Hatchling Game!

Name: Shadow
Age: Hatchling
Gender: Male

Happiness: 5
Agility: 1
Observation: 6
Swimming: 0
Strength: 0
Intelligence: 2
Magic: 0
Beauty: 1
Endurance: 0
Hunger: 5
Thirst: 5
Cleanliness: 5
Personality: Quiet and reserved. Still a bit weary around Kovgun. Is great at watching, mostly from the shadows.
Abilities: N/A

To care for your dragon all you have to do is post. When you post, you say the action that you are doing. For example; 'Takes dragon down to the water to drink.' Then your dragon would be good on water. It's simple!

Babies have to be cared for everyday. As your dragon gets older it needs less and less day-to-day-care. Does this mean you have to care for it every other day? No! You can still care for it everyday, and this will most likely make your dragon stronger and happier. If you don't care for your dragon it might run away or die.

To fully care for your hatchling you have to have the right supplies. You can't feed a hatchling with no food, or comb it with no comb. To be able to fully care for it, you have to buy it. [Go to: Marketplace]

You can feed it with different foods. Some dragon like meat and others like plants. You'll have to find out what your dragon does and doesn't like. To feed it all you have to do is say that you did, and the food will be taken out of your inventory and to the dragon. Babies have to be feed every day while adults can be feed every 4 days at the most.

Water is easier because you don't necessarily have to buy it. The only time you really have to buy it is when you're someplace you can't get water, like the desert, around dirty water, or around salt water. Other than that, go down to a lake or ocean and you'll be fine.

When grooming, you can either lick them and take them to the water to slightly groom them, or get some real bath supplies and make them squeaky clean. Brushes are better used on dragons with hair or fur, but can still be used to brush off dirt from scales. To really clean them you'd need some bath soap and other supplies all found in the store. Everything gives out a different amount of clean. Sometimes, your dragon won't want to get a bath or get clean, so you might have to force them like you would a cat.

You also want to keep your dragon's happiness up. To do this you can play with them and keep them full and groomed and well-rested. Happy dragons are more likely to produce eggs when mated and sell for more than unhappy dragons. They're also a lot easier to deal with.

Other than that, the rest would be up to training. Hopefuly you're able to keep up with your dragon's needs other needs before you get to the heavy-lifting. [Go to: Training]

At different ages your dragon can do different things. When it is young it can't do much, but as it gets older it can do a lot more. Why don't we look at those things right now?

Hatching - Needs to be fed and cared for everyday. Learns from its caretaker on how to act and what to do. Can't be fully trained yet. Can't enter competitions. Can't breed.

3 years - Needs to be fed and cared for everyday. Is a bit better at learning. Can be partially trained. Can't lift weights. Can't enter competitions. Can't breed.

10 year - Needs to be fed and cared for every other day. Can be trained. Can lift weights. Can't enter competitions. Can't be bred.

20 years - Needs to be fed and cared for every 3 days at the most. Can be trained. Can lift weights. Can enter competitions. Can be bred.

40 years - Needs to be fed and cared for every 4 days at the most. Can do everything.

80 years - Every 4 days at the most. Can't lift weights. Can do everything else.

100 years - Your dragon has passed.

To keep your dragon healthy and in tip-top shape, you need to buy it the things it needs! The most commonly bought items are food, water, and grooming supplies. There are also toys and training items. Sometimes, specialty items come in that cost a lot more but can give a lot more too.

Food- Various food can give your dragon more or less actual food, depending on if your dragon likes it or not and if it usually eats that. Food ranges from meat to sweets.

Water- Although most of the time not necessary, the store still sells water. Maybe you have a water-loving dragon and you want to take a trip away from the water. Or maybe the place you're going doesn't have a clean water source for miles, or jsut none at all. Another reason is if you want to clean your dragon without getting a river or lake all soapy.

Grooming Supplies- Grooming supplies can differ when being sold in the store. Most of the time it's brushes and soap, but can be other things too like nail clippers and scale scrubbers, which just have a better clean than a brush. Most of these can be used to enhance beauty.

Training Supplies- While in grooming there is already a little to improve beauty, these would include more things like speed and strength helpers. Weights and various things to improve strength and a timer, and even a treadmill for speed and endurance. Books for intelligence, and other various items that might be of use.

Toys- All dragons have to have some toys! Well, not really, but it is a good idea to get their happiness up and bond. Some dragons might not like certain toys or none at all, but it is still nice to try and can be used on other dragons.

Specialty Items- These are rare, expensive items. Even the ones selling it sometimes don't know what it is. It's only up to you to decide to try it.

At 3 years you may be able to train your dragon a little, but most attempts will be unsuccessful. When your dragon reaches 10 is when the real training starts. This training would be for competitions, or just to sell your dragon for more. Dragons don't have to be trained and can just be bred, but some of the traits could be passed on, like a stronger dragon may make a stronger child. This doesn't mean it will just happen, just a possibility. [Go to; Breeding]

Dragons can be trained in different things, like beauty, strength, endurance, intellect, ect. Some dragons just can't be trained at some things, or at least as well. A small dragon may never become as strong as one that was born strong, but at the same time it could. To get the best training, you'd want to buy supplies from the store, like weights for strength, books for intelligence, ect. [Go to; Marketplace]

You don't want to overtrain a dragon, or else it might try to resist or not improve, as it was too tired to train. You also don't want to undertrain a dragon, or else it either won't or will only slowly approve. Every dragon is different, and you'll have to find the medium. Sometimes, one dragon may be able to train for hours while the other can train for minutes. Training time usually improves over time, unless you train for too long in which it could go down.

If you don't want to sell your dragon, then you can keep it and breed more dragons. You can breed with other dragons or, if you have two different gender dragons, you can breed them together. Whoever owns the female will keep the eggs, but you can buy them if the owner wants to sell them. If you have a male, you can put it up for breeding and earn money that way too. Not every two dragons will like each other and produce an egg.

Males can be bred every three days, but there is a limit to their breeding. Young males can only be bred once a day every three days. The good thing about this is that you can put your males up for breedings so that another owner of a female can have your two dragons mate.

Females can only be bred once every week. They have to care for the egg or eggs until it has hatched, then they can have another. Females don't lay eggs for 4 days after they have mated, and the eggs don't hatch for another three days. Just make sure that the mother keeps them warm!

If you're a little short on money, or just don't like a dragon, you can sell it! You can also do this with other items, and even exchange them with other players. Maybe your dragon is a fantastic hunter, and you want to sell meat for a lower price than the store does, there's nothing stopping you.

Dragon are a bit trickier. They can still be exchanged with no problem, but when sold to the store they get judged on a few things. The first thing is overall health. This would mean if it's well-fed and full or if it's not thirsty. If it's starving and parched, then it'll receive less money. Next goes for training. Dragons that are good in things are sold for higher prices because of how useful they are. This doesn't mean that a nice, cuddly, dragon will get sold for less because it can't do much, it could still be used for a pet! The third thing is personality. If your dragon is hard to handle it could be sold for less, unless on that day there was someone that wanted it. A dragon with a mean personality could make a great fighting dragon. A perfect personality is a hardworking dragon that is easy to be trained, but that's hard to get. Dragon personalities are hard to change, so I wouldn't worry about that one too much when selling.

When your dragon reaches the age of 20 it can enter competitions. These are the same ones it can be trained for; beauty, strength, intelligence, ect. The basic ones show up the most. Sometimes, there are some special ones that show up, that aren't like the regular ones you may train for. This includes hunting, eating, and other various things.

From competitions you can earn money. This money depends on what place you get, and what money the competition offers. There is a possibility to get extra money, but it is usually rare. To enter one, you have to pay a small fee of what the competition says. Sometimes, they can seem too expensive or too low. If not enough people enter a competition within a week, it can get canceled.

-3 days of food
-50 dollars