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This is a list of user ideas on how to accomplish various goals and tasks, different ways to play the game, things you may not have thought of before, and just general things you should know.

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DragonCash StrategyEdit

  • Breeding dragons:
  • Visit friends: Visiting friends each day and tapping the party hats is an easy way to earn extra Coin template. The higher your level, the more cash you get! The more friends you have, the more Coin template you can make this way.
  • Goals: Many in-game goals offer Coin template rewards for the completion of certain tasks, like breeding a certain dragon or constructing a building. Frequently, the Coin template offered for the completion of goals that require purchases are greater than the purchase price of the item.
  • Collect money from habitats: Dragons produce Coin template simply by being in their habitats. Different dragons produce money at different rates and the amount of Coin template that can be collected is limited by the habitat. Plant dragons produce Coin template very quickly, but they are limited by the low threshold of the plant habitat to only 200 Coin template, or 500 Coin template for a large habitat. Plant dragons are therefore most useful when you are actively playing and are able to collect the accumulated Coin template often. Earth dragons produce Coin template at a slower rate, but their habitats can store more Coin template. They are better for long term moneymaking when you are not around to collect Coin template at frequent intervals.
  • Panlong Dragons: One of the fastest ways to earn cash from a habitat, and a method that is fairly easy to manage, is an Earth Habitat with three Panlong Dragons in it. At level 10, Panlong Dragons earn 194 cash per minute. The Panlong Dragons can be boosted by both a Water Boost and a Fire Boost, at which point each one will produce 279 cash per minute at level 10. With three dragons to each habitat, you will produce a total of 837 cash per minute at level 10. For comparison, the Rainbow Dragon only earns 400 cash per minute, and you can only fit one of them in a habitat. When you are at a high level and want to maximize your cash output, it can be very productive to build a number of Earth Habitats and fill them with Panlongs . A full habitat will fill up every one-and-a-half hours, and is therefore easy to check in on. Alternatively, you can fill a Fire Habitat with four Panlongs for a total of 1,116 cash per minute. A Fire Habitat only has a cash capacity of 15,000, however, meaning that you will have to empty it out every 13 minutes or you will lose cash. Moreover, the Panlong Dragon can be upgraded to level 20 (the Rainbow Dragon cannot) at which point each one will earn 540 cash per minute (with boosts).

Experience StrategyEdit

  • Goals: Many of the built-in goals throughout the game supply 100,000 or more experience points for breeding a single dragon or building certain structures.
  • Participate in races at the Dragon Track. Experience rewards seem to scale up for higher level players, and there are periodic bonuses of millions of experience. Bonus for level 33: Xp template24,500,000. Highest experience rewards at the Dragon Track for a level 33 player: around Xp template33,000,000.
  • Buy and sell from the market: Buying and then reselling things is a quick, albeit expensive way to get Xp template. Decorations can be built instantly and give the half purchase price in experience. For example, a yellow tree costs Coin template500 and gives Xp template250. Buildings and Habitats may take longer to build, but most of them give out experience in a 1:1 ratio with purchase price and are therefore more cost effective.
  • Breed dragons: Hatching dragon eggs gives experience, so breed your dragons often. Basic dragons do not give very much Xp template, while hybrids and rares can give much more. The Metal Dragon achieves the most Xp template per hour.
  • Grow treats and feed them to your dragons: Harvesting treats you have grown on your treat farms gives out experience points. Feeding these treats to your dragons gives Xp template20 per unit fed (cited here). When you add these two XP sources together the experience/money ratio becomes quite lucrative.
    Example: Dragon Fruit (3000 units of treat) costs Coin template75,000 and gives Xp template125,000. Add the Xp template60,000 you get for feeding the treats to your dragons (3000x20) and you get Xp template185,000 for Coin template75,000 (2.47:1 ratio). Other treats produce different ratios depending on their unit price. This strategy is most beneficial to your park as a whole, because higher level dragons earn more money and attract more visitors.
  • Participate in the Colosseum: Each day, a different elemental event will occur in the Colosseum. Winning the gold trophy in these daily events will give you 10% of the needed Xp template to get to the next level. Silver trophies will earn you 5% of Xp template to the next level and bronze trophies will earn you no Xp template.

Gem StrategyEdit

  • Form a circle with yourself and three friends: Every 24 hours, you get three free Gem template for gifting to friends on your Game Center friend list. In order to ensure that you get the same amount of Gem template that you give, form a "gem circle" of four people. Gift your Gem template only to each other and every day each of you are guaranteed to receive three Gem template. If you purchase the Dragonsai Gifting Tree you can gift an additional three Gem template daily and can expand the circle to yourself and six friends.
  • Participate in the Colosseum: Gold trophies give five Gem template, silver trophies give two Gem template and bronze trophies give 0 Gem template. High level dragons which include the element displayed in the Colosseum have the best chance of winning a gold trophy.
  • Get 12 Gemstone Dragons: You can earn 12 Gem template a week if all your Gemstone Dragons are Level 10.
  • Race in the Dragon Track. While Gem template are not a frequent prize, they can be gained through winning races.

Shrine StrategyEdit

Breeding Hybrids (dragons with more than 1 element) will fulfill more than one shrine's requirement per dragon, thus costing less time and food. With the Love Dragon you can fulfill three per dragon, and with the Panlong Dragon you can fulfill four per dragon. The most food efficient way is to use Century (10 hours), Love (5 hours), and Chrome (5 hours). However, this method takes a while due to Century's incubation time. The most time efficent way to level up all shrines is to use Poison (30 minutes), Sandstorm (2 hours), Storm (5 hours), and Rust (6 hours). Although it will require 33% more food, it completes the process faster.

Dragon Leveling StrategyEdit

When leveling-up dragons, it is generally beneficial to level them all up together equally, not one by one, since there are diminishing DragonCash collection returns of DragonCash→Food→Dragon Level investment.

Useful Strategy BlogsEdit


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