Egg Hunt
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| “ | Egg-collection time, team. Alien eggs. The company wants them - don't ask why. Find them, stow them in Molly, and return. Simple. |
| — Mission Control |
Egg Hunt is a mission type.
A cluster of 
Alien Eggs has been located, and the company wants the Dwarves to retrieve them, for unknown reasons. Egg Hunts are the first unlockable mission type, allowing new miners to play missions other than Mining Expeditions.
Collect Alien Eggs
The goal in Egg Hunt missions is to collect a number of Alien Eggs. The mission takes place in a nonlinear cave system, and the eggs can be collected in any order. The eggs are embedded in the center of a pinkish-magenta membrane, which can be destroyed with the pickaxe. The organic material enveloping the egg is treated like 1-hit terrain.
Freeing an egg from the membrane will cause the ground to shake, accompanied by an eerie, distant Glyphid scream. Shortly after, either a swarm or a small horde of enemies will attack. Which eggs are followed by a large swarm and which aren't is determined during map generation; there is no way to tell them apart, as all eggs look identical. However, each mission has a set total number of large swarms depending on the mission's length:
- 4 eggs: 1 of the 4 eggs will cause a swarm
- 6 eggs: 2 of the 6 eggs will cause a swarm
- 8 eggs: 3 of the 8 eggs will cause a swarm
The Alien Eggs are visible on the Dwarves Terrain Scanner, making them easy to find and extract. They are a heavy object like Aquarq and Jadiz, and must be deposited into the M.U.L.E to count towards the primary quota.
While you must complete your primary objective to finish the mission, you can choose to collect an optional secondary objective resource for a 
Credit and 
Experience bonus upon mission completion.
After the primary objective is completed, a red button will light up on the M.U.L.E to begin the extraction phase. Once pressed, the Drop Pod will be called in to pick up the M.U.L.E and the Dwarves. It will wait 5 minutes before departing, though the door will only open once the M.U.L.E has been secured.
Cave
Egg Hunt caves generally consist of a main cavern or two, with tunnels leading around and occasionally to other rooms. It is a very disorganized cave system, with caves usually intersecting in odd ways. How spread out the caves are varies, generally having a condensed cave with 4 eggs up to very spread out cave with 8 eggs.
Objectives
Primary Objective
The required quota of Alien Eggs depends on the mission variation. The payout is affected by Hazard Bonus.
| Length | Complexity | Objective | Primary Payout | Secondary Payout |
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Collect 4 Alien Eggs | 300 950
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200/250 700/685
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Collect 6 Alien Eggs | 450 1425
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300/250 1050/1010
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Collect 8 Alien Eggs | 600 1900
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400/250 1400/1335
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Secondary Objective
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Trivia
- Egg Hunt used to be almost identical to Mining Expedition missions, but this was changed after it was merged with Search and Extract in Update 18: Job Opportunities.
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