Hatchlings are a special type of dragon. All hatchlings require you to pay an egg, and all require you to pay 1, 2, or 3 milk. All Hatchlings have a 3-part ability:

1. All hatchlings have an “if activated” ability. Each time your adventurer walks onto a hatchling, you may cache 1 resource (milk or meat) onto the hatchling or tuck 1 card under the hatchling, as specified on the card.

2. Any time you cache the specified resource on that hatchling or tuck a card under that hatchling, you gain a benefit. Note that you gain this benefit regardless of whether the cache or tuck ability came from walking your adventurer onto that card or from another ability.

3. The 3rd time you cache the specified resource on that hatchling or tuck a card under that hatchling, you gain their regular benefit and a bonus that is triggered once per game. This represents the hatchling growing up.

IMPORTANT: You may still continue to activate the hatchling’s first 2 abilities (in the example above, caching a meat to gain a gold) even after the bonus is triggered.

IMPORTANT: Note that hatchlings function differently from other “if activated” dragons, as indicated by the card layout. Adult dragons with an “if activated” ability only allow you to activate that ability when your adventurer walks onto that dragon. In contrast, the second ability on each hatchling does not have an “if activated” ability on it, meaning that it activates any time that condition is met, regardless of whether it was triggered by your adventurer.

NOTE: As all good dracologists know, most hatchlings are born deep underground and require purple crystals to thrive. As such, keep in mind that most hatchlings live in the Amethyst Abyss. If you’re looking for hatchlings that live in the Golden Grotto or Crimson Cavern, you may have a hard time finding one!