Fixes
• Quest Log Fix: The quest log interface can now be closed with the ESC key.
• Camera Update: Default camera position is now centered to prevent wall clipping.
• Improved Interactions: Trigger boxes for some interactable objects have been enlarged.
• UI Adjustment: You can now resize the UI to better fit your screen.
• Florian Shop Bug Fixed: Exiting Florian’s shop with ESC and attempting to close the chat window no longer causes screen flashes.

• Tack Hangers: Organize your equipment with hangers for bridles, halters, saddles, and saddle pads.
• Carry Tack by Hand: Hold bridles, halters, boots, saddles, blankets, and saddle pads for added realism.

• New Starter Quests: Fresh tasks to help you begin your adventure!
• New Maps:
- Falkenberg Riding School: A stunning training and riding destination.
- Local Horse Market: Explore a lively market filled with horses and gear.
• Mailbox System: Check your in-game mail for updates, rewards, and more.
• Gameplay Index: A growing guide with all the info you need about the game. (Not filled yet)
• Test Ride Horses: Try out horses before deciding to buy them.
• New Shop Items: Find new horse tack and stylish clothing at the Horse Market shop.
• New Music: A fresh track to enhance the game atmosphere.
• Expanded Horse Ownership: Own up to four horses at once!
• New Sleep Feature: You can now go to sleep in your room by interacting with the bed. Time will reset to 7:00.

• Beginner Show Jumping Courses: Learn the ropes of show jumping at the riding school.

• New Bonding Actions: You can now pat and hug your horse. ❤️

• New Item: Horse Tickets
- Silver Ticket: Customize your horse with limited markings and colors.
- Gold Ticket: Go all out and create your dream horse with no limits!
• New NPCs:
- Clarissa Falkenberg: The owner of Falkenberg Riding School.
- Florian Himmel: The shopkeeper at the Horse Market.
• New Horse Equipment System with multiple attachment options!
- Right-click the item to automatically attach it to the correct slot.
- Drag & Drop the item onto the correct equipment slot.
- Drag & Drop the item directly onto the horse.
- First, hold the item in your hand and stand in front of the horse to attach it manually.


• Player Character Upgrade: Your character has a brand-new look and improved graphics.

• Updated Player Animations: Smoother and more realistic walking animations.
• Map Rename: "Forest Valley" is now called Campground and has been reworked.
• Horse Creator & Player Creator Revamp: Both tools have been completely redesigned.
• UI Overhaul: The entire user interface has been refreshed for a better experience.

• Improved Horse Care: More detailed grooming and hoof cleaning! Use two different brushes to remove various dirt: hard brushes like curry combs for tough dirt and soft brushes for dust.

• Home Stable Overhaul: Your stable has been redesigned with new buildings to explore.
• Landscape Upgrade: The entire game world has received a stunning overhaul with improved grass, textures, and lighting. Everything looks more vibrant and realistic!
• Improved Lighting: Adjusted and enhanced light settings for a more realistic look.



• Key Commands Reset: Key bindings in the settings are reset each time the game is launched.
• Multiplayer Pole Bug: Jump poles sometimes disappear. To reset them, simply walk through the obstacle again.
• Multiplayer Sitting Bug: If players are already sitting when you join, you won’t see it. You need to sit again.
• Graphic Glitch on High Settings and above: When graphics are set to "High" or higher, square visual glitches may appear on the landscape.
• Multiplayer Tack Bug: Reins and stirrups sometimes do not attach correctly in multiplayer sessions.

We are actively working to resolve these issues—thank you for your patience and feedback!


If you discover any bugs, please report them either via email at [email protected] or, preferably, on our Discord server[discord.gg]. Thank you!

Want to join the Closed Beta? Click here[www.patreon.com] for more info!

Fixes:
• Hair Clips Through Helmet in Character Creator
• Disappearing Items in Inventory if you drop it on itself
• Small typo on the item type - "Ressource" is now "Resource"
• Adjusted holding brush idle animation
• Adjusted holding brush walking animation
• Adjusted brush interaction animation (left & right side)
• Adjusted holding hoof pick idle animation
• Adjusted holding hoof pick walking animation
• Adjusted texture resolution
• Graphics Settings will be saved now
• You can now set a player amount of 1 if you create a session
• Removing dirt from hoof does happen smoothly instead instantly
• Missing collision setting for the stable where the player was able to interact with anything through the walls
• White Riding Pants textures
• When you opened the inventory while riding the equipment slots of horse and rider got swapped
• Fixed auto movement of horse if leading stops because of distance

Additions:
• Click on NPC text field to generate entire text immediately
• Selling item starts with an amount of 1 instead of 0
• Added Shadow Graphics Settings separately
• Added "Owned" text for shop items if you have this item inside your inventory, equipment, storage or horse equipment
• Added Right Mouse Button click to sell items
• Added about 30 new items to the NPC Shop

Changes:
• Horse gets slower dirty
• Adjusted general transitions between gaits
• While leading the horse will now find the nearest location next to the player (left or right)
• New brake (full stop) animation for Trot & Canter
• Removed SFX if you receive 0 PAX (Money)

Important change for now:
Because of some logic issues for the general horse movement we cap the FPS to 60! This will fix movement delays in multiplayer and single player. We're working on this issue and we hope we're able to fix this soon.

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Horses:
• Animation changes: Walk & Canter
• Added cleanliness for the body & each leg
• Added Brush functionality
• Added Hoof Picking functionality

Added stall behavior (A.I.), horses inside their stall will orient themselves automatically as soon as the stall gate is closed.

All stall behaviors:
• Idle
• Hatch
• Eating hay from the hay net
• Drink
• Eating from the feed trough

Riding system:
• Riding System 1.5: Set speed manually for each gait to change into Extended or Collected
• Added stride system indicator
• Display active gait

Players:
• Added alternative hair mesh if the player wears a hat/helmet
It was a big wish of the community that the hair didn't disappear when wearing a headgear, so we added meshes to each hairstyle as an alternative.

Player Creator:
• Added "Reset back to default" button
• Added face presets
We've received some suggestions to make the Player Creator a little more enjoyable, we've now added face presets. We have provided 4 presets to choose from, more will follow in the future.
• Added 14 new morph options to design your character with a higher level of detail!
• Improved all hairstyles and beards
• Added new hairstyles

Functions:
• Added depth of field
• Added snow traces
• Added pick-up function
• Added Pick Up Item: Alfalfa Flower
• Random spawning pick up items on specific surfaces (e.g. Alfalfa Flower spawns on grass)

NPC Overhaul:
We have given our NPC more depth, you can talk to NPCs (In Update 0.2.0 only with Jeremiah Weathersby) they will then react with animations and the text will be generated in a text field.

NPC Trading:
In our roadmap we announced that we would add a NPC shop for Update 0.2.0. There is a test NPC on your property where you can buy or sell items.

HUD:
• Added Quick Bar
Important for upcoming updates where you can drag & drop items into the world or onto objects.

Quests:
• Changed up Quest texts

Maps:
• Added home stable map combined with house
• Added HDRI Background for each map

Environment:
• Adjusted Grass Textures
• Adjusted Colors
• Adjusted Weather Brightness

Settings:
• Simplified Graphics Settings

Performance Overhaul:
Through the great screenshots and videos you shared, we saw that many of you had to turn down the graphics settings significantly. We have therefore revised or adjusted almost every mesh, material and texture and significantly reduced the number of draw calls and hope that many of you achieve higher FPS numbers!

Fixes and changes:

UI
• Added a menu with riding controls when pressing ESC
• Horse name now applies in the indicator
• Quest interface track/untrack button has been fixed
• Added current version of the game in the start menu
• Changed "Hiding HUD" to F9 Key (Not rebindable)

Player Creator
• Sliders are now thicker
• Rotating character will not work if you click on any UI
• Character rotation is no longer inverted

Inventory
• Ranchwear Western Hat got adjusted

Horse Creator
• Added Patreon Special Coat "Dulce"

Camera
• Auto camera correction during movement has been removed
• Sensitivity slider for Controllers has been added to the settings menu
• Option added to snap the riding camera behind the horse while riding
• Offset adjusted for better aiming on items
• Distance (zoom) is now faster

Horses
• Security function added to prevent the horse from getting stuck in the ground after a jump
• Dismount functionality has been improved: If dismounting on the right side doesn't work due to a mesh, it will attempt to dismount on the left side. If both sides are blocked, you can't dismount in the current position
• Fixed too dark looking markings

Interaction
• Interacting with drawers should no longer freeze your inputs
• Enlarged collision of fences for the quest "Prepare the horse sale"
• Adjusted quest indicator

Graphics
• Eyebrows will no longer disappear on settings lower than "Epic"

Loading Screen
• Removed border
• Added one more loading screen image

General SFX Settings
• SFX & BGM will apply correctly when restarting the game

Maps
• Forest Valley got a few changes
• Added weather effects for the landscape

Dear Community!
We're thrilled to share that our Kickstarter campaign and closed beta is now live!
Back us on Kickstarter to access exclusive rewards, be part of the creative process, and secure your spot in the Closed Beta!

What's the Closed Beta, you ask? It's your chance to be among the first to experience the game, provide valuable feedback, and witness its progress. Your support means the world to us, and together, let's create an unforgettable equestrian adventure!

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Unlock the artistry of horse customization with the Horse Designer, a feature within the world of "Unbridled: That Horse Game". You have the power to craft your ideal equine companion from head to hoof. From choosing coat colors and intricate markings to styling majestic manes and tails, the Horse Designer offers a myriad of options to bring your unique vision to life.









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So what does that mean?

The game will get a massive performance AND graphics boost!
Thanks to the new features that are provided by version 5, like Nanite and Lumen!

What is Lumen?
Lumen is a fully dynamic global illumination and reflections solution that enables indirect lighting to adapt on the fly to changes to direct lighting or geometry—for example, changing the sun’s angle with the time of day or opening an exterior door.
With Lumen, we no longer have to author lightmap UVs, wait for lightmaps to bake, or place reflection captures; what we see inside the Unreal Editor is what we get on console.

What is Nanite?
We are able to create games and worlds with massive amounts of geometric detail with Nanite, a virtualized micropolygon geometry system, and a new Virtual Shadow Map system.
We can directly import and replicate multi-million-polygon meshes while maintaining a real-time frame rate without any noticeable loss of fidelity.
These systems intelligently stream and process only the detail you can perceive, largely removing poly count and draw call constraints.

Also with the switch there will be lots of updates in the Patreon test phases (Link down below)! The stable map, Character and the customizer, Inventory, Horse customizer, Horse animations and Obstacle Course Builder will get all a big rework! Of course new things will come as well! Stay tuned!

This will be the biggest update yet, so please give us some time to make it work flawlessly! The free Demo will also be on Unreal Engine 5!


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