- Start with an egg, not a wild adult - hatching and raising your own dragon is far safer than trying to tame a full-grown one.
- Hatch eggs in the matching environment - fire eggs near heat/lava, ice eggs in cold/water; the wrong setting won't hatch them.
- Keep feeding your dragon to speed its growth toward the rideable adult stage.
- Carry a
dragon horn so you can pack your dragon away safely before risky travel and re-summon it later.
- Never look a gorgon in the eye - approach with your view averted, or you'll be turned to stone.
- Blind the cyclops and stay out of deep water near sea serpents; each creature has a weakness to exploit.
- Raid dragon roosts for the fastest supply of scales and bone to build a full dragonsteel armory.