The lab
Build the pair, see what can be born
Pick the mother's and the father's look, part by part, and the lab shows the exact probability of every possible child.
This system holds 1,200,336 different looks, and no pairing is forbidden.
Mother
Use a real creature
Paste a creature code and the math starts describing it: what it carries hidden joins the draw, without naming it. The parts lock, because they come from the database.
What if it carries a hidden one?
Nobody sees the stored gene, not even the owner. Here you can raise a hypothesis: if this creature carries such a pattern hidden, how do the numbers change?
Father
Use a real creature
Paste a creature code and the math starts describing it: what it carries hidden joins the draw, without naming it. The parts lock, because they come from the database.
What if it carries a hidden one?
Nobody sees the stored gene, not even the owner. Here you can raise a hypothesis: if this creature carries such a pattern hidden, how do the numbers change?
Without a hypothesis, each parent is treated as purebred: the stored gene equals the visible one.
What can be born
Chance of a single-pattern child
- Classic100%
What may come hidden
Every breeding and every shop box can write a stored gene neither parent had. It never shows on the child, but it passes on, and that is how a lineage starts carrying secrets.
- No new hidden gene59%
- An uncommon stored away34.9%
Woodland · Ice · Garden · Night · Ocean
- A rare stored away4.2%
Cherry Blossom · Magma · Honey · Prism
- A mythic stored away2%
Galaxy · Royal
- A special eye stored away0.091%
Cherry · Ember · Heart · Golden · Galaxy · Ice · Jewel · Honey · Onyx · Pearl · Prism · Firefly
- A marking stored away0.091%
Bubbles · Confetti · Hearts · Diamonds · Stars · Sparks · Honeycomb · Snowflakes · Flowers · Moons · Petals · Web
The same odds apply to the shop box: a freshly bought creature may already carry a surprise.
House rules
How the lab does the math
Each parent gives half
For every part, the child takes one gene from each parent, the visible one or the stored one, coin flip, and draws which of the two to show. The same rule as the genetics page, now in numbers.
The pattern flip
When both parents are the same pattern and each wears at least one part of the SAME other pattern, there is a 10% chance the child is born 100% that other pattern. The shortcut for those who hunt swapped parts.
The stored-gene mutation
On breeding and in the shop box, a stored gene can come out unlike anything the parents had: a 10% chance for the first, 1% for the second, 0.01% for the third, never more than three. The new value draws from 85% uncommon, 10% rare, 4% mythic and 1% special eye, the last on eyes only. Never common: common is what the shop sells.
The secret stays secret
The lab computes odds, it does not reveal genes. What a real creature carries stored away is only found out by breeding, and that is why lineage is worth something.