The Rift Trails Pedigree Creator: Track, Breed & Show Off Your RedM Horses 🐴

The Rift Trails Pedigree Creator: your RedM horse barn, finally sorted!

If you keep horses on The Rift Trails, or on pretty much any RedM roleplay server, you know the exact moment I'm talking about. Barn full of gorgeous ponies. A notes app that reads like a ransom letter. And no clue that the stud you just bred to is somehow the great-great-grandsire of half your herd. I lived that. Then I got tired of it and built something.

The Rift Trails Pedigree Creator is a free tool that runs in your browser and keeps all of it straight: every horse, every bloodline, every coat you're chasing. You can build family trees, check whether two horses are related before you do something you'll regret, and even guess a foal's coat before it hits the ground. Here's the whole thing, feature by feature.

What it actually is

It's a horse manager made for RedM horse players and Horse RedM server breeders, nothing else. It opens in your browser like a website, but everything you type stays on your own computer. There's no account to make, no paywall to hit, and nothing gets uploaded anywhere. It's yours and it's free.

Picture the barn office you always wanted. Somewhere to write down each horse's coat, genes, breed, height and personality, map out the bloodline, and actually plan a breeding program instead of winging it. Public stud owners, foal sellers, and people who just collect pretty coats like a dragon: this one's for you.

What it does (the full barn tour)

I said "everything," so here it is.

Track every horse in real detail

Log each horse with its coat color, gene code, breed, height, age, personality and status. Mark them Active, For Sale, Sold, Retired, or Deceased. Give them a profile photo, a full gallery, even their rosettes and trophies. Every horse gets its own profile you can open in a click.

Scan a horse from a screenshot

This one still feels like cheating. Take an in-game screenshot of a horse's info, drop it into the scanner, and it reads the details and fills the form in for you. It even fixes little misreads against the real Rift coat and breed lists. Way less typing, way more riding.

Family trees up to 20 generations

Build a proper pedigree and flip between a horse's ancestors and its descendants. Want to see everything your stud has ever thrown? There it is. Want to trace a mare back to her foundation line? Also there. Fair warning, the trees are weirdly fun to scroll through.

Coat genetics and the breeding planner

This is where the breeders get feral (I say that with love). The planner lets you look up coats, pair two horses, and see the likely foal coat plus the odds before you commit to anything. Hunting a specific rare coat for an achievement? Plan the pairing first instead of praying.

Inbreeding checks

Every pairing shows an inbreeding coefficient with a plain "Low, Moderate, or High" badge, so you can keep your lines healthy and not accidentally breed cousins. I'm the vet in this scenario and I approve.

Lineage tracking, even for horses you don't own

One of my favorite bits. You can record ancestors you don't own but want on the tree, and you can also record offspring you don't own, like every foal your public stud has sent out into the world. That means you can follow a stud's whole legacy or a broodmare's produce without those horses cluttering up your actual roster. They sit exactly where they belong in the tree, tagged so you always know which ones are yours.

Stud and broodmare cards

Running a public stud on your server? Make a shareable card for it: a clean image with the horse's coat, genes, inbreeding, generation and offspring count, plus space for your fee and contact. Post it in Discord, drop it on your Patreon, done. It looks like you paid a designer, and you didn't.

Organizing your barn

Folders let you group horses any way you like, and a horse can sit in more than one. Tags are color-coded and you can filter by them. Saved views remember your favorite search-and-filter setups so you can jump straight back to them. You can grey out or hide Sold and Retired horses to keep your working list clean, sort by recently added when you want your newest ponies up top, and bulk-edit a whole batch of horses at once.

Keeping your data clean

There's a Link Checker that hunts down Sire and Dam typos so horses connect properly in the tree (the scanner is great, but every so often it fumbles a bracket). Duplicates get cleaned up on their own, breeds auto-correct to the official Rift list, and the tidy-up tools all live in one Manage menu so they stay out of your way.

Import your roster and back it up

Bringing horses over from a spreadsheet or an old list? Import a CSV and pull hundreds in at once. You can export a single horse with its full pedigree to hand to a buyer, or download a complete backup whenever you want. Since your data lives on your own machine, backups matter. Take them often. 💜

Achievements to chase

Because we are all a little bit goblin about collecting, there are achievements to unlock as your barn grows, including a couple of secret ones. You'll have to find those yourself.

Free and local

No paywall, no login, nothing harvested. It's a thank-you to the RedM equestrian scene, and it stays free.

The Patreon Ponies built this with me 💜

Real talk, this isn't a solo project no matter what the little credit line says. My Patreon Ponies are basically co-creators at this point.

A huge chunk of that feature list came straight from them. "Can we track offspring we don't own?" A Pony asked that, and now it's one of the most-used things in the whole tool. "Can the Custom Coat box just be a checkbox?" That was a Pony too. "Can we sort by recently added like V1?" Same. They think of the stuff I never would, because they're the ones knee-deep in the barn every day.

They also catch the bugs. My Patreon crew gets early access to every new build, so they're the first to hit the weird stuff: the print that spat out thirty pages, the mare who showed up twice, the button that just sat there doing nothing. They screenshot it, walk me through it, test the fix, and by the time it reaches everyone else it's smooth. You all get an easier tool because the Ponys hit the potholes first.

So next time you notice a nice little touch in the creator, odds are a Pony dreamed it up, broke it, and helped me patch it. This whole thing runs on them. If you want early access, a say in what gets built next, and general barn chaos, that's where we hang out.

Getting started

Nothing to install. Open the Rift Trails Pedigree Creator, add your first horse or import your whole roster, and start building. Scan a screenshot in, watch the family tree fill out, and run the breeding planner on a pairing you've been eyeing. Give it five minutes and you'll wonder how you tracked your RedM horses before.

New to horses on The Rift? Welcome, you're doomed (affectionately). This community will happily talk coat genetics with you for three hours straight. The creator just gives you a place to keep all of it.

Ready to build your barn?

The Rift Trails Pedigree Creator keeps your whole barn in one place: the pedigrees, the coat planning, the inbreeding math, the stud ads, all of it. Free, private, and made with the equestrian RedM community in mind. The Patreon Ponys shaped it, and every rider on The Rift gets to use it.

Try the creator, grab the video tutorial, and check the FAQ if you get stuck. Then come tell us what to add next, because the best ideas always come from the barn.

Happy trails, and happy breeding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQcaYgoZ7hc