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[Grub]

For example, if a father has one color of hair, and the mother has another color of hair, does the game factor in the possibility of the child's hair color being influenced by them? Or does it just pick a random hair color?

[Stargrasper]

Knowing Toady, I'd say there's a very good likelihood of it.  Unfortunately, I don't know that anyone's tested it at all.  Why don't you take up the mantle and let the rest of us know?

[AncientEnemy]

afaik with this new version and the addition of physical traits, children (and baby animals) do inherit physical traits based on their parents. I haven't seen any specifically documented cases of it yet but I know Toady has said that it's part of this update for awhile.

[Grub]

afaik with this new version and the addition of physical traits, children (and baby animals) do inherit physical traits based on their parents.

Ah, very interesting. Thanks.

[Deathworks]

Hi!

In my last 31.01 fortress which has since been deleted, one of my cat lovers got married. I think all their children liked cats, making cat adoptions spread through the entire family. That is definitely a deviation from the norm of dwarves who otherwise have many different likes.

I am also currently trying some breeding with my black bears, going for gigantic and muscular or gigantic and fat. The results are promising, but then again, I don't know how the distribution would normally be (and I still get normal ones at times).

Deathworks

[gtmattz]

I haven't done any research with dorfs yet, but horses and dogs definitely pass traits to their offspring.

[Pillow_Killer]

Confirming, I have been succesfully creating cow breeding system, which made cow appearance oscil;late between parents until settling to one, and continuing forever. They also seem to pass on traits such as size and strength, but not fatness.

[Fearless Son]

I wonder, for the purposes of breeding offspring, does this affect how many parts one gets when one butchers an animal?  Will an animal bred to be larger with more muscles or fat produce more meat or fat when it is slaughtered than another member of the same species who has been bred to be smaller and leaner? 

Also, do these traits affect pricing on trading livestock?  For example, could one set up a horse breeding program and sell high quality horses to traders for high profits? 

[AncientEnemy]

I wonder, for the purposes of breeding offspring, does this affect how many parts one gets when one butchers an animal?  Will an animal bred to be larger with more muscles or fat produce more meat or fat when it is slaughtered than another member of the same species who has been bred to be smaller and leaner? 

that's actually a good question, It doesn't seem outside the realm of possibility that toady actually attached some modifiers to the size descriptions that'd do this. someone needs to get a-testin

Also, do these traits affect pricing on trading livestock?  For example, could one set up a horse breeding program and sell high quality horses to traders for high profits? 

from one antecdotal experience of mine, I don't think this is the case. I ordered nothing but cows from my first dwarven caravan, and they brought six, which were a grab-bag of different traits. the price differences between each were all within like 60*, which i think was probably just because the cages were of assorted metals/qualities.

Although you could still do a decent trade in animals, just for fun. the cows were worth ~650* a pop. sure, there are easier ways to make money but it'd be neat.

[G-Flex]

Appearance modifiers get passed on, including tallness/broadness/length, and those three influence creature size.

I'm not sure about attributes, though. I don't know if Toady's said one way or the other.

[Pillow_Killer]

Size and muscles, do indeed increase amount of yield significantly: THe more muscular they got, the more meat was gathered. I'm getting around 55-60 meat per pop, whereas butchering their weaker, smaller brethen yields only 15-20. Fat only affects the, well, amount of fat extracted from the creature, and size... size is weird. Im, right now, getting 6-7 lungs and around 15 hooves from big cows and bulls. Same thing goes with other bodyparts. Probably a bug, but an awesome one.

[Cal]

getting 6-7 lungs and around 15 hooves from big cows and bulls. Same thing goes with other bodyparts. Probably a bug, but an awesome one.

One would assume that this is a feature, you're getting 6-7 chunks of lung. Average sized cows have 2 chunks of lung, your super-sized cows have 3 times as much, the same for the 15 pieces of hoof!

[Fearless Son]

One would assume that this is a feature, you're getting 6-7 chunks of lung. Average sized cows have 2 chunks of lung, your super-sized cows have 3 times as much, the same for the 15 pieces of hoof!

Okay, that makes sense.  How the heck could a cow have three lungs and fifteen hoofs, unless it was some sort of mutant cow? 

Huh, anyone wonder if Toady put a small amount of mutation into the breeding subroutines?  We could get some... interesting results from such a feature. 

[Starver]

Huh, anyone wonder if Toady put a small amount of mutation into the breeding subroutines?  We could get some... interesting results from such a feature. 

Hmmm... and what about tethering animals near pitchblende deposits (or similar...)

[Sphalerite]

Urist mcBreeder has created NatureFreak, a five-humped camel!