How rare are pure eggs?

[Escape_ParadoX]

I've just started the game, and had a pure egg from one of those large carpenter ants drop. I got to the tree-base, built an incubator, and much to my surprise and dismay, an army of ants attacked me after putting it in it. They smashed up the incubator cause I didn't know that would happen, didn't have defenses built, and had a dinky wooden sword to beat em up with.

I've been trying to take my revenge on the ants now in hopes of another one dropping.. but haven't seen another since.

Is this something I should just give up on? Are pure eggs super duper rare?

Thanks in advance! Loving the game otherwise.

[Herr Morlock]

Are you playing in english language, or in another language?
I am asking, because I have found tons of eggs, but not once found a "pure egg"...
Maybe it's a translation issue?

Then again, tames from the early game areas are completely useless in the mid- to late-game, so I would not worry too much, if it would have really been a special kind of egg...

[AGMoyer]

I don't know what the rarity of the eggs mean but out of think like 20 eggs from random bugs I did come across a pure one, think mine was a hornet. So guess it's kinda rare but I don't actively farm for eggs so I'm not sure.

[Herr Morlock]

So, now I found the entry of the eggs, where their rarity is shown (I completely ignored that before).
My guess goes purely towards the traits of the animals.
As you might have already found out, the animals traits range from common to rare. I guess, the higher the eggs quality, the more rarer the traits, the animals will get, when hatched.

Nonetheless, I really don't give a ♥♥♥♥ about the traits of them. I don't see much use of min-maxing breeds like e.g. in ARK, since even with random animals of APPROPRIATE KIND, you can beat even bosses to a pulp (all points into health and damage and at least 20 level ups), without even hitting them once, yourself, so why maxing your pets?

[looe]

They are not really that rare in Pure quality.

You can also find eggs in legandary quality. So im pretty sure thats better than pure.
(i have not tried the incubation yet)
Legendary is best quality for gear, so i assume its also true for eggs.

Keep your hopes up - and get your revenge on those pesky ants !

[Codawrit]

Found a pure Hornet and a Pure Gecko egg while farming myself silly two nights ago. Hatching them was no more annoying than their common incarnates and their traits were two brown commons each. Both ended up dying horribly to the swarming nastiness in the Ruins chapel after I kind of, sort of lost track of them trying not to get swamped myself (aggro is such a wretched thing). But hey, the common quality stag beetle lived with his two greens and one brown trait of 'Take less damage'! Maybe I'm just biased but I've received more blue and green traits from Fine and then Common egg incubation than I had out of Rares.

[Herr Morlock]

Honestly, I came to the point (because I really, REALLY hate those annoying wanna-be-sieges that much) to deactivate pet death.
Even the worst of them (regarding traits and starting level) level up so fast, that if their species is proper chosen for the region, they completely stomp everything which moves.

I realize, that this is breaking the game balance, somehow. But then again, combat sucks in this game and the pets are such annoying to be around, when you are in the base, since there is no short key for them to "STAY" and "FOLLOW", so you have to manually order them one by one... again and again AND AGAIN...

that I feel this helps me to get my precious lifetime, when shouting about them, so I do not even have to care about growing them, everytime one of them bites the dust.

I do get it, that Smallands try to do some ARK like gameplay with his pretty good looking insects, which sounds fun in theory, but boy, does the pet play suck, compared to ARK.
And even ARK has quite a lot of missing QoL issues I dont understand that they did not solve/add since all those years...

***midnight rant off***

[Escape_ParadoX]

Originally posted by looe:

They are not really that rare in Pure quality.

You can also find eggs in legandary quality. So im pretty sure thats better than pure.
(i have not tried the incubation yet)
Legendary is best quality for gear, so i assume its also true for eggs.

Keep your hopes up - and get your revenge on those pesky ants !

Oh! Gotcha! So there's an ever higher tier to find! That makes me feel a bit better.

I shall do just that. Very first aggro'd encounter was by an aggressive ant back before I even had the controls down. Every last one of them will pay :p

[Escape_ParadoX]

To answer the other question, I'm playing in English.

And I do have the 'pets cannot be killed' option on. I wasn't sure how the AI was with following and picking fights.. plus I tend to get attached to critters in these types of games.

Did not know that they come with traits, either. That's interesting!

Is there a way to get rid of unwanted pets at all?

[AGMoyer]

Originally posted by Escape_ParadoX:

To answer the other question, I'm playing in English.

And I do have the 'pets cannot be killed' option on. I wasn't sure how the AI was with following and picking fights.. plus I tend to get attached to critters in these types of games.

Did not know that they come with traits, either. That's interesting!

Is there a way to get rid of unwanted pets at all?

Yep when inspecting one you can choose "release" and they will wander away (at least if you have pacifist mode on, not sure if they'd attack first otherwise)

[Escape_ParadoX]

Perfect. Thank you so much. And to everyone else who's helped in this thread too. :)

[Nerevar]

Originally posted by Escape_ParadoX:

To answer the other question, I'm playing in English.

And I do have the 'pets cannot be killed' option on. I wasn't sure how the AI was with following and picking fights.. plus I tend to get attached to critters in these types of games.

Did not know that they come with traits, either. That's interesting!

Is there a way to get rid of unwanted pets at all?

be wary that enableding this setting you have made 1 out of only 3 legendary traits on tames already entirely useless for yourself.

[BootsVonVicious]

Not sure what the percentage is but within in an hour I got, 1 common, 2 Pure and 1 Legendary. But when I incubated the Legendary it came out common. :/

[Escape_ParadoX]

Originally posted by BootsVonVicious:

Not sure what the percentage is but within in an hour I got, 1 common, 2 Pure and 1 Legendary. But when I incubated the Legendary it came out common. :/

Had a friend of mine incubate a legendary, and it also came out common.

Bug or feature?

[darkninja4259]

Originally posted by Escape_ParadoX:

Originally posted by BootsVonVicious:

Not sure what the percentage is but within in an hour I got, 1 common, 2 Pure and 1 Legendary. But when I incubated the Legendary it came out common. :/

Had a friend of mine incubate a legendary, and it also came out common.

Bug or feature?

the fine.pure.legendary only effects the perks they can get. the lv 2 armor perk is like a 10% chance on common 15-20% for fine and 30%+ for legendary. the only real things that matter is the pet and there role/job. and geting pet bar to max. a ant is bad i mean is just sucks. the only good and useable pets are the black beetles, hornets, scorpion, ladybug, lubber crass hopper, trantula and the trantula wasp, mantis, rat, and bird.