Baby dragon (pet)
- This article is about the pets. For the attackable monsters, see baby dragon.
Template:Infobox pet Baby dragons are high-level Summoning pets, released on 15 January 2008 with the Summoning skill. Requiring level 99 Summoning to obtain and raise, they are tied with TzRek-Jad for the position of highest-level pet. A baby dragon is obtained by hatching a dragon egg in an incubator, found in the pet shops in Taverley and Yanille. The eggs are rare drops from green, blue, red, and black dragons, and they can only be obtained by players with 99 Summoning. Consequently, there are four colours of baby dragons: Green, blue, red, and black.
Approximately one hour after being placed in an incubator, a hatchling dragon will hatch from the egg. The hatchling is about half the size of a baby dragon, and must be fed large amounts of raw meat and/or raw fish in order to grow into a baby dragon. Based on an observed growth rate of 1% size gain for 15% hunger gain, a hatchling dragon takes approximately 8 hours, 53 minutes, and 20 seconds to grow into a baby dragon. Baby dragons will never grow into adult dragons; this is possibly because of issues with size that would be caused by adult dragons following players around.
It is currently impossible to understand hatchling or baby dragons, even with a +10 Summoning boost from a Clan Citadel battlefield.
Players may obtain multiple dragon eggs as drops. However, in order to hatch and raise more than one baby dragon, any existing baby dragons must be stored in the Menagerie of a player-owned house. Prior to the release of Menageries, players could only own one baby dragon at a time.
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Trivia
- Baby dragons are the only pets that cannot be understood under any circumstances. While the chameleon and pet monkey both require 90 or higher Summoning, players can speak to these pets by boosting Summoning to 100 or by using a monkeyspeak amulet or equivalent, respectively. TzRek-Jad may be spoken to normally, without need for any boosts. Baby dragons were released before it was possible to boost Summoning in any form except via the Summoning cape, so there is no dialogue scripted for them.
- Fully grown baby dragons are tied with the sneakerpeeper for the title of largest pet; both pets take up 4 squares while all other pets take up 1 square.
- Because baby dragons will eat any type of raw meat, including raw fish, many players who are raising baby dragons will bring them while training Fishing and feed them the raw fish they catch.
- There is currently a minor glitch where a baby green dragon, when called from a spot where it could get stuck, begins to walk around by itself until called again. This glitch has yet to be fixed by Jagex.
- Cyrisus and Tim own pet dragons. Cyrisus mentions his if he is contacted via NPC Contact.
- During Perils of Ice Mountain, some baby dragons can be found powering a furnace with their dragonfire. However, they cannot be interacted with.
- Although most dragons received a graphical update on 5 July 2010, pet dragons did not.
- When a pet dragon runs away, it lets out a loud roar.
- Although a hatchling dragon will show up as a yellow dot on the minimap, a baby dragon will not.
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