The Invisible Dragon in DragonVale World: The 78-Hour Breed

Important context first: the Invisible Dragon belongs to DragonVale World, not the original DragonVale. DragonVale World was removed from app stores on 20 November 2019 and its servers were taken offline shortly afterwards. It can no longer be played.

What follows is a record of the dragon as it was — including a breeding rule that will look very familiar to anyone who has chased the Rainbow Dragon in the original game.

📖 Table of Contents

1. Why You Cannot Get It Today
2. The Four-Element Breeding Rule
3. 78 Hours — The Longest Breed
4. Why Boosts Mattered Most Here
5. The Fool’s Legend
6. The Closest Thing in DragonVale
7. Frequently Asked Questions

🚫 Why You Cannot Get It Today

DragonVale World launched on 3 November 2016 from Backflip Studios, was delisted from both app stores on 20 November 2019, and had its servers shut down shortly afterwards. Player parks were lost, and because the game depended on those servers there is no offline version.

🔑 The Four-Element Breeding Rule

The Invisible Dragon was not bred from a fixed pair. It followed an element-coverage rule:

Anyone who has chased the Rainbow Dragon in the original DragonVale will recognise the shape of this immediately. Rainbow requires four different elements across both parents; Invisible required four as well, with two of them pinned to specific elements.

Key insight: both games used element counting rather than fixed recipes for their hardest dragons. Learn to count unique elements across a pairing and you have the core skill for either game — the specific dragon names change, the arithmetic does not.

The added constraint made Invisible harder than Rainbow in one respect: you could not simply pick any four elements. Fairy and air were mandatory, so your options were narrower.

⏳ 78 Hours — The Longest Breed

The Invisible Dragon’s base breeding time was 78 hours — more than three full days.

For context, the longest breeding times in the original DragonVale sit around 48 hours for epics like Rainbow and Moon. Invisible was well over half as long again.

That number changes how you would play entirely. A failed attempt did not cost you an evening; it cost you most of a week. Choosing to chase this dragon meant committing your breeding capacity for days at a time.

⚗️ Why Boosts Mattered Most Here

DragonVale World reduced breeding times through percentage boosts from park structures such as the Boost Brewery. On most dragons this was a convenience. On Invisible it was close to essential.

Boost Level	Breeding Time	Saved vs Base
None (base)	78h (3d 6h)	—
25% boost	58h 30m (2d 10h 30m)	~20 hours
45% boost	42h 54m (1d 18h 54m)	~35 hours
60% boost	⭐ 31h 12m (1d 7h 12m)	~47 hours

A fully boosted park cut nearly two entire days off every attempt. That is the difference between roughly two attempts a week and five.

🔍 The Fool’s Legend

The Invisible Dragon’s in-game description was one of DragonVale World’s better jokes. It congratulated you on actually finding one, noting that the legend had gone unproven for thousands of years — long enough that people had taken to calling it the Fool’s Legend.

It then immediately undercut itself by conceding that, well, it remained true that nobody had ever actually seen one. The advice that followed was practical: cast a breath spell on the little fellow to keep track of where it had got to.

That willingness to make a joke at the player’s expense was characteristic of the game’s writing, and it is a large part of why people who played it still talk about it.

🌈 The Closest Thing in DragonVale

If the Invisible Dragon’s element-counting puzzle is what appeals, the original DragonVale’s Rainbow Dragon is the direct descendant of that idea — four unique elements across both parents, a 48-hour incubation, and the same “make it possible, then roll the dice” structure.

The live game also solves Invisible’s biggest problem outright. The Rift offers instant breeding and incubation, so the multi-day waits that defined DragonVale World’s hardest dragons simply do not exist there.

• Rainbow Dragon — the four-element rule, still the game’s signature puzzle
• The Rift — instant breeding removes the waiting entirely
• Elder Dragons — double an upgraded habitat’s coin generation
• Gemstone dragons — passive premium currency

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Can I still get the Invisible Dragon?

No. It was a DragonVale World dragon and that game has been offline since early 2020.

How was the Invisible Dragon bred?

Using dragons containing the fairy and air elements plus two other unique elements, at the Breeding Cave or Epic Breeding Island.

How long did it take to breed?

78 hours at base — over three days. With boosts it dropped to 58h 30m, 42h 54m, and 31h 12m at the 25%, 45% and 60% levels.

How much did it cost?

Its buy price was never fully documented and surviving records list it as unknown. We would rather say so than invent a figure.

Was it limited?

No — it was flagged permanent, so it remained available throughout the game’s life. Its difficulty came from the element requirement and the enormous breeding time.

Is there anything like it in the original DragonVale?

The Rainbow Dragon uses the same four-unique-element logic. And the Rift’s instant breeding means the original never asks you to wait three days for a single attempt.

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The Invisible Dragon was a DragonVale World dragon. DragonVale World was removed from app stores on 20 November 2019 and its servers were taken offline shortly afterwards; sources differ on the exact shutdown date. Some of its stats were never fully documented and have been omitted rather than estimated. DragonVale World Guide is an unofficial fan resource and is not affiliated with DECA Games, Backflip Studios or Hasbro.