Alpha eggs: where to find them and what they hatch

Alpha eggs can be found lying in the open world and gathered directly. Many of them are simply on the ground where you can walk up to them.

Not all of them are that generous. One Alpha egg is high up in a tree, and you have to climb the tree to get it. If you see an egg above you and cannot find a path, that is the kind of spot to look at twice.

Some wild eggs sit in nests you cannot reach on foot at all. Those can only be reached by Twining with an Aniimo whose pathfinding ability suits the obstacle in the way: flight for a gap or a height, climbing for a wall, swimming for water. The practical upshot is that the Aniimo you have available to Twine with decides which nests you can visit, so a wider team opens up more of the map's eggs.

Eggs found out in the world are collected by interacting with them directly, and a single interaction is enough. There is no gathering bar to fill and no second step. Once you are standing next to the egg, the work is done.

That means the only real cost of an Alpha egg is the route. Getting up the tree or across the obstacle is the challenge; taking the egg is not.

An Alpha egg names a territory rather than a specific Aniimo. It can hatch into any species native to that territory. So if you are hunting for an Alpha version of one particular creature, the egg will not promise it to you. It tells you the pool, and the hatch picks from it.

Potential is not guaranteed either. Hatching in a standard Anipod gives randomized characteristics, so even an Alpha egg can come out with only Good potential. The word Alpha on the egg does not lift the result above that roll.

Alpha Aniimo can also hatch randomly from eggs in general, and the Alpha mutation makes an Aniimo visibly larger than standard members of its species. You can see the size difference on wild Alphas and when an Alpha is untwined. Farming Alpha bosses for drops is a separate subject with its own guide on this site.

The randomness of a standard Anipod is the reason the sparkling item exists. Using a sparkling item on a Prismana egg produces a perfect Prismana Aniimo.

Use one on an Alpha egg instead and the result is alpha, sparkling, perfect and Prismana, all at once. Compare that to the standard Anipod, where the same egg can come out with only Good potential. If you have gone to the trouble of climbing or Twining to reach an Alpha egg, this is the hatch that makes the trip pay off.

05Where to start

Collect every Alpha egg you can reach, and build a team that can Twine past flight, climbing and swimming obstacles so fewer nests are off limits. Pick the egg by territory, because that is all it promises. Save your sparkling items for Alpha eggs: a standard Anipod can leave you with Good potential, while a sparkling item gives you alpha, sparkling, perfect and Prismana together.