA or strict breeding advice is available if you have a premium upgrade and it will snip more horses then regular BA but SBA generally means the foal is better breeding quality then it's parents if it passed where as with just BA the foal could be a little worse then it's parents but still qualify as breeding quality) the colts but not the fillies for quite awhile because it's pretty common for them to get snipped/spelded until eventually you get high enough papered and pt in the fillies you can start to BA/SBA them and they pass. It's 100% personal preference whether you go even gen or bootstrap or do both.

Fantasy Genes for the most part require owning the license in order to own breedable pixel ponies with the gene. If you haven't bought the license with real life money when it's available in the Roving Gene Sale then you can only own spelded horses with those genes. There are a few that don't require the license to breed I think it's just Nexus, Ice 5 and 8. That said fantasy genes don't show up in random creates (only exception was a herd helper we got for Yule last year called Sugar Plum Fairy that came with an Ice gene), you'd have to pay real money to add the fantasy gene on to the foundation horse (once you have paid to put the fantasy gene on one of your foundation horses you then own the license to that gene).

We've got an awesome community here so never be afraid to ask questions if you are unsure about something!