What to expect - Breeding them!

After your Norn reaches the age of around 2 hours, she will reach adolescence. This is a confusing time for Norns, as all sorts of new genes switch on to allow them to breed. Both male and female Norns start getting a sex drive, and have the potential to breed.

After you've got used to interacting with one Norn, you will probably wish to hatch a partner of the opposite sex.

You can use the Breeder's Kit to monitor the fertility and breeding process of Norns:
BREEDERS KIT

If a fertile male and female Norn meet each other, there is a chance that they will mate - so long as their sex drive is high. When Norns mate, you hear a long kissing sound with a pop at the end - known as a kisspop! Just because they've mated does not necessarily mean the female Norn will get pregnant. You can check in the Breeder's Kit to be sure.    

Don't worry if you don't get a pregnant Norn first time, it may take an hour before you can coax them into breeding. Once you've got your first egg, you can either wait for it to hatch in the wild, or drop it into the incubator as soon as the egg has stopped growing.    

DEVELOPING EGG DEVELOPING EGG DEVELOPING EGG HATCHING EGG
 

The sequence of events

Useful tip!    

Train Norns in isolation at first! Whilst youâre learning how to look after Norns, it is much easier to teach them if you keep them away from other Norns. Norns find each other fascinating as they do interesting and unpredictable things, sometimes it can be hard to separate them. If youâre finding it very difficult to get two Norns apart, export one of them using Export current Norn on the File menu. This will remove the selected Norn from Albia, and put her on the hard drive. You can re-import her at a convenient moment when it is safer. Imported Norns appear near the Incubator.