Category : Horse Information

Hello Amaretto Community!!

Amaretto Breedables started out in Sept of 2010 with the release of the Amaretto Horses, since then we have had many requests for a certain trait so here it is. Amaretto is proud to announce that in the next horse update we will be introducing….. Horse Racing….Thats right the famous Amaretto Horses will now have the ability to train and race. As most of you all know Amaretto works very hard to give our community an exceptional product and we love to improve on the products as well. Now I will go into a little detail of things to come but will not give it all away.

Racing stats can be trained. However only one at a time and only one training session per 24 hour period. Amount of time a horse can be trained is determined by the horses Stamina Class (will be explained in more detail at a later date). Experience (XP) gained from training must reach 100% before moving on to the next class.

As we get closer to the update which will include the new racing feature to begin we will let you all know all info needed to be successful in training your horses. I do hope this will be something that all of our community can enjoy and we look forward to seeing what all the Amaretto community comes up with when using this wonderful addition to the Amaretto Horses.

Until Next Time Happy Breeding

Oh no, my Bundle/Kennel has problems!

If there is any interference (with Second Life, the Amaretto Server, lag etc.) when the mother goes to drop her bundle/kennel she will go into recovery but the bundle/kennel will not automatically drop. The mother will try to contact the server again and if all the conditions are favorable the bundle/kennel will then drop. Depending on the issues stated this may take some time so just be patient. As stated in the notecard horses/k-9s will not birth more than one viable bundle/kennel within a 3 day period. Please give a few hours if she doesn’t drop before filing a ticket.

 

There will be no twins

 

Here is a breakdown of what your Bundles/kennels can say, and what it means

 

“NEVER_RECEIVED_MOTHER_COMMUNICATION”

Didn’t receive the message from the mother. The mother will have a second bundle/kennel if this occurs; the current bundle/kennel is a dud. Wait a few hours before filing a ticket with these, it might not be necessary.

 

“Connecting…”

Typically unseen, this is what happens when the horse/k-9 receives a message from the mother in its description.”ATTEMPTING_RECONNECTION”

 

“DUPLICATED_UNBIRTHED”

Means that somehow two copies of the same bundle/kennel existed in world. File a ticket and we can fix it.

 

“MOTHER_HAD_SECOND_BUNDLE_IN_THREE_DAYS”

“MOTHER_HAD_SECOND_KENNEL_IN_THREE_DAYS”

If for any reason a mother horse already had a bundle/kennel in the past 3 days, this prevents it from occurring. We log these issues server side with the parental information, if you can’t find the mother’s bundle/kennel, file a ticket and we can try to find it.

 

“ALREADY_BIRTHED”

Rare, horse already birthed from bundle/kennel

“DUPLICATED_BIRTHED”

Rare, horse/k-9 already birthed from bundle/kennel

“SUCCESSFUL_KENNEL”

“SUCCESSFUL_BUNDLE”

Ready to be named or birthed

Today I would like to talk about the Amaretto K-9s. We have some new and exciting things coming this year for our K-9s. Yes Yes I know I tell you new things are coming but I will not tell you what….That is how we work at Amaretto, we like surprises!

We have many different K-9s from coats to collars to eyes and you can make lots of different combinations with them. You can play fetch or just have them chase you around the yard. They are the perfect addition to your breedable family. I would like to say that most people that have not tried the K-9s really do not know what they are missing. The wolves are a favorite of many people as well as are the Enchanted. I challenge you all to just give it a try go out and get even just one K-9 and see how much fun they can really be!

Amaretto Horses started out in Sept of 2010 less then a year later the Amaretto K-9s were released and now coming soon we have the Amaretto Barnyard Birds. One question I have heard some ask is “are they going to stop updating the horses” Answer to that is a simple No. All of our creations here at Amaretto are done out of Love and we want our community to enjoy the items that we create.

So in closing of my connection for the day I would like to say if you have any suggestions on things you the community would like to see in our products feel free to file a support ticket and put the subject line as Attention Richie, I would love to hear your suggestions or even comments about your experience with the CSR team.

Until Next Week Happy Breeding 🙂

Let’s Get Happy

I’m sure everyone knows that horses/K-9′s fervor will only rise if your horse/k-9 is awake and above 75% happiness. Now there are many ways to increase the happiness of your breedable.

 

Let’s start with Horses:

 

1. Riding a horse over age 7 can help increase its happiness

 

2. Use salt licks, rezzing out a salt lick with your food will make your horses happier. This stat booster gives a 1% increase in happiness over time. One Salt Lick last 2 horses 2 weeks.

 

3. Sugar cubes, when used give your horse a 15% increase to the happiness though you can only give this consumable to them once in a 24 hour period.

 

4. Amaretto Cocktail- This wonderful little concoction is just what your horse wants to feel happy and ready to start producing bundles by raising energy, happiness, and fervor by 5% and decreasing hunger and thirst by 5% ensuring that your horse can stay up late with his favorite mare! Note that again this consumable can only be given once every 24 hours.

 

Now K-9’s:

 

1. You can increase the happiness of you K-9 by using your HUD and playing with your K-9. Always remember that your K-9 will not start to gain fervor until they are 7.

 

2. Use a Chew Toy, rezzing out a chew toy with your food will make your K-9′s happier. This stat booster gives a 1% increase in happiness over time. One Amaretto Brand Chew Toy last 2 K-9’s 2 weeks.

 

3. Rawhide Lollipop, when used gives your K-9 a 15% increase to the happiness though you can only give this consumable to them once in a 24 hour period.

 

4. Mega Woof Vitamins This wonderful little concoction is just what your K-9 wants to feel happy and ready to start producing kennels by raising energy, happiness, and fervor by 5% and decreasing hunger and thirst by 5% ensuring that your K-9 can stay up late with his favorite gal! Note that again this consumable can only be given once every 24 hours.

 

Happiness does naturally go down while the horse/K-9 is sleeping but will come back up while it’s awake. Sometimes for whatever reason you may have a stubborn horse/K-9 that doesn’t want to get happy or its fervor go up once its happy ( fervor can only rise once its age 7 ) if this happens just submit a ticket and send that horse/K-9 on in so we can give it a checkup ( re-rezzing sometimes also fixes this ).

Monday Monday, so good to me! I hope that everyones Monday has been good to them! Well I know all of you guys have been out and about havening horses to get the new Darkness horse!
Just wanted to remind you guys of a few things…..

1. If you are purchasing horses or bundles to haven you must rerezz them so that you will get the points and not the person who previously owned the horse!

2. The double haven points will end tomorrow night at 11:59 Slt,
so on March 6th, at 11:59 normal haven points for sending a horse to haven will resume.

3. You can check your haven points at any Amaretto location by using the balance inquiry button, or you may visit the haven sim and use the chess piece.

4. Please be sure when you are using the vendor that you are choosing the correct Haven horse returns and exchanges will not be given.

5. Like the Memorable Haven Horse and the Haven Horse Eagle Spirit, and Donkey’s, the Haven Horse Darkness can also slightly increase your odds of getting a Charmed Horse

6. The price of a haven horse purchased from Amaretto is 250k haven points, you may not buy one from Amaretto for lindens.

7.The Eclipse eye on the Haven Horse – Darkness can pass!!

8. Horses must be above version 1.3 to receive double points for horse haven.
You know I had to include a pic of the Haven Horse – Darkness!

As always if you have a problem you can file a ticket at http://support.amarettobreedables.com if you need some help using the ticket system you can contact a CSR in world and they will be more than willing to help! OOOhhh and don’t forget today is the first day for a Bay Show horse!!! Well until next time happy breeding everyone!!!

Beginning March 1, 2012 the first of the new Birthstone Flower eyes were born onto the grid.

These beautiful eyes come with a representation of the birth flower for the month as well as the birthstone for the month.

The Birthstone Flower is one set of many exciting possible Non-Starter eyes that can come from breeding any coats.

You can have a chance at one of these exciting Non-Starter eyes as they are randomly dropped into bundles at the time the bundle drops. Your horse needs to be version 3.2 and higher for this eye to drop.
Amaretto Birthstone Flower eye dates: Daffodil Aquamarine – March 1 – March 31

 

The next show horse is………..

Hi guys its Monday, hows everyone out there in virtual world? Hope you are all doing well ! So I know how I have been teasing you guys about the next show horse being a Amaretto Breedable Horse! Well its true the next show horse is…………

Starting March 05, 2012 Amaretto is introducing a new Show Horse from March 5th 2012 to April 5th 2012 . We move from Ava’s favorite Pintos to Jaymee’s favorite Bays!!
• Starting March 5th 2012 at 12:01 am SLT any bundle dropped from the breeding of 2 Bays you have a chance at the bundle being an “Amaretto Bay Showhorse”!
• That’s it! The only qualification is they both have to be Bays, they can be any color! Mother & Father MUST BOTH be Bays.
• We will announce what horse is next close to the end of the 30 days of Bays!
• Keep your eyes peeled as you won’t know what the“Amaretto Bay Showhorse” looks like until it hits the grid !
• This “Amaretto Bay Showhorse” will have a chance of passing its special eye!
• So Amaretto community… gather up your Bays and get them ready for an excitement filled month of breeding!

Well good luck everyone and get those bays out and get to breeding, until next time Happy Breeding!!

I normally like to keep it fresh and not talk on something that I’ve already talked on before but in this week’s connection… …I’m going to have to revisit the importance of knowing the parent information for your bundles. Why? This week Second Life has been especially unkind to us with rollbacks and a full on grid melt down for several hours…

Great fun huh? But with so much fun comes some upsets… Mother’s dropping bundles with funny text, duplicate bundles, bundles not connecting and the list goes on with mishaps. However seems my last connection was missed by a few as we have seen many tickets lacking the parental information and in some cases people just aren’t sure so we are unable to return healthy-viable bundles.

It is important that we get the parent information in your tickets for issues with bundles! We really can’t stress it enough!

Sometimes perhaps you might see in the description line of the bundle/kennel something like this:
:Bundle key nonexistent in database111125:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:197.39.22:0:0:0:0:V1.0:0:0

So you log on to the support site and file a ticket to have us fix the issue. One of the first things an Amaretto staff person is going to ask is:

Hello can you please provide the parental information for the Horse(s)/Bundle(s) such as UUID or name?

This is because through one or both of the parents we can find the necessary information in order to fix the issue and send back the bundle/kennel in question.

It’s important that as soon as you see there is a problem with a bundle/kennel that you take down the parent information. This way you have it on hand when you’re asked for it. It will avoid the “I’m sorry I’m unable to further assist you”.

If you’re not the owner of the parents then you can always ask the person that sold you the bundle/kennel for the parent information.

Two things I’d like to STRESS again are…

1) Always name your breedables as this helps us track down some information if you’re unable to provide a UUID
And lastly

2) I can’t stress enough how important it is to know the parents of your bundles/kennels.

As always this connection was brought to you by the Letter N and the Number 12

Hello all…. I am going to go over all information about the Forever Foal and Perpetual Puppy certificates that are now now available for retired Amaretto Breedable horses and K9s ….. Below is a list of important need to knows….

**ONE  Forever Foal Gift Certificate per ONE Horse**   **ONE  Perpetual Puppy Gift Certificate per ONE K9**

The Forever Foal/Perpetual Puppy makes the Retired horse/K9 so that it will not require food any more.

All other normal functions for a RETIRED horse/K9 will still operate normally.

Hover text will say Pet instead of Retired.

This ONLY works for Retired horses/K9s

(Retired Horse= a horse that is 120 days old or greater  Retired K9= a K9 that is 126 days old or greater )

Can be used for both male and female Retired horses/K9s.

**The Forever Foal and Perpetual Puppy Certificates will be sold in all Amaretto Store locations**

**IMPORTANT NOTE**
Although the certificates are transferable, they MUST be turned in by the PURCHASER ONLY. The reason this is a requirement is because every certificate is checked against our transaction data base. Once a certificate is redeemed by the PURCHASER it is marked as Redeemed and becomes void. The reason we have the certificate as transferable is so the purchaser may pass the certificate to Jaymee Caproni for redemption. Again, please remember, the certificates CAN NOT be purchased and transferred to another avatar for redemption. I will not be able to redeem the certificate, and it will be returned.

Instructions:

After purchase of the Forever Foal/Perpetual Puppy

Please place the Certificate AND the Retired horse/K9 you wish to be your Pet in a folder named “Forever Foal <your sl name>” for horses and “Perpetual Puppy <your sl name>” for K9s

Send the folder to Jaymee Caproni. (MEEEEE )

I will work my magic and return the horse/K9 to you in a folder named “Forever Foal from Jaymee Caproni” for horses or “Perpetual Puppy from Jaymee Caproni” for K9s

PLEASE follow these instructions so that the process goes as smoothly as possible.

***ONCE A RETIRED HORSE OR K9 IS TURNED INTO A FOREVER FOAL/PERPETUAL PUPPY IT CAN NOT BE TURNED BACK***

Also, please remember….

The Forever Foal/Perpetual Puppy is an OPTION….

If you do not want to purchase it, Don’t. You can continue to feed your retired horses/K9s pet food

That option has not changed.

I hope this has cleared up some questions… until next time

Until Next time …………

Hey everyone!! Well another Monday has approached us hope everyone enjoyed the weekend! Lots of exciting things been happening at Amaretto. Just a quick reminder that the Valentines limited edition horses and special edition k9’s are still for sale. Go pick up yours today if you haven’t already! Also dont forget that Mrs. Karrie is hosting the fervor ball tomm night a formal event for all you guys and gals to attend!

I wanted to take a few minutes to revisit a issue that Ive seen a few times lately, I have gotten a few tickets about horses being misshaped. If this happens to you dont freak out! You dont even have to file a ticket there is a easy fix you can do your self. All you have to do is turn movement on and the horse will correct itself, once its fixed you can turn movement back off.

Also another thing to be aware of, is kennels with sunrise or sunset being born you will have to file a ticket on these, if you do not want to birth them you can hold on to the them until you are ready and we will fix them at that time.

I hope that i have saved a few of you some time and confusion! I hope everyone is has a good week and happy breeding!