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Career centers are where your horses go to work for you and help you to earn more bits! There are five Career Centers in total: Model, Lesson, Working Draft, Therapy, and Education. All players start with the Model Horse Career Center for free. Additional Career Centers can be purchased from Mason at Buildmore Construction for 50,000 Bits each; no upgraded account is required.
Career Center Types
Model Horse
Included With Estate
Let your horse strut its stuff while visitors enjoy staring at its beauty.
Lesson Horse
Estate Addition: Riding School
Visitors can learn to ride horses and expand their riding skills through lessons.
Working Draft
Estate Addition: Farm
Various tasks are needed to be completed at the farm such as plowing or log pulling.
Therapy Horse
Estate Addition: Therapy Center
Those in need of equine therapy may come and interact with horses for therapeutic growth.
Education Horse
Estate Addition: Education Center
Visitors who wish to learn about equines may visit to experience and learn about them first-hand.
What Are Careers?
Careers are a working path where your horse can work at one of 5 different jobs on your estate. Your horse will earn bits, experience points, and skills depending on both the horse’s career tier and their performance. All accounts have the Model Horse career unlocked for free. Additional careers cost $50,000 bits to build and are bought from Mason Buildmore at Construction. You can find your unlocked careers by hovering over the Estate tab and clicking “Careers”, then clicking on the career you wish to send a horse to work at.
Working at a career does not involve any fees, aside from the cost of unlocking more careers and any personality tests that need to be done. Horses can work in their career every 30 minutes, taking up 20% of their energy each time.
Note: Members with Enter All 2 will have a button to send all horses for each career’s page.
Career Path
Personality + Skills + Performance Stats = Career Horse
Most any horse will excel in the career path if their personality is suited for a career. Careers also used skills to determine our horses payout for a job complete. This means the ideal career horse would first have a personality suited for the career, then throughout its life, increase its skills by completing jobs. Careers also use performance stats at a very low weight which acts as a small boost to career score and payout.
Horses with personalities not suited for any career typically will not do well in careers. This means these horses would potentially be better in the halter or discipline paths. If your horse has a personality that does not suit careers, they may do best in the discipline or halter paths.
Careers are ideal for horses that:
- Have low performance stats.
- Have lots of fair or poor breed standard values.
- Have a personality revealed.
- Have some skills.
- You plan to improve skills and performance stats throughout their lifetime.
Any horse that is generally not thought to compete well in discipline or halter shows can still make a great career horse and earn you bits.
Career Skills
Skills are gained by entering your horse into career jobs and halter shows. Each job completed will earn your horse a small % to the completion of the 3 skills used for the career. This means, each career has 3 skills that are ideal for completing the career. As your horse advances through the career tiers, the % of skills, bits, and horse points they earn per job also goes up. For halter shows, the skills increase is given to a random 3 stats.
| Career | Description | Skills | PS | |
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Model Horse | Let your horses strut their stuff and show off their beauty while visitors get to admire them. | Patience Attentiveness Tolerance |
Intelligence Flexibility Agility |
| Education Horse | Teach people about equines by giving them a chance to meet and experience horses in person. | Patience Attentiveness Tolerance |
Intelligence Flexibility Endurance |
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| Therapy Horse | Help people overcome physical or mental challenges in their life through equine therapy sessions. | Communication Aptitude Adaptability |
Agility Endurance Flexibility |
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| Working Draft | Various tasks that need to be completed at the farm such as plowing or log pulling. | Patience Communication Attentiveness |
Power Agility Intelligence |
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| Lesson Horse | Students learn to ride horses for the first time or improve their riding skills further through lessons | Patience Attentiveness Tolerance |
Speed Intelligence Endurance |
How To Purchase A Career Center
To begin adding more Career Centers to your stables, locate the Construction store from the ‘Market’ dropdown menu.
Once you have have arrived at the Construction store, you will see a series of tabs. Click ‘Careers’ in order to view Career Centers available for purchase.
If you see a white button beneath the Career Center that says ‘Purchase (Not Enough Acreage)’, this means you will need more land to accommodate an additional Career Center. Below is an example of what this will look like if you do not have enough acreage.
If you need additional acreage, you can navigate over to the ‘Land’ tab and opt to purchase the next available acreage lot as seen below.
In order to send your horse to a career your horse must meet the following criteria:
• Has a fully revealed personality, either through Foal Training as a foal or through a personality test at the vet in Town for adult horses.
• Has a career selected. Horses may only have a single career, but can have both a career and primary discipline set. You cannot set a career that you have not unlocked.
• Career path is checked in Working Paths.
• Is boarded at a stable.
FAQ
⁉️ What if I do not have an upgraded account and have reached my max on how much land I can buy? You can choose to demolish structures like stalls or your show arena to free up room. This will return bits at a partial price of the structure but never full cost.
⁉️Once I have purchased new career centers, is there anything else I need to do to start using them, like purchasing certifications similar to Training Arenas (Note: Training Arenas are available to upgraded players only)? Nope! Just make sure you have your horses’ working paths set correctly so they appear accordingly, otherwise you are all set as Career Centers come ready to use!
⁉️Can other players use my career centers? At this time, no, but could be a great future idea!
⁉️Do I have to own all career centers? Not at all! Career centers are optional and up to your discretion.
⁉️Do I need certifications for Career Centers like I do for Training Areas (Note: Training Arenas are available only to upgraded players) No, Career Centers come fully ready to use!
⁉️Does it matter what breed or horse I use at which Career Center? It depends! Read more about Careers and finding the optimal path for your horses here.
⁉️Help! I can’t career my horse(s)! There are a few common reasons as to why your horse may not be appearing under your Career center or available for work.
1. Make sure the horse is personality tested. Read more about Personalities and how to test for them here.
2. Double check that the horse has ‘Career’ set as a working path.
3. If ‘Career’ is set as the working path and your horse is still not showing as available, check that you have selected a Career path for the horse. See the above linekd page on Personalities for more information.
4. Does your horse have energy? Careering requires at least 20% energy to send a horse to work.
5. Is your horse frozen? If a horse is frozen, it will not appear as available to work.
6. Is your horse in Transport? Once boarded whether at another facility or your own Boarding Center, it should appear.
Still not seeing your horse(s) populate after the above troubleshooting? Check the ‘Bug Box’ to see if this is an ongoing bug.
If it is not an active bug, BEFORE submitting a report, please navigate to either the HoFa Official Discord Help channel to troubleshoot OR to the Forum Help Page. If it’s confirmed as a bug, you can submit as a bug report!
⁉️Why do players recommend putting horses into Careers as a way for New Players to get started? You can earn money by sending a horse to ‘work’ for you at the Model Horse Career Center at no charge, so you are always earning a profit each time the horse works. When showing horses in discipline or halter shows, not only is it more expensive, you run the risk of losing money if your horse doesn’t place well. This is the “safest” bet while you are getting started.
Related wiki pages include Working Paths, Skills, and Horse Levels.