Magical gene / lines and strokes

Panark

Thick stripes thrown across the horse at every angle, each outlined in a bright colour and speckled inside it, with a stripe or two carrying onto the top of the head - and the ordinary speckling still going on underneath.

What it can come out as

Outcome	Carrying
Panark	`Pnk/Pnk` · `Pnk/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
`Pnk/Pnk`	Panark	0.004% — 1 in 25,000
`Pnk/n`	Panark	0.076% — 1 in 1,316
`n/n`	Wild type	99.92%

Its gene carrot

The file

common/src/main/resources/horsegenetics/genes/panark.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.panark`
Phase	magical — it adds signed colour in phase 3, after the pigment has resolved
Priority	375 — where it sits in the one `(priority, key)` paint order
Alleles	`Pnk` · `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, SPECKLE, 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.

Panark

Six to ten inches wide and going in no particular direction - some horizontal across the ribs, some diagonal over the hindquarter, some upright on the neck and legs. There is no consistent orientation and that is the point. Each stripe is bordered all the way round in a speckling colour, which is what separates a Panark from ordinary brindle, and each carries its own speckling scattered through the interior on top of the speckling the horse already has everywhere else. The hooves take the outline colour. Regular mane striping and any white pattern are both allowed.

the stripes themselves — STROKES × AXIS, painted with TOWARD
the bright outline round each one — STROKES × STROKES inverted × AXIS, painted with TOWARD
speckling scattered inside the stripes — SPECKLE × STROKES × AXIS, painted with TOWARD
hooves in the outline colour — AXIS, painted with TOWARD

Wild type

No striping.

Paints nothing.