Eggs

Eggs are the unhatched forms of certain types of fauna. They can be used for research which will allow the player to create more advanced objects, such as Upgrades. Eggs are currently still in development.

Eggs usually are considered to be belonging to an unidentified fauna until they are analyzed using the Specimen Analyzer. An Egg of a given type can currently belong to up to two different species.

After an egg is analyzed, you can put it inside a Large Aquarium. The egg will take about ten in-game days to hatch. When hatched, the creature within the egg will a smaller version of its respective species.

More information and animations can be found on Trello.

Eggs

The following table shows the available Eggs, their belonging species, and the Biomes in which they can be found. To see which research can be gained from Eggs, refer to the Research page.

Egg	Possible identity 1	Possible identity 2	Biome
Grassy Plateaus Egg	Reefback Egg	Stalker Egg	Grassy Plateaus
Safe Shallows Egg	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown

Gallery

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  Rabbit Ray egg

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  Crabsnake or Shuttlebug egg

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  Spadefish or Reefback egg render

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  Sandshark egg render

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  Mesmer egg render

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  Gasopod egg render

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  Bone Shark egg render

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  Shocker egg render

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  Stalker egg render

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  Jellyray egg render

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  Creatures Eggs from Trello, daytime

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  Ditto, night time

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  A list of possible creature eggs, taken from the official Subnautica twitter feed

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  Concept Art