Game Introduction - Dragon City
Dragon City is a game developed by Social Point in which you breed your dragons to get the most amazing and surprising creatures. Gamezebo’s Dragon City strategy guide and walkthrough will provide you with a quick start guide, tips and tricks, hints and cheats to help you breed the your best dragon companion in Dragon City.
Quick Start Guide
Dragon basics
You can add a new dragon to your island by either breeding an egg from two dragons, or by hatching an egg you buy right away. Breeding can be started by clicking on the Breeding Mountain and selecting 'Breed'. There, you select the two Dragons you would like to mate together, and wait for an egg to show up. Click on it to hatch it in the Hatchery and wait for your baby dragon to be born.
By feeding your dragon, it will level up, get stronger in battle and produce more gold revenue. Although some dragons' story says that they prefer a certain type of food, it doesn't actually make a difference which food you select on the farm; the final product is simply 'food'.
Each dragon has three 'evolutions'. It starts in its baby form at level 1, grows into a different form at level 4, and reaches its final form at level 7. A dragon can start breeding when it reaches level 4.
Creative breeding
Dragon City's main appeal is of course found in experimenting with breeding all the different kinds of dragons, from the simple Earth dragon, to the peculiar Penguin dragon to the majestic Star dragon.
Any dragon can mate with another dragon to produce an egg, as there is no distinction between male or female dragons in Dragon City. However, the success rate can differ a lot between species. The ground rules are:
There are certain combinations of elemental dragons that can not breed. For instance, an Ice dragon can never breed with a Fire dragon, and there are a couple other match-ups that can not breed. Hybrids of incompatible dragons however, can still breed. For instance, an Ice dragon can still breed with a Laser dragon (fire + electricity). The offspring however, will be one of the basic elemental dragons.
The following combinations of elemental dragons are incompatible to breed with each other:
Balancing your base's resources
To keep your dragons happy, nourished and breeding, you of course need resources, like gold and food. These resources can be obtained in one of three ways: farming food in Food Farms, collecting gold from your dragons, or from the Dragon Market. Completing missions will also reward you, with either Gold, Experience Points or Gems.
As you will quickly earn a steady income of gold, the best tactic to start out with is to build as many farms as allowed at any point, and always order as much as you have gold for. When you can pick up the food, level up your dragons, and you will generate more income, etc., etc. When you progress further into the game, you can use the big farms to generate more food over a longer time, but in the beginning, this is too costly.
When deciding which dragons to keep, you may not only want to look at which collection of dragons you want, but also take into account what they earn. Every minute, each of your dragons will earn you a certain amount of gold, depending on the type of dragon, and the level it's at. Check the dragon's statistics to see how much they're revenue is, and if they're worth keeping.
A couple of dragon's revenue indications (at level 7):
When a dragon was bred that you already have, or that you don't want, you can always sell it. Similarly, you can always breed dragons with the sole intent of earning money. Certainly when breeding the rare types of dragons, they can generate a lot of income. However, as a general rule of thumb, a dragon usually earns you more when generating gold revenue, then when selling it, so it's only advisable when you need to clear space, or need money quickly.
As with revenue, the value of dragons differs per type. Unlike with the revenue however, selling a dragon at a higher level is worth the same as on a lower level. So if you're selling a Fire dragon, you will always be offered 50 gold, regardless if the dragon is level 1 or level 10.
A couple of dragon's value indications:
Tips on resources
Tournaments
After you've build the stadium, you can enter a team of 3 dragons to fight in a tournament. The basics of battle are simple: both you and your opponent have two or three dragons on your team. You take turns attacking the other dragon, doing damage, until one team has lost all its dragons and is defeated.
Other than that, there are basically just a few things to remember:
The strength and effectiveness of an attack, depends on the element of the attack, and the element of the dragon being attacked. For instance, when using a Fire attack on an Ice dragon, it will count as a critical attack, since these are opposite elements. A 'critical attack' does 2x damage, a 'normal attack' does 1x damage, a 'weak attack' does half damage, while a 'no effect attack' does no damage.
NOTE: With hybrid dragons, the first of the elements shown in its statistics will be the element that determines it's strengths and weaknesses.
In the chart below, you can see the effectiveness of each element against each different element. In some cases, the effectiveness might be a little different, but this is a good general rule of thumb.
