Egg

Eggs are laid by critters. The subspecies of an egg can be different than the critter that laid it, with the chances for various subspecies be influenced by various conditions. An egg can either hatch into a new critter or be processed into Raw Egg at an Egg Cracker and then cooked into an Omelette at an Electric Grill. That process can be automated by letting the egg crack in a storage and cooking the egg to an omelette by heating it up above 70 °C / 158 °F.

Egg Weights

The following list is of use to players who intend to use Weight Plate to weigh eggs. When cracked, eggs will output half their mass as Egg Shell and half their mass as Raw Egg.

Egg Type	Weight (g)	Remark
Abyss Bug Egg	200
Azure Bug Egg	200
Bammoth Egg	8000
Coral Bug Egg	200
Cuddle Pip Egg	2000
Delecta Vole Egg	2000
Dense Puft Egg	500
Drecko Egg	2000	Wild Dreckos often live in places with non-oxygen gases, especially Chlorine and Hydrogen. Breaking into their habitats might require preparation.
Flox Egg	2000
Pacu Egg	4000	These can be had if you have your Duplicants poke into pools in the Swamp Biome and get themselves wet. Fortunately, for them, Pacu won't defend their eggs. Remember to seal those pools later.
Glossy Drecko Egg	2000
Grubgrub Wormling Egg	2000
Gulp Fish Egg	4000
Hatch Egg	2000	You should be willing to spare the Hatches that you find early in the game, feed them and wait for them to lay eggs.
Slickster Egg	2000
Longhair Slickster Egg	2000
Molten Slickster Egg	2000
Oakshell Roe	2000
Pokeshell Roe	2000
Pip Egg	2000
Plug Slug Egg	2000
Puft Egg	500
Puft Prince Egg	500
Radiant Bug Egg	200
Regal Bammoth Egg	8000
Royal Bug Egg	200
Sage Hatch Egg	2000
Sanishell Roe	2000
Shine Bug Egg	200	Wild Shine Bug Eggs are the most accessible of them, but they are rather light.
Shove Vole Egg	2000
Smooth Hatch Egg	2000
Smog Slug Egg	2000
Spigot Seal Egg	2000
Sponge Slug Egg	2000
Squeaky Puft Egg	500
Stone Hatch Egg	2000
Sun Bug Egg	200	Inside an Apothecary, 1 kg Steel + 1 unit Sun Nymph Egg = 1 unit Serum Vial
Sweetle Egg	2000
Tropical Pacu Egg	4000

Taming and making sure a large population of critters remains happy is the most efficient way of going about getting eggs. However, make sure your economy can support feeding them all.

Mechanics

• A wild critter lays 1 egg before dying of old age as long as it did not have its reproduction rate paused from being Cramped, Miserable or Confined for a substantial period of time.
• A happy, Tame critter typically lays 15 eggs before dying of old age. Critters with long lifespans like Bammoths may theoretically lay 16, while short-lived critters like Pacus or Dartles will lay significantly less (13 and 14, respectively)
• If there is at least one egg in the room and the Space Required by the critter multiplied by both the number of eggs and the number of critters is larger than the room, then the critter will receive the Cramped debuff, preventing them from generating more eggs; eggs inside a Ration Box or refrigerator inside the stable count towards this limit. The Cramped debuff will only go away once enough eggs hatch or are removed from the stable.
• Eggs maintain the wild/tame status of their parent upon hatching. That is, the eggs of tame critters will hatch into tame babies, and the eggs of partially tamed wild critters will hatch into partially tamed babies. Once tamed critters can not go back to wild.
• Egg incubation time is equal to 20 % of a critter's maximum age, or 4 % with an Incubator.
• If eggs are put in e.g. a Storage Bin or transported via a Conveyor Rail, they will become non-viable after 10 cycles, so they will crack up and turn into Raw Egg and an Egg Shell.

History

• U56-674504: Eggs have been renamed to be prefixed with the Adult form rather than the baby's.