WELCOME! I hope new folks will join us in this fun little addiction.

The first page will be wide because of some of the images in the tutorial
below, but they're well worth it. If there is anything you think I should
add to this, please let me know. There's an awful lot of info out there, but this should be good to get you started.

Contents of this post:
Squirrel Scrolls
Squirrel Wish Lists
What is the Dragon Cave, and what's with these eggs?
DragonCave FAQ and forum links
Resources for the care of your dragons
Getting help for you eggs and hatchlings
Helpful hints: Sorting, Incubator
Gifting or Trading dragons
Egg Descriptions and dragons they produce (hidden)
Special dragons
Daycare/Hatchery Tutorial


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Squirrel Scrolls
Just post if you want your scroll (or your mom's or daughter's scroll) added

Please try to visit the scrolls each day (if possible) to view the
dragons and give them some clicky love. Many have more dragons than
can fit into their sig, so this is the best way to make sure everyone's
dragons get viewed.

If you wish people to click on the eggs and hatchlings in your scroll, please be considerate of the time it takes to go through these, and sort your scroll with the eggs and hatchlings showing at the top.

EGOKA - http://dragcave.net/user/egoka
animallover - http://dragcave.net/user/animallover
Kimber/kdvb1 - http://dragcave.net/user/Kdvb1
Beckett's Patient - http://dragcave.net/user/BeckettsPatient
Lysambre - http://dragcave.net/user/lysambre
shansgrl - http://dragcave.net/user/shansgrl
Nikki/welshnikki - http://dragcave.net/user/welshnikki
Megan/Bushy_Tush - http://dragcave.net/user/BFH_Bushy_Tush
Trish/Whovian - http://dragcave.net/user/whovian
Emerald - http://dragcave.net/user/Emerald01
imi339 - http://dragcave.net/user/imi339
Atlantis Jackson - http://dragcave.net/user/Atlantis%20Jackson
Ekorre - http://dragcave.net/user/Iriaion
Trish's Mom - http://dragcave.net/user/Tink%2047
Bekcy L - http://dragcave.net/user/Becky%20L.
Allie - http://dragcave.net/user/zoooooolander

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Squirrel Wishlists - Dragons can be traded/gifted to other people, so if you end up with one of the following, please consider giving it to a needy Squirrel if you don't need it yourself.

Beckett's_Patient - gold dragon, male silver dragon, male geode
Emerald - male geode, female silver caveborn, male split caveborn, ALT black, ALT vine
BFH_Bushy_Tush aka Megan - female split, female frill, male silver, any geode
animallover - female split, male black, Alt black, Alt vines, Paper, Dinos, Silver, Gold

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DRAGON CAVE

This is a site where you can snag eggs and raise them through hatching
and into adulthood. You can even breed them once they're grown. There
are many types of dragons, some much more rare than others, and some
are not even dragons! TJ is the person who owns the site. He's young and
busy, but does a wonderful job on the site. He does like to be mysterious
though, and he doesn't like it when people share too many secrets.

Dragon Cave can be found HERE

You'll need to register so that you can have a Scroll. This tracks your
eggs, hatchlings, and dragons.

When you go to the main cave, there may or may not be eggs there.
Eggs found in the main part of the cave are considered to be wild
eggs, or caveborn. If there are eggs, they will have a question mark
on them and a description of the egg. It is meant to be a surprise
how they turn out. If you feel like cheating I have a hidden list later
in this post.

If there are no eggs available in the cave, you can go to the abandoned
page. Here, you will find eggs that are not wanted for one reason or
another. Very few of these will be caveborn eggs. Sometimes a person
will accidentally pick up a caveborn that they don't want and then
abandon it, but this page is usually full of eggs that have been bred
by people with adult dragons. Once you have the egg, you will be able
to see the names of its parents and trace its lineage. This can be fun
as some people have given their dragons rather interesting names.


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DRAGON CAVE FAQs here.

Dragon Cave's forums, which require a separate login, can be found HERE. This forum is huge.
If you poke around, you can generally find the information you need.
If not, just ask here.


There is also a "Soft Shell Guide" on the Dragon Cave forums
to help just in case your egg gets sick.

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Resources:

The DC Fansite is a great resource! Here are the basic buttons.
A more extensive tutorial created by Lysambre is at the end of this post.

To hatch the eggs:


To get hatchlings to mature:


ONLY for eggs/hatchlings with less than 3 days left:


Another egg ER


Daily Dragon Fix
a fan site that generates clicks for all registered eggs/hatchlings. Some rules:
* Members must have at least 20 clicks a day in order to keep their dragons listed.
* Accounts that have not had any clicks for 4 weeks will be deleted.
* It is courteous for users to remove dragons if they are hidden (aka fogged).
Admins are authorized to remove them on sight.
Megan has volunteered to put other people's eggs in her account for clicks and such.


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Accepting Aid from Others:
If you want other people to be able to post your eggs elsewhere to help get
them views and clicks, then you need to go under your account settings and
make sure that you have checked that you will accept help from others.
Otherwise, they can post them all over the place, but it won't do any good.

Fun Fact!

You can sort your dragons! Under account settings you can choose to sort
your dragons by breed, gender, stage (egg, hatchling, etc.) and more.
It's a nice way to organize and see what you might be needing to acquire,
or how many of each kind you have and such

HAVING TROUBLE COMING UP WITH DRAGON NAMES?
http://www.polenth.com/fun/dragon.cgi

Incubators

If someone has an incubator in their sig, it is merely an image link to their
scroll. Once taken to the scroll, everything on it will get a view. If you
want to add clicks, then you can click on them from there.

If you want to generate an incubator for your sig, go under your account
settings and choose "generate incubator". From the options, choose what
you want to have shown. I just do the eggs and hatchlings. Choose "Upload
to ImageShack if you want the pretty scroll graphic with your name.

Remember! The incubator does not get views and clicks for your eggs.
Someone has to click on the incubator and go view your scroll in order
for it to work. So, if you want to ensure views, just put the eggs in
your sig directly. Also, your incubator does not evolve with your scroll.
You need to generate a new incubator when your scroll changes. Well,
you don't *have* to, but if you want it to show your current batch, then
you do.

Gifting/Trading eggs

You can try to give someone else one of your eggs or hatchlings (as long as you haven't named it). However, the procedure isn't as simple as handing it over. When you are giving someone an egg, you are abandoning it, and they are picking it up. They simply have something of an advantage.

Here's how it works:

I want to give Trish and egg that I have. She logs into the DC site and then types in http://dragcave.net/abandoned/xxxx where xxxx is the 4 symbol code for the dragon. When she hits enter it will tell her she can't find the dragon. That's okay. Once she's ready, she posts or emails me or IM's me, and then she starts refreshing. The simplest way to refresh frequently is to use the F5 key.

Once I know Trish is refreshing I go in to my account and abandon the egg. The egg will show up very briefly on the abandoned page, which means there is a small chance that someone might actually be fast enough to click on it before Trish refreshes. It kinda stinks, but it's the way it is. Hopefully, however, Trish will be refreshing and suddenly see the code page, which tells her she got the egg.

Once Trish has the egg, and entire day will have been added to the time it has left to hatch. This is a result of the abandonment process. All abandoned eggs and hatchlings get an extra day to hatch/mature before they die, and this is true for eggs traded because they are still considered to have been abandoned.



Egg Descriptions

Hidden for those who want to be surprised. Click gray bar to view.

Spoiler:

>Black Dragon - This egg has a faint green glow around it. >Blue/Water Dragon - This egg is sitting in a shallow puddle. >Dark Green/Vine Dragon - This egg is sitting in a patch of grass and small flowers even though there's no sun in the cave. >Gold Dragon – This egg is very reflective, almost metallic looking. >Gray/Storm/Fog Dragon - This egg is surrounded by fog. >Green/Earth/Pebble Dragon - This egg is sitting in a pile of small pebbles >Guardian Dragon - This egg is sitting in front of the others. >Mint Dragon - This egg is hidden behind the others, as if it is shy. >Orange/Magi Dragon - This egg has an orange aura radiating from it. >Paper Dragon – This egg is tiny and made out of several pieces of paper folded together. >Pink Dragon - It's bright. And pink. (Always female.) >Purple Dragon – Wow, purple isn't a color of egg you expected to see. (Always female.) >Red Dragon - This egg is rather warm. >Silver Dragon – This egg gives off a beautiful glow. >Skywing Dragon - This egg has strange markings on it. >Frill Dragon - This egg has strange markings on it. >Split/Two-headed Dragon - This egg is split down the middle into two colors. >Stone/Rock Dragon - This egg is heavy and rough, as if it were made out of rock. >White Dragon - This egg has a very clean look. It's completely devoid of dirt and scratches. >Chicken - This egg is only 1/3 the size of the others. >Dino/Yoshi - This egg looks like it doesn't belong, it is brightly colored with white spots. >Vampire, Autumn, Summer, and Christmas Dragons - All seasonally themed special release eggs. You can only get them during special release dates, depending on the season. >Neglected Dragon - Rumor has it that you can still get this dragon, but nobody knows how. Anyone who does know won't tell because TJ09 will burn their scroll if they do. Yeah, it's that big of a secret. >Zombie Dragons Used to be available but they have been discontinued with no real hope of them ever being re-released. >Alternate Black and Alternate Vine Dragons - have the same descriptions as their regular counterparts.. The difference is in the coloring of the hatchlings...and you can only get them from the Abandoned page or breeding. You'll never pick up an ALT on the main cave. (See accompanying graphics below.)

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ALT Dragons
Black Dragons and Vine Dragons occasionally come in an ALT form.
The eggs look exactly the same, but you can tell the difference once
they hatch. ALTs only come from breedings, never from the wild cave.
This means you'd have to pick a green or black egg up on the abandoned
page and see what happens when it hatches. Or you can breed for it
yourself if you want.

These are only the images of the hatchlings, not actual clickable hatchlings.

Black Dragon -->
Alt. Black Dragon --> or -->
Vine Dragon -->
Alt. Vine Dragon -->

Hatchery/ER tutorial by Lysambre (Thanks! Lysambre!)

So the first step is to go to the man page of the website : right here



You can see the three important links on the left.

Hatchery is for your eggs, as long as there are more than two days remaining,
this is where you put them (I'll go through that process in a second).

Daycare is the exact same process, except it's for your hatchlings instead of
your eggs.

Emergency room is for your eggs or hatchlings who have less than 3 days remaining
before they die (eggs are on average supposed to hatch around 3.5 days). You only
put your eggs here in case of... emergency . But if you used the hatchery and
daycare I doubt you'll ever need it.

So how does it work from here.

You click on "hatchery" and find yourself : here


There's only one important part on this page, as noted on the picture.

I used animallover's scroll for the example of what to do next :

Enter your scroll's name, then click on submit.


You'll arrive on a page similar to this one :


You should see your eggs only (if you are in the daycare, you'll see your hatchlings
only). Choose the eggs/hatchlings you want to add, click submit, and that's it, all
done . Your eggs/hatchlings will be automatically removed after four days, and it's
always better if they don't get too many views on their first day anyway, so I would
advise to only add them after a day or so, this way you don't have to worry about
adding them again .


I know this is a lot, but I'll just add one more link, just in case you get an egg
with "soft shell" or a hatchling getting sick, they explain it all and how to make it
better : right here.

If you need help with putting your eggs in one of these places, just ask.
I can do it. Lysambre has offered to do it. I'm sure someone will be willing/able
to help you.

http://dragcave.net/user/shansgrl

Thanks Em!

Clicked on them. I can't decide if the Spring hatchling is cute or horrendous. I hope the grownups are pretty.

I know, the pink mohawks crack me up!


OH! I clicked on yours too!

http://dragcave.net/user/BFH_Bushy_Tush

Here's mine.


Think you got enough frills, Em? You've got over 20...lol

She's got an army! LOL

I need to get me some eggs. Maybe tomorrow I'll feel better.

Yes, someday Em's Frill Army will take over the world!

FEAR THE FRILLS!!!! MUAAAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!

just signed up thanks to kimber I found it

anyway, here's the link to my scroll:

http://dragcave.net/user/BeckettsPatient

I need some sleep

You are very welcome BP! *grins* And, thank you for the geode egg! *HUGS*

Here's my scroll:
http://dragcave.net/user/Kdvb1

@Em Are you going to put all these on the first post here so we can find them easily like you did on dGeek?

Kimber

How many eggs can you put in you signature here?

I've put every egg and Hathcling have in there

AS we chattet about sister and brother pairs... I just looked and realised that my male frill is the father of my female frill
Well I just have to remember not to breed them with each other

edit: I added them to my signature, but they won't show Anything besides saving I could have forgotten to do?

here's my scroll
http://dragcave.net/user/animallover

here's andy(hubby's scroll)
http://dragcave.net/user/woogieman

No idea what the problem is, BP. Are you adding more characters to the signature than what the limit allows? If you add too many, it won't save...


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I lost my link to the day care and the emergency room. Could someone give them to me, please? I really, really need the ER today and may need to add a couple dragons to the day care.

Emergency room

you should be able to find the rest from there on

I'll try a few things wih my signature. But I didn't add more than my five eggs. And it did save

@B_P: Have you allowed BBCode? If not, go to your profile then to "preferences" and then enable "Always allow BBCode". That's only guessed and probably that won't change anything but who knows...

My DC-Scroll: http://dragcave.net/user/Iriaion

@BP: I'm gonna check the admin panel...see if there's anything wrong...

@BP: Ok, first thing I did was change your preferences so that your signature would always be attached to your posts. You had that option off. Second, I checked the code. Everything looks like it's in order. Re-do it again, see if it works. If it doesn't, I'll see about what I can do.

I hav no idea what else I could do but it doesn't look like my signature is showing up. Well it's not that important. I have my eggs in the hatchery and hatchlings ion the daycare. But it would be nice still...

edit: scratch that it's working

lol...

When you change your preferences to include your signature in every post, it doesn't change all your previous posts. It just does it from that moment, on...

@BeckettsPatient- Your hatchlings need to grow up so I can give you my geode. Hurry hatchlings hurry.... *clicks on hatchlings like crazy*

Does anyone want my bred frill egg? I'm going to abandon it if no one wants it.

Kimberly