Jorvik Star Issue 13: April

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Issue 13 ★ April

A Note From the Editor...

Welcome to the April issue of the Jorvik Star. We've got the details on April's updates, from new horses to new tack! I also have my honest opinions on some topics going around the SSO community, which I'll be adding in here first. Happy Spring everyone! 

-Ruby Skywalker ♥

No April Fools Day? My honest thoughts on this on more.

March and April have been months where the SSO community has started talking about some pretty important topics. 

Firstly, there was no April Fools day joke this year. I logged on on April first this year expecting to come on to something crazy and to my disappointment there was nothing. Nothing had changed. After some talk in global, I was told that SSO had mentioned about this on their social media. I don't use social media myself so I didn't know, but I did go to their Facebook long enough to see where it was mentioned. 

Apparently, SSO decided not to do April Fools day this year because it's too much work for an update that lasts one day. 

They also no longer do Easter, Valentine's/Galentine's day, St Patrick's aka Fortuna, and Christmas is basically called the Winter Holiday or something. Apparently they are switching to doing Jorvik holidays.

Being someone who's played SSO a while, I'd begun to look forward to crazy updates for April Fools day, golden egg hunting, Valentine's races with friends, and even the Leprechaun with the gold event from last year. Now we get no spring holiday celebration at all. I get that not everyone celebrates every holiday, but people would still enjoy the events, especially people who've played a while and become used to the yearly events. I am hoping this means more fun events will come to Jorvik soon, but it definitely won't be the same. 

Welcome the Finnhorses.

A few weeks ago Star Stable welcomed the Finnhorses to Jorvik! Here's what we know about them!

★The Finnhorse has a very special history intertwined with the history of Finnland. In order to adapt to the changing lives and needs of the Finnish people, the Finnhorse had to develop unique skills that are now categorized into four disciplines: Riding, Draught, Trotter and Pony Type.

★The Finnhorse is suitable for many forms of riding, from Cross Country to Hacking to Everyday riding and use in Riding Schools.

★The Finnhorses are so appreciated by the Finns that they even have their own race, the Summer Trotting Championship " Kuninkuusravit".

Where you'll find them: They're sold in Firgrove except for one that will be in Fort Pinta for a limited time then moved to Firgrove with the rest!

Pricing: 850 SC

What Level: Everyone can get the one in Fort Pinta, the rest you'll need to reach level 6.

Colors:: Flaxen Chestnut, Liver Chestnut, Red Chestnut, Light Chestnut, Palomino, Dapple Grey and Black.

 *The Finnhorse has two mane styles available: a long mane and a Roached mane. The Finnhorse will also lie down when you press the spacebar while standing still.*

New Colors of the Show Jumping Clothes & Tack

SSO added some six new color options of the Show Jumping clothes and tack set in the Global Store.

A New Race in Greendale.

A new race called the Gentle Greendale Race was added, mainly to make earning Goldspur Reputation a little bit faster. It's still a fun race I'll be adding to my training route!

Turning Trash Into Treasure... 

SSO added a fun new gathering questline involving turning recyclables into clothes, tack, and, wait a second, a cat?!? The new stuff is very Steampunk themed, which fits the idea of a questline with Big Bonny and her newest invention the H.O.R.S.E aka the Household Object Reimagining Service Extraordinaire. You'll unlock five new lore books all about Big Bonny, and let me tell ya: there's some interesting stuff in the books!

You'll find the recyclables in towns and GED Worksites. Some locations I know so far are:

Moorland: Mrs. Holdsworth's, Near the Stables, the Blacksmith and the GED Worksite up on the mountain.

Fort Pinta: Around the town and by the beach and the docks.

Silverglade: Around the Village, Northlink Worksite, Marley's, the Manor and the Oil Mining Field.

Just look around towns and "busy" areas and worksites.

Small Changes That Also Need Mentioning...

★SSO made minor changes to some of the props in the Goldenleaf Gauntlet. It's just to make the race look a bit fancier and won't affect gameplay.

★The Gen 1&2 Arabians and Gen 2 Pintabians have been moved from Goldspur Farm to Paddock Island and have been given a price reduction. The Gen 1 Arabians are now 250 SC and the Gen 2 Arabians & Pintabians are 485 SC.

★For anyone in Australia: You can now download the Star Stable Online Mobile App from the Apple App Store! 

Bonus thing I need to mention: If you're a writer or looking to getting into writing, be sure to check out SSO's MasterClass videos posted on their YouTube channel! They are less than 5 minutes long each and so far there's four episodes released. In them, the author of the Soul Riders books Helena Dahlgren talks about everything you'll need to know to get into writing your own stories - from talking about building your characters to writer's block. 

That's all for this month's recap. 

-Ruby Skywalker ♥