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Randomized animal traits and breeding

I think animals should spawn with randomized sizes both overall and to its body-parts.
A cow for instance could have longer legs, a larger head or a really short body.
Besides variation, where this gets really interesting is with breeding. If you pick out 2 cows, both with large heads and breed them, there is a large chance the baby will inherit this trait.
Over time you would breed animals with wildly different proportions.
This could be extended to any trait like coloration.
You could breed really good horses, personalized dogs, really fat pigs that might give you more meat etc.
This would make breeding more involved and fun to experiment with, and perhaps even educational on how genes works and are inherited, and how guided evolution has given us companions in the form of our dogs and cats.

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• January 05, 2021 04:08
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  • February 14, 2021 17:49
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  Yes, horse breeding and more recently pandas breeding indroduced something like inheritable genetic traits.

  Breeding would be more fun and also eductionnal if some simple genetic traits were introduced for the other animals.

  Maybe some traits like 'ridable' (true or false for sufficiently big animals), size (lifepoints, armor, food droped) , agressivity (the animal fights back when attacked), growth (speed of growth), 'libido' (time between 2 consecutive reproductions), color (color of wool or leather dropped)