Birthday Dragons, with Spoilers

[krait]

Let's have a post for working out the mechanics of obtaining all the new eggs! I've been editing my initial post a bit, but then I thought it might be better to have an official "here be spoilers" post for anyone who prefers to work things out for themselves.



New dragon breeds
New peachy Floret variety: catch them in the Jungle!

New purple hybrid: Confirmed - RoyalCrimson x RoyalBlue. )

New dragon sprites

Three new alts for Gemshards: speculation suggests colour may now be determined by day of the week, with one day for each of the six colours and one day where colour is random.

New pink Sapphire alt: Confirmed - created by abandoning an egg. (Link to Abandoned egg)

New yellow Sapphire alt: speculation suggests the yellow alt happens when an egg reaches ~4000 or 4100 views.

Two new BSA-based alts for Cantormaris Wyverns: Earthquake (Green Dragon BSA) gives the green alt, Ward (White Dragon BSA) gives the white alt.

New alt for Electrics: seems to involve Stunning the hatchling; anyone have confirmation?

New alt for Nilia Pygmies: use Fertility (Purple Dragon BSA) on both parents before breeding.
* Note: alt!Nilias can breed regular Nilia eggs, and may do so every time Fertility isn't used on both parents; experiments required. :)

New alt for Coppers: some comments on the Forums seem to suggest it's obtained by breeding Thunders to Coppers; need more information for whether gender influences it, and/or other electric-aligned breeds also produce the alt!

New alts for all varieties of Floret: more information needed! (Apparently some were obtained in a Cave glitch but reverted to peach Florets because, according to TJ, 'they weren't possible yet' - possibly tied to moon phase, then?)



Where possible I've linked dragons I produced myself as confirmation of breeding/mechanics. Share your discoveries, experiments, failures, and successes in the comments if you're interested in working out these new challenges.

Comments

[krait]

Congrats! I've seen several of them but haven't caught any, and I have difficulty telling Pink Sapphire/Peach Floret/Bright Copper eggs apart still, so half the time I'm probably aiming for something other than what I thought I was clicking, anyway. :D

I was thinking about the Pink Sapphires while hunting the AP, though, and it occurred to me that nobody has mentioned whether you can abandon a Yellow Sapph to turn it pink, or view-load a Pink Sapph to turn it yellow, or whether the alt form is 'locked in' once you get it... So I'm trying to catch a Pink to experiment on, but I may have to breed my own.

[codyne]

At least when you misclick on the AP, you can throw it back right away!

I hope the Pinks don't turn Yellow if they get a lot of views -- I took my Pink Sapphire out of AoND after it hatched, just to make sure. Yellows I don't think will be too hard to get -- especially right now, with everybody trying to get the new eggs, the fansites will be pretty heavily used. (I'd grab a couple of Sapphire eggs from the Market, but I'm half-locked with dead Cantos and that one Gemshard, so I'm saving my spaces for AP/cave hunting. Oh, and I picked up a 2G White Zyu from Bronze Shimmer that I'm keeping, but it's ER and should hatch in a bit.

Maybe I'll go catch up on the Forum while I'm waiting for my dead Cantos to stop counting.

[krait]

Definitely one of the best features of the AP! (I really wish they'd change the CB cooldown to 3 hours instead of 5; I know it's been suggested at various points.)

I'm currently reading the Earthquake Science thread with an eye to future green Cantors. Since I've used Earthquake maybe once before in my life, I need to know more before I risk any eggs!

[codyne]

Yeah, it's a pain to have to wait 5 hours to abandon a cave-caught egg. I think even one hour would be plenty. But I doubt TJ's going to change it at this point. I'll probably end up keeping the Gemshard I caught today anyway even though I don't need it. I've got the room, since I can't seem to catch any more Sapphires or Cantos and nobody's figured out how to get the rest of the new Florets yet.

I know EQ has a better chance of not killing eggs if you wait until they're near hatching. But I went ahead and EQ'd my Cantos right away anyway, heh. Too impatient to wait. I'll try again after my scroll clears up again. At least one of them survived. And there were people who waited and it killed all their eggs anyway, so you never know.

Couple of people on the forum said Pink Sapphires stayed Pink even if their views went over 4000. So they're probably not going to change. Whew! Don't want to lost the one Pink I managed to catch.

Once my ER eggs hatched and my dead Cantos stopped counting, I bought two Sapphire eggs to try to turn yellow, and bred my Sapphire dragons to get eggs to drop to the AP. I'm still AP hunting off and on, but haven't seen a Pink Sapphire in hours, so I think I'll take a break.