Genetics and Bloodline

Genetics and Bloodline

Every number on this page is read from the live server.

Getting born

Two birth codes from two different born players:

/birth code1 code2

The first code passes on their Family Name. The second is who you first spawn on. Both parents contribute equally to everything else. One of your 2 parents must be online to be born.

If you got a rare OG/Founder code, type /birthog <code> to use it. These give you a random house and let you choose a Family name for you and your future generations.

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. Half from each parent, one gene copy at a time. You are never a copy of either.

Your hearts. How many you are born with depends on how closely your two parents are related.

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

Six elements in three opposed pairs:

fire against water
earth against air
light against dark

The element genome

You carry 6 element genes, two copies of each (12 copies total). One copy comes from each parent at every gene.

Gene	Copies	Worth per copy
Anchor 1	2	20
Anchor 2	2	20
Modifier 1	2	5
Modifier 2	2	5
Modifier 3	2	5
Modifier 4	2	5

Each copy is one of these:

Copy	Scores into	Notes
Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Light, Dark	That element
Raw	Magic	Magic has no opposite. It gives resistance with no weakness
Inert	Nothing	Only comes from a monster's soul. See below

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.

The houses

A founder carries 4 anchor copies of their house element and 4 modifier copies of each of two minors.

House	Affinity	Resistance
Fire	Fire 80, Light 20, Earth 20	Fire +80, Light +20, Earth +20, Air -20, Dark -20, Water -80
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.

Marriage

Marriage shares a heart total between two players, and divorce is a filed petition. See Marriage and Divorce.

Reading your own

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.

Nobody else's genetics are public, on the wiki or anywhere else. This page lists what genes exist, not who carries them.

Wiki index · Genes · Houses · Marriage and Divorce · Souls · Magic and Mobs · Astronomy · Fishing and Money · Commands · First Day

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