Magical gene / mane and tail

Corvid

A head covered corner to corner in white over black, meeting on one hard curve with the ears left in the coat, black cannons over a thin white ring at the coronet, and black hair speckled white throughout.

What it can come out as

OutcomeCarrying
CorvidCvd/Cvd · Cvd/n
Wild typen/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 1,250 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 pairShows asHow often
Cvd/CvdCorvid0.004% — 1 in 25,000
Cvd/nCorvid0.076% — 1 in 1,316
n/nWild type99.92%

Its gene carrot

The file

common/src/main/resources/horsegenetics/genes/corvid.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.

Keyhorsegenetics.corvid
Phasemagical — it adds signed colour in phase 3, after the pigment has resolved
Priority407 — where it sits in the one (priority, key) paint order
AllelesCvd · n
Varies per horse2 values drawn once off the expressing allele copy, so a foal that inherits the copy inherits the look
Built fromAXIS, PARTS, SPOTS, STROKES, TOWARD

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.

Corvid

The head is covered corner to corner and the ears are not: every pixel of the face is either white or black, meeting along one hard curve, with the ears left in the coat behind them. White runs from the muzzle boundary back over the nasal bone and orbits and on to the poll - the whole length of the head - and below that line the face is black to the nostrils, taking the muzzle with it. Each leg has a white ring immediately above the hoof with black up the cannon over it, and the mane and tail are black speckled white throughout.

  1. the white field up the face — PARTS × AXIS × AXIS, painted with TOWARD
  2. the black lower head, meeting the white on one line — AXIS, painted with TOWARD
  3. the black muzzle — PARTS, painted with TOWARD
  4. black up the cannon, soft where it ends — AXIS, painted with TOWARD
  5. the white ring at the coronet — AXIS, painted with TOWARD
  6. black mane and tail — PARTS, painted with TOWARD
  7. white points through the hair — SPOTS × AXIS, painted with TOWARD
  8. a few coat-coloured streaks through the black — STROKES, painted with TOWARD

Wild type

No corvid markings.

Paints nothing.