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Damot Mutagen Analysis

Upper Egypt Mutagen Analysis or Shelyak's Hacked 12-Shroom Version

Axum Mutagen Analysis

Moss needed

  • 4db of Crackly, Slimy, Spotted without Phosphorescent, Prickly nor Smelly for Damot Formula #2 (/chat Eigam if you have it)
  • 4db of Dry, Fuzzy, Phosphorescent without calico or crackly for Buhen (/chat neena if you have it)
  • 7db of Calico, Phosphorescent, Reticulated without Slimy, Smelly, Spongy

Recipes

# Mutagen Name Total Moss Negative Moss Mushrooms Required Region Avatar Status
1 Mottled, Prickly, Spotted 1 Green, Phosphorescent, Spongy 1 Nefertari Crown, 1 Pool of Tranquility Damot Eigam complete
(2) Crackly Slimy Spotted 4 Phosphorescent, Prickly, Smelly Damot Eigam moss not found
3 Dry, Green, Spotted 4 Phosphorescent, Prickly, Striped 36 db total, 7 kinds:

6 Crows Beak Mushrooms, 5 Dueling Serpents Mushrooms, 4 Falcon's Bait Mushrooms, 7 Heaven's Torrent Mushrooms, 6 Moses Basket Mushrooms, 6 Nefertari's Crown Mushrooms, 2 Toad Skin Mushrooms

Axum Peacefulness / Eigam complete
(4) Fuzzy, Dry, Phosphorescent 4 Calico, Crackly, +1 more 11 db total: 1 Badger Badger, 1 Carrion, + 2 other kinds Buhen Neena moss not found
5 Slimy Smelly Reticulated 5 Prickly + 2 more 6 Iron Knot Meshwesh Delta Neena Complete
6 Prickly, Reticulated, Spongy 3 Slimy, Phosphorescent, Striped 2 flat mushroom + 3 Bleeding Hand + 3 Morel + 7 Eye of Osiris West Kush Neena Complete
(7) Calico, Phosphorescent, Reticulated 7 Slimy, Smelly, Spongy 7 types, 27 bulk; 7 Brain, 4 Cobra Hood, 3 Crows Beak, 6 Earth Light, 1 Golden Sun, 4 Pool of Tranquility, 2 Ra's Awakening Upper Egypt Shelyak, Rauul complete, moss not found
8 Crackly, Spotted 5 ?? 3 badger badger, 4 barley bowl, 2 Cat Nip, 1 dead tongue, 6 orange campanella Axum Eigam complete
9 Crackly, Reticulated, Striped 7 Calico, Dry, Green 2 Peasant Foot Axum Peacefulness complete
10 mottled, reticulated, smelly 4 fuzzy hairy spongy 4 Scorpions Brood Axum Eigam complete
11 Dry Prickly Slimy 2 Calico Hairy Mottled 2 schizophyllum, 4 limphonus, 5 acorn's cap, 5 brain, 7 orange campanella Axum Peacefulness complete
12 Smelly Spotted 1 Mottled Phosphorescent Spongy 1 Limphonus, 2 Pool of Tranquility, 3 Cobra Hood, 6 Toad Skin Naqada Peacefulness complete
13 Fuzzy Reticulated Smelly 6 Crackly, Phosphorescent, Spotted 1 Pool of Tranquility, 2 Dung Rot, 4 Dead Tongue, 4 Razor's Edge Axum Peacefulness complete
14 Crackly Hairy Striped 5 Smelly, Spongy Spotted 4 Heaven's Torrent, 4 Nefertari's Crown, 6 Razor's Edge Axum Peacefulness complete
15 Calico Spotted Striped 2 Green Smelly (Reticulated?) 6 Barley Bowl Axum Peacefulness complete
16 Prickly Smelly Spongy 4 Green Striped (Fuzzy?) 3 Razor's Edge Axum Peacefulness complete
17 Calico Prickly 3 Hairy Slimy Spotted Phosphorescent (at least 3) 4 Falcon's Bait, 4 Fish Hook, 3 Badger Badger, 7 Limphonus, 1 Twirls, 5 Ra's Awakening Axum Shhhh complete
18 Crackly Mottled Phosphorescent 4 Calico Fuzzy Smelly 3 Slave's Bread, 2 Nature's Jug, 1 Razor's Edge White Nile Hermitage complete
19 Fuzzy Slimy Striped 5 Dry Phosphorescent Spongy 6 Salt Water Fungus, 2 Orange Campanella, 2 Pool of Tranquility, 2 Golden Sun, 2 Nile Fire, 1 Fish Hook White Nile Hermitage complete
20 Green Spongy 3 Dry Prickly Slimy 3 Nile Fire, 4 fish Hook, 2 Toad Skin, 3 Ptah's Pimple White Nile Hermitage complete
21 Dry Prickly Spongy 5 Crackly Reticulated Striped 7 Orange Campanella, 7 Twirls, 3 Ptah's Pimple White Nile Hermitage complete
22 Fuzzy Slimy Spongy 3 Dry Green

(Reticulated or Smelly)

2 Nile Fire Axum Peacefulness complete, Moss not found
23 Calico Fuzzy Prickly Dry + ?? West Kush Hermitage moss not found
# mosses needed # mosses excluded mushrooms region player status

University of Thought Locations (and recipe status)

Region Coordinates Recipe Status Players working on it
Arsinoe
Axum stuck need moss Peacefulness
Buhen stuck, need moss Neena
Dakhla Oasis -2242, 1760
Dakhla Oasis -1359, 2637
Damot stuck, need moss Eigam
Hamim
Kharga Oasis
Meshwesh Delta
Naqada
Upper Egypt needs to be tested Shelyak, Rauul
Wadi Natrun
West Kush stuck need moss Hermitage
West Sinai
White Nile Hermitage
Zau

Mutagen Effects

# Mutagen Name <-- Left Splint
MIN
* <-- Left Splint
MAX
-------- Right Splint -->
MIN
* Right Splint -->
MAX
Notes
1 Mottled, Prickly, Spotted 23.33 1 23.53 63.33 6 64.29
(2) Crackly Slimy Spotted - - - - don't have moss
3 Dry, Green, Spotted 45.00 0 45.16 91.67 1 92.11
(4) Fuzzy, Dry, Phosphorescent - - - - don't have moss
5 Reticulated Slimy Smelly 26.32 28.95 41.38 44.44 revised 04 Nov '22
6 Prickly, Reticulated, Spongy 48.28 3 48.57 56.67 2 57.14
(7) Calico, Phosphorescent, Reticulated - - - - don't have moss
8 Crackly, Spotted 40.00 3 40.74 26.67 6 27.59
9 Crackly, Reticulated, Striped 45.83 2 46.23 56.16 4 56.67
10 Mottled, Reticulated, Smelly 91.18 1 91.43 67.44 2 67.74
11 Dry Prickly Slimy 34.29 2 34.48 82.61 2 82.86
12 Smelly Spotted 55.17 0 55.26 39.29 0 39.47
13 Fuzzy Reticulated Smelly 71.43 5 72.22 0.94 3 1.89
14 Crackly Hairy Striped 76.92 0 77.14 70.37 9 71.43
15 Calico Spotted Striped 82.93 1 83.33 24.66 6 25.93
16 Prickly Smelly Spongy 68.49 11 69.86 56.25 6 57.14
17 Calico Prickly 34.48 2 34.78 32.36 4 33.33
18 Crackly Mottled Phosphorsecent 81.59 84.21 96.31 97.37
19 Fuzzy Slimy Striped 52.64 55.26 63.17 65.79
20 Green Spongy 31.59 33.33 50.01 51.85
21 Fuzzy Slimy Spongy need moss
22 Dry Prickly Spongy 39.48 40.74 18.42 21.05

While retesting Mottled Prickly Spotted, I have found that its gene hits match the range that Eigam has recorded for Dry Green Spotted. (Peace)

*value indicates the number of remaining points that can be tested with known plants. An indicator of how much more specific this hit can be.

Mutagen hit wish-list

  • 50 to 54.17
    • Change Peacefulness #13 to Giant x2, Dwarf x2. Size combination achieved in Shelyak's Circe
  • 25.00 to 33.33
    • Add C1 M0 Y0 inner petals to Alice Over Heels (P#28). Done with Mystique
  • 0.00 to 20.69
    • reduce Onion Skin outer petals to C0 M1 Y0
  • 76.47 to 88.24
    • Reduce Pink Giant leaves to C2 M0 Y0
  • 0 to 18.75
    • Reduce Peaceful Sky Outer leaves to C0 M1 Y1

Mutagen Decoding Walkthrough

Figuring out What that mutagen does

It’s another long logic puzzle!  A drop of a particular mutagen will do the same thing every time.  With enough drops, you can design different experiments to determine what it is doing.


Basic concept:

You have two plants of the same basic type.

Put them in the greenhouse, one on the left splint, one on the right splint.

Add one drop of mutagen.  Carefully record what you have done.   Incorrect assumptions, misclicks and sleepy scientists are disastrous.   So are record keeping errors.


The plant in the left splint is ABCDE.  The mutagen hits exactly one gene of that plant and pulls it out.

The plant in the right splint is VWXYZ.  The mutagen hits exactly one gene of that plant and pulls it out.

Those two genes are swapped and you are given both plants back.

Your task is to puzzle your way through what single gene changed in those two plants.


If you like using revelation solvents, you can get hard data, especially if the plants are very short and you have lots of rare mushrooms sitting around.

The left splint plant, ABCDE, became <playername cross #1> AZCDE.  You now know that the left splint gene hit is in the 20% to 40% range.

The right splint plant, VWXYZ, became <playername cross #2> VWXYB.  The right splint gene hit is in the 80% to 100% range.

The plants we are working with have much longer strings of genes. Revelation solvents are less practical, so we plant them to see if we can detect changes. When working with flowers, the gene swap frequently damages an "active" set of genes. So it is not unusual to see a reduction in color, or a change in size.

A reduction in color is not always a bad thing. A single mutagen swap did this to Hatch's Bud: Hatch's Golden Bud

  • the outer petal color lost one yellow
  • the inner petal color lost one cyan (When cyan is mixed with magenta and yellow, "black" is added, and the color is less vibrant)
  • the result was a flower with pleasantly matching petals


Here’s what it looks like in a real set of trials:

Decoding Crackly Reticulated Striped. This takes a lot of illustrations. Still under construction.