How to Hatch Eggs in Get Tall for Animals

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Hatching is what an egg is for in Get Tall for Animals: the game's own description lists "Hatch eggs to discover various ANIMALS" as a core action, and the animals you hatch become standing earners that generate cash even while you're offline. This page covers the moment you already hold an egg and want the animal inside it.

The short answer

Carry your egg to your house, place it down, and wait out the countdown the game shows on placement. When the timer ends, the egg opens by itself and the animal emerges exactly where you placed it — on the spot, with a rarity rank and a value displayed on it. Every hatch in the available gameplay footage follows this same loop.

What you need before hatching

Just the egg itself — no purchase step ever appears. In the footage, eggs are grabbed on the sky islands and carried back home; how you take eggs from the Guards is its own task, covered in the guide to stealing eggs. If you want the full range of eggs first, the egg list breaks them down.

How to hatch an egg, step by step

1. Carry the egg home. Every hatched egg in the footage is brought back to the player's own house first — the players state it outright for the first rabbit egg ("we have to take it and place it at our house first") and repeat the same return trip for each later egg.
2. Place the egg down at the house. On arrival, set the egg down where you want the animal to appear. The moment it's placed, the game tells you roughly how long until the animal comes out — about 1 minute for the first Giant Rabbit egg. Note that the playthrough shows and narrates the placing action but never names the exact button or menu for it, so use your platform's interact prompt at the egg.
3. Wait out the displayed time. The countdown runs on its own; you don't have to stand and watch. The players in the footage simply head back out and collect more eggs while their placed eggs tick down.
4. Watch the egg open by itself. No extra action is shown or needed — when the time ends, the egg opens at the house and the animal emerges at the exact spot where the egg was placed.

How you know what hatched

The confirmation is the animal itself. The species is identified on sight the moment the egg opens — a giant rabbit, a special parrot, a koala, a lama, a crab, a jellyfish, a dinosaur, a polar bear, the special Megalodon shark and an ostrich all come out this way in the footage — and each new animal stands at your house alongside the others (one house is shown holding a bat, a jellyfish and a goat).

Each hatched animal also carries data with it:

• A rarity rank shown above the animal. Epic and Mythic are named outright, and the special Megalodon shark reads as Cosmic — described as the rarest tier.
• A number displayed on the animal. The players compare pets by these labels: 149 per second on one animal, 12 on the parrot, 800 on the ostrich, 400,000 on the Megalodon.

One caution on those numbers: the playthrough never pins down whether they read as cash-per-second rates or as power. What is confirmed by the official description is the outcome that matters — hatched animals earn CASH, including offline.

Observed hatch times

The timer is shown the moment you place the egg. These are the on-screen readings called out in one playthrough, egg by egg — worked examples rather than an official per-egg table:

The longest waits in the footage sat on the rarest eggs — the special Megalodon egg showed about an hour, while common early eggs hatched in minutes.

Costs, limits and other things the footage never shows

• No hatch cost or currency charge appears anywhere in the available playthrough. That's an observation of this footage, not proof the game has no hatch costs.
• No pet-limit or full-pen message appears either. The same caveat applies.
• Hatching away from your house was never observed. The documented route is at your own house; the footage doesn't show whether other spots work.

If an egg seems to be taking a while, check the countdown that was announced when you placed it — rare eggs legitimately run long, up to about an hour for the rarest one observed.

After the hatch

Your new animal stands at your base and starts earning cash, even while you're offline. To see where it fits among your collection, look it up in the animal list, and if you want to turn your growing pen into real income, the animal income guide covers what the earners are worth.