How to play Steal an Egg: the first hour, zone by zone

Forest is the biome closest to your base, and it is where you start. The base has pens — where eggs grow and hatched pets sit earning money — and a treadmill, where you train speed. Out in the zone are nests with eggs and, beside them, a sleeping Chicken: the wiki's Biomes table lists no speed requirement for Forest and the Chicken as its guardian, so nothing stops you walking up and taking an egg right now.

Servers hold seven players. Everyone else in Forest is a competitor for the same nests and, later, a threat to your pens. That never changes.

Forest holds eight eggs. In base-income order they are Chicken $1/s, Dog $2/s, Bird $8/s, Burrowing Owl $35/s, Raccoon $45/s, Fox $180/s, Bear $240/s and Brr Brr Patapim $1.8K/s. The incomes are tiny. The hatch rewards are not: every hatch pays a one-off amount of speed and cash, and in Forest the speed is what you are after. Chicken pays +420 speed, Dog +460, Bird +500, Burrowing Owl +560, Raccoon +620, Fox +720, Bear +820, Brr Brr Patapim +1k.

Lake, the next zone, needs 900 speed. Hatch a Chicken, a Dog and a Bird — ten, fifteen and twenty-five seconds in the pen — and you have 1,380 speed from rewards alone before you have touched the treadmill. That is the first lesson of the game: early on, hatch for the reward, not the income.

The guardian sleeps next to the nest. Approach, pick up the egg, run for your base. The moment you are holding an egg you are slower — the wiki's Eggs page says the larger the egg, the heavier it is and the slower you move — so the biggest egg in the nest is not automatically the right choice. From Lake onward, where a Swan guards the nests and the gate is 900 speed, the Biomes page's advice starts to apply: having enough speed to enter does not mean you have enough speed to get back with a large egg.

Egg colour is cosmetic. Do not wait for a colour. Do look at the shape — that is what tells you which pet is inside — and at the size, which is worth waiting for.

An egg in a pen is not yours yet. The official description's sixth line is 'steal eggs from other players', so treat every egg growing in your base as something the rest of the server can take. Grow time is exposure time. Forest eggs are exposed for seconds, which is fine. Lake's Leviathan grows for 25 minutes; Jungle's King Snake for an hour and a half.

The free answer is the bear trap, documented on the wiki's Boosts page. You can place one only while holding an egg, you can have three down at once, you have an infinite supply, they cannot be placed in the safe zone, and anything that steps in one is stuck for seven seconds. Three traps around a pen turn a raid into a seven-second head start for you.

Every hatched pet pays its base income every second into your balance. The wiki's Pets page says that income is spent on higher-level pens, treadmills and trails, which raise your movement speed and unlock higher zones. So the spending order early on is: pens (so more eggs can grow at once), then treadmill (so training gives more speed per session), then trails.

Speed itself comes from four places: hatch rewards, treadmill training, trails, and Robux multipliers. The Robux table on the Boosts page starts at ×2 for 3 Robux and ends at ×4K for 1,375 Robux; the game passes guide covers whether any of that is worth buying. For the first hour, hatch rewards and the treadmill are enough.

Lake needs 900 speed and is guarded by a Swan. Its eggs, low to high, are Frog $3/s, Duckling $4/s, Catfish $12/s, Turtle $60/s, Trulimero Trulicina $260/s, Swan $320/s, Axolotl $2.8K/s and Leviathan $220K/s. Read that last jump again: Leviathan lists nearly eighty times the Axolotl below it, with a 25-minute grow time and a Cosmic rarity tag. It is the first egg in the game that changes your income bracket, and it is behind the lowest gate.

Axolotl is the sensible stepping stone — $2.8K/s, five minutes to grow, and a hatch reward of +4k speed and $280k that alone covers nearly half of the 9,100-speed gap between Lake's 900 gate and Desert's 10K gate. Hatch Axolotls until you can afford to defend a Leviathan for 25 minutes; then take the Leviathan.

Desert needs 10K speed (Scorpion guardian) and tops out at Royal Sphinx, $280K/s. Jungle needs 40K (Tiger) and has the first Secret, King Snake at $3.5M/s. Snow needs 170K (Yeti) and has the first Eternal, Ice Dragon at $65M/s. From there the wiki's Biomes table lists 700K, 2.5M, 18M, 700M, 2.5B, 7B and 20B. The zones page lists all eight eggs in each.

Two rules from the Biomes page's tips carry you through all of them: train speed before attempting a new biome, and plan your route before stealing an egg, because later biomes have much stronger guardians.

Codes. There are none — the wiki's Codes page says so and adds that there is not even a way to redeem them. Colour. Cosmetic. Event eggs in nests. They do not spawn there; limited eggs come from the Store or events such as Admin Abuse. Trading. No source in our register documents a trading system, so if someone in chat offers a trade, treat it as unverified. The treadmill before pens. More pens mean more eggs growing at once, which is more income and more hatch rewards; the treadmill is the second purchase, not the first.

Roblox's badge statistics, read on 21 October 2026, put the 'WELCOME!' badge at 6.2 %, 'Hatched Secret!' at 2.2 %, 'Hatched Eternal!' at 1.7 % and 'Hatched Divine!' at 0.4 %; Roblox defines each figure as the share of players who earned that badge in the past day. They do not say how many players own a Secret or a Divine, and none of them is a hatch chance.

Desert needs 10K speed and is guarded by a Scorpion. Its cheap eggs are the best speed farm in the early game: Jerboa +7.2k on a 20-second egg, Fennec +8.1k on 30 seconds, Camel +9k on 45 seconds. Four Camels are +36k, which is most of the way to Jungle's 40K gate before the treadmill is involved. Above them, Tob Tobi Tob Tob pays $325/s (+9.9k speed on hatch), Snake $3.6K/s (+10.8k), then two Mythics — Sand Spider $16K/s (4m) and Scorpion $18.5K/s (5m) — and the zone's Cosmic, Royal Sphinx, at $280K/s with a 30-minute grow time.

The Desert lesson is the same as Lake's, one order of magnitude up: farm the fast eggs for speed, grow the Mythics for income, and take the Royal Sphinx only when you can trap a pen for half an hour.

When an egg hatches, the pet card shows its weight in kilograms: that is the size roll, which the wiki's Mutations page says is rolled separately from colour at hatch time. The same page explains the income: base × mutation × size, where the mutation from a normal hatch is Silver (×1.2, roll weight 6 out of 100), Golden (×2.5, 4 out of 100) or Rainbow (×3.5, 1 out of 100). It also notes that a pet's weight has a major effect on final income, since size rolls are easier to obtain than rare colour mutations. The calculator page lets you check any combination.