Horsey Game NPCs & Quests — Old Bu, Bubba, Sweetie, the Alien

🔬 Sourcing. Every NPC interaction below is anchored to a Bilibili or YouTube playthrough timestamp. NPCs and quests are systems most guides skip — they're real, they pay well, and they have specific phenotype/lineage requirements.

Horsey Game's economy is partly a betting game and partly a quest fulfillment game. The quest side is heavily NPC-gated. Here's the verified roster.

Old Bu — $2,000 for a champion with rabbit ears

Location: A farm-style NPC area. Specific position not yet pinned to map coordinates.

Setup: 老番茄 @ 7:58:

"Old Bu's horses are useless, but he will give 2000 dollars if you can breed a champion horse that has rabbit ears like his."

Quest payout (老番茄 @ 11:21):

"Old Bu gives 2000 dollars if a horse with rabbit ears wins a championship."

Requirements (both must hold):

Phenotype: rabbit ears (splice rabbit DNA — see the rabbit preset in /tools/dna-database)
Achievement: horse has won a championship race (which itself requires 2 prior cup wins)

Workflow:

F1 cross horse × rabbit in the DNA Database → get a rabbit-ear hybrid
Race that hybrid through 2 regular cup wins
Enter the Champion Race ($250 fee, $2,500 prize per /guides/horsey-game-betting-odds-mechanics)
Bring the now-champion-with-rabbit-ears to Old Bu → $2,000 payout

Total expected return if the path completes: $2,500 (Champion prize) + $2,000 (Old Bu) − $250 entry = $4,250 net plus the unlimited lasso reward.

Bubba — $2,000 for descendant + big ears

Setup: Cheru @ 28:00:

"If you bring me a horse that descends from either Russian mafia, coronal mass ejection, or [a third lineage]. And it must have big ears."

Payout (Cheru @ 28:40):

"I've just made myself $2,000."

Requirements:

Lineage: descended from one of: Russian mafia, coronal mass ejection, or a third (partially audible — being collected)
Phenotype: big ears

Distinct from Old Bu's quest — same payout, different requirements:

| | Old Bu | Bubba | |---|---|---| | Phenotype | Rabbit ears | Big ears | | Achievement | Won championship | n/a | | Lineage | n/a | Specific named ancestors | | Reward | $2,000 | $2,000 |

You can in theory complete both on the same playthrough — they don't seem to compete for the same horse.

Sweetie — sells your trophies for $300

Setup: Cheru @ 15:35:

"Sweetie sold our trophies? Oh my gosh, for 300?"

Mechanic: Sweetie is the player's love interest (the campaign's horse-flu patient). She'll sell trophy items the player hasn't claimed for $300 each — but this happens automatically, not via player action.

Practical consequence: Don't leave trophies unattended near Sweetie. If you want full value (trophies are also accepted by the trophy-buying NPC mentioned in the hidden secrets guide for unspecified higher rewards), claim them as soon as a race ends.

The Alien — $3 certification license

Setup: 老番茄 @ 8:14:

"The certification license costs 3 dollars from the alien guy."

Mechanic: A non-human NPC sells some kind of certification license for $3. The exact unlock the license enables is not visible in the recording — likely either betting access, breeding access, or some progression gate.

$3 is trivial. Buy it on first encounter; if it gates progression you'll have skipped a friction point cheap.

"Lady" — $2,000 sale offer for a specific horse

Setup: 逍遥散人 @ 38:21:

"A character offers 2000 dollars for a horse named 'lady'."

Mechanic: Some unnamed NPC will pay $2,000 for a horse specifically named "Lady" (the lady in question may have specific phenotype requirements not visible in the clip). This may be a "find a lost horse" quest variant.

Caveat: Naming a horse "Lady" may be necessary but probably not sufficient — the NPC likely also wants specific traits. We need a follow-up clip to nail this down.

Strange Bedfellow — the lost horse quest

Spec (Cheru @ 46:00):

"Strange Bedfellow. Brown body, black everything else."

Mechanic: A lost horse named "Strange Bedfellow" with brown body + all-black mane/tail/legs/face appears somewhere in the world. Returning it to the original owner unlocks an achievement (one of the 26 — see /guides/horsey-game-26-achievements).

Softlock warning: Cheru reports this achievement softlocks if the horse despawns. When you spot Strange Bedfellow, return it immediately, before triggering whatever unknown event causes the despawn.

Bankrupt-state NPC — $50 poop job

Setup: 老番茄 @ 6:54:

"When bankrupt, a job picking up horse manure gives 50 dollars immediately."

Mechanic: If your bankroll hits zero, an NPC offers a $50 immediate cash poop job — a soft floor against full bankruptcy. This is the same poop-scooping payout that exists at all bankroll levels per Cheru, but the bankrupt-trigger version is documented separately by 老番茄 with the implication that it's an emergency unlock specifically when broke.

NPC interactions that are not yet quests

Documented but unclear payout / mechanic:

The pink horse farm (老番茄 @ 7:27) — players can spend money to buy racehorses directly. Functions as a horse market, not a quest giver.
The tavern — beers $10 each, "no reward by itself" (老番茄 @ 10:59). Beers ARE inputs to the Opening Speedrun drug-and-drag mechanic, but the tavern itself doesn't pay you.
Drunk farm owners (老番茄 @ 18:48) — "If the farm owner is drunk, you cannot trade." Implies a sober-vs-drunk state on NPCs that affects quest availability.
Convert-owner-to-horse (老番茄 @ 18:58) — "Dragging a horse onto a farm owner makes the horse become the new farm owner." This is the swap mechanic the speedrun exploits.

What this guide won't claim

We don't yet have video evidence for:

The full list of NPCs in the game
The exact map coordinates / regions for each NPC
The full payout table for the trophy-buying NPC
Whether quest payouts are one-time or repeatable per save
Whether Old Bu and Bubba's quests can both fire on the same horse

If you've identified additional NPCs or completed any of these, please submit via /contact.

What's next

Horsey Game Betting & Odds — Champion Race that gates Old Bu's quest
Hidden Secrets — cave bones, water rope, top-left DNA bottle, Old Bu's farm note
Horsey Game Economy — full payout ladder including these quests
DNA Database — splice rabbit DNA for Old Bu, big-ear lineages for Bubba

Sources

老番茄 — "这是什么马？？" (Bilibili). https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1BM9fB8Eds (Old Bu, Alien, drunk-owners, convert-owner mechanics)
Cheru — "I 100% Solved Horse Racing — CRISPR" (YouTube). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoiOVMPzUWM (Bubba, Sweetie, Strange Bedfellow)
逍遥散人 — "爆笑赛马养马仙人成长之路" (Bilibili). https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1CNduBKEfc (Lady horse offer)

Last updated: 2026-05-09. Every NPC payout on this page is anchored to a video timestamp.

Last verified: 2026-05-09 · Game version: 1.0.4 · See /sources for citation list.