Magical gene / colour modifiers
Voided
Every white the horse would have had comes out black instead - the same markings, the same edges, the opposite pigment, and as black as it will go.
What it can come out as
| Outcome | Carrying |
|---|---|
| Voided | Vd/Vd · Vd/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 |
|---|---|---|
Vd/Vd | Voided | 0.004% — 1 in 25,000 |
Vd/n | Voided | 0.076% — 1 in 1,316 |
n/n | Wild type | 99.92% |
Its gene carrot
The file
common/src/main/resources/horsegenetics/genes/voided.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.voided |
|---|---|
| Phase | magical — it adds signed colour in phase 3, after the pigment has resolved |
| Priority | 610 — where it sits in the one (priority, key) paint order |
| Alleles | Vd · n |
| Varies per horse | no — every horse carrying it looks the same |
| Built from | LUMA, 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.
Voided
It changes no pattern and no boundary: whatever white the horse's other genes drew - a snip, a sock, a full tobiano - comes out as black hyperpigmentation of exactly the same shape, with the same hard or roaned edge the source pattern had. Mane and tail follow the same rule. It goes as black as the coat will take, every time and on every horse: there is no pale version of this and nothing about it varies, which is what lets two voided horses with the same markings be the same horse.
- the white regions, blackened —
LUMA, painted withTOWARD
Wild type
White stays white.
Paints nothing.