Aniimo Operation: Egg Heist Beginner Guide – Win Up to a Prismana Egg! Unlock, Escape Conditions and Key Rooms

1Egg Heist unlock conditions and how to enter

• Unlock: reach character level 50 and Wayfarer III. (In-game text: "Reach level 50 and become Wayfarer III to unlock")
• In-game note: "Eggs submitted in the match are shared by the whole party, and you get the rewards when you evacuate safely!"
• Team Mode is played solo or in a party of up to 3.
• Beginner, Hard and Nightmare need no ticket. Only Chaos Challenge uses 1 Chaos Ticket per entry.
• Chaos Tickets can be bought with Eggshell Coins in the Egg Heist shop once you reach the rank Elite Egg Seeker. The first costs 20,000 coins and the price rises up to 400,000 coins, with up to 20 per day.

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2Difficulty differences: Beginner, Hard, Nightmare, Chaos Challenge

Based on the game data (difficulty settings). Higher difficulties unlock as your Egg Heist rank goes up.

• Higher difficulties have a shorter time limit, more trap damage, more elite monsters and a higher Eggshell Coin requirement to escape.
• In Chaos Challenge, as the game warns, deployed Aniimo's attributes are heavily limited, but the quantity and quality of eggs and supplies are greatly increased. The game recommends going as a party.

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3How does an Egg Heist run go?

• In-game tip: "Search the ruins of the Lost Isles for the entrance to a Lost Sanctum. Venture inside to find precious Aniimo eggs, then escape with them by boat."
• Open the map to see the Sanctum entrance. Inside, avoid traps and monsters and find the Egg Nest to dig up rare eggs.
• Twine with the egg to move it to the exit, then return to the outer island and deliver it to the Egg Boat.
• Once the escape condition is met, the objective changes to "Evacuate safely on the Egg Boat". Come out to the island, go to the Egg Boat shown on the map and board it.

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4What to do in the Sanctum: Egg Nests · chests · boss

• ① Find Egg Nests: there are several Egg Nest spots, but eggs appear at only some of them, not all. Some Egg Nests are inside key rooms.
• When you dig up an egg, the game announces "The slumbering nest guardian has been awakened!" Be ready to fight before you dig.
• ② Find chests: the better the chest, the more Eggshell Coins you get. It is the fastest way to meet the Eggshell Coin escape condition.
• ③ Defeat the Umbral Stellarys (boss): an Umbral Stellarys appears as the Sanctum boss. In battle it is shown as "Alpha Stellarys" with the Umbral mark. It has a chance to drop Honeyglow Starine, an Ancient Relic used to unlock Egg Heist Talents such as Self-Revival.
• The Sanctum layout changes every run. Let MOANIIMO's Random Sanctum Finder read your minimap and it shows which Sanctum you are in, plus the chests, Egg Nests and exit.

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5Egg Heist escape conditions and Eggshell Coins

• In-game tip: "Once you’ve collected enough valuable ancient relics or successfully delivered eggs, the evacuation objective is complete. You can board the Egg Boat and leave safely!"
• The escape condition panel shows both conditions with "0/1" below them: meeting either one is enough (except Chaos Challenge).
• Eggshell Coins are the combined value of the items you and your party have picked up. Only what is in your backpacks counts, and dropping an item takes its value back off.
• The thresholds are 20,000 (Beginner), 60,000 (Hard), 150,000 (Nightmare) and 300,000 (Chaos Challenge). In Chaos Challenge, delivering an egg alone is not enough — you need 300,000 Eggshell Coins.
• Once the condition is met, you still have to reach and board the Egg Boat within the time limit. Meeting the condition without boarding counts as a failed escape.

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6Keys and how to use key rooms

• Some rooms inside the Sanctum open only with a key. Without one, the game says "○○ is missing — cannot activate!"
• Key rooms hold good chests and many Ancient Relics, and some Egg Nest spots are inside key rooms.
• Key room doors are usually guarded by enemy Aniimo. Key rooms appear as an icon on the map and minimap, and in the Random Sanctum Finder.
• Keys can be bought with Eggshell Coins in the Egg Heist shop.
• What you take from a key room also leaves with you only if you escape on the Egg Boat. Looting a key room and quitting from the menu loses it all.

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7What do you lose if you faint? Beginner Protection and the Egg Boat Safe

• If you fail to escape (faint, time out, or Quit Match), you lose your Egg Heist backpack, equipped Egg Heist gear and everything in the backpack. It cannot be recovered.
• You also lose Rank Points.
• Beginner Protection (in-game "Special Rules"): each difficulty in Team Mode has 3 rounds of Beginner Protection. During this period, even if you fail to extract, your BINI #9 unit, amplifier, chip, backpack and all items inside are retained, and no Rank Points are lost.
• Beginner Protection counts the rounds you join, not the failed extractions. Entering a match uses one protection round.
• Only your own items are returned. Items belonging to other teammates that you were carrying are not retained.
• During Beginner Protection rounds there is no fog on the map while you explore a Lost Sanctum, so you can view the entire Sanctum map (map screen only — the fog in the field stays).
• Double Points: your first successful extraction each day earns double Rank Points.
• Egg Boat Safe: unlocked on the Egg Boat Upgrade line of the Egg Heist Talents. Items placed in the Safe slots at the bottom left of the backpack screen survive a failed run. Put keys and valuable relics in it as soon as you get them. More slots and a higher weight limit come from the same line.
• When you go down: a party member can revive you. With Self-Revival unlocked, you can get yourself back up once per match while a teammate is alive. Self-Revival is the last node of the Personal Growth line in the Egg Heist Talents and needs 2,500,000 Eggshell Coins, 8 Honeyglow Starine and 10 Gold Essence, so it takes quite a lot of Egg Heist runs.
• Gold Essence: dropped at a low rate by Aniimo you defeat in the Sanctum on Hard or higher.

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8What to prepare before your first run: backpack, gear, key

• Backpack: in-game tip: "Before exploring, equip a backpack. A good backpack lets you bring back more ancient relics!"
• BINI #9 gear: equipping the right Unit and Energy Amplifier gives a big attribute boost, and higher-grade gear can also hold Chips.
• Key: bring the key for your difficulty (table above).
• Chaos Challenge: you need a Chaos Ticket.
• Your Aniimo: see the Operation: Egg Heist picks in MOANIIMO's formation tool.

9Egg Heist rewards: which eggs can you get?

• The eggs you mainly get in Operation: Egg Heist are regular Aniimo eggs and Umbral Aniimo Eggs. Umbral Aniimo Eggs are rare, but you can still get a few a day.
• Umbral Aniimo Egg: always hatches an Umbral Aniimo with Perfect Potential.
• Prismana eggs (Mysterious Prismana Egg) also drop. As the game describes, they always hatch a Prismana Form Aniimo, and using a Sparkling Cube may give Shadow Sparkling. They are rare, but many players keep running Egg Heist just for them.
• What Umbral, Prismana, Sparkling and Perfect each mean is explained in our concepts guide.

10Loot: what to keep and what to sell

• What to keep: take the highest-grade loot for that difficulty. Your backpack has slot and weight limits, so prioritize items with high value for their weight.
• On Nightmare, players usually keep Legendary and Prismatic loot, and also hold on to Gold Essence, which you need for unlocking Talents.
• Safe to sell: Ancient Relics other than the ones you will place in the Collectible Display Case, gear with no durability left, and lower-grade gear you no longer use once you can equip a higher grade (e.g. blue and green gear once you can use purple).
• Safe tip: unless you urgently need money, just don't sell Prismatic items and you will be fine.
• Collectible Display Case: where you display Egg Heist Ancient Relics. Displaying them earns Collectible Points, with rewards at each point threshold.

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11MOANIIMO tools for Operation: Egg Heist

• Random Sanctum Finder: reads your minimap to show which Sanctum you are in and where the chests, Egg Nests and exit are. It also offers a small overlay map and your position.
• Egg Heist outdoor map: Egg Nests and key spots on The Lost Isles.
• Operation: Egg Heist picks: the formation tool recommends Aniimo for Egg Heist.