Tracey and Cobweb3 years ago
The instructions are fairly clear under the Help link, when you have an Egg Plant in your garden, but as it still seems to be causing some confusion I thought it might be worth trying to explain in a bit more detail about how the Egg Building works.
The most common mistake people make is not realising that you have to ATTRACT Easter wildlife in order to build the eggs, not spot in other gardens. You will need to do some spotting in other gardens to get Easter Eggs/Chocolate Eggs into nests but to build the Giant Eggs, you need to attract wildlife to your own garden.
To attract the Easter Bunny and Chocolate Bunnies you will need some completed nests (hummingbird nests are ideal for Easter eggs as they never need repairing). It doesn't matter which birds added to the nest. You will also need some underwater seeds, as you will need to attract Baby Sea-Horses. If you need to build a nest or earn some seeds, it's probably best to do that before you start, as you can only keep the egg in your garden for two weeks before it becomes ready for harvest.
HOW TO BUILD THE EGG
Accept an Easter Egg Plant gift or buy one for yourself, and get it to fully grown. You can use diamond dust to speed this up or leave it to grow naturally. It won't say it's "fully grown" (it will say that it is "incomplete") but once it's got the leaves on the plant, it's ready. You then need to attract five different Easter wildlife to build the egg.
YOU MUST START WITH AN EGG, which you add to the plant by attracting any of the Easter wildlife apart from the Easter Bunny. This can be an Easter Chick, a Baby Seahorse, or any colour of Chocolate Bunny. The decorations can then be added in any order.
This year (2022) the eggs are decorated as Easter Bunnies. Each part of the Bunny is dropped by the following wildlife:
The Egg itself (dropped by all Easter Wildlife except the Easter Bunny)
Ears (dropped by the Easter Bunny)
Face (dropped by Easter Chicks)
Shirt (dropped by Seahorses)
Feet (dropped by Chocolate Bunnies)
You only need to attract one of each to add a piece to the egg. If you have multiple plants the item will go to the furthest plant to the left that it can. Don't forget that whatever animal you use to get the egg can be attracted again to add decoration to it. If you wanted to get two eggs rather than an egg then decoration, you would want to move the plants around once the first egg is in place so that the empty plant is to the left of the one with the egg.
The Easter Egg is complete once you have collected all four parts to decorate it. As soon as it is completed it becomes ready for harvest. You can harvest the plant at any time after it becomes ready for harvest, and it will change into a pot with the same decorations as the egg.
If you want to try to build a giant egg, you have the 24 hours after it is RTH in which to grow it larger. This time, wildlife you spot will count as well as wildlife you attract. The amount of growth is equivalent to the diamond value of the wildlife you spot/attract. You don't get double the value if you spot a garden first which gives double diamonds, though.
It is also worth mentioning that if you complete an egg and then attract other wildlife, they would add weight to the completed one rather than adding items to any other eggs in your garden. If you don't want this to happen, move the completed egg to the right of any others which you are building.
You have two weeks to grow the Egg, after which time it will become ready for harvest even if it is not completed. If this happens, you will not get the pot when you harvest it.
The most common mistake people make is not realising that you have to ATTRACT Easter wildlife in order to build the eggs, not spot in other gardens. You will need to do some spotting in other gardens to get Easter Eggs/Chocolate Eggs into nests but to build the Giant Eggs, you need to attract wildlife to your own garden.
To attract the Easter Bunny and Chocolate Bunnies you will need some completed nests (hummingbird nests are ideal for Easter eggs as they never need repairing). It doesn't matter which birds added to the nest. You will also need some underwater seeds, as you will need to attract Baby Sea-Horses. If you need to build a nest or earn some seeds, it's probably best to do that before you start, as you can only keep the egg in your garden for two weeks before it becomes ready for harvest.
HOW TO BUILD THE EGG
Accept an Easter Egg Plant gift or buy one for yourself, and get it to fully grown. You can use diamond dust to speed this up or leave it to grow naturally. It won't say it's "fully grown" (it will say that it is "incomplete") but once it's got the leaves on the plant, it's ready. You then need to attract five different Easter wildlife to build the egg.
YOU MUST START WITH AN EGG, which you add to the plant by attracting any of the Easter wildlife apart from the Easter Bunny. This can be an Easter Chick, a Baby Seahorse, or any colour of Chocolate Bunny. The decorations can then be added in any order.
This year (2022) the eggs are decorated as Easter Bunnies. Each part of the Bunny is dropped by the following wildlife:
The Egg itself (dropped by all Easter Wildlife except the Easter Bunny)
Ears (dropped by the Easter Bunny)
Face (dropped by Easter Chicks)
Shirt (dropped by Seahorses)
Feet (dropped by Chocolate Bunnies)
You only need to attract one of each to add a piece to the egg. If you have multiple plants the item will go to the furthest plant to the left that it can. Don't forget that whatever animal you use to get the egg can be attracted again to add decoration to it. If you wanted to get two eggs rather than an egg then decoration, you would want to move the plants around once the first egg is in place so that the empty plant is to the left of the one with the egg.
The Easter Egg is complete once you have collected all four parts to decorate it. As soon as it is completed it becomes ready for harvest. You can harvest the plant at any time after it becomes ready for harvest, and it will change into a pot with the same decorations as the egg.
If you want to try to build a giant egg, you have the 24 hours after it is RTH in which to grow it larger. This time, wildlife you spot will count as well as wildlife you attract. The amount of growth is equivalent to the diamond value of the wildlife you spot/attract. You don't get double the value if you spot a garden first which gives double diamonds, though.
It is also worth mentioning that if you complete an egg and then attract other wildlife, they would add weight to the completed one rather than adding items to any other eggs in your garden. If you don't want this to happen, move the completed egg to the right of any others which you are building.
You have two weeks to grow the Egg, after which time it will become ready for harvest even if it is not completed. If this happens, you will not get the pot when you harvest it.
