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- Overview
- Introduction and Starter Dragons
- Gameplay
- Expansion Packs
- Trivia
- References
- External Links
School of Dragons, or SoD for short, was a virtual RPG-style game from the developers of JumpStart.com. It opened on July 17, 2013, and the game allowed players to fully immerse themselves in the world of How to Train Your Dragon, where they could hatch their own dragon, play minigames, complete quests, perform science experiments, and explore the Viking world.
NOTE: The game was permanently shut down on June 30, 2023.
2022 Update
The new player finds themselves in a cave with Hiccup that the Dragon Hunters had recently been hiding out in. The player and Hiccup unlock trapped dragons, while the player learns the controls. The player unlocks one cage and bonds with the player's choice of the four basic dragon species. The newly bonded dragon is aged up by Hiccup and the player learns to get their dragon to shoot fire at a cave in so they can escape. Hiccup and the player find the cave exit but also find a crate of dragon eggs in the process. The player helps Hiccup construct a signal fire, allowing Toothless to find them, followed by Astrid and Stormfly. Hiccup then instructs the player in dragon flying, and when finished, the player and the Dragon Riders fly through the opening in the caldera in which the School of Dragons is situated, with a video montage introducing many of the NPCs the player will encounter in the game. The player then has the option of playing four different branches of quests as part of an introductory expansion in order to learn how to play mini-games, care for their dragons, and other functions. The player also learns to hatch a dragon egg in the hatchery and can choose a second dragon from the four basic species, as well as the Sand Wraith, Flightmare, Rumblehorn, or Shockjaw.
2019 Update
Players play as a Viking student arriving at the wrong time as the Berk Docks are being attacked by Grimmel's Warlords. With the help of Hiccup, Toothless and the gang, Grimmel and his men are forced to retreat, leaving behind a caged dragon that the player rescues. The introduction includes a walking tutorial, and the chance to learn how to ride a dragon and battle enemy ships. The rescued dragon is one of the four Secondary Starter Dragons (Flightmare, Rumblehorn, Sand Wraith, and Shockjaw). Players then learn how to fish and are taken to the Hatchery, where they can choose from 4 Primary Starter Dragons (Deadly Nadder, Hideous Zippleback, Gronckle and Monstrous Nightmare), 7 if the player has Membership (Skrill, Thunderdrum and Whispering Death). Afterwards, players have a small talk with the Headmaster, then the world is ready to be explored as more than 30 Quests and various Expansion Packs await to be unlocked.
Dragon Training
With the game being set in the How to Train Your Dragon universe, players are highly encouraged to tame and raise more Dragons, the major mechanism to progress through the game. There are more than 70 Dragons to train, with the Green Death, Seashocker, Luminous Krayfin, and Bewilderbeast being Non-playable-characters, some being locked due to being Expansion Pack exclusive or in the case of the Night Fury and Light Fury, being Membership exclusive. Dragons can be brought from the store, with the Primary Starter Dragons available for Coins. Starting in October 2019, School of Dragons began releasing hybrids into the game, most of which being from Dragons: Titan Uprising. 1/48 Each dragon has three stages of growth: Tiny Tooth/Baby, Short Wing/Teen and Broad Wing/Adult. Dragons between Level 1 to 5 are Babies, they can't be mounted but they can be used in the Eel Roast and Alchemy Adventure minigames. Dragons between Level 5 to 10 are Teens, they can be mounted but can only glide, they can also be used on Fireball Frenzy and the Glide Mode of Flight Club. Dragons above level 10 are Adults, they can be used on any Minigame and have the ability to fly. The only exception is the Speed Stringer which is not capable of flight and the Terrible Terror which can't be mounted unless it's grown into a Titan Wing. To grow a dragon, players must head to the Hatchery's Dragon Hearth. Before v2.7.0, players had to accept two special Quests in order to age their dragon. After v2.7.0, players only need to enter the Dragon Hearth and their dragons will grow to the next stage of maturity. A new optional stage of growth added in v1.19.0 on April 20th, 2016 is the Titan Wing/Titan stage. Adult dragons who are Level 20 or above will have the chance to become Titan Wings. This requires the player to gather 50 Titan Runes (which can only be gathered from Stable Missions or Rune Dragon Tactic levels) and to take the dragon to Titan Island. Another option is to buy the Titan Stage for 500 Gems. This way, even Baby dragons can be aged into Titans, skipping the Teen and Adult stages. Dragons have a Happiness Meter and an Energy Meter for the player to keep track of: •Happiness Meter determines your Dragon's happiness, an unhappy dragon will result in a very slow, sluggish flight and running speed that can affect the performance in some minigames such as Thunder Run Racing where speed is essential. It might also result in some changes of behavior: an unhappy dragon won't bring the player collectible items and will instead just stay still. To regain the Happiness, players can play with the Dragon by using a small light contraption (take 1 Energy point), a leather ball (take 1 Energy point), by feeding Dragon Nip (requires farming for Dragon Nip), feeding some species of fish and some farming products, or by petting the Dragon which requires nothing and doesn't waste Energy. •Energy Meter determines your Dragon's energy, this is what Minigames with exception of a few such as Alchemy Adventure will waste in exchange for Experience Points and Coins. The game often states a "weak" dragon won't allow being mounted or flown with, this is not true as the game still allows players to fly and mount a "weak" dragon; to regain Energy, players must feed the Dragon with some fish, Chicken egg, Ostrich Eggs or other farm products such as Truffles. The exact amount of Energy a fish gives differs within species, a Salmon will regain 15 Energy points whereas a Minnow (a fish usable as bait) will only give 1 Energy point. Eels depend on the species, any dragon species with exception of the Deathsong, Slithersong, and Typhoomerang will decrease the Happiness and gain no Energy, the other 3 species will gain both Energy and Happiness from Eels.
Quests and Minigames
The second major mechanism in the game is Quests and Minigames: Quests are the major method of gaining Experience Points and the non-premium currency, Coins. There is a total of 112 Basic Quests to complete. The Expansion Packs contain 162 Quests, and completing them will reward the player with XP, Coins, free Dragons, or additional items. Another method of gathering XP is playing Minigames: •Flight Club and Fireball Frenzy •Thunder Run Racing •Dragon Tactics •Battle Events •Science Experiments •Alchemy Adventure Flight Club and Fireball Frenzy are two of the four major minigames, they serve as "training courses" for players to learn how to ride a dragon and aim a Dragon's fire. Flight Club technically requires a Teen Dragon to play with Glide Mode and an Adult/Titan to unlock the Flight Mode but players can play Flight Club normally with the Hero Dragons. Hero Dragons are the main characters' dragons: Hookfang the Monstrous Nightmare, Meatlug the Gronckle, Stormfly the Deadly Nadder, Barf and Belch the Hideous Zippleback, Toothless the Night Fury and Thornado the Thunderdrum, with the bonus Groundsplitter the Whispering Death and Stokehead the Timberjack. Hookfang is free from the start whereas the rest requires 250 Gems to unlock, with Toothless requiring 500 Gems, or to unlock all at once, players can buy Membership. The purpose of the Flight Club is to go through a course depending on the level's objective, some require the player to go through rings, others require you to shoot targets. •Toothless in Flight Club •Thornado in Flight Club •Hookfang in Flight Club •Stokehead in Flight Club •Barf, and Belch in Flight Club •Meatlug in Flight Club •Groundsplitter in Flight Club 1/7 All active dragons' Flight Mode, even the Hero Dragons, have 15 Levels to go through, with the Glide Mode having 10 Levels. The major difference is that while Hero Dragons' levels can be played all at once and all have 3 extra Class Levels (with Toothless having 5 Class Levels), the Active Dragon's Flight and Glide Mode levels can't be completed all at once, after the 5th level, players are required to pay 20 Gems or wait 12 Hours to unlock the next level. Playing Fireball Frenzy Fireball Frenzy requires a Teen dragon to play unless the player has Toothless or the Light Fury to play with, the purpose of Fireball Frenzy is to burn as many targets as possible with the possibly highest accuracy. There are three available modes: •Solo Training: Train with your active dragon or either of the Furies to get the highest score and accuracy, but be careful with what targets you burn because targets with Hiccup and Astrid will remove points - the smaller the target, the higher the score; •Head to Head: Challenge against other Vikings (requires to have MMO on) with 15 Trophies rewarded for the one who has the highest score and accuracy; •Gronckle Iron Crowboss: Play with Hiccup's Shield to have the highest score and accuracy. Similar to the Solo Training, players have to be careful with what targets they shoot, as shields with Toothless will remove points and the smaller the shield, the higher the score; Thunder Run Racing is exactly what its name implies: It's a minigame where the player races through the air on their dragon under the shortest time. It's one of the most popular games as it's the best minigame to earn Trophies, there's a total of 11 Tracks: •Trench Dive; •Twisted Rock; •Frozen Warrior; •Nightmare Tide; •Poison Valley; •Woolly Canyon; •Fortune Falls; •Geyser Maze; •Forbidden Ice; •Gronckle Run, •Snoggletog Raceway; Thunder Run Racing has two modes: •Singleplayer: Race against the time as you get to know the available tracks, the known shortcuts, the checkpoint placement and know who's the fastest dragon you own. •Multiplayer: Race against up to 6 players for the first place. Players on the first place will earn 10 Trophies, those on the 2nd place will earn 5 Trophies and those on the 3rd place will earn 2 Trophies. Use the boost hoops and power-ups to your advantage, but watch out for the other player's power-up usage, and don't forget to go through the checkpoints.
Fishing and Farming
Fishing allows players to fish, all with their own set of XP rewards and their own amount of Energy points. To fish, players need to get close to a spot with fish hopping from the water and select between a Lugworm, Glowworm, Minnow, and a Chicken Egg as the bait. Players must reel in the fish while keeping the pointer on the green-to-red gradient though they must be cautious as fish can start to struggle, moving the pointer forwards and unless players are using an Improved, Advanced or Deep Sea rod (both include a Drag mechanism that drags the pointer backward), the fish can drag the pointer to red zones and escape by breaking the line. Dragging too much can also drag the pointer to the red zone and break the line or not reeling at all can allow the fish to escape. Currently the available fishes are: Farming allows players to produce crops and farm products such as Chicken Eggs and Yak Milk. Planting crops allows players to gather crops such as pumpkins and Dragon Nip, often times useful for some quests; there's a total of 24 Seeds of various plants and vegetables for the player to plant and crop, all having their own set of time to fully grow, amount of crops rewarded and rewarding XP, with the Dragon Nip being the only crop useful for the Dragon. Another important factor is the farm products, the farm products require the player to own a: •Pen for the respective animal. •The animal for the respective pen, the pen only allows an x number of animals. •The feed for the respective animal. Each species of animals will take their own set of time to produce the farm product and will give an x amount of product per animal. For example, each chicken will give 3 eggs, if a sturdy Chicken pen is brought to hold 6 Chickens, the player would get in a total of 18 Chicken Eggs if all 6 Chicken were fed. The only farm products that can be consumed by the dragon are the Chicken Eggs, Ostrich Eggs, and Truffles. There's a total of 20 animals to gain farm products from.
Icestorm Island
Set before "Dragon Eye of the Beholder, Part 1", the expansion pack contains the following features: •The player may find a ship with the same insignia on the sail as The Reaper. •A Dragon Eye lens is discovered, containing more information about Groncicles.
Call of the Death Song
Set after "Imperfect Harmony", but prior to "Have Dragon Will Travel, Part 1", the expansion pack contains the following features: •Heather appears in her Dragons: Race to the Edge form; however, the Dragon Riders have yet to know her identity. •The Dragon Eye is in possession of the Dragon Riders. •Since they are aware of the lenses, it is possible that this expansion pack takes place after "Gone Gustav Gone".
Battle for the Edge
Set after "Maces and Talons, Part 2", but prior to "Enemy of My Enemy", the expansion pack contains the following features: •Events from Snotlout Gets the Axe and Snow Way Out are mentioned. •The Dragon Hunters make their appearance and have possession of the Dragon Eye.
•Heyral the Headmaster and Harald Forkbeard are the only Viking characters in the game specifically made by Jumpstart and do not appear in anything else related to the franchise.
•Two other original characters Flora May and Katrin the Curious were also made by Jumpstart, but they are no longer in the game, as they were replaced by Phlegma and Heather respectively.
•Fireball Frenzy may be based on the sixth round of the Thawfest games shown in "Thawfest", where the dragon is to blast the enemies (Outcasts) but ignore the allies (Vikings).
•Fireball Frenzy can be seen as a retextured version of B-Force Blaster, which is one of the games in Jumpstart's other virtual world, Mathblaster.
•While in the lab, you can cool your experiment down past Absolute Zero (−273.15 °C ), This is theoretically and experimentally impossible, due to the fact that nothing can reach −273.15 °C.
•Spitelout Jorgenson, Phlegma the Fierce, and Heather were originally going to be the school's headmaster, botanist, and alchemist, but were replaced with Heyral the Wise, Flora May, and Katrin the Curious. Phlegma and Heather were soon placed in their roles.
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