How breeding works
Breeding unlocks at level 19 with the Breeding Farm (2 Technology Points; 100 Wood, 20 Stone, 50 Fiber). Assign one male and one female Pal, supply one cake per egg, and collect the egg for an incubator. Cross-species breeding is the norm, and the child species is decided by a hidden number.
Breeding power
Every species carries a hidden breeding power value. When two Pals breed, the game averages the parents' two values, and the child is the species whose own value sits closest to that average (ties resolve by the game's internal species order). Lower values correspond to rarer, stronger Pals.
Two practical consequences follow. First, specific parents don't matter — their numbers do: any two parents whose values average to the same point produce the same child, which is why a cheap pair can often substitute for an expensive one. Second, you can never reach the extreme ends of the scale by averaging, which is why the very top endgame Pals and the very bottom starters have so few valid routes (see Rare combos).
Tie-breaking (field-verified): when two species sit exactly the same distance from the parents' average, 1.0 resolves the tie toward the species with the higher breeding-power value. This was confirmed by controlled in-game tests on this site's own breeding farms (Majex + Warsect → Starryon twice, and Lamball + Lifmunk → Mau), and it differs from the rule most Early Access-era calculators inherited — roughly a quarter of all pairings are ties, so tools using the old convention are wrong on those cells. The tables on this page have been corrected accordingly.
Rules & overrides
- Fixed fusion combos — certain exact pairs override the math and always produce a specific variant (e.g. Mossanda + Grizzbolt = Mossanda Lux). Nearly all Lux/Noct/Terra/Cryst/Ignis/Botan/Primo variants work this way, and those variants are excluded as results of ordinary averaging.
- Breeds-true-only Pals — a small set can only come from pairs that include the Pal itself (list below).
- Gender — one male + one female, always. Wild-caught gender ratios vary by species, so check before selling "spares." One pair is gender-dependent: Katress × Wixen produces Katress Ignis from a female Katress and Wixen Noct from a female Wixen — the only combination in the game where which parent is which sex changes the child.
