Horse Planet Game

[Idara Viengxay]

TheShire draft horse represents Jupiter, first and largest of the gas giants, and the largest planet in our solar system. It is named for the king of the Roman gods, the god of sky and thunder: the Roman personification of the Greek Olympian god Zeus. The astronomical symbol for the planet Jupiter rests in the upper-left corner, while the wave pattern border echoes the swirling colored bands of storm systems that encircle the planet

Population In Wild: 1,900 reintroduced, semi-wild in national parks and reserves

Przewalski's horse (or Equus ferus przewalskii) is a species of wild horse living in the steppes of Mongolia, also known as the takhi, Mongolian wild horse and the Dzungarian horse. Przewalski's horse is smaller and has a stockier build than most other equid species. It measures 2.1m to 2.6m in length and stands between 250kg and 360kg. Males may be slightly larger than females, though there is no obvious sexual dimorphism in this species. The coat is orange-tan with a paler underside, and is accented by an erect black mane, thick black tail and black legs.

Once driven to extinction around the 1960s by habitat loss and overhunting, Przewalski's horse only survived in captivity. The species could be considered extinct in the wild, as all populations are carefully managed in national parks and nature reserves, and are descendants of captive breeding programs that have been reintroduced to the wild. However, Przewalski's horse has been re-categorized as an endangered species in 2011 as a result of these reintroduction efforts, and the population continues to be closely monitored to maximize reproduction and minimize inbreeding.

Przewalski's horses live in cohesive herds, which are composed of several harems. In a harem there is one mature stallion, several females and their young offspring. Young males that have not yet gained their own harem or old males who have lost their harem live in 'bachelor herds'.

When a young female Przewalski's horse reaches sexual maturity, she is either 'won' by a stallion or voluntarily leaves her natal group to join a stallion's harem. She will stay with the harem of the first stallion she mates with. Stallions acquire several females over their life, growing their harems until no longer fit to defend them. Old stallions who lost their harem may join bachelor herds.

Mares are pregnant for 11 to 12 months, after which they give birth to a single foal. Foal mortality in wild Przewalski's horses is 25%, where 85% of those deaths are caused by unrelated stallions trying to bring the female back into oestrus. Mares are able to mate and conceive again 7 days after birth. Foals exclusively feed off their mother's milk for the first month of their life, and then begin eating solid food. Weaning takes place between 8 and 13 months of age, usually complete upon the birth of a new foal.

Przewalski's horses reach sexual maturity at 2 years old but females are unlikely to mate until 3 years old, and males will not actively try to form their own harem until 5 years old. Female foals remain with their natal harem until they are acquired by a different stallion, while male foals tend to leave their natal groups between 1 to 2 years old, when the bond with their mothers weaken. Young males will form bachelor herds, in which they will play fight and challenge, likely as practice for when they mature and need to earnestly fight for and defend their harem.

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several months ago now we read CS Lewis's The Horse and His Boy together. At the time I meant to reread the relevant chapter in Michael Ward's Planet Narnia, but other things happened and I have only just got back to this.

Ward's main thesis is that Lewis constructed the entire Narnian series - seven books - based on the Medieval astrological view of the world as made up of seven concentric spheres surrounding our Earth. The seven in order ascending from Earth are Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn - in astronomical terms broadly heading through the inner system first and then the outer one, but that is an entirely different way of looking at the phenomena.

If you're interested in this very compelling attempt to unravel Lewis's imaginative and metaphorical construction, the book is well worth it ( -Narnia-Seven-Heavens-Imagination/dp/019973870X) and is now available in a variety of formats (years ago when I bought it it was hardback only ). Briefly, Ward looks at key themes, recurrent words and phrases, prominence of particular objects and what they are made of, and a whole diverse mix of bits and pieces to establish connections between each book and one or other of the seven planets.

So The Horse and his Boy is characterised by a heavy pairing of twins or associations - Gemini the Twins being ruled by Mercury in medieval thinking. Indeed, the whole plot is driven by the reuniting of sundered twins, and in Archenland, apparently, twins are common. Not only that, but mythologically speaking, Castor and Pollux are respectively said to be a great horseman and a great boxer, a direct parallel to Cor and Corin. Beyond specific human pairings, the journey is constantly being forced to confront paired choices of direction etc.

Mercury is also, of course, the messenger of the gods, and Shasta's primary role is as messenger. Again more widely, messengers and messages fill the book, along with a need for haste and being fleet-of-foot. There are also frequent references to language, and in particular contrasting the dullness of (most, not all) Calormene poetry/song with the liveliness of that of Narnia and Archenland. But not only are words important - on specific occasions silence is the appropriate response... recognising the limitations of language as well as the potential. And arguably, Lewis's own use of language on multiple levels is at its best in this book (or Dawn Treader, for different reasons).

Anyway, I was convinced by Ward's arguments, and rereading the book made it seem altogether compelling that both The Horse and His Boy and the whole Narnia series had this underlying metaphor behind it. At very minimum, the book sheds some fascinating lights on Lewis's use of language and his ability to draw on Medieval and earlier imagery and metaphor - this is nowhere near so obvious in Narnia as it is in Lord of the Rings, but arguably that's because Tolkien wanted to make it much more in-your-face than Lewis did. One of my favourite examples was Lewis's use of "tingling" in a variety of places. Now, one of the Old English words for star was tingul (or tungol) from which Lewis's mind went to "twinkle twinkle little star" and hence a linguistic pun between "tingle" and stellar influences. Ward's book is full of these little, rather delightful derivations and etymologies (sometimes false etymologies used for their punning effect) that Lewis's academic studies would have suggested to him.

When the Tim Burton film Planet of the Apes entered the production phase, Dark Horse decided to bring the Apes back to the pages of comic books, starting with the Planet of the Apes official movie adaptation (graphic novel) by Scott Allie and Davide Fabbri, and the three-issue mini-series Planet of the Apes: The Human War by Ian Edginton, Paco Medina and Adrian Sibar. The Human War three-issue series (also collected as a graphic novel), and the Planet of the Apes six-issue series (collected as Old Gods and Blood Lines) which followed it, brought the story on to the next generation on the planet shown in the movie, with the ape and human societies still locked in a struggle for survival.

Dark Horse also issued an exclusive mini-comic about General Thade through Toys 'R' Us, as well as a three-part Planet of the Apes comic strip about Attar in the pages of its oversized Dark Horse Extra comics.

Dark Horse went quiet on Planet Of The Apes in mid-2002 - with little prospect of a sequel to the movie, the comic franchise was put back on hold, though adventures continued in the junior novelisation series published by HarperEntertainment which, like the Dark Horse series, used the Tim Burton movie as their basis, but instead exploring it's recent past.

I just noticed that in World of cubes there were horses I remmeber first finding a horse and wondering " Wow they got horse this is almost better than planet craft now" I figured out if you kill horses you get saddles which was a bit counter productive assuming your killing all the horses just to find a saddle but it also does make them more rare which i think would be a great edition for planetcraft.Since you guy got them in world of cubes which is fairly basic I feel like it wouldnt be too hard to get them into Planet craft since maybe you guys already have some sort of codes for it saved somewhere. Adding horses to the game woud greatly Improve exploration and make battles more interesting especially if we are able to still hit stuff while on them and intereact with chest crafting tables and furnces. If anything horses could be the only thing in the next big update because of how amazing and usefull they are you wouldn't need to add anything extra because of how popular horses would be. Even when the hype dies down people wil still go crazy over horses because of cool feeling of riding something. Horses don't have to be common either If anything they should be rare to imphasize their value kinda like the rarity of whiches,sand zombies or just come from a really rare lucky block. I think it would be great and I'm sur several other people would too It would create more content for youtubers to makevideos on and create big possibilities within the planet craft world! Their might inittially b a few glitches like maybe seeing through walls in mines or somehow glitching the horse to fly or getting stuck on the horse or going to fast on it causeing slow generatio of terrain but im sure those could easily be fixed with just a few tweaks. Other thna that the game would be perfect and practically reborn horses would quickly become one of the most beloved mechanics in the game! Here's a picture and a link from a video talking about these horse from world of cubes just for a reference

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