Fantasy Genetics

hey all i made this for fun to test out how the genetics system can be changed! It's a wip, but I'm taking a bit of a break for now. I'll develop it as I get more ideas and as the game develops. works best for fantasy saves (you dont mind if some paras have recessive fantasy genes)

how it works

• skin is on a gradient scale, allowing for colours to mix rather than just inheriting one of the parents' skin tones. eg a pink and blue para could have a pink, purple, or blue child. The gradient scale goes from pink, purple, blue, green, yellow, orange/red. There is also an allele for multicolour and grey/black/white skin tones on this gene; I'll separate it out later. There is at least 1 swatch for each colour, and I'll add more over time.

• Fantasy genetics are recessive, meaning paras without fantasy colours could still carry the genes to produce unnatural children. This means there is a chance for a fantasy para and a non-fantasy para to produce a skin tone that may not be present in a parent, as 1 parent could have a recessive gene for pink skin, for example, that might show up in the child and mix with the fantasy parent's skin colour. eg blue parent and natural para with recessive pink gene would make a purple pink or blue child

• Unnatural hair and eyes are all recessive traits and can be carried by parents who do not present these features. Much like how in real life the gene for red hair can be carried by people who don't have red hair. Paras are likely to inherit their parent's specific colour in the next generation. There is also a chance to pass down the multicolour hair/eye trait from paras with unnatural traits.

• added real recessive ginger hair instead of having it tied to brown hair

Modding genetics is still a learning process for those of us who have ventured into attempting it, as we have no official dev guides yet. The system seems fragile and, as of now, can have some bugs. Please let me know if you encounter any. I quickly tested this with satomoi and akis mod, and it did not produce charlies, but if you use this in conjunction with other genetics mod, you may get some mixed results.

SPECIAL THANKS

SATOMI Her ranting about her alien genetic mod inspired me to jump down the rabbit hole you can check her mod out here https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3741731917

BLAMS wrote a fan-made guide on the paralives wiki and was very helpful in sharing information through Discord. you can find their mod and guide here

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3734167717 https://paralives.wiki.gg/wiki/Genetics_modding

AKI also joining in on the discussions on Discord and sharing information they discovered while making their mod. you can find there mod here

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3735008895