Egg

An egg is the first stage of a dragon's life cycle. Eggs can be stolen from the cave (known as caveborn or CB) or bred. If an egg is bred, it will be either one of the parents' breeds or a hybrid of the two. If you cannot take any eggs at the time, the bred egg will automatically go to the Abandoned Page (AP). Only one egg can be bred at a time; the exception to this is during a holiday season, where Holiday dragons will breed multiclutches or multiple eggs of their breed- however users can still only pick just one of the produced eggs, with the rest being auto-abandoned to the AP.

Several types of eggs cannot be caught or bred. Vampire eggs can only be obtained through their unique Bite Breed Specific Action, Guardian of Nature eggs only through the "Summon BSA" action, and Neglected Dragon eggs can only be obtained through a special creation process.

Eggs caught from the cave cannot be abandoned or Teleported until 5 hours after they are caught. Bred eggs or eggs caught from the AP can be abandoned or Teleported immediately.

You can only have a certain amount of eggs on your scroll at a time, with the limit depending on your trophy badge. The default amount of eggs on your scroll is four. After gaining higher badges, you will unlock more egg slots- up to 7 with a Gold Trophy. When you have claimed all the eggs you can, it is often referred to as being "locked", "egglocked" or "scroll-locked" (though this is often used when the user cannot claim anymore eggs and hatchlings). You will also be unable to claim eggs if you have reached the maximum number of "growing things" (eggs and hatchlings). You can always check your status by clicking on the badge while viewing your dragons.

As an egg gets views, unique views, and clicks, it will eventually hatch and turn into a Hatchling, but this can only happen if its death timer falls to at least 4 days. You have 7 days in which to collect sufficient views for your egg. For more information on raising your dragon, see this article. The time at which an egg or hatchling will die is called the Time of Death (ToD). Eggs are often used for Neglected experiments, which are the act of attempting to "turn" an egg into a Neglected Dragon. Eggs can also be bitten by Vampire Dragons, incubated by Red Dragons, gender-influenced by Pink Dragons, and abandoned with no chance of failure. Sometimes, if you attempt to kill an egg, it will instantly become a hatchling. However, it may be so scared that it will run away and essentially be sent to the Abandoned Page. This is known as forcing. If this fails, the egg dies and the egg sprite is replaced by a half of an egg that has been cracked.

If an egg receives too many views in a short amount of time, it will become sick, and will die if you do nothing about it. This sickness can be cured by hiding the egg for a specific period of time. Usually 24 hours is recommended, although shorter healing times have been reported. If an egg dies of sickness, the following message is shown on the egg's view page: "Unfortunately, this egg has died of sickness.".

Sickness on an egg is generally referred to as "softshell" due to the description that appears on the egg when it is sick. Eggs are more susceptible to sickness in their first 24 hours of life. It is recommended that eggs, especially important ones, be hidden until they are at least a day old. Bred eggs will also hatch faster if kept on the same scroll as their parent, as said by TJ09:

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Bred eggs get a small "boost"--they'll hatch easier if on the same scroll as their parents.

— TJ09

When it is close to hatching, the egg will visually display cracks on it. These cracks will gradually become larger, and later turn into a gaping hole when the dragon is almost done hatching. There are 6 stages of an egg hatching, the first (0) stage is the normal egg and the last (5th) stage is when the egg has a gaping hole. Some eggs are given custom cracking sequences, such as those of Paper Dragons, Magma Dragons or Gemshard Dragons.

Leetle Trees are technically listed as eggs, although remain permanently frozen on the user's scroll as they are. There are also several Fake Eggs that have appeared over time through gag events, though neither Leetle Trees nor Fake Eggs will hatch.

Eggs cannot be frozen, named, or described. While in this stage, you have the following options for you to perform on your egg which are accessed from the Actions menu:

Kill: This kills the egg or attempts to force it. Forcing an egg means that when you feel your egg has collected sufficient views to be able to hatch well but you want it to hatch then and there, you can use this option to force your egg. It may however, end up killing your dragon. There is a limit to the amount of times you can use this action in a certain period of time.

Abandon: This abandons your egg, sending it to the abandoned page where other people can claim it for themselves.

Hide: Also known as fogging. This surrounds your egg in a blanket of fog, preventing it from receiving views, unique views and clicks and completely isolates it from the outside world. However, the time on your egg's life will still decrease with this option turned on. You can use this option to help cure your dragon from sickness.

Egg Sequence

When an egg is hatching, it displays a cracking sequence. Most eggs follow the same cracking sequence, but some eggs have unique cracking sequences, such as some of the ones listed below.

Every egg cracking sequence has 5 stages of cracks, gradually getting bigger until a hole forms.

Dragon	Stage 0	Stage 1	Stage 2	Stage 3	Stage 4	Stage 5	Dead	Characterization
Aeon Wyvern								Light fades from the egg before it shatters open.
Antarean								Shatters rather than cracking open.
Celestial								Egg 'opens up' to release the hatchling.
Desipis								Slightly different cracking than the common sequence.
Gemshard								The gems on the egg start to come off while cracking.
Electric		File:Electric crack 1.gif	File:Electric crack 2.gif	File:Electric crack 3.gif	File:Electric crack 4.gif	File:Electric crack 5.gif	File:Electric dead egg.gif	The electric spark is always at the forefront of the sprite.
Ember								While cracking it looks more and more like a piece of live coal.
Magma								It seems like molten lava is coming through the stone like egg shell.
Nexus								Shatters rather than cracking open.
Paper							File:Old Paper dead egg.gif	The egg looks like it's peeled open.
Pygmy								Common cracking for all pygmy eggs.
Shadow Walker		File:Halloween crack 1.png	File:Halloween crack 2.png	File:Halloween crack 3.png	File:Halloween crack 4.png	File:Halloween crack 5.png		Common sequence, but the egg fades while going through the different stages.
Spirit Ward		File:Spirit Ward crack1.png	File:Spirit Ward crack2.png	File:Spirit Ward crack3.png	File:Spirit Ward crack4.png	File:Spirit Ward crack5.png		Common sequence, but the egg cracks glow and light shines from inside the egg in the final stage.
White								This cracking sequence is used by most of the other dragon eggs (Common sequence).
Winter Magi		File:Christmas 2001 crack 1.png	File:Christmas 2011 crack 2.png	File:Christmas-2011 crack 3.png	File:Christmas-2011 crack 4.png	File:Christmas-2011 crack 5.png	File:Winter Magi dead egg.png	Common sequence, but the snow falls off of the egg while it cracks.