Archive for September, 2014

A Look at What’s New!!!!

I want to talk about some of the new hidden surprises that came out with the new 5.0 starters!! Lets take a look has has hit the Grid!!!

First lets look at the new awesome coats.

1.Spotted Shetland

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Silver Spotted Shetland
picture from Rocky Belavidorico

other colors that we have seen out so far are :
Red Spotted Shetland
Tan Spotted Shetland

2. Piebald

Brown Piebald

Brown Piebald
picture by Felix Yacubsen
white piebald
White Piebald
picture by AlleeRJ

other colors that we have seen out so far are
Red Piebald

3. Belgian Draft

Brown and Black Belgian Draft

Brown and Black Belgian Draft
picture by Cinderella77 Magic

 
4.Abaco Barb

Dark Brown Abaco Barb

Dark Brown Abaco Barb
picture by Lisabella Lane

 
The new tail trait, Pinned and the new mane trait Roach are pictured below

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“Pinned” Tail
picture by AlleeRJ roach mane
“Roach” Mane
picture by Nancy Chatterbox

The new brandings

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Apple

Crown Branding Rocky Belavidorico's horse

Crown
picture by Rocky Belavidorico

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8 Ball

The new Eyes.

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Gummy Bear
picture by Andre Ellsmere

Choclate Cake Eye

Double Chocolate Cake
picture by Leandra Kohnke

The Gummy Bear and the Double Chocolate Cake eyes are Confection eyes and will count towards the Confection Horses

I can’t wait to see what else comes out!!! Happy Breeding!!!

Twistin Tuesday!!

Happy Tuesday everyone!! Today I wanted to take a moment to talk about this months twist horses and K9 and I am including some pictures just in case you haven’t had the opportunity to see these beauties! It’s not too late to start breeding for these amazing horses or K9s! Check out how to get one and the pictures below!

From September 5, 2014 until October 5, 2014 you could breed any color Skewbald and any color Spotted Rocky Mountain together for the chance at one of these Spotted Rocky Skewbald Coats. No other qualifications necessary, just has to be 1 Spotted Rocky Mountain and 1 Skewbald any color. The Spotted Rocky Skewbald Coat DOES have the ability to pass. The Here Comes Fall! Eye DOES have the ability to pass. There are 6 coat colors which are Black, Brown, Copper, Tan, Red, And Silver!

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From September 5, 2014 until October 5, 2014 you could breed any color of English Bull Terrier and any color of Great Dane together for the chance at one of these Danbull Coats. No other qualifications necessary, just has to be 1 English Bull Terrier and 1 Great Dane any color. The Danbull Coat DOES have the ability to pass. The Here Comes Fall! Eye and Collar DOES have the ability to pass. There are 4 coat colors which are Black, Brindle, Fawn, and Harlequin!

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So don’t miss out on a chance to get one of the Twist Horses or K9s!! Happy Twist breeding everyone!

Until next time…

New look of 5.0!

Hey everyone hope everyone is enjoying there Saturday! I wanted to take a few moments to talk to you guys about the new look of 5.0!

If you have been living under a rock you may not know that we have lowered the prices on all food and salt packs! This 10% decrease in price is to show our customers how much we appreciate them!!

Amaretto Food, Salt, and Consumables all have a brand new look! Remember only 5.0 horses will be able to use these newly designed products!
Lets take a close look at all of these:

Breeder Food:
Breeder Food is for horses you wish to breed once they reach 7 days old.
Sold in the following packs:

Amaretto Brand Breedable Food

Amaretto Breeder Food & Water/Single Pack (Boxed) L$ 144
Amaretto Breeder Food & Water/Six Pack (Boxed) L$ 846
Amaretto Breeder Food & Water/Jumbo Pack (25 Boxed) L$ 3330
Amaretto Breeder Food Mega Pack (100 Boxed) L$ 11160
Pet Food:
Pet Food is to be used when you do not not wish to breed your horses. If you decide to breed your horse after feeding it Pet Food, it will take 7 days on Breeder Food for the effects of the Pet Food to wear off.

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Sold in the following packs:

Amaretto Pet Food & Water/Single Pack (Boxed) L$ 90
Amaretto Pet Food & Water/Four Pack (Boxed) L$ 334
Amaretto Pet Food & Water/Six Pack (Boxed) L$ 496
Amaretto Pet Food Jumbo Pack (25 Boxed) L$ 2070

Healing Kit
This one time use Healing Kit will heal one sick horse and bring its hunger and thirst down to 0%. You will need to rez food near the horse so that it can continue to eat and the hunger and thirst will stay down.

Amaretto Breedables Healing Kit

Sold in the following packs:
Amaretto Breedables Healing Kit (Boxed) L$ 248
Amaretto Breedables Healing Kit Five (Boxed)L$ 1240
Amaretto Brand Salt Lick
Salts licks increase your horses happiness 1% over time.

Amaretto Brand Salt Lick
Sold in the following packs:
Amaretto Ranch Salt Lick Single (Boxed) L$ 158
Amaretto Ranch Salt Lick Six (Boxed) L$ 900
Amaretto Ranch Salt Lick Jumbo Pack (25 Boxed) L$ 3600
Amaretto Ranch Salt Lick Mega Pack (100 Boxed) L$ 12240

Amaretto Brand Horsey Snacks
This one time use snack will decrease one of your horses hunger and thirst by 10%. You can use the Horsey Snacks as many times as you wish .

Horsey Snack

Sold in the following packs:
Horsey Snacks Single (Boxed) L$ 24
Horsey Snacks Five (Boxed) L$ 120
Horsey Snacks Ten (Boxed) L$ 240

 

Amaretto Brand Endurance Elixir
This one time use elixir will increase one of your horses energy by 10%. You can use the Endurance Elixir as many times as you wish.

Endurance Elixir

Sold in the following packs:
Amaretto Ranch Endurance Elixir Single (Boxed) L$ 200
Amaretto Ranch Endurance Elixir Five (Boxed) L$ 1000
Amaretto Ranch Endurance Elixir Ten (Boxed) L$ 2000

Amaretto Brand Sugar Cubes
These one time use sugar cubes will increase one of your horses happiness by 15%.
**This stat booster can only be used on a horse once in a 24 hour period**

Amaretto Brand Sugar Cubes

Sold in the following packs:
Sugar Cube Single (Boxed) L$ 200
Sugar Cube Five (Boxed)L$ 1000

Amaretto Ranch Passion Pills
This one time use pill will increase one of your horses fervor by 10%.
You can still give a horse under 7 a passion pill and it will gain fervor which is 10%.
**This stat booster can only be used on a horse once in a 24 hour period**

The Passion Pill

Sold in the following packs:
Passion Pills Single (Boxed) L$ 248
Passion Pills Five (Boxed) L$ 1240
Passion Pills Twenty (Boxed) L$ 4960
Amaretto Cocktail
This one time use cocktail will increase energy, happiness and fervor by 5% and decrease hunger and thirst by 5%.
**This stat booster can only be used on a horse once in a 24 hour period**

Amaretto Cocktail
Sold in the following packs:
Amaretto Cocktail Single (Boxed) L$ 500
Amaretto Cocktail Five (Boxed) L$ 2500

Amaretto Brand Pregnancy Booster 1%
The one time use pregnancy booster will increase the horses pregnancy by 1%.
**TO BE USED ON PREGNANT FEMALES ONLY AND CAN BE USED ONLY ONCE PER PREGNANCY**

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Sold in the following packs:
Amaretto Brand Pregnancy Booster 1% Single Pack (Boxed) L$ 500
Amaretto Brand Pregnancy Booster 1% 5 Pack (Boxed) L$ 2500

Amaretto Brand Pregnancy Booster 5%
The one time use pregnancy booster will increase the horses pregnancy by 5%.
**TO BE USED ON PREGNANT FEMALES ONLY AND CAN BE USED ONLY ONCE PER PREGNANCY**

 

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Sold in the following packs:
Amaretto Brand Pregnancy Booster 5% Single Pack (Boxed) L$ 725
Amaretto Brand Pregnancy Booster 5% 5 Pack (Boxed)L$ 3625

 

There are also the following packs at all locations as well:

SMP
Super Mixed Pack (Boxed) L$ 5850 – Five Food and Five Salt with 5x the servings in each one.

JMP
Jumbo Mix Pack (Boxed) L$ 5850 – Twenty-Five Food, Twenty-Five Salt

You still have time to exchange any UNUSED Amaretto products by filing a ticket with your transaction history and a slurl so we may come in world and verifying what UNUSED products you have.

If you are having a problem filing a ticket please contact Avalon Crystal in world.
This is Ava over and out happy breeding everyone!
5.0 and lovin it!

 

Amaretto Fishing Event

Happy Friday Everyone ! Hope everyone is having a good breeding day !

Amaretto had their Fishing Event on Thursday, if you were not there then you missed a good and fun event .
There were alot of people there an everyone seemed to have a good time!

The Winners for the event were :

1st place Syndal Reanimator

2nd place JanieLayne Resident

3rd Place: NikkiiSixx Resident

4th place : Bellaswun Resident

5th place : Molly Lundquist

Good work, and thanks to everybody who participated!

Until next week Happy Breeding !

 

Amaretto Boomtown Fishing Dock

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Spotlight on Starters

Happy Thursday Everyone!  After last week’s major 5.0 Horse Update I thought it would be a good idea to shine the spotlight on the new starters!  Soon the first brand new 5.0 starters will be ready for their first round of breeding.  You all know the starters can give nice surprises, and let me tell you these 5.0 starters have me super excited!  The wait is a killer though right!

Often times I am asked what the right strategy for breeding starters is.  Well there are many ways to breed the starters to discover if they are hiding something new and special so let me tell you how I breed them.

Hopefully you remember my earlier blog, Spotlight on Cleaning, if not you can read it again at this link:

http://amarettobreedables.com/connection/?p=7927

 

In that blog I talked about breeding basic horses referred to widely as “clean”. When you use these basic horses to breed with your starters it makes it easier to figure out what your new starters are hiding.  It also makes it easier to get offspring from your starters that aren’t normal mane/normal tail.  Now as it stated in the update notecard we have put the Gloom trait out to pasture which means it will no longer come from any of the starters. So that lets you know that if you put a “clean” horse without gloom in its pedigree with one of your new starters you probably won’t get gloom on any of the offspring.  Well unless it is hiding somewhere in the lineage of the “clean” horse somewhere just waiting to spring out and surprise you!  So by breeding my starters with basic horses if the starters are hiding something new I stand a better chance at getting on an already nicely traited horse!  Pretty cool huh!!!

Now some people like to throw all their new starters in a pile and let them just breed with each other and hope for something new.  Other people like to mix their starters with as high a trait horse as they can and hope that as many traits as possible pass to the offspring along with anything new that might be hiding.  Nothing wrong with this, everyone has their own way of doing things.  No matter how you decide to breed your starters I wish you all the best of luck in discovering whatever wonderful surprises they might be holding!

And if you are lucky enough to get something really cool from your starters be sure to come up with a plan for a new project!  New projects are as much as new starters!!

Until next time, Happy Breeding!!!

 

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Fire Fighter Appreciation Eye

Let’s start by saying I hope each one of you have had a awesome week so far. You know today is hump day, the weekend is getting closer!

Today I’m going to talk about the awesome Fire Fighter Appreciation Eye. The Fire Fighter Appreciation Eye is the 7th in the line of Appreciation Eyes released so far. This eye started hitting the grid on September 1st. You can have a chance at one of these exciting Non-Starter eyes as they are randomly dropped into bundles/kennels at the time the bundle/ kennel drops. These eyes CAN be passed on. Below is a picture of the Fire Fighter Eye.

 

Fire Fighter Appreciationhorses

Fire Fighter Appreciationk9
If you would like to see all the Appreciation Eyes released so far, you can go to this site. http://wiki.amarettobreedables.com/index.php?title=Appreciation_Eyes

Hope you have a great week, Happy Breeding all!!!

Happy Monday Everyone!

Happy Monday Everyone!! Is everyone loving the 5.0 update!! I hope so, it is an awesome update! Today I am going to go over our monthly events and post the Event and ARU calendar for you all to look over!

September 7th @ 3pm slt- AMOC Triple Crown 2014

September 11th @ 11am slt- Fishing @ Boomtown

September 13th @ 3pm slt- Dog Show

September 14th @ 3pm slt- AMOC Triple Crown 2014

September 17th @ 4pm slt- Paintball

September 19th @ 11am and 3pm slt- AMOC Meeting

September 21 @ 3pm slt- AMOC Triple Crown 2014

September 25th @ 3pm slt- Fall Dance

September 27th @ 3pm slt- AMOC Race

September 30th @ 3pm slt- Community Meeting

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And don’t forgot to attend Amaretto Ranch University to gain some knowledge about all thing Amaretto!!

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Amaretto SICK Horse Updater 5.0!

Hello everyone! Hope you guys are all enjoy 5.0! I wanted to mention a few things to make this transition easier for everyone.

1. Make sure you are including transaction for all food, salt, and consumables.
2. Please add the staff member that answers your ticket to the accsess list so that we may verify all unconsumed products.
3. Bundles will always birth like normal despite version number.
4. If you have a issue with updating either a bundle or horse the updater barn description field will contain the uuid of the horse or the bundle include this in the ticket,
5. If your horse does not update properly please file a ticket!
6. You do not have to update bundles or forever foals if you do not want to.
7. Keep 4.0 food away from 5.0 horses and 5.0 food away from 4.0 horses.

Now we have been getting all kinds of suggestions about the sick horses that many have in their inventory and why wont we sell the old food?

Amaretto only supports the most current version. So after listening to the community we have came up with a solution that we think will work for everyone.

We have released the Amaretto SICK Horse Updater 5.0!

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Thats right you can update all those sick horses that you have in your inventory and do not want to heal. Here are the instructions for the Amaretto SICK Horse Updater 5.0:

**********Amaretto SICK Horse Updater 5.0**********

This updater will only update sick horses that are version 4.0 or bellow. It WILL NOT update sick horses that are version 5.0 or higher. When horses are updated with the Amaretto SICK Horse Updater 5.0 they will remain sick but will be the current version. Please read instructions below.

Something’s you need to know about the updater:

1. It will not work if there is more than one updater out. It gives you a message that there are 2 updaters out please remove one. If you continue to try and update your horse it will give you another error message and have you pick one updater up and reset the other. (Touch and wait 5 seconds to reset)

2. It will not update pregnant horses. The reason being the updater can potentially abort the pregnancy.

3. The updater will not work on sims with a high load. Dilation needs to be above .65 and region fps must be above 25 for the updater to work. You will get an error message that says the sim dilation is too low, we have enclosed a sim monitor that will display these values for you. Just rez on your sim next to the updater.

Update Instructions:

Single Updater: Place the updater near the horse that is sick but isn’t updated and click the horse then click the update button. The horse will be updated and the settings will be the same as before the update process. ***DO NOT PICK UP HORSES OR THE UPDATER UNTIL IT HAS COMPLETED THE UPDATE PROCESS***

You can find the Amaretto SICK Horse Updater 5.0 at any Amaretto horse location.

**Update 5.0 September 6, 2014**

We are also at this time leaving the old version healing kit on mp for everyone to still purchase! Here is the link:

https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/53621
So please stop at any Amaretto location and pick up yours today and happy 5.0! I better get back to work before you guys start throwing things at me! Happy Breeding Everyone!

Amaretto 5.0 Update

Happy Friday Everyone! Hope Everyone is having a good breeding day!

I know you all are excited about the new Horse Update 5.0!!
We at Amaretto are here to help you in any way we can during this new update!
Amaretto also has Moderators in the groups to help you out in any way they can, so if you needing help of any kind please ask in the groups.
The Staff at Amaretto are working as fast as we can to get to your tickets and get them resolved in a timely manner. The food exchange tickets are being handled as fast as possible and in order received. To give you an idea of how things are working, once you file the ticket a staff member will be coming to the SLURL you provide us in the ticket and checking your items. Once your counts are verified, JJ Cerna and you will be receiving your replacement food/consumables from JJ Cerna.

Please do NOT send notecards to the CSR’s put all the information in your original ticket. If you missed putting something in your ticket you can go back in and add information to the ticket you already have filed.

Remember the mods are in the group around the clock so if you have any questions please go into one of the Amaretto groups and you’re sure to find an answer to lots of questions in there!

If you are not a member of at least one Amaretto group already you can join by going to the group joiner boards at any Amaretto store and join any or all the groups you wish.

Please check out the new page on the wiki to help answer all questions about the 5.0 update here:

http://wiki.amarettobreedables.com/index.php?title=All_about_5.0_-_In_the_box
Until next week, Happy Breeding and Happy Updating!!

 

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Spotlight on Horse Update 5.0

Spotlight on the 5.0 Update! We are so excited that we were able to release the 5.0 Horse update back on Wednesday September 3, 2014! Oh wait that was just yesterday! Things have been so crazy since the release it feels like a week has gone by LOL.  I can’t wait for the community to start discovering the, oh wait I can’t tell you that.  Well it will be nice when you finally get to see the, oh wait darn can’t tell you that either!  Okay how’s this take my word for it there are some pretty cool things coming!!

I wanted to remind everyone that even though the food and salt have changed in appearance nothing else has changed with them, they are still the same as they have always been.  Also I should remind you to be sure to read the update notecards completely and have a look at Maleficent’s blog from yesterday they both contain some very important information regarding this 5.0 Horse update.

Another big reminder is that updating your horse to the current version will fix the issues you were having with any 4.0 horses. We do not support any older version horses so it’s always best to update your breedables.  You may pick up a free updater and any Amaretto Store and do not need to file a ticket to have them fixed.  If for some unforeseen reason you do update a horse and it does not fix the issue then you would need to file a ticket, but update first for sure.

One of the big topics in group seems to be about the unused food/consumables exchange.  I am going to share with you what we are asking for in the tickets you submit for this.

In order for us to assist you in the exchange of any unconsumed food/consumables we need you to provide us with your transaction history for any unconsumed food/consumables for the past 30 days (August 3 – Sept 3). We also need you to rez any unconsumed food/consumables in world and provide a SLURL for us to teleport and see them. Unused Food/Consumables does not need to be rezzed individually if they are in an auto-feeder we can see them from the contents tab and boxed items can just be rezzed on the ground unopened.

If you did not include all this information in your original ticket you can go back in the ticket system and update that ticket with the information.  Please do not file another ticket for the same issue and do not sent notecards to the CSR’s in world as they are super busy and need all communication to be recorded in your original ticket.

Until next week Happy Breeding!

 

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