Moonlightelf

The sprites are so gorgeous ❤️ Though I do have to echo the sentiment about the purebred Lunate not being possible currently due to them not appearing on each others breeding list... I really like making purebred lines before starting to get into checker lines. To me this kinda feels like an oversight...

Wonderful job on the sprites, artists ❤️ Love them! Now... I know what to do with all the wrong eggs I get from breedings... No more eggs to throw into AP outside the holidays, hehe.

There are quite a few lovely eggs this year ❤️ Here be mine

With current information that we have, CB frozen pygmy deltas are impossible, unless the cave suddenly begins to drop pygmy-sized eggs at some point.

Provided both static and animated one upon submission, plus mine is GIF.

Well, my submission this year is the following. We could say that the game in question is one of the very few games that I play from first person view. I may not be great in PvP really, but hey... at least I know how to fix stuff and prevent further disaster. But my friends do occasionally wonder what kind of monster they created once I stopped hugging the mast up at the crow's nest. Admittedly, I'm not overly proud of the one that got in and it definitely does no justice to the treasure in the game, but apparently there seemed to be problem with original one. So... here is the original, feel free to use in your signatures either the static or animated one. Yes... this was supposed to be first one I submit as animated one, but alas, such was not meant to be... To that I was prepared for rejection, but static... not so much. But I've gotten over my disappointment and at the very least you guys get to enjoy it in another way.

Welp, had to toss 8 pyropellis eggs out. Ah well, at least those are not fussy breeders, and my main goal was to turn the parents to their respective color, so all good. xD New dergs ❤️

Here it would be from last year ^^

Coming forward with my own treat: Puppet Spider from Monster Hunter Rise.

From announcement post:

Until day changes to November 1st in cave time.

Any that one is comfortable with and has pencil tool to place pixels with. Though I recommend having program with layers for easier time to fix things.

Here's a list on how many there are in each year. 2010 - 38 2011 - 53 2012 - 42 2013 - 51 2014 - 55 2015 - 62 2016 - 60 2017 - 56 2018 - 54 2019 - 62 2020 - 60 2021 - 60 2022 - 49

2010 indeed was the first year when FoE happened and has been annual thing ever since.

If you're talking about this: Those would be the Bunny Dangos and candied apple from Monster Hunter: Rise. I'm responsible for that 😆

As far as I am aware, the color count hasn't really been an issue with FoE submissions (in the end, we've had quite a few rainbow eggs in user submissions before). So whatever works with your egg, color-wise it would be pretty safe. As for the frames... I've observed and sometimes grabbed some previous animated submissions and there have been animations with over 100 frames. So amount of frames most likely doesn't matter, more the first frame of the animation needing to be recognizable. I'm not entirely sure about the file size though... I recall there was file size limit at one point mentioned, but I might be misremembering? Someone else may need to confirm this one. As far as I know, they don't count as public. You could even have your very own private server in Discord and submit everything there. Just make sure that the sprite doesn't get leaked anywhere before the critical moment, and that you have absolute trust on the people who see it. I have sometimes shared the results of my spriting with very close friends and my boyfriend via Discord DMs even, and majority wouldn't think much of sharing my stuff before the critical moment (though majority aren't even in Dragon Cave). Very much true! Anyone who is feeling that they are not skilled enough, or think that they art plainly sucks... One will lose nothing if one gives it a go. The first works can suck, true... but at the very least one tried and learned a new skill! And maybe improve the skills enough to participate in future FoE or ToT events! I highly recommend giving spriting a go for anyone who is feeling unsure about even trying. Even a more simple design will have a chance to be accepted. Also a small tip to anyone who wants to give it a go, if the shading is giving you trouble, reference one of the single-colored eggs that are already in-cave. White dragon egg is ideal to get some shading reference, while Blacktip dragon egg gives pretty good guideline about contrast. If you are in Dragon Cave Discord groups, by all means ask if someone could help by giving bit of critique through private messages!

Merry Christmas! ^^ Personally, I'm not really a fan of competitive nature of the event, but at least the minigames are fun. The Cocoa Rush apparently reminded my boyfriend of Tapper arcade game.

Welp, was expecting this to be next week. Thank goodness I was too tired to think about catching/breeding anything in my scroll last night! Hyyyype!

Oooh, finally a hybrid to drakes! ❤️ Tossed 7 hybrids to AP after test breeding 8 pairs for them. Happy hunting for them! :3

Oh yikes, you are right on that field. My friend started to play at end side of December, and I have been usually the main source of knowledge when it comes to more complicated questions. And I, despite being one of the veterans, am also getting rather overwhelmed by all the BSA requirements (thank goddess I thought up making him a checklist!). Sure I stocked my friend with Reds and Pinks to get them on their feet with the first set of BSAs, but for Cantormaris and others? Didn't even cross my mind before now...

Happy 15th birthday DC! ^^ I'm gonna go with unpopular opinion of... But otherwise this is delightful release, even if I am not fan of certain mechanics provided to get certain variations. Oh well.

Since enough time has gone past now, I think I might as well tell about my egg. My egg is Homura Akemi's Soul Gem from Madoka Magica series. Same time listened lots of OST from the said series.

Sent my own submission for the event. *crosses fingers* Good luck everyone ❤️

Oooh, shined up Geodes ❤️ I like that idea already! Maybe even more different colors too given how many different kinds of geodes there are ❤️

I am really in love with these new sprites. ❤️ On Magi, I was always bothered of their secret hang-buttness due to position of wing-fingers. Now it just looks better! I will miss the little chubbiness of old sprites admittedly, but I do have soft spot for agile-looking Magi we now have ❤️ The old Thunders were kinda problematic to me in a sense that I couldn't fully make out what was in the sprite with overly smooth head with no definition to it and the cat-paw hind legs... Now I can see some of the dragon that I've been looking for, with talons capable of grabbing onto the prey. Also details to head that I never really thought were there in the first place. Not to mention that the Thunder got its majestic side finally with size, no longer being just squished into smaller size as if it didn't have any room to really SPREAD THEM WINGS! ❤️ Laculas were to me the shoelace sneks, which didn't really make sense to dragon itself, along with the front part being only place for highlights... it kinda threw me off tbh that nowhere else was coming any highlights aside the head and "neck". It now looks more refined in fact... also looks like chonky snek ❤️ I love chonky sneks. I like the detailing of the spikes and the wings make now more sense as well. Snows... well, not much of change, but the gold on wings is now more apparent to me. I had to actually look twice to see the other improvement. With Sakuhanas, I was always little sad that the pattern on the wings wasn't more visible and looked more or less muddy. Now they just pop out ❤️ Lovely work dear sprite artists! Keep up the great work! ❤️