Achievements are sweet. They make everyone happy as they set certain goals, and lots of us are motivated by realistic and achievable goals (when I work I have to set all those goals by myself and that takes away the fun part of achieving results and fighting deadlines). You can skip this part if you look for a quick answer!

That is why I am literally crazy about achievements. And I enjoy devoting some of my free time to them.

There are different types of achievements:

• connected to a certain point in the plot (like "You've completed Chapter 3!");
  
• connected to some routine actions (like "You've kicked 100 asses!");
  
• connected to your skills (like "You've beaten the game without dying!")
  
• and last but not least, connected to pure luck (like, "You've collected all the eggs", did you get me?).

First three types are really fun: you know that you only devote a certain amount of time to them and become the quikest/strongest/happiest guy in the world. You can work hard to achieve them.

The last type is the least predictable: you can devote 10 hours of your time and achieve it OR you can devote 100+ hours of your time (and these hours will be hellishly boring as you have to repeat one action after another and not knowing where the end is).
And "Hatch'em all!" is one of those. That's why I tried to crack it without wasting my life. And i did it!

I will try to convince you that this quide can save you several days. Believe me, it's worth it!

First of all, the mechanics behind egg hunting is quite straightforward.

Each deck has a certain chance of dropping an item. It is usually quite high (from 10 decks I usually get at least 1-2 items, so let's say the chances are 12% which can be true).

Then, each item can be of two different types: some resource or an egg. Again, according to my experience I got 700 different resources before I got the last egg, so the chances can be as low as 1/600 which means the chances to collect the last missing egg are 0,017%. That means that only 1 deck in 5800 has the egg you need.

Then, the highest number of decks per game is 12 on the Red Reef map, and it takes you around 5 minutes to complete the level. All in all, an average time to complete the last egg is 2400 minutes or 40 hours. And these are 40 hours of pure clicking. I can even call it "A clicking fest!" Here's the way to beat it.

Ok, first of all let's understand what we need to do.

In general we need to open as many decks as possible at the highest rate possible. The sad thing is you can't open more than 12 decks per game and can't do it in less than 5 minutes (you are not a robot after all!), unless... Unless you are!

Can we possibly automate the whole gameplay? It looks like a good idea: the achievement that is so hard to get is sort of bugged and we try to get it. So why not use some willpower and crack the riddle?

Let's put it straight: you click one deck after another and sometimes you even click the wrong deck: just accidentally or following some hidden strategy, I don't know. But nothing bad happens: you can click as many decks as you wish, and the game will just go on.
To repeat this process we need some tool to click instead of us. But, it should be able to do it for a long time and to repeat the process multiple times. And, you need a convenient way to add some changes into the clicking process as well. MouseEventsRecorder[www.korablev.org] by Alexey Korablev does all of these things: it can save the clicking pattern, it also lets you change the patter and save it to a separate file to load it later on (when you need to relaunch the game). And it gives you a great way to do cycles.

So what we gonna do it quite straightforward:

• load the Red Reef map from the Quickplay;
  
• click "Record" in the EventsRecorder;
  
• start a new game by clicking "Menu" in game window;
  
• choose "Restart level";
  
• confirm restart;
  
• click on every deck clockwise without any skips;
  
• stop recording.

Now we need to work with the "Script": we don't need any moves so we can delete all of them, and we need to add some loops as well as some clicks to pick up a new card from time to time (every 5th loop for example).

Here's what I got in the end:
LCLICK:377:605
PAUSE:300
LCLICK:988:587
PAUSE:300
LCLICK:572:429
PAUSE:2000
LCLICK:646:441
PAUSE:1

LCLICK:347:348
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:429:257
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:522:340
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:597:380
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:689:270
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:768:391
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:865:281
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:934:283
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:967:429
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:844:418
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:681:409
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:434:414
PAUSE:1

LCLICK:347:348
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:429:257
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:522:340
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:597:380
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:689:270
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:768:391
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:865:281
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:934:283
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:967:429
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:844:418
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:681:409
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:434:414
PAUSE:1

LCLICK:347:348
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:429:257
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:522:340
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:597:380
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:689:270
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:768:391
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:865:281
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:934:283
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:967:429
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:844:418
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:681:409
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:434:414
PAUSE:1

LCLICK:347:348
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:429:257
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:522:340
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:597:380
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:689:270
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:768:391
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:865:281
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:934:283
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:967:429
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:844:418
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:681:409
PAUSE:1
LCLICK:434:414
PAUSE:1

LCLICK:580:580
PAUSE:1

...(repeat the loop from the start)

LCLICK:580:580
PAUSE:5000

LCLICK:655:558

You can easily see what each part of this script does by running it in-game.


All in all it takes 30 seconds to run one game from the start. On average, such a script can open 10 to 12 decks per game so you will move forward pretty fast (at least 10 times faster). And if you take into account that you can leave the script running for a whole night, you will save even more time. Please ask any questions in the comments, I will be glad to answer them.

Here are some numbers... again.

I had 5 eggs missing when I first started using this trick. The script was runnig for 20 hours to get all the eggs (two nights I'd say). After these hours I had 600+ resources of each type while I had 100 of each at the beginning.

This drives me to a conclusion that the odds of getting the right card are even lower than what I've counted earlier. Taking into account that this scripts plays at leat 10 times faster than a regular player (e.g. me), I should have invested 200 hours more to get all the eggs. But I only devoted 2 hours beforehand (to find out the best concept, find proper software and apply necessary settings) and 20 more minutes to set the game up for a night. I think it's pretty impressive!

I hope you've enjoyed the guide as well as you enjoy the game itself! Feel free to call me a "cheater" or "coward": I believe that thinking is more important than just clicking=) Feel free to ask any questions, add me to friends or share a game or two with me: I now have 197 spare hours to invest in other games! Hehe, good luck everyone! I hope it will save you a couple of days:D

I still need to evolve those two creatures btw=)

PS: Don't forget to vote for this guide!

PPS: if you see a mistake, need an explanation or something like that please tell me, I'll apply necessary changes as soon as I can! I can even try to capture the gameplay video, but my PC is not that powerful to capture it at a proper framerate.