Mutation colors.

[Vishankashot]

I understand how the mutations in stats works, but is there a way to define what color you'll end up getting? etc trying to get my mutated rex to be blue instead of red... : /

[guig]

nop it is random. maybe some mods can do this but naturally all mutations occuring are random. so you'll have to mate your dinos until you get what you want (be sure than that color exists for that dino too).

[Vishankashot]

Ahhhh righto. so if its red, it'll stay red throughout the generations?

[guig]

if it got a red mutation it will give it to any baby. still those babies can have mutations in their turns but it's best to stay with the starting pair until you get what you want before, then raise the babies with the right color.

[Vishankashot]

Originally posted by guig:

if it got a red mutation it will give it to any baby. still those babies can have mutations in their turns but it's best to stay with the starting pair until you get what you want before, then raising the babies with the right color.

gotcha now, thanks so much for the info guig! :D

[guig]

you're welcome ^^

[Labrat-dk]

Just to add in here. When you mate a dino with color mutation with one without, you can get a baby without the color mutation. There are a high chance that they have, but it's not a guarantee.
I have a blue Ptere, female. And I have tried many times to get a blue male, but for some reason I can't. All female I get from that blood line is blue, all male are not.

[Vishankashot]

Originally posted by Labrat-dk:

Just to add in here. When you mate a dino with color mutation with one without, you can get a baby without the color mutation. There are a high chance that they have, but it's not a guarantee.
I have a blue Ptere, female. And I have tried many times to get a blue male, but for some reason I can't. All female I get from that blood line is blue, all male are not.

Ahhh righto, so looks like only 1 gender line...
Now i fully understand thanks to you and guigs info, ^^

[123]

Only way is mass-breeding until you get a dino with a complete or partial color mutation.

Don t do the mistake to "clear" non-mutated females to early,
mass breeding works exponential.

Partial color mutations tend to become complete over generations from my experience,
again don t clear out females in this process - often B-route is much faster then A-route.

[Vishankashot]

Oh ok, yea i plan on doing mass breeding, ok i'll see how it goes then, i'll test it out on something that doesn't take much "Effort" :P

[Barik]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3LHIjYUQZI

Good video that answers questions on how more advanced stuff like colour mixing and mutations work.

But Basically is 50% chance for each colour region for each parent. If both colour regions are the same on each parent its bassically 100% that u will get that colour unless u get unlucky and the offspring mutates and gets that colour region.

So if parent one had 3 regions of the colour u wanted and the other parent had 3 other regions of colour u wanted, you would breed them together and keep breeding the offspring that had got closer to the colour scheme you wanted. Like next offspring might have 2 regions of the right colour from parent 1 and 2 regions of the right colour from the other parent so 4/6 of the correct colour region and than u would breed that with whatever u had close to getting the full colours u wanted.

But yah watch the vid is very informative and does a better job at explaing this than i do.
Skip to 24:02 in the vid if u only intrensted in colour regions.
Also 13:21 for explanation why u mutation changes might not be visible.

[Barik]

But yah if u get a red colour mutation than it overrides the colour of that region to red. Thats it, the game doesnt remember what your dino's mutations are/did. That dino has 50% chance to pass the red colour mutation. If the colour doesnt get passed on becuase it got the other parents colour, than its children will not get the colour red either becuase it doesnt have that colour to pass on anymore.