The Egg Breaker guide

The core loop

You spend hammers to hit eggs. Tougher eggs take more hits — a Normal egg breaks in one, a Century Egg takes a hundred. When an egg finally cracks it rolls a prize from its own table: gold, a multiplier, star pieces, feathers, bonus hammers, or a collection item.

Collection items are the only prize that moves you forward. Fill a stage's collection and the next stage unlocks. Everything else — gold, hats, better hammers — exists to make items arrive faster.

Hammers regenerate on a timer, so a session ends naturally rather than with a paywall. You start with 75.

Egg tiers

Seven tiers. Rarer eggs take more hits but roll from strictly better tables — and the top tiers cannot come up empty at all.

Rare eggs spawn on their own; you cannot buy one. What you can do is make sure you see them — the Spyglass upgrade (5,000 gold) labels each egg with its type and remaining hits, which stops you from dumping hammers into a Ruby you did not plan for.

Egg effects

From Mr. Monkey's later stages, eggs start turning up with effects: runny eggs slide around the tray, timed eggs vanish if you are too slow, hexed eggs pause your hammer regeneration, balloon eggs need a long press and pay ten times over — and teleporting silver and gold eggs, which beam away to another spot on the tray every time you hit them. Chase one down and it pays four times the normal prize.

Collections & stage progress

Each stage has its own item set — Tropical Fruits, Sea Creatures, Crown Jewels and so on. Items come in Common, Uncommon and Rare, and duplicates convert to gold rather than being wasted.

Milestones pay out as you fill a stage:

Completing a stage pays out bonus max hammers and a refill, which compounds: finishing stages properly makes every later stage cheaper to grind.

Gold, star pieces, feathers & bananas

• 🪙 Gold — the main currency. Buys hammers, hats, hammers upgrades and permanent shop upgrades.
• ⭐ Star pieces — collect 7 to trigger a Starfall, a bonus round that pays out across the whole tray.
• 🪶 Feathers — the anti-frustration currency. Feathers buy a specific missing item outright: 5 for a Common, 12 for an Uncommon, 30 for a Rare (rising slightly per stage). When one item is blocking a collection, this is the fix.
• 🍌 Crystal bananas — earned by completing stages and spent on unlocking new monkeys (9 per monkey).

The six monkeys

Each monkey is a separate world with its own stages, its own collection and a passive bonus that applies while you play as them. Progress is tracked per monkey, so switching never costs you anything.

That is 353 collectible items across all six. If you are chasing completion, Space Cadette's +10% item chance is the most directly useful bonus; if you are grinding gold for hammers and hats, Princess Monkey pays better.

Hats

Hats are cosmetic and functional — the bonus applies whichever monkey you are playing.

The Pirate Hat is the completionist's pick and the Crown is the one that pays for everything else. Buy the Crown first — it funds the rest.

Hammers

Your hammer changes what your hits are worth. These are permanent, one-time purchases.

The Judge Gavel's instant-verdict roll applies to any egg — including a 100-hit Century Egg. That is the single best late-game effect in the game.

Hammer mastery

The special hammer you have equipped trains as you play — every hit, every break and every rare item you find with it earns XP, up to level 10. Its own effect grows as it levels (the Golden Hammer's gold multiplier climbs, the Cucumber's double-hit chance rises, Mjǫllnir strikes more often), and the cursor glows brighter as it goes: bronze, silver, gold, then prismatic at max.

At level 5 any hammer gains a 3% chance that a hit costs no hammer at all. At level 10 each hammer unlocks a perk of its own — the Golden Hammer's gold prizes can pay five times over, the Judge Gavel refunds the hammer on every verdict, Mjǫllnir drops Starfall to five star pieces, the Bat pays a consolation on empty eggs, and so on. Only the equipped hammer trains, so it is worth deciding which one you are building. Three trophies track it.

Quests

Three daily quests and one weekly quest, in the Quests tab. They are drawn from a shared pool — everyone gets the same set on a given day — and only ever ask for things you can already do (Starfall or skill quests appear once you have them). Progress counts from the moment the quest is assigned; rewards are gold (scaling with how many stages you have completed), feathers, star pieces, hammers or max hammers, and are claimed by hand. Anything you finished but did not claim before the reset is claimed for you. Three trophies track quests completed.

Auto-Smasher (idle play)

A gold-shop upgrade that unlocks once Mr. Monkey reaches stage 3 (15,000 gold). It taps eggs for you using your hammers — a robot button in the tray toggles it — and it keeps working while the game is closed. Come back and a "While you were away" report shows what it smashed: gold, star pieces, feathers, multipliers and up to three new collection items per absence (never a Rare — those you find yourself). It never touches a Century egg, online or away: that jackpot is yours to crack.

Online it spends hammers like your finger does; while you are away its taps are free and your hammer bar refills to full underneath it, so you come back to both. Three upgrade tracks:

Hammers regenerate for the whole absence regardless of the cap, so a long break is never wasted. Six trophies track unlocking and upgrading it.

Tips that actually matter

1. Buy the Spyglass early. At 5,000 gold it is the cheapest upgrade that changes decisions, because you can finally see what you are hitting.
2. Save feathers for the last item in a set. Feathers scale with rarity, but the real cost of a missing Rare is the hundreds of hammers you would otherwise spend fishing for it.
3. Stack multipliers before a rare egg, not after. The multiplier applies to the prize roll, so spend them where the table is best.
4. Finish stages completely, not just to "unlocked". The completion reward is max hammers — a permanent increase to how much you can play per session.
5. Do not ignore duplicates. They convert to gold scaled by rarity, so a duplicate Rare is a meaningful payout, not a miss.
6. Switch monkeys when you stall. Bananas from a fresh world buy the unlock for a better bonus, and progress on the old one is kept exactly where you left it.