Colors/Textures
The fur texture will inherit along with the general color pattern. You will not, for example, be able to have a calico cat with maine coon texture. The additional spots on the calico can inherit separately and will look like chips of color over top of the maine coon texture.
Petz cannot inherit all colors. There are only ten colors that inherit correctly all or most of the time, and these are the only colors that a pet can mutate to (a mutation is when a pet has a color different from either parent). These colors are white, black, gray, silver (bluish gray), chocolate, reddish brown, orange, tan, cream, and dusty. Sometimes reds and pinks will pass to offspring but not always, and petz will not mutate to these colors.
The "default' color for petz is white. A pet that has parents of a color other than those ten will end up white. For instance, breeding two pink elephants will have white offspring. You will notice that eye and nose colors do not mutate or turn white, despite unusual colors. This is because of the "group" they are in. Groups can be edited very simply by hexers.
The pattern of color inherited all has to do with groups (this is a hexing term and can be seen in the breed file codes). In B&W shorthairs, the feet are in a different group from the body. In calicos, various body parts are in different groups, so calico offspring can have a variety of color combos.
Parts that do not mutate, such as noses and pupils, are set in group -1, which allows them to pass on without mutation and regardless of having a color other than the usual ten. Hexers can take advantage of this for use in claws, horns, and other parts that should not mutate. In VPZ Ratz, the tail, ears, and feet are in group -1 and will not mutate or inherit white. You can tell which features are set to -1 (not mutating) by whether or not they can be painted with the paintbrush toy. Feet pads, noses, whiskers, eyes, and the insides of catz ears are all like this.
Markings such as chest patches and spots do not mutate. They are made with "paint balls" (hexing term). Hexers use paint balls to make tatoos, markings, and many other features.
Tabby stripes do not mutate either. This is because they are made by using a fur texture. In Petz, some fur textures simply show a fuzziness in a given color (like alley catz, persions, poodles), some allow the color underneath to show through (like maine coons and tabbies), and some mask the underneath color entirely (like egyptian maus and desert lynx). Most hexed breedz that are textured have this last type of fur file.
Because of the nature of their fur files, the inheritable colors of many catz breedz are hidden or obscured. Here's what they really are underneath the texture:
Orange Shorthair
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orange
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Maine Coon
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tan
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Tabby
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orange
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Honey Bear
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tan
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Egyprian Mau
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silver
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Desert Lynx
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reddish brown
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Scottish Fold
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orange
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Petz with missing limbs or other ommissions can still pass the colors of these parts to offspring. There is no way to know what these colors are without looking at the file codes or breeding the pet. Petz with addball tails, for example, pass the color of their true (ommitted) tail not the addball one if they are bred to a pet and have offspring with true tails. A hexer that is really on the ball can make it so the ommitted parts are the same colors as the ones they've added to replace them.
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