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reneeni • 27 May 2018 at 5:54 AM

I just joined, the game seems really cool!

Deleted • 27 May 2018 at 7:04 AM

@reneeni Welcome to Eggcave! Feel free to mail me or post on my wall any questions you might have 😊
Btw when replying post on the other user's wall, not your own 😊

sparklefox • 27 May 2018 at 7:18 AM

@reneeni - Welcome to Egg Cave! If you have any questions, feel free to ask me.

Checking out the Forum Rules and the Site Guidelines would be an easy way to start. These explain what is and what isn't acceptable regarding the site itself and the forums. A couple of other useful links are the Player Guide (a helpful list of commonly asked questions) and the eCode guide (the code tags used around the site, such as the tags I'm using to make this appear in italics. Just a little tip, but EC doesn't seem to currently support BBCode or HTML tags, so posting your creatures onto these forums using the codes provided for them will not work.).

If you are replying to someone, you should ping them. Otherwise, they won't be notified of your reply and therefore be unaware that you've done so. To ping someone, simply type an @ followed by their username (e.g. @sparklefox ). You can also click the left-pointing orange arrow in the grey box below a forum post.

A common mistake from newbies is that they'll ping and reply to people who have commented on their wall using their own wall. Pinging does not work out of forums and the blog, and to reply to the comments made on your wall, you go to the user's wall instead. That way, they will be notified about your reply.

Egg Coins (EC) is the main currency of this site, and is used to purchase most of the things available on the site - such as items and travels for your creatures. These are mainly gained through feeding eggs / creatures. Cave Cash (CC) is another currency and is used in the Cash Shop Park. This is purchased through real life money and can be spent on many exclusive items and creatures only available here. Exchange Credits (XC) is for use in the Click Exchange - found by clicking on the XC amount in the sidebar. These are gained through clicking the creatures in the Click Exchange, and every click on any creature(s) you have in here uses one of your XC. If you have none left, then your creature(s) won't appear in the Click Exchange until you gain more (and yes, getting a minus amount is completely normal and happens when people click fast enough on your creature(s)).

This post here explains many different abbreviations which are commonly used around this site. It would be helpful to read through it, in my opinion.

Any creature which has reached level 2,000 or over is considered immortal and so cannot die. To evolve your creatures, you need to reach the right amount of stats for that creature's species (200 feeds, 1,000 views, etc.). You can find this out via looking up the species in The Archives, available under the Explore tab above.

I apologise if you knew any of the above information already.

Have a great day, and a nice time here!

reneeni • 27 May 2018 at 12:38 PM

@sparklefox

Thank you so much for this, very useful!

Is there like, a rarity for pets? I just got an egg and it says 1 out of 627 or something like that,

mechanicalheart • 27 May 2018 at 1:24 PM

@reneeni The lower the number the more common it is. #672 would be the least owned where as #1 will be the most owned. [In this case, I'm pretty sure #1 is the Tasma and #672 is the efni which is not obtainable yet.]

Then there's retired, endangered, available, seasonal.

"Available: This means that, in some way, you can obtain this species at the current moment in time.
Seasonal: This means that this species is only available during certain reoccurring times or events throughout the year.
Endangered: This means that this creature was once available in the Cave but can no longer be found there.
Retired: This means that this species is no longer obtainable from the game itself. All living creatures of this species that currently exist is all there is."


Hopefully that helps answer your question.

sparklefox • 27 May 2018 at 5:31 PM

@reneeni - I'll just add a little bit to Mechanical's helpful explanation there. Don't mind me.

Endangered creatures are creatures that were once common in the Cave, but are now retired. They can be instead found in the Leila Oasis. There is a pretty rare chance that an endangered egg will show up there, and the Oasis restocks at random and unpredictable times.