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 ====== Genetics and Bloodline ======
+Every number on this page is read from the live server.
 ===== Getting born =====
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 and let you choose a Family name for you and your future generations.
-Once you are alive, ''/invite'' will generate your invite code.
+Once you are alive, ''/invite'' will generate your invite code. Your first code is ready right away. After someone uses one, the next unlocks a day later.
+If your parents are closely related, you and both parents are warned at birth for free.
 ===== Inherited at birth =====
-**Your elements.** You inherit half from each parent. Nothing is copied whole, so you are not a
+**Your elements.** Half from each parent, one gene copy at a time. You are never a copy of either.
-duplicate of either of them.
 **Your hearts.** How many you are born with depends on how closely your two parents are related.
-Unrelated parents make the sturdiest children. See below.
-**Your traits.** Silent copies from both sides, most of which never show.
+**Your traits.** Hidden copies from both sides. Most never show.
+**Your size, speed and appetite.** A blend of both parents with a little drift.
+===== Hearts at birth =====
+^ Parents ^ Hearts at birth ^
+| Unrelated | 23 |
+| First cousins | 22 |
+| Half-siblings | 20 |
+| Full siblings | 17 |
+| Founders (OG code) | 20 |
 ===== Elements =====
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   * light against dark
-Every founding house is strongest in its own element, moderate in two others, and weak where those
+==== The element genome ====
-strengths are opposed. Weakness is not assigned. You are weak to the opposite of whatever you carry,
-which is why the wheel works the way it does.
-Born players are a blend. Marrying inside your house concentrates your element and sharpens both the
+You carry 6 element genes, two copies of each (12 copies total). One copy comes from each parent at every gene.
-strength and the matching weakness. Marrying out spreads you across more elements, softens every
-weakness, and lowers your peak. Neither is better. They are different builds.
-A seventh element sits outside the wheel: raw magic. It has no opposite, so it grants no weakness and
+^ Gene ^ Copies ^ Worth per copy ^
-no counter, and those who carry it are flat in all six ordinary elements. It inherits like any other element, and grants increased arcane knowledge gain.
+| Anchor 1 | 2 | 20 |
-===== Hearts at birth =====
+| Anchor 2 | 2 | 20 |
+| Modifier 1 | 2 | 5 |
+| Modifier 2 | 2 | 5 |
+| Modifier 3 | 2 | 5 |
+| Modifier 4 | 2 | 5 |
-You are born with more hearts if your parents were unrelated, and fewer if they were close.
+Each copy is one of these:
-^ Parents ^ Hearts at birth ^
+^ Copy ^ Scores into ^ Notes ^
-| Unrelated | 23 |
+| Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Light, Dark | That element | |
-| First cousins | 22 |
+| Raw | Magic | Magic has no opposite. It gives resistance with no weakness |
-| Half-siblings | 20 |
+| Inert | Nothing | Only comes from a monster's soul. See below |
-| Full siblings | 17 |
+  * **Affinity** in an element = the total worth of your copies of it. Four anchor copies of fire is 80 fire.
+  * **Resistance** = your score in that element minus your score in its opposite. Nobody assigns weakness. Carrying fire is what makes you weak to water.
+  * A child of fire and water parents can cancel out to 0 resistance in both.
+  * Every copy has a 0.2% chance per birth to mutate into a random element or Raw. That is how Raw keeps appearing.
+  * The most one element can reach is 120, if every copy is that element. That takes generations of breeding for it.
-===== Inheritance =====
+==== The houses ====
-There is a range of genetic traits, from slight inconveniences to specific weaknesses. Most genes
+A founder carries 4 anchor copies of their house element and 4 modifier copies of each of two minors.
-carried are unexpressed and silent.
-A trait expresses at full strength only when the **same** hidden copy is inherited from both parents.
+^ House ^ Affinity ^ Resistance ^
-Relatives are the players most likely to carry the same copy, so pairing within a bloodline is what
+| Fire | Fire 80, Light 20, Earth 20 | Fire +80, Light +20, Earth +20, Air -20, Dark -20, **Water -80** |
-brings silent traits into the open.
+| Water | Water 80, Air 20, Dark 20 | Water +80, Air +20, Dark +20, Earth -20, Light -20, **Fire -80** |
+| Earth | Earth 80, Dark 20, Fire 20 | Earth +80, Dark +20, Fire +20, Light -20, Water -20, **Air -80** |
+| Air | Air 80, Light 20, Water 20 | Air +80, Light +20, Water +20, Dark -20, Fire -20, **Earth -80** |
+| Light | Light 80, Fire 20, Air 20 | Light +80, Fire +20, Air +20, Water -20, Earth -20, **Dark -80** |
+| Dark | Dark 80, Water 20, Earth 20 | Dark +80, Water +20, Earth +20, Fire -20, Air -20, **Light -80** |
+| Raw | Magic 80, plus two random minors at 20 | Magic +80, minors +20, their opposites -20 |
+Raw magic also speeds up Arcane Knowledge: +1% for every 1.6 raw magic affinity you were born with.
+===== Traits =====
+==== Food traits ====
+Every food sits on one ladder from least to most filling. Picky Palate and Food Allergy each run over 6 genes.
+  * Only genes where you carry **two** copies count toward how far up the ladder it reaches. A pure carrier is affected by nothing.
+  * Total copies decide how many foods below that line are actually hit.
+  * Each player leans toward one food group (fish, sweet, vegetable, meat, bread), so a list reads like a theme.
+  * At 2 doubled genes (Picky Palate) or 3 (Food Allergy), one food from above the line is added too.
+^ ^ Picky Palate ^ Food Allergy ^
+| Reach per doubled gene | 15% of the ladder | 9% of the ladder |
+| Highest reach | 90% | 54% |
+| Share of foods hit | 30% + 4% per copy, up to 80% | 20% + 3% per copy, up to 50% |
+Golden apples are never affected. Your Genetic Analysis lists your exact foods.
+==== Carried, but no effect yet ====
+These traits exist, inherit, and can show on a Genetic Analysis. Right now they do nothing in game. That may change later.
+^ Type ^ Traits ^
+| Dominant | Left Handed, Moonblessed, Green Thumb |
+| Recessive, mild | Faint Aversion, Butterfingers, Skittish, Motion Sickness, Cold Feet, Bad With Bees, Slow Grower |
+| Recessive, moderate | Phobia, Biome Unease, Chorus Twitch, Hydrophobia, Vertigo, Brittle Bones, Nyctophobia, Restless Legs |
+| Recessive, severe | Frailty, The Shakes, Cursed Blood, Withering, Stacked Phobias, Anemia, Glass Bones, Ravenous, Photophobia, Aquaphobic Curse, Fragile Mind, Sterile Strain, Bloodcurse |
+===== Souls and bloodlines =====
+Your genes, your family name, your birth chart and your newborn hearts live in your **soul**. Lose all
+your hearts and the soul leaves your body in a head. See [[souls|Souls]].
 ===== Marriage =====
-You can buy a marriage certificate in the shop. Right click a player to propose. If they accept, you are married
-Married players each gain 2 hearts every second birth birth instead of 1, only when they use their codes together.
+Marriage shares a heart total between two players, and divorce is a filed petition. See
+[[marriage|Marriage and Divorce]].
 ===== Reading your own =====
-Three items in ''/shop'':
+^ Item ^ Price ^ Shows ^
+| Genetic Analysis | 3,333 | Expressed traits, silent recessives, size, the elements you were born with, and the foods your body refuses |
+| Family Ledger | 2,222 | Browsable family tree with relatedness between any two players |
+| Star Chart | 3,333 | Your birth chart and how often you have drawn each planet |
+The Analysis reads you as you are now, so an old copy updates when you open it.
-^ Item ^ Shows ^
+Nobody else's genetics are public, on the wiki or anywhere else. This page lists what genes exist, not who carries them.
-| Genetic Analysis | Expressed traits, silently carried recessives, stature, the elements you were born with, and anything your body refuses to eat |
-| Family Ledger | Browsable family tree with relatedness between any two players |
-| Star Chart | Your birth chart and how often you have drawn each planet |
-The Analysis is the only way to see what you carry silently. It reads you as you are now, so an old
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-copy is worth opening again.
-Nobody else's genetics are public, on the wiki or anywhere else. See [[:info|Live Pages]].
+[[start|Wiki index]] · [[genes|Genes]] · [[houses|Houses]] · [[marriage|Marriage and Divorce]] · [[souls|Souls]] · [[magic-mobs|Magic and Mobs]] · [[astronomy|Astronomy]] · [[fishing|Fishing and Money]] · [[commands|Commands]] · [[:first-day|First Day]]