Magical gene / fields and regions

Flametouched

Fire on the horse - stylised flames licking up the legs and face with one copy, or a smooth ember gradient over the topline, face, hair and hooves with two. Never both on one horse.

What it can come out as

Outcome	Carrying
Flametouched, gradient	`Ffm/Ffm`
Flametouched, flames	`Ffm/n`
Wild type	`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 2,500 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
`Ffm/Ffm`	Flametouched, gradient	0.002% — 1 in 50,000
`Ffm/n`	Flametouched, flames	0.038% — 1 in 2,632
`n/n`	Wild type	99.96%

Its gene carrot

The file

common/src/main/resources/horsegenetics/genes/flametouched.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.flametouched`
Phase	magical — it adds signed colour in phase 3, after the pigment has resolved
Priority	272 — where it sits in the one `(priority, key)` paint order
Alleles	`Ffm` · `n`
Varies per horse	4 values drawn once off the expressing allele copy, so a foal that inherits the copy inherits the look
Built from	AXIS, PARTS, RAMP, STROKES

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.

Flametouched, gradient

The gradient form: shading over the topline, the face, the hooves and the mane and tail, running smoothly through two or three colours from ember to flame. It is the only form allowed to touch the topline. Up to half the horse. It sets nothing on fire.

shading over the topline — AXIS, painted with RAMP
the face, the hair and the hooves — PARTS × AXIS, painted with RAMP

Flametouched, flames

The flame form: stylised tongues of fire climbing all four legs and a marking across the face, in two or three colours, with the tips brightest. It never touches the topline and never shows over white. It also sets nothing on fire.

flames climbing the legs — STROKES × AXIS, painted with RAMP
a flame marking across the face — STROKES, painted with RAMP

Wild type

Unlit.

Paints nothing.