Steal an Egg Money Guide

Where your money comes from

Steal an Egg has four income sources, and their weight changes dramatically as you progress:

Early game: pet volume wins

In the opening hours, 70% of your money is pet passive income. The strategy is simple: fill every pet slot with the fastest hatches you can get. Spam the Meadow Egg (30-second hatch) until every slot works, then move to the Rare Egg for 1x-4x multiplier pets.

Never buy an upgrade that leaves a pet slot empty for long. A filled slot earning pennies beats a slot that earns nothing while you save for walls.

Late game: the big three

Once you reach the end-game, income splits almost evenly between pet passive (35%), treadmill (30%) and base income (30%). This is where the Lava Egg shines: a single legendary Lava pet reports up to ~$77,000/s at full bonuses - more than an entire starter roster combined.

The end-game roster is built on Mythic pets from Mythic and Cosmic eggs, boosted by your rebirth bonus. Each rebirth's permanent +5% passive income bonus applies to every one of these pets, so rebirths and pets compound together.

Treadmill economics

The treadmill is a money engine, not just a stat gate. Its training payouts grow with level, and Speed unlocks the biomes where better eggs live. Every coin spent on the treadmill is spent twice: once as income, once as biome access.

Two specific thresholds matter for money:

• Speed 150: Doubles mutation chance from 2% to 4%, yielding higher income multipliers.
• Speed 1.5M: Unlocks Storm Peaks and the high-yield Cosmic Egg rotations.
• Speed 2.5B: Unlocks Cherry Blossom where the $145M/s Secret Stag and Kitsune mutations dwell.

Pet Index Discovery Multiplier Strategy

One of the easiest ways to multiply your cashflow without spending Robux is maximizing the Pet Index. Every time you register a newly discovered pet tier or variant in the Index, the game awards:

• Instant Cash Payouts: Direct lump-sum payouts that scale with the rarity of the discovered pet.
• Global Income Multiplier Milestones: Reaching 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% Index completion adds permanent +5% to +25% revenue multipliers across your entire equipped team.
• Pro Strategy: Never skip hatching cheap low-tier eggs from the Lake and Jungle biomes — unlocking all common/uncommon variants triggers the early Index milestone multipliers in under 15 minutes!

Best egg per stage

• Starter Egg (Instant) - Brand-new players.
• Meadow Egg (~30 seconds) - Early-game passive income.
• Rare Egg (~2 minutes) - Mid-game income core.
• Epic Egg (~8 minutes) - Mid-to-late transition.
• Mythic Egg (~5 hours growth) - Late-game goals.

Gamepass value ranking

If you spend Robux, value for money is: X2 Money (doubles every source of income) → X2 Growth (accelerates egg hatching and pet growth) → Grow All (late-game rosters) → Instant Hatch (event players). X2 Money is the only one that makes every other source in this guide stronger.