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===== 2.2.2 Producing Offspring: |
===== 2.2.2 Producing Offspring: Basics ===== |
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Once the queen's lifespan is over, she will produce 0-1 princesses and 1-4 drones. The number of drones is equal to the queen's Fertility value. Pristine queens always make a princess, while Ignoble queens have a chance of not producing a new princess if their generation exceeds one hundred (+2% base chance of no princess per generation >100.) |
Once the queen's lifespan is over, she will produce 0-1 princesses and 1-4 drones. The number of drones is equal to the queen's Fertility value. Pristine queens always make a princess, while Ignoble queens have a chance of not producing a new princess if their generation exceeds one hundred (+2% base chance of no princess per generation >100.) Each bee in the new generation will get two genes for each trait, one from each parent. An identical princess/drone pair will produce identical offspring, while bees with mixed genetics will likely produce new bees that are all different mixes from each other. |
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With a large stack of identical drones (or even just 7-10 a lot of the time), it's possible to repeatedly breed with a hive/wild princess to turn it into a genetic copy of the drones, effectively cloning the previous stock or a working hive onto a new lineage. This is how multiple queens are acquired that have identical stats for mass production or further mutations. |
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* See [[#2.2.4 Producing Offspring: In Depth|Producing Offspring: In Depth]] for the actual game mechanics. |
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===== 2.2.3 Bee Traits ===== |
===== 2.2.3 Bee Traits ===== |
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