Dragonvale World is the newest game from Backflip Studios featuring our favourite mythical creatures. The game play is incredibly similar to Dragonvale, unsurprisingly, you purchase primary dragons and habitats, breed them to make hybrids and new elements are introduced as you level up. The main difference to basic play is that this is a 3D game allowing you to truly see the dragons from all angles (you can rotate them on the screen yourself) and the environment you are in (decorations and buildings can also be rotated). Oh, also ... your islands aren't floating anymore.
Your New Park
The lower part of your island is is the base of your park. It holds the dragonarium, which players of DV1 should be able to pick out, and also the Market, the Clan Hall and the Wizard Hall. This island cannot be decorated or cleared and none of the buildings or the portal can be moved.
The tutorial doesn't start here but slightly north ...
Building your new Park
This is where the game play/tutorial starts. You build habitats, buy eggs, grow food and level up & breed dragons. I'm sure we can pick out Fire and Jungle habitats, a farm, the breeding cave and the hatchery. You can see timers over everything that is going on, including the construction of a habitat and the clearing of some obstacles at the back. As you progress and need more room, you can buy expansions (the top left shows the trees and rocks of the next expansion) but you also get to expand outside of your own island.
Expanding into new Locations
As part of the tutorial you unlock Brightleaf Jungle, your first new location which unlocks ...
... the Jungle Dragon and the Jungle Habitat. You can add the Jungle habitat to your park, but also, eventually, you can place dragons in the Brightleaf Jungle. You can also send Dragons with the Jungle element to explore the Brightleaf Jungle to find exotic foods that you can't grow yourself and other special items as well.
Spells
The special items your dragons find when they go collecting can temporarily change the look of your dragon, increase earnings or decrease breeding times. You can also use combinations of items to perform spells, that will cause permanent changes in your dragons.
Achievements
The game keeps track of all your progress and you get rewarded as you hit certain milestones. You can keep track of your progress in the Wizards Hall and the smaller goals are replaced by bigger ones (Feed Dragons 100 Times is replaced with Feed Dragons 1000 Times, etc).
Social Play
As you complete the achievements throughout the game your progress is posted in your Activity tab. Friends through GCID and FaceBook can "applaud" your achievements. This rewards you with gems, which as we all know, is a vital element of the game. You can also visit your friends parks, join a Clan and even send messages.
And that's pretty much the overview of game play. Follow the links below to take you to threads with specific answers or to ask questions.
Maximising XP to Level Up You do not earn XP from breeding and hatching dragons. This fact means that progress through the levels is quite a bit slower then in DV1. But we are all keen to level up as fast as possible, to get access to the new dragons. The four best ways to do this are:
1. Clearing Obstacles 2. Completing Activities and filling Orders 3. Growing food and feeding dragons 4. Buying habitats and decorations 5. Gathering with your Dragons
1. Buy park expansions and clear obstacles as soon as you are able. You will need DC to do that, so have a look at maximising earnings below.
2. Keep a track of Activities that set and Orders that are requested and fill them as soon as you can. A lot of orders are simply to do with food you can grow yourself, so grow it and sell it to get the XP boost. If an order looks like it might be hard to collect the required elements, or you don't like the reward (e.g. if it's only DC, or you can gain more XP simply by feeding your dragons the items you have collected) then Trash the order and wait for a better one to come along. As you level up you will move from 1 NPC requesting an order, to 2, to 3, etc.
3. Buy the max number of farm plots available and keep food growing in them all the time. The pantry is limited in size, so feed it to your dragons as soon as you can. Food required really ramps up in the last few levels, so level up all the dragons to 6, then work on getting them all to 7, etc. This way they are earning more DC for you. And keep sending your dragons out to gather. The items they bring back are a great boost to levelling them up.
4. Buy and sell habitats and decorations to turn DC into XP. In the lull between clearing an Expansion and levelling up to the next one, you will find that you reach the DC ceiling cap reasonably fast. There is nothing better to spend your DC on, so turn it into XP. Decorations earn 1 XP for every 2 DC spend but Habitats earn an XP for every DC you spend. However Decorations are instantly built whilst Habitats take time/need to be sped up with gems. The hybridised habitats also cost gems, and are instantly built. They earn 100 XP for every gem spent, so spending 250 gems on a Desert/Fire habitat will get you 25,000 XP at the click of a button. It sounds like a lot of gems, but you can easily earn this in a day of on and off grinding your way through Video ads in the game. You then get the DC for selling the habitat which you can spend on decorations to help you even more.
5. Sending dragons out to Gather earns you XP in the amount that you have spent. You can check the amounts you can earn HERE
Maximise Earnings DC DC is earned through the dragons in habitats and by selling off dragons you have bred. Here's a couple of notes about that:
1. Dragons at a Location do not earn DC. You only collect from the habitats that you have in your park. There is probably some optimum set up for what specific dragons you should place where, but as you need dragon levels at the Location to unlock items and decorations it's probably not worth worrying about at the moment.
2. You can use dragons at a location to breed or gather. This means if you know you have a dragon that you are going to be using a lot for either of those purposes, place it at a Location (if you can). That way you will not lose out on earning DC while that dragon is doing other things.
3. Make sure you cast spells for greater earnings on dragons you have in a habitat. It is wasted on a dragon at a location. Spells are passed on to offspring, and accumulate. So if you cast a 10% earning boost on to two parent dragons, the child dragon will have a 20% boost. This is something else to keep in mind as you progress through the game.
4. Feed dragons with the food corresponding to their elements, for an XP boost. Some of the food that you gather specifically indicates a 25% boost when fed to a dragon with the appropriate elements. My testing shows that even foods without that indicator gives an XP boost. Feeding Jungle Snaps to a Jungle dragon will level it up faster than Desert Snaps, which means it will earn DC at a higher rate.
5. At the early levels breeding and selling Jungle/Fire Hybrids are the best ways to breed for DC. 10 or 15 minutes breed/incubate for 250/375. Once you hit level 7 and get the water element, Jungle/Water Hybrids are a better option. 30 or 40 minutes breed/incubate time for over 4000. **THE LATEST UPDATE HAS CHANGED THE SELL PRICE OF DRAGONS WILL NEED TO RE DO THIS!**
Gems 1. By far the easiest way to earn gems is to grind through Video Ads. You earn between 10 and 25 gems for a minute or two of watching an ad and it resets very quickly. In a few weeks you can earn the thousands of gems you need to buy all the items and expansions required. (This seems to me to be the main drawback here. I hope they are earning enough to keep the game making money from this approach, because it essentially renders buying gems unnecessary for those don't mind the grind. If not, they will change this soon, or this game will be short lived.)
2. Rewards for achievements will just happen as you go along and your friends Applaud your progress. Make sure you reciprocate.
3. I don't believe there is any use for Artefacts beyond turning a collection in for gems. Wait until you have the 6 pieces of dragon teeth for the 17 gems, as the exchange rate isn't really worth it before that.
Note: The Video Peddler no longer seems to be working for Rion or myself. It is possible that it was 'paying out' far more often than it should, so it has been suspended whilst they work that out. Stay tuned.
Best use of Spells Spells of parents are passed onto children, and they accumulate. 2 parents with a 5% breed boost will result in a child with a 10% breed boost. Edit: This is no longer the case. Offspring are hatched with no spells. Will edit this post. Edit the 2nd: It seems that some offspring are hatched with spells. Need to check exactly what is going on here.
That is the most important thing to know, so I'm leaving that sentence to hang their on it's own. The only thing is that only one trait will be passed along, so if you have a breed boost and an incubate boost between your 2 parent dragons, only one of those traits will be passed along, but it seems the percentages will be increased. A 5% breed boost in one parent and a 5% incubate boost in another parent will result in a 10% breed OR incubate boost in the child. So, what does this mean? How can you make the most of that? Thoughts below:
Seed spells (decreased breeding time) 1. Start gathering Items as soon as you can and DO NOT feed any of the coin/seed/hatch/search waters directly to your dragons. Accumulate them for the spells. 2. Cast the Seed spells on the primary dragons. They give a 5% boost each, and all their offspring will have 10% boost. That means when you use two of the second generation dragons to breed together the 3rd generation dragons will have the max 15% boost. 3. DO NOT cast the 5% spells on hybrid dragons, as they will only have 5% boost. 2 boosted primaries as parents means you have will have doubled the breeding boost for the hybrid.
Hatch spells (decreased incubate time) 1. Cast Hatch spells on the 2nd generation Hybrids that have a 10% boost AND that you will use a lot for breeding. For example when you get to the point you are breeding Lake and Tropical dragons for cash, then cast a Hatch spell on one or both of the Lake/Tropical dragons you use as parents.
Coin spells (increased earnings) 1. Base element dragons cannot be moved to Locations, so they are excellent choices for the Coin Spells. 2. The Location element dragons are also good choices, because only having one element means they are not good choices to house at a Location. 3. Do not cast these spells on Rare variants, because the 3 element dragons are most useful at the Locations.
Search spells (decreased gathering time) 1. The cheapest dragons to send gathering are Flytrap (Brightleaf Jungle), Dune (Switchgrass Desert) & Murk (Darklight Cavern), at the cost of 2290. These are the default dragons to send out. 2. Variant Dragons cost the same as their regular counter parts, but have more elements covered. Cast Search spells on variant Flytrap, Dune and Murk dragons. 3. Level 1 Rewards take 15 minutes, Level 2 rewards take 2 hours, and level 3 rewards take 12 hours. The time savings are more beneficial at the higher levels. 4. The dragons sent gathering should always be dragons in Locations as you aren't missing out on DC whilst they are away.
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. Once you hit level 7 and get the water element, Jungle/Water Hybrids are a better option.