Magical gene / ground and strong white

Coccinella Marking

Red paisley over the barrel with the seven spots inside it and a cream patch at each shoulder - a seven-spot ladybird read onto whatever colour the horse already is.

What it can come out as

Outcome	Carrying
Coccinella Marking	`Ccr/Ccr` · `Ccr/Ccv` · `Ccr/n`
Coccinella, variant	`Ccv/Ccv`
Wild type	`Ccv/n` · `n/n`

How each one is actually drawn - region by region, and the layers it is built from - is on the coding tab.

Crossing two of them

Finding one

About 1 in 1,786 wild horses is born showing this. That is the whole of the supply: catch one, or make one with the carrot below. Breeds set their own pools and a breed built around this gene will carry it far more often than the wild population does.

Wild pair	Shows as	How often
`Ccr/Ccr`	Coccinella Marking	0.002% — 1 in 50,000
`Ccr/Ccv`	Coccinella Marking	0.008% — 1 in 12,500
`Ccr/n`	Coccinella Marking	0.038% — 1 in 2,632
`Ccv/Ccv`	Coccinella, variant	0.008% — 1 in 12,500
`n/n`	Wild type	99.944%

Its gene carrot

The file

common/src/main/resources/horsegenetics/genes/coccinella.json — a data-driven gene, not a Java class. It is listed in the index.json beside it and registered by Genes' class initialiser at startup.

Key	`horsegenetics.coccinella`
Phase	magical — it adds signed colour in phase 3, after the pigment has resolved
Priority	222 — where it sits in the one `(priority, key)` paint order
Alleles	`Ccr` · `Ccv` · `n`
Varies per horse	8 values drawn once off the expressing allele copy, so a foal that inherits the copy inherits the look
Built from	AXIS, RINGS, SPOTS, TOWARD

Why it is built this way

Imported from the magic-gene intake, 2026-09-08. The source placed the shoulder patches and the barrel wings with explicit x/y/z boxes. There is no box mask; two crossed AXIS bands in body units are the same thing in the vocabulary that exists, and are what the shoulder patch and the paisley clip are built from.

The paisley is a RINGS mask with arc 0.55 - a ring drawn as just over half its circumference, which comes out as a comma rather than a circle. That is the whole of what makes it paisley.

The gene used to paint the whole horse beetle-black before marking it, and the marking was designed against that black. The ground is gone (owner's call): a coat gene here is supposed to let the base coat through, and a ground makes every carrier the same animal underneath. The paisley, the spots and the shoulder patches are unchanged, so on a dark horse it reads much as it always did and on a chestnut it is a new thing.

What it paints

Each outcome, described the way the gene file describes it, and then the layers that draw it in the order they are painted. The prose is the part a reader checks a bake against; the list underneath is what the engine actually did.

Coccinella Marking

The ladybird painted onto the horse's own colour: red paisley over the barrel, the seven spots inside it, and a cream patch at each shoulder. The paisley is a ring drawn as an arc rather than a closed circle, which is what gives it the comma shape.

a cream patch at each shoulder — AXIS × AXIS, painted with TOWARD
red paisley over the barrel — RINGS × AXIS, painted with TOWARD
and the seven spots inside it — SPOTS × AXIS, painted with TOWARD

Coccinella, variant

The same ladybird in a lighter, more saturated red with paler shoulder patches - the same insect in a different season. Fully recessive.

a cream patch at each shoulder — AXIS × AXIS, painted with TOWARD
red paisley over the barrel — RINGS × AXIS, painted with TOWARD
and the seven spots inside it — SPOTS × AXIS, painted with TOWARD

Wild type

No marking.

Paints nothing.