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Food in Flight Rising replenishes your dragons' Energy, and comes in four types: Icon insect Insects, Icon meat Meat, Icon seafood Seafood, and Icon plant Plants. Each breed of dragon eats one or more types of food, but can only eat their listed foods no matter how hungry they are (listed from most preferred to least preferred):

Breed Food(s)
Aberration Meat, Insects, Plants, Seafood
Aether Insects, Plants
Auraboa Meat, Seafood
Banescale Insects, Seafood, Meat
Bogsneak Plants, Meat
Coatl Seafood
Fae Insects
Gaoler Meat, Plants
Guardian Meat, Seafood, Plants, Insects
Imperial Seafood, Meat, Plants, Insects
Mirror Meat, Seafood
Nocturne Meat, Insects
Obelisk Seafood, Insects
Pearlcatcher Plants, Insects
Ridgeback Seafood
Skydancer Insects, Plants
Snapper Plants, Seafood
Spiral Insects, Meat
Tundra Plants
Undertide Seafood, Plants
Veilspun Insects, Meat, Plants, Seafood
Wildclaw Meat

Energy[]

Energybar

A well-fed clan's energy bar.

Lair energy bars

The bar below the dragon shows their level of energy. Yellow indicates how well-fed is a dragon. Grey shows their level of hunger.

Energy in Flight Rising is a measure of a motivation and well-being. A clan's overall energy is displayed at the top right of any Flight Rising screen as a colorful gradient bar. Individual dragons' energy can be seen on their profile pages or in the dragon lair. Dragons have a maximum of 50 energy regardless of age or level.

Dragons become unable to breed when energy drops below 40 (80%), and are rendered ineligible to fight in the Coliseum when energy drops below 20 (40%). These are the only consequences to not feeding your dragons; they will never die or otherwise leave your lair if they run out of energy. You can replenish your dragons' energy in the dragon lair by feeding them; this always restores your dragons' energy to full, as long as you have enough of the correct food to give them. Each unit of food given to a dragon restores one energy.

If you keep your dragons' average energy above 80% of the maximum, or 40 energy per dragon, for at least three consecutive days, you will receive these daily bonuses:

These bonuses persist as long as you keep your dragons' energy above 80%, but as soon as the average energy of your dragons falls below the threshold, you lose the bonus and the counter starts over (but do not lose any gems you have accumulated). Be aware of energy levels when adding or removing many dragons from the Hibernal Den as dragons stored there do not count towards the total energy bar.

A dragon's energy decreases at a regular rate when they are located within the main lair. Dragons lose 1 energy every eight hours, at midnight, 8:00 AM and 4:00 PM (all Pacific time), for a total of 3 energy lost per day. This means that you can go up to 72 hours (three days) between feedings without losing your high-energy bonuses.

Dragons also lose energy in the Coliseum when you flee (-2 energy for each participating dragon) or when the whole team gets knocked out (-5 for each participating dragon).

As of March 16th, 2018, if you have not logged into Flight Rising for over 45 days, all of your dragons' energy levels will be set to full upon returning to the site.[1]

Obtaining Food[]

Food items can be obtained through Gathering or by fighting in the Coliseum.

For a list of food items in alphabetical order, click here.

Gathering[]

As your level in an area of gathering increases, the variety and size of food items you can receive will also increase.

Coliseum[]

When you fight creatures in the Coliseum, they have a good chance to drop food items when they are defeated. Experienced players with enough time and interest can keep all their dragons fed exclusively via Coliseum food. This is a popular approach because it allows you to spend your Gathering turns in pursuit of things besides keeping dragons fed: Scavenging for unhatched eggs, Fishing for a rare familiar, Hunting for items for a Swipp exchange, etc.

Different venues yield more or less of different food types. For instance, the Arena yields more insects while the Waterway yields more seafood. Higher-level venues drop items individually worth more food points than lower-level venues. For instance, Training Fields enemies may drop a meat item worth 2 food points, while Mire enemies may drop a meat item worth 4 food points.

Feeding Your Dragons[]

Feeding is a two-step process: make sure you have food points, then use the Feed button in your Dragon Lair to feed all your dragons at once.

Food points and converting food stores[]

When you collect food items from Gathering or the Coliseum, you need to convert it from an item in your Hoard to food that your dragons can eat. This is done by going to your Hoard, selecting the Food tab, checking the items that you want to convert to food, and pressing the Convert button at the bottom. (If you want to convert all of your food items to food, you can simply click the Select All button at the bottom and then press Convert.) Food item types convert into equivalent food point types: a meat food item will convert into meat food points, a plant food item will convert into plant food points, etc.

Feeding your dragons[]

Clicking the Feed button doles out food points to every dragon in the lair until all dragons are at maximum energy or you run out of food points necessary for certain dragons.

  • One food point will replenish one Energy. If your dragon needs to recover 1 Energy, it will eat 1 food point; if it needs to recover 5 Energy, it will eat 5 food points. If your dragon is at full Energy, it won't eat! There is therefore no benefit in waiting to feed your dragons; you should feed them whenever you see their Energy drop unless you do not breed your dragons, fight in the Coliseum, or care about the well fed bonus.
  • If a dragon can eat more than one kind of food, by default it will prefer to eat the type of food listed first in its description, and go down the list if you don't have its first choice. For instance, a Guardian dragon likes meat, seafood, plants, and insects. When you feed a Guardian dragon, it will eat meat if you have any; if you don't have any meat, it will eat seafood instead; if you don't have any meat OR seafood, it will eat plants; and finally if you don't have meat, seafood, or plants, it will eat insects as its last resort.

Feed Style[]

As of December 17th, 2019, it is possible to set an account's Feed Style from Default to Selective in one's Account Settings. Selective Feeding allows a player to feed insect, meat, seafood, or plant-eating dragons before any others. Going back to the Guardian example from the previous section, by choosing to feed all insect-eating dragons first, the player can always ensure that all their Guardians will use insects to restore their Energy even though insects are normally a Guardian's last choice. Selective Feeding can be helpful if the player finds themselves running low on a specific type of food and can enable them to feed all other dragons first, leaving the low food type for dragons who can only eat that type (Ex. plants for Tundras or seafood for Ridgebacks and Coatl).

On June 8th, 2020, the ability to feed a single dragon at a time was added, giving players even more control over which dragon can eat which type of food. This mechanic allows players to keep only specific dragons fed with specific food types to even further conserve food points.

Feeding Order[]

On Default feeding style, every dragon will simply eat its fill of its favorite food if available, going down the list of their preferred foods until everything is depleted and then be done. If a player is having trouble gathering enough of a certain food type, they may wish to micromanage which dragon eats what foods—for instance, convincing a Guardian to eat some plants rather than meat. This can now be easily done through the Selective Feeding style or even by hand feeding specific dragons directly from their profile page. However even when using Selective Feeding style there is still a specific order that food is distributed among dragons. The following rules govern food distribution behavior:[2]

  1. Food is first distributed by breed. For instance, seafood will be handed out to all Snappers in a lair before all Imperials. Consult the table below for the orders.[3]
  2. Within a breed, food is distributed from oldest to youngest. For instance, if a lair contains three Snappers, the oldest (as judged by dragon ID number) will eat first, then the middle one, then the youngest.
Insects Meat Seafood Plants
1. Fae 1. Wildclaw 1. Ridgeback 1. Tundra
2. Pearlcatcher 2. Mirror 2. Coatl 2. Pearlcatcher
3. Spiral 3. Spiral 3. Mirror 3. Gaoler
4. Obelisk 4. Gaoler 4. Obelisk 4. Snapper
5. Nocturne 5. Nocturne 5. Snapper 5. Skydancer
6. Skydancer 6. Bogsneak 6. Banescale 6. Bogsneak
7. Banescale 7. Banescale 7. Guardian 7. Guardian
8. Guardian 8. Guardian 8. Veilspun 8. Veilspun
9. Veilspun 9. Veilspun 9. Imperial 9. Imperial
10. Imperial 10. Imperial

Note that the lair position of a dragon has no effect on food distribution. A very young Snapper positioned at the front of a lair will still eat after its Snapper elders. Similarly, how long a dragon has resided in that lair has no impact. A very old Snapper that has only just arrived will still eat before a middle-aged Snapper that has been there its entire life.

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