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Breeding & family tree

Pairing, lines, traits and the family tree, plus stars, awakening, talents and outfits: everything that makes a single monster grow.

In this chapter:

• Breeding Grove
• Breeding Lab
• Lineage
• Lab and stars
• Awakening
• Talents and skill levels
• Outfits

Breeding Grove

Two monsters from level four make a new egg. The egg takes from 30 s up to 10 h to be ready, depending on how rare it is.

How it works. Tap the grove, choose two monsters and start. You always see the chances for the egg first.

Where to get it and where you need it. Build the grove from the build menu. You can have up to 2 of them.

Unlocks at player level 3.

• Different parents give different chances, so look at the chances before you start.
• The Lineage and the Breeding Lab add goals and boosters for breeding.

Breeding Lab

Extras for breeding: weekly egg sets, boosters and shimmer eggs.

How it works. Open the Breeding Lab, pick a set or a booster and use it with your next breeding.

Where to get it and where you need it. Shimmer monsters have other colors. A hatchling shimmers with a chance of 2 percent, or 12 percent if both parents shimmer.

Unlocks at player level 3.

• A badge shows when a weekly set is ready to collect.
• Boosters stack, up to 20 of them.

Shimmer chances

Lineage

Family trees, inherited genes, breeding goals and weekly breeding orders over up to 10 generations.

How it works. Open Lineage, pick a monster to see its family and plan the next pair.

Where to get it and where you need it. A monster can carry up to 3 inherited genes from its parents.

Unlocks at player level 17.

• Weekly orders give a goal for your next breeding.
• Tap a monster in the tree to see where its genes come from.

The 24 genes a monster can inherit

Lab and stars

The lab collects essence of the species you release and turns it into stars. Every monster can reach 5 stars, and each star makes it stronger.

How it works. Open a monster, tap Stars and pay with essence of its species. The first star costs 20 essence, the last one 547.

Where to get it and where you need it. Essence comes from releasing monsters, dungeons, adventures and expeditions.

Unlocks at player level 7.

• Joker essence stands in for essence of any species of its rarity, up to a third of the cost.
• Releasing a monster turns it into essence of its species.

Awakening

A monster of one of the first 20 species can awaken at level 60 with 3 stars. It gets a grander look and 2 percent more power.

How it works. Open the monster and tap Awakening. It costs essence of its species and gold, once.

Where to get it and where you need it. Stars come from the lab, levels from feeding.

• Awakening keeps the shimmer and outfit of the monster.
• Stars first: they help you in every fight on the way.

Talents and skill levels

Every 10 levels a monster earns a talent point, up to 10. Points go into small bonuses on three branches of its role.

How it works. Open a monster and tap Talents. Spend points on the Talents tab, or raise a skill up to level 10 with scrolls on the Attacks tab.

Where to get it and where you need it. Skill scrolls come from dungeons, tasks, events and expeditions.

• You can reset talents for gold, so try things out.
• Raise the skills you use most first.

Talent trees

Outfits

Dress your monsters in one of 40 outfits. Outfits only change the look, never the strength.

How it works. Open a monster and tap Outfit, then pick one you own.

Where to get it and where you need it. Outfits come from achievements, puzzles, harbor friends, research, festivals and the shop.

• The outfit list shows where each one comes from.
• A monster wears one outfit at a time.

All 40 outfits