Horses - quick and easy

[tilarium]

Anyone know a quick and easy way to get horses? The standard methods seem (to me) to put horses into play way to late in the game to be of any great use. Would love to be able to have them sooner. Is there a way? I'm not against modding and changing the game files to get the result I want. Just don't know how to do it myself, if it's possible.

[ZombieBisque]

You can get horses as soon as you get Priscilla, which is in the first couple weeks of the game. She lets you know about a stable nearby and there are several other locations you can find horses at.

[arashisr]

My personal best is end of day 4 with horses. It was a very hard fight and I failed to return by midnight so I took a you abandoned us moral hit. I have yet to try it in reanimated so it might be too hard to do now or changed. 4 Survivalists and 4 dogs if they have not buffed the encounter.

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Arashisr is correct. It is even possible to go for it on the very first day. But you dont really need horses that soon. They are only usefull in the late game when you are trying to save up on gas, or just use em for your fishing/foraging trips. Other than that it doesnt worth it. So just relax, you will get them eventually. Keep in mind you have to feed them as well.

But if you still need them that badly i can give you a tip: have a character with high enough survival skill with you, like Bud for example (or maybe even have it on your main character). Only highest skill in your party counts btw. Survival skill affects movement speed on foot (regardless of perks) so i belive its possible to execute this travel before 3 am, so that you are not getting a massive morale penalty.

[Martell]

Begging your pardon, but that's not true. Survival from ALL your scavengers add up for travel speed.

And one reason to get horses early is so you can grab all those NPCs at the edge of the map. Remember that NPCs only start getting their 1 skillpoint/day after you recruit them. Though with Reanimated Hardcore, the morale hit with 30 survivors is actually quite worrying.

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Originally posted by Martell:

Begging your pardon, but that's not true. Survival from ALL your scavengers add up for travel speed.

Does it? Well then I may be incorrect on that, pardon me, have to properly test that actually. Anyways, as for the distant NPC's, its quite risky to have em too soon not only cuz of morale hits. But early on its quite rough on the food count too, especially on hardcore mode which is 4.5 food per person instead of 3 on regular. Also i belive you cant hit all the distant survivours with horses in one day unlike if you had a car. So i still find it not that urgent. I belive day12, when my car is ready and fully upgraded is the right time to pick up the rest of the allies (Jenifer, Lane, Clifford, Fiona and Aggro). You can pick up all others in first five days on foot, no problem.

[Makoto Naegi]

Originally posted by Hunter:

Originally posted by Martell:

Begging your pardon, but that's not true. Survival from ALL your scavengers add up for travel speed.

Does it? Well then I may be incorrect on that, pardon me, have to properly test that actually. Anyways, as for the distant NPC's, its quite risky to have em too soon not only cuz of morale hits. But early on its quite rough on the food count too, especially on hardcore mode which is 4.5 food per person instead of 3 on regular. Also i belive you cant hit all the distant survivours with horses in one day unlike if you had a car. So i still find it not that urgent. I belive day12, when my car is ready and fully upgraded is the right time to pick up the rest of the allies (Jenifer, Lane, Clifford, Fiona and Aggro). You can pick up all others in first five days on foot, no problem.

I can confirm that stacking survival does work. I had a group with 2 people with 4 survival and 2 with 0, I tried walking to get Aggro and didn't like how long it took to get there. So I reloaded and changed one of the 0 survival people to a 4 survival one, and I made it there in a more reasonable time.

[The Beat-off Blister]

Thanks for the info arashisr.

I am also trying to go get horses, but I can't find the miller stables on the map.
I using a map from the beta http://www.irontowerstudio.com/forum/index.php?topic=4313.0

Any chance of getting some horses closer to the shelter?

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Nope )

[Cutlass Jack]

Is it actually possible to get Horses before Priscilla now? Because she doesn't show up as early as I remember. I'm On Day 12 on Reanimated and still haven't had her show up yet. I could have sworn they showed up much earlier than that. Like within a day of Vic.

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Nope, they show up on day17 if i remember correctly, but it takes a few more days before she tells you about the horses. And it always was that way, and yes you can have horses earlier, and yes you could do so before too.

[Kernest]

Originally posted by The Beat-off Blister:

I am also trying to go get horses, but I can't find the miller stables on the map.
I using a map from the beta http://www.irontowerstudio.com/forum/index.php?topic=4313.0

The map seems legit still, but you can't find it until Priscilla tells you about it. Same with the abandoned farm northwest of the shelter (blue circled in that map) that you can't go to until someone tells you about it. As far as I know those are the only two examples of where you can't go until someone tells you about it.

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Not really ^_^ there were at least 2 more back in vanilla, and who knows maybe they added some in Reanimated, will see.

Btw i have just got me some horses, day 6 hardcore ironman.

[Liro Raériyo]

Todd and Priscilla arrived on the 13th/14th for me, i think they range from the 10th to the 20th, cause i swear i had them arrive on the 16th before.

So depending on luck and current strategy, hitting the equestrian stables early might be the better choice.