I've used two on the same animal and both times they only changed the gene for the worse.

Anyone else have any mutagen success stories?

As this is a question regarding a game element I think it may be better placed in the Help forum - you can ask Nightingale to move it there if you agree that it is misplaced.

Mutagen:: Randomly changes one pet's gene to another. The probability of getting any new gene is equal for all genes.

To answer the question in your topic, Mutagen does not only change genes for the worse. Mutagen works randomly. Each mutagen chooses one random type of gene (color, brain, muscles, etc) and then one of the two genes there to change. That gene then changes to another, but it can be any gene of that type that the gene it is changing is not. Playing around with Mutagen is risky since you're just as likely to wind up with a negative gene as you are to get positive ones.

Thank you for your explaination. I had read up on mutagen a bit before I used it, so I kind of knew what I was getting myself into. I had intended the topic question to be a bit more rhetorical but I'm afraid it didn't come off as such.

However, I just have the most rotten luck. I was hoping to stir up some conversation and see what kinds of stories other people had about using mutagen. Perhaps a few success stories would perk me up into trying to use one again.

I noticed the forums don't move too quick here. Trying to entice a bit of conversation.

I had a Mutagen experiment a while back where I toyed around with completely redoing a pet's genetics a few times but the screenshots I took of it were lost when my old laptop stopped working. I sent them to a friend in a PM but digging through my inbox to find them could take a while.

I am well aware of how slow the forums could be, the entire community doesn't participate here in the forums which is a shame, but there is still plenty going on. The forums offer users who want to get involved with others the chance to do so while users who want to only focus on their breeding can do that as well without interacting with anyone.

I may as well start collecting mutagen to redo my pet's genes. The first time I used it on my Unicorn, regeneration was only one gene I was hoping it wouldnt touch. Of course, as I should have more than expected, that's what the mutagen went for. It changed his dominant regeneration to faint-hearted. I guess I'm still not over it and I needed someone to complain to, hehe. Taking screenshots of the process is a nifty idea.

I agree, the forums are a great tool. Even if just for things like advertising your pet- not to forget mention the abundance of information available.