You will have to defeat the monster before you can access the cave.
Dragon Cave[]
Here you raise dragons.
Raising a dragon takes several steps
One of your dragons knows you have fruit
Note that dragons are very greedy and can smell fruits the instant you pick them. If a dragon is hungry and you have fruit in your inventory, it will start to cry. They will also cry if 5 care points have accumulated for them. If you use up all your fruit, feed them the maximum amount of fruit, or give them care, they will stop crying.
Types of Fruit[]
The different types of Fruit fill the egg meter at different rates. You can always read the descriptions of the trees in the Shop to find out how many points each fruit gives towards egg hatching while in the game.
10 points towards an egg
Out of 100 points required to lay:
- 10 points from Pear Horns
- 20 points from Cherries
- 30 points from Chestnuts
- 35 points from Moon Apples
- 40 points from Star Bananas
- 50 points from Cloud Berries
Unlike feeding the Mother Dragon, the fruit do not have varying effects on the babies. It is a 1 for 1 feeding, so the lower egg point fruit should be fed to the babies first. For each additional dragon egg you have in the cave, the food requirements increase. The first dragon wants 10 fruit, the second dragon wants 20 fruit and the third dragon wants 30 fruit. So the most economical way to raise them is to only feed one dragon at a time, while only tending the rest. You can get more details on dragon raising by checking out the Dragon Raising tab on the Account Development page.
If you wish you raise more than one dragon at once, you can strategize by completing the left-most dragon quickly so that the fruit requirements of rightward dragons goes down. See Dragon Raising Strategies below.
Feeding Requirements Calculations[]
If you have enough fruit trees, you can feed many dragons at once. You will need to be able to harvest this number of fruits every ten hours, plus the initial cost of feeding the mother dragon:
- dragon: 10 fruits
- dragons: 30 fruits
- dragons: 60 fruits
- dragons: 100 fruits
Please see the Fruit Trees page to help calculate how many fruits you can grow per hour to maximize your dragon raising.
Raise Points[]
This player could spend 15 energy to care for the dragon 5 times in each of the three maintenance tasks
To get your dragon to the next level, you must pet it, play with it, and wash it using raise points (aka maintenance points). When you get a new dragon, you will immediately be able to spend 5 raise points in each category. It costs 1:1 energy to spend a care point, so caring for your dragon will cost 15 energy.
Once you have spent all your care points, you will have to wait for them to accumulate again before you can care for your dragon. The starting rate is one care point in each category every two hours. Care points will stop accumulating after you have reached 5 in each category. You must always spend the maximum care points possible when you play with, pet, or wash your dragon. If you don't have enough energy to use up all available care points, you will not be able to perform the care task. You do not have to wait until 5 points accumulate before caring for your dragon again.
If your dragon matures to the next level but has not used up all the care points in its reservoir, you will be able to use the surplus care points immediately upon the level up.
You can win bonuses in your Ancestor Grove to increase your care points reservoir (how many care points accumulate if you don't use them) and to decrease the amount of time you have to wait for more care points.
Dragon Flowers[]
When a dragon returns, it will have a sticker over its head indicating it has brought back plants for you
A dragon has returned with dragon flowers!
When you have raised a dragon to full size, they will leave the nest. As a parting gift, they will retrieve 10 of your choice of any of the 3 dragon plants for you. There is a 24 hour timer on the retrieval of the plants, but you can speed it up by 4 hours at a cost of 32 energy.
Each dragon flower grows for 16 hours and gives 2000 XP, but there is no increased yield, so you harvest the same number of plants as you planted.
Dragon Raising Strategies[]
Beginner
- Raise one dragon at a time fully to adulthood. Your progress will be limited by the amount of time, energy and fruit you have. Practice the mechanics of raising only one dragon in the cave until you are comfortable.
- There are 4 ages of dragons: egg, toddler, teen, adult. The fruit points required will be 10 for each level when only one dragon is in the nest. The tend points required for each level are 10 each, but you get credit if you level up a dragon and have extra energy, which can reduce the number of care points needed. Flying dragons do not require any care or food, but while their sign is still in the cave, it affects the fruit costs of other dragons.
- Due to the reservoir, tending does not have to be on a strict schedule, but the final sending should be done as soon as possible because there is no time reduction credit on flown dragons.
- You can fill the fruit meter a second time while you wait for tending points to accumulate as the dragon levels up.
- Start saving Water Lilies! You will need a lot more fruit. You can refer to the Fruit Trees page to judge which trees work best for your play schedule.
The classic beginner mistake is to fill the dragon cave enthusiastically with 3 dragons when you start. The more dragons in the cave, the more expensive raising them will be. If you find yourself in the unfortunate position of having filled the cave and run completely out of fruit and now you have four crying dragons on your hands, follow this strategy:
- Feed only the first dragon while tending the other 2, but not feeding them.
- Once the first dragon has flown and come back, the dragon in slot 2 becomes the first dragon and will have a drop in fruit requirement.
- Do not buy more eggs, as new eggs always go in the leftmost spot and will not reduce the fruit cost of your remaining dragons.
- Feed only the slot 2 dragon until it has been collected. The slot 3 dragon will now cost 10 fruit to feed.
- Once the dragon has been fed for the last time (remember you can feed it before the tending is done), you can buy another dragon egg to tend and feed while the previous egg is tended and released.
Intermediate
Once you have the mechanics of raising dragon down, you can start to juggle more than one dragon.
- Have 2 eggs in the nest. Feed dragon 1 while tending dragon 2. Don't feed dragon 2, just tend it.
- Collect on dragon 1, feed dragon 2 twice (it will level up so you can feed it a second time).
- Buy another egg. It will appear in slot 1 and take on the position of dragon 1.
- Raise dragon 1 to collection while just tending dragon 2. Once dragon 1 has been collected, feed dragon 2 twice.
- Buy another egg and continue to tend/release/collect dragon 2.
- Buy another egg. It will appear in slot 2. Tend but not feed this one until dragon 1 has been collected.
- Repeat from step 2.
Advanced
Here is gets tricky. It will depend on the amount of play time and fruit trees you have. You can continue to cycle the dragons as above but using 3 dragons. Buy dragon 3 for tending only and raise dragon 1 and 2 as above, but treat dragon 3 as dragon 2 when dragon 1 gets collected. Or if you have sufficient fruit. Raise dragon 1 and 2 together (dragon 2 will cost 20 fruit) and feed dragon 3 twice only when the first two have been collected. Keep getting those fruit trees!
Master
Easy peasy. Treat them all the same because you have enough fruit and energy. Watch the timers and tend/send/collect as close to time as possible.
Dragon Booster[]
In November 2023, a dragon booster was added.
Click on the dragon booster symbol at the bottom right in the dragon cave to open the dragon booster menu. In exchange for water lilies, you can increase how many dragon flowers your dragons bring back with each flight. You can choose either +5 or +10, and you can extend the booster in week or month increments.
Dragon Phases[]
Your dragon is on its way to bring back some rare dragon flowers
A flapping dragon icon also appears at the top left of your game window once it's matured and on its way
Dragons in the nest might come out any color. The fourth dragon, if you choose to raise one while you already have three dragons, will always be a water dragon. The color does not affect the care and feeding requirements nor the rewards once it's fully raised.
The color of the egg does not appear to affect the color of the dragon which will hatch from it, with the exception of the water dragon egg, which always appears in the water.
Pink Dragon
Blue Dragon
Red Dragon
Teal Dragon
Yellow Dragon
Dark Water Dragon
Light Water Dragon
Eggs Eggs can be a few different colors. Any color dragon can hatch out of any egg, but the dragon's color will be displayed when you first obtain the egg.
You may also notice that your dragons each have names. There are a few more names than dragons, so you'll see the same names reused over and over; water dragons and teal dragons have their own naming convention, but pink dragons and blue dragons share the same naming convention. A dragon's name does not affect gameplay.
In Game Tutorial[]
For some of us, it's been a while since the tutorial, so here it is again for reference.
Frequently Asked Questions[]
Q. How often (at what intervals) does tending energy generate?
A. You receive one care point for each of the three energy-based tasks once every two hours. You can win bonuses to shorten this time.
Q. How much tending does each dragon need?
A. The dragon needs ten care points in each of its three care tasks plus fruit to graduate. It has four stages. This means it takes a minimum of 70 hours to raise a dragon without bonuses. You can use lilies to give yourself extra care task points to help speed this up. Additionally, adult dragons accumulate care points while they're out flying, so if the adult dragon flies for at least 12 hours, the next egg you obtain will start with 5 points in each care task that you can use right away.
Q. Can I fly more than one dragon at once?
A. Of course! The sky above your island won't look any different, but they certainly won't crash in the air now that they're fully mature and responsible ;)
Q. Is there any way to raise dragons faster?
A. Initially, it takes (10x2hrs) 20 hours to get enough care points to get each dragon to its next level. You can win bonuses in the ancestor grove that will increase the points reservoir, decrease the number of care points needed, and get you an additional dragon plant once the grown dragon has flown. At this time, the only other way to speed things up is to purchase maintenance points with water lilies.
Q. What are these "care points" that accumulate while the dragons are flying?
As you probably know if you've read my earlier writing, you need to wash, pet, and play with your dragon in order for it to grow. The points you use for this are called care points, and they accumulate naturally every 2 hours (can be improved with bonuses). When you first obtain a new dragon egg, it usually starts with 5 points in the well ready for you to spend (if you have the energy to do so). This is because whenever you fly a dragon, it accumulates care points for the future dragons while it's out. These are immediately applied to the next dragon egg you obtain.
Why is this even important? If you use energy to speed up your dragon such that if flies for under 12 hours, it will not accumulate the maximum amount of care points. For example, if you use energy to complete the dragon's flight immediately, no care points will accumulate, so if you purchase a dragon egg right after, the new dragon will start at 0 care points available for each play, wash, and pet. If your adult dragon flies for 4 hours, it will accumulate 2 care points, so you'll be able to spend 2 care points on each play, wash and pet on a new egg. It is often in your best interest to let the dragons fly for at least 12 hours so that these care points accumulate and your dragon eggs can get an immediate boost. Of course, there are always extenuating circumstances, and sometimes you need dragon plants more than you need another dragon. In this case, you'll just have to wait for care points to accumulate over time while the dragon isn't flying rather than while it is.
Players usually use overnight or other AFK time to let their dragons fly so that when they obtain new dragon eggs, the little ones already have a head start.
For more information, please reference this very clear post in the Magoia Forum: The Dragons