Every egg in Animal Well, with the shelf slot it belongs in, the tool it needs and where it hides. If your shelf has an empty position, read that slot here instead of searching the whole well again.
There are 64 eggs in five shelf rows — row A holds 10, row B holds 12, and rows C, D and E hold 14, 14 and 14. The rewards sit at fixed counts: 8 eggs for the animal flute, 16 for the pencil, 32 for the top, and 64 for the 65th Egg.
64 eggs · shelf slot · required tool · location. 13 need no tool at all.
Reference Egg
A2Needs: Slink
dog area
It is located in the dog area, past the room with the Brown Egg. Drop the slink to the left of the leftmost green button while facing right. Then, drop down to the left and throw your disc through the gap. Wait for the disc to slowly rise up from the fans being activated automatically by the slink. Open the chest past the gate for the egg when it opens.
Brown Egg
A4Needs: Slink
dog area
The egg is located in the dog area. The slink is required to obtain it. Place the slink on the right half of the the left rising block so it is half-on/half-off. Then, walk and press the right button to start raising the left block. This will knock the slink down the staircase, and when it hits the button at the bottom, the second rising block will ascend, clearing the path to the Brown Egg.
Raw Egg
A5Needs: Slink
dog area
It is located in the dog area, right above a door locked by a key, a path hidden behind vines. This key can be skipped by taking the upper path from the room to the right. Drop the slink at the top of the staircase and use the crank to raise the block and complete the staircase. Then, rush down and navigate the little maze to reach the other crank and raise the other block to finish the slink's path. The slink will land on the lower button allowing you to move right when the way opens.
Pickled Egg
A6Needs: no tool
well shaft
In the highest point of the well shaft, there is a hidden segment of wall to the right that you can walk through to reach the egg. One possible method to reach this area is by navigating to the top of the well with a flute song or the B. Wand, then jumping down the well while moving into the right wall.
Big Egg
A7Needs: Remote, Yoyo
dog area
It is found in the top-right of the dog area, just to the left of the central well. First, you need to reverse the direction of the dog elevator. This can be done by riding the dog elevator down until you spot a receiver. Use the remote to detonate dynamite through the wall. This will open access to a room with a dog inside a wheel. Using the yoyo on the dog will reverse its spin direction causing the elevator to also reverse directions. Then, ride the elevator upwards to find the chest near the top.
Swan Egg
A8Needs: Animal flute
chameleon area
The Swan Egg is located to the right of the topmost telephone in the chameleon area. The player can wake chinchillas using the animal flute and can cause a chinchilla to walk over to the player if they are in its line of sight. The chinchillas can also be repelled with firecrackers. The chest is in a hidden part of the upper left side of the screen, obscured by darkness, and to the right, past the first chinchilla.
Forbidden Egg
A9Needs: Disc
The Forbidden Egg is located at the other end of the wide expanse of water where the swordfish dwells. The disc can be ridden to cross the water. If the player uses the B. Wand, the swordfish will jump up and pop the bubble.
Shadow Egg
A10Needs: Slink
chameleon area
It is found in the top-right of the chameleon area, to the right of the room with the fourteen perching crows. There will be a single ghost mouse head spinning around. To get this egg the slink is required. You need to use the slink to raise the floor tiles and reach the other side while avoiding the head. After this, go up the stairs at the end of the corridor. Since the egg is not strictly blocked with a solid terrain, there are alternative ways to get the egg. The player may bring the lantern to ignore the mouse and the blue ghosts to reach the egg, or save enough hearts from fruits and tank the damage. It's also possible to dig from the room above using the top.
Vanity Egg
A11Needs: B. ball
kangaroo statue
The egg is located in the room above the chest with the B. ball, the room to the left of the kangaroo statue. The B. ball is required to break the B. ball bricks. The chest with the egg is hidden in the upper left corner and will fall down if the bricks is it resting on are destroyed.
Egg As A Service
A12Needs: no tool
kangaroo statue
The Egg As A Service is located to the left of the giant bat dark room. It is hidden behind vines near the kangaroo statue.
Depraved Egg
B2Needs: Disc
dog area
The egg can be found in a chest in the upper left zone, the dog area. It can be found in a maze of toggle blocks, accessible by throwing the disc between the two switches so the blocks alternate on and off. The chest is underneath a moving blue ghost which can be neutralised with a firecracker or by lighting the candle above it with a match.
Chaos Egg
B3Needs: Slink
chameleon area
The Chaos Egg is located in the chameleon area, in a room with an orange mother monkey holding her child while throwing rocks at the player. The chest is hidden in the tall grass to the right. The player can access this room through a hidden passage to the left of the Vanity Egg, after placing the K medal in the kangaroo statue. The player can blow up the wall leading to this room using the detonator. The player can also find a hidden passage from the left, in one of the chameleon area's slink button puzzle rooms.
Upside Down Egg
B4Needs: B. wand
dog area
The egg is located in the upper left area of the map, in the dog area. The chest can be accessed from above by using a tool such as the disc or remote to switch the toggle blocks and gain access to the chest. The room below has a bunch of toggle block platforms with switches. The toggle blocks can block the path to the chest, so if they are in the wrong state, just toggle a switch. You can climb up to the room and its chest by chaining together bubble jumps using the B. wand.
Evil Egg
B5Needs: Animal flute
dog area
It is located in the room with turtle statues in the dog area. Playing the animal flute makes turtles appear with the Evil Egg chest on one of their backs.
Sweet Egg
B6Needs: B. wand
ostrich area
The egg is located in a chest in a room on the border between the dog and central areas of the map. It can be accessed in several ways: * Riding the disc or using bubble jumps from the top-right of the room below. * Via a fish head pipe from the Jade Egg room in the ostrich area.
Chocolate Egg
B7Needs: no tool
well shaft
The Chocolate Egg is located in the main well shaft to the right behind Toggle Blocks. The player can toggle a Switch somewhere if it is locked, and then descend down the shaft with a bubble from the B. Wand to reach it.
Value Egg
B8Needs: Animal flute, Firecrackers
chameleon area
In the chameleon area, the Value Egg is located in a room hidden above the hedgehog grid cage, behind vines right on top of the cage. The player will have to solve a simple puzzle involving toggle blocks, a hedgehog, and a hummingbird. To solve the puzzle, the player needs to make the hedgehog fall on the toggle blocks using either a firecracker or the animal flute. From there, the player must use the switch to make it fall into part of the next toggle blocks so it presses all the buttons. The last button requires toggling the switch twice, one to make the hedgehog fall off and another to make it tangible. The hummingbird is there to prevent the player from using bubbles to reach the buttons, but it is possible to use bubbles by spamming the B. B. wand.
Plant Egg
B9Needs: Slink, Disc
kangaroo statue
The room where the Plant Egg is located can be accessed from the ladder on the right-left edge of the map. The simplest way in is through the swordfish lake. The slink can be used to access the top end of the ladder, and the top can also be used to make the path accessible from both sides. Another way in is through the room with the Kangaroo statue – access is blocked by b. ball bricks. At the bottom of the ladder, the room to the right with two hover blocks and two green buttons contains the egg. The slink falling from the top of the staircase needs to hit the buttons. The player riding the disc can pass through moving blocks to the right side of the room. Throwing the disc and releasing the slink can be done in either order, depending on the strategy used. The slink's fall can be delayed by throwing it during a jump.
Red Egg
B10Needs: Disc
dog area
The egg is located in the dog area in the upper left zone of the map. The entrance to the room is past the purple dog tunnels on the side with the blue dog. The screen with a skull-shape in the middle contains a puzzle for the chest, requiring two buttons to be pressed to open a gate. Either a firecracker or the disc thrown between the two chinchillas can be used to press both buttons.
Orange Egg
B11Needs: Top
dog area
It is located underneath a Telephone in the dog area. Throw the Top left or right of it to find ground to dig up the chest.
Sour Egg
B12Needs: no tool
The Sour Egg is located to the right of the Mock Disc chest, where there is a dog that can follow you into narrow tunnels. The player needs to get into the tunnels and find the hidden exit to the right that leads to the chest containing the egg.
Post Modern Egg
B13Needs: Remote, Yoyo, Top
lizard area
The egg can be found by unlocking a gate by pressing a button at the bottom of the dog elevator. The path to the button starts with a ladder at the ceiling, hidden by vines. Jump towards them while pressing ↑ to instantly start climbing up. The player must then to go to the other side of the well shaft from the lizard area, where they will be able to get past the formerly shut gate and use the top on the earth to reveal the chest.
Universal Basic Egg
C1Needs: Yoyo
lizard area
The Universal Basic Egg can be found in the lizard area in one room south of the capybara baths and two screens left. The player needs to have the chinchilla move towards them and stand on its head, then use the yoyo to lead it left across the spike pit. If the player does not have the yoyo, the player can throw a firecracker to the right to scare it towards the left, leading to the chest. Interestingly, it is located on the same screen as the Laissez-faire Egg, which references a different approach to the economy.
Laissez-faire Egg
C2Needs: Firecrackers
chameleon area
The egg is located to the left of a candle room in the chameleon area. The player will need to take the upper left path in the candle room to reach it and move up through the next room. In the room with the chest, the player must scare the chinchilla inside the space to the left using a firecracker, waking it up in the process, so that it walks over the button, opening the gate blocking the chest containing the egg. Interestingly, it is located on the same screen as the Universal Basic Egg, which references a different approach to the economy.
Zen Egg
C3Needs: B. wand or Disc
capybara baths
The egg can be found below the capybara baths, to the left, in the same room with a chest containing a key. * The player should have the chinchilla move left under the key chest, then press the bottom button to drop the chest on its head. * Move the chinchilla to the trapdoor on the right, then press the right button to drop it. Now have the chinchilla move right so the chest gets stuck on the wall; it will drop and weigh down the button. * Have the chinchilla fall off the right side of the platform and then guide it left to weigh down the other button. Where the chest for the key was, there are vines that hide a path to the left and a hidden chest on the right. * The player can then use the B. wand or the disc to get through the two trapdoors, now that they are held open. If you have the slink, you can use it to skip part of the method by weighing down one of the buttons.
Future Egg
C4Needs: no tool
chameleon area
The Future Egg can be found in the chameleon area. More specifically, it is above one room where five hedgehogs are rotating around a platform and then right where you need to solve a puzzle (the way can be barred by toggle blocks, so use a switch elsewhere to toggle their state). You'll find a room with a chinchillas sitting on a moving platform with another one underneath. You have to toggle the switch to make the Chinchilla fall on the second platform, but the platform above must end up on the right of the Chinchilla. Then you move it to the area on the right where the button is. If done correctly, the Chinchilla will be pushed by the higher platform right on top of the button. After you solve the puzzle, the gate on the right opens and you can find a hidden path that leads to the room containing the egg.
Friendship Egg
C5Needs: B. wand
dog area
The Friendship Egg is located in the western section of the map. It is technically part of the chameleon area, even though it is entered from the seahorse area. The room with the Friendship Egg is between the room with the Magic Egg in the seahorse area and the room with the Red Egg in the dog area.
- Enter the fish head pipe on the way out after obtaining the B. wand.
- In the room with many fish head pipes, enter the topmost fish head.
- Do the same in the second room.
- Again in the third room.
- Again in the fourth room.
- In the dark room, the chest is hidden among the vines on a concealed platform.
Truth Egg
C6Needs: Disc
well shaft
The Truth Egg is located near the right-hand side of the well shaft far above the ground. It is in a hidden room above the platform next to a hummingbird perch in the central hub area, where statues with collected Flames are located. To reach the platform you can ride the Disc from the right or a bubble from the top of the well shaft. Then all you need to do is travel up and to the right, passing through a secret tunnel and finding the chest the egg is held in.
Transcendental Egg
C7Needs: B. wand
chameleon area
The egg is located the chameleon area, between a pair of gates. It is hidden in a small space behind vines, that can be accessed using bubble jumps or by riding a disc and a bubble jump.
Ancient Egg
C8Needs: B. wand
Inside a hidden gap in the wall, covered by vines. It can be accessed early using infinite bubble jumps with the B. Wand that is obtained on the way. Alternatively, you can return once you've obtained the B. B. Wand to create as many bubbles as needed to jump up there.
Magic Egg
C9Needs: B. wand
The egg can be found in the Western part of the map.
- Enter the Fish Head Pipe. You'll arrive in a set of rooms with many fish head pipes.
- Push the three buttons scattered across the rooms by using the fish head pipes to travel between sections.
- Use the B. Wand to gain access to the button at the top of the first room. Be careful not to get swallowed by the fish head pipes.
- Get swallowed by the topmost fish head pipe, hit the button.
- Then left and drop down. Then take the rightmost fish head pipe.
- Go left, down and then left (exit the room). The third button is right there, push it.
- Go past to the right and then the bottom fish head pipe, then take the fish head pipe to your left at the bottom to return to the first room.
- Open the chest past the gate.
Mystic Egg
C10Needs: no tool
fish area
The egg is located at the top right of the bubble fish shaft in the fish area. Hidden room with a bat on the left has a button, which controls the gate blocking access to the egg.
Holiday Egg
C11Needs: B. wand
The Holiday Egg is located to the right of the egg room, in a wall on the left of the central hub. The obscured gap in the wall can be reached by dropping onto a bubble from a platform above.
Rain Egg
C12Needs: Top
The chest with the egg is located near the entrance to the egg room, hidden below earth, than can be dug with the Top.
Razzle Egg
C13Needs: B. wand
chameleon area
The egg is located past first position of the chameleon in the chameleon area. Defeating the chameleon is required to access the chest.
Dazzle Egg
C14Needs: B. wand
Can be found after obtaining the B. Wand, on the way out. It is in the Western part of the map.
- Climb the ladder on the right of the room.
- Use the B. Wand to generate a bubble over the pit.
- Jump on the bubble and press down to accelerate the descent.
- When you can, jump off the bubble to the left.
- Again use the B. Wand to generate a bubble over the metal spike pit.
- Jump on the bubble and press down to accelerate the descent.
- When you can, jump off the bubble to the left before the spikes break the bubble.
- You can use infinite bubble jumps to get access to the hidden chest in the wall behind the vines, or use the B. B. Wand.
Virtual Egg
D1Needs: Disc
The egg can be accessed two ways, the easier way is through the three Penguin Statue rooms. The player can travel to the left to find a fake wall that leads to a corridor. Part of the corridor is covered with vines, and then go through to find the chest with the egg.
Normal Egg
D2Needs: no tool
fish area
The Normal Egg can be found in the fish area by dropping down the bubble shaft and heading left. The chest can be found in a fake wall leading into an egg-shaped recess.
Great Egg
D3Needs: B. wand
The egg is located at the far end of the room with the two Great Egrets. The entrance to this room is at the bottom right of the tall room with the four bubble fish. The B. Wand or the Disc can be used to clear the wide gaps between the water lilies.
Gorgeous Egg
D4Needs: no tool
starting area
The egg is located in the starting area, above the room with the first encounter of an aggressive Blue Ghost. The chest can be accessed without any tools from the room above via a hidden passage in the lower left hidden by vines, past the first candle, encountered in the game.
Planet Egg
D5Needs: Yoyo
mouse area
The egg is located in the mouse area, the lower right area of the map, in a room with the ghost mouse bouncing and triggering the switch and Toggle Blocks over stalagmites. The Yoyo, Top or K. Ball can be used to break the stalagmites to uncover the hidden path to the room with the chest to the left.
Moon Egg
D6Needs: Disc
mouse area
The egg is located in the eastern edge of the mouse area, to the right of the room with two columns of ghost mice, a switch and some toggle blocks. The entrance is a hidden path at the bottom right behind vines. The B. Wand or the Disc can be used to get into the room to the right. The Lantern can be used to safely go through the ghost mice to reach the chest.
Galaxy Egg
D7Needs: Remote, Disc
At the fish head shortcut, go left past the Toggle Blocks. After going on the other side of the Toggle Blocks, use the Remote to toggle them and show a hidden path to down and right. You'll want to use the Remote to open a way down to the green Button. Then throw your Disc at the button and ride it. The Fans will push you up automatically as you travel all the way to the chest, just jump to it when you get close.
Sunset Egg
D8Needs: Yoyo
To the right of the fish head shortcut. Break the Stalagmites with the Yoyo or another tool. Then use the Top to find a hidden path to the chest.
Goodnight Egg
D9Needs: Yoyo
seahorse area
The chest containing the egg is found in the seahorse area. In one of the penguin puzzles, it can be found above a candle in a hidden path blocked by stalagmites and stalactites which can be broken with the yoyo or disc. The player can then dispatch the blue ghost using a firecracker, the Lantern, or by lighting the candle.
Dream Egg
D10Needs: Disc
mouse area
The egg is located two screens below the pixel display in the mouse area. One screen under the pixel display, a switch can be used to reveal another switch in a smaller gap in the wall, which reveals a passage to the chest with the egg.
Travel Egg
D11Needs: no tool
mouse area
The egg is hidden near the Groundhog's burrow in the mouse area, behind a locked door that can be opened with a key.
Promise Egg
D12Needs: Lantern, Yoyo
ostrich area
The egg can be found in the ostrich area, in the room with three ghost birds and stalagmites lining the floor. You'll need the lantern to phase through the birds and the disc, yoyo or top to break the stalagmites.
Ice Egg
D13Needs: Remote
snake statue
The Ice Egg is located in a room past the Snake Statue that requires the S medal to unlock. Accessing the chest requires completing a puzzle involving moving platforms and Toggle Blocks. The Remote found nearby can be used to pass through the toggle blocks.
Fire Egg
D14Needs: Disc, B. wand
mouse area
The Fire Egg is located past a wide gap in the mouse area. Using infinite bubble jumps or riding the disc allows the player to travel across the gap and open the chest containing it.
Bubble Egg
E1Needs: B. wand
mouse area
Mouse area, in one of the ghost mouse dark rooms, hidden by darkness in the upper right corner. A simple Bubble jump using the B. Wand is all it takes.
Desert Egg
E2Needs: no tool
mouse area
The egg can be found at the top of the mouse elevator in the mouse area, and then simply by jumping off the elevator toward the right when entering the room so the player is under the platforms instead of above them. The player must then quickly move to the right toward the chest.
Clover Egg
E3Needs: no tool
starting area
The Clover Egg is located in a hidden room one screen to the left of the starting area. This is the room that also happens to be the one containing the match gate, and it is likely the first egg that the player will find.
Brick Egg
E4Needs: Bubble, Wheel, Disc
beluga room
The Brick Egg is located in an area to the right of the Beluga room, accessible through a passage in the upper right corner, which is hidden by destroyable stalactites. From the passage, a path to the right leads to a three-button Wheel puzzle. The Wheel is required to move the large blocks around. One of the buttons requires the Disc to be thrown between two large blocks and then moving the blocks to the left so the Disc is over a Fan. Holding the green Button is needed until the Disc hits the yellow button. The gate to the chest containing the egg opens after all the buttons have been pressed.
Neon Egg
E5Needs: B. ball, Remote
Where you get the remote, there are B. ball bricks that must be destroyed to find a hidden room to the left where more of these bricks are. Eventually you'll find an area similar to the Breakout games where you control a paddle by standing on it and rows of bricks above. You have to use your B. ball to break the bricks without the ball landing in the water below by moving the paddle, or they'll reappear and you'll have to start over. Once you break the bricks under the chest, it will fall down and you can claim the egg.
Iridescent Egg
E6Needs: Remote
snake statue
The Iridescent Egg is located in the room past the Snake Statue, which requires the S medal to unlock. In the room with the Snake, the Remote found in the lefthand room can be used to control and guide it into eating the four floating fruits inside the room. After collecting the fruits, a gate will open on the top-left corner, obscured by vines, leading to the chest. The Snake or bubbles can be used to get to the chest.
Rust Egg
E7Needs: no tool
dog area
The chest containing the egg can be found in the mice area, and there are several ways to gain access to the room. The earliest way is through the dog area, getting the Disc and getting to the Detonator where a Fish Head Pipe is located. This will lead to a room in the mice area, where the graph puzzle is for the Jade Egg. If the player heads left from that room, and climbs up to the left edge of this dark room, they can find the chest with the egg inside of it.
Scarlet Egg
E8Needs: Wheel
lynx puzzle
It is located in a room past the Lynx puzzle. Normally, it is accessible only after obtaining the Wheel, by rolling on the spikes at the bottom of the room. The chest is placed on top of spikes, which can be safely accessed by using the Wheel.
Sapphire Egg
E9Needs: Lantern
Bottom of a dark shaft, need the Lantern to phase through three Ghostly Birds.
Ruby Egg
E10Needs: B. wand
dog area
The Ruby Egg is located at one of the bottom of the many dark shafts in the ostrich area. From the frog head shortcut, go to the left and drop down to the bottom of the shaft with a lantern. The player can also use the fish head pipe near the detonator in the dog area and move one screen to the left. The top can be used to uncover the groveling toad. Playing on the animal flute to the toad will make it jump. The chest is just one jump away from the top of the toad. Alternatively, bubble jumps with the B. wand can be used to reach it.
Jade Egg
E11Needs: no tool
dog area
The Jade Egg is located in the ostrich area. The room with the puzzle can be accessed from a fish head pipe near a detonator in the dog area. The chest with the egg is behind a particular gate that only opens if the graph line hits all three points at the same time, which can be manipulated by three different levers.
Obsidian Egg
E12Needs: Disc
mouse area
The Obsidian Egg is located in the mouse area, with the horizontal lifts going toward the left. Use a bubble from your B. Wand to lower yourself between two of the lifts and throw a Disc and hitch a ride on it. You'll bounce between both platforms and slowly move to the left under the Fish Head Pipe. Just hop off the disc and get to the chest for the egg.
Crystal Egg
E13Needs: B. ball, Top, Wheel, Remote
Access from the dog head shortcut, go up two screens. First use the top to unlock a green button. You'll need to break B. Ball Bricks to find the main room with the chest that contains the egg. Use the slink to hold the green button and then use the remote to pass through the blocks as you ride the floating block up. Solve a puzzle with the wheel, top and B. ball to activate three buttons to open the gate to the chest.
Golden Egg
E14Needs: Wheel, Slink
mouse area
The chest containing the egg is located in the mouse area, near the ostrich wheel. Accessing the chest requires the wheel.
Animal Well egg questions players ask
How many eggs are in Animal Well?
64. Each one sits in a chest somewhere in the well and each has a fixed slot on the egg room shelves, so an empty slot tells you exactly which egg you have not found yet.
Do I need every egg?
Not for the first ending. 8 eggs gives the animal flute, 16 the pencil, 32 the top, and all 64 the 65th Egg — and the 65th Egg is needed for the second ending, so 64 is the number that matters if you want to finish the story.
Which tool do I need for the most eggs?
The bubble wand is the most common single requirement, followed by the disc, then the slink and the yoyo. 13 of the 64 eggs need no tool at all — those are the ones to sweep for first while your inventory is still small.
How does the shelf tell me which egg is missing?
Every egg has a row letter and a column number. Find the empty position on your shelf, read its row and column, then match that slot in the table below. The entry names the egg, the tool it needs and where it hides.
Where do these entries come from?
Each row is parsed from the wiki page for that individual egg — the row and column from its infobox, the required item from the same box, and the location from the page text. All 64 pages are read, not sampled.