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Tattoos are useful for searching. Baya's right, most people make a "bred by" tattoo first, but you don't have to. A lot of people make them for specific lines, say a DP line or whatever. When you name the tattoo, you can then search it in the search horses function, so you should name it something like "MoonAcre DP" so it's unique. Then you can find all the horses in that line. Some people also use it to find all of their horses in a specific generation, too.

To make one, go to the tattoo registry. If you're upgraded, you automatically get one tattoo slot. You can purchase more on that page for 10k hbs each. There you can also edit a tattoo image, edit the name, or sell them.

So you can buy, sell or swap tattoos with other players. If you're artistically inclined and enjoy making them, many players will trade straws or eggs or horses, or just outright pay hbs. If you're not artistically inclined (or you hate pixel painting... it can be challenging), you can ask someone to make your tattoos for you. I enjoy doing them, so if you need an artist I'll be happy to help.

Go into the tattoo editor. It has pretty basic graphic functions - a brush, an eraser, and a dropper to pick up colors you already used. You can adjust the size of the brush. The color picker is really flexible (the little black square at the bottom). If you like transparency, you can also adjust that by clicking the bottom radio button and adjusting it. Unless you have a really colorful tattoo, that can make it hard to see. Also, if you're going to be putting it on horses, pick something with some contrast (like my black and white one) or something in a color that will be easy to see on different colored horses.

You can make fairly plain tattoos to place on your horse or you can make fancy picture ones to put in the corners of the horse's picture. If I'm putting a tattoo on a horse, I sometimes make it a two-tone one, one lighter color that will show up on dark color horses and one darker color that will show up on light horses. My stable tattoo for HaJ 1 is a green that does well on a lot of colors but tends to look blurry on sooty bays and a few others. When we were finally allowed to edit tattoos that had been placed on horses, I went back to it and made a light gray outline around the tattoo, which helped clear up that problem.

I'm another one who enjoys creating tattoos, so I'd be glad to help you out if you'd like.

Well, I didn't even know there was an editor, so here's my Silver and Gold tattoo for anything silver or champagne or remotely golden. :P
This was interesting because I had to get it to work on both light and dark coats. :P

Thanks! :)

Great job, RoseFlute!

@MoonAcre: Perhaps something with a moon in it, or the initials MA or MAS, perhaps in a slightly ornate font (very ornate can be difficult to achieve). In HaJ 1, I use the letter S under a symbolic representation of water.

These tattoos are all amazing! Wish I had that sort of artistic ability! Abbey Road is working up a few tattoos for me in her spare time.

If you google Plotz circles there is a great little tool to help build circles using pixels. Also google building in Minecraft. Minecraft is a pixel based game. See what people have built in there might help give you some ideas.

Rose redid my main one

That's awesome, fj!

Very nice!

Oh nice. Love the shield. I'm working on one right now that has me raking my brain but I think it turned out pretty good. Waiting to see what the new owner thinks of it :)

If you'll pay the 10k for the tattoo slot and a 3 straws to your DP stud, I'd do that. I'll see what I can come up with.