Summer Merge Island

*"Where do you think the Pet Dragon is going? Let's follow him, it's gotta be somewhere interesting!*"

Mia follows Pet Dragon to explore Summer Merge Island.

The new dragons of the island are Mermaid Dragons.

To complete the Summer Merge Island quests only energy and dragon stamina are required.

Open September 19th 2021 till September 26th 2021.

## Description

Merge Island is a brand new type of island, where instead of exploring the new areas by removing obstacles you open them by merging items and getting merge reward points. You need to merge different items into a better item to get reward points and unlock the Dragon Treasury. Explore and get coins, reach milestones and unlock the nest.

You can access it from the Island Map bottom in the lower right of the screen.

This type of islands is usually active for a week.

### Playboard

The available icons are described in the counter-clock-wise order, starting from top left corner.

* *Merge Island Pass* (to the right of your player icon in top left corner): Here you can see the rewards and your current points level . As soon as you get enough Dragon Points to level up, the new reward is automatically unlocked and you need to claim it. If it's a decoration, you can find it in the Mailbox after the claim action. You have to claim rewards before island closes or you will lose them. There are three kind of rewards, but as you increase the level, the quantity and/or the quality increases.
	+ *Normal Rewards*: they consist mainly of energy, gold, a few gems, petals, some boosters, some decorations.
	+ *Gem Rewards*: they consist mainly of energy, petals and decorations. Can be obtained by spending 150 gems.
	+ *Gold Pass Rewards*: mainly gems, energy and decorations. Can be obtained with real money.
* *Side Tasks (below player icon):* those are the tasks to achieve that are guiding you on merge and explore activities and their order.
* *Merge Store*: here you can purchase items to merge for coins or (mostly) gems. You can purchase elements from store to boost progress of merge. The store contents are refreshed every 24 hours.

* *Access to Club Chat*: your normal club chat is relocated in this playboard from middle left to the bottom of the screen.

* *Selected Item Description (bottom middle)*. Here you see currently selected item. It tells you which collection it belongs to and what it is merged into.
* *Dragon Collections Book*: your usual dragons book .
* *Dragon Treasury*: list of available collections, divided into sections and your currently unlocked items. There are 3 types of collections, depending on their origin:
	+ *Energy*
	+ *Dragon Stamina*
	+ *Miscelaneous*: found in chests or created by merging items from other 2 types of collections.
* *Return to Home Island*: only Home Island is available from Summer Merge Island. In order to go to any other island you have to return to home island first.

## How to Play

To play Merge Island you need to:

1. First you need to unlock some items by either opening some chests (by tapping on them) or by spending energy or by spending dragon stamina. More items/elements are placed onto the field.
2. To combine items, just **drag** them together on the map. **At least 3 of the same item need to be combined, to merge and upgrade them.**
3. Merge action gives you points that are used to reach milestones to unlock the nest as well as get rewards in merge pass. Merge of advance items gives more points than merging base items. i.e. merging 3 leaves gives 1 point, merging 3 hats already gives 4 points, etc.
4. When you create the upgraded item for the first time, it is also unlocked in Dragon Treasury, which gives you coins (you need to go to Dragon Treasury and click on the gift box at the place of the new item),
5. **If you combine 5 of the same together, you'll create 2 upgraded items!** Please note - it has to be exactly 5 - if you merge 6 items, you will still get 2 upgraded items, but by doing so you waste one base item.
6. Some items can be merged and cloned. After merging these items, you will see a ballon with a new element that can be purchased with gems!
7. You can make an unlimited number of merges, but you’ll want to manage your resources and available space well to be able to **unlock new areas and get more resources and reward points to unlock the nest.**
8. In order to clear fog, you need to achieve unlock goal. Those are usually creating specific item for the first type or reaching specified number of reward points.
9. Once you’ve cleared away a patch of fog, it will reveal more resources and chests.
10. Get Coins, Energy and Gems by tapping on its completely merged elements.

**Example merge and upgrade:**

3 Sun Leaf = 1 Sun Leaves, 1 Big Crystal, 1 reward points

3 Sun Leaves = 1 Simple Sunhat, 2 Big Crystals, 2 reward points

3 Simple Sunhat = 1 Sunhat Display, 2 Big Crystals, 1 Crystal Coin, 4 reward points

3 Big Crystal = 1 Crystal Coin, 2 reward points

## Dragon Treasure Collections

There are 10 collections in Summer Merge Island, they are listed below.

### Energy Collections

#### Sunhat

Built up by harvesting plants, first energy step = 8

#### Swimsuit

Built up by harvesting cotton plants, first energy step = 8

#### Surfboard

Built up by harvesting trees, first energy step = 8

#### Sunglasses

Built up by harvesting purple rocks / glass, first energy step = 9

Sunhat CollectionSwimsuit CollectionSurfboard CollectionSunglasses Collection

### Stamina Collections

#### Juice

Built up by harvesting coconuts

Ice Cream CollectionJuice Collection

### Award Collections

#### Bank

Built up by merging items from energy and stamina collections. Can alse be found in chests.

#### Gem

Found in chests and new uncovered areas

Bank CollectionCoinEnergyGem

### Chests

Chests can contain either collection specific items and/or miscelaneous items, like coins or gems pieces. There are 4 types of chests: plain, metal, silver and golden, which mostly indicates the value of items stored within the chest.

Silver ChestTreasure Chest - PlainTreasure Chest - MetalTreasure Chest - SilverTreasure Chest - Golden

## Merge Tasks

**Tasks**:

* Merge ? ? times ?? items - reward ?
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* Merge ? ? times ?? items - reward ?

## Merge Island Pass

Harvesting and merging items give reward points. Those points are then used to get some rewards. The following tables list the tasks and the rewards.

Most prize decorations give one off reward of ?? Gold Pass decoration gives ? energy when placed on Home Island for ? times.

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## Merge Store

You can purchase elements from store to boost progress of merge. The store contents are refreshed every 24 hours.

Content Example 1Content Example 2

## Tips and Tricks

Here you can find some tips and tricks on how to play:

* You can merge 5 elements to get 2, giving you a 1 element discount! Make sure that it is a multiple of 5 that you are merging, since otherwise the game will merge combinations of 3 as well, and you will loose your extra elements.
* The more items you merge, more Merge bonus you get!
* I recommend to alternate between energy and stamina collections, i.e. place more elements on the field by sending dragon to hervest, until all your dragons are resting. In the meanwhile you can merge the items and then place the energy items on the field and work on those. By the time you finish, some of the dragon would have rested and ready for next job.
* While working on each collection, take 3-7 origin objects and harvest them until the end. You might be tempted to first harvest step 1, then step 2, etc due to increasing energy / stamina requirements; however each harvest step places better and higher level objects on the field. In addition to that, you do want to free more space when possible.

## Dragons

### New Dragons

The dragons of this island are the Mermaid Dragons. In Dragon Expedition minigame, they have the Water attribute.

Mermaid Dragons are described as:

* Mermaid Dragon Egg: Mermaid Dragons are kind, caring and adventurous
* Mermaid Dragon Whelp: Mermaid Dragons love music, and their singing can attract creatures for miles!
* Mermaid Dragon Junior: Mermaid Dragons enjoy eating seaweed, as it helps their scales stay smooth and shiny
* Mature Mermaid Dragon: Mermaid Dragons are fantastic swimmers, and often compete with each other in swimming races!
* Elder Mermaid Dragon: Mermaid Dragons

Mermaid Dragon EggMermaid Dragon WhelpMermaid Dragon JuniorMermaid Dragon MatureMermaid Elder.pngMermaid Dragon Mature

Exploring the dragon nest has 4 stages stages:

* Points:
	+ 250
	+ 4000
	+ 10000
	+ 27000
* Rewards:
	+ 80 experience
	+ 3 Mermaid Dragon Egg

Mermaid Nest - Stage 1Mermaid Nest - Stage 2Mermaid Nest - Stage 3Mermaid Nest - Stage 4Mermaid Nest Unlocked

## Pics

Intro 1Intro 2Intro 3Intro 4Intro 5Intro 6Intro 7Intro 8Intro 9Intro 10Intro 11Intro 12Intro 13Intro 14Intro 15Intro 16Intro 17Intro 18Intro 19Intro 20 - NestIntro 21

## Map

Here is the montage with the map of the Summer Merge Island.

File:Summer Merge Island map.jpg

Video from Pusskal Plays on YouTube: here.