🐴 Base Colors

EquestriCraft Color Genetics Guide 

 EquestriCraft's genetics system is based heavily on real horse coat color genetics, with a few simplifications made for our audience. Most colors, dilutions, patterns, and breeding outcomes follow real world inheritance, while some areas have been simplified to provide more variety and easier gameplay. 

 When breeding, foals inherit genes from both parents. Some genes are dominant and only require one copy to be visible, while others are recessive and require two copies. This guide explains how colors are created, how they pass to foals, and what combinations are possible within EquestriCraft. 

 

 Base Coat Genetics 

 All horse colors begin with two primary genes: 

 Extension (E) 

 Controls whether a horse can produce black pigment. 

 

 

 

 

 

 Genotype 

 Result 

 

 

 

 

 E/E 

 Black pigment possible 

 

 

 E/e 

 Black pigment possible 

 

 

 e/e 

 Chestnut 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Agouti (A) 

 Controls where black pigment is placed. 

 

 

 

 

 

 Genotype 

 Result 

 

 

 

 

 A/A 

 Bay 

 

 

 A/a 

 Bay 

 

 

 a/a 

 Black 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Base Colours 

 

 

 

 

 

 Genotype 

 Colour 

 

 

 

 

 E/_ A/_ 

 Bay 

 

 

 E/_ a/a 

 Black 

 

 

 e/e 

 Chestnut 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Bay Variations 

 EquestriCraft simplifies bay shade genetics, any bay horse may randomly generate as: 

 

 Standard Bay 

 

 

 Blood Bay 

 

 

 Dark Bay 

 

 

 Seal Bay 

 

 

 Mahogany Bay 

 

 

 Chestnut Variations 

 Standard Chestnut 

 

 

 Sandy Chestnut 

 

 

 Red Chestnut  

 

 

 Dark Chestnut