Albino dragon

What an Albino dragon looks like

Albino is a recessive colour morph, graded Rare like every recessive morph, since it takes two copies to show.

Colour genes change the body itself, the bottom layer of a dragon's look, so Albino stacks with any pattern, white or accent gene on the same dragon.

Nothing in the game today hides Albino: a dragon with two copies always shows it.

How to breed an Albino dragon

Albino is recessive: a dragon shows it only with two copies of the gene, one from each parent. With one copy it looks Normal but carries Albino hidden, a het, and passes it to half its babies.

What het means here: a baby that looks Normal from het × het carries Albino 67% of the time, so the game labels it "67% het Albino", a possible het. From het × Normal that is 50%, and every baby of an Albino × Normal is a proven het. Hets and possible hets explains how those numbers move.

To prove a possible het, pair it with an Albino. One Albino baby proves it at once. Each Normal baby lowers the chance but never to zero: after three Normal babies in a row, a 67% het Albino falls to 20%.

Combinations with Albino

The combinations book collects every body colour with every element. An Albino dragon that also shows Lava is an Albino Lava, one of the 8 squares open today, and the first keeper to hatch each square holds it as a world first.

Snow: No black and no yellow: a white dragon with pale ghost markings and red eyes. Grey is held back for after launch, so nobody can breed Snow yet.

Where to get an Albino dragon

Albino turns up in crate dragons. In the pool of genes every crate draws from, the Albino gene comes up at a rate of 10%, tied for the highest 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.

A crate dragon that doesn't show Albino can still arrive with papers naming it as a gene it may carry hidden, at 20% to 60%. Breeding it is how you find out. What's in each crate has the rest of the odds.