The Mount System

Article written by CanIGetUhhhhhh and Wenweia

Introduction

Mounts (originally just horses) have now received a major overhaul, deeply impacting mechanics, varieties, etc. Notably, new types of mounts were introduced and new systems and mechanics were introduced as a result. Your original horses have migrated to these new systems in ways that will be explained later in this article.

Overview

Mount Types

Horses are the earliest mount available to you in your playthrough and provide a great way to travel, with good speed and handling handling at the cost of acceleration.

Wyverns are able to fly at a certain height above ground, making them perfect for traversing difficult terrain such as mountains, forests, or even seas. They are, however, a bit slower.

Adasaurs are the fastest mount type, but unable to fly and handle slightly tougher than horses.

Legacy Horses

Historically, the colour of a horse (Brown, Black, Chestnut, White) indicated its tier, with brown horses having the lowest statistics cap and white horses having the highest. Colours are now unrelated to tiers or capabilities!

This is to say colours are now purely cosmetic, and a lvl 1 white horse is now possible. The previous horse tier system has been replaced with something called potential, which is solely determined by breeding. If you had a pre-fruma horse, it will be converted to a modern, untrained, horse with potential determined as follows.

Legacy Horse Conversions

To contextualise the below table, modern horses consist of eight stats, each with a training level, a limit, and a maximum: TRL/LIM (MAX), which you can read more about here. The potential of a mount is the sum of the combined maximum values for all eight skills. The maximum is determined by the legacy tier of the horse, with the limit being 75% of that.

The initial training level is roughly analogous to how much training your horse had initially. This is to say, if you had a 15/20 and 20/20 horse, both would convert to x/60 (80) black-night mounts, but the latter would be have an x of 40, and the x of the former be a lesser value.

Converted legacy horses can be identified by the uniformity of their skill values: something like 80/80/80/80/80/80/80/80 is guaranteed for a legacy horse, but is unlikely for a modern horse (which, due to training, would vary randomly into something like 82,73,78,…).

Mechanics

Purchasing

After completing quest requirements, mounts can be purchased at their respective Mount Merchants. Upon purchase, you will receive a saddle (termed reins for wyverns and harnesses for adasaurs). Unlike before, this does not allow you to summon the mount yet!

Aesthetics

For modern mounts, colours are now randomly assigned upon purchase! Unlike the original single-colour horses, aesthetics are now bipartite: mounts now have primary and secondary and secondary colours, with the resulting aesthetic being a combination of the two.

The available primary and secondary colours depend on the type of mount they apply to: for example, wyverns have different colours available than horses and adasaurs. Some colours (primary and secondary), and therefore some combinations, are rarer than others.

For example, a “Mystic-Sapphire” (Mystic being the base, Sapphire being the secondary colour) is the rarest variant for Wyverns, while “White-Rich” is the rarest variant for Horses. You can check all of the possible colour variants and their probabilities here:

Summoning

Saddles (reins for wyverns and harnesses for adasaurs) need to be placed into a feeder within an enclosure designated for that specific mount type .

After the saddle is placed into the feeder, you can click said saddle again to receive a whistle (termed flutes for wyverns and ocarina for adasaurs), which lets you summon your mount.

Clicking on a saddle in a feeder with the respective whistle in your inventory picks the saddle back up from the feeder.

Feeding

Riding your mount will slowly drain its energy bar. When at 0 energy, a mount will become slower. To regain energy, you can feed your mount by placing materials (such as gathered wheat, granite, willow, etc.) in your feeder onto the right side of your mount saddle.

Higher level materials will replenish more energy, but you can only feed materials that are of the same level or lower as the highest stat of your mount. The tier of the material (1 star, 2 star, 3 star) is irrelevant. The time it takes for a mount to be fed a material increases with the mounts level.

Training

Trainable Stats

Every mount has 8 stats:

• Speed: Determines the maximum speed of your mount.
• Acceleration: Determines how fast your mount reaches its maximum speed.
• Altitude/Jump Height: Determines how high above ground your mount flies (Wyvern) or jumps (Horses/Adasaurs).
• Energy: Determines the mounts maximum energy.
• Handling: Determines how well your mount responds to turns.
• Toughness: Decreases the chance that you dismount when being hit by a mob.
• Boost: Determines how much speed or energy your mount gains from pickups.
• Training: Determines how much a pickup increases your mounts stats.

Values

2/30 (40) -> Level/Limit (Max)
Each of these stats has a Training Level, a Limit, and a Maximum.

The Training Level and Limit can be seen next to the respective stats while viewing your mount in your inventory, while the Maximum of each stat can only be seen by viewing your mount in its feeder or in trade market.

Training Level

The Training level is the current level your mount has in a stat. It can be increased by training (picking up pickups that spawn around the world while riding your Mount).

Limit

The Limit is a soft cap. Once the Training level equals the Limit, that stat cannot be further improved by pickups. To increase the Limit, a mount needs to fed specific materials.

Each material type (Ingot, Gem, Oil, Meat, etc.) influences different stats. You can use a calculator such as this one¹ to optimize your feedings.

Maximum

The Maximum is the hard cap of a mounts stat. The only way it can be increased is by breeding two mounts together. The sum of all Maximums of a mount is the Potential, which is also the number shown at the saddle or flute.

A new mount from the Mount Merchant will always have a total Potential of 240, and all of its stats will be 1/10 (30) — `Training Level/Limit (Maximum).

Breeding

Breeding two mounts together is done by placing their saddles on the same row in a feeder. Both parents will be consumed when breeding finishes.

In order to achieve the best result possible, both mounts need to be fully fed until all their stats Limit = Maximum. At least one of the mounts additionally needs to be fully trained, so Training Level = Limit = Maximum.

In addition, you should only breed mounts of the same generation together, so 240+240, ~450+ ~450, etc. Breeding two different generations, such as 240+ ~450, will waste the potential of the mount with the higher generation.

The child will receive any of the colours of its parents. For example, a Beige-Ardent and a White-Pale can, among other possible combinations, result in a Beige-Pale.

Further Resources

• If you are looking for a more in-depth guide or want to know more about specific mechanics, you can join The Mount Enjoyers discord
• The wiki has some fairly thorough documentation on mounts.