Steal An Egg Rebirth, explained
What resets, what persists, and how it makes you stronger.
Rebirth is the reset-and-reinvest loop in Steal An Egg. When you Rebirth, you give up your current pet income and upgraded base in exchange for permanent, run-long benefits — the classic prestige mechanic. The exact reset scope and the permanent bonuses change with patches, so treat this as a working explanation and confirm the live requirements in-game.
Why Rebirth at all
The loop is simple: steal eggs, hatch pets, earn passive income, reinvest in Speed and Pen upgrades to reach farther biomes with rarer eggs. Income scales off pet rarity, Size, and Mutations. The rarer the pet, the bigger the jump — a Cosmic pet can pay hundreds of thousands per second while a starter chicken nets $1/s. Rebirth resets your momentum but hands you a permanent multiplier that makes the next run faster, so each cycle pushes you into higher biomes you could not reach before.
What you trade away
- Pets and income — your current pet collection and the coins it produces.
- Base / Pen upgrades — the upgraded pens, by default, reset.
- Speed progress — treadmill training usually resets, meaning the biome access from Speed is lost.
What you keep or gain
- Permanent Bonuses — Rebirth rewards, such as passive income percentages and improved mutation odds, persist across runs and stack.
- Faster next run — the permanent multiplier means the same effort gets you further each time, which is the point.
- Access to harder content — higher Rebirth tiers (players report meaningful jumps around tiers 5–6) scale you toward Cosmic, Secret, and Divine nests.
A few honest notes
- Rebirth requirements and rewards change over time; there is no single fixed table. Read the in-game menu.
- Speed is the real key — frequent tips emphasize investing treadmill upgrades to raise your Speed multiplier, because faster movement = more eggs per run. This matters more than any one pet.
- Mutations and Size matter — a large or mutated pet can outperform a higher-rarity normal one. Check the money-per-second value on your own hatch before keeping or selling.