Tips and Tricks to Hatching/Breeding/Adopting on dragcave.

On Eggs~
1. Your dragon won't grow up before 3.5 days.
2. The less clicks you have, the more views you'll need.
3. Views needed range anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand.
4. If your dragon has less than a day left, get it to an ER immediately (preferably multiple ERs).
5.If your egg is fully cracked, or your hatchling matured with more than 4 days to go; in all likelihood, it's ready to hatch, it just has to hit the right time.
6. If your egg is fully cracked, or your hatchling matured with more than 4 days to go; check that your egg doesn't have soft shell, or your hatchling isn't sick. Illness can be caused by getting too many views/clicks too fast.
7. If your egg has soft shell, or your hatchling is sick, go to actions and "hide" the egg/hatchling. Your egg/hatchy should be hidden for at least a day. Be warned that an egg/hatchling cannot hatch/mature while fogged. Even if the egg/hatchling is still sick, if it has less than 1 day left, unfog them.
8. You can try and "force" your hatchling to hatch from it's egg by "dropping" it. If your egg is very close to hatching, you can use the kill action. There is a small chance that when you crack the shell open, the hatchling emerges unharmed.
9.Influence
Adult pink dragons can now influence the gender of unhatched eggs.
10.Incubate
Red dragons now have the "incubate" action. This will remove one day from the timer of an egg, enabling it to hatch faster. However, it cannot be used on hidden eggs or eggs with less than 3 days left. In addition, abandoning an incubated egg will cause the removed time to return, although the egg can be incubated again by the new owner.
11.Earthquake
Green/Pebble/Earth dragons can use the "Earthquake" action. This action operates on all of your eggs and may result in eggs being forced to hatch early. However, there is also a small chance that the earthquake will kill the egg, although much of the time the eggs will simply be unaffected.
15.Alts (Alt vine, black, and then the geode) can not be caught in the Cave. They are breed only.(It's possible to find an alt inside the abandoned section as well)
Breeding~
1. If your dragons "refuse to go near each other", they won't breed. Stop trying.
2.Breeding is once every 7 days, down to the hour. The system has been updated to show you the date you last bred a dragon, though not the time of day.
3. If your dragons "don't seem interested" in one another, they're just not in the mood. You can try again next week.
4. You can keep one egg from a breeding. You have 1 hour to choose which one. The remaining eggs (or all of them, if you don't choose) will go to the abandoned page once you've chosen (or at the end of the hour, if you didn't). You can attempt to "bounce" these eggs by giving the codes to your friends and having them try and pick them up from the AP, then attempting to "trade" them back to you. Bouncing is frowned upon,
and TJ has said he would rather go back to single-egg clutches than let breeders keep multiple eggs.
5. Alternately, you can note the code and post on the rare egg departure forum.
6.Christmas and Valentine dragons have limited breeding seasons. I know that Yulebucks (Christmas '08) can breed all year round, but only produce Christmas eggs in December, I'm not sure about the others.
7. An alt dragon is no more likely to produce alt offspring than any non-alt dragon.
8. Two-headed dragons ("splits") will only breed with other two-headed dragons.
9. Geode dragons are the result of breeding between two stone dragons.
10. Golds and Silvers cannot be bred to other "metallics", only to other dragons.
11.Halloweens, Papers (Origami), Dinos, and Chickens cannot be bred.Halloweens are the only unbreedable dragons that have gender.


Etcetera~
1.You can only pick up four hatchling/eggs at any one time. If you have 4 hatchlings, you cannot pick up anymore eggs/hatchlings; if you have 4 eggs, you cannot pick up anymore eggs/hatchlings.
2. If you have 4 eggs/hatchlings, you can breed one egg. Any subsequent breedings, if successful, will auto-abandon.
3. Being unable to pick up any more eggs/hatchlings is referred to as being "scroll locked". Your scroll remains locked until you have less than 4 eggs/hatchlings.
4. Freezing a hatchling does not halt the aging process completely. It is said that a frozen hatchling will still mature (i.e. grow wings and "gender"), albeit at a greatly reduced rate. It won't, however, grow into an adult.
5. Dragon names must be unique. Names are used to link to specific dragons. A prefix or surname will help you give your dragons unique names.
6. Any dragon that has not been viewed for 8 weeks will lose their name. This is so popular names can go back into circulation. To prevent your dragon from losing it's name, it must gain at least one view every 8 weeks.
7. If a dragon's name is considered "inappropriate" (remembering the sites' PG rating), your dragon will be killed, no second chances.

GUIDE TO GETTING CAVE-BORN EGGS

COMMON EGGS
/-Bluna-This egg has colored speckles on it. (This egg can only be gotten by breeding water/deep-sea and skywing)
/-Canopy-This egg is hidden by some leaves.
-Electric-Electric sparks dance across the surface of this egg.
-Nocturne-This egg appears to be made of limestone.

-(No proper name!)-This egg has icicles forming on it

-Thunder-Whenever you go near this egg your hair stands on end.

-Magma-This egg is almost too hot to touch

/-Neotropical-This egg is covered in strange yellow stripes

-Deep sea-This eggs appears to be covered in scales

-Water walker-This egg seems to be floating on a puddle.

-Horse-This egg has strange markings on it

/-Water horse-This egg is blue and slimy



—Ochredrake- This egg has strange markings on it.(These only breed with other Ochredrakes)

/—Pygmy- This egg is so tiny you almost didn\'t see it.(These also only breed with others of there kind)

—Albino- You can see the baby dragon curled up inside this translucent egg.

—Balloon- This light egg is floating in the air.

/-Black-
/ —Black alt- This egg has a green aura radiating from it.

/—Vine- This egg is sitting in a patch of grass and small flowers even though there\'s no sun in the cave.

/—Daydream- This egg is sitting on a cloud.

/ —Dorsal- This egg has multiple bands of color on it.

—Frilled- This egg has strange markings on it.

—Green- This egg is sitting in a pile of small pebbles.


—Guardian- This egg is sitting in front of the others.

—Magi- This egg has an orange aura radiating from it.

—Mint- This egg is hidden behind the others, as if it is shy.

/—Pink- It\'s bright. And pink.

—Purple- Wow, purple isn\'t a color of egg you expected to see.

—Red-This egg is rather warm.

/-Summer Seasonal-The markings on this egg match the weather outside.(Summer solstice)
/-Fall seasonal-The markings on this egg match the weather outside.(Autumnal equinox)
/-Winter seasonal-The markings on this egg match the weather outside.(Winter solstice)

No male or female! -Spring Seasonal- The markings on this egg match the weather outside.(Vernal equinox)

—Skywing- This egg has strange markings on it.

—Stone- This egg is heavy and rough, as if it were made out of rock.

/-White stripe-This egg has brightly colored markings on it.
No male!/-Red stripe-This egg has brightly colored markings on it.
No female!/-Blue stripe-This egg has brightly colored markings on it.

/—Green Stripe-This egg has brightly colored markings on it.

/—Sunrise/sunset- This egg is glowing as brightly as the sun.

/—Water- This egg is sitting in a shallow puddle.

—Whiptail-This egg shakes from time to time, as if it is eager to hatch.

—White- This egg is completely devoid of dirt or scratches.

RARE — BREEDABLE

Breedable rares can be bred, but are very uncommon. This is caused by one of three reasons.

1.\"Holiday\" dragons: Dragons that represent a specific time of the year may either be breedable only at certain times of the year, or breedable all year round; but only produce offspring of their own type during the
time of year associated with their holiday. Includes: Valentines, Christmas.
2. \"Rare\" dragons: Are breedable only to common dragons, and rarely produce eggs of their own type. Includes: Silver, Gold.
3. \"Self\" dragons: These dragons either only breed with other dragons of their own type, or are the rare offspring of a same-type breeding. Includes: Split, Geode.

Christmas 2007 — ??

—Christmas/Yulebuck- This egg is covered with bright, festive stripes.

—Geode- This egg is heavy and rough, as if it were made out of rock.(Get one from breeding stone and stone together)

—Gold- This egg is very reflective, almost metallic looking.(Does not breed with silver)

Silver — This egg gives off a beautiful glow.(Won't breed with gold)

/— This egg is split down the middle in two colours.(Self-breeding)

—Valentine/Speckled- This egg is speckled and very fragile.


/No male :[!-2010 valentines dragon- descrip unknown

Epic-This egg glows mysteriously.



RARE — UNBREEDABLE
Unbreedable dragons cannot be bred. They can only be stolen from the cave.

—Cheese- This egg is soft and smells uncannily like cheese.

—Chicken This egg is a third the size of the other eggs.

Dino
- Blue — This egg looks like it doesn\'t belong, it is brightly colored with white spots. It\'s much lighter than the other eggs.


Dino
— This egg looks like it doesn't belong, it is brightly colored with white spots. It's much lighter than the other eggs.


Dino
— This egg looks like it doesn\'t belong, it is brightly colored with white spots. It\'s much lighter than the other eggs.


Dino
-This egg looks like it doesn\'t belong, it is brightly coloured with white spots. It\'s much heavier than the other eggs.


Purple
Dino — This egg looks like it doesn\'t belong; it is brightly colored with white spots. It\'s much lighter than the other eggs.


/— This egg is stone cold and smells rotten.


Leetle Tree — Oh my. There is a leetle tree among the eggs.

-This egg smells like the autumn harvest

-This egg fills you with holiday cheer

Neglected egg — Unknown

— This egg is tiny and made out of pieces of paper folded together.




LINEAGES
Dorkface dragons are dragons that can trace their lineage back to Midas Dorkface and Shallyna\'ar. Dorkface dragons are highly sought after by dragon cave users due to their long lineage. Please note that dorkface dragons do not belong to any one specific breed of dragon. Dorkface dragons can be of any breed so long as they can trace their lineage back to Midas Dorkface and Shallyna\'ar.

Midas Dorkface is a gold dragon owned by ladiefare. Legend has it that ladiefare was trying to get a female golden dragon, but she kept ending up with males. She threatened the gold egg that if it turned into a male she would name it dorkface. Unfortunately for Midas he was a male and so ladiefare named him dorkface. The first part of his name, Midas, most likely comes from the story of King Midas who could turn
anything to gold with his touch.

CONTRIBUTORS

Me! All the artists/progammers etc. at dragcave,Rattyjol,Shadowsowner888,Miafire, Mo,Saddleclub, Noah(The pumpkin king),and Komoda2000

~More to be added.

Awesome!!

That's cool I know some of the sites you got the info from.

Probably.

D: I'm missing tons of draggies!
If you can supply some code I'd be super happy

This is awesome! Rep for you! I've got some of the dragons you don't have pics of, if you want me to get you the codes.

Oooh, this is awesome! ^^ Great job.

That would be super helpful ratty!Please and thank you.

Tankies

Okay, here. First I'll post the codes, and then I'll put their pics down below in the same order so you can see which they are.

Code:

[url=http://dragcave.net/view/n/Eforr][img]http://dragcave.net/image/beud.gif[/img][/url]
[url=http://dragcave.net/view/n/Tzai][img]http://dragcave.net/image/7Of1.gif[/img][/url]
[url=http://dragcave.net/view/n/Fyrr][img]http://dragcave.net/image/h8TB.gif[/img][/url]
[url=http://dragcave.net/view/n/Zuule][img]http://dragcave.net/image/cLWi.gif[/img][/url]
[url=http://dragcave.net/view/n/Skywing%20Flame][img]http://dragcave.net/image/5Roj.gif[/img][/url]
[url=http://dragcave.net/view/e39T][img]http://dragcave.net/image/e39T.gif[/img][/url]

The fall is still only an egg, sorry about that. And I'll hopefully get a sunrise dragon when my last sun eggie hatches. But it might be another sunset.

^^!
I'll add them straightaway.

I see you only have the EGG for the Fall one. I actually have a FALL DRAGGIE.

Mmm.. here's the code for the actual draggie. (:

Code:

[url=http://dragcave.net/view/n/Morning%20Leaf][img]http://dragcave.net/image/Q9Jg.gif[/img][/url]

There you go. (:

Thanks!

Yay, it's a sunrise. I think you still need one of those, right?

Code:

[url=http://dragcave.net/view/hjNa][img]http://dragcave.net/image/hjNa.gif[/img][/url]

Not anymore,But thank you,very much!

Your welcome! :3

Oh yeah.. in what section did you get your Evelon pet from? o.O Never seen it on the site, yet.. :/

Holiday pets.

You wrote "No summer or winter!" but you HAVE a summer one right there.. XD You meant .... Spring.. right? X3

And - thanks. Gonna go check it out.

XD Yeah...I better fix that.

Code:

[url=http://dragcave.net/view/5p6Y][img]http://dragcave.net/image/5p6Y.gif[/img][/url]

There's a male tiny dragon.

Code:

[url=http://dragcave.net/view/WnHl][img]http://dragcave.net/image/WnHl.gif[/img][/url]

Code:

[url=http://dragcave.net/view/ElTV][img]http://dragcave.net/image/ElTV.gif[/img][/url]

When my blue one hatches and grows up, I can post that, too.

C:
Yay! Thanks.

I have a normal black (not alt) and a female two-headed; do you want me to post them for the front, Mea?

Yes! That would be awesomeful.

Mkay! Here they are.

I have a black draggie; want the code?