Petz inherit their parents' body shapes in sections: Ī particular Pet can only have up to two breed-specific paintball markings. Playscene hosts in Petz 4 will not enter the Playscene while a mother and her Newborn/Infant are out.īody inheritance areas demonstrated on a Labrador and Tabby. pet file until they grow into Puppyz or Kittenz. Newborns and Infants are part of their mother's. When born, Newborns will display the default name of the breed they take after most personality-wise in the PetzA brain sliders menu. (figure out how many real-time days this takes instead) Left untouched, they will gain 3 age points a day. Infants turn into Puppyz and Kittenz at age 12 and adults at age 30. Newborns start at 0 and turn into Infants at age 6. As the name states, the Pet will be stuck in a state of pregnancy.Ĭarolyn Horn's method for un-sticking pregnancies requires alternating the computer's calendar years to 20 while closing and opening the Petz program until the mother eventually gives birth. Stuck pregnancies occur when the player moves the computer's clock or calendar backwards while a Pet is pregnant. Jumping a day ahead and then opening the game would register in-game as a new day, one step closer to a Puppy or Kitten being born or aging away from their mother. Before PetzA, it was common for players to speed up the process by changing their computer's calendar forward. PetzA is a widely used program that, among other things, makes mating and pregnancies nearly instant. Pregnancy lasts for 2 or 3 days, and the mother will gain extra weight while she is pregnant, but she will lose weight once she gives birth. Petz who have been bred together before will be more interested in breeding with the same partner again when given the opportunity.
Petz who are interested in mating will circle and gaze at each other until they overlap and a heart graphic pops up informing the player that they've successfully mated. Certain Toyz will increase Petz's horniness, as will songs on the Music Box with "Love" in the file name within the Resource/Songz folder (LoveAccordian, LovePiano, and LoveStrings). Petz have a hidden stat (called horniness in PetzA's brain sliders) that dictates their interest in mating. These can be "trimmed" to reduce their file size with programs like LNZ Pro.
There are no in-game deterrents, behavioral or otherwise, against breeding two closely related Petz, but Petz with incestuous lineage will have larger. Obviously, Catz can only breed with Catz (or any hexed breeds using Cat bases) and likewise for Dogz Petz must also be of opposite genders.
To breed, a Pet must be an Adult and not be spayed or neutered.