how do i convert a matrilineal mutation to a patrilineal mutation?

[Alastor's Alibi]

or the other way around

[guig]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KGhaV1mddE

[Liralen]

Short answer: breed it to your unmutated dinos that you are using to breed for mutations.

Long answer (skip to the 28 minute mark for the specific answer): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL4fDTRg4Ig

[Alastor's Alibi]

Thanks. Im not sure how this works but breeding it with my base females seems to have fixed it ^^

[Liralen]

While waiting for your babies to mature, I highly recommend watching videos about this. I didn't at first, and made some ghastly mistakes.

Whereas watching a 2 hour video would have saved me weeks of work doing it wrong.

[Alastor's Alibi]

Originally posted by Liralen:

While waiting for your babies to mature, I highly recommend watching videos about this. I didn't at first, and made some ghastly mistakes.

Whereas watching a 2 hour video would have saved me weeks of work doing it wrong.

I didnt watch the first one yet but i have watched the 2nd video yesterday. I looked it up again and i missed a bit towards the end

[Liralen]

Originally posted by Rachel:

Originally posted by Liralen:

While waiting for your babies to mature, I highly recommend watching videos about this. I didn't at first, and made some ghastly mistakes.

Whereas watching a 2 hour video would have saved me weeks of work doing it wrong.

I didnt watch the first one yet but i have watched the 2nd video yesterday. I looked it up again and i missed a bit towards the end

Your first question was answered at about the 28 minute mark.

If a male has the mutation, that's perfect. They can constantly breed, whereas females have a breeding timer, which simulates the infertile time between ovulation. So if a female is born with the desired mutation, you need either need to breed her to an unmutated male or breed the existing mutated male to the unmatuated females, i.e., try again.

The latter is generally faster. By the time you raise a mutated female to the point where it can breed, the unmutated females have already been able to breed again.

However, there is no reason you can't do both simultaneously. They aren't the same set of dinos involved in the breeding.

[Alastor's Alibi]

Originally posted by Liralen:

Originally posted by Rachel:

I didnt watch the first one yet but i have watched the 2nd video yesterday. I looked it up again and i missed a bit towards the end

Your first question was answered at about the 28 minute mark.

If a male has the mutation, that's perfect. They can constantly breed, whereas females have a breeding timer, which simulates the infertile time between ovulation.

ah okie

[Liralen]

Originally posted by Rachel:

Originally posted by Liralen:

Your first question was answered at about the 28 minute mark.

If a male has the mutation, that's perfect. They can constantly breed, whereas females have a breeding timer, which simulates the infertile time between ovulation.

ah okie

Sorry, I amended my post as you can see above.

[Alastor's Alibi]

Originally posted by Liralen:

Originally posted by Rachel:

ah okie

Sorry, I amended my post as you can see above.

Thanks i see it now. Also my original post wasnt exactly about what to do if i get a female with desired mutation. I more meant i got a male with my desired mutation but it was in the maternal line. My other points were in my paternal like and i would have liked to switch it to that side so i can get a 20/20. Im not sure what happened but breeding that male with base female switched the maternal mutation to paternal.

[Liralen]

Originally posted by Rachel:

Originally posted by Liralen:

Sorry, I amended my post as you can see above.

Thanks i see it now. Also my original post wasnt exactly about what to do if i get a female with desired mutation. I more meant i got a male with my desired mutation but it was in the maternal line. My other points were in my paternal like and i would have liked to switch it to that side so i can get a 20/20. Im not sure what happened but breeding that male with base female switched the maternal mutation to paternal.

Ah, that's a different case.

That often happens, just ignore it. The game seems to randomly attribute the mutation to either parent, but it works itself out in the next generation or two. You'll be able to see that after a lot of mutations, where it was patently impossible for an unmutated female to be the source of a mutation that was 10 mutations higher than the mother has.

[Alastor's Alibi]

Originally posted by Liralen:

Originally posted by Rachel:

Thanks i see it now. Also my original post wasnt exactly about what to do if i get a female with desired mutation. I more meant i got a male with my desired mutation but it was in the maternal line. My other points were in my paternal like and i would have liked to switch it to that side so i can get a 20/20. Im not sure what happened but breeding that male with base female switched the maternal mutation to paternal.

Ah, that's a different case.

That often happens, just ignore it. The game seems to randomly attribute the mutation to either parent, but it works itself out in the next generation or two. You'll be able to see that after a lot of mutations, where it was patently impossible for an unmutated female to be the source of a mutation that was 10 mutations higher than the mother has.

Ah okie then. Im breeding with my rates turned way up but it still takes sooooooo long. Im not sure if its even worth it

[Liralen]

Originally posted by Rachel:

Originally posted by Liralen:

Ah, that's a different case.

That often happens, just ignore it. The game seems to randomly attribute the mutation to either parent, but it works itself out in the next generation or two. You'll be able to see that after a lot of mutations, where it was patently impossible for an unmutated female to be the source of a mutation that was 10 mutations higher than the mother has.

Ah okie then. Im breeding with my rates turned way up but it still takes sooooooo long. Im not sure if its even worth it

It probably is on official servers. Unofficial/single player, probably not, since you can modify the settings to make it easier, as you prefer. While our servers have settings that eliminate time wasters, we haven't done anything to reduce actual combat difficulty.

[Alastor's Alibi]

Originally posted by Liralen:

Originally posted by Rachel:

Ah okie then. Im breeding with my rates turned way up but it still takes sooooooo long. Im not sure if its even worth it

It probably is on official servers. Unofficial/single player, probably not, since you can modify the settings to make it easier, as you prefer. While our servers have settings that eliminate time wasters, we haven't done anything to reduce actual combat difficulty.

can you even reduce combat difficulty? Im playing single player, i have harvent turned up, mating interval turned down, incubation turned down and same with maturation

[Liralen]

Originally posted by Rachel:

Originally posted by Liralen:

It probably is on official servers. Unofficial/single player, probably not, since you can modify the settings to make it easier, as you prefer. While our servers have settings that eliminate time wasters, we haven't done anything to reduce actual combat difficulty.

can you even reduce combat difficulty? Im playing single player, i have harvent turned up, mating interval turned down, incubation turned down and same with maturation

Single player settings inherently have reduced combat difficulty, for good reasons.

[Alastor's Alibi]

Originally posted by Liralen:

Originally posted by Rachel:

can you even reduce combat difficulty? Im playing single player, i have harvent turned up, mating interval turned down, incubation turned down and same with maturation

Single player settings inherently have reduced combat difficulty, for good reasons.

okie