Food!

[sunshine_day917]

Hello fellow keepers. I can?t seem to stockpile more than 85k food at any given time. I?d like to be able to feed a dragon for any event to level 10 someday. What are your food growing strategies? I mostly plant scalypears as I work full time and have children so I don?t get much dedicated time to actually farm. Thanks for your help.

[ksbmommy]

Hello fellow keepers. I can?t seem to stockpile more than 85k food at any given time. I?d like to be able to feed a dragon for any event to level 10 someday. What are your food growing strategies? I mostly plant scalypears as I work full time and have children so I don?t get much dedicated time to actually farm. Thanks for your help.

Scaleypears = 700 apples every 20 hours
Diamond dates = 800 apples every 5 hours

Plant diamond dates not scaleypears to grow more food faster. Plant in the am and then in the pm if you don’t have time to play during the day. Plant upgrades if you are sitting on the couch watching tv for any short periods of time.

Scaleypears are really only good for world events to keep the farms full without paying a lot of attention.

[harobeda]

I agree - plant 5 hour diamondates. Even if you take 20 hours to harvest them, it’s still more food than scalypears. Also - do you mine? Mining can give good food.

[AnnirasSweets]

My routine is to usually plant Diamondates when I've got real life to deal with but when I'm home and have the free time, I switch to Rushrooms. This especially works well when a tournament is active since I'm already logging in every hour to fight and I know I'll be able to farm regularly while logged in.

As mentioned above, Mining can give food; so if you've not fully expanding the mining islands make sure to leave the last spot unopened. Once you expand to the final spot, your Dynamite Mine will shut down and you'll lose the ability to gain food from that side of the mine which usually gives more food than the Bombing Mine. My Bombing Mine usually gives me 50 food with the occasional 500 per hit while my Dynamite Mine drops 1000 food with the 100 rarely popping up so for me the Dynamite wins out. Also, Bingo is a decent source of free food which is the sole purpose I participate in bingo at all. Every card you complete gives you 500 food and at the lower levels this is easily achieved.

Finally, when there are no events that need the Outpost, I always send my Magic dragon out on the Mainland Magic Show Quest which yields anywhere from 125-5000 food every six hours. It might not sound like much but very bit helps when it comes to food and if you make sure to gather food from every possible place, you'll get your stockpile up in no time. I don't have as much as some players, I usually hover between 250-500 thousand as my average. Between DTs and LBs it's hard to build anything beyond that but I always have enough that I can finish the DTs and have enough left over to slowly raise up some of my better fighters during the LBs.

Of course this is just works for me and my playing style, it may not be feasible for you. You'll have to find what combination of food gathering gives you the most food while still working with your schedule and other limitations. Good luck in your endeavors, hope the advice from the forum helps you on your way.

[FireballFarm]

Annira, I do exactly the same and also hover around 300,000 food. The most I've ever had is a bit over 500,000.

After a Tales, I usually have just shy 100,000 food leftover. That's with growing Rushrooms like crazy throughout the entire event (and DiamondDates at night). The tournaments help since logging in every hour to battle reminds me to replant the Rushrooms.

Since they've made nearly all of the events food-intensive, and since the food costs keep creeping up, I've been forced to cut back on event participation. It's either feed some dragons up to level 15 or finish the events. Both are not possible.

I'm pretty miserly with food and always have been. My highest level Champs are only level 13 (Shaman and Glasswing), and the vast majority of my dragons are not yet epic'd. I only epic the ones I adore, special battlers, or the worthless Tales dragons we are forced to feed in order to complete the event. Most of my dragons are stuck at level 7 or 8 and only got evolved to produce bombs. I want to work on breeding the Primes, but only have two level 15 dragons (Diamond and Dark Omen). So, that means I can't finish the events anymore. Feeding my Glasswing from 12 to 13 last week took over 100,000 food. That's just nuts. I'm too scared to look at the feeding charts to see how much the next two levels will take.

For the past few Tales, I've chosen to stop at the 2nd dragon even though I've had enough food to do the whole thing. I need to feed the dragons *I* want to feed, and level 14 and level 13 Tales dragons serve little to no purpose after their event is over.

The Tales dragons used to be worthy of feeding up past level 10 when they were 'normal' hybrids. We ended up with a decent fighter after that Tales was over, so feeding them up had a long term purpose. Old Tales dragons, like Adventure and Beast, are good fighters because their typing is simple (2 major colors), and because the rare ones, like Beast, fall into the unbreedable tier when battling. But, now, the Tales dragons are usually triple types that include one or more minor type, and/or they contain a couple of these dumb new sub-minor types. Ugh. The excessive typing makes them worthless for both breeding and battling-- too many potential offspring and too weak to be of any use.

I'll only finish a Tales now if I absolutely adore the looks of 3rd dragon or *really* want the Token dragon. Since it looks like LBs will be sucking now (no old milestone dragons or habitats), at least that will take off some of the food pressure.


Having to pick and choose which events to neglect, and which prize dragons to just let go, takes a lot of enjoyment out of the game. But, it's now a necessary evil.

[AnnirasSweets]

Annira, I do exactly the same and also hover around 300,000 food. The most I've ever had is a bit over 500,000.

After a Tales, I usually have just shy 100,000 food leftover. That's with growing Rushrooms like crazy throughout the entire event (and DiamondDates at night). The tournaments help since logging in every hour to battle reminds me to replant the Rushrooms.

Since they've made nearly all of the events food-intensive, and since the food costs keep creeping up, I've been forced to cut back on event participation. It's either feed some dragons up to level 15 or finish the events. Both are not possible.

I'm pretty miserly with food and always have been. My highest level Champs are only level 13 (Shaman and Glasswing), and the vast majority of my dragons are not yet epic'd. I only epic the ones I adore, special battlers, or the worthless Tales dragons we are forced to feed in order to complete the event. Most of my dragons are stuck at level 7 or 8 and only got evolved to produce bombs. I want to work on breeding the Primes, but only have two level 15 dragons (Diamond and Dark Omen). So, that means I can't finish the events anymore. Feeding my Glasswing from 12 to 13 last week took over 100,000 food. That's just nuts. I'm too scared to look at the feeding charts to see how much the next two levels will take.

For the past few Tales, I've chosen to stop at the 2nd dragon, even though I've had enough food to do the whole thing. Picking and choosing. Since it looks like LBs will be sucking now (no old milestone dragons or habitats), at least that will take off some of the pressure.


Having to pick and choose which events to neglect and which dragons to let go takes a lot of enjoyment put of the game. But, it's now a necessary evil.

I know, right?! It's such a widespread, long-lasting issue that it's no longer even seen as an issue. Players now just think this is the way the game is and always has been which is sad. How long and how often do we have to beg for a new more lucrative crop before we finally get it? If they don't give us one soon or lower food requirements for events then we'll soon have a food crisis to match the housing crisis on our islands! How can anyone at the company really look at the numbers involved and honestly think that it's possible for the average player to complete all events and have enough food left over to feed even the bare minimum (those needed for primes) of dragons up to 15? It's not possible and it doesn't seem likely that events will be slowing down anytime soon so the only avenue for relief left is a new crop. Something so simple could make a world of difference in the long term playability of the game.

[AinoDK]

Most of my dragons will never get above level 5.

My advice is plant as recommended above, and then not feed until you have reached 300.000. Then between DTs get it back up to 300k again.

I would love to see some of my beautiful dragons as epic, even if they are not part of a DT or on the battle team

[FireballFarm]

The other thing is: when you get to 300,000 food (or whatever your goal is), and have your eye on some dragons you want to (finally!) feed up, wait for a Leaderboard event to do it. That way you get LB points for feeding, which can make a big difference in how far you get on the milestones. Two birds, one stone, and all that. :)

[retseho]

The other thing is: when you get to 300,000 food (or whatever your goal is), and have your eye on some dragons you want to (finally!) feed up, wait for a Leaderboard event to do it. That way you get LB points for feeding, which can make a big difference in how far you get on the milestones. Two birds, one stone, and all that. :)

I have been skipping DTs or just completing Ch5 to get the apples & the 1st dragon to L7.
Similiary for LB & WE before the recent change of giving high points producing objects as milestones I did not aim for the final dragon. Usually just completed half the milestones only.
Being top 3 in Bingo Silver League gives
4 (x10)Farm/Apples boost. Using these x10 boost
really increases your apple stock.
Mining & Questing for apples also helps.
Usually plant Diamondates unless Bingo requires otherwise.

After doing all the above my apple stockpile has crept from 400k to 4M now. M=million.

[rissah]

You guys are so right, I should just stop after the chap 7 dragon. It's ridiculous and a waste of food and Storm8 is just screwing us anyway by raising food amounts and manipulating free apple awards in mining and videos.

[heather11778]

I think it's about time they give us more farms to feed our dragons. I only have 4 level 15 dragons. Can't seem to get any of them above a level 12. We really need more farms. What do Yall think

[AinoDK]

I think it's about time they give us more farms to feed our dragons. I only have 4 level 15 dragons. Can't seem to get any of them above a level 12. We really need more farms. What do Yall think

I don't have room for more farms! I would prefer new crops, e.g. 8h and 20h high-yielding coin-expensive crops.

[Phoenix406]

I don't have room for more farms! I would prefer new crops, e.g. 8h and 20h high-yielding coin-expensive crops.

Yes, for those of us who have a lot of coins, this would be the preferable solution. I don't know about for lower level players. But yes, we definitely need to get more food faster just to keep up with the events, not counting the dragons we *want* to feed.

[G4OU812]

I'm assuming most of you that farm diamonddates and rushrooms (with speed boosts) have lots of coins. Do you all have nearly full islands with loads of dragons plus raised at least 10 dragons (red dawn, white dawn, etc.).

I've got red dawn done and need one more yellow epic dragon to increase yellow plateau coin rate. I have 2 diamond types at 15 and another at 12 with another evolving to 4. I managed to get to 30 million coins but now down to 24-25 million coins. I'll watch videos to help with coins and food. Would like to skip Bingo as it seems my amount of coins drop from playing there but I'd miss out on boosts. Expansions eat up my coins too.

Just trying to find a balance to increase coins and food. Any suggestions? According to my profile, 67 habitats and 187 dragons (level 111, if that matters).

[Phoenix406]

I'm assuming most of you that farm diamonddates and rushrooms (with speed boosts) have lots of coins. Do you all have nearly full islands with loads of dragons plus raised at least 10 dragons (red dawn, white dawn, etc.).

I've got red dawn done and need one more yellow epic dragon to increase yellow plateau coin rate. I have 2 diamond types at 15 and another at 12 with another evolving to 4. I managed to get to 30 million coins but now down to 24-25 million coins. I'll watch videos to help with coins and food. Would like to skip Bingo as it seems my amount of coins drop from playing there but I'd miss out on boosts. Expansions eat up my coins too.

Just trying to find a balance to increase coins and food. Any suggestions? According to my profile, 67 habitats and 187 dragons (level 111, if that matters).

It took me a while, but I eventually got the 10 dragons of each color raised. It really helps if you can find a 3 color dragon, like Fluffy, which counts towards all 3 colors. I'm not sure how long it took me, but, for me, once I got to about 35 million coins, I never had to worry about coins again, so you are almost there! Unless you buy all coin habitats. I buy mostly premium habitats. Those black habitats will eat up your coins quickly!

Wow, I just decided to check, and my newer account is at level 136 with 158 habitats and 547 dragons!?! and almost 85 million coins. Yes, all my habitats are full. My older account is at level 169 with 204 habitats and 713 dragons and over 300 million coins.

I think it just takes patience. I know that I was getting kind of impatient to get my color/dawn tree boosts, too, but it took as long as it took. If we didn't have to feed specific dragons to compete in events, we could just focus on raising who we want to raise, but it doesn't work that way. Also, the boosts, unfortunately, aren't that helpful, in my opinion, anyway. :( The habitats fill with coins so quickly that you can't stay on top of collecting, anyway, so the boosts just make the habitats max out that much faster. I can't collect every hour. And, again, at this point, I don't really need coins.

[G4OU812]

It took me a while, but I eventually got the 10 dragons of each color raised. It really helps if you can find a 3 color dragon, like Fluffy, which counts towards all 3 colors. I'm not sure how long it took me, but, for me, once I got to about 35 million coins, I never had to worry about coins again, so you are almost there! Unless you buy all coin habitats. I buy mostly premium habitats. Those black habitats will eat up your coins quickly!

Wow, I just decided to check, and my newer account is at level 136 with 158 habitats and 547 dragons!?! and almost 85 million coins. Yes, all my habitats are full. My older account is at level 169 with 204 habitats and 713 dragons and over 300 million coins.

I think it just takes patience. I know that I was getting kind of impatient to get my color/dawn tree boosts, too, but it took as long as it took. If we didn't have to feed specific dragons to compete in events, we could just focus on raising who we want to raise, but it doesn't work that way. Also, the boosts, unfortunately, aren't that helpful, in my opinion, anyway. :( The habitats fill with coins so quickly that you can't stay on top of collecting, anyway, so the boosts just make the habitats max out that much faster. I can't collect every hour. And, again, at this point, I don't really need coins.

Thank you for the post. Very helpful. Yes, I need level up the Fluffy, Elements, and Macaw that I have. Trying to get the purple/white combos up too.

[AinoDK]

I remember working hard to get the booster buildings. Now they are all sold again - I needed the space. Most of the habitats I never collect from, as I have > 500 mio coins. Food and space are my bottlenecks. You will get to this point quickly as well

[ksbmommy]

Thank you for the post. Very helpful. Yes, I need level up the Fluffy, Elements, and Macaw that I have. Trying to get the purple/white combos up too.

Buy as many coin habitats (red, yellow, green, blue only) as your island can hold and spread out your dragons. That way you have more habitats collecting coins. The habitats can only hold so many coins so if you’re not checking every couple hours then this will help you build coins. Then sell them off as you have enough coins and need space for specific habitats. Hope that makes sense.

[G4OU812]

Buy as many coin habitats (red, yellow, green, blue only) as your island can hold and spread out your dragons. That way you have more habitats collecting coins. The habitats can only hold so many coins so if you’re not checking every couple hours then this will help you build coins. Then sell them off as you have enough coins and need space for specific habitats. Hope that makes sense.

Just noticing your post. Yes, that makes sense. Thank you for the suggestion as I will start clearing areas that I can place more habitats.

[71smoky]

I know it is a time eater but if you visit your neighbors regularly you will be surprised at the number of coins you get. It can really help.