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Noobazzah

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Re: Breeding Dragons
« Reply #30 on: August 14, 2012, 02:17:29 pm »
No, they're definitely surface dragons. Try changing the child tag, it doesn't directly affect hatching time. The little dragons are just considered to be children for a longer time, I think.
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Re: Breeding Dragons
« Reply #31 on: August 14, 2012, 04:35:43 pm »
Quote from: Noobazzah on August 14, 2012, 02:17:29 pm
No, they're definitely surface dragons. Try changing the child tag, it doesn't directly affect hatching time. The little dragons are just considered to be children for a longer time, I think.

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Re: Breeding Dragons
« Reply #32 on: August 15, 2012, 12:12:07 pm »
Temperature???

Do the eggs need [TEMPERATURE:YES] to incubate? I've switched it back on before for 2 clutches but the horrible lag forced me to switch it back off again.

Oddly enough, my magma forge/smelter still run.
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Re: Breeding Dragons
« Reply #33 on: August 15, 2012, 03:52:08 pm »
No eggs don't need temperature to incubate.

IT is a fairly random process whether or not eggs are viable though, so if you can't get your eggs to hatch after a year or so just collect them and let another batch be laid.
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Re: Breeding Dragons
« Reply #34 on: August 19, 2012, 07:52:11 am »
Finally!!

Well, after adding [CHILD:10] and dumping all the eggs, and i mean all the eggs; i finally have baby dragons and hydras. Let me explain.

The dragon and hydra would never leave the nest box. I would order a clutch 'd'umped and within a few moments of them being removed, they would lay another clutch that would never hatch either. What i finally did was to keep dumping clutches until they were 'eggless'. I think there has to be an impregnation phase for them to lay fertilised eggs. So they must be out of the nest for a few weeks, putting polish on thier scales and shaking thier tails at the guys. Then, they will lay fertilised eggs and they will hatch within a season or two. Much faster than i expected.

My 3 new dragons appear to be adults and i'm not sure why with [CHILD:10]. Maybe i was away too long but not for 10 years. I'm going to savescum and test again with [CHILD:1] so i'll be able to see more results.
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Re: Breeding Dragons
« Reply #35 on: August 19, 2012, 07:56:14 am »
Propably size-related. Glad that it started working, by they way.
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Re: Breeding Dragons
« Reply #36 on: August 19, 2012, 08:20:06 am »
pretty sure that's true that they need to be fertilised before they are laid, they arn't fish which do it that way.

Glad you solved it, your solution makes a lot of sense.
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