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[WordPress] My biggest inspiration in my quest for Petz hexing

Original Post Date: 2024-07-22

A screenshot of the homepage of Intron/Exon, a Petz site devoted to genetics. The text on the page is not relevant.

Before I really got into hexing, I used to frequent a Petz 4 site called Intron/Exon, run by the lovely Kleo. That site has since gone down, but I have a handy Wayback Machine link I still use on occasion.

This site was my first introduction to the fact that the Petz games’ “genetics” are way more complicated than they have any right to be. This is a pet simulator game from the 90s and 00s, barely older than I am, and I’m like 99% sure it has more complicated programming than some modern games.

One of most helpful pages on the site was, to me, the eye colour genetics. This was how I learned that starting with green-2, aqua-6, or dark aqua-203 eyes gets you better chances of mutations!

A screenshot of Intron/Exon showing two images. The first is the ranges of eyecolours that are possible. Of note is the colours and numbers: green-2, aqua-6, the grey-20s, the cherry-50s, the ginger-60s, pink-75, the brown-90s, the sandy-100s, the steel-110s, the dusty-120s, the green-130s, blue-170 and 172, slothy-173 and 174, blue-175 through 179, dark aqua-203, and black-244. The second image is the eye colours the site owner, Kleo, had gotten naturally. The only useful contextual thing about the eyes Kleo has gotten is that pink-75 and black-244 are missing, as Ivy has gotten those naturally before. The text on the page is not relevant.

Other useful things I learned from this site:

That heterochromia in Petz exists. In all my years of playing it I never noticed that before.
That Petz always uses the right eye (the one on the left from our view) as the basis for eye colour inheritance. In other words, heterochromia isn’t inheritable.
That Petz, aside from the obvious of both parents, also uses one grandparent that can provide genetic info.
That you can only have two types of paintball markings at a time, for example spots and a snout patch.
That there is a value in a dog’s file that can make them trot!

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