Recessive Trait Bug

[Nessie_0001]

My sister was making a new tribe with custom genetics in sandbox mode. She picked the “show possible nicheling” option and it switched several of the nicheling’s dominant and recessive genes. She checked her other nicheling and the same showed for them. She then checked to see if it still did this when she started the tribe and it did. 

[Kattails]

This has happened to me several times now in the new patch as well. 

[Sky]

It probably switched because the gene that was supposed to be recessive is dominant over the trait that was supposed to be dominant, so when it generated the animal it fixed the dominance to the way it should be (the way it is normally). Thus, this is not a bug, unless the gene that switched to dominant isn't supposed to be dominant. What genes were they?

[Nessie_0001]

42 minutes ago, Skysplash8 said:

It probably switched because the gene that was supposed to be recessive is dominant over the trait that was supposed to be dominant, so when it generated the animal it fixed the dominance to the way it should be (the way it is normally). Thus, this is not a bug, unless the gene that switched to dominant isn't supposed to be dominant. What genes were they?

I think one pair that got mixed up was the saber tooth and bat heads, another pair was bearyena and purrsnout, and the last were the big and lean bodies.

[bannergirl411]

This was happening to me also. I ended up putting the gene I wanted to be dominant in both slots to force it to generate correctly.

[Sky]

20 hours ago, Nessie_0001 said:

I think one pair that got mixed up was the saber tooth and bat heads, another pair was bearyena and purrsnout, and the last were the big and lean bodies.

which ones were the ones that were put in the recessive slot, but switched to the dominant spot?

[Robb Plat]

On 3/4/2019 at 3:22 PM, Nessie_0001 said:

My sister was making a new tribe with custom genetics in sandbox mode. She picked the “show possible nicheling” option and it switched several of the nicheling’s dominant and recessive genes. She checked her other nicheling and the same showed for them. She then checked to see if it still did this when she started the tribe and it did. 

Depending on the genes you and your sister picked, they many have different dominant/recessive interactions that you anticipated. Similar to what SkySpash said...

On 3/4/2019 at 6:26 PM, Skysplash8 said:

It probably switched because the gene that was supposed to be recessive is dominant over the trait that was supposed to be dominant, so when it generated the animal it fixed the dominance to the way it should be (the way it is normally). Thus, this is not a bug, unless the gene that switched to dominant isn't supposed to be dominant. What genes were they?

The Nichelings that are generated are based on the genes you picked, and their interaction with the other gene for the same trait. If you put sabertooth fangs and poison fangs, poison fangs will be the Nicheling's characteristic because poison fangs are dominant over sabertooth fangs.