Bee Mutations

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Scryptt

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I've been looking around at guides and watching some videos but cant find a straight answer. If i'm trying to move up or start a new branch, is it better to breed two pures or a pure and a hybrid, any help would be greatly appreciated.
 

AnDroid

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Update your Extra Bees and take Apiarist Database, Flora-in-a-box edition, it will show you all bees, how get it and much more :)

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haisho

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Generally best to use two pures, unless you're using two low-tier hybrids that are of the a similar type such as a Forest-Meadows with either a Meadows-Forest or Forest-Meadows.

The problem with using hybrids anywhere above commonly available bees is that they can contaminate results. For example, breeding two Forest-Commons together can result in a pure Forest, a pure Common, or move up a tier into Cultivated, not to mention any combination of aforementioned results.

EDIT: And due to the above reason about contaminating results, I confused Cultivated bees with Diligents thanks to countless attempts trying to get said Cultivated breeds by breeding Cultivated-Common with Common-X.
Hooray!
 
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DaNerd27

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Probably would want to learn some Mendelian Genetics as well to help you with your chance calculations.
 

Larroke

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Generally best to use two pures, unless you're using two low-tier hybrids that are of the a similar type such as a Forest-Meadows with either a Meadows-Forest or Forest-Meadows.

The problem with using hybrids anywhere above commonly available bees is that they can contaminate results. For example, breeding two Forest-Commons together can result in a pure Forest, a pure Common, or move up a tier into Cultivated, not to mention any combination of aforementioned results.

EDIT: And due to the above reason about contaminating results, I confused Cultivated bees with Diligents thanks to countless attempts trying to get said Cultivated breeds by breeding Cultivated-Common with Common-X.
Hooray!


To get a mutation, you in essence have to make a Hybrid (of the mutation) and THEN roll the mutation chance from my understanding. So pure/pure gives you the highest chance to get your combo since it will always have (2) sources of the mutation you want.
 

Abdiel

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If you're just hunting for new species without any spoilers, actually the best chance would be to breed an A-B bee with a C-D bee. No matter which genes cross, you will always get a hybrid bee as a result and therefore a chance for a mutation. If you know what you're looking for and you know how to get it, just mix A-A with a B-B. You'll also guarantee a mutation, but only a specific one.
 
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