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Effective August 7, 2014
Negative Boost Effects on the Opposite Element Were Removed
Effective June 15, 2023
Weather Generators add a Boost to their Affiliated Element


  The Dragon Earning Rates page has tables of the earning rate per minute each dragon earns without boosts. Use this page to apply your Boost Calculations to.

  The Boosted Dragon Earning Rates page has tables of the earning rate per minute each dragon earns with max boosts and how many generators are need to achieve each rounding range.


Calculating Earnings Summary[]

The boosted earning rate can be calculated using the below equation:

Boosted Income = Base Income x (1 + (0.3 x number of boosts + 0.02 x number of affiliated Weather Generators))

If there is a decimal in your product, the boosted income is rounded up to the nearest whole number.

For Example: 202.27 would become 203
Number of
Positive Boosts
Multiply The Earning Rate
Without Boosts By
0 1.00
1 1.30
2 1.60
3 1.90
4 2.20
5 2.50


Number of Beneficial
Weather Generators
Multiply The Earning Rate
Without Boosts By
0 1.00
1 1.02
2 1.04
3 1.06
4 1.08
5 1.10
If no boosts, multiply the number of generators by 0.02 and add to 1.00 prior to multiplying earning rates.


  The Star Generator provides a 20% boost for Zodiac element Dragons and has a limit of 1.


Calculating Earnings With Positive Element Boosts[]

Boosts each provide an increase of 30% to the earning rates of dragons of the same element that are housed on the island that the boost is placed on. Depending on the boost and dragon placement, a dragon's earnings rates can be affected in a positive way.

Please refer to the Boosts page, as well as each boost's individual page, for more details.

As of June 15, 2023, generators also provide a boost to its affiliated element:

Primary Element Generators


Epic Element Generators


Boosts do not affect epic dragons without primary elements (with the exception of Monolith Dragons).

To calculate the earning rate of a dragon, the player will need to determine how many boosts are affecting that dragon. Then, the player will need to add that amount from his/her dragons' earnings. The effects of one positive boost on a dragon with a base earning rate of 100 would be calculated as:

100 + (100*30%) = 130


If a dragon's base earning rate is 100, and was then affected by two positive boosts, the calculation would be:

100 + 2*(100*30%) = 160


If a dragon's base earning rate is 100, and was then affected by three positive boosts, the calculation would be:

100 + 3*(100*30%) = 190


If a dragon's base earning rate is 100, and was then affected by four positive boosts, the calculation would be:

100 + 4*(100*30%) = 220


The generic formula to follow is:

The player simply needs to place the appropriate number of positive boosts into the formula for their given situation.

Boosted Income = (Base Income x (1 + (0.3 * Number of boosts + 0.02 * Number of Weather Generators))

  • Note that multiplying a number by 1.3 is equivalent to adding 30%, and multiplying by 1.02 is equivalent to adding 2% to a dragon's income.

If there is a decimal in your final product, round it up the next whole number.

  • Example: 202.27 would become 203

Rounding Ranges[]

In June 2024, Drow and clsForCoding discovered how a dragon’s actual DragonCash earning rates are determined. The DragonCash rates are rounded before and after the boosts calculation, resulting in a more generous rate than previously assumed.

Use the following table to find a dragon’s actual DragonCash earning rate if no boosts are applied. Since the discrepancy between the in-game base rate and the actual rate isn’t significant until the base amount is ~462 DragonCash/minute, this is where the table starts.

(If boosts or generators are used, this table can be slightly off because boost percentages are added together, applied against the number of cycles per 1 DragonCash, and rounded down twice, resulting in a higher income threshold. Please use the DV Sandbox’s Income page to calculate the actual rate with boosts and generators.)

Range of Displayed Rates Rounded To
462-500 500
501-545 545
546-600 600
601-666 666
667-750 750
751-857 857
858-1000 1,000
1001-1,200 1,200
1,201-1,500 1,500
1,501-2,000 2,000
2,001-3,000 3,000
3,001-6,000* 6,000*
6,001 And Higher* 0*


  •  The game may not be able to process earning rates over 6,000 DragonCash per minute.

For the complete information on DragonCash rate calculations, DragonCash farming, and the best dragons for DragonCash farms, please see the DC Farming Guide on the DragonVale Community Forum.

Previous Boost Calculating Method[]

Notes[]



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