During this event, we shall celebrate the 12 Days of Christmas with a Holiday Scavenger Hunt and a Vale carol. The four weeks preceding Christmas are collectively known as Advent, which begins four Sundays before Christmas and concludes on December 24th. The 12 Days of Christmas begins on December 25th and runs through January 6th. Therefore, the Holiday Scavenger Hunt will begin on December 25th. And that’s not all... while we hunt, we shall be carolling the Vale’s favourite Christmas song, THE 12 DAYS OF VALE.
🎼 On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me:
12 YULE time carols
11 TWINKLES twinkling
10 SLEIGHBELLS a-ringing
9 SUGARPLUMS dancing
8 SNOWBALL snowmen
7 LOKILURES lurking
6 VENTURE adventures
5 M Y S T E R Y E G G S
4 flickering FLICKERS
3 French GIFTS
2 MISTLETOES
and baby FIRE in a Dragonsai tree 🎶
Bring yourself into the winter spirit by dress up your profile with a holiday avatar! Oodles of winter and ornamental dragons have been added to the Forum’s avatar list. If there’s a dragon missing that you’d like, please let me know.
Here are all the festive dragons that are available:
So many wonderful ways to earn and make Iceberries!
Presents and Sandakloz are in your park!
2 striped presents: 5 Iceberries each 2 red presents: 5 Iceberries 2 blue presents: 10 Iceberries 1 purple present: 10 Iceberries 1 Sandakloz: 25 Iceberries
(All amounts are for regular days)
The presents and Sandakloz only appear once per day at reset, and can also gift you mystery eggs and Toy Chests (ornamental evolve decorations)!
Prismatic Pantheon settings
Presents and Sandakloz: None + Visitors + Epic
Earn Iceberries at the Dragon Track
• 1st place = 30 Iceberries • 2nd place = 20 Iceberries • 3rd place = 10 Iceberries
These amounts are for Double Days. So far, it appears Iceberries can only be acquired at the Dragon Track on Double Days. I’ve asked Deca if this is a double feature only. We’ll know by Monday.
Deca Games has confirmed Iceberries cannot be earned at the Dragon Track for this event.
Last Edit: Dec 17, 2021 17:11:46 GMT -6 by adlerist
RECOMMENDED DRAGONS TO BREED ***************************** 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). Dragons are subject to 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.
The breeding/evolve info for these dragons are listed below.
RETURNING EVENT DRAGONS ************************ (these dragons can be bred)
EPIC DRAGONS ************* Angler - VENTURE & GULLETAIL {Ornamental, CA} Dazzling - Any Ornamental + Ornamental {Ornamental: PFEC} Eve - Any Cold + Water + Metal {Surface: CWM} NOTE: EVE IS A PERMANENT DRAGON Festive - Any Plant + Earth + Cold {Surface: PEC} Flicker - GIFT + Any Earth {Ornamental: PFEC} Harmony - Any Ornamental + IRON BLOSSOM {Ornamental: PM} Lace - COAL + Any Plant {Ornamental: PFE} Ornamental - REINDEER + Any Fire {Ornamental: PFC} Reminiscensce - Any Ornamental + ICY TORRENT {Ornamental: CW} Ribbon - REGIFT + Any Fire {Ornamental: PFC} Shiver - Any Cold + Air + Light {Surface: CAλ} Snowball - SNOWPOCALYPSE + SHIVER {Ornamental, CA} Snowpocalypse - WINTER + APOCALYPSE {Apocalypse: PECLAM} Snowflake 1 - Any SNOWFLAKE + SNOWFLAKE {Snowflake: CWA} Snowflake 2 - Any SNOWFLAKE + SNOWFLAKE {Snowflake: CLW} Snowflake 3 - Any SNOWFLAKE + SNOWFLAKE {Snowflake: FCW} Snowflake 4 - Any SNOWFLAKE + SNOWFLAKE {Snowflake: CWλ} Snowflake 5 - Any SNOWFLAKE + SNOWFLAKE {Snowflake: PCW} Snowflake 6 - Any SNOWFLAKE + SNOWFLAKE {Snowflake: ECW} Tusk - Any Cold + Water + Earth {Surface: ECW} Spellmason - Any Ornamental + HIDDEN BOLT {Ornamental: LD} Starshine - TWINKLE + DAZZLING {Ornamental: PFECA} Tinsel - HOLLY + Any Cold {Ornamental: PEC} Twinkle - WINTER + Any Air {Ornamental: ECA} Venture - Any Ornamental + BLAZING GALE {Ornamental: FA} Verglace - MISTLETOE + Any Cold {Ornamental: PEC} Yanghis STARSHINE + FLICKER {Ornamental, FECA} Yeti - KRINGLE & KRAMPUS {Ornamental, PEC} Yule - Any Ornamental + MOUNTAIN SUN {Ornamental: Eλ}
RARE DRAGONS ************* Candlecrown - HOLLY + Any Fire Coal - Any Fire + Earth Epoch - BLOOM + BEARDED {PECLM} Flurry - Any Cold + Air + Water Gift - Any Plant + Fire + Cold Holly - MISTLETOE + EVERGREEN Icebound - Any Cold + Water + Air Jingle - MISTLETOE + Any Fire Ketu - Any Cold + Air + Dark Krampus - COAL + Any Cold Kringle - TRINKET + Any Earth Longcicle Cold + Water + Air {CWA} Lyuba ICEBOUND + Earth + Cold {ECWA} Mistletoe - TREE + LICHEN {PEC} Neoteric - LUMINOUS + SPARK {PLλD} Neyvee - WOOLEN + Any Water + Earth {PFECW} Regift - Any Plant + Fire + Cold Reindeer - Any Plant + Cold Sleighbell - REINDEER + Any Earth + Fire Snowbrush - Any Cold + Plant + Light Thundersnow - Any Cold + Earth + Lightning Trinket - Any Plant + Fire + Cold Woolen - GIFT + Any Earth
EVOLUTION REQUIREMENTS *********************** Avarice - evolve from COAL when all 10 different Poinsettias are in your Park {Ornamental: PFEC} Burglehoo - evolve from COAL when all 10 different Presents are in your Park {Ornamental: PFEC} Gulletail - evolve from COAL when all 10 different Stockings are in your Park {Ornamental: PFELM} Jadice - evolve from COAL when all 10 different Arc Lamps are in your Park {Ornamental: FECWλ} Libretto - evolve from GIFT when all 10 different Tuplets are in your Park {Ornamental: PFC} Lokilure - evolve from COAL when all 10 different Feathers are in your Park {Ornamental: FECMD} Nibwhip - evolve from GIFT when all 10 different Cocoa Mugs are in your Park {Ornamental: PFC} Saccharine - evolve from GIFT when all 10 different Gumdrops are in your Park {Ornamental: PFC} Sugarplum - evolve from GIFT when all 10 different Flutter Fruits are in your Park {Ornamental: PFC} Trepak - evolve from GIFT when all 10 different Nutcrackers are in your Park {Ornamental: PFC}[/font]
You must claim your eggs at the Runic Breeding Caves by January 24th, 8:00 AM MST. It will not be possible to earn additional Iceberries after this time, but the Mirthful Market will remain open so you can spend your Iceberries.
The Mirthful Market will close on January 26th at 8:00 AM MST. It will not be possible to claim event prizes after this time and any Iceberries you have will be converted to DragonCash.
☃️ QUESTS ⛄️
Achoired Taste - Chorister Below Zero - Zero Best Friends Forever - Zumi Lever Physics - Chaiko Raining Presents - Jamjam Sparkle Startle - Glitz Tangled Web - Weaver
🎁🎄🎄✨🎄🎄🌟🎄🎄✨🎄🎄🌟🎄🎄✨🎄🎄🎁
Last Edit: Jan 18, 2022 13:43:09 GMT -6 by adlerist
If you are 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 for free, 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 you can earn 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). The first time you breed a dragon at RBCs you will receive 100 bonus currency for the unique breed. This amount will not increased with Double Days.
CLAIMING EGGS
• To claim an egg, open the 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 the Choose a Dragon pop-up, 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 6 or more elements and / or have locked breeding combos. Dragons with locked combos have specific dragons in their breeding requirement; therefore, they cannot be a breeding fail for another pair.
• After cloning the dragons with 6 or more elements, continue with 5-element, 4-element, and 3-element dragons. By the time you’re done, you should have most, if not all, of the permanent hybrids bred.
• If you don’t have two of every dragon, start cloning the dragons you do have duplicates of that have more than 2 elements, then move on to single parent cloning (target dragon + another dragon with one or more elements that match the target 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 last.
• 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!
• Kairos: Before deploying Kairos, try to fill the RBCs with dragons that have long breeding / incubation times. You can use gems to speed up 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.
• If you don’t have a lot of dragons, the RBCs is 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.
POSSIBLE BUGS
• When using gems to speed up breeding, the gem cost does not always reset. This bug was reported to Backflip and has been reported to Deca.
• The last time the RBCs were implemented, Lunis and Solis caused crashes when they were successfully cloned at the RBCs. As a result, Lunis and Solis are currently unavailable. Deca is working on the bug. But for now, you cannot breed or clone Lunis and Solis in the Vale, Rift, or RBCs.
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 each cave.
• Once you purchase Runestones, you can use them at any time. Click on a RBC, 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 to every event: (1) last day to collect event currency, and (2) last day to buy items at the event market. The RBCs will depart when you can no longer collect event currency. Be sure to claim your eggs from the RBCs before then. If you do not, the game will randomly select eggs for you.
🌟☃️🐻❄️⛄️✨☃️🐻❄️⛄️✨☃️🐻❄️⛄️✨☃️🐻❄️⛄️✨☃️🐻❄️⛄️🌟
Last Edit: Jan 12, 2022 14:29:12 GMT -6 by adlerist
The Runic Breeding Caves have arrived for the holidays!
I shall be purchasing a satchel of Runestones!
TAKE ALL MY MONEY, DRAGONVALE!
I’m so excited the Runic Breeding Caves are back!! I am buying a satchel of runestones too. Let’s see if we can breed every dragon in the runic caves, or who can breed the most 😊 I love the runic caves!
She did it again! And once more this new event thread is superb! Thanks too for the new avatars, they are lovely 👍 Many many thanks, your work is greatly appreciated. Have a fantastic season time ☃️
She did it again! And once more this new event thread is superb! Thanks too for the new avatars, they are lovely 👍 Many many thanks, your work is greatly appreciated. Have a fantastic season time ☃️
Ohhh! You have Yeti for your new avatar! RecallDoro, the Deca Community Manager will love you! That’s his favourite dragon, because baby Yeti is such a cutie — he really is too adorable.
Welp this seems like an intense event, especially compared to the cruisy time of Om of Noms! I’m going to have to list out all the ones I’m missing and form a strategy Speaking of strategies - did someone (probably adlerist) have a strategy for runic caves? I’m going to splurge on a satchel when I sit down with this event (also I can buy now, activate later yes?)
GCID: NinjaKiwi. *remember the full stop!*
DVID: NinjaKiwi#3970
Currently breeding for whatever twins I can possibly get my hands on
Post by DragonMoonX on Dec 9, 2021 11:21:43 GMT -6
Yes! We have the Runic Breeding Caves! Having those makes it so much easier to earn event currency. And they're fun to use.
Hah, I overslept and missed reset by two hours. But now that I've had a chance to look at everything, I'd say Jamjam is the one I like the most right now. He's so cute. And that name is adorable.
Happy holidays, everyone!
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I believe it’s just event content and such, but if I hear differently, I’ll let everyone know.
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