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.

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Additional info: New Copper alt, new Cantor alts

[krait]

According to some comments in the DC Forum, and confirmed by poking through hatcheries, it looks like at least four breeds can produce the "shiny" Copper alt: Astrapi, Bolt, Electric, and Thunder. There may be others!

To get the 'shadow' of the new Cantor alts to appear on your Encyclopedia page, use Ward and Earthquake on a Cantor egg. I think it works even if Earthquake kills the egg, and presumably works even if you go on to incubate/otherwise change the outcome of the Cantor egg you Warded. I bred a random Cantor to test it, and the shadow appeared as soon as I Warded the egg, and didn't disappear after I abandoned the egg.

[krait]

Action log page showing all my Sapphires that turned pink after being abandoned:

[codyne]

I bred a ton of Coppers yesterday, mostly with Thunders, but also with Bolt, Elecric, and Astrapi, and didn't get a single shiny Copper. Oh well, try again next week. (I've got more Coppers but got tired of breeding.)

Bought four Cantos from the Market and Earthquaked them. Three of them died, one survived and presumably turned green. Also caught a Canto on the AP and warded it. It hatched this morning and appears to be white.

Haunted the AP for hours yesterday looking for Pink Sapphires, but didn't see any. Maybe I'll breed some Sapphires today.

Consensus on the forum seems to be that the Gemshard rotation is (based on laid/stolen date):
Sunday - random
Monday - Green
Tuesday - Red
Wednesday - Blue
Thursday - Purple
Friday - Aqua
Saturday - Orange

I stunned my Electric hatchies but can't really tell by looking at them if they're any different from the regular ones -- especially since the sprite change.

Any info on new Floret alts?

[krait]

Has anyone figured out the mechanisms/combinations for the new lavender and puce Floret eggs? I haven't found any hints so far, but I'm noticing more of them in hatcheries, so it seems like people's experiments are succeeding...