I’m had a very long and tiring and fun 😉 weekend with the extended family. Didn’t get to play DV all day yesterday! I grabbed my iPad as climbed into bed around 1am last night, intending to collect and breed for the day. Well, I fell 😴 with iPad in hand and woke some 20 minutes later. To my utter shock, I had somehow touched the community egg! 😳 I was saving it until after the event. It is Tumblethorn, which I already have. But in my blurred eyed sleepiness, I had thought it was a twin and hatched it and closed my iPad. This morning I see it’s not a twin, but just another regular Tumblethorn that I could have used for the ped, that I still need 🤦♀️
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Did some party hatting last night, first time for ages, realised that after a certain level you earn more, more easily, from party hatting than from pursuing that laaaast banner bearers around your own park (slow with numbers, me) Anyhoo, perused Cyn 's rift layout; love it! Inspired me to start clearing more fog each day (2 squares a day, it's expensive now) so that I too can separate habitats and organise my current shambolic hab-mate situation; I want to aim at one-of-each (or as much as the current hab limit will allow) on display and to be able to put all the specials togethe to ease of watching them play 😄 Thanks Cyn !!!🌻🌻🌻🌹🌹🌹🐨🐨🐨
Last Edit: Feb 20, 2018 14:24:57 GMT -6 by Kiwichris
So today I hit my 200th unique rift dragon, and I still have a little ways to go to finish. I'm a little sad knowing that I can't display any more in the rift, at least until they increase the island cap.
Thanks Kiwichris! Though my Rift is in order my regular park is a shambles. Can’t wait until I have time to bring order to the chaos.
Bang, bang, BANG! (sound of gavel echoes through the Rift) I call to order this session of the Utterly Rifted Club. 🤪 I’d like to ask for help from the unRifted who may be peeking in. I am still sans three Rifted pedestals: Ghast, Thunderbird, and Viridian. Been trying with the original breeding pairs that got me the dragons with no luck. Is it possible to breed these with the dragon itself and a main element like Fire, Plant, etc? The Utterly Rifted Club is still open for other topics.
Thanks Kiwichris! Though my Rift is in order my regular park is a shambles. Can’t wait until I have time to bring order to the chaos.
Bang, bang, BANG! (sound of gavel echoes through the Rift) I call to order this session of the Utterly Rifted Club. 🤪 I’d like to ask for help from the unRifted who may be peeking in. I am still sans three Rifted pedestals: Ghast, Thunderbird, and Viridian. Been trying with the original breeding pairs that got me the dragons with no luck. Is it possible to breed these with the dragon itself and a main element like Fire, Plant, etc? The Utterly Rifted Club is still open for other topics.
It is definitely possible to get the Thunderbird that way. I got it as a fail when using the Thunderbird with Flower to get Satin last weekend.
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Thanks Kiwichris ! Though my Rift is in order my regular park is a shambles. Can’t wait until I have time to bring order to the chaos.
Bang, bang, BANG! (sound of gavel echoes through the Rift) I call to order this session of the Utterly Rifted Club. 🤪 I’d like to ask for help from the unRifted who may be peeking in. I am still sans three Rifted pedestals: Ghast, Thunderbird, and Viridian. Been trying with the original breeding pairs that got me the dragons with no luck. Is it possible to breed these with the dragon itself and a main element like Fire, Plant, etc? The Utterly Rifted Club is still open for other topics.
Yes! Got Ghast second try yesterday, Antumbra three tries earlier, and Tbird is a semi regular fail these days: now, to try to get over shock of loss of roses (see event thread 😱😫) and recall breeding pairs: I used the dragon itself and (usually) the first one from the sandbox recommendation, and used trans tower (buffs fingernails) to ensure traits covered 🐨🐨🐨🐨🐨🐨🐨
Bad luck with roses disappearing...BUT mega koala on rift dragons today. I was able to breed three hybrids that I needed leaving only 11 rift dragons left for me to get, 10 limiteds including Shield which can't be bred right now and Infrared.
Thanks Kiwichris ! Though my Rift is in order my regular park is a shambles. Can’t wait until I have time to bring order to the chaos.
Bang, bang, BANG! (sound of gavel echoes through the Rift) I call to order this session of the Utterly Rifted Club. 🤪 I’d like to ask for help from the unRifted who may be peeking in. I am still sans three Rifted pedestals: Ghast, Thunderbird, and Viridian. Been trying with the original breeding pairs that got me the dragons with no luck. Is it possible to breed these with the dragon itself and a main element like Fire, Plant, etc? The Utterly Rifted Club is still open for other topics.
I'm not sure if the breeding glitch has been fixed, but I was able to get a Viridian pedestal using Flower + Thunder not long ago. I have all the rift unique pedestals and got all of them from using the dragon along with similar elements rather than the original combos.
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Gem and Crystalline dragons are in general breedable in the rift. (Tourmaline is the lone exception.)
You can basically breed anything in the Rift that you can in the main park, if you (can) have traited versions of both parents. So, here's the things you can't breed in there:
Anything that needs an epic as a parent. e.g. Tourmaline, Gargoyle, Rosegold, Spritely Epics can't have traits (yet) so that required epic parent can't be present in the Rift to use in the combo. (A subset of the above: Snowflake dragons, Monolith dragons, Chrysalis dragons, Galaxy dragons. These all require dragons of that type already in the Rift, leading to a fun recursive situation. It'll be interesting to see how BFS solves this.)
Anything not currently available in the main park, unless that unavailable dragon is the same as one of the parent dragons you're using.
That's it. Everything else you can breed in there.
Edit: which is a really long way of saying Kiwichris is correct.
Last Edit: Feb 21, 2018 23:31:07 GMT -6 by Arkynos
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Gem and Crystalline dragons are in general breedable in the rift. (Tourmaline is the lone exception.)
You can basically breed anything in the Rift that you can in the main park, if you (can) have traited versions of both parents. So, here's the things you can't breed in there:
Anything that needs an epic as a parent. e.g. Tourmaline, Gargoyle, Rosegold, Spritely Epics can't have traits (yet) so that required epic parent can't be present in the Rift to use in the combo. (A subset of the above: Snowflake dragons, Monolith dragons, Chrysalis dragons, Galaxy dragons. These all require dragons of that type already in the Rift, leading to a fun recursive situation. It'll be interesting to see how BFS solves this.)
Anything not currently available in the main park, unless that unavailable dragon is the same as one of the parent dragons you're using.
That's it. Everything else you can breed in there.
Edit: which is a really long way of saying Kiwichris is correct.
So by 9/10's of the way through that I was feeling sooo bad at being sooo wrong again....
for Utterly Rifted club members, for whom the above is a language remaining impenetrable at this point in time, is a valid short cut check the dragonarium, if it's breedable in the (no, I'm wrong already) Rift it'll have a rift sign on the left upper side of the icon....THAT's for if it can LIVE in the Rift, right? So for the UR members, the easy check is the sandbox, parent finder and tick rift breeding, tells if can/can't be bred in Rift, BUT not clear for gemstones and crys tho cos says unbreedable if it's not the dragon of the month/quarter... sigh
Gem and Crystalline dragons are in general breedable in the rift. (Tourmaline is the lone exception.)
You can basically breed anything in the Rift that you can in the main park, if you (can) have traited versions of both parents. So, here's the things you can't breed in there:
Anything that needs an epic as a parent. e.g. Tourmaline, Gargoyle, Rosegold, Spritely Epics can't have traits (yet) so that required epic parent can't be present in the Rift to use in the combo. (A subset of the above: Snowflake dragons, Monolith dragons, Chrysalis dragons, Galaxy dragons. These all require dragons of that type already in the Rift, leading to a fun recursive situation. It'll be interesting to see how BFS solves this.)
Anything not currently available in the main park, unless that unavailable dragon is the same as one of the parent dragons you're using.
That's it. Everything else you can breed in there.
Edit: which is a really long way of saying Kiwichris is correct.
I'm missing two of the special Rift dragons. Despite untold thousands of E spent on breeding attempts, I just cannot get them. Arg! They seem like simple ones, too. According to my notes:
Nimbus: Fire/Water with a Light trait I've been crossing Salamander[light] X Steam[light] with no luck.
Tumblethorn: Plant/Earth with a Earth trait I've been using various plant, earth, and plant/earth hybrids, always with one or both having the earth trait. No luck (but Tumblethorn is fairly new, so it could just be taking a while for success ... but, c'mon- plant/earth? That ain't difficult!)
The only thing I can think of is: does the Rift, itself, have to be attuned to Light or Earth (respectively) while trying to breed these guys? Or am I just having abysmal luck?
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Today is a Riftacular day for me. First, got Voltaic as my rose screw up egg then I bred a Thunderbird!! Now if i could only get the **** Plumewing. That one seems easy to everyone in DV but me. But i will take my success of today and enjoy getting 2 of the last 4 dragons I need! Koala everyone
I'm missing two of the special Rift dragons. Despite untold thousands of E spent on breeding attempts, I just cannot get them. Arg! They seem like simple ones, too. According to my notes:
Nimbus: Fire/Water with a Light trait I've been crossing Salamander[light] X Steam[light] with no luck.
Tumblethorn: Plant/Earth with a Earth trait I've been using various plant, earth, and plant/earth hybrids, always with one or both having the earth trait. No luck (but Tumblethorn is fairly new, so it could just be taking a while for success ... but, c'mon- plant/earth? That ain't difficult!)
The only thing I can think of is: does the Rift, itself, have to be attuned to Light or Earth (respectively) while trying to breed these guys? Or am I just having abysmal luck?
Sorry to say so, my dear, but I think is just the luck. Took me forever to get Tumblethorn, whilst everyone around was popping them out left and right! But then again, I am as well, utterly rifted! 😉
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Last night, I got a Sun in the rift in one of my games. It was 10pm. I was so stunned! Only thing I could figure is just as time is bendy in the rift so breedings are instant, day and night are bendy too. Or it could have been a glitch.
I'm missing two of the special Rift dragons. Despite untold thousands of E spent on breeding attempts, I just cannot get them. Arg! They seem like simple ones, too. According to my notes:
Nimbus: Fire/Water with a Light trait I've been crossing Salamander[light] X Steam[light] with no luck.
Tumblethorn: Plant/Earth with a Earth trait I've been using various plant, earth, and plant/earth hybrids, always with one or both having the earth trait. No luck (but Tumblethorn is fairly new, so it could just be taking a while for success ... but, c'mon- plant/earth? That ain't difficult!)
The only thing I can think of is: does the Rift, itself, have to be attuned to Light or Earth (respectively) while trying to breed these guys? Or am I just having abysmal luck?
I don't even think you're having abysmal luck, that sounds right on par with what I was seeing when trying to get Tumblethorn.
When it was released last week, I tried to get it in my main park, my alt park, both my kids parks who don't play anymore, and my wife tried in hers. I did breedings up to 10k in mine, sometimes even did the 10k, which is 14-16 attempts a day. Not quite as many in the other parks, maybe 10 or so per day. After 300+ total attempts, I was thinking the same thing: Maybe the rift needs to be aligned specifically, or maybe I had the combo wrong. Then my son's park finally got it, so I knew it was possible. I never did get it in any other parks, and gave up when I got it as a login mystery egg on my main. My wife still doesn't have hers.
Just looking at my tries, the chances seem to be somewhere around 0.3% on each attempt but that's a pretty small sampling to come up with any real accurate numbers. It will probably just show up later as a fail for something else you were trying to get.
I did see quite a few posts from people who got it early, so maybe I was just very unlucky too. But I tend to believe the averages, and when so many people are playing, some will just get it on the first try or two. At least that lets us know we're on the right track with the combo.
So far, so good. Yesterday I bred a Ghast (Ghast+Light) and Thunderbird (Thunderbird+Lightning) pedestal so that just leaves Viridian. Thanks for the suggestions everyone!
Woot woot, managed a Lapis in the rift today! Used sandstorm and thunder. I needed a pedestal, and really hate to use gemstone/crystalline dragons bred in the main park for pedestals, lol. Will try again to get some duplicates before it expires.
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So just doing some Rift design planning, within our current limitations, and seeking a mathematically competent Valer to check my logic, please?
40 habitats Each can hold 5 dragons Allows 200 dragons to be displayed Less 26 'riftie' special dragons, displayed And, my choice, less 5 rift versions of House dragons displayed Leaves me space for displaying 169 rift versions of element dragons; And there are 173 elementals, so 4 can't be displayed... Yet!
Is that correct figuring? Before I launch into shifting and list making and even more huuuugely expensive fog clearing... Thanks for checking my math homework 😊
Last Edit: Feb 23, 2018 14:12:20 GMT -6 by Kiwichris
I need confirmation- can we breed Gems and Crystallines in the Rift?
Yes. I have bred a few up there- both crystalline and gemstone. It's now my go-to for breeding gem-producers since the insta-hatch makes fail times nonexistent.
(trying to remember which specific dragons I bred up there- Definitely a Jet, either Amethyst or Garnet, and then both Labradorite and Aquamarine during BEB. And maybe also a Barite?)
Last Edit: Feb 23, 2018 14:22:03 GMT -6 by althea: forgot about Aquamarine! Tried for him in the Rift for weeks during BEB and finally got him!
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