Phase 3: Feed it and Breed it
TLDR: Sweet Sweet Lovin’ - Designer Pets
So of course, if we’re taming, training, and raising animals why not breed them for stats and/or color combinations.
Maybe I want a super swift pink and orange Cuttle Trunk named “Sherbet” that flies around harvesting sweet beans while I’m farming deco Oortian Staff plants. Because why wouldn’t I?
So breeding would be similar to how Dendrology works (see my other recent suggestion). Or for new readers - Similar maybe to how goo farming works?
Pets would have a stat allocation for those combat based skills, as well as wild or trained epic skills like Frost Nova and Stealth. They’d also have certain color combinations depending on the planet they were tamed. We could mix and match until we get what we want.
Once a pet is fully trained and fed a special aphrodisiac (refined, mixed and cooked) they enter “Love Mode” and we can put two of them together (Gender optional) to gestate and produce an offspring. The offspring’s resulting combat stats would be determined by an algorithm that considers the parents base stats and trained stats in that category. For example:
- Parent A has 100 trained vitality with a 120 vitality cap. Parent B has 50 vitality with a 170 vitality cap. Child end up with 75 base vitality with 145 Vitality cap. So the child starts with higher-than-wild base vitality and could potentially reach higher trained vitality than Parent A.
This means that each successive generation could be modified to produce unique higher base stats than any wild-caught animal. Obviously there has to be a true cap on stats, or a total stat pool not to exceed 700 points so that you don’t end up with obscene values.
Additionally - Because super complex is the name of the game aphrodisiac foods could affect breeding chance, gestation/egg hatching time, provide stat boost to child, or affect color outcomes. Which brings us to color.
Depending on how many color zones the animal has there’s 50/50 chance the offspring would be one of the parent colors in that zone or Y% chance the child’s colors would mutate one shade/tone on the color chart - Like goo (or trees 
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With this we could isolate certain color combinations to create a guild branded army of monster pets to take over the world(s)! Or to create gaggles of cute and cuddly “Sherbet” Trunks to mass harvest surface materials.
Other than the obvious buy/sell/trade pets for coin - there are also other economic stimulus boosts like med kits, additional machines, pet foods, aphrodisiacs, and Rare pet stud farms for breeding.
I could go on but I think I’ve already written enough. Like, Share, and comment below and let’s nerd out on #Husbandry!