Egg Inc Guide [Tips and Tricks]
Egg Inc is an interesting game that is partial tapper, and resource management over time. Starting out the game might be a bit confusing but the first thing you want to go is hold down the chicken button until you run out of hatchlings. The trees can be a bit confusing, so we’ll attempt to clear up the first two tiers to give you an idea of which trees you want to start with each time you begin a farm with a fresh skill tree. Starting off you want to Focus on Comfortable Nest or Nutritional Supplements. Both of these skills increase the overall money output from your farm. There is no point to put money in to Better Incubators until you need points to advance to the next skill tree. Excitable Chickens is “ok” if you have the Epic Clucking or Epic Multiplier perks later on. In tier 2 you will want to focus on Padded Packaging and Bigger Eggs to increase your income. If you didn’t max out Tier 1, the next best option from tier 2 is Hen house or Hatchery Expansion as these will allow you to put more chickens into your buildings. Internal Hatcheries is good if you plan to be away from the game for awhile as it will slowly add chickens while you’re away. One thing to keep in mind as you go through the other tiers, it requires you to spend points before the trees unlock. This doesn’t mean you have to go through each individual skill tree, it is a collective pool of points spent. So I typically recommend skipping most of the tier 3 skill tree initially and focusing on maxing out the 1st, 2nd and 4th skill tree, unless you need the points to reach the 5th skill tree. The only thing worth grabbing right away is increase in fleet size to add a truck, and internal hatchery upgrade. That should give you a good idea of how to use the normal skill trees. In the epic skill tree it’s more of what fits your play style. I am personally a fan of Hold to Hatch which increases how many chickens come out each second you hold the button and the lab upgrade for reduced research rates.
Suggested starting Skill trees
Tier 1
Comfortable Nests
Increase Egg laying rate by 10%
Nutritional Supplements
Increase Egg Value By 25%
Better Incubators
Hatcher will refill 10% faster
Excitable Chickens
0.1% Egg value bonus for each chicken
Tier 2
Hen House Remodel
Increase capacity of all habs by 5%
Internal Hatcheries
Each hen house adds 2 additional chickens
Padded Packaging
Increases earnings per egg by 25%
Hatchery Expansion
Increases hatchery capacity by 10
Bigger Eggs
Doubles egg value
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Can I go back to a previous egg
No, unless you start the prestige mode until the egg you want
That is what I need to know too. I’m furious I can’t go back! How can I?
I can’t upgrade much hen houses but they are full what do I do.
Wait until you have enough money to upgrade. I did that trying to get a warehouse!
(this is a glitch i use) double tap and go into settings, go to general, date and time, and set the day 1 forward, you will get a daily reward + money (get silos for extra) + chickens in you have internal hatcheries
Some labs call for extra hen house room as well.. Those labs can buy you time if you’re in the red and can’t upgrade your housing yet.
same
Drones are key to building up cash quick… you only mentioned them briefly.
I’ve upgraded all my vehicles and hen houses to thr final upgrade! Now they’re full. Yet I can’t upgrade to the next egg…I’m currently on tachyon.
What do I do?
Thanks
I know it might sound counter-intuitive to start again, but roll right round to that main menu and prestige. You’ll have a ton of soul eggs just waiting to be claimed, and you’ll need the revenue boost to get to further eggs.
prestige it
If you are collecting golden eggs to purchase, i suggest getting as many skills on each egg Everytime you prestige. For example – max out the tier one and two skills for edible eggs to pad your golden egg pocket before upgrading your egg right away.
Why is it I have enough money but can’t but future semi?
In contrast to what the article says, I’d hold off on Hold to Hatch. Several reasons: 1) you pretty much have to max out for this to be useful, or even competitive with the finger drumming method you have available from the start (and even at max, its only about on par), and 2) chicken running, while great fun, is actually almost worthless in this game. So almost all upgrades that relate to it are bound to be wasting precious gold eggs that would be better spent elsewhere.
Here are some upgrades worth considering. First, I assume you get all the cost reduction upgrades. The lab and building cost upgrades are absolutely critical, and you should get them first. Even the transport cost one is ok, and not expensive. Also, offline will be the best way to build chickens (yes, you heard me right), so it really improves the game tremendously to get your silo pass and max out your silo related upgrades. They’re not too expensive.
After that, for when you’re actively playing, drone rewards (this is far more important than it looks at first.. drones are the main source of cash in this game, outstripping everything else by orders of magnitude. And they scale up with the value of your farm).
For similar reasons, accounting tricks is worth a second look.. its a lot better than it first seems, and it expedites sending you to more profitable farms… and since it ups the value of your farm directly, it makes drones more valuable too.
When you’re offline, you want the upgrades that increase your chicken gain. That includes a balance between Epic Int Hatchery (note the “Int”! The other one is not so great) and Internal Hatchery Calm. When the latter is maxed out, you will gain chickens offline 3x faster than when the game is open. The former simply increases the rate, offline or on, but by only 5% per upgrade as opposed to the Calm’s 10%. Based on that, and the costs, you can go back and forth.
You’ll probably want to mix in at least a little of Video Doubler time, in case you care how much money you make when offline. But you will never make great money offline anyway. Nothing like what the fast drones will give you all at once!
After these are all acceptable, you can slowly but steadily increase yourself with Soul Food and (eventually it will be cost effective but not at first) Prestige Bonuses.
I got free multiplier on earning forever