Enlightenment Egg

The Multiverse is ours, but what is next? The answer lies within.

The **Enlightenment Egg** is the nineteenth and final egg in Egg, Inc., added in Version 1.8 along with the Universe Egg.

Boosts cannot be used on the Enlightenment Egg farm. Any boosts that were previously active will pause their timers. The exception being the video doubler, which is not counted as a regular boost. This means it will take nearly 3 months (actually about 77.78 days) to get the final Enlightenment trophy *at a minimum* (assuming no Artifacts which work on Enlightenment are used).

**Warning:** Do not attempt to do the 10 Billion Diamond trophy for this egg without a great deal of preparation.

## Strategy

### Diamond Trophy

The Enlightenment Egg is a 'challenge egg', with demanding goals but great rewards. As such, all of its trophies award Eggs of Prophecy which gives you a total of 21 eggs of prophecy.

* Bronze: 1
* Silver: 2
* Gold: 3
* Platinum: 5
* Diamond: 10

The recommended strategy depends greatly on the player's earnings bonus, as well as their Artifacts. Since the first three trophies (250 million chickens) can be done upon unlocking this egg, and the fourth (1 billion chickens) with an earnings bonus of approximately 100q%, this section will primarily detail obtainment of the Diamond trophy (10 billion chickens), using common strategies in the community.

Upon first unlocking this egg, it is typically advised that the player should complete the first 3 trophies and then leave. The 6 Prophecy Eggs will increase your EB by up to 77% (Depending on Epic Research) and will only take about 3 days to get. The Platinum Trophy, at 1B chickens, will take roughly a week and can be done at an EB of about 250q, although it can certainly be done sooner with the help of artifacts.

All Artifacts require Clarity Stones placed in their stone slots to function, thus rendering common Artifacts useless. The only exception is the Light of Eggendil, which only works on Enlightenment and always at 100% effectiveness, unaffected by Clarity Stones. This makes the LoE a great Artifact to slot a Life Stone or two in, for a free internal hatchery rate increase. Additionally, any stones slotted into the Light of Eggendil also don't function on any other egg. Slotting Clarity Stones in an LoE will have no affect.

The effect of the host Artifact is reliant on the level of effectiveness (displayed as '#% effective on Enlightenment Egg'), and the value can go above 100%. For example, the legendary Jeweled Gusset's base effect is 25%; with one basic Clarity Stone (total 25% effectiveness), this becomes 6.25%, rounded down to 6%. At 100% effectiveness (e.g. two Eggsquisite Clarity Stones), its effect is its usual 25%. With 150% effectiveness (1.5x over its normal effect), this becomes 37.5%, rounded down to 37%.

Additionally, as Life Stones compound, 2 Life Stones and 1 Clarity Stone provides a *slightly* higher IHR than 1 Life Stone and 2 Clarity Stones, however the 0.04% increase is negligible in *most* instances rather than 100% effectiveness on the host artifact.

The following graph provides the recommended earnings bonuses in accordance with your available artifacts:

Note: This graph assumes you own the Pro Permit for the two additional Artifact slots. Without it, multiply the recommended earnings bonuses by 2.

The above graph is often seen as difficult to read. Some clarifications about it are as follows:

* The recommended Earnings Bonus is for when you are at 8 Billion chickens, which takes typically at least a month to get to.
* ZeiramX is a player who completed Z-EnD (Zeiram Enlightenment Diamond), which is EnD without the use of any artifacts whatsoever.
* A Tier 4 Legendary Gusset with three Tier 3 Clarity Stones mean that one does not need any Wormhole Dampening research at all to get the hab capacity required as described in the chart below. This means that EnD can be done at a very low Earnings Bonus, far below any recommendations on the above chart.

The following graph details the amount of bocks needed to purchase the required levels of Wormhole Dampening research, according to your best available gusset:

Note: This graph assumes you own all 10 levels of the Lab Upgrade Epic Research, without any other research discounts.

Note2: With an Epic Unsolvable Puzzle Cube and 2 Clarity Stones, the values in the above chart can be cut by 55% for the WD Level.

Farming drones can be an effective means of earnings bocks. This is especially so when running chickens with a low population, due to how the Farm Value equation works. Late game (8 billion+ chickens), merely running chickens is a popular preference over drone farming, especially with powerful Artifacts. Exceptions for this rule include those with the Standard Permit who are limited to only 2 artifact slots.

Events will *greatly* assist in reaching 10 billion chickens. The most notable ones are Cash Boost, Generous Drones and Research Sale, although the other ones help as well.

The average Enlightenment Diamond completion takes anywhere from 50 to 75 days, depending primarily on one's earnings bonus, internal hatchery rate and available Artifacts.

### Golden Egg drone farming

Because Clarity Stone effectiveness can go above 100%, if you can do so (for instance, slotting Eggsquisite Clarity Stones into a legendary Artifact's 3 slots), farming drones on this egg to earn Golden Eggs can be more lucrative than on any other egg. The recommended Artifacts for this are a Beak of Midas, Neodymium Medallion and an Aurelian Brooch; without the Pro Permit, the Beak of Midas and either of the other two (depending on which has a higher effective boost) works best.

This strategy is typicaly referred to as 'overclocking', and it becomes even more effective during a Generous Drones event.

This tool can help calculate the estimated Golden Egg gain from drone farming in a given timeframe based on your available Artifacts, including overclocking.

## Community Made Challenges

The Enlightenment Egg, being a "Challenge Egg", has been the arena for many late game challenges for players with exceptionally high Earnings Bonuses, or players with exceptionally high amounts of free time on their hands. These challenges are often grindy, boring, and time consuming, however they are seen as impressive by the community.

### Nobel Prize in Animal Husbandry

The Nobel Prize in Animal Husbandry, shortened to NaH, is a challenge for getting the most amount of chickens possibly on a farm (excluding the usage of any contract modifiers). To achieve it, one must purchase all 25 levels of Wormhole Dampening Research (and all other previous Hab Space research), and the player must have a legendary Tier 4 Gusset, slotted with 3x Tier 4 Clarity Stones. This increases the maximum hab space to 19.845 Billion Chickens. As of the 16th of January, 2024 there are 52 known completions of this challenge.

### All Common Research Enlightenment

This challenge, as described by the name, is to complete all common research on the Enlightenment Egg. It is often abbreviated to ACRE. This challenge is very hard, and regarded by some to be the hardest challenge in the game. As of the 16th of January, 2024 there are 15 known completions of this challenge, with the user WAG being a pioneer of the 'lowest population ACRE' leaderboard.

### Hellkea

Hellkea is the evolution of the original "Eggkea" challenge, originating from the Cluckingham Palace coop group. The original challenge was to fill up 4 Eggkea habs without any research, meaning that one had to run chickens manually to fill up the habs. This was made obselete with the addition of the Dilithium Bulb in update 1.27. There were 8 known completions of this challenge before it closed.

In response to this, the Hellkea challenge was made by user shadowzedge (668675549975019533) from Cluckingham Palace, as Boosts cannot be used on the Enlightenment Egg. The challenge required one to fill up Habs on Enlightenment without any research whatsoever. Artifacts were allowed but all artifacts other than the Titanium Actuator are useless. There are currently 2 known completions of this challenge.

On the main Egg, Inc. discord server, the challenge was split into Hellkea and Z-Hellkea. Hellkea was made so that only IHR related research was banned, while Z-Hellkea was made so that all research was banned (just like the original Cluckingham Palace version), *and* all artifacts are also banned. The creator for these two variations is jammin. (714501143379574794), a staff member on the main server. There are currently 2 known completions of these challenges.

### Z-Challenges

Z-Challenges are challenges either made by or inspired by ZeiramX (173260635415642113), a player famous for putting themselves through very painful challenges for the fun of it.

**Z-EnD (Zeiram's rules for the Enlightenment Diamond Trophy)**

*First this is all with no artifacts. Then you must purchase every research that is below Wormhole Dampening 17's price, and you must buy all Wormhole Dampening levels (17 of them) with no common research discount event*

**ZNAH (Zeiram's rules for the Nobel Prize in Animal Husbandry.)**

*This is all with no artifacts, until you get to 11.34 billion chickens. Then you are allowed the T4L Gusset. Note that only Clarity Stones are allowed on the Gusset. You must purchase every research that is below Wormhole Dampening 25's price, you must buy them prior to equipping the gusset, and you must buy all Wormhole Dampening levels with no common research discount event.*

**Z-ACRE (Zeiram's rules for All Common Research Enlightenment.)**

No formalised rules have been written as the challenge is impossible for now due to the EB requirement of ~1U (Naked Vendafarmer II). However, ZeiramX's messages and past challenges suggest the following:

* No Artifacts whatsoever
* Timeline Splicing must be bought at full cost, with no discount event.

*All completion number data is as of the 16th of January, 2024*

## Appearance

The Enlightenment Egg is a pure gold egg with a white edge. The inside is dark gold and contains a stylized depiction of The Tree of Life, the center of the structure covered by a yellow glow. It is visually similar to many illustrations of a Bodhi Tree and Yggdrasil. The Bodhi Tree is a better comparison because Buddhism is often associated with Enlightenment.

## Trivia

* The Enlightenment Egg has the lowest value of any egg in the game, at *ten millionth* (10-7) of a bock.
	+ Along with boosts being disabled and Artifacts requiring Clarity Stones to function, its value makes it *the* single worst egg to farm Soul Eggs on.
	+ Since its value is so small and it can't display more digits, it is shown as 0.00 in the game.
	+ Upgrading from Universe to Enlightenment will divide egg value by 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 1 sextillion, or simply 1021.

* Prior to the release of the Artifacts update in Version 1.20, the earnings bonus needed to complete the Diamond trophy was so immense (approximately 1N%) that it was not possible to obtain it legitimately. Upon the release of the update, all Enlightenment Diamond trophies, and the 10 Eggs of Prophecy reward, were removed. A letter from the developer was issued concerning this matter:

Three and a half days later, players were given the option to either restore the trophy and Eggs of Prophecy, or decline and finish the trophy legitimately. Those who kept the trophy were awarded an 'unverified' status, while those who earn it legitimately (post-Artifacts, even after originally obtaining it illegitimately) are awarded the status of 'verified'. Both statuses currently do not have any impact on neither gameplay features nor visual effects. However, according to a follow-up letter, it has been confirmed that a future update will award legitimate owners a verified symbol on the trophy, which can be assumed to be solely cosmetic:

	+ In the Egg, Inc. Discord server, the first player to complete the Enlightenment Diamond trophy after the release of the Artifacts update was Sami#2336 (455034527329288192), having posted their completion screenshot on May 15, 2021, although they finished three weeks earlier. Server members who have posted their completion screenshot are awarded the purely cosmetic 'EnDer' (Enlightenment Diamonder) role. As of January 16, 2024, there are a total of 2604 confirmed server members who have obtained the trophy. At least 83 of these members have obtained the trophy with the Standard Permit.