Stables

*A house for your true friend who carries you everywhere.*

## Ingredients

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Stable is a place to keep your horse in. It wants a comfortable life, too! Having a roof above your head is very important.

As of current version(0.17.0) the stable foundation for new players is already built, and have to be completed by filling the materials below:

* 80 Metal Scraps
* 40 Oak boards
* 10 Bronze nails
* 4 Shoulder bags
* 4 Horseshoes
* Saddle
* Stirrups
* Bridle

Metal Scraps can be found in various locations inside chests or on dead bodies.

Oak boards, Bronze nails, and Shoulder bags can be crafted using corresponding benches at the Ranch.

The horseshoes, saddle, stirrups, and bridal can be found at specific locations described below.

To complete construction, you need to either drag and drop the necessary items from your inventory to the Stable, or double click on the resource you want to transfer to the building.

Good ways of picking up the stable items:

* **Player/AI ranches** - make sure you break through the higher level walls, that's where the good stuff is most likely to be. Go in prepared e.g. lots of your best axes! At least 100 wood+stone and a few copper axes or a dozen copper axes should do for the first few bases. Don't leave a player base incomplete because you didn't have enough axes, you're probably leaving behind a stable part, and those bases don't respawn, so lost opportunity.
* **Shootout spot** - this nearly always has a stable part on a dead horse. The event is available at most once per day and shows up after your energy is <50%, this is far better than the train event for stable parts, if you skip the train events you'll be more likely to get a shootout event soon after. If the shootout is hard at your level then run around as fast as possible to find the dead horse, where the stable part is, while avoiding standing bandits. Get out as soon as you have the loot. At the shootout you will be attacked randomly quite often so speed is key if you're taking a beating or don't want to waste your weapons/armor. But lower level players shouldn't skip the shootout spot because of the stable parts, they are rare items.
* **Bandit stash** - this one is important, every time you anger the bandits (this is a good thing), if you manage to kill all 4-5 bandits that attack you, you'll get a map to their stash. The stash is guarded by only one wimpy watchman (go naked and kill him with bare fists to carry the max loot). There's usually a stable part there. It's critical that you kill all bandits to get the map, and bandits will give up and run away if you're too slow. When you get attacked use your best weapons so you don't let any escape. The bandit stash also shows up randomly, don't miss out when you see it on the map. If the bandits will arrive while you're offline leave yourself at your base and the attack will commence whenever you're next online. If you're away from your base and offline the attack will commence without you and you will miss getting the map and your stable part.
* **Town** - You can trade 1 of every other stable part for the part you need in town. You can also purchase each stable item in town at the trader for 240 silver (wait until you've got a VIP day to get the discount, you get those free every 7 days). You can do bounties to build up to 240 silver pretty easily, then keep the silver for the last item you're missing. The last stable item is annoying to get because you are more likely to get a stable part you don't need than the last one you do need.

**How the horse works:**

Your horse will be with you at all times, whether you walk off the map, or "Ride" the horse from the horse menu. You get 4 storage slots on the horse, and the horse will be waiting for you at the edge of whatever map you are currently on. You will still be able to walk and use energy in the same way you did before. You can also ride the horse using the horses energy instead of yours. The only way for the horse to regain energy is to feed it oats, so oats are effectively an additional form of energy which you can save up. Oats are typically found at the Bandit stash, at the Canyon Trials, and from bounties/bets. You may find some oats at the Player/AI bases as well, make sure to check in the garden. Whatever you do don't waste your oats on oatmeal, that would be tragic.

The horse also makes it possible to access the Snowy Pass. You won't be attacked at the pass, and once the rocks are cleared you will have 56 items of storage at the Pass that persist when you leave. The storage makes it possible to stage multiple trips to nearby locations such as the Tin Mine (14 energy away) and northern areas (20-35 energy away). The horse also opens access to the Indian Village where you can trade in bear claws and wolf fangs for high level ingots, leathers, and woods.