Gaming How-To

Ride A Pet: How to Get the Dragon Pet in Roblox

The Dragon Egg pays 1% per roll, and the free map-egg route asks for patience instead of Robux.

The Dragon Egg pays 1% per roll, and the free map-egg route asks for patience instead of Robux.

The Dragon sits at the top of the pet ladder in Ride A Pet, and it is the only pet in the game with a base income of 300 million. There are two ways to chase it: buy instant-hatch rolls from the Shop with Robux, or hunt the high-tier eggs that spawn around the map for free. Neither route hands it over. Both are a dice roll.

Quick answer: Buy Dragon Egg [Instant Hatch] rolls in the Shop for a flat 1% Dragon chance each, or hatch high-tier map eggs such as Galaxy, Cherub and Blackhole for the free path.


Dragon stats and why players chase it

The Dragon’s pet card gives it a hatch probability of 1 in 501; the Shop table displays that as 1%. Its remaining details center on earnings.

StatValue
Hatch chance1 in 501
Base speed300M
Base jump150
Base weight10kg
Base income300,000,000

At 300 million base income, the Dragon earns more than any other money pet in the game. The game’s promotional artwork also shows 999 MPH, which sits at the top of the speed ladder, although that is not the highest base mount speed. Kitsune has 1 billion base speed, so many players equip Kitsune for travel while leaving the Dragon on the ranch to generate cash.

There is one hard requirement attached to it as well. Rebirth 7, the final Rebirth, asks for $50Qa and a Dragon in your inventory. Every Rebirth grants +1x money multiplier, +1 pet slot and a new ranch skin, and it wipes your cash and purchased luck when you commit.

Do not sell a Dragon, Kitsune, Phoenix, Unicorn, Fox or Horse. Each one is locked behind a Rebirth requirement, and selling it means grinding the pet again.


Robux route: Dragon Egg [Instant Hatch] in the Shop

Buying the paid option bypasses the map completely. Each Dragon Egg roll finishes as soon as its purchase goes through; there is no nest or hatch timer, allowing attempts to be made consecutively.

In the Shop, scroll until you find the Dragon Egg [Instant Hatch] card. No other Shop item can produce a Dragon.
Dragon Egg Shop Menu00:05Dragon Egg Shop Menu
The Shop menu showing the Dragon Egg entry and its roll prices. Shown at 00:05 in ItzVexo’s video. Image: this game is gud
Pick a bundle. Larger bundles cut the price per roll, but the odds on any single roll never move.
BundlePrice (Robux)
1 Roll99
3 Rolls249
10 Rolls799
50 Rolls3,499
Approve the purchase and wait for the rolls to finish. The results come from one pool of five pets, with the Dragon occupying its smallest portion.
PetChance
Crocodile50%
Fox30%
T-Rex15%
Phoenix4%
Dragon1%

What 3,499 Robux actually buys

At 70 Robux, the 50-roll pack offers the lowest cost per roll, but buying it does not buy the pet. Because each attempt is independent, 49 failures have no effect on roll 50. Making fifty 1% attempts gives about a 40% cumulative chance to get at least one Dragon, so the largest bundle still leaves an empty result more likely than a successful one.

The average becomes easier to see over a larger sample: at 1% odds, getting one Dragon takes 100 rolls, costing about 7,000 Robux at the bulk rate or 9,900 when bought one roll at a time. Buying three 50-packs consecutively raises the chance to roughly 78%. Bundle size provides neither bad-luck protection nor a guaranteed drop, so use the Shop to make attempts quickly rather than to purchase the pet outright.


Free route: hunting high-tier map eggs

Free players must rely on the spawn system. Galaxy, Cherub, Solaris and Blackhole eggs, along with other high-tier eggs, appear at random map locations; each has a floating label and countdown, and any server player may claim it. Regular eggs purchased with in-game cash have no chance to produce a Dragon, making that spending useless for this objective.

Before searching, equip your fastest pet and improve it as much as possible. Reaching a spawn depends on travel speed, so prioritize speed upgrades before pursuing the Dragon.
Stand near the map’s center instead of choosing a corner. From there, the longest trip to a spawn point is shorter, and you retain a workable reaction window in all directions.
As soon as an egg label appears, head for it immediately. You have 20 seconds to pick it up; then the egg vanishes and that attempt is lost.
Cherub Egg Hatch Chance00:36Cherub Egg Hatch Chance
Riding back across the ranch with an egg secured. Shown at 00:36 in Radex Tips’s video. Image: this game is gud
Return the egg to your ranch and place it in an unoccupied nest. Seeing an egg does not advance the process until it reaches a nest, so make sure a slot is open before setting out.
Start the hatch. A growth animation plays, but you can use the on-screen prompt to skip it rather than watch the full sequence.

Be clear-eyed about the numbers here. The Shop card’s 1% applies to Shop rolls, while the Index lists the Dragon’s map-egg odds in the region of 1 in 5 to 7 quintillion. That gap is why the free route is a long-term project built on volume, luck stacking and hatching everything you can reach.

Index Menu00:21Index Menu
The Pets tab of the Index, where each pet's long-form hatch odds are listed. Shown at 00:21 in ItzVexo’s video. Image: this game is gud

Stack your odds before you hatch

Nothing removes the randomness, but a few habits raise how many quality attempts you get per session.

  • Learn the reliable spawn areas. The waterfall, water caves and beach zones are worth sweeping regularly.
  • Buy Hatch Luck upgrades from the board inside your ranch before opening your best eggs.
  • Hatch aggressively during mutation weather events, which change the properties of every egg on the map.
  • Feed your pets at the food stalls. A higher-level pet covers more ground, so you reach more eggs.
  • Chase Aurora and Cherub Eggs even when you do not need them. They use the same countdown behaviour and teach you the routes.

Rebirthing wipes your cash and any luck bought from the ranch board, so spend down your luck upgrades before you hit the Rebirth button rather than after.


How to confirm you hatched the Dragon

The hatch identifies the pet by name, and the Dragon goes directly into your collection. From the pet list, verify its card: base speed: 300M; base jump: 150; base weight: 10kg; base income: 300,000,000. A new Index entry also appears for the Dragon.

Once equipped, it changes your income rate to that base amount, while mounting displays the normal Dismount prompt used by other rideable pets. Regardless of Shop purchases, continue collecting eggs around the map; the free method requires only attention, and each egg adds another Index entry.


Not the same as the Infernal Dragon in Roblox Islands

Searches for a Roblox dragon pet often land on Roblox Islands instead, which is a separate game with a separate dragon. There, the pet comes from the Infernal Dragon, a boss fought in the Underworld arena that unleashes walls of fire while players attack with magic staffs and melee weapons.

Infernal Dragon Boss Fight00:43Infernal Dragon Boss Fight
The Infernal Dragon boss fight in the Underworld arena of Roblox Islands. Shown at 00:43 in RBX Glitches’s video. Image: this game is gud

Beating it drops an Infernal Dragon Egg, which behaves like a loot chest rather than a hatchable pet egg. Opening one gives random rewards including opal hilts, underworld tokens and, rarely, the dragon pet itself. None of that applies to Ride A Pet, where the Dragon only comes from Shop rolls or map eggs.

Boss Mechanics u0026 Notes01:30Boss Mechanics u0026 Notes
Players waiting between boss spawns in the Underworld area of Roblox Islands. Shown at 01:30 in RBX Glitches’s video. Image: this game is gud