Sun, I’m not seeing the new two headed dragon shadow as bird-ish, hmmm 🤔. I’m guessing we will have a new dragon for each of the 5 Houses. The one coming out of the blue tent, of the first splash screen looks like a water type to me, so maybe for house Icy Torrent. The two headed shadow looks like it had tattered wings, like a sail does after one of our hurricanes, so maybe Blazing Gale there. The little bird, at the top of the elongated splash screen, doesn’t look animated enough to be a dragon, maybe a decoration, like a wood carving. 🤷🏻♀️
Lol I like guessing this stuff, it’s fun 😆 Anyone else have any ideas??
dragonglow Now that you mention it, the little one on the hill could be a baby of the one in the tent. 🧐 Lol the mystery continues....
You were right LynnMarie : the little bird is a decoration
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Coldcoil is in the co-op, coiled-up and ready to spring into koala action.
Even though Hidden Bolt is my House, I will always stand with the House of Icy Torrent. I’ll never understand why Icy Torrent is so underrepresented by DV players, since it clearly has the finest people, e.g., Kiwichris!
Coldcoil blends in beautifully with all those Paradise habitats you stashed away last month.
Also, he poses exactly the same as in the splash screen. Extremely photogenic.
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Coldcoil is in the co-op, coiled-up and ready to spring into koala action.
Even though Hidden Bolt is my House, I will always stand with the House of Icy Torrent. I’ll never understand why Icy Torrent is so underrepresented by DV players, since it clearly has the finest people, e.g., Kiwichris!
Do you know the percentages which house had been chosen by how many players?
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Sun, I’m not seeing the new two headed dragon shadow as bird-ish, hmmm 🤔. I’m guessing we will have a new dragon for each of the 5 Houses. The one coming out of the blue tent, of the first splash screen looks like a water type to me, so maybe for house Icy Torrent. The two headed shadow looks like it had tattered wings, like a sail does after one of our hurricanes, so maybe Blazing Gale there. The little bird, at the top of the elongated splash screen, doesn’t look animated enough to be a dragon, maybe a decoration, like a wood carving. 🤷🏻♀️
Lol I like guessing this stuff, it’s fun 😆 Anyone else have any ideas??
dragonglow Now that you mention it, the little one on the hill could be a baby of the one in the tent. 🧐 Lol the mystery continues....
You were right LynnMarie : the little bird is a decoration
LynnMarie is so on it! After noting the blue bird on the splash screen, she spotted it on the event island. And made a great point...
This egg matchy game seems like a whole lot of brain power for only 20 or so pine cones. Does the pine cone reward increase with the tower levels?
Also, kinda bummed there are no campy decorations to be had, like a tent or a campfire maybe. I’d really love to have that blue bird. 😉
Deca, where is the blue bird you teased from the splash screen, then continued to taunt us with on the event island?!
We would’ve dropped serious gems for that bird.
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Coldcoil is in the co-op, coiled-up and ready to spring into koala action.
Even though Hidden Bolt is my House, I will always stand with the House of Icy Torrent. I’ll never understand why Icy Torrent is so underrepresented by DV players, since it clearly has the finest people, e.g., Kiwichris !
Do you know the percentages which house had been chosen by how many players?
Not the percentages, but Icy Torrent is in last place. Hidden Bolt is the most popular. So it’s not surprising Atramento is the first dragon we’re seeing in the co-op. Atramento is a stunner.
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Coldcoil is in the co-op, coiled-up and ready to spring into koala action.
Even though Hidden Bolt is my House, I will always stand with the House of Icy Torrent. I’ll never understand why Icy Torrent is so underrepresented by DV players, since it clearly has the finest people, e.g., Kiwichris!
Coldcoil blends in beautifully with all those Paradise habitats you stashed away last month.
Also, he poses exactly the same as in the splash screen. Extremely photogenic.
Oof, please add me.
Also weird question if you'll have it. Pouke is active in my breeding quests, but not the dragonarium. Is that slightly suspicious for a comeback?
Do you know the percentages which house had been chosen by how many players?
Not the percentages, but Icy Torrent is in last place. Hidden Bolt is the most popular. So it’s not surprising Atramento is the first dragon we’re seeing in the co-op. Atramento is a stunner.
Member of the House of Blazing Gale here. 🔥🌫
I honestly wouldn't mind a poll so we can see how things add up with our friends on this forum.
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I'm not very good at this game at all. I have gotten up to level 4 a couple of times in a couple of towers but that's about it. It takes a bit of time and is kind of frustrating. And try as I might to make sense of the merging it seems rather random. I get it's not, but it seems like it to my puny brain. But I'm still enjoying it when I'm not annoyed at it doing what seems like illogical things to me. But the shortcomings are mine and the game is different and a tad addictive. Bottom line is I do appreciate the effort. So thumbs up Deca and thanks for the challenge.
The merging is as random as breeding 2 of those dragons together. You have the same odds.
Not the percentages, but Icy Torrent is in last place. Hidden Bolt is the most popular. So it’s not surprising Atramento is the first dragon we’re seeing in the co-op. Atramento is a stunner.
Member of the House of Blazing Gale here. 🔥🌫
I honestly wouldn't mind a poll so we can see how things add up with our friends on this forum.
Coldcoil is in the co-op, coiled-up and ready to spring into koala action.
Even though Hidden Bolt is my House, I will always stand with the House of Icy Torrent. I’ll never understand why Icy Torrent is so underrepresented by DV players, since it clearly has the finest people, e.g., Kiwichris!
Do you know the percentages which house had been chosen by how many players?
I haven't completed a tower yet, but have had up to level 5 'open' as I scored many points with some Epic. I'm playing it with the attitude that if I win pinecones great, if I don't that's OK too. I try to complete the easier levels first on all towers rather than try and complete a tower. Most of my successful breeds I put down to dumb luck rather than skill.
It is a ploy by Deca for us to open our game more often to play.
I am kind of in the same boat...I do the level 1s across all the camps first, then move onto level 2. The highest level which I have achieved all goals is 4, although I was able to unlock level 5s. I have to agree that I keep coming back to the game to try. For me, this is rather fun and something that is different than just breeding and decorating. It is probably more pure luck, but I feel like I am using my brain a bit too. 😉
I'm Mountain Sun. When the first house choice came along I was looking for some good earning Light or Dark dragons (had plenty of the other elements), and Mountain Sun looked better than Hidden Bolt.
Kairos does not advance time on the tickets. If you have no tickets before you use Kairos, you will still have no tickets after using him.
I have completed one tower. I have 3 available tickets for use. On the rest of the camps, I have green check marks for completed levels. When I try to click on the next level up (locked), it says I can’t because I need to score more points. How can I score more more points if all the rest of the levels remain locked? How do I score more points? I can’t play, even though I have tickets to use. Can somebody explain this? Thanks!
Kairos does not advance time on the tickets. If you have no tickets before you use Kairos, you will still have no tickets after using him.
I have completed one tower. I have 3 available tickets for use. On the rest of the camps, I have green check marks for completed levels. When I try to click on the next level up (locked), it says I can’t because I need to score more points. How can I score more more points if all the rest of the levels remain locked? How do I score more points? I can’t play, even though I have tickets to use. Can somebody explain this? Thanks!
Click on the level below the locked level to earn more points. When you get enough points you can move up.
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I have completed one tower. I have 3 available tickets for use. On the rest of the camps, I have green check marks for completed levels. When I try to click on the next level up (locked), it says I can’t because I need to score more points. How can I score more more points if all the rest of the levels remain locked? How do I score more points? I can’t play, even though I have tickets to use. Can somebody explain this? Thanks!
Click on the level below the locked level to earn more points. When you get enough points you can move up.
This egg matchy game seems like a whole lot of brain power for only 20 or so pine cones. Does the pine cone reward increase with the tower levels?
Also, kinda bummed there are no campy decorations to be had, like a tent or a campfire maybe. I’d really love to have that blue bird. 😉
Deca, where is the blue bird you teased from the splash screen, then continued to taunt us with on the event island?!
We would’ve dropped serious gems for that bird.
. I call this leaving money on the table. DECA has already created 2 tents, a telescope, camp fire and the wooden bird. Why not sell the items? I second the gem dropping. I would love to decorate an island in a Camp DragonVale theme. I also want the wooden bird.
Eggs! is a new minigame available in during this camping event. The basic idea is that you breed eggs together (not dragons!) to create new eggs, following the same basic breeding rules from normal Dragonvale caves. The rarer the dragon egg, the more 'points' or 'score' it is worth. Golden hybrids are worth more than normal hybrids, epics are worth more than hybrids, and twin versions of dragons are worth more than their non twin counterpart.
You're given 5 tickets to play, and tickets regenerate 1 ticket every 30 minutes for a total max of 5. That means you can play all 5 attempts every 2.5 hours if you're so inclined. Towers reset once a day, at game reset time.
There are goals to reach in each stage, and to clear the stage you must complete all the goals on the current attempt. Every time you breed two eggs together, the resulting egg is also given a level. That level is the sum of the levels of eggs you bred, and all eggs start at level 1 in each stage. Some of the goals are to reach a certain score on the board. Other goals can be to bank (save) an egg of a certain level and element. Even if you fail to meet your goals, your final score can still help you unlock the next level in the tower.
The game was not explained well by Deca, but then Deca's other games often deal with more hard core gamers who are used to figuring these things out on their own. This should be a learning experience for them that future games need more of a tutorial for many DV players, who can often be more of a casual gamer.
Lets walk through some of the game play:
The first step is to enter the new minigame area below. This will take you to a screen where you will see the various camp's to clear, the number of tokens you have, and the stages unlocked. The cost to unlock the next stage in each tower is listed at the bottom. Scores from games are cumulative to reach this score, so if you fail to unlock it on your first try then you'll be closer on the next.
Entering the first stage on Camp Meadow shows how many pinecones we'll receive for clearing the stage and then next we can see the goals required to clear the stage, along with the initial board setup.
As you can see here, we need one level 5 lightning egg and 7500 points to complete the stage. That ignite egg on the bottom row is worth 8,676 points alone, enough to complete the 7,500 requirement if we bank it. I'll hold onto it first to ensure I can get a level 5 lightning without it, but it will be a good idea to keep it if possible.
Lets now breed two eggs to see how it works. First I clicked the egg in the upper right, and then I clicked the egg next to it, to the right:
You can see the scores at the bottom, these two eggs are worth 701 and 751 points, and breeding them can get me an egg that's worth 358-27,508 points. Lets gamble, click the second egg again (dungeon) to complete the breed. I got lucky and got a Drifter worth 7,808 as you can see below. Now I need that level 5 lightning dragon. I'm choosing the path below so that I combine 5 eggs, ending on the lightning dragon. If the first 4 produce a lightning element, I'm guaranteed the 5th will since it's breeding with a plain lightning. If not, I may get unlucky and end up with a fire, dark, or earth combo too and fail to get the lightning. But I've still got 2 on the bottom that I can try again with. It's always best to land on something with lightning last, so you're not gambling losing the lighting element in earlier breeds.
I did end up with a loadstone, and banked that and two other dragons. You can see now that the stage is complete:
I now cleaned up the board, tried to get lucky with a few more rare breeds, and banked the best results. Try not to leave eggs stranded in their own row and column until the very end, you don't want to get stuck with a low scoring egg that can't breed up/down or left/right! My end result was 63489 points and enough to clear the stage and open the next, and it was a new high score for me! If you ever click and egg and it was a mistake, just click at the bottom and it will unselect it.
I ran through stage 2, which had only a goal of 20,000 points. That was easy enough with a few lucky breeds, bank those rare dragons! When I opened stage 3, the requirements were harder and I was unlucky on a couple of breeds. I managed to get a score high enough to unlock stage 4, but not complete 3 for the reward:
I can come back and play stage 3 or 4 later, I'll probably continue with 3 first just because the lower stages are generally easier. You can also feel free to try the other 2 towers and play stage 1 there, for an easier reward. Each tower has it's own progression.
I did complete all three towers yesterday, and I found you can just get unlucky on some of the harder stages. For example, I had a requirement for a level 5 cold dragon, among several other requirements. Sometimes when I started the board I would only have 1 single egg with a cold element. In that case, I would pick 4 dragons next it it and combine, and then join to the cold. I kept failing to get the cold element and thus couldn't complete the board. Other tries I would get 3 cold element eggs, and the odds of getting a level 5 cold was much higher.
This is a purely optional game, to give out a few extra bonus pinecones. Don't stress if you don't finish, and if you're just not a fan of the new game, you can completely skip it and earn pinecones through all the other usual ways. But I recommend just giving the first couple levels a shot in each tower, they're pretty easy and hopefully the above can help you get a hang of how to play. I always enjoy new changes to the game, and had a lot of fun running through the tower yesterday and coming up with strategies to complete the stage and earn enough to unlock the next.
If you collect and play your tickets every 2.5 hours, and check throughout the day (most of us can't, we're busy!), you'll get around 35 tickets. There are 3 towers, 5 stages each, so you'll get around 2 attempts per stage if you want to clear everything. The early stages only take 1 attempt usually, so you'll get 3 or so for later ones (or can miss a few tickets). Again, you don't really need to finish - it's just a nice bonus if you can.
Edit: Following up on some questions.
The breeding rules appear to follow standard breeding rules in caves with dragons, with the same odds. The direction of the breed does not matter except on where the egg lands. You always want a way to move the egg another step in case it doesn't end with the right elements or expected score!
Combining two of the same egg will give it an extra level. So far I've seen same + same = same even when doing rares, but haven't done it enough times to confirm. This may break the standard breeding rules if true, or perhaps I'm just getting lucky with double parent clones. More study is needed on my side, and I'll update as I learn more.
Thanks so much for all of this valuable work, Quil! So generous! What is the benefit of completing towers? Do you get extra pine cones for completing towers?
Now that i’ve almost figured out how to play Eggy Hatchy, it’s almost fun.
I think it is fun too. 👍🏻 Not completing it each time by a long shot but getting 30, 20, 40 points at a time is well worth the effort. The helps & guides & tips everyone posted really helped me understand it. Also, love that the tickets replenish. Really enjoying it, great that it gets us a nice chunk of points/pine cones at a time. When the luck doesn’t go my way & i goof up i haven’t lost any gems. I think i will become very fond of this game w/more and more practice. DECA created a fun game here that gives us added points, is new & challenges us and doesn’t deplete our gems. Kudos to DECA on this one as far as i am concerned. 👏🏻😃
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