Ancestor Grove

The Ancestor Grove allows you to add clan bonuses to your game. You must be a member of a clan with at least four members to participate in the Ancestor Grove. If you are not yet a member of a clan, you will not be able to click on the grove. You must unlock the grove by flying at least one dragon.

## The Ancestor Grove

There are 4 trees with 4 songs each and an Ancestor Dragon in the Ancestor Grove. Each tree corresponds to one of the elements in the game. Trees can be unlocked in any order, but you must start with the bottom song, then choose one of the side songs, and end with the top song on each tree. Each song gives a particular benefits to the clan. To unlock the songs, clan members must heal their individual trees to get a certain number of tree points. A clan leader can then unlock a branch so that clan members can sacrifice fruit to the tree. You must have 5 of all one kind of fruit and 2 energy to sacrifice. You can sacrifice any fruit, but one or two will have an affinity and count for 3x points instead of only 1.

### Using the Ancestor Grove:

Any player can contribute fruit toward unlocking songs.

* The branch must be activated by a clan leader before any clan member can sacrifice to it. Click on a purple-ringed element badge on any ancestor tree to get started.
* Click and drag the fruit you want to sacrifice tree to donate. You must have at least 5 of the same fruit and 2 energy for the first donation. The amount of fruit needed doubles each time you sacrifice to the same song, but the energy cost remains the same.
* Each sacrifice will give 1 point toward the goal. The fruit marked as affinity for the day will give 3 points towards the goal.
* The cost will reset each day, so it will always start at 5.

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Details for Activated Songs will appear in the upper right of the Ancestor Grove. You'll also see golden circles or + signs around your island in relevant locations to remind you that you have an active bonus.

If you are a **clan leader**, you'll need to unlock branches.

* Choose the tree you want to work on.
* Click the lower most icon on the tree. This will open a pop up telling you the bonus.
* Click the button in the pop up to unlock the song. This will tell you the goal number of sacrifices and amount of fruit needed for the current sacrifice.
* The more branches you have unlocked, the more expensive it will be to unlock another. You can theoretically have four branches unlocked at once, but it will be more cost-effective to unlock only one or two at a time.

If Clan members leave the clan, their contributions do not get removed from the Grove, but they will lose the active bonuses. If for any reason your clan drops below the required number of members (4), the Ancestor Grove will lock once more.

## Element songs

The first song of a tree must be completed first, but then your clan founder or chief can then choose either the right or left song of the same tree as your path to the 4th song. (The left song is always +1 yield). This means a total of 3 songs per tree are needed to complete the tree. The trees do not have to be done in order. Your clan leader and right hand can unlock another tree to open another song. However, increasing amounts of tree points (see tree healing event) are required to unlock additional active songs. The bonuses can be activated at any time after completion, and the effects will stack if you have more than one type of bonus available. For example, activating Ancestor Rain and Ancestor Glow at the same time results in +2 plant yield at the same time.

**Water**

* Ancestor Drop - 20% increase in monster damage for 3 days
* Ancestor Rain - +1 plant yield for 1 day (bonus increases in number of days each level)
* Ancestor Well - 100% to Dragon Plants for 7 days
* Ancestor Flood - Permanent +1 to max energy

**Light**

* Ancestor Flicker - 20% increase to quest rewards for 5 days
* Ancestor Glow - +1 plant yield for 1 day (bonus increases in number of days each level)
* Ancestor Beam - ennobling plants 50% cheaper for 2 days
* Ancestor Sun - Permanent +1 to max energy

**Fire**

* Ancestor Spark - 100% increase in bracelets for 5 days
* Ancestor Flame - +1 plant yield for 1 day (bonus increases in number of days each level)
* Ancestor Ember - 100% increase in moon mice for energy purchases
* Ancestor Inferno - Permanent +1 to max energy

**Air**

* Ancestor Puff - 20% energy decrease for removing weeds for 2 days
* Ancestor Breeze - +1 plant yield for 1 day (bonus increases in number of days each level)
* Ancestor Storm - 100% Brewery yield for 2 days
* Ancestor Hurricane - Permanent +1 to max energy

## Ancestor Dragon

Once all of the trees have reached level 1 (by completing 3 songs on each tree), the Ancestor Dragon unlocks. Then, you must raise and fly a certain number of dragons to get the bonuses.

Click on the golden dragon statue between the blue and red trees to see the Ancestor Dragon's level and what bonuses your clan currently has.

Each time you level up the Ancestor dragon, you get the same prize, but it costs more. Each level stacks, however, so at level 1 you get +1 dragon plant, 10% faster care points, and +1 action point (care point) reservoir. By level 5, each member of your clan will get +5 dragon plants (15 total per flight), 50% faster care points (now only one hour between care point accumulation), and +5 action point (you can now complete a dragon's growing stage all at once). It should be possible to completely raise a dragon in only 30 hours instead of the base level of 70 hours, but flight will still take 24 hours. Note that you'll also need more or better fruit trees as you level up your ancestor grove since your dragons will get hungrier faster.

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By leveling up the Ancestor Grove, it is possible to raise dragons much faster. At level 5, it only takes 10 hours for the care reservoir to fill: a dragon can be raised entirely within 40 hours instead of the usual 80. Dragon flight still takes 24 hours.

Once the Ancestor Dragon has reached level 5, it cannot be leveled up anymore, but you can continue unlocking songs to gain clan benefits.

## Leaving a Clan

If you leave your clan, you will immediately lose any ancestor grove benefits you had while part of that clan. Your contributions to the ancestor grove will not be removed from the clan, however. The oldest clans often have leveled up their groves very high, so if there is an opening, a clanless player might join and immediately receive the ancestor dragon benefits. This can be both good and bad, as dragons still require 10 energy per level and 10 or more fruits. If a dragon can be raised more quickly, you'll need to produce more fruit per hour to keep him happy.

## Ancestor Songbird

The Ancestor Grove displays the number of song points each member of the clan has contributed. Reset of the list happens every Tuesday. The top contributor gets bragging rights of being the Ancestor Whisperer for the week, and the player who has contributed the most points in any one week is memorialized as the Ancestor Songbird. Click on the icon in the upper right of the Ancestor Grove to view the Clan Ancestor League Classification.