Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-43510931-20200216074631/@comment-33705615-20200216112842

The black Sweetlings have only ever been available for players whose scrolls were affected by a glitch during the original release back in 2010. The colour variant was given to them as an apology. Until 2018 all Sweetlings in those players' scrolls hatched as alts or changed their colour to black. After that, however, the mechanics were updated so that offspring from regular Sweetlings wouldn't hatch as alts anymore. Nowadays only alt Sweetlings can produce more alts and, if traded to a player without alt Sweetlings, they'll lose their alternative colour.