Piggy Bank

The **Piggy Bank** is a premium mechanic in Egg, Inc that allows you to get golden eggs.

## Mechanics

The Piggy Bank increases by a number of Golden Eggs every time something is upgraded or purchased.

* 3 for Research
* 20 for Vehicles
* 25 for Habitats
* 25 for Boosts

You can crack it for USD6.99, £5.79, AUD$9.99 or €6.49 each time, which will reset the counter to 0 and give you all the Golden Eggs inside. Contract goals and the Daily Gift Calendar may also add Golden Eggs to the Piggy Bank and even double it. There is a special event which reduces the price by 40%.

### Bonuses

Each time the Piggy Bank is cracked it gains a bonus, starting at 2% on the first level, 25% on the second level, and **10n+10**% after that point (e.g. level 6 would have a 70% bonus). In other words, starting at level, multiply the contents of the piggy by (n+11)/10.

### Piggy Cap

At a certain point, the Piggy Bank fills up and cannot be incremented by buying things. This is a soft cap, though, and the Piggy Bank can still be increased with contract or Daily Gift Calendar rewards.

* Prior to level 10, the cap is 7,500+1,000n, where n is piggy level.
* At level 10 and up, the cap is **45,000+5,000n**, where n is piggy level.

### Capped Piggy Total

If you have a Piggy at its cap (perhaps you just cracked it, so neither the calendar nor any contracts have pumped it up yet), and it is level 10 or higher, its actual total yield will be

(

45
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5
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n

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n
11

10

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500
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n
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20
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99
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{\displaystyle \left(45,000+5,000n \right)\frac{n+11}{10} = 500 (n^2 + 20n + 99)}

, where n is piggy level.

### Piggy Fill Formula

*Credit to user toffepeer1 (374952941863305229) on the Main Egg, Inc. discord server for this formula. Original post can be found here.*

The way piggy fill works is each action listed below gives a base value, the game then applies a formula also listed below to the base value, which gives the amount of 'raw' piggy (without level, ULTRA and event bonus). This is only relevant when your piggy is **not** full, which is right after it's cracked, or during an unlimited piggy fill event.

**Formulae:**

Piggy level 1: `base value`

Piggy level 2-11: `base value + 2`

Piggy level 12 and 13: Uncertain, either above or below formula *(See bottom of message)*

Piggy level 14 -  : `2 * base value + 2`

The total GE in your piggy per action would be: `(base value formula) * event * level bonus * ultra bonus`, where `(base value formula)` are the values/formulae mentioned above, `event` is the piggy fill event, `level bonus` is the level bonus, and `ultra bonus` is the ultra bonus (25% for Standard, 40% for Pro). Thus, consuming an item at piggy level 14 would give 202 'raw' piggy, if there's a 4x piggy fill at the same time, it would be 808. Ultra and level bonus apply on top of that value. Buying 1 quantum bulb will **always** net you a profit, since it costs 10GE and returns 25 GE base value.

## Strategy

**Note:** There are unlimited levels - although the image stops changing after level 7. The strategies below only are intended for people that are willing to spend their real money into the piggy bank.

Keep in mind that you need 27,972,489 to get all Epic Research plus the Hyperloop and fully upgraded Fuel Tank. One way you can maximize your return is to wait until your piggy has enough in it to buy all remaining purchases, then wait for a sale and crack it. If you do this, you will only ever need golden eggs after that for boosts or Artifacts. You should buy this over the other offers such as truckloads, as this is the cheapest and most efficient way to get golden eggs while still paying for them. It is important to know that following the Artifacts Update, x2 and x3 rewards are no longer obtainable through contracts due to Artifacts replacing them.

No Cap events are events that temporarily remove the cap on the piggy. So far they have been ULTRA exclusive events, and the events themselves have ranged from 30mins - 1 hour.

### How to use No Cap events to their fullest potential

**Note:** This strategy is extremely aggressive and intended for late game players.

Credit to user dodgerflamy (251327551258099712) from the Main Egg, Inc. discord server for this strategy. A link to the original post can be found here.

**What you need:**

- Ultra subscription (Ultra Pro when cracking piggy recommended)

- Unlimited piggy event

- A ton of artifacts

**The Prep**

The fastest way to getting a 1 billion GE piggy is starting your prep as early as you can. This means:

1. Do NOT consume any artifacts!! If you do not like your inventory cluttered, you can demote shinies, but save ALL of your commons

1. 2. Send exhens regularly so that you're consistently building up your artifacts, send short hens during dubcap and finish off with dubcap exhens right before dubcap ends
2. Do NOT consume your stone fragments
3. This ones a bit tough to do but try to be available each day when the new daily events drop. The most common time for the unlimited piggy event has been when daily events start on Saturday. Events start at 9AM PST each day. *1st event: 9AM PST for 1 hour* *2nd event: 9AM PST for 1 hour3rd event: 3PM PST for 1 hour4th event: 9AM PST for 30 minutes*
4. I'd recommend having ULTRA regularly so that you are not scrambling to buy it during the unlimited piggy. However if this is not something you are able to do, buy ULTRA Pro the day of the event, to make use of the 40% piggy boost.

**The Event**

Rules:

Rule #1: Do not demote or consume anything you use regularly or plan to use later on

Part 1

1) Check the duration of the event in game, and budget your time accordingly. Most events have been 1 hour which should be enough time to demote/consume everything, however if the event is 30 minutes long make sure you save some time at the end to consume stone fragments, as that gives the most piggy fill (saving the last 5 minutes of the event for consuming frags should be plenty of time).

2) Reduce the amount of lag that you will get from demotion/consumption by turning on low performance mode in settings, and also switching to a less GPU intensive shell like "Game Pieces" or "Voxel"

Part 2

**You do not have to follow this guide exactly. Keep shiny artifacts you regularly use. Keep at least 1 artifact of each type if you use it regularly.**

1) Demote all artifacts (remember rule #1)

2) Consume these artifacts

* T1 - T2 Light
* T1 Book
* T1 Deflector
* T1 - T2 SIAB
* T1 - T3 Actuator
* T1 - T2 Monocle
* All Metronomes
* T1 - T3 Feather
* T1 - T3 Chalice
* All Compasss
* All Rainsticks
* T1 - T3 Beak
* T1 - T3 Lens
* All Medallions
* All Gussets
* All Ankhs
* All Brooches
* All Vials
* All Necklaces
* All Totems
* All Cubes
* 3) Consume these stones (again, remember rule #1)
* T1 - T2 Clarity (do not consume T2 if you're planning on doing EnD soon)
* T1 - T2 Life
* All Quantum (do not consume T3 + T4s needed or planned to use for contracts)
* T1 Dilithium
* T1 Soul
* All Terra
* All Tachyon (do not consume T3 + T4s needed or planned to use for contracts)
* All Shell
* All Lunar

3) Buy cheap boosts, specifically bulbs. Buy them ONE AT A TIME. 1 click of buying 5 nets the same amount of piggy as buying 1. You can buy multiple different boosts at the same time.

4) Prestige a bit to make use of the rest of the event, however this only gives you maybe 5% of what consuming should of given, so its not that big of a priority.

**General tips:**

* Following the list of actions in the table above, you want to have a high volume of "actions" with the limited time you have during the event. The best way to do that is through mass demotion/consumption of artifacts.

* You will experience a lot of lag/freezing when you hit consume all on the artifacts, once you click confirm, let the app do its thing and don't click on anything else, or else your phone might crash and it may cause you to lose the artifacts without anything in return. If the lag is too severe, consuming artifacts in halves might ease the lag a bit.

* If Kev begins to introduce shorter unlimited piggy events, it may be wise to demote all your artifacts beforehand, so that you are wasting less time on laggy demotion, however of course you will have a reduced amount of interactions, use your discretion on your phone specs / previous piggy events experience to make the call yourself.

* The bulk of the piggy comes from consuming fragments, but you gain a lot of those fragments through consuming artifacts, hence the order.

* From my observations in the first event, T1 books gave the most T1 shells, which gave the most piggy, if you want to solely focus on making that bank, you could focus BoB exhens.

* Buying boosts also costs GE to purchase, the only profitable boost is the warming bulb.

## Trivia

The piggy bank used to cost $2.99, £2.99, or €2.99 but this was changed on 14 July 2019 after the $1 piggy sale. It was increased again with the Contracts v2 update on May 1st, 2023.

## Gallery

The Piggy Bank at level 1.The Piggy Bank at level 2.The Piggy Bank at level 3.The Piggy Bank at level 4.The Piggy Bank at level 5.The Piggy Bank at level 6.The Piggy Bank at level 7 (and above).