Gone away is the trilobite Here to stay is the frostbite To sing a love song While we stroll along Walking in a winter wonderland
In the meadow we can build a snowball We'll pretend that he is Deca Games He'll say, are you playing? We'll say, yes sir 'But we could use more land!' we all exclaim
Later on, we'll conspire As we dream by the fire To face unafraid The park that we've made Walking in a winter wonderland
Tis the season for fun and games! The DragonVale Community Forum is hosting a sleigh full of contests and games this winter, including The Spoiler Contest, The Origin Contest, and a New Year’s Scavenger Hunt — plus, new Forum prizes!
The Spoiler Contest is back
The Spoiler Contest will reveal the name of an unreleased Frostivale Yulebration dragon. Players guess what the dragon will look like by answering a series of multiple choice questions. The five players who earn the most points by answering the questions correctly win 50 gems!
But that’s not all, in addition to the gems from Deca, you’ll also receive an animated snowfall background for your mini profile for one month and a special title stating your winning status. You may have noticed my mini profile has festive snowflakes. They can be yours, if you're one of the five winners of The Spoiler Contest!
Many thanks to Worms for creating the Spoiler Contest poster!
The Origin Contest has been transformed
The new and improved Origin Contest has made a triumphant return! It has undergone a significant overhaul. Twelve of the most asked questions about Deca’s dragons have been selected. Just pick the correct origin from the multiple choice answers and you could win 50 gems! You’ll also receive an animated background of stars for your mini profile for 30 days and a special Origin Contest Winner title. The Origin Contest will begin soon, so stay tuned…
The Scavenger Hunt has returned
Countdown the New Year with us! Starting on Friday, December 23rd, each day will have a new winter dragon hidden among the pages on the Forum — with a final celebration on New Year’s Day! 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…
The top five members who collect the most dragons will forever be emblazoned on the Scavenger Hunt Hall of Fame. And, you’ll receive an animated background of confetti for your mini profile for a month plus a special Scavenger Hunt Winner title!
NATURE DRAGON Breeding hint: REMINISCENCE + cold + air Incubation time: 23 hours Elements / Habitats: cold, air, water Breeding percentages: breeding hint 2.2%; co-op clone 10%
KOTUN DRAGON Breeding hint: LOKILURE + KETU Incubation time: 32 hours Elements / Habitats: cold, earth, dark, air Breeding percentages: breeding hint 3.4%; co-op clone 10%
ELKAR DRAGON Breeding hint: REINDEER + SNOWFLAKE 7 Incubation time: 26 hours Elements / Habitats: cold, plant, earth Breeding percentages: breeding hint 3%; co-op clone 10%
AISA DRAGON Breeding hint: VERGLACE + ZUMI Incubation time: 24 hours Elements / Habitats: cold, earth, air, dark Breeding percentages: breeding hint 3.2%; co-op clone 10%
UPCOMING LIMITED BREEDING COMBOS
Given the difficulty many members had breeding new limited dragons during past events, players will probably want to have the following dragons in the Vale and/or Rift, or purchase them from the event market (these dragons are spoiler tagged for those who do not want this information). Please be aware, dragon combos may change at any time.
Dragons are listed alphabetically. Since they are NOT in the order you’ll need them, the breeding combos are showing to ensure you have the complete pair.
RETURNING EVENT DRAGONS
Element Key: = plant = fire = earth = cold = lightning = water = air = metal = light = dark
NOTE: Elements that are in parentheses are the dragon’s epic elements. The above icon elements are the primary elements that the dragon contributes (also called 'hidden elements' for epic dragons because these elements are typically not on the profile card). Knowing the contributing primary elements will help players when cloning dragons.
If you have the 'smiles' feature disabled on your Forum account, you will not see the icons. Instead, you’ll see the text 'plant_1', 'fire_1', etc (without the underscore). On a mobile device, the icons may be cut off. Please view the Forum in its desktop version by tapping Desktop at the bottom of the page, or view this page in landscape to see all the element icons. EPIC Angler = VENTURE & GULLETAIL (Ornamental) Chorister = HARMONY + YULE (Melody) Dazzling = Ornamental + Ornamental (Ornamental) Eve = cold + water + metal (Surface) Festive = plant + earth + cold (Surface) Flicker = GIFT + earth (Ornamental) Glitz = YANGHIS + JADICE (Ornamental) Harmony = Ornamental + IRON BLOSSOM (Ornamental) Lace = COAL + plant (Ornamental) Ornamental = REINDEER + fire (Ornamental) Reminiscence = Ornamental + ICY TORRENT (Ornamental) Ribbon = REGIFT + fire (Ornamental) Shiver = cold + air + light (Surface) Snowball = SNOWPOCALYPSE + SHIVER (Ornamental) Snowflake 1 = SNOWFLAKE + SNOWFLAKE (Snowflake) Snowflake 2 = SNOWFLAKE + SNOWFLAKE (Snowflake) Snowflake 3 = SNOWFLAKE + SNOWFLAKE (Snowflake) Snowflake 4 = SNOWFLAKE + SNOWFLAKE (Snowflake) Snowflake 5 = SNOWFLAKE + SNOWFLAKE (Snowflake) Snowflake 6 = SNOWFLAKE + SNOWFLAKE (Snowflake) Snowflake 7 = SNOWFLAKE + SNOWFLAKE (Snowflake) Snowpocalypse = WINTER + APOCALYPSE (Apocalypse) Spellmason = Ornamental + HIDDEN BOLT (Ornamental) Starshine = TWINKLE + DAZZLING (Ornamental) Tinsel = HOLLY + cold (Ornamental) Tusk = cold + water + earth (Surface) Twinkle = WINTER + air (Ornamental) Venture = Ornamental + BLAZING GALE (Ornamental) Verglace = MISTLETOE + cold (Ornamental) Yanghis = STARSHINE + FLICKER (Ornamental) Yeti = KRINGLE & KRAMPUS (Ornamental) Yule = Ornamental + MOUNTAIN SUN (Ornamental) Zero = PERMAFROST + SNOWPOCALYPSE (Ornamental, Apocalypse) Zumi = SNOWBALL + KETU (Ornamental)
RARE Blazing Gale = fire + air Candlecrown = HOLLY + fire Chaiko = LONGCICLE + Starshine Coal = fire + earth Epoch = BLOOM + BEARDED Flurry = cold + air + water Gift = plant + fire + cold Hidden Bolt = dark + lightning Holly = MISTLETOE + EVERGREEN Icebound = cold + water + air Icy Torrent = cold + water Iron Blossom = plant + metal Jamjam = REGIFT + JINGLE Jingle = MISTLETOE + fire Ketu = cold + air + dark Krampus = COAL + cold Kringle = TRINKET + earth Longcicle = cold + water + air Lyuba = ICEBOUND + earth + cold Mistletoe = TREE + LICHEN Mountain Sun = earth + light Neoteric = LUMINOUS + SPARK Neyvee = WOOLEN + water + earth Regift = plant + fire + cold Reindeer = plant + cold Sleighbell = REINDEER + earth + fire Snowbrush = cold + plant + light Thundersnow = cold + earth + lightning Trinket = plant + fire + cold Weaver = WOOLEN + CAVE Woolen = GIFT + earth
EVOLVE DRAGONS Avarice = evolve from COAL when all 10 different Poinsettias are in your park (Ornamental) Burglehoo = evolve from COAL when all 10 different Presents are in your park (Ornamental) Gulletail = evolve from COAL when all 10 different Stockings are in your park (Ornamental) Jadice = evolve from COAL when all 10 different Arc Lamps are in your park (Ornamental) Libretto = evolve from GIFT when all 10 different Tuplets are in your park (Ornamental) Lokilure = evolve from COAL when all 10 different Feathers are in your park (Ornamental) Nibwhip = evolve from GIFT when all 10 different Cocoa Mugs are in your park (Ornamental) Saccharine = evolve from GIFT when all 10 different Gumdrops are in your park (Ornamental) Sugarplum = evolve from GIFT when all 10 different Flutter Fruits are in your park (Ornamental) Trepak = evolve from GIFT when all 10 different Nutcrackers are in your park (Ornamental)
GHOSTLY DRAGONS Ghostly Plant = evolve from PLANT when the Effigy of the Leaf is in your park Ghostly Fire = evolve from FIRE when the Effigy of the Flame is in your park Ghostly Earth = evolve from EARTH when the Effigy of the Ground is in your park Ghostly Cold = evolve from COLD when the Effigy of the Frost is in your park Ghostly Glacier = GHOSTLY EARTH + GHOSTLY COLD Ghostly Evergreen = GHOSTLY PLANT + GHOSTLY COLD Ghostly Lichen = GHOSTLY PLANT + GHOSTLY COLD Ghostly Tree = GHOSTLY PLANT + GHOSTLY EARTH Ghostly Poison = GHOSTLY PLANT + GHOSTLY FIRE Ghostly Moss = GHOSTLY PLANT + GHOSTLY EARTH Ghostly Flower = GHOSTLY PLANT + GHOSTLY FIRE Ghostly Trinket = GHOSTLY POISON + GHOSTLY COLD Ghostly Gift = GHOSTLY EVERGREEN + GHOSTLY FIRE Ghostly Coal = GHOSTLY FIRE + GHOSTLY EARTH Ghostly Kringle = GHOSTLY TRINKET + GHOSTLY EARTH Ghostly Krampus = GHOSTLY COAL + GHOSTLY COLD
This breeding chart was originally created by tornorr. RayRayYash now oversees it and regularly updates the chart on Discord. It includes images of the breeding hints for all the returning dragons in the event market and their eggs. It is a spectacular resource, and RayRayYash and Tornorr kindly agreed to share it with us. Thank you so much!
The sensational RayRayYash created a second chart for the evolve dragons in this event! This is taking it to a new stratosphere!
All dragons are the best dragons, but some are required for breeding combos (locked breeding combos). Here’s a list of currently available limited dragons that are in locked combos. You may want to prioritise breeding or purchasing them from the event market.
Other Important Items Goody’s Treatery Goody's Sugar Shack Ornamental Habitat (does not count against your habitat limit) Snowflake Reward Habitat (does not count against your habitat limit) Snowflake Reward Habitat (large) (does not count against your habitat limit) Surface Habitat (does not count against your habitat limit)
Items with the best Iceberries to DC Exchange
The items with the best return for Iceberries are:
You must claim your eggs at the Runic Breeding Caves by January 23rd, 8:00 AM MST. It will not be possible to earn additional Iceberries after this time, but the House of Treats (event market) will remain open so you can spend your Iceberries.
House of Treats will close on January 25th at 8:00 AM MST. Any remaining Iceberries will be converted into DragonCash.
🌟 THEMES 🌟
The Twilight Tower theme is Sombre (new theme!) The Weather Station theme is None for regular days; Snow for Double and Triple Days
☃️ QUESTS ⛄️
Free Real Estate - Igluit Grumpy Wumpy - Greenge (pending screenshot) Ice Change - Nature Let It Snow - Elkar Nice and Cozy - Sugarmitten Stay Frosty - Everfrost Tales of Icebrand - Kotun Triple Axel - Aisa
If you’re new to the Runic Breeding Caves, here’s a description and some tips. If you’re familiar with the caves, here’s a refresher.
WHY ALL THE FUSS?
The Runic Breeding Caves are an event mechanism that allows players to earn event currency. But it’s much different than other features because you can claim dragon eggs from the RBCs to complete your dragon collections. As a result, the RBCs are a beloved part of DragonVale and are always highly anticipated.
Depending on the event, there will either be 5 or 10 RBCs. One RBC is always active. You’ll activate another during the event tutorial, and there’s a Bonus Runic Breeding Cave that will be active during Double Days, and yet another if there’s a Triple Day. The other RBCs need to be activated by a Runestone. You will receive several free Runestones, one during the event tutorial and there may be more from the event’s daily calendar rewards. Any additional Runestones can be purchased from the Market.
If you tap the Info button on a RBC, a description of the cave will appear indicating whether it’s a Bonus Cave for Double or Triple Days.
HOW THE RUNIC BREEDING CAVES WORK
The RBCs are different from the regular breeding caves in several ways:
• When you activate a RBC, it will remain active for one week.
• The breeding times at the RBCs are 75% shorter. So a 24 hour breed will now take 6 hours.
• After you breed an egg, instead of incubating, the egg is added to the Egg History. To access the Egg History, select the Egg History button at a RBC.
• The Egg History applies to all RBCs. If you breed a dragon at one RBC, it will show on the Egg History for every cave, and you can claim the egg at any RBC.
• After you breed a dragon, you’ll receive event currency based on the length of the breed. The amount of currency you’ll earn has changed over the years. Since 2020, for every hour of a dragon’s normal breeding time, you’ll receive 2 event currency, with a maximum of 50 event currency per breed (examples: Lava dragon, which has a 10 hour breeding time, will take 2.5 hours to breed at the RBCs, and will earn 20 event currency. Double Rainbow with a 60 hour breed time will take 15 hours, and payout 50 event currency).
• For every unique dragon you breed at the RBCs, you will receive a bonus of 100 event currency. If you breed the dragon again, there is no bonus. The bonus amount will not increase with Double Days.
CLAIMING EGGS
• To claim an egg, open a cave and tap the Claims Left button. Choose a Dragon will pop-up, just scroll to find the dragon and tap Confirm.
• You can claim ONE egg from each Runic Cave you activate.
• You can claim the egg at any time, even after the cave has been deactivated.
• You can claim the same egg more than once from a different RBC. This is especially helpful for players who want a twin or traited-twin dragon. The RBCs follow the same pattern as the mystery eggs (regular, twin, traited-twin). You only need to breed the dragon once in any RBC, then you can claim the regular version from one cave, the twin from a different cave, and the traited-twin from a third cave.
• Be sure to claim your eggs before the event island is removed (last day to collect event currency). The RBCs depart with the event island.
• TIP: if you’re claiming a traited version of a dragon, tap the '?' on the dragon’s listing in the Choose a Dragon menu. The dragon’s info card will show and you can see what the trait looks like on the dragon. If you don’t like the trait, close Choose a Dragon, click the Claims Left button again, and you’ll be offered a different trait. Repeat until the desired trait appears.
STRATEGIES & TIPS
• Since the RBCs reward 100 event currency for each unique breed, target breeding (cloning) dragons with two of the same dragon (e.g., Satin + Satin) is ideal.
• An effective way to clone dragons at the RBCs is to start with dragons that have 5 or more elements and/or have locked breeding combos. Dragons with locked combos have specific parents in their breeding hint; therefore, they cannot be a breeding fail for another pair.
• After cloning the dragons with 5 or more elements, continue with 4-element and 3-element dragons. By the time you’re done, you should have most of the permanent hybrids bred.
• If you don’t have two of every dragon, start cloning the dragons you have duplicates of with more than 2 elements, then move on to single parent cloning (target dragon + another dragon). Cloning two of the same dragon has a much higher breeding percentage than using the breeding hint or single parent cloning. Breed the permanent hybrids and primary dragons last.
• You will probably want a checklist of all the dragons listed by their RBC reduced breeding time. On Quil’s DragonVale Compendium, there is a Runic Breeding Caves spreadsheet to plan and keep track of your RBC breeds.
• Keep an eye on the RBCs activation timers. Just before an RBC deactivates, breed a dragon with a long breeding time. When the cave expires, the breed will be complete. Insta-breed!
• Before deploying Kairos, try to fill the RBCs with dragons that have long breeding / incubation times. You can use gems to speed up RBC breeds.
• If you keep your park in black and white, it’s difficult to notice that a RBC is lit up and activated. This has resulted in some players forgetting to breed in the Double Days cave. You may want to keep your park in colour when the RBCs are in the game.
• If you’re new to DragonVale, and don’t have a lot of dragons, breeding two dragons that have all 10 elements (e.g., Rainbow + Double Rainbow), will yield a wide diversity of dragons. Be sure to use two different dragons. Breeding two of the same will greatly increase your chances of breeding that dragon over and over.
• The RBCs are extremely beneficial and will help you acquire some of the dragons you need. Try to breed the new event dragons and the returning limited dragons you don’t own, so at the end of the event, you can claim the ones you weren’t able to breed in the Cooperative, Vale, or Rift.
• Wait until the end of the event to make your egg claims! You never know what you’ll breed during the event.
RUNIC BREEDING CAVE BUGS
• When using gems to speed up breeding, the gem cost can reset late, or not at all. This is an ongoing bug since the inception of the RBCs. It was reported to Backflip and has been reported to Deca.
• Lunis and Solis cause crashes when they’re successfully bred at the RBCs. As a result, Lunis and Solis are usually unavailable if the RBCs are in the game. Please check the breeding hints and Dragonarium to ensure they’re available before attempting to breed them.
ADDITIONAL INFO
• Be sure to keep track of the RBCs you activate. You do not want to activate a cave that has already been activated, since you can claim an egg from every cave that has been activated during the course of the event.
• Once you purchase Runestones, you can use them at any time. Click on a Runic Cave, and in the upper right corner your Runestone counter will show. Tap on it, or on the RBC Breed button, and you’ll be asked if you want to activate the cave with a Runestone.
• Monolith and Snowflake eggs are identical, so if you need to know which Monolith or Snowflake dragon you bred in the RBCs, click on the Egg History button, then tap the Claims Left button to see the list of dragons.
• Runestones have never been offered at a discount. That doesn’t mean it’ll never happen, but it seems highly unlikely.
• There are two deadlines for every event: (1) last day to collect event currency, and (2) last day to buy items at the event market. The Runic Breeding Caves will depart when you can no longer collect event currency. Be sure to claim your eggs before then. If you do not, the game will give you Motley eggs.
Just a note to those that may use the Compendium to track their Runic Cave eggs:
The tab is a static list, while the rest of the Compendium is updated automatically from our source information. That means if you haven't used the tab in quite a while, it will be out of date. There is a field in the top right of that tab that lets you update the information on that page. In that yellow box where it says to Enter 'update' or 'reset', just type update there and hit enter. It should take a few seconds, and you'll see all of the new dragons will be added to the checklist since it was last used, along with updates to what can be bred and cloned.
If you used it last year and have checkmarks everywhere, you can also type reset in that same field to clear them all out.
Last Edit: Dec 10, 2022 7:28:22 GMT -6 by adlerist
I'm just going to go ahead and say it - Sugarmitten is the absolute cutest dragon I've ever seen! I want a dozen of them, they're so adorable. ❤️💚❤️💚❤️💚
I have to start getting ready for work soon, but hopefully by the time I get back someone will have purchased a Sugarmitten and put it in co-op. I already have a spot picked out for it. So much cuteness.
We share our physical lives with those in spirit. For life, like love, never dies. Love knows no limits, not even death.
The Igluit dragon concept and design was created by the remarkable u/hotsaucechicken! For Deca’s DragonVale Lore Design Contest, u/hotsaucechicken submitted the Igloo dragon on Reddit. Igloo is based on the Igloo decoration, and Igluit is based on Igloo. It’s the ice cube version of the Rubik’s Cube.
The new color scheme here looks great! And I love the song, especially the line about needing more islands! Yes, yes, yes!
This event looks interesting and challenging, with so many dragons in the breeding combos. Everytime I think I’m getting a good handle on Rift dragons, a new event shows me I still have a long way to go. BUT, here’s the good news: I have 2 traited Coals ready to evolve and the feathers and presents required to do it. Just a couple weeks ago I finally bred a traited Snowflake 7 (that took FOREVER and TONS OF ETHERIUM) so that’s ready too. I’ll be working on getting traited Reminiscence, Mistletoe, Verglace, and Yule. It’s good to have goals.
The new color scheme here looks great! And I love the song, especially the line about needing more islands! Yes, yes, yes!
This event looks interesting and challenging, with so many dragons in the breeding combos. Everytime I think I’m getting a good handle on Rift dragons, a new event shows me I still have a long way to go. BUT, here’s the good news: I have 2 traited Coals ready to evolve and the feathers and presents required to do it. Just a couple weeks ago I finally bred a traited Snowflake 7 (that took FOREVER and TONS OF ETHERIUM) so that’s ready too. I’ll be working on getting traited Reminiscence, Mistletoe, Verglace, and Yule. It’s good to have goals.
You’re very lucky! Snowflake 7 is so hard to breed. I’m going to try and get it in the Runic Caves and claim the traited version but I tried last year and couldn’t breed it at the Runics.
Gone away is the trilobite Here to stay is the frostbite To sing a love song While we stroll along Walking in a winter wonderland
In the meadow we can build a snowball We'll pretend that he is Deca Games He'll say, are you playing? We'll say, yes sir 'But we could use more land!' we all exclaim
Later on, we'll conspire As we dream by the fire To face unafraid The park that we've made Walking in a winter wonderland
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I agree with harwood! The remake of Winter Wonderland so it fits DV and the DV experience is so hilarious! 🤣 I’ve read or rather, sang this song four times already lol! I love the “trilobite” and “frostbite” part, instead of “bluebird” and “new bird”. Very clever! This is exactly what it’s like to play DV, “DECA, we need more land!” 😂 It’s been like that for two years. 😅
It’s also the event theme (sorry, I thought I posted this at the beginning of the event, but I guess I didn’t 😬). There was a bug earlier that prevented the music from playing in some iOS and Android parks, but it has been fixed. So, check it out. It is a night theme, but only the sky is dark. The islands are very bright so it’ll drown out any lights.
Post by sylviasylvester on Dec 8, 2022 20:37:21 GMT -6
I LOVE the new colors of the forum! They match the loading screen pic really well and they’re very bright and colourful! Zumi is really cute in the background. I love the DragonVale winter wonderland song too!
The new dragons are all really amazing! I can’t pick which one is my favorite. It’s going to be very tough to vote for the best three at the end of the event!
The new color scheme here looks great! And I love the song, especially the line about needing more islands! Yes, yes, yes!
This event looks interesting and challenging, with so many dragons in the breeding combos. Everytime I think I’m getting a good handle on Rift dragons, a new event shows me I still have a long way to go. BUT, here’s the good news: I have 2 traited Coals ready to evolve and the feathers and presents required to do it. Just a couple weeks ago I finally bred a traited Snowflake 7 (that took FOREVER and TONS OF ETHERIUM) so that’s ready too. I’ll be working on getting traited Reminiscence, Mistletoe, Verglace, and Yule. It’s good to have goals.
I agree with harwood ! The remake of Winter Wonderland so it fits DV and the DV experience is so hilarious! 🤣 I’ve read or rather, sang this song four times already lol! I love the “trilobite” and “frostbite” part, instead of “bluebird” and “new bird”. Very clever! This is exactly what it’s like to play DV, “DECA, we need more land!” 😂 It’s been like that for two years. 😅
I LOVE the new colors of the forum! They match the loading screen pic really well and they’re very bright and colourful! Zumi is really cute in the background. I love the DragonVale winter wonderland song too!
The new dragons are all really amazing! I can’t pick which one is my favorite. It’s going to be very tough to vote for the best three at the end of the event!
Thank you so very much! ❤️ It was very entertaining changing the song, and I’m glad the Forum’s theme came together. It was a little touch and go for a bit 😅. Zumi has become the star of the event and the Forum. She was almost the thread icon too.
I agree, Deca really knocked it out of the park with the first three dragons!
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The Scavenger Hunt has returned
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I LOVE the new colors of the forum! They match the loading screen pic really well and they’re very bright and colourful! Zumi is really cute in the background. I love the DragonVale winter wonderland song too! 
