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Dragon City FAQ {Frequently Asked Questions}
How to Navigate New Forum
The Buildings of DC
The Dragon Piggy Bank
Opposing Elements for Breeding

Collecting times for events
Open the eventwindow. In the upper right corner, besides the events name, you can see the timer.
This timer started with ....days,23hours,59minutes (on mobile it doesn`t show minutes).
It will count down to 00d 00h 00m.
You have three timewindows of 8 hours every day to collect a special amount of coins. This differs from event to event. Lets say this time it is 600 coins.
Ignore the days , just check hours and minutes of the timer.
These are the timewindows to collect the coins:
23h59m-16h00m.
15h59m-08h00m.
07h-59m-00h00m

So you have 8 hours to collect the full amount of coins. After that time a new timewindow will start and you start the collection for the next 600 coins. So it is possible to get ready with collecting 600 coins ten minutes before the window ends and then, after 10 minutes, collect again 600 coins because the next timewindow started. Just bring the time the timer shows in relation to the time your clock shows and you will have the times for your timezone. I hope this is helpful.

Maze Island explanation for beginners
Please note that there are NO MAPS for this Island as you simply follow the maze.
There are several dragons that you need to lead through the maze one by one. Each dragon has its own coloured path and has to move through its own set of nodes. Once each dragon finishes its path in the maze, you will be awarded that dragon. You know that dragon has finished when you reach the node with the chequered flag. The maze is covered in fog, which will clear as you move your dragon through the maze.
To move each dragon through each node, you need to collect points (event coins), which you will get by collecting gold, food, PvP, breeding, hatching and feeding dragons.
When moving through the nodes, you can be awarded points, gems, food and gold, and there are fights on some nodes too. The further you get through the maze, the more points it will cost to move to a new node. For example, node 1 for dragon 1 may cost 30 maze points but that same dragon on node 18 may cost 175 maze points.
At the start of the maze, there are dragons who are unlocked and some that are not. You need to lead the unlocked dragons through the maze to find keys on certain nodes, which will unlock the other dragons. However, players can skip dragons which they already have once they have collected keys along the path to save some points.
Often there are also dragons that show up on timelimited paths. These do not need keys. Check our guides for each event to see how many points are needed for the dragons. It makes no sense to wait for a timelimited dragon when you dont have enough coins to finish that path on time.

HEROIC RACE TIPS AND GUIDE

IMPORTANT--> Check the probability of getting an item in the guide before you post in group to say you are not getting anything for breeding/hatching etc. Some probabilities are low and you will have to keep doing the task repeatedly to get the items. Please do not flood the group with posts asking why your breeding and hatching is not working unless you've checked this and you really think you are having an issue.

You are in a group of 8 players. To get the dragon, you must qualify by finishing lap 4 and win in that group of 8. Or reach lap 15 to get the new Herioc dragon. However, there are prizes for finishing the race in other positions. We receive the Heroic at the end of the race, not upon reaching lap 15!

Pools and waiting times
In heroic races there are pools and waiting times.
Pool is the maximum number of items you can collect in one go. The pool always starts full in each mission. Once you start collecting items it will empty the pool. When the pool is empty you can not collect any items anymore until items are refilled.
Waiting time is the time you have to wait until items are reproduced to refill the pool. In the sheets you have waiting time per item - that is the time it needs to reproduce 1 item. And total waiting time - that is the time to reproduce all items.
Note If the pool holds less than 50% of the total of items you have to collect you have to collect several times. For example if the pool is 3 and you have to collect 9 items you have to collect 3, then wait, then collect 3 again and wait again to collect the last 3 items. For the waiting times you have to add up the waiting time per item.
Whenever we collect an item from the pool, the wait timer is reset to zero and starts again. So it’s recommended to collect as much items as possible and wait untill the pool is full. Items generated by the slot machine do not reset the timer.

Check the spreadsheets posted for pools and waiting times. I recommend checking each time you begin a new node so that you are not frustrated when you are not receiving an item for doing a task.

For breeding: Breed unstared Terra and Terra or Double Terra (fastest combination). All other breeding pairs can give longer breeding results.

For hatching: Breed the combinations above. Hatch, place and sell. If you dont have to breed dragons you can just buy terra eggs from the store, hatch, place and sell them. Check to make sure that you don't have the task of feeding your dragons on your current node. If you do, feed that dragon before selling.

For feeding your dragons: To save food you can feed the hatches you did to level 7 and then sell. Or buy terra eggs and feed these after hatching. Of course you can also feed new dragons you got.

For collecting food: Grow Bluebell Flowers or Bluebell Bouquets and collect after 30 seconds. Repeat this until you have collected the full amount of points.

For collecting gold: Collect when the habitat has a gold bar icon. In case of consecutive gold nodes, you may use Midarian’s Tower to boost gold production.

Again: All actions until here (colleting gold, food, feeding, hatching and breeding) do not guanrantee a point for each action. It has to be repeated several times to get one point. So you perhaps have to hatch 20 or more terra dragons for example before you get a point. But it is still quicker than waiting for longer food, breedings or hatchings.

League battles: Fight ONLY the number required for your current task! If you run out of league battles, check the pools and wait times for the rest of your node tasks. If the waits are longer than your next league battle refill and you can afford to wait (nobody is gaining on you) then wait. Also, if your league battles take many gems to refill and it's only going to take a few gems to skip the rest of that task completely, buy the task out with a few gems.

Slot Machine: The slot machine may generate extra items for free once every 24 h otherwise one spin costs 20 gems.
+1, +2, +5: generate the respective number of items. If more than one task is unfinished, the generated items may be split.
Mission complete: Completes one random task
Node complete: Completes the entire node
+1 spin: Yes, exactly. Try again.
** If you come to a point with getting no items for breeding or hatching although pool should be full and you tried hundrets of times, close the game and clear cache. Let it load long until everything shows up proper and try again. That helps sometimes.

Pro Tip!!!!
How to prepare your islands for a heroic race:

• Have at least on free breeding place (for breeding Terra + Terra)
• Have at least on free spot on the hatchery (for hatching Terra eggs)
• Have some space in a habitat or kindergarten (to place Terra Dragons)
• Have 9 hour food ready on all food farms you own ( that will guarantee points for collecting food for the first laps. After that change to 30 second food)
• Have 5 or 6 pvp battles waiting to be done. For 6 battles: Do the last 2 battles of the set. Then the first one of the next set. Then reset the league and do 2 more battles. Then next three battles. Then you will have 6 battles waiting for you for the next set.
• For gold collection: For beginners it will help to build as many terra habitats as possible and fill them with low level Terra Dragons (level 4-7). These will fill up with gold quickly and will help a lot with collecting gold items.

How to claim your rewards in the end of the race can be found here.
To get any reward you have to finish lap 4 to qualify.
If you win and reach lap 15 you will still only get one heroic dragon when the race ends.

This explains the guide:

Tips for Tower Events
Using the spin will cost more coins the higher you climb the tower.
You have to collect pieces for the dragons you want.
When you walk... you will only get things (gold, food, gems, orbs, dragon pieces etc) when you land on that field with the last step. So if you have three steps you will get the thing that is on the field of your third step.
You can not walk the full amount you spinned when you hit a wall or a catapult..
Chests on the map give random resource.
Check catapults properly. Some will bring you up and some will bring you down. Sometimes several floors.
You can also buy out the last piece of each dragon. Sometimes it is better to buy the last piece instead of walking back down because you missed a piece on the way up.

Tips for Runner events
There are 3 limited missions in an 8 hour period. Do not start a mission if you cannot finish it in 8 hours. The 8 hours periods are the same as collecting times in other events.
Practice jumping and moving from lane to lane early on, the running speeds up the farther you go.
Collecting items is similar to races and puzzle islands, use the same practices to complete the missions. Which means terra/terra combos work for breeding but like the races you need several to meet all the requirements. Buying and placing Terras work for hatching. Growing 30 second food works for collecting food and feeding dragons to level 7 works for feeding.
When the run speeds up very quickly there are no pinwheels to collect, concentrate on collecting rewards while avoiding the rock obstacles.
Avoid using Speedy & Greedy`s tower. It might collect all your gold and food without giving you all items.

Ways to earn gems

Collections (the ones in the event tab)
-Alliance chest
-leagues
-Jewelem tower
-Collections (in the dragon book)
-Calender
-rescue (diamond chests)
-tasks
-surveys
-events (maze, runner, etc)
-achievements
-card packs
-ads
-mastery
-divine pass
-gemtopia chests
-Nyx chests
-leveling up
-Money
-Treasure shop