Hoard Hunt

Overview

Hoard Hunt is the Dragon Hatchling's 3★ ability — a pick-one-of-three chest game that fires automatically while the dragon is equipped. Every time a ball lands in an Emerald or Ruby bin the dragon's counter ticks up (the pill on its pet slot shows X / N); when it reaches N the board pauses, "HOARD HUNT!" slams in and three chests appear. One holds the base loot, one double, one triple — you pick, and the rest are revealed.

Diamond landings don't count (they launch a Jackpot Frenzy instead), and only the dragon in your current loadout counts — a dragon sitting in your inventory does nothing.

How often it fires

Every Nth Emerald/Ruby triggers a Hoard Hunt — pick 1 of 3 loot chests. The cadence is 100 landings through Lv 100, then drops by 4 every 10 levels down to 60 at Lv 200 (the dragon is a mythic and can be levelled past 100).

The chests

When the hunt triggers the game first rolls what the chests hold, then deals the ×1 / ×2 / ×3 multipliers to the three chests at random. Every chest holds the same loot type — only the multiplier differs — so an average pick is worth ×2.

Loot	Chance	Chest ×1	Chest ×2	Chest ×3	Average pick
balls	50% (1 in 2)	25	50	75	50 balls
gold balls	30% (1 in 3.33)	500	1,000	1,500	1,000 gold balls
gems	20% (1 in 5)	50	100	150	100 gems

• Gold-ball chests are paid through your gold-ball gain bonuses (Marquee Gold Ball Drop), so they can come out above the listed amounts.
• Hoard Mimic's 1★ Hoarder's Cut (+0.00% → +10% at Lv 100) applies to every chest in the game — Hoard Hunt chests, Chest Rush chests and the Meadow Mole's buried treasure — rounded up so it always shows.
• Only one hunt can be open at a time; the counter keeps ticking while you play, but a new hunt won't trigger until you've opened the current chest.

Expected value

Over many hunts the average chest is worth 25 balls + 300 gold balls + 20 gems per hunt (loot share × base × the ×2 average pick). At Lv 200 that arrives every 60 Emerald/Ruby landings instead of every 100 — 67% more hunts from the same play.

Tips

• Fuse your dragon to 3★ first — below that the counter pill doesn't even appear. See Pet Fusion.
• Hunts count Emerald and Ruby landings, so they come fastest on boards and with pets that push balls into the deep bins.
• Chest multipliers are dealt at random with no tells — there is no pattern to read, just pick and enjoy.