In Dragons: Rise of Berk, while you focus on building your dragon park, the game also offers a fascinating feature where you can collect and manage Dinosaurs alongside your dragons. These Cenozoic Species are a separate category of creatures that you can add to your park. Below is a breakdown of everything you need to know about Dinosaurs in the game.
1. Cenozoic Species
Cenozoic Species are a category of Dinosaurs that come from the Cenozoic era, which includes creatures like Mammoths, Saber-toothed Cats, and Woolly Rhinos. They bring a prehistoric theme to your park and offer various benefits and challenges.
- Types of Cenozoic Species: These species include a variety of prehistoric creatures that each have unique abilities, appearances, and needs in the park.
- Unlocking Cenozoic Species: You can unlock new Cenozoic creatures through specific in-game actions such as completing missions, buying special packs, or hatching them from eggs.
2. Hatching Dinosaurs
Just like dragons, Dinosaurs are hatched from eggs that you obtain from various sources. Hatching involves placing eggs in the Incubators, which will eventually result in the birth of a new dinosaur.
- Egg Locations: Eggs can be found in various ways, such as through Card Packs, missions, or special events.
- Hatching Process: Once you place an egg in the Incubator, you need to wait for the specified time until it hatches. You can speed this up using gems if desired.
3. Dinosaur Rarity
Dinosaurs, like dragons, come in varying degrees of rarity. Rarity affects how difficult it is to obtain the dinosaur, how powerful it is, and its role in your park.
- Common Dinosaurs: Easier to obtain but may not offer as high rewards in terms of production or bonuses.
- Rare Dinosaurs: More difficult to obtain and typically offer better production rates or other bonuses.
- Legendary Dinosaurs: The rarest and most powerful dinosaurs in the game. They offer the highest bonuses and are usually tied to special events or challenges.
4. Evolving Your Dinosaurs
Just like with dragons, you can evolve your Dinosaurs to increase their level and effectiveness in your park. Evolving requires specific materials and resources that you collect over time.
- Evolution Process: To evolve a dinosaur, you’ll need to use items like DNA, special ingredients, or other in-game resources.
- Increased Stats: Evolving your dinosaur improves its production, defensive stats, and overall rarity.
- Evolution Stages: Some dinosaurs evolve into entirely new creatures with higher stats and abilities as they level up.
5. Dinosaur Feeding and Levels
Feeding your dinosaurs is essential to keeping them healthy and allowing them to level up. The more you feed your dinosaurs, the more powerful they become.
- Feeding Process: Feed your dinosaurs food to increase their happiness and levels. Each dinosaur has a specific amount of food needed to level up.
- Leveling Up: As dinosaurs level up, they become more efficient at producing resources, and they may also increase in rarity or unlock new abilities.
6. Producing Food
Food is a crucial resource for feeding your dinosaurs and leveling them up. To produce food, you need to build Food Production Facilities within your park.
- Types of Food: Different dinosaurs require different types of food (e.g., vegetables for plant-eating dinosaurs and meat for carnivores).
- Producing Food: Build Food Producing Structures like Crops, Barns, or Butcher Shops to generate food.
- Resource Management: You’ll need to balance the production of food with other resources like coins and gems to make sure your park thrives.
7. Creature Glossary
The Creature Glossary is a feature within the game that serves as an encyclopedia of all the dinosaurs and dragons you’ve collected. It provides details on each species, their habitats, abilities, and evolution stages.
- Accessing the Glossary: You can open the Creature Glossary from the main menu and explore all the different creatures you’ve unlocked, including both dragons and dinosaurs.
- Unlocking Entries: Each new creature you acquire adds an entry to the glossary, and you can learn more about their rarity, evolution, and other characteristics.
8. Hybrids
Some dinosaurs can be combined to form Hybrids, which are powerful creatures with enhanced abilities and stats. These hybrids can be the key to advancing through more difficult stages of the game.
- Creating Hybrids: To create hybrids, you need to combine DNA or specific species in a genetic lab. This process is similar to evolving and requires specific materials.
- Hybrid Power: Hybrids often have a higher rarity than their base species, giving them stronger attack stats, higher food production, and more powerful special abilities.
9. Aquatic Species
In addition to land-based dinosaurs, Aquatic Species are creatures that inhabit the waters of your park. These creatures often have unique needs and provide different bonuses than the terrestrial dinosaurs.
- Aquatic Features: Aquatic species may require their own specific habitats and can produce special resources related to water-based activities.
- Unlocking Aquatic Species: You can unlock these creatures through specific quests, packs, or in-game events.
10. Asset Repository
The Asset Repository is where you can store your extra dinosaurs and items when you run out of space in your park.
- Storage: When you’ve reached your dinosaur limit or if you don’t want to keep a creature in your active collection, you can place them in storage.
- Accessing Stored Creatures: You can retrieve stored dinosaurs at any time, although there may be storage limits to manage.
11. Dinosaur Limit
There is a limit to how many dinosaurs you can have in your park. This limit is tied to the park level, and as you level up, you can unlock additional space for more creatures.
- Managing the Limit: Be mindful of the number of dinosaurs you have in your park, as exceeding the limit will prevent you from adding new creatures.
- Increasing Limit: You can increase the dinosaur limit by upgrading your park or specific buildings related to dinosaur management.
12. Paddock Icons
Each dinosaur has a paddock (enclosure) where it resides. The paddock icons show you the current status and needs of each dinosaur’s enclosure.
- Enclosure Types: Some dinosaurs require specific types of paddocks (e.g., herbivore paddocks for plant-eating dinosaurs).
- Paddock Status: The icons will display whether the dinosaur’s enclosure is full, happy, or requires more food or attention.
- Upgrade Options: You can upgrade paddocks to house more dinosaurs or increase their functionality, such as improving resource production.
13. Photo Mode
Photo Mode allows you to take screenshots of your park and your dinosaurs in a special camera mode. This is a fun way to capture your progress and share your park with others.
- Using Photo Mode: Tap the camera icon in the park menu to enter Photo Mode.
- Customizing Photos: You can adjust the camera angle, zoom in and out, and even place dinosaurs in specific spots for the perfect shot.
- Sharing: Once you’ve taken a photo, you can share it with your friends or social media platforms.
Summary of Dinosaur Tips:
- Hatch and Evolve dinosaurs to grow your collection and make your park more powerful.
- Feed your dinosaurs regularly to level them up and unlock their full potential.
- Balance food production with other resources like coins and gems to keep your park running smoothly.
- Hybrids are valuable for improving your dinosaur lineup and progressing faster.
- Aquatic species offer unique features, adding variety and bonus rewards.
- Manage your paddocks and dinosaur limits carefully to optimize your park’s performance.
By understanding these features, you’ll be able to expand and optimize your dinosaur park alongside your dragon collection in Dragons: Rise of Berk.