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Nothing has changed with it.

That white film does look a lot like varnish, but the spots look the same shade. Doesn't varnish leave the spots alone?

CheshireFarms I have not touched the script that makes varnish.

I am not arguing about what you are seeing, but I haven't touched it so I can't tell you why you are seeing what you are seeing.

Ok, I made a dupe of your horse to do some testing with and I can confirm it is because of the base color.

All appy horses varnish, some just have factors that can cause them to varnish faster or slower. Varnish promoter is just one of those factors. How much pigment the horse has can slow varnishing considerably. The horses you posted have multiple dilution genes that reduce pigment and increase varnish speeds.

This is the dupe of your horse at age 4.


This is what your horse will look like at age 14


The same horse at age 14 with no mushroom gene.


The same horse age 14 with no dun gene


Age 14 no dun and no mushroom.


Other things of note is that red horses varnish faster than black-based horses and bays varnish faster than blacks. Mares also varnish faster than stallions. So your red-based, double-dilute mare is going to be a much faster varnisher than many others.


So no nothing has changed. This has been part of varnish since it was first introduced you are just noticing it for the first time. :)

@Ammit Thanks so much for your detailed explanation with examples of what can affect varnish. I had no idea there were any genes in the game that would look different on mares vs. stallions.

Here is the same black appy as a stud and a mare so you can see how the mare has more

It was fun to make up the examples!

Anyone can add this information to the wiki.

@Ammit I'm working on something now, it's up there as a WIP but I'll probably have questions I will need your insight on later. Right now it's word vomit and then will try to simplify things as I go on.

How the heck do we format things on the wiki? I couldn't seem to make html work.

@Ammit, see that doesn't make sense to me. If I can edit it like a word doc, when I highlight a word and select Ctrl B the word should be bold?

I'm using google chrome if that makes a difference. I've seen other posts with bold text, but can't seem to figure out how they did it, and I haven't gotten any responses in the wiki chat yet.

This article for example: https://wiki.huntandjump.com/books/genetics-101/page/how-to-read-genetic-testing-results-a-complete-guide-to-understanding-your-horses-color

Has all kinds of formatting: headers, special text, colored boxes, links and images.

@Ammit that's what I thought would be there, like how we have a bar in the forum. However I don't see anything, and I feel like I'm crazy now lol.

omg lol alright let me try that and see what happens. but you can click the image to make it bigger

@Ammit, Actually, can the "Section" hierarchy be removed or hidden from the editor and maybe rename "Subsections" as "Pages"? That has caused confusion often in the past.