The goal of vine cuttings crossbreeding is of course to produce one that is good on every attribute, but better short-term goals should be chosen. Certainly a good grapes/quality/sugar cutting would be great.
For example, If we were to say that Distinction and Appreaciation both use data-set A for the Acid attribute, then we can expect that the way acid is effect for each tending method of each tending state will be exactly the same for both vine types.
The following table shows all of the basic cuttings, and the data-set assigned to each attribute:
| Cutting | Acid | Color | Grapes | Quality | Skin | Sugar | Vitality |
| Distraction | A | A | B | A | A | A | A |
| Contemplation | A | A | A | D | C | A | A |
| Appreciation | A | A | A | C | A | A | A |
| Balance | B | B | A | B | B | B | A |
| Wisdom | A | A | A | A | D | A | A |
| Amusement | A | A | B | A | A | A | B |
| Frivolity | C | C | A | A | A | C | A |
Is there any reason why we're using this arbitrary notation here rather than something corresponding to actual mutations on the vines? --Shelyak
This next table shows the average of each data-set for each attribute. The higher the average of the data-set, the higher overall values that can be expected for that attribute using a given vine cutting. For example, for grapes, the average for data-set A is 25, and the average for data-set B is 73. Thus, one could expect to get about 3x more grapes using a vine that has a Grapes attribute data-set of B than you would using a vine that used set A.
| Data-Set | Acid | Color | Grapes | Quality | Skin | Sugar | Vitality |
| A | 16 | 37 | 25 | 34 | 43 | 23 | -393 |
| B | 34 | 3 | 73 | 36 | 46 | 75 | -287 |
| C | 93 | 177 | 4* | 28 | 23 | 9 | -- |
| D | -- | -- | -- | 18 | 128 | -- | -- |
This section contains data-set information that is associated with some of the hybrid vine cuttings that were created via the crossbreeding skill. You should use the same average stats table from the section above to get the data-set average for each given data-set.
| Hybrid | Left | Right | Acid | Color | Grapes | Quality | Skin | Sugar | Vitality | Notes |
| Calixes#22 | Appreciation | Frivility | B | B | A | D | A | B | A | |
| Calixes#23 | Frivility | Appreciation | B | B | A | A | A | B | A | |
| Calixes#24 | Balance | Distraction | A | A | A | A | A | B | A | |
| Calixes#25 | Distraction | Balance | B | B | A | B | B | C | A | |
| Calixes#26 | Balance | Calixes#22 | A | A | A | C | A | C | A | |
| Calixes#27 | Calixes#22 | Balance | B | B | A | C | A | B | A | |
| Calixes#28 | Calixes#24 | Calixes#25 | B | B | C | A | A | B | A | |
| Calixes#29 | Calixes#25 | Calixes#24 | A | A | B | A | A | C | A | |
| Eigam62 | Balance | Distraction | A | A | B | A | A | B | A | Distraction with Balance's sugar |
| Eigam64? | Appreciation | Distraction | A | A | C | D | A | A | A | |
| Eigam71 | Eigam62 | Eigam64 | A | A | C | D | A | B | A | new Quality, new Grapes, Balance's sugar |
| Tedra298 | Balance | Distraction | A | A | B | A | A | B | A | Distraction with Balance's sugar |
| Teper#2 | Balance | Appreciation | A | A | A | C | A | B | A | appreciation with sugar |
| Teper#4 | Distraction | Appreciation | A | A | C | B | A | A | A | |
| Teper#9 | Amusement | Teper4 | A | A | B | B | A | A | A | distraction with quality of balance |
| Zackron1 | Teper2 | Eigam71 | A | A | A | C | A | A | A | sugar got set A even with both parents having set B |
| Zackron2 | Teper2 | Distraction | A | A | C | B | A | B | A | |
| Zackron3 | Distraction | Teper2 | A | A | A | C | A | B | A | |
| Zackron4 | Teper9 | Tedra298 | A | A | B | A | A | A | A | |
| Zackron5 | Tedra298 | Teper9 | A | A | C | B | A | B | A | |
| Tedra454 | Tedra419 | Tedra429 | B | B | B | A | D | B | A | 49 Tannin in the barrel in 3 days |
| Tedra664 | Tedra476 | Tedra560 | A | A | B | C | A | A | A | Grapes 12 high, Quality 12 high |
| Tedra'sPrime | Tedra976 | Tedra806 | A | A | B | C | A | B | A | Grapes 12 high, Qaulity 12 high Sugar 8 high |
See above note. This A-D notation should be replaced with the more logical and consistent mutation count notation. See Vine Genetics and the Phenotype Table. --Shelyak
Here is the prvious table that was here that does not contain any of the data-sets for the vine types. As the various crossbreeders provide there attribute information, they can be removed from this table:
| Left | Right | New cutting | Description |
| Distraction | Appreciation | Eigam60 | basic everywhere except Grapes and Qualities that have new columns |
| Appreciation | Distraction | Eigam61 | Exactly Distraction |
| Balance | Distraction | Eigam62 | Distraction with Balance's sugar column (so grapes + sugar, interesting) |
| Distraction | Balance | Eigam63 | Distraction with Balance's grapes,quality and sugar column |
| Appreciation | Distraction | Eigam64 | basic everywhere except Grapes and Qualities that have new columns |
| Distraction | Appreciation | Eigam65 | Exactly Distraction |
| Balance | Appreciation | Eigam66 | Appreciation with Balance sugar column (quality+sugar) |
| Balance | Appreciation | Eigam67 | Exactly Appreciation |
| Eigam62 | Eigam64 | Eigam71 | new Quality, new Grapes, Balance's sugar |
This is not how vine cutting works, this how it may work.
We speak about genomes, which are sequences of letters, of a fixed size. The letters are taken in a set of, for example, 4 letters, {A,B,C ,D}. If the size is 14, a genome can be AABDBCDCBAADBA. This contains all the information about a specific cuttings. This information can be encode in many different ways. Just 2 basic examples:
When you crossbreed by placing 2 genomes, one on the left and one on the right, a position in the sequence is randomly chosen. Both genomes are cut at this position. And the left part of the left genome is mixed with the right part of the right genome. For instance left = AABDBCDCBAADBA and right = BBDBACCDCADBAA, cutting on the 5th letter produce the genome AABDB.CCDCADBAA = AABDBCCDCADBAA
Mutations may happen, changing one random letter in another one.
Please note that many variations exist. The genome can be directly a sequence of integer values (for example a random seed and a amplitude), or anything else. This is just a brief description of the basic idea of genome crossbreeding.
An hypothesis is that sugar is encoded in the left part of the genome. Quality and grapes may also be encoded more on left than the other, but at the right of sugar. Quality and grapes may be linked together, or mutations appeared.
This is not a lot of theory but perhaps it will help :)