Breeding
Deciding to breed your volucre is a huge decision! Only the best volucre get to breed, and breeding is strictly monitored by the Hatchery Masters to ensure quality and performance.
Breeding Inspection
The first step to breeding your volucre is making sure they are up to the species' strict standards. In order to preserve the species for generations to come, the Hatchery Masters control which volucre are allowed to pass their genes on to future chicks. In the wild, volucre must meet the standards set by their flock in order to acquire a prospective mate.
To ensure quality in the breed, your volucre must be at least confirmed manned rank and must complete the below prompt in order to pass inspection:
Both tame and wild volucre must meet rigorous standards in order to pass on their genes. Depict your volucre's best features at work. Do they have a beautifully built conformation? Are they an extremely successful hunter? Do they have flourishing movements in flight, or do they use their wits in a creative way to solve problems?
Prompt Requirements:
Fullbody, colored, and shaded with a simple scenic background at minimum. Literature entries need to be 1000 words minimum.
Artwork and literature must meet the art standards.
Handler or companion volucre must be present. You need someone to show off to!
While you can complete this prompt for your volucre at any time, they must be at least manned rank to submit the prompt for approval.
If you are ready to submit an inspection prompt, please fill out the form below and comment here.
Breeding Approvals
In order to breed two volucre, you must first have breeding approval. Approval is automatically given if you are using your own volucre, but if you wish to find new blood for your flock, you will need to use volucre owned by other sources: either other players or the group starters.
Breeding Approval Rules:
If you do not own the volucre, you must have permission in the form of a breeding approval before submitting your breeding request.
As an owner, you cannot write slots to a volucre that it does not have. This includes promising slots to a volucre who does not have their breeding inspection or the proper rank, unless the slots are in exchange for the rank up/inspection prompt.
As an owner, cannot dictate what happens to the clutch. Any resulting genos belong to the player you wrote breeding permission to. You can only dictate if the slot can be sold/traded, if you need to be tagged in the breeding, or what items can or cannot be used on the breeding itself.
Do not attempt to cheat the monthly slot limit by writing slots with the intent that the clutch get transferred back to you in full without compensation.
Breeding slots do not expire and can only be used once.
You cannot write out a slot to a volucre that you own. This is to prevent previous owners "saving" slots to volucre they intend to sell.
Slot permission can only be written up to 3 slots per comment.
You must keep track of your own slot permissions.
If you wish to write a breeding approval, please fill out the form below and comment here.
Breeding Requests
Once you have acquired the proper permissions and/or inspection prompts, you can now breed your volucre!
Breeding Request Rules:
You may submit two full breedings a month. You can also submit one split breeding, between you and another player, per month, for a grant total of three breedings.
If you intend to split a breeding, you must tag the other player in the split. Split breedings can also indicate who gets first pick of the clutch. Once the clutch is rolled, either split partner must indicate who owns which geno in the comments.
Make sure all your links are working before submitting. Eclipse can be nasty with links, so we recommend you type out a word (like HERE, or LINK) and hyperlink your link to it.
Please hyperlink the names of the volucre breeding and include the number. (Example: Volucre 001 x Bird 002). Including images will result in you requiring a repost.
Make sure every bonus is listed in your request, otherwise it will not be counted.
The volucre must be uploaded with the proper rank and prompts both completed and approved before they can participate in breeding.
You must either be the owner of the volucre or have permission to breed.
Inbreeding, even intentional, is not allowed. Inbred pairings will not be rolled and will require a repost.
All items used must be in the cache.
Failure to not comply with these rules will result in your breeding requiring a repost, delaying your results!
Breeding requests will be rolled in this roller here.
If you wish to write a breeding request, please fill out the form below and comment here.
Pass Rates
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