First copy or more copies?
To breed your first copy, start with a pair that does not require that target. To breed more, a pair containing the target may be useful—but you still need both parents and their required sexes.
A concrete example: Jormuntide Ignis
- #121 Jormuntide + #112 Blazehowl → #121 · variant Jormuntide Ignis. One male and one female; either species-sex orientation. Check this pair
- #121 · variant Jormuntide Ignis + #121 · variant Jormuntide Ignis → #121 · variant Jormuntide Ignis. One male and one female; either species-sex orientation. Check this pair
The Jormuntide + Blazehowl row has no direct dependency on Ignis. It does not establish where, how early or how easily either parent can be acquired. The same-species row needs two Ignis individuals, one male and one female; owning one alone is not enough.
Start with the task you can actually complete
- Open the target’s breeding profile and check the imported recipes and sex conditions.
- If you do not own the target, use Exclude pairs that directly need the target. This only filters a direct pair; it is not a route proof.
- Open route planning and add the species you actually own. First-copy mode removes the target from starting resources and rejects target-dependent cycles.
- Read every step’s two parents. A conditional plan names extra species still needed; it is not complete with your starting collection.
- Check individual counts and sexes in game before breeding. The species-only planner does not know which individuals you own.
If no first-copy plan appears
The route search is capped at 3 generations, 5 plans, bounded time/candidates and 2 intermediate plans per species. “Not found within limits” is not “impossible in the game.” A same-species-only imported result is a snapshot boundary; this tool does not invent a capture or acquisition route.
Breeding: PalCalc v28 · fixed 18 September 2026 snapshot · reference Steam PC / v1.0.5. Ordinary, non-mutated offspring only. Sources checked 4 October 2026; game-internal testing pending. This is not a current-patch guarantee. Sources and limits.
Explanation updated 4 October 2026. No game-internal test record has been supplied for these two examples.