Magical gene / fields and regions

Goth

A soft-edged hood along the crest of the neck and over the ears - darker than the coat with one copy, greyed out to near-white with two.

What it can come out as

Outcome	Carrying
Goth, greyed	`Gth/Gth`
Goth	`Gth/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 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 pair	Shows as	How often
`Gth/Gth`	Goth, greyed	0.004% — 1 in 25,000
`Gth/n`	Goth	0.076% — 1 in 1,316
`n/n`	Wild type	99.92%

Its gene carrot

The file

common/src/main/resources/horsegenetics/genes/goth.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.goth`
Phase	magical — it adds signed colour in phase 3, after the pigment has resolved
Priority	251 — where it sits in the one `(priority, key)` paint order
Alleles	`Gth` · `n`
Varies per horse	3 values drawn once off the expressing allele copy, so a foal that inherits the copy inherits the look
Built from	AXIS, NOISE, 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.

Goth, greyed

Two copies take the hood the other way: instead of going darker it depigments, and the same crest and ears end up light grey to white. It shows on every base, black included, which the darker form cannot. Either way it lies along the top and upper side of the neck, stops well above the throat, and does not reach the face.

the hood, depigmented — AXIS × AXIS × NOISE, painted with TOWARD

Goth

A hood a shade or several below the coat, running along the top of the neck from the poll back toward the withers, and taking the ears with it. It follows the crest rather than wrapping the neck - down the upper side and no further, never onto the throat - and it stays off the face entirely. The edge is soft on every horse; whether it runs as a smooth curve or a tattered one varies. There is nothing darker than black, so a black horse carrying one copy shows nothing at all.

the hood, darker than the coat — AXIS × AXIS × NOISE, painted with TOWARD

Wild type

No hood.

Paints nothing.