The game also will throw a little extra money at you for each horse you create since you'll need to buy supplies for its care. The advantage here is you get to choose some traits that will make things a little easier and more efficient for you, like Agile (for the jumping skill), Fast (for the racing skill) and Genius (for learning skills a little quicker). If you're starting a new game, then obviously the easiest way to obtain a horse is creating one at the same time you're creating your Sim(s). In this overview guide, I'll lead you through the basics of horsecare, learning the riding skill, and finally, I'll touch on the new career as well as the competitions. Dogs and cats (and the other minor animals) are a big addition too, but the whole new horseman career, the new riding skill, and all of the competitions you can enter at the Equestrian Center really puts horses in their own category. Of the entire scope of new content in Sims 3 Pets, horse related gameplay is unquestionably the deepest and most varied. Pretty cool.ĮDIT: Don't forget to make your Sim spread the hay around so the horses can eat it.The Sims 3 Pets: Horses Guide Basic Horsecare, the Riding Skill, a New Career and More! by Tom 'Metro' Schlueter The Sims 3 Pets Guide

A Sim with mad cooking skillz can also prepare horse granola, which gives horses a positive moodlet for a few hours. They're digging up carrots, potatoes, onions, and garlic! Your Sim can pick this food up, put it in their inventory, and feed it to the horse. Thirst is obviously fulfilled by drinking from the water trough.Įxtra tips: You may notice your horse digging at the ground. You can fulfill the exercise need by either riding your horse, or making it run around in the pen. Horses have two special needs that other pets do not have - exercise and thirst. It's honestly a much, much simpler way to do things, but it doesn't look as nice. If you choose to do this, make sure you fill it with all of the horsey essentials in the horse tab (don't forget the water). Second method is to skip the barn and just create a fenced-in space. Done with the barn! Also, although horses won't really leave your property, you can add a fence outside of the barn for the horse to roam around in - just don't forget the gate.

Next, put a salt lick and whatever else you like in there. It looks pretty plain, and it's fairly large. Go into buy mode, then click the pets section, then the tab for horses, and then find a box-like structure in the tab. So, make a rectangular structure, put another story on top of it, then add a roof, the barn door, windows, etc. The barn needs to be two stories tall, because the barn doors are all two stories tall and you want your horse to be able to get in and out of it. Both are fine.įirst method is to build an actual barn and purchase a horse stable to put inside of it (from the buy catalog, not build). Okay, so there are two ways you can build a home for your horse.

Sims 3 horse stable stuff