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So, the PoF change isn't as bad as I expected it, but one thing has got me confused.

When I hit the farming level for Spiders, I went to buy some. Came across a guy unloading like a dozen of them for 50k, so I bought em.

Among them were two rather nice breeding pairs of Araxyte Spiders. I have, since that day, been breeding this spiders, and they have always bred true to their Araxyte line. Until now. Today, upon checking, I realized I hadn't gotten any spiders in a few days, and checked closer, discovering that there were nearly translucent Spirit Spiders in the pens with the Araxyte breeders, all the way at Elder/Adult already, implying they've been there for at least a little while.

Anyone know which of the changes precipitated this? I don't really care what breed my spiders come out as(technically this unlocked spirit spider in my breeding log, haha), it's just weird and I can't find an obvious reason anywhere.

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about 5 years ago - /u/JagexCamel - Direct link

Araxyte spiders breeding araxyte spiders was a bug. The only way to obtain an actual araxyte spider is from killing Araxxi. This now means that only the 'shiny' araxyte spiders can be bred which will correctly tick off the breeding log. Previously it was possible to breed a non shiny which was confusing people as to why their breeding log was not ticked off. Hope this helps =)

Edit - Araxyte spiders now default to breeding spirit spiders.

about 5 years ago - /u/JagexCamel - Direct link

Originally posted by Nolifedemon

wait, isn't this kinda stupid?, if you have a male and a female araxyte spider why wouldn't they breed another araxyte offspring... That would be like my Partner and I both being human giving birth to a dog...

Yes. Although due to the confusion for ticking of the breeding log we really had two options:

1 - Allowing breeding an Araxyte spider to tick off the breeding log. 2 - Prevent Araxyte spiders from being able to breed non shiny Araxyte spiders.

We went with the second option as the first one would have made the achievement of breeding a shiny spider void.