Dragon Cave
To begin, if you don't know what Dragon Cave is:
This is an online collecting/breeding "game" which features dragons (occasionally Yoshi-parody dinosaurs and chickens) that you hatch, grow, breed, and collect on your personal DC page (aka your "scroll"). Once you create a scroll, you can go around swiping eggs from the abandoned page or specific biomes, or get them from nice people who donate/trade them to you. In order for them to hatch and grow up, they must be viewed by a lot of people; usually these are garnered by putting the egg/hatchling links in forum signatures and/or specific hatchery sites. An egg has a week to hatch, and a hatchling has a week to grow up; if they don't garner enough unique and normal views in the alloted time, they die, and if they garner too many too quickly, they get sick (which can also be fatal if not cured).
Each dragon type has specific sprites (pixel artwork) associated with them during all life stages. Eggs and hatchlings can be recognized by color/pattern and description, though full type information is not available until the dragon becomes an adult. Each of the wild-caught dragons has its own range of biomes wherein it is available, and some are rarer than others. Eggs are dropped into the cave biomes in a big dump on the hour, with small drops each 5 minutes in between.
Abandoned page (AP) babies are either from player breedings (PB) or from players who snagged a cave-born (CB) egg in a biome that turned out to be not what they wanted. Too many eggs in the AP section will cause the site to close down the biomes until the page is cleared a bit; also, each biome only shows 3 eggs at a time, so if those are not taken they "block" the biome page until they are. Some people take and raise these "cave-blockers," while others snatch them up only to abandon them as soon as the system lets them, which then clogs up the AP. It's considered better form to catch and raise the ones that clog up the cave and AP, since the system maintains the ratios of all dragon species, so letting a common one die will just cause another to be generated in its biome.
Not all pairings will mate, and not all matings are successful, but when they are they generate 1-4 eggs of which you are allowed to keep one to raise. Others must be traded/gifted, or they get shunted to the AP. Other than a few exceptions that are only available through breeding, mating two dragons will make a baby that matches one or the other of its parents. This relative lack of hybridization makes things easier in terms of coding, sprite-making, and actual breed collections, especially for limited edition dragons like those available during specific holidays and as prizes for specific events.
Once I build up my numbers, I'll be free to spread a lot of eggs around, as I intend on being a source for all breeding-only types as well as a propagator of holiday and prize dragons. I've just got a loooot of work to do to get there.
As far as I know, there is no limit to the number of adult dragons you can have, though eggs and hatchlings are limited at certain thresholds of adult numbers.
My scroll is here
Here's the hatchery I use and below are links to eggs and babies from there. They give you a list of codes once you put up anything from your scroll for them to care for; they're on a rotating list, so they help everyone's little ones get more unique views than they otherwise would. Regular views are mostly obtained through the autoviewer, which you can put up and then leave running when you're not at your computer if you don't feel like staring at an automatically refreshing parade of eggs and hatchlings. :P The codes I was given are listed below. Every time you come to this journal entry, you'll see different ones and give each one a view (also a unique one if your IP is new to it). If you decide to click on one to see its information, you also give it a click (which is useful, but not necessary for growth, also 1 per IP). They're automatically sorted by time sensitivity and removed if they get sick or become adults.
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This is an online collecting/breeding "game" which features dragons (occasionally Yoshi-parody dinosaurs and chickens) that you hatch, grow, breed, and collect on your personal DC page (aka your "scroll"). Once you create a scroll, you can go around swiping eggs from the abandoned page or specific biomes, or get them from nice people who donate/trade them to you. In order for them to hatch and grow up, they must be viewed by a lot of people; usually these are garnered by putting the egg/hatchling links in forum signatures and/or specific hatchery sites. An egg has a week to hatch, and a hatchling has a week to grow up; if they don't garner enough unique and normal views in the alloted time, they die, and if they garner too many too quickly, they get sick (which can also be fatal if not cured).
Each dragon type has specific sprites (pixel artwork) associated with them during all life stages. Eggs and hatchlings can be recognized by color/pattern and description, though full type information is not available until the dragon becomes an adult. Each of the wild-caught dragons has its own range of biomes wherein it is available, and some are rarer than others. Eggs are dropped into the cave biomes in a big dump on the hour, with small drops each 5 minutes in between.
Abandoned page (AP) babies are either from player breedings (PB) or from players who snagged a cave-born (CB) egg in a biome that turned out to be not what they wanted. Too many eggs in the AP section will cause the site to close down the biomes until the page is cleared a bit; also, each biome only shows 3 eggs at a time, so if those are not taken they "block" the biome page until they are. Some people take and raise these "cave-blockers," while others snatch them up only to abandon them as soon as the system lets them, which then clogs up the AP. It's considered better form to catch and raise the ones that clog up the cave and AP, since the system maintains the ratios of all dragon species, so letting a common one die will just cause another to be generated in its biome.
Not all pairings will mate, and not all matings are successful, but when they are they generate 1-4 eggs of which you are allowed to keep one to raise. Others must be traded/gifted, or they get shunted to the AP. Other than a few exceptions that are only available through breeding, mating two dragons will make a baby that matches one or the other of its parents. This relative lack of hybridization makes things easier in terms of coding, sprite-making, and actual breed collections, especially for limited edition dragons like those available during specific holidays and as prizes for specific events.
Once I build up my numbers, I'll be free to spread a lot of eggs around, as I intend on being a source for all breeding-only types as well as a propagator of holiday and prize dragons. I've just got a loooot of work to do to get there.
As far as I know, there is no limit to the number of adult dragons you can have, though eggs and hatchlings are limited at certain thresholds of adult numbers.
My scroll is here
Here's the hatchery I use and below are links to eggs and babies from there. They give you a list of codes once you put up anything from your scroll for them to care for; they're on a rotating list, so they help everyone's little ones get more unique views than they otherwise would. Regular views are mostly obtained through the autoviewer, which you can put up and then leave running when you're not at your computer if you don't feel like staring at an automatically refreshing parade of eggs and hatchlings. :P The codes I was given are listed below. Every time you come to this journal entry, you'll see different ones and give each one a view (also a unique one if your IP is new to it). If you decide to click on one to see its information, you also give it a click (which is useful, but not necessary for growth, also 1 per IP). They're automatically sorted by time sensitivity and removed if they get sick or become adults.
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