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Mendel

Chill sandbox for growing weird plants from alien genetics. · By OwenTheBell

Most complex/colorful flowers you've grown?

A topic by Mel created Jun 24, 2020 Views: 992 Replies: 12
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I'm constantly amazed at the variety of plants the game generates. I've *almost* managed a full rainbow bloom one of my plants, and a variety of split black/color blooms as well.

 

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Hi! I've been playing for a while now (this is addictive). Here's the most crazy thing I've created. Also, I've been trying to get that black color in other plants (I only have one with it) and can't do it! It's good to know that it's possible though.

Best way to get a repeat color is to match up two blossoms from that plant (prolly multiple times- it'll mutate a bit each time) then just crossing it with other plant offshoots/hybrids repeatedly. It look me like about 8-10 plants before I got it reliably.

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These neon green/gold/reddish ones so far have been my biggest surprise. I'm not even sure how I got it XD

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These are really beautiful. Back when I was working on Mendel and taking it around to show at different festivals, one of my favorites parts was seeing all the flowers that people would make that even, I as the developer, had never been able to produce. Seeing people do that again is really special.

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This really is the first game of this sort that has really scratched a curiosity itch that no other game has managed. I keep going back to see what else I can come up with. Thank you for this!

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I have a few new hybrids and discovered a ton of new random blooms all over the island today. Some are just from areas where I dropped flowers off a few play sessions ago, and didn't get back to until today.

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I've got some rainbow-y flowers. Have no clue how to get black though, those look stunning. The coolest thing about these kinda rainbow-y flowers  (first image) is that I got them completely accidentally just breeding this pretty red plant. The long flowers with just one leaf (second image) were bred much more intentionally; after getting that rainbow stalk I wanted to complete it with a blue leaf

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Those are sweet looking. IIRC, to get the black, I kept crossbreeding flowers of opposite colors, like in that screencap, I'd take a bunch of the ones in front, and breed with the blue green near the back. Let's say they're plants A and B. I'd breed at least two sets of A+B, and 2 sets of B+A. I'd pay attention to the offspring that were darker, and breed those, then add maybe a drab orange or a dark red. I just kept crossing on that route, alternated between reds, greens and blues till a black popped up. A lot of work but it was worth it.

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I've just started playing, and this is the first creation I'm really happy with.
Looking at one of the natural hybrids I got after a couple of days, I might be able to get a black stem, or black in the gradient, will update when I get more progress

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This is my latest WOW plant, one of which was a random color offspring when I started up the game today.

It's not particularly complex but I appreciated it showing up in my breeding attempts, surprising me with six blossoms on a stem that rolled a 19 on its stealth check

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I love this game...! here are some of my favorites so far