Ringtail dragon

What a Ringtail dragon looks like

Ringtail is a dominant accent morph, graded Uncommon whether it has one copy or two, since they look the same.

Accent genes add something of their own without moving the main markings, so Ringtail stacks with every other gene.

Nothing in the game today hides Ringtail: a dragon with the gene always shows it.

Ringtail draws a second set of markings over the main pattern. An element fills them too, so a Lava Ringtail has rings of lava, and with two copies of Cobalt they turn cobalt blue.

How to breed a Ringtail dragon

Ringtail is dominant: one copy of the gene shows it, and a dragon with two copies looks just the same. One copy passes to half its babies, two copies to every one.

One copy or two? You can't tell by looking, so the eggs tell you. With two copies every baby shows Ringtail, even from a Normal mate, so a single Normal baby from Ringtail × Normal shows its Ringtail parent has just one. From Ringtail × Ringtail, 33% of the Ringtail babies carry two copies. There are no hets: a dragon that looks Normal never carries Ringtail.

Where to get a Ringtail dragon

Ringtail turns up in crate dragons. In the pool of genes every crate draws from, the Ringtail gene comes up at a rate of 4%, tied for the lowest of any gene there; the Iron Crate turns that up 2.3 times and the Lava Crate 4 times. How often a crate dragon shows any morph at all depends on the crate: 8% in the Wooden Crate, 35% in the Iron Crate and 70% in the Lava Crate.