Is there much point in buying a Horse instead of renting?

[VincentVolaju]

So renting a horse is only 500 gold and the Horse comes with maxed stats. But buying is comes with no stats, and costs 10k gold. You can rent a max horse for 20 weeks before reaching the price it would have cost to buy your own.

Plus dont you need space on your farm for a stable if you own a horse? And also have to pay for it's food and such? Or does it not work that way?

Just wondering if it's really worth buying rather than just renting?

[XBL Laberbacke]

You can give it a funny name.

[JVC]

At the moment, I don't think there is much point in buying a horse. I bought one before the recent update, and it took a long while to upgrade its stats, and the June upgrade messed them up. The loyalty thing still hasn't been implemented and it consumes 7 food or so a day. You can somewhat fix the last issue by feeding it with fibre, but for now, it isn't really a good investment.

[Kyr]

Not really, I preferred renting myself.

[worstcase11]

Besides you can also tame a lama instead - just costs you building a trap and some lettuce and curuma - no comparison to 10000 gol

[Kyr]

Originally posted by worstcase11:

Besides you can also tame a lama instead - just costs you building a trap and some lettuce and curuma - no comparison to 10000 gol

Don't forget building a stable too.

[Blackwall]

Regarding your horse's stats, where do you find this? I can't find anywhere on the UI for my horse.

[Kyr]

@OP
Well to me, buying a horse is useless,.
It is expensive for one....500 gols a week rent is cheaper than building a stable (on your limited land, unless you have upgraded enough to have the room for it) for lots of materials and 5000 gols, buying the horse at 10,000 gols.
Then you have to train the horse and do whatever to get its stats up. Because while the rented one comes with full stats, bought ones don't.
According to some, their horses, since the Harbor Update, have been eating them out of house and home. So, growing the feed for it takes time, money and effort.
The petting and such.

Too much effort for me at the level I am at.

[Shower With Joe Dad Simulator]

I have a bit more insight on this, the Rented horse has worse stats where it counts, if you look at the maximum its higher for tamed animals. I havent fed my horse/llama in over a year and he's still alive and kicking. I haven't tested the low loyalty but you only have to pet them once every other day to keep it up, which is done in frozen time so doesnt waste your day by any. JVC in the first comment says u dont have to since its not working so looks like you dont even have to pet them maybe?

It takes 20 weeks before it pays for itself, which is a year and one month. Or you can build a cheap trap and get lettuce/corriander for much lower price.

[deanbarrett1]

I've never bothered with renting or buying one myself, but then I'm a skinflint and don't like spending my dosh unless I have to. lol

[poppetshadow]

I rent also.

(while I wait for my scooter *grumble grumble*)

[KleineBu]

Agree.

I also rent even though I built a stable already. I caught a Llama but it wasn't worth it. I think it's so much better if the ones you buy or catch by trap is at the same level as the rented one.

What makes it worth it in the long run is that it can even get better stats the rented one since you are training it personally. The only con should be the maintenance that comes along with owning one instead of renting.

At this point, I do prefer rent over buying one. I don't care even if it's more than a year or what. It's just too annoying to train your mount. I cannot bear to use it with its low stats.

[Symbro]

tamed a llama. fully trained now... didnt take that long.

i stopped feeding mine.... i figured it would lose loyality for that... but i guess that isnt working atm.

as for why i would do that... having to worry about going once a week to rerent... well that is annoying... the stable doesnt take up that much room... and didnt cost that much.

[Ihateeverybody]

Rich people problems. Am I right?

[Huillam]

After few days/weeks your own horse will have slightly better stats (and will be available every morning saving you the trip to the stable once per week).
Both options are perfectly viable.

As for food it doesn't matter with the current build: you could starve your horse and still gain loyalty by petting him or feed him and he would still loose loyalty if you don't pet him.

And the horse stats are shown at your own stable: on the left (I think it's the left) when facing it, there's an option to feed it and another to check the stats and train the mount.

[citrinia]

The horse was well worth the cost of both it and the stable for me. It really comes in handy when I'm going to the desert AR, and even more so to the desert fishing spot since that's quite the run distance. Whenever I needed to hit AR1 or 2, I'd send my horse in for training since I wouldn't be using it. Took probably a month, but Hi Ho is now fully trained and currently ahs full loyalty.

I tamed a llama as well, and I'm currently working on training it, but I don't know that I'll be using it as a regular mount. It has an odd bouncey-jump movement and it tends to make me nauseous.