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Breeding Rules

Breeding your dinosaurs is a big decision! Below you'll find all of the requirements and rules that come with deciding to breed them. To submit a breeding, go to the Breeding page under the Activities tab!

All current breeding items can be found here

Requirements

  • Both dinosaurs must be an Adult which is completed via Aging Quests
  • Dinosaurs must not have a common relative in their visible lineage
  • The dinosaurs cannot have the severely sick or injured status
  • Both dinosaurs must have breeding slots left
  • A courtship entry piece of two dinosaurs, unless it is a Starter x Starter pair
  • All breedings require a Nest item which can be crafted with any 5 materials
  • Breeding two dinosaurs of the same sex requires a Rainbow Trout which can be purchased from the Relic Bone shop

Breeding Slots

Each dinosaur has a limited amount of breeding slots in its lifetime

This can be found on the bottom right of an import's page. Dinosaurs start with 4 slots upon reaching adulthood. Additional slots can be earned by leveling up, granted each 10 Levels, or by applying a Breeding Slot Applicator to them. If your dinosaur hits level 10, make a Claim from the User tab and a moderator will add the breeding slot to them!​

Read more about EXP and leveling here!

Managing breeding slots
  • To send your own dino's breeding permission to another user, go to the character's profile, click on "Breeding Permissions" and then "Create New Permission". From here you can choose whether its a full or split slot, and leave any notes!
  • To view breeding permissions that you've received, go under User > My Breeding Permissions, and you will be taken to a page where you can see all the permissions you own! You may also send these permissions to another user, even if its not your own dino!

Courtship Entries

Courtship entries are art or literature pieces that depict the two dinosaurs going through mating rituals or other courtship events. These encounters can be tense, sweet, tentative, etc - It all depends on your dinosaurs' personalities and standing with other dinosaurs!

All courtship entries require a PG-13 rating.
If you depict Dinosaur sex or anything above a PG-13 rating, it will not count towards a courtship entry. However, gore is fine.
Art Requirements:
  • Fullbody (at least 75% of both dinosaurs)
  • Full color
  • 3-element background
Literature Requirements:
  • 1,000 words
  • Must mention both dinosaurs involved throughout the piece
  • Must be about a romance/courtship/etc.

Quality Disclaimer

Every submission must follow the current Quest Requirements and Quality Standards rules, unused old quest art that was made under different rules must adhere to the current rules if you would like to use it for a courtship!

  • Any artwork or literature submitted will be compared to your gallery for a quality check! If the entry is considered to be drastically lower quality than your typical style, it may be denied; though you can still claim EXP from it. You will be permitted to edit the entry piece in order for it to pass!
  • Re-used linearts, sketches, background elements, poses, and text will not be able to pass.
  • Content containing any AI generated images, text or assets will be denied. All literature submissions are run through AI detectors.
  • Traced or heavily referenced drawings, and plagiarized text is not allowed.

You are not required to stick to the same style with artworks and literature, as long as it otherwise meets the Quality Standards.
Styles that are very simplified compared to your regular art might receive reduced EXP, and anything over-simplified to the point where it starts to interfere with rendering or recognizability might be rejected.

Submitting a Breeding

To create a new breeding, go to the Clutches page from the Activities tab.

  • Hit 'New Clutch'
  • Select each parent - you can delete the auto-filled text and type in the characters name or ID
  • Hit 'Initialize Clutch'

After initializing, you will be taken to a page where you can you add items, courtship image url, and preview potential offspring!

  • After adding items/links to the breeding, don't forget to hit "Adjust" to save your settings! 

Note that previewed offspring do not exist. It is a potential outcome of a pairing. Items you attach will affect these previews, but they will not be consumed until the breeding is submitted and approved - so preview to your heart's content!

Breeding Chances

Every time you submit a breeding between two characters, the amount of babies your dinosaurs produce and the offspring's genotypes will all be up to chance. You can read about how these are rolled and any items that can be used to influence the outcome of offspring. Note that most specific rates involved in breeding are not disclosed to the public.
Species rarity impacts clutch size. More common species are likely to have more offspring, and also have a greater maximum amount of offspring that can be produced with a breeding. The opposite is true for rarer species; they tend to have smaller clutches and have more limited clutch sizes. Using a Moodlighting guarantees one extra offspring for one breeding, and can even exceed the usual maximum.
The sex of all offspring is random but there is an equal chance for either sex. The base colors are determined from a gradient of the parents' base colors, unless a Raw Opal is used. For covering type, two bald dinosaurs of any variant will always make bald offspring, while a bald and a feathered pair creates an equal chance for either type. Variants can be passed down by parents by chance.
Markings pass based on rarity. Rarer markings will be less likely to pass than the more common ones. If a parent has a Homozygous form of a marking, they are more likely to pass down that marking compared to a parent with the Heterozygous form. Offspring can only inherit Homozygous markings if both parents have the marking in some form, or if a Mimic Frog is used to guarantee the Homozygous form. A Mimic Butterfly can be used to guarantee the Heterozygous version of a marking passes down, and this marking can still roll as Homozygous on top of that as long as both parents have the marking.
Color modifiers work differently to normal markings. If only one parent has a Heterozygous, or carried, form of a color modifier, it can be passed down to offspring as the Heterozygous or even the Homozygous version! Homozygous forms and having the gene on both parents increases the chance for the color modifier to pass down. Similar to normal markings though, they might not pass down at all. A Mimic Gecko can be used to guarantee that all offspring at least receive the Heterozygous form.
Each offspring has a small chance to obtain something new and different from its parents! If you receive an offspring from a breeding with a marking, color modifier, or base color that isn't related to either parent, it means the offspring randomly developed something new. Random genes with always be Heterozygous! Using a Nudibranch increases the chance for random traits.
If a parent has a mutation, it does not affect the chance of any mutations occuring. However, mutations can appear rarely by chance. In this case, the offspring can happen to randomly roll the same mutation as a parent; the parent's mutation does not make that specific mutation more likely.