Howrse Blup Tutorial - Part 1

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A Guide for First Time Bluppers
(This was written by myself so, please do credit Twilight Connemaras if you copy it elsewhere online or on Howrse).

Understanding blupping has never been a particularly easy task to those unfamiliar to it, when you ask how do you get a horse from a blup value of zero to 100 the most common answer is “Bold the top 3 skills, age the horse to 10 years old and get 20 wins in competitions” well this isn’t very descriptive, it gives you the goal but not the method. What I hope to do in this explanation is to help the reader understand why those three goals are important and how you can obtain them by breaking it down into steps. I have aimed to make this guide easy to follow for those completely new to blupping, it is written for this and nothing else, many players have different methods and orders to how they blup, this is not my concern here, my concern is the understanding so once you understand that, you may blup in your preferred manner. I will start with the most simple part:

1. The horses age. Even if a horse was never bolded in its top three skills and never won any competitions, so long as it was aged to 10 years old it would still increase in blup value until it reached 10 years old. After 10 years of age the horse will no longer gain any blup value from being aged.

2. The horse must win 20 competitions. A horse can win in any combination and any kind of competition but it must be 1st place. Anything else is not a win, so if your horse gets a 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th these have no effect on the blup value. You do not have to get the wins in the same kind of competitions, or even in the same discipline, just so long as all first places added together equal 20. If you win more than 20 it does not increase the blup value, once 20 are achieved that is it.

3. The third part which makes up 100 blup is called “bolding the 3 skills”, I will break this down into what it means. Bold or bolding refers to when a skill can no longer gain skills from training, rides or competitions. Bold / bolding is what happens to the text of the skill, it literally goes into bold text. Lastly what does the 3 skills mean, this refers to the highest three genetic skill values out of the total 6 displayed in the genetic tab of your horse, this is key. You need to identify which are the highest 3 values in the genetic skills tab, the lowest three skill values in the genetic skills tab will never ever increase the blup value, but the highest three of the six genetic skills will.

Okay, I hope this had made sense so far, if you are unsure have a look at your own horses and other players horses. Or if you have any questions, feel free to ask for help.