2.7 Puppy coat inheritance chart

[Frodo1]

I love how I had a dark coated mate and a light coated wolf which I gave a more brownish tint (with the extra color-change addition). They got four pups, two pups that had the brown color like mt wolf and two pups which had my wolf's original light coat color! No pups looked like the mate. It was so weird to see, but also so cool. o:

Oooh, that sounds really cool! If you post screenies, let me know- I'd love to see

How neat - a really good topic! Is there any sort of 'dominance' in terms of what pelt is inherited (i.e. O pelts being more common than LC, etc), and are the tints generated depending on how far to the left/right both parent's tints are? O: I really wanna know how it works, haha.

Heh, I didn't do that in-depth of testing- but if anyone does and has data from it, I'd love to see!

[Dorken]

How neat - a really good topic! Is there any sort of 'dominance' in terms of what pelt is inherited (i.e. O pelts being more common than LC, etc), and are the tints generated depending on how far to the left/right both parent's tints are? O: I really wanna know how it works, haha.

In 2.5, the main colour of a puppy's coat was determined by how many experience points you had. The more you had, the more likely you were to have puppies that looked like you. The less you had, the more likely you were to have puppies that looked like your mate. From what I've seen so far in 2.7, this still applies, just with lower levels of experience points since they're more of a challenge to obtain these days. Think of it as reverse inflation lol
Puppies are tinted to match the player's tints. They don't match your mate's tints so far as I know because mates are not really tinted (i.e. their tints are the defaults) and therefore don't affect anything.

[rowantobias]

How neat - a really good topic! Is there any sort of 'dominance' in terms of what pelt is inherited (i.e. O pelts being more common than LC, etc), and are the tints generated depending on how far to the left/right both parent's tints are? O: I really wanna know how it works, haha.

In 2.5, the main colour of a puppy's coat was determined by how many experience points you had. The more you had, the more likely you were to have puppies that looked like you. The less you had, the more likely you were to have puppies that looked like your mate. From what I've seen so far in 2.7, this still applies, just with lower levels of experience points since they're more of a challenge to obtain these days. Think of it as reverse inflation lol
Puppies are tinted to match the player's tints. They don't match your mate's tints so far as I know because mates are not really tinted (i.e. their tints are the defaults) and therefore don't affect anything.

RE: the first part, how neat! I had no idea.

With the second bit, for some reason I had thought that the pup tint would be taken from somewhere between your tint and your mate's - whatever's between the two points O: I guess that's not it, though!

[Jeames]

I love how I had a dark coated mate and a light coated wolf which I gave a more brownish tint (with the extra color-change addition). They got four pups, two pups that had the brown color like mt wolf and two pups which had my wolf's original light coat color! No pups looked like the mate. It was so weird to see, but also so cool. o:

Oooh, that sounds really cool! If you post screenies, let me know- I'd love to see :)

Here it is (picture is on spoiler because it's quite big...):
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You can see my male is brown with a darker brown head, that's because I took the white wolf coat with the brown head markings for him and made them more brown. So on the left side you see the brown pup, completely based off of my wolf's coat color, while on the right side you can see a light colored pup which actually has my wolf's original coat color, the one you can choose before making it darker or browner colored.
And the other two pups are also brown and that light color, though I could not get them into the picture. But no pup looks like my mate (in the middle) as you can see. xD
It's so weird, but so cool at the same time.

[SilkenGalaxy]

I love how I had a dark coated mate and a light coated wolf which I gave a more brownish tint (with the extra color-change addition). They got four pups, two pups that had the brown color like mt wolf and two pups which had my wolf's original light coat color! No pups looked like the mate. It was so weird to see, but also so cool. o:

Oooh, that sounds really cool! If you post screenies, let me know- I'd love to see

Here it is (picture is on spoiler because it's quite big...):
(Open in other tab for full view, because the white-ish pup doesn't show in the spoiler picture)

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You can see my male is brown with a darker brown head, that's because I took the white wolf coat with the brown head markings for him and made them more brown. So on the left side you see the brown pup, completely based off of my wolf's coat color, while on the right side you can see a light colored pup which actually has my wolf's original coat color, the one you can choose before making it darker or browner colored.
And the other two pups are also brown and that light color, though I could not get them into the picture. But no pup looks like my mate (in the middle) as you can see. xD
It's so weird, but so cool at the same time.

Wow, quite interesting! Can't wait to get in game and try this stuff out myself!

[Koa]

This is really neat! Normally I'd put this in User Guides, but I think the active discussion here is helpful. Thanks for sharing.

[Dorken]

I love how I had a dark coated mate and a light coated wolf which I gave a more brownish tint (with the extra color-change addition). They got four pups, two pups that had the brown color like mt wolf and two pups which had my wolf's original light coat color! No pups looked like the mate. It was so weird to see, but also so cool. o:

Oooh, that sounds really cool! If you post screenies, let me know- I'd love to see

Here it is (picture is on spoiler because it's quite big...):
(Open in other tab for full view, because the white-ish pup doesn't show in the spoiler picture)

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You can see my male is brown with a darker brown head, that's because I took the white wolf coat with the brown head markings for him and made them more brown. So on the left side you see the brown pup, completely based off of my wolf's coat color, while on the right side you can see a light colored pup which actually has my wolf's original coat color, the one you can choose before making it darker or browner colored.
And the other two pups are also brown and that light color, though I could not get them into the picture. But no pup looks like my mate (in the middle) as you can see. xD
It's so weird, but so cool at the same time.

I actually believe that the puppy does resemble your mate, just when it was a puppy. Not every puppy connected with a new coat has a unique texture, and it looks like the puppy version of your wolf and the puppy version of your mate are coincidentally the same! I made a little reference yesterday, and that looks to be the case? Check these out for your coat colour and your mate's and what they looked like as puppies:
Sometimes puppies look nothing like their adult counterparts. The blonde puppy that comes from the solid grey of the Blacktail Deer Plateau pack is a good example of this.
Your mate resembles the third one down in the Blacktail Deer Plateau pack, if a bit greyer.

[Jeames]

I'm going to make some of my RP characters in game now and see what kind of coat colors their pups will have. >D
I'm so excited to mess around with this~

I actually believe that the puppy does resemble your mate, just when it was a puppy. Not every puppy connected with a new coat has a unique texture, and it looks like the puppy version of your wolf and the puppy version of your mate are coincidentally the same! I made a little reference yesterday, and that looks to be the case? Check these out for your coat colour and your mate's and what they looked like as puppies:
Sometimes puppies look nothing like their adult counterparts. The blonde puppy that comes from the solid grey of the Blacktail Deer Plateau pack is a good example of this.
Your mate resembles the third one down in the Blacktail Deer Plateau pack, if a bit greyer.

I see. That would actually make more sense. I'm gonna mess around with it more.

[SilverMatrix]

This is cool :D I'll be bookmarking this.

[Nor-easter Forecast]

Okay, explain to me this...

I have a wolf whose fur is a slightly red-tinted LC-2. Her mate is BDP-1. I have two puppies that look like the ones who go with LC-2.

I also have two black puppies with red tints.

Apparently the WQ coding also deals with recessive genes because according to your chart all my pups should be some variety of brown. Both the LC-2 and the BDP-1 must carry recessive black genes, thus resulting in black puppies when crossed. All the pups also acquired my wolf's red tints.

This is a lot more complicated than I originally thought!

[Dorken]

Okay, explain to me this...

I have a wolf whose fur is a slightly red-tinted LC-2. Her mate is BDP-1. I have two puppies that look like the ones who go with LC-2.

I also have two black puppies with red tints.

Apparently the WQ coding also deals with recessive genes because according to your chart all my pups should be some variety of brown. Both the LC-2 and the BDP-1 must carry recessive black genes, thus resulting in black puppies when crossed. All the pups also acquired my wolf's red tints.

This is a lot more complicated than I originally thought!

I believe I've heard in the past that it is possible for a couple of pups to be a totally different colour then either your mate or yourself, which was explained in 2.5 as them taking on the appearance of a recent ancestor like their grandparents. Perhaps that was the case? Things just got more complicated lol
I'd love to seen screenies of your pack, btw, since your pups sound really interesting!
I feel like there may be a lot of things we'll have to figure out about what I'm sure are new additions to the "genetics" of 2.7. Time to have as many puppies as possible! For science!

[Frodo1]

Wow! You guys have turned up a substantial amount of additional info! When more than one wolf comes into play, things certainly get a lot more complicated O.o
In that case, I wonder if there's a system to what coats enter the pool for your wolves' ancestors- and if so, how is that defined? This is definitely something worth investigating!
I must confess, I didn't think this pic would spark so much speculation and additional experimentation! You guys totally took this and ran with it- which is awesome! I look forward to hearing what else you guys come up with!

[SolitaryHowl]

I don't think it is based off of real genetics, that would make it very complicated for the Team to program it all in. But this is good enough!

I never knew the tints of your wolves mattered, but apparently it does! Interesting...

[Dorken]

I wonder if there's a system to what coats enter the pool for your wolves' ancestors- and if so, how is that defined?

I've been wondering that, too. Like Solitary said, it'd be extremely difficult for the team to program in totally realistic genetics, so maybe some things are just sort of random? I believe which puppies look most like you and which look most like your mate are still based on how much EXP you have, but if you can have puppies that resemble an ancestor, are they randomly selected and randomly given a colour? It'll probably be a long while until we have enough experiences to hear about before we get a good grip on all of this.

I'm also glad the topic has garnered so much attention and discussion! It's a very interesting topic.

[Azuris]

This is a really cool chart! However im wondering if the pup's color coat can be inherited from getting a mate in Singleplayer since it's complicated when both wolves have a different coat color...

And another question(if anyone can answer this ._.)
On Multiplayer where you can play with other players to raise the pups, does the coat inherit from anyone?(besides our wolf character we made) because some times whenever i play the Multiplayer version, it looks like the wolf i created, about 1 or 2 pups looks like it... While some times they look completely different

So if anyone can answer the question above, thank you so much