When I look at a pet's profile, sometimes there are traits that are colored blue, green, and purple. I know that green is carried, and blue is visible, so what does purple mean?

Purple means that it has a hidden trait.

Since each trait gets one letter from each parent, the first letter you see is the 'visible' trait. For Carried traits, this is 'N' meaning nothing (or so I assume) which means nothing is visible. The second letter is the 'Hidden' trait, which is never visible, but can be passed on to offspring.

Also, be aware that 'blue' can also mean simply that the pet hasn't been tested, so the visible traits show up as 'pure' traits. That pet might still have hiddens that can be passed to offspring, but you won't know until it happens or the pet is tested, at which point the trait will turn purple and change from 'XX' to 'XY' (the x and y depending on the traits of the pet)

Just as some pets can have carried traits that aren't visible until they are tested. Until that time, the pet will just show a 'none' for that trait slot, but when the pet is genetically tested, it will then show a green carried trait 'NX'.

Ok, thanks! Another quick question, I'm getting a bit confused between carried and hidden traits. Do hidden traits ever show? Sorry for using up ur time...

No worries :)

No, hidden traits will never show on the pet they are hidden on. However, they CAN pass to offspring, and potentially become the visible trait on that pet.

So it's same as carried?

hidden (also called ressessive) traits act similarely to carried traits, you can pass them down to the offspring and, with a bit of luck and selective breeding turn them visible.

Each trait is associated with a letter, the alphabetical order decide witch trait is dominant over witch other traits. The visible trait of a ressessive slot will alwais be dominant over the second one, if you breed that pet with another pet who have the hiden as it's visible or a visible who isn't dominant over the wanted trait you increass your chances for the offspring to get that trait.

By exemple:



M1: (HI) Rainbow mechanical armor

let's say you have made yourself a themmed pet during a festival but her visible is desastrous, you notice that her carried however (II) Spring flower look realy nice tho and so you decide to try and breed a good offspring from her.

What you would nead from a male would be one of those following letters : I, J, K, L, M, O

The ideal partner would be I as it would boost the odds but the others would work as well because your wanted trat, spring flower, is dominant over them.

ok! thanks!

@Cian, I mean, the male having 'I' wouldn't make the odds any higher that an offspring would have vis Spring Flowers than if he had j-o?

@Pokebellpuff
A Carried trait and a Hidden trait are the same thing in the end:
A Carried trait is 'hidden' under nothing/ a Hidden is a carried in the same slot as a visible


Sylesti genetics work on a Punnett Square system where N (nothing) is the most dominant trait, and other traits follow in dominance down the alphabet (N > A > B > C > D > etc.)
An offspring has a 50/50 chance to inherit either of the trait letters that a parent has in each trait slot, so it gets one at random from the mother and one at random from the father, puts those together in alphabetical order, and has whichever is most dominant as the vis (or, as the case may be, the non-vis, if the more dominant is an N). The more recessive is thus the Hidden/Carried

ok! thanks!

What Scath said :)

Essentially Carried and Hidden are the same thing, as carried traits are 'hidden' by the more dominant 'N' which simply means that nothing is visible.

It can seem complicated, but really isn't.

But, essentially, through breeding, the further down the alphabet the trait is, the harder it will be to get it to show if you use any 'more dominant' (ie further up the alphabet) traits in breeding.

If you don't care about breeding (not everyone does), then it doesn't matter, as the hidden/carried trait cannot be made to be visible on that particular pet.