Hello!

It's a separate event, the cotton root bark (1 GB) assigns an effect to the lioness that appears along the top of her page until the next time she's bred- whereas losing a litter due to being unnested ( ... er... Unpaid/Negative 60sb cost?) is a Game message notification in Daily Rollover Summary & just brings her back into a heat cycle where she'll come back into heat in x days.
I'm sure you've observed the difference, but I just wanted to iterate how the game separates the two occurrences.

A "Free" crb would be awesome - it's just a different kind of loss.

If it makes sense to think of it this way, cotton root bark is a chemical/item influence that could affect future litters whereas losing a litter due to unpreparedness is more of a risk/real-danger consequence that would not alter the chemistry of the lioness?

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The wording is very similar if I remember correctly, both use the term "lose her litter" - the difference is in the crb mutation chance. >.<'

Absolutely, glad it makes sense!

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Miscarriages on the Wiki is where I looked!
It is possible for her to miscarry naturally, but it is a TINY chance and seems to not be due to lack of nesting, but instead neglecting to feed/entertain her while she is pregnant. :3

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The only thing that can cause a CRB effect is using a CRB on a lioness! NO other features cause increased mutation chance, no matter what caused the miscarriage - if you havent used an item, its not increasing any mutation chances!

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guess i misunderstood a few things when i read up on this... thank you for clarifying! your response was very helpful

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Do you happen to know if it (tiny chance of natural miscarriage) applies the crb effect to her though, Ramune?

I assume the rarity may be due in part to the overlap between uncared for & running away but if it's still an in-game feature, it would be cool to know.

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I assume so due to the second paragraph saying how to intentionally cause one! I am honestly not 100% certain as I have never had this happen. I would be very interested to know. :o My assumption is indeed that it does cause the CRB effect due to the phrasing but I'm just not 100% certain. I definitely agree it would be neat to know, and that is entirely why I haven't tested it out myself - the reclaim fee on top of my mass CRBs would drive me batty aha!

I may try this out one day to see just how rare it is and if it indeed causes the CRB effect.

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Ramune, but how would you be able to tell? by a special message mentioning the hightened mutation chance? tbh it would be wonderful to test that out, so i guess i'll keep mass breeding to see

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Thank you Mad Hyena! The Wiki phrasing makes it quite confusing since they are both called miscarriages, and one is 'intentional' versus 'unintentional.'

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what a bummer

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