How To Breed Better Blobs In Ova Magica – This guide details how to breed blobs in Ova Magica, from the basics of getting barns and fruit snacks to the level of detail of passing on mutations, physical traits, skills, and an optional strategy for rolling eggs.
How To Breed Better Blobs In Ova Magica
Building Blob Barns
Blob Barn Blueprint
One morning, Flint visits you to give you the plans for the barn.
This can happen from the beginning of week 2, but it can be later, depending on whether you have other priority cutscenes that trigger (eg visiting the mayor to complete the 13 inhabitants quest)A barn can hold up to 4 blobs and requires 50 wood and 50 fiber.
Big Blob Barn Blueprint
The Blob Barn (Big) Blueprint can be purchased directly from Flint for 15,000 coins.
This large barn holds up to 8 marbles and requires 100 stone, 100 wood, and 5 ingots (iron) to build.
Construction of the Barn
To build barns, click on the Workbench on your farm, select a plan, and place the barn on your farm.
Tip: To make room, you can select items like Trees, Logs, Bushes, and Rocks and move them around, so you don’t have to clear the farm to make room for your barns manually.
Remember that you can build multiple barns of the same type!
Barn reward
After you build your first barn, entering the barn will trigger an event with Jade and Clara.
Jade will give you free Cow blob eggs and advise you on how to hatch eggs, how to use feeders, and how to care for your blobs.
Breeding process
Heart fruit
You will need to obtain at least 2 heart fruits to start breeding. Flint sells Heart Fruit for 25 coins and you can find Flint in various locations around the map during the week, but not during the festival.
Later in the game, you will also be able to buy a Heart Fruit tree from Emerald where you can grow your Heart Fruits.
Breeding process
To start breeding, you will need to place two balls in the barn.
Then use the Orb Interaction button to feed the Heart Fruit to both orbs. (You can also leave two hearts in the feeder, but if you have more than 2 marbles, you may get an unexpected result)
A heart icon will appear at the top of each blob. Now you can leave the barn and go to sleep.
The next day you can enter the barn and see that they have an egg icon with a 1/3 indicator. This will increase by one each day.
After the fourth sleep, when entering the barn, you will find Eggs (Brood).
You can hatch eggs in any barn where you have space or sell them for 400 coins.
Breed multiple blobs at once
If you choose to give fruit hearts to 4 or more marbles in the same barn, you will not be able to control breeding pairs.
After you sleep, head to the barn and you’ll see two random couples.
If you need specific pairs, start breeding only one pair per day. Once this breeding produces eggs the next day, you can go ahead and start breeding another pair.
Mutation
What often amplifies fetal drops is the chance for mutations.
A blob can get up to three mutations. Each mutation makes the blob immune to the status effect:
- The skull makes the blob immune to poison
- Spiral makes the blob immune to confusion
- Zzz makes the blob immune to sleep
- … message makes the blob immune to silence
- Eye (with x) makes blob immune to blind
- Player skills to improve breeding
You can increase the chance of mutations by acquiring the Breeding (Mutations) skill.
Inherited abilities and skills
Transferring abilities
Blobs can have abilities that are either passive, like Produce Milk, or active, like Turtle Blob’s Sprinkler.
These abilities can be passed on through breeding.
Note that a brood blob can only have one ability. This means you can have a barn full of different balls that can use the sprinkler and water your barn!
Inheritance of skills
When breeding marbles, the cub inherits the skills of its parents.
This is mostly random, meaning you have little control over the results. However, there are a few things to keep in mind.
Elementary inheritance
A blob can only inherit skills that are untyped or of the same type.
For example, if I breed a bee blob (which is a forest) and a pig blob (which is a magma) if the brood egg is a magma type, it cannot gain the skills “Bee Rage” or “Flower Field” because they have opposing elements.
Thus, breeding the two forest types together would increase the chance that a hatchling can acquire such skills.
Similarly, if you breed a blob that only has forest-type skills with a blob that only has magma-type skills, then the blob will only get skills from the parent of the matching type and will not learn new skills.
Skill Variation
I suggest focusing on multiplying 4 skills that have a combination of the following:
- Sword Skill (Attack)
- Clock Skill (Stopwatch)
- Shield Skill (Defense)
- Skill with AoE (dual person).
The different icons are important because when the skill reaches 100%, the blob’s stat will increase by that power. Three different icons mean you can level up all stats for that blob.
Having an AoE (area of effect or multi-blob attack) is a powerful way to wipe out 3v3 battles, and I appreciate that.
You can also see in the previous screenshot that my offspring has both elemental and non-elemental attacks as well as a status effect (Distract).
There is no optimal skill set, but you can find different combinations that will lead you to Blobdom!
Blob Happiness and Basic Stats
Basic statistics
When your egg hatches, the brood blob will often have base stats that seem to be around the average current parent stats. This is not always the case.
One key factor is luck. When the egg hatches, you can immediately notice the indicated % of luck.
The happier the resulting egg is, the more likely it is to have better base stats.
Conversely, an egg with lower luck will have fewer basic abilities. So I managed to breed a basic blob with 12 basic powers… oops!
Blob of happiness
To increase the luck of the sphere, you need to consider five factors: decoration, temperature, cleanliness, interaction (heart icon), and hidden values.
Decoration
The flower icon indicates the stable decoration value. On the workbench in the barn, select items with decoration icons.
You will need a total of 10 decorations to reach the maximum decoration value in the barn.
The easiest way to accomplish this is to buy the Painted Eggs blueprint at the Painted Eggs festival and then place 10 painted eggs in one barn.
Temperature
The second icon represents the temperature.
This is trickier because different marbles have different preferences. Therefore, you may need to do some trial and error to find the ideal preference for your marbles.
You can use the Barn Blob Registry to check the temperature in the barn.
This is determined by two factors:
Temperature device
The location of the air conditioner or heater will lower or raise the temperature in the stable. You can buy their plans from Flint.
After placing the air conditioner or heater, you can remove them by hovering over them and clicking “Save”. This will place the item back into the hidden inventory and the next time you try to build one, it will automatically use the one in the inventory instead of using the new materials.
Change of seasons
The second factor is the seasons. During Solis, the barns are usually warmer, while during Frigus the temperature drops.
Based on a few tests I’ve done, it’s best to add or remove a temperature device on Week 3 – Festival Day, the night before the new season arrives.
From my testing, it looks like luck is factored in after the season/temperature change, though this could potentially change in future updates.
Cleanliness (Poopiness)
If you’ve fed your drops, you’ll know that they leave smelly poop the next morning. Make sure you shovel the poop every day to improve cleanliness.
Finally, you should consider building a litter box, but keep in mind that you still have to pick up poop to make room for more poop.
Interaction (Heart)
The last icon is a heart symbol. This seems to be the most straightforward: interact with the blob and stroke it to increase this value.
Hidden values
There may be hidden values, but I have no information on how they affect luck. Please note that this is mostly speculation and observation.
A history of happiness
First, I believe it may affect the blob’s luck history throughout the breeding process. Neglecting the spot all day and caring for it only on the last day of egg production will not fully restore its happiness.
However, if you start taking care of the drop on the first day of giving hearts, it seems to be able to achieve maximum happiness in one breeding process.
Food and tastes
In each barn, you have feeders where you place food for your balls. Although there is no icon to represent this, letting the orbs starve seems to negatively affect luck.
It is ideal if you keep food for all your marbles every day. Plus, if you leave the food you’re craving, you’ll increase your luck in addition to getting the Max HP benefit.
I was able to achieve 98% happiness by trying to fulfill my desires (including the game) every day.
Reproduction of physical traits
Function types
Blobs inherit properties from their parents. This is much harder to describe due to the number of combinations, however here is a short list of blob properties that are passed down through breeding:
Colors
Each blob has three colors. It looks like some balls, like the pig, can have hidden colors that can be inherited.
Each color is inherited separately, so a blob can inherit a primary color from parent 1 and a secondary and tertiary color from parent 2.
Primary colors are often visible in the main spot (eg the pig is pink), while secondary and tertiary colors are shown in other elements, such as the shading in the ears of rabbits or the pink in the wings of a bat.
Physical properties
Blobs can convey physical features such as a face, ears, wings, tails, and facial markings. There are other variations as well, including the size and shape of the blob (I’m not entirely sure how the blob multiplies).
Most are randomly split between the two parents and are not guaranteed.
For example, if parent A has Antannea the bee and parent B has Fox ears, the blob can either have Antannea, ears, or no ears!
However, it seems that if both parents share the same trait, it will be guaranteed to the offspring.
If you end up with offspring that are closer to what you want but not 100% what you need, it often makes more sense to breed them with one of the original pairs rather than starting from scratch.
Egg deposition strategy
Each egg is generated when you go to sleep on the 4th night before the game autosaves.
If you have an egg and don’t like it, reloading the latest autosave file will do the same.
Therefore, before going to bed, you can perform a manual save and sleep. If you want to reroll the egg, load a manual save, succeed again, and hatch. Repeat until you are satisfied with the egg
About me
Thanks for following the guide, I hope it was helpful!
I’m PinkGeeRough, a YouTube content creator obsessed with Ova Magica, and I discovered all of the above information by playing the game.
If there are any inaccuracies, I’m happy to update the guide and create more guides and content to help you enjoy the game more.
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