Mutations

This content is currently in hordetesting and will change overtime.

Mutations the newest mechanic for The Isle! Allows users to customize and change up your gameplay. Though this system won't see its final form until the Elder system is released.

Mutations are chosen as a player progresses through the game. The juvenile stage is when you select your first mutation and then again at sub-adult and adult. The larger hexagons represent your lifecycle chosen mutations. Hexagon 4 is for the Elder System and hexagon 5-6 are unknowns at this time.

You can unlock varieties to your mutations as opposed to the standard ones gained by default. This may require special actions to be taken in-game to be able to unlock them.

The smaller hexagons are gained by inheriting mutations from your parents. Only a few of the smaller hexagons can be filled in and others are reserved for later systems.

Yellow Names = More info below on how to acquire

Environment Mutations

Passive Disposition

Chance to not disturb natural alarms

Constricted Glands

Reduced scent trail. Specifically blood/excrement

Pattern Recognition

Able to decipher human writing

Cochlear Sensitivity

Indication of sound traps from a distance

Reabsorption

Recover a small amount of water during rainy weather

Wader

Less hindered when wading through shallow water

Reniculate Kidneys

Can drink saltwater

Infrasound Communication

Make significantly less noise when talking in chat

Featherweight

Your footprints fade much faster

Status Effects [General]

Hematophagy

Restore some thirst while eating

Efficient Digestor

Your food drains more slowly

Enhanced Digestion

Decrease nutrition decay rate

Hydrodynamic

Increased swimming speed

Increased Inspiratory Capacity

Increased O2 Capacity

Heightened Ghrelin

Increased overeating capacity by a large amount.

Sustained Hydration

Your water drains more slowly

Augmented Tapetum

Increased vision at night

Submerged Optical Retention

Increased underwater vision range

Reinforced Tendons

Jumping costs less stamina

Gastronomic Regeneration (Slot 2 Only)

Eating restores a small amount of health

Social Behavior (Group Leader Only)

Increased group size.

Advanced Gestation (Female Only)

Faster egg gestation/incubation/cooldown rate

Prolific Reproduction

Your babies have increased health and stamina regen. Your babies require less food and they grow faster.

Status Effects [Combat]

Melorheostosis

Increase blunt damage towards fractures

Osteosclerosis

Resist or Reduce fracture damage

Paratrepsis

Able to fake fractures

Photosynthetic Tissue

Faster health/locked health recovery and higher move speed during the day.

Nocturnal

Faster health/locked health recover and higher move speed at night

Congenital Hypoalgesia

Reduce incoming damage when fighting larger species

Intraspecific Aggression (Removed 0.15.116)

Deal more damage to animals of your own species

Enlarged Meniscus

Increased fall distance before fall damage occurs

Multichambered Lungs

Reduce stamina regeneration threshold

Traumatic Thrombosis (Slot 2)

Prevent death from blood loss if resting

Epidermal Fibrosis

Increase bleed resistance

Remodeling Ambulation

Movement regenerates leg fractures faster than resting.

Hydro-regenerative

Recover health faster during rainy weather

Cellular Regeneration

Recovers health slightly faster

Herbivore Specific Mutations

Photosynthetic Regeneration

Regenerate stamina faster during the day

Tactile Endurance (Slot 2)

Convert incoming damage to stamina

Barometric Sensitivity

Receive an indication prior to storms or droughts

Xerocole Adaptation

Gain some water when eating plants

Truculency

Bucking drains the attackers stamina more.

Hypervigilance

Hears carnivore footsteps at extended ranges

Carnivore Specific Mutations

Hemomania

Do extra damage on bleeding target

Accelerated Prey Drive

Deal more damage to animals with low health

Osteophagic

Able to consume bones to regenerate fractures faster

Cache Propensity

Carry/Drag larger food. Carrying food and sprinting takes less stamina and can drag food faster.

Cannibalistic

For species that are not, by default, cannibals. Adds their own speciies as a preferred prey for nutrients.

Hypermetabolic Inanition (Slot 2)

The less hunger you have the more damage you deal.

Theories for Mutation Requirements

Items listed are being tested and discovered slowly. Only ones with information are currently marked yellow and have details below. If we are missing any new information please report it on EQG discord. Once these are confirmed I will note them under their respective mutation.