Dragonbred has 28 morphs you can hatch today, built from eighteen simple genes, the crate-only Regal, and one element, Lava. Each morph is recessive (two copies to show), dominant (one copy shows, and two look the same), or incomplete dominant (one copy shows, two copies make a named super form). This Dragonbred morph guide lists every one, what it looks like, its grade, and the pairing that makes it.
Every simple gene comes into the game in crate dragons, and from other keepers on the market. Lava and Regal come from one crate only.
How Dragonbred morphs stack
A dragon's look is built in layers: colour, then pattern, then white, then accent, with an element filling the markings. Genes on different layers combine, so a dragon can be Albino, Striped, and Blue Dots at the same time, and each gene keeps doing its own job. The accent genes each own one part of the dragon, a second set of markings or the colour of one body part, so they stack with everything.
Three inheritance rules cover every live morph:
- Recessive. One copy is invisible, a het. Two copies show. Albino, Striped, Piebald, Racer, Cobalt, Masked, Bone Horns, Regal, and Lava work this way.
- Dominant. One copy shows, and two copies look the same. Ringtail, Blue Belly, and Firetip work this way.
- Incomplete dominant. One copy shows. Two copies show a stronger, named super form. Golden, Dark, Red, Spotted, Sparse, Blue Dots, Tiger, and Twilight Wings work this way.
No released morph is co-dominant or dominant-lethal. If any of this is new, read dragon genetics 101 first.
For incomplete dominant genes, the pairings always run the same way. Using Golden as the example:
| Pairing | Normal | Golden | Pale Gold |
|---|---|---|---|
| Golden × Normal | 50% | 50% | 0% |
| Golden × Golden | 25% | 50% | 25% |
| Pale Gold × Normal | 0% | 100% | 0% |
| Pale Gold × Golden | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| Pale Gold × Pale Gold | 0% | 0% | 100% |
Swap in any other incomplete dominant gene and its super form and the numbers hold.
Colour morphs
Colour changes the body. There are seven colour looks live.
| Morph | Inheritance | Grade | Where to start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albino | Recessive | Rare | Crate dragons, as visuals or possible hets |
| Golden | Incomplete dominant | Uncommon | Crate dragons |
| Pale Gold | Super of Golden | Rare | Golden × Golden |
| Dark | Incomplete dominant | Uncommon | Crate dragons |
| Super Dark | Super of Dark | Rare | Dark × Dark |
| Red | Incomplete dominant | Rare | Crate dragons |
| Deep Red | Super of Red | Epic | Red × Red |
Albino has no black pigment at all: a lemon-yellow dragon with pale ghost markings and red eyes. It is the classic first recessive to breed. There is a full walkthrough in how to breed an Albino dragon.
Golden gives a brighter body with smaller, softer markings and a sheen down the back. Its super, Pale Gold, is pale gold with only small, faded markings.
Dark deepens the body toward brown with heavier markings. Super Dark is dark chocolate, the markings merging into the body.
Red warms the body toward copper and orange with a red blush on the flanks. One copy is already Rare. Deep Red is brick red from nose to tail, and it is graded Epic, as Super Blue Dots and Midnight Wings are.
Pattern morphs
Pattern genes change the markings rather than the body colour, and they combine with each other.
| Morph | Inheritance | Grade | Where to start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Striped | Recessive | Rare | The tutorial's clutch, or crate dragons |
| Spotted | Incomplete dominant | Uncommon | Crate dragons |
| Speckled | Super of Spotted | Rare | Spotted × Spotted |
| Sparse | Incomplete dominant | Uncommon | Crate dragons |
| Patternless | Super of Sparse | Rare | Sparse × Sparse |
Striped turns the saddles into one broad dark stripe down each side and along the wing arm. Every new keeper's tutorial clutch hatches a Striped, along with 67% het brothers and sisters. Pair the Striped with an unrelated dragon and every baby is a 100% het; then pair one of those hets back to a Striped, or to a het from another clutch. Crate dragons sometimes arrive as possible hets for Striped.
Spotted breaks the saddles into scattered dark spots. Speckled, its super, leaves only a light freckling of small spots.
Sparse gives fewer, smaller markings so more of the body shows through. It arrives in crate dragons. Two copies make Patternless, with no markings at all.
Piebald and Blue Dots
Piebald, the white morph
Piebald lays bright white patches over everything else, different on every dragon. It is recessive and graded Mythic, and like the other simple genes it comes from crate dragons.
Pair a Piebald with any unrelated dragon and every baby is a 100% het Piebald. Two of those hets together give a 25% chance per egg; a het paired back with a Piebald gives 50%. Piebald's white also covers an element's fill where the patches fall.
Blue Dots, the accent morph
Blue Dots scatters bright blue scales between the markings, thickest around them. It is incomplete dominant, and a single copy is already Rare. Super Blue Dots doubles the blue scales and rings every marking with them, and it is Epic. Blue Dots × Blue Dots gives a Super Blue Dots one egg in four, and a Blue Dots from a crate or the market is where that starts.
Second markings and body-part morphs
These genes add something without changing anything already on the dragon. None of them moves the main markings, so they combine with every colour and pattern, and with each other.
| Morph | Inheritance | Grade | What it adds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tiger | Incomplete dominant | Uncommon | Dark bars across the back, over the usual markings |
| Super Tiger | Super of Tiger | Rare | Bolder bars, closer together, reaching down to the belly |
| Racer | Recessive | Rare | A line down each side of the spine and one along each flank |
| Ringtail | Dominant | Uncommon | Dark bands round the tail |
| Cobalt | Recessive | Rare | The face's markings, and any bars, lines or rings, turn cobalt blue |
| Blue Belly | Dominant | Uncommon | Sky-blue plates under the throat, chest and belly |
| Masked | Recessive | Rare | A dark face from the nose to behind the eyes |
| Bone Horns | Recessive | Rare | Horns and claws pale as old ivory |
| Twilight Wings | Incomplete dominant | Uncommon | Violet wing membranes |
| Midnight Wings | Super of Twilight Wings | Epic | Deep blue-violet wings, nearly night at the edges |
| Firetip | Dominant | Uncommon | The end of the tail bright orange |
Tiger, Racer, and Ringtail are second markings. They have their own pattern, so they still show on a Patternless dragon: Patternless Tiger is a clean body with nothing but bars. An element fills them like any other marking, so a Lava Tiger has bars of lava.
Cobalt recolours the dark ink of the face and of any second markings. On its own it shows on the face; with Tiger it makes blue tiger bars.
Blue Belly, Masked, Bone Horns, the wing genes and Firetip each colour one part of the body. Ringtail and Firetip are on the tail, so turn the dragon on its page to see them.
They come from crates, as hets or as visuals, a little less often than the first simple genes.
Lava, the element
Lava turns the markings into black volcanic crust split by glowing lava, while the body keeps its own colour. That means an Albino Lava and a Normal Lava are different dragons. Lava is recessive and graded Legendary.
It comes from one place: the Lava Crate, where each crate has a 2% chance of holding a visual Lava dragon. After that you breed it like any recessive. Lava has its own guide, including the combinations book: Lava dragons and element morphs.
The Lava Crate holds one more gene that no other crate does. Regal gives a dragon horns, claws and antlers of polished gold, over Bone Horns' ivory if it has both. It is recessive and graded Mythic, and 2% of Lava Crates hold a dragon showing it.
Combining morphs
Because the layers stack, most interesting dragons carry several genes. An Albino Striped, a Golden Spotted, a Super Dark Super Tiger with Cobalt bars, or a Deep Red that is Masked with a Blue Belly are all possible today. Combining looks also raises the grade, up to Epic, as explained in rarity grades explained.
To plan a combination, three tools help:
- The Morphs tab is the field guide. Every look you can get has a page, and you collect them as you hatch.
- The Planner on the Breed tab ranks every pairing in your pen for a target look, and Pairs to try lists looks your pen can make but does not have yet.
- The Simulator, in the desktop header, lets you pick any mix of morphs and see what that dragon looks like before you set out to breed it.
Coming soon
The game already has more genes written that are not obtainable yet. These are not in any crate and cannot be bred:
- Colours: Grey, and its combinations Snow and Rose Grey
- Pattern: Outlined
- Elements: Ice and Galaxy, plus the element combinations Lava Ice, Lava Galaxy, and Ice Galaxy
- Finishes: Neon and Super Neon, Metallic and Solid Gold, Pearl and Rainbow, and the Neon element combinations
New elements are planned for future featured crates. Until they arrive, the 28 above are the full list. Open the field guide in Dragonbred and see how many you can fill.
Frequently asked questions
How many morphs are in Dragonbred?
Twenty-eight looks are live: seven colours, five patterns, Piebald, Blue Dots and Super Blue Dots, eleven second-marking and body-part looks, Regal, and Lava. More are written into the game and marked coming soon.
What is the rarest morph you can breed?
Among the 28 live looks, Lava is the only Legendary, the top grade. Piebald and Regal are Mythic.
Can I buy a specific morph?
No. Crates give a chance at a morph, never a promise of a particular one. You can buy a dragon from another keeper on the Market, but most morphs are meant to be bred.
Which morphs should I breed first?
The Striped line from your tutorial clutch is the natural start. After that, pair a Golden, Dark, Red, Spotted, or Blue Dots from a crate with a Normal: half the babies show the gene, and two of them together make the super form one egg in four.
Published October 6, 2026 · updated October 22, 2026
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