How to Breed an Albino Dragon in Dragonbred, Step by Step

To breed an Albino dragon in Dragonbred, pair two dragons that both carry the recessive Albino gene. Two proven het Albinos give each egg a 25% chance of hatching Albino, an Albino paired with a het gives 50%, and two Albinos give 100%. Crates and the market supply all three kinds of dragon, so your first Albino can be a clutch away.

Albino is the classic first recessive, and it is the cleanest way to learn how hets, odds, and proving work. Everything below carries over to the other recessives: Striped, Piebald, Racer, Cobalt, Masked, Bone Horns, Regal, and Lava.

What an Albino dragon is and how it is inherited

An Albino has no black pigment at all. The result is a lemon-yellow dragon with pale ghost markings and red eyes. It is graded Rare on its own and pays 36 Scales if released grown, plus 8 for each proven het it carries.

Albino sits on the colour layer, so it changes the body and leaves the pattern genes free. An Albino can also be Striped, Spotted, or Piebald, and each of those combinations reads as its own look.

Albino is recessive. A dragon needs two copies to show it. One copy does nothing you can see; that dragon is a het, and its card says "het Albino" if you know for sure, or a percentage like "67% het Albino" if you only know it might.

The game never shows you the genes directly. It shows the look and what you know about the hets, and it updates that knowledge every time a clutch hatches. For the full background, see hets and possible hets explained.

Albino breeding odds for every pairing

The last two rows are where possible hets bite. Two 67% hets are both real carriers only four times in nine, so the chance per egg drops to about one in nine. The Breed tab does this arithmetic for you and shows it as baby cards with the chance over each one; reading breeding odds explains how those cards are worked out.

Where to find Albino stock

New keepers start with an empty pen, and the tutorial's pair carries Striped, not Albino, so your Albino stock comes from crates and the market. Three kinds of dragon matter here:

• Proven het Albinos. Bred together, one baby in four is Albino.
• A visual Albino. Paired with a proven het, half of every clutch is Albino.
• Possible hets, worth proving before you build on them.

That gives you two good first pairings. A pair of proven hets is the 25% route. The stronger one is an Albino with a proven het: half of every clutch is Albino, and every normal-looking baby is a guaranteed het.

Crate dragons arrive with papers from the crate's odds, so a crate dragon's card may show a possible het Albino, and now and then one arrives showing Albino outright. On the market, look for proven hets and visuals: a seller's proven het stays proven when it changes hands.

Step by step, your first Albino clutch

1. 1Open the Breed tab and put a female and a male in the pairing boxes. Your dragons sit as small cards on the left.
2. 2Read the odds cards on the right. For the het pair you should see Albino at 25%.
3. 3Check the breeding slip for clutch size, hatch chance, and warm time, then lay the clutch. Clutches run from one to six eggs, about four on average.
4. 4Put the clutch in an incubator tray. A clutch that could hatch an Albino warms for about an hour and keeps warming while the game is closed. After you crack it, the hatchlings move to the nursery and grow up there for about a day before they can breed (half that with a membership).
5. 5When it is ready, crack the eggs one at a time or all at once. A Rare hatchling like an Albino gets a chime and a glow.
6. 6Read "What the clutch taught you" afterward. It shows what the clutch changed about the parents and their babies.

An Instant Card skips one clutch's wait; new keepers spend their first on the tutorial's clutch. Without one, seeing an Albino clutch takes an hour, and breeding the next generation from it takes about a day while the brood grows up. Tending the brood takes a few hours off.

Proving the hets from your clutch

The normal-looking babies from a het × het pairing are each 67% het. Two out of three of them really carry Albino, and the only way to find out which is to breed them.

Pair a possible het with an Albino. If even one baby hatches Albino, that parent is proven, and "What the clutch taught you" stamps it PROVEN. If the clutch comes out all normal, the percentage drops, for example from 22% to 4% het Albino. It never reaches zero on screen; the lowest the game shows is "<1%".

Proving matters for three reasons. Proven hets give you exact odds instead of guesses. Each proven het adds 8 Scales to a dragon's release value. And proving your first het is a starter step worth 80 Scales.

Building an Albino line without inbreeding

The easy mistake is pairing an Albino daughter back to her het father. That works, at a cost: the pairing is 25% inbred, so you lose an egg and each remaining egg has a 30% chance of not developing. The inbreeding guide has the full numbers.

The better pattern is to keep two unrelated families. Crate dragons have no recorded parents, so each is unrelated to everything else in your pen. Breed your Albino to an unrelated Normal for a clutch of 100% hets. Separately, a pair of proven hets gives you Albinos. Pair an Albino from one family with a het from the other and you get 50% Albino with 0% inbreeding.

Taking Albino further

Once Albino is steady, start adding a second gene from the morph guide. Two looks on one dragon raise its grade, so an Albino with a second look reaches at least Epic.

• Albino Golden. Pair your Albino with a Golden. Half the babies are Golden, and all of them are 100% het Albino. Pair one of those Golden hets with an Albino and each egg has about a 25% chance of being Albino Golden.
• Albino Striped. Both genes are recessive, so this one takes longer. The tutorial's clutch gives every keeper a Striped: pair it with an Albino of the opposite sex and every baby is het for both.
• Albino Piebald. Piebald is Mythic, and adding Albino keeps it at Mythic.
• Albino Lava. This needs a Lava dragon from the Lava Crate, and it is one of the squares in the combinations book. See Lava dragons and element morphs.

Find a proven het pair in Dragonbred; one clutch is enough to see the odds play out.

Frequently asked questions

What are the odds of getting an Albino from two hets?

Each egg has a 25% chance. With an average clutch of four, that is about one Albino egg per clutch, but any single clutch can have none or several.

Is Albino a rare morph in Dragonbred?

Albino is graded Rare, the third of six grades. Combined with a second look it reaches at least Epic.

How do I know if a dragon is het Albino?

Its card says "het Albino" when it is proven, or a percentage like "67% het Albino" when it is only possible. Breeding it to an Albino is the surest test.

Does an Albino × Albino pairing always make Albinos?

Yes. Both parents can only pass on Albino, so every baby that hatches is Albino.