User:Mortality/BeetlesCopy

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Pattern Examples Tale 4

• Triangles

Triangles for me tend to be the first pattern I get and we see these most often in the level 1 beetle gardens. The bottom 3 Triangle pictures show the pattern changing.

• Diamonds

Lots of players have asked me what they need to look for to develope patterns and winning beetles from. The first beetle picture shows just such an example a nice clear small diamond, that through careful breeding can change into a variety of patterns (see the other pictures).
Basically you take your small diamond patterned beetle and breed it, the patterns can become larger, more colourful and more defined.

Nice Diamond Pattern from a Level 2 garden.

• Maze

Variation to the Diamond pattern, going to call it the 'Maze' pattern. Saw it in the level 2 SA garden.

• Crosses

Crosses for me came from continued breeding with the Diamond types. The golden coloured beetle in the picture shows an alteration to the pattern where the crosses become elongated and change into lines or chains (see the blue beetle).

• Ovals

For me continued breeding of the diamond patterned beetles produces 2 further pattern types, Crosses and Ovals. The top 3 pictures show my very rough and early oval patterns, the lower 3 are very developed ovals bringing out more inner colours.

(Below) Picture of my first decent Oval/Curl Beetle (female !), included to show that the rough ones do indeed develope into nice clean examples.

• Wedges

I got a few Wedge patterns like this when the Cross types I had, started spreading out into lines. I presume they are throw backs to the Triangles patterns.

• Curls

The first picture of the pink beetle shows small rough curl patterns appearing. The second picture is from a beetle garden showing a beetle with both Oval and Curl patterns.

• Lines

I have a few beetles, where the Cross patterns are beginning to spread out into lines. The red beetle picture is one of those, the other picture is a beetle from a garden showing a well developed and colourful line pattern.

• Mono Coloured Smooths

Smooth beetles like these turn up from breeding at any time and have been known to win at at least level one gardens. Sometimes if the colour is unusual it might be worth breeding it with a patterned one to produce different pattern shades.

• Mixed Patterns

A mixture of Diamond, Cross and Wedge patterns, thank you Lill for your suggestion of breeding all patterned beetles together, worked a treat.

• Chains and Lines

Elongated Cross patterns that have become Chains and Lines (see above).

• Squares

A mutation from my Cross types, this is the only one I have and is male so unlikely to reproduce the pattern (I will try though). Seen them before in Tale 3.