Striped dragon

What a Striped dragon looks like

Striped is a recessive pattern morph, graded Rare like every recessive morph, since it takes two copies to show.

Pattern genes each work one part of the markings, their layout, shape or amount, so Striped mixes with the other pattern genes into a pattern of its own.

Patternless hides it: a Patternless dragon can carry Striped unseen and still pass it on.

How to breed a Striped dragon

Striped is recessive: a dragon shows it only with two copies of the gene, one from each parent. With one copy it looks Normal but carries Striped hidden, a het, and passes it to half its babies.

What het means here: a baby that looks Normal from het × het carries Striped 67% of the time, so the game labels it "67% het Striped", a possible het. From het × Normal that is 50%, and every baby of a Striped × Normal is a proven het. Hets and possible hets explains how those numbers move.

To prove a possible het, pair it with a Striped. One Striped baby proves it at once. Each Normal baby lowers the chance but never to zero: after three Normal babies in a row, a 67% het Striped falls to 20%.

Where to get a Striped dragon

Striped turns up in crate dragons. In the pool of genes every crate draws from, the Striped gene comes up at a rate of 7%; the Iron Crate turns that up 2.3 times and the Lava Crate 4 times. How often a crate dragon shows any morph at all depends on the crate: 8% in the Wooden Crate, 35% in the Iron Crate and 70% in the Lava Crate.

A crate dragon that doesn't show Striped can still arrive with papers naming it as a gene it may carry hidden, at 20% to 60%. Breeding it is how you find out. What's in each crate has the rest of the odds.