Nesting & Genetic

Nesting is one of the core mechanisms in the game if players wish to upstats theirs dragons or just pass down their skin. As a community oriented game, nesting is a way to connect with others players and show a sense of teamwork.

If you aim to get better statistics or a certain skin color, getting nested is a good way to obtain a dream dragon and/or a better survival.

So without further addons, here's a quick guide to nesting!

First, a male and a female dragon of the same specie is required to start. Then, both need to court each others so the female can put down her nest.

1. The male is the one who have to initiate the dance. To do so, a male must aim at the female (holding right-click) and press 5 (or courtship via the emote wheel - accessible via the tab key)

2. Once done and hopefully the female received the 'notification', she can answer the male dance and use the courtship emote next, doing the same as the male before. (aiming + 5)

3. If all is done right, the female will be able to put down her nest and start to lay down her eggs. To put down a nest, press the 'N' key and the ground must be flat enough.

*The male must stay close when the female is choosing a spot to put down the nest. Once down, he is free to move away.

Now that the nest is made, the female must stay laid down on the nest so the eggs may start to appear. She can stand up, but it will stops the laying process and resume only when she will be laid down again. Getting away from its nest may turn it unprotected, meaning others players may attack it. (one of the parents can stay close to avoid this)

One egg may takes between 10-15 minutes to spawn, if the female have mutation points into 'Social' it will lower this time. Also, each specie may have a different max number of eggs per nest.

Ex: Biolumin lay 5 eggs per nest, while the Shadow Scale may produce 3 eggs only.

Once an egg is down in the nest, it may starts to incubate. Note that some dragon species require certain temperature to incubate theirs eggs.

Ex: The Flame Stalker need a warm nest to get its eggs to incubate, so either breathing fire on the nest or nesting into a warm environment will suffice.

You got an egg down and incubated, meaning you can now invite a player to hatch from your egg!

1. To invite someone to your eggs, the player you wish to give an egg to must be in the same group as you. Open your Social panel (O), create a group then click 'Players' and search for the player name in the list. Once found, select the player and click "Group invite" down the screen.

The player will receive a notification and must open its Social panel as well to accept the invite.

2. When the player is in your group, interact with your nest (E), select the egg tab ready to hatch at the left of your screen, select the gender of the egg (if able to) and then, click on the player name on the right.

The player should receive a notification and be able to accept the egg invite via the Social panel. And there you go, your new baby is now born!

A dragon genetic regroup 2 category; lineage and statistics (stats).

Statistics can be enhanced via nesting and later, potentially with pearls. (not yet in game)

There's many reasons why the genetic is important; either purely cosmetic, to get better statistics and chance in combats or simply to have better survival chance.

You choose which aspect you prefer!