This post originally started out like this:

I’ve made a few more shell patterns for the snails!

I then started to descibe how the basic genetics work in the simulation (limited to pattern color). While doing so, I began to realize that it is all wrong. I went back and ripped apart some of the breeding system to get it to a slightly more realistic state. Needless to say it’s still not really correct, but at least it’s a bit closer to what could be some sort of reality. Now I have to go back and clean everything up/rewrite it.