Artifacts

Artifacts are items introduced in Version 1.20. You can obtain Artifacts (along with Eggfinity Stones and Ingredients) by completing spaceship missions via Mission Control. Artifacts can also be crafted from other Artifacts and Ingredients in the Hall of Artifacts.

Each Artifact offers its own bonus depending on its type, tier and rarity. All three affect the Artifact's base statistics, its visual appearance and how many stone slots it contains. Although legendary Artifacts usually have the most stone slots (3), some may have only two. One such Artifact is the Gilded Book of Basan. This is often referred to as 'T#' for its tier, and either 'C', 'R', 'E', or 'L' for its rarity. For example, a T3R Puzzle Cube, or simply 'T3R cube', is the rare version of the Mystical Puzzle Cube. Another example is 'T4L chalice' for the legendary version of the Eggceptional Chalice. This fan-made tool helps in better understanding Artifacts.

Most Artifacts have a legendary version at tier 4. One has a tier 3 version, the Tungsten Ankh.

In a way, Artifacts are similar to Boosts, but they have a permanent effect as long as they remain equipped. By default, players can have up to 2 Artifacts equipped at a time, but with the Pro Permit they can equip up to 4 at a time. Certain Artifacts have sockets into which players may place stones to power them even further. Each Artifact can only be used on one farm at a time. If you have multiple of one Artifact, it can be used on different farms.

Every item that can be returned by spaceships is assigned a quality number, which cannot be directly ascertained, and each spaceship has a quality range assigned, which can be vaguely guessed at from the listed sensor rating. Spaceships only return items with quality in their assigned range. The quality range is displayed graphically in the screen where you select a spaceship to send. The later spaceships will no longer return the lowest quality items, so you may need to use an earlier spaceship if you are in need of basic materials for crafting. There are items that cannot be returned by spaceships; they must be crafted.

Types of Artifacts

Rarity values are ordered in Common / Rare / Epic / Legendary. For Artifact tables, the "Sockets" column is the number of Eggfinity Stones which you can attach to the Artifact, the "Craft" column is the cost (not including Golden Eggs) to craft the Artifact, and the "Consumed" column lists what you get when you consume the Artifact.

The images of rare / epic / legendary Artifacts are the same as the usual images but with blue / purple / yellow shimmering light surrounding the item.

Aurelian Brooch

Aurelian Brooches increase rewards from Drones.

Icon	Name	Effect	Sockets	Consumed or Demoted	Craft				Quality
						Tier Below	Other	XP
	Plain Aurelian Brooch	+10%	0	2					1.9
	Aurelian Brooch	+25%	0	1	1,186-118	5		699	3.9
	Jeweled Aurelian Brooch	+50%	0	2.97	13,827-1,382	7	2	16,424	6.7
		+60%	1	265
		+70%	2
	Eggceptional Aurelian Brooch	+100%	0	2.97	58,753-5,875	10	2	114,342	9.8
		+125%	1	677
		+150%	2
		+200%	3

Beak of Midas

Beaks of Midas increase the chance of a Golden Egg reward from Gifts and Drones.

• The base : ratio for Drones is 3:7, i.e. a 3/10 chance of Golden Eggs; the Beak's effect multiplies 30% by the appropriate number below (e.g. x2 for a +100% Jeweled Beak of Midas) to get the chance of Golden Eggs. If this number goes above 100% (x3.33 or +234%) Golden Egg drones are guaranteed.
  • This means the Common, Rare, and Legendary T4 Beaks all have the same effect on drones. As for the effect on Gifts, the Legendary Beak is bugged and does not guarantee Golden Egg gifts, despite claiming to.
• The base ratio for Gifts is unknown.

Icon	Name	Effect	Drone Drop Chance	Sockets	Consumed or Demoted	Craft				Quality
							Tier Below	Other	XP
	Dull Beak of Midas	+20%	36%	0	1.98 0.01					3.5
	Beak of Midas	+50%	45%	0	3.95 0.02	6,075–607	4		5,586	5.5
	Jeweled Beak of Midas	+100%	60%	0	5.5 0.09 0.02	23,885–2,388	5	1	33,987	7.7
		+200%	90%	1	377
	Glistening Beak of Midas	6x	100%	0	7.75 0.2 0.03	86,083–8,608	6	3	192,350	10.9
		11x	100%	1	869
		Guaranteed Golden Eggs	100%	2

Book of Basan

Books of Basan increase the effect of each Egg of Prophecy you have by adding the listed percentage as percentage points rather than an actual percentage (e.g. 10% + 0.25% = 10.25%).

Icon	Name	Effect	Sockets	Consumed or Demoted	Craft				Quality
						Tier Below	Other	XP
	Book of Basan	+0.25%	0	8					8
	Collectors Book of Basan	+0.5%	0	9	114,405 - 11,440	6	4	237,510	10.3
	Fortified Book of Basan	+0.75%	0	10	360,472 - 36,047	10	3	1,043,048	13.3
		+0.8%	1	1,373
	Gilded Book of Basan	+1%	0	14	934,701 - 93470	12	1	3,663,626	16.8
		+1.1%	1	2,315
		+1.2%	2

Carved Rainstick

Carved Rainsticks are supposed to increase the chance of a Cash reward from Gifts and Drones. Legendary rainsticks are bugged and instead decrease the chance of Gifts having cash to 0% (they will only ever provide 6).

• The base chance for Drones is 70%, meaning a 30% chance. Carved Rainsticks are the opposite of Beaks of Midas, and do not work as advertised - instead, they are genuinely reverse beaks, and divide your chance of golden eggs, rather than modifying bocks chance. The table below delineates the real effect (assuming you have no beak equipped) in addition to the listed effect. The formula for the new odds of a cash drone is $max\left(0,1-0.3{\frac {1+beakmult}{1+rainstickmult}}\right)$, where beakmult is normally 0 if you have a rainstick equipped. Note that legendary beaks and rainsticks do not follow any formula, they simply set your chance for GEs to 100% and 0% respectively.
  • This means Clarity Stones will not behave intuitively on a Rainstick. For this reason, the table below also includes Clarity effects.
  • If you do combine a legendary beak with a legendary rainstick, the beak will take precedence.
• This artifact should usually be your last choice for drone farming for bocks because its greatest possible impact on the money you get per drone is a multiplier of 10/7, i.e. about 1.43 - about a 43% increase - but it will often be your best choice for your fourth slot. Here is how you maximize money per drone:
  • Aurelian Brooch to make money drones drop more money. Even a T3C (a common Jeweled) will outshine a Legendary T4 Rainstick, buffing drone money by 50%.
  • Mercury's Lens, because the amount of money a drone drops is your farm's value times a multiplier - meaning for money drones, the Lens works like a second Brooch. Again, a T3C will outshine even a legendary Rainstick with a 50% buff.
  • Neodymium Medallion to make drones more common. Once again, a T3C supplies a 50% buff, outshining a T4L Rainstick.
  • Whichever is better, your Rainstick's effect or your Vial of Martian Dust. To calculate the Vial's effect on drone farming, use this formula: $\sqrt{1+\frac{Vial}{MaxRCB}}$ - for example, with a maximum running chicken bonus of 540 and a T4L Vial, you would take the square root of 1+500/540. A T4L Rainstick will beat a T4L Vial (about 43% to 39%), for example.
    • Since all of your rare, epic, and legendary artifacts should have Terra Stones equipped if you're trying to hunt drones for cash, this makes Vials even less enticing than they first appear. Don't forget to account for your Terra Stones when comparing your Vial to your Rainstick. Rainsticks will usually win.

Icon	Name	Effect		Sockets	Consumed or Demoted	Craft
		Claimed	Real				Tier Below	Other	XP
	Simple Carved Rainstick	+20%	+7.14%	0	2.21 0.39
	Carved Rainstick	+50%	+14.29%	0	3.37 0.7 0.04	10,082-1,008	5	1	10,830
	Ornate Carved Rainstick	+100%	+21.43%	0	4.58 0.97 0.09	39,572-3,957	7	1	66,967
	Meggnificent Carved Rainstick	5x	+34.29%	0	6.16 1.36 0.17 0.03	168,121-16,812	9	2	481,723
		10x	+38.57%	1	1,350
		Guaranteed Cash	Guaranteed Cash (+42.86%) in Drones, Guaranteed 6 Golden Eggs (-100% Cash Chance) in Gifts	2
	Meggnificent Carved Rainstick + Clarity Stone	+900% at 25% = +225%	+29.67%
		Guaranteed Cash at 25%	Guaranteed Cash (+42.86%) in Drones, Guaranteed 6 Golden Eggs (-100% Cash Chance) in Gifts
	Meggnificent Carved Rainstick + Eggsquisite Clarity Stone	+900% at 50% = +450%	+35.06%
		Guaranteed Cash at 50%	Guaranteed Cash (+42.86%) in Drones, Guaranteed 6 Golden Eggs (-100% Cash Chance) in Gifts

The Chalice

Chalices improve the Internal Hatchery rate.

Icon	Name	Effect	Sockets	Consumed or Demoted	Craft				Quality
						Tier Below	Other	XP
	Plain Chalice	+5%	0	1					4.5
	Polished Chalice	+10%	0	2	8,798 - 879	4	1	9,075	6
		+15%	2	198
	Jeweled Chalice	+20%	0	3	30,365 – 3,036	6	4	46,885	8.2
		+23%	1	440
		+25%	2
	Eggceptional Chalice	+30%	0	4.48 0.05	139,253 – 13,925	8	2	371,742	12.5
		+35%	2	1,193
		+40%	3

Demeters Necklace

Demeters Necklaces increase egg value. Note the spelling: this appears to be a necklace made out of multiple Demeters, rather than a necklace belonging to Demeter, due to the lack of a possessive apostrophe.

Icon	Name	Effect	Sockets	Consumed or Demoted	Craft				Quality
						Tier Below	Other	XP
	Simple Demeters Necklace	+10%	0	.95 0.11					1.2
	Jeweled Demeters Necklace	+25%	0	2	383-38	3		175	3.2
		+35%	1	30
	Pristine Demeters Necklace	+50%	0	3.95 0.02	7628-762	5	2	7,514	5.8
		+60%	1	181
		+75%	2
	Beggspoke Demeters Necklace	+100%	0	6.29 0.13 0.02	41,267-4,126	6	1	70,868	8.9
		+125%	1	537
		+150%	2
		+200%	3

Dilithium Monocle

Dilithium Monocles increase Boost effectiveness.

Icon	Name	Effect	Sockets	Consumed or Demoted	Craft				Quality
						Tier Below	Other	XP
	Dilithium Monocle	+5%	0	2					5.45
	Precise Dilithium Monocle	+10%	0	3	24,487 – 2,448	5	1	35,138	7.75
	Eggsacting Dilithium Monocle	+15%	0	4	80,590 – 8,059	8	2	175,798	10.7
	Flawless Dilithium Monocle	+20%	0	5.79	271,970 – 27,197	10	2	936,029	15.2
		+25%	2	1,854
		+30%	3

Gusset

Gussets increase the capacity of Habitats.

Icon	Name	Effect	Sockets	Consumed or Demoted	Craft				Quality
						Tier Below	Other	XP
	Plain Gusset	+5%	0	0.33 0.66 0.11					2.5
	Ornate Gusset	+10%	0	0.66 1.34	5,167 – 516	5		4,528	5.3
		+12%	2	141
	Distegguished Gusset	+15%	0	1 2	28,986 – 2,898	6	2	44,048	8.1
		+16%	1	427
	Jeweled Gusset	+20%	0	1.44 3.16 0.09 0.01	163,774 – 16,377	8	3	464,653	13.1
		+22%	2	1,327
		+25%	3

Interstellar Compass

Interstellar Compasses increase egg shipping rate.

Icon	Name	Effect	Sockets	Consumed or Demoted	Craft				Quality
						Tier Below	Other	XP
	Miscalibrated Interstellar Compass	+5%	0	1					4.32
	Interstellar Compass	+10%	0	2	9,425 – 942	6		9,913	6.1
	Precise Interstellar Compass	+20%	0	3	37,923 – 3,792	8	4	63,232	8.7
		+22%	1	509
	Clairvoyant Interstellar Compass	+30%	0	4.77 0.05	226,570 – 22,657	10	4	604,836	12.5
		+35%	1	1,193
		+40%	2
		+50%	2

Light of Eggendil

Lights of Eggendil increase the value of the Enlightenment Egg. All other Artifacts are not compatible with the Enlightenment Egg without Clarity Stones. All Eggfinity Stones placed in any Light of Eggendil will function at 100% of their effect on an Enlightenment Farm except for Clarity Stones, which do nothing on a Light of Eggendil. Stones slotted in a Light of Eggendil will not function outside of the Enlightenment Egg.

Icon	Name	Effect	Sockets	Consumed or Demoted	Craft				Quality
						Tier Below	Other	XP
	Dim Light of Eggendil	+50%	0	1.74 0.26					8.2
	Shimmering Light of Eggendil	+100%	0	1.75 0.25	67,892 – 6,789	5	1	139,175	10.2
		+120%	1	744
	Glowing Light of Eggendil	10x	0	2.61 0.39	168,121 – 16,812	7	4	481,723	13.2
		15x	1	1,350
	Brilliant Light of Eggendil	100x	0	3.4 0.470.03	330,068 – 33,006	10	4	1,224,134	16.1
		150x	2	2,107
		250x	3

Lunar Totem

Lunar Totems modify earnings while away from your farm by a specific factor.

Icon	Name	Effect	Sockets	Consumed or Demoted	Craft				Quality
						Tier Below	Other	XP
	Basic Lunar Totem	+100%	0	2					0.7
	Lunar Totem	+300%	0	1.93 0.04	553 – 55	3		273	3.4
		8x	1	11
	Powerful Lunar Totem	20x	0	4.63 0.1	12,234 – 1,223	6		13,972	6.5
		40x	1	134
	Eggceptional Lunar Totem	50x	0	6.46 0.16 0.04	91,819 – 9,181	6	1	210,070	11.1
		100x	1	427
		150x	2
		200x	3

Mercury's Lens

Mercury's Lenses increase farm value, not only making it easier to upgrade your egg, but also increasing Cash rewards from Gifts, Drones, and the Daily Calendar.

Icon	Name	Effect	Sockets	Consumed or Demoted	Craft				Quality
						Tier Below	Other	XP
	Misaligned Mercury's Lens	+10%	0	2					3.3
	Mercury's Lens	+20%	0	4	7,084 – 708	6		6,823	5.7
		+22%	1	173
	Precise Mercury's Lens	+50%	0	5.58 0.08	30,365 – 3,036	8	2	46,885	8.2
		+55%	1	440
	Meggnificent Mercury's Lens	+100%	0	9.62 0.27	295,510 – 29,551	10	6	871,817	13.5
		+125%	1	1,421
		+150%	2
		+200%	2

Neodymium Medallion

Neodymium Medallions increase the frequency of Drones. The base frequency is 154 per hour (142 normal, 12 elite).

Icon	Name	Effect	Sockets	Consumed or Demoted	Craft				Quality
						Tier Below	Other	XP
	Weak Neodymium Medallion	+10%	0	1.73 0.14					3
	Neodymium Medallion	+25%	0	3.25 0.38	3,982 – 398	4		3,236	5
		+30%	1	120
	Precise Neodymium Medallion	+50%	0	4.72 0.59 0.02	16,466 – 1,646	5	1	20,703	7
		+60%	2	296
	Eggceptional Neodymium Medallion	+100%	0	6.82 0.9 0.06	58,753 – 5,875	6	2	114,342	9.8
		+110%	1	677
		+120%	2
		+130%	3

Phoenix Feather

Phoenix Feathers increase the Soul Egg collection rate, although not by the amounts listed below. Instead, Phoenix Feathers grant you additional Soul Stones by simulating additional bock income relative to the listed rate; for example, while a Tattered Phoenix Feather is equipped, you earn Soul Eggs as though you were making 25% more Bocks, which is significantly less than making 25% more Soul Eggs per second.

Icon	Name	Effect	Sockets	Consumed or Demoted	Craft				Quality
						Tier Below	Other	XP
	Tattered Phoenix Feather	+25%	0	2					5
	Phoenix Feather	+100%	0	3	16,466 – 1,646	6	1	20,703	7
	Brilliant Phoenix Feather	5x	0	4	50,473 – 5,047	10	2	93,053	9.4
		6x	1	613
	Blazing Phoenix Feather	10x	0	5.47 0.11	237,296 – 23,729	12	1	775,063	14.6
		12x	1	1,695
		15x	2

Puzzle Cube

Puzzle Cubes decrease the cost of Common Research. This is directly comparable to simply earning more money and buying the research that way, although you can equip money Artifacts, earn the money, and then switch to a cube before buying. Cubes do not work with Clarity Stones in the advertised fashion once you exceed 100% clarity. The formula for the new discount given enough clarity to exceed 100% is

$$100\left({\frac {100+DiscountPercent}{ClarityPercent}}-1\right)$$

For example, a T4L cube has Discount Percent -60 and a T4 Clarity + a T2 Clarity comes to Clarity Percent 125. Plugging this into the formula gets the new discount percent, -68%.

Icon	Name	Effect	Sockets	Consumed or Demoted	Craft				Socket	Equivalent Profit Effect
						Tier Below	Other	XP
	Ancient Puzzle Cube	-5%	0	2						+5.26%
	Puzzle Cube	-10%	0	1.54 0.22	90-9	3		32		+11.11%
		-15%	2	15					20.5015	+17.65%
	Mystical Puzzle Cube	-20%	0	3.35 0.73 0.04	14,672-1,467	7	2	17,767		+25%
		-22%	1	275					2260.837	+28.21%
	Unsolvable Puzzle Cube	-50%	0	5.65 1.3 0.15	110,353–11,035	10	2	252,473		+100%
		-53%	1	907					21763.9895	+112.77%
		-55%	2						26846.231	+122.22%
		-60%	3						34205.026	+150%

Cube Discount%	Clarity%	Net Discount%	Net Effective Profit+%
-15	125	-32	47.06
	150	-43.33	76.47
	200	-57.5	135.29
-55	125	-64	177.78
	150	-70	233.33
	200	-77.5	344.44
-60	125	-68	212.5
	150	-73.33	275
	175	-77.14	337.5
	200	-80	400
	225	-82.22	462.5
	250	-84	525
	300	-86.67	650

Quantum Metronome

Quantum Metronomes increase the egg laying rate.

Icon	Name	Effect	Sockets	Consumed or Demoted	Craft				Quality
						Tier Below	Other	XP
	Misaligned Quantum Metronome	+5%	0	2					5.3
	Adequate Quantum Metronome	+10%	0	3	18,400 – 1,840	5	2	23,997	7.2
		+12%	1	318
	Perfect Quantum Metronome	+15%	0	4	67,892 – 6,789	7	4	139,175	10.2
		+17%	1	744
		+20%	2
	Reggference Quantum Metronome	+25%	0	5.55 0.09	306,621 – 30,662	9	4	992,590	14.5
		+27%	1	1,669
		+30%	2
		+35%	3

Ship in a Bottle

Ships in Bottles increase co-op mates' earnings in Contracts.

This only applies to other members, not the user. If multiple members of your co-op have one of these active, their effects will be added together. You can tap on the boost info to view which member has provided which effect. (In some cases, the percentages seem to not quite add up properly, such as 4 Ships in a Bottle which display as 79% instead of 80%.)

Icon	Name	Effect	Sockets	Consumed or Demoted	Craft				Quality
						Tier Below	Other	XP
	Ship in a Bottle	+20%	0	1					6.2
	Detailed Ship in a Bottle	+30%	0	2	36,322 – 3,632	6	2	59,659	8.6
	Complex Ship in a Bottle	+50%	0	3	113,895 – 11,389	9	3	282,119	11.8
		+60%	1	1,045
	Eggquisite Ship in a Bottle	+70%	0	4	442,510 – 44,251	12	2	1,522,971	15.2
		+80%	1	1,854
		+90%	2
		+100%	2

Tachyon Deflector

Tachyon Deflectors increase co-op mates' egg laying rate in Contracts.

This only applies to other members, not the user. If multiple members of your co-op have one of these active, their effects will be added together. You can tap on the boost info to view which member has provided which effect.

Icon	Name	Effect	Sockets	Consumed or Demoted	Craft				Quality
						Tier Below	Other	XP
	Weak Tachyon Deflector	+5%	0	3.68 0.08					7.25
	Tachyon Deflector	+8%	0	4.39 0.15	77,412 – 7,741	6	2	139,767	9.25
	Robust Tachyon Deflector	+12%	0	5.83 0.29	259,516 – 25,951	10	1	728,996	13
		+13%	1	1,304
	Eggceptional Tachyon Deflector	+15%	0	7.12 0.03 0.41	1,220,591 – 122,059	12	4	4,858,320	17
		+17%	1	1,854
		+19%	2
		+20%	2

Titanium Actuator

Titanium Actuators increase the Hold to Hatch rate.

Icon	Name	Effect	Sockets	Consumed or Demoted	Craft				Quality
						Tier Below	Other	XP
	Inconsistent Titanium Actuator	+1	0	2.99					5.5
	Titanium Actuator	+4	0	3.7 0.08	16,466 – 1,646	4	4	38,768	7.9
	Precise Titanium Actuator	+6	0	5.11 0.22	50,473 – 5,047	6	3	201,060	11
		+7	1	888
	Reggference Titanium Actuator	+10	0	6.29 0.34 0.02	237,296 – 23,729	8	3	680,184	14.2
		+12	1	1,592
		+15	2

Tungsten Ankh

Tungsten Ankhs increase egg value.

Icon	Name	Effect	Sockets	Consumed or Demoted	Craft				Quality
						Tier Below	Other	XP
	Crude Tungsten Ankh	+10%	0	1					2
	Tungsten Ankh	+25%	0	4	3,982 – 398	6		3,236	5
		+28%	1	120
	Polished Tungsten Ankh	+50%	0	5.57 0.09	25,099 – 2,509	7	2	36,318	7.8
		+75%	1	389
		+100%	3
	Brilliant Tungsten Ankh	+100%	0	7.98 0.2	110,546 – 11,054	8	4	270,812	11.7
		+125%	1	1,025
		+150%	3

Vial of Martian Dust

Vials of Martian Dust increase the Max Running Chicken Bonus.

Icon	Name	Effect	Sockets	Consumed or Demoted	Craft				Quality
						Tier Below	Other	XP
	Tiny Vial of Martian Dust	+10	0	1					1.75
	Vial of Martian Dust	+50	0	2.57 0.71	3,302 – 330	5		2,546	4.8
		+60	1	107
	Hermetic Vial of Martian Dust	+100	0	3.79 1.34 0.02	26,353 – 2,635	7	2	38,768	7.9
		+150	1	401
	Prime Vial of Martian Dust	+200	0	5.36 2.25 0.05 0.05	139,253 – 13,925	8	1	371,742	12.5
		+300	1	1,193
		+500	2

Recommended Sets

Due to how the varying artifacts and stones interact, the number of possible artifact sets (including stones) quickly collapses into a reasonably small set of useful sets; note that there may be niche-case sets not listed here, so feel free to experiment with your own set if you like.

Artifacts Not In Any Recommended Set

You may notice some artifacts are not in any recommended set, or may only be mentioned in passing. There are various reasons for this:

• Lights of Eggendil are only useful when chasing the Enlightenment Diamond.
• Puzzle Cubes should almost never be in any set (other than potentially Dilithium) because their use-case implies some other set to earn money, swapping to the cube for research, and then swapping back.
• No or very little impact on gameplay:
  • Ships in Bottles are too awkward to practically use, because your team-mates can only use them while actively earning money - it's generally much more useful to help them out with a Tachyon Deflector and otherwise focus on buffing your own farm. Ships in Bottles can however be very useful while token farming at the start of a contract.
  • Titanium Actuators are truly, genuinely worthless, with no measurable impact on the game.

Dilithium

This is a set of any artifacts except the Light of Eggendil (as boosts do not work on the Enlightenment Egg, which is the only farm the Light works on) holding as many Dilithium Stones as possible of as high a tier as possible. You equip the set, activate your boosts, then switch to some other set to benefit from the extended duration of your boosts. If you have many legendary artifacts to choose from, here are the ones with a third slot:

• Aurelian Brooch
• Chalice
• Demeters Necklace
• Dilithium Monocle
• Gusset
• Neodymium Medallion
• Puzzle Cube
• Quantum Metronome
• Tungsten Ankh, both T3 and T4. T3 Tungsten Ankhs are one of the most common legendaries to have a surfeit of.

Drone Golden Eggs

The following three artifacts can be combined to increase your golden egg income through drone farming. No stone directly improves this, but Clarity Stones can be used on Enlightenment Farms to exceed 100% artifact functionality.

• Beak of Midas - note that the maximum possible actual bonus from this is +233.33%, if you are on a standard permit and considering which artifacts to equip with high-end Clarity Stones. A T4L Beak with even a T2 Clarity slotted will provide the full +233.33%, but so will a T4R Beak with the same stone.
• Aurelian Brooch
• Neodymium Medallion

Drone Money

Slot as many Terra Stones as possible (because the square root of your current Running Chicken Bonus is multiplied into the formula for how many bocks a drone drops; remember to run your chickens while drone hunting) into the following artifacts to maximize how many bocks a drone drops:

• Aurelian Brooch works as advertised.
• Carved Rainstick - the bonus from a Carved Rainstick does not work as advertised; see the artifact's wiki entry for more information. Remember, a T4L Rainstick will force all of your gifts to be 6, i.e. worth 0 bocks. The maximum possible benefit from a Rainstick is about +42.86%, rounding down slightly.
• Gusset - drones drop bocks relative to farm value and farm value is relative to your current, actual chicken population, so you can use a gusset to make drones drop more bocks provided you actually fill your habs. However, because even at best this only applies the percentage you see on the gusset to what the drone drops and gussets do not have very high percentages, you are unlikely to choose this. Remember to never fill your habs completely, as you need to run chickens to maximize your drones.
• Mercury's Lens works as advertised, due to how drone bocks are calculated.
• Neodymium Medallion works as advertised.
• Vial of Martian Dust - due to the diminishing rate of return these have with your Terra Stones, this does not tend to make it into most sets in practice. Like with the Terra Stones, you need to be running chickens for this to be relevant.

Note that in general, it doesn't really matter for choosing your set that you have to give up a slot - T4 Terra Stones make your drones drop more money, but not much more. Even the very first T4 Terra only amounts to increasing your income by about +8.87%, and each additional one provides less of a benefit.

DroneStiging

Drop your least useful artifact from your Drone Money set and equip your best Phoenix Feather instead (with Terras slotted, if it has slots) to prestige using drones as your primary source of income. Remember, the only relevant boosts will be Boost Beacons and Soul Beacons. This may be particularly useful if you have Ultra and 4x Drones coincides with 2x Prestige.

Fueling

Fueling (filling a ship or tank with fuel) is a special case of shipping/internal hatchery rate: you have no contract to worry about and are likely unwilling to spend a boost just on fueling faster. This radically reduces the set of interesting artifacts and stones to:

• Chalice
• Quantum Metronome

If you have a pro permit, you just want more slots. Here are the remaining 3-slot legendaries:

• Aurelian Brooch
• Demeters Necklace
• Dilithium Monocle
• Gusset
• Neodymium Medallion
• Puzzle Cube
• Tungsten Ankh, both T3 and T4. T3 Tungsten Ankhs are one of the most common legendaries to have a surfeit of.
• Lunar Totem

Use Tachyon Stones and Life Stones in any combination you like; if you've made a new farm for the sole purpose of fueling, both will have similar results. If you're in a situation where you're waiting to be allowed to fuel (perhaps you are sitting on a fueling farm waiting for a ship to return), you want to use an IHR set while you wait and Tachyon Stones once fueling time arrives.

Internal Hatchery Rate

This is a set of any artifacts holding as many Life Stones as possible of as high a tier as possible, combined with a Chalice and typically a Dilithium Monocle, as typically you only truly care about your Internal Hatchery Rate while running boosts; however, if this is to chase the Enlightenment Diamond, the Monocle is useless. The Monocle version is used to reduce how powerful a boost you need to fill your habs up, saving you Golden Eggs and potentially Boost Tokens.

If you have infinite legendary artifacts to choose from, here is the optimal set:

• Chalice to maximize your IHR.
• Dilithium Monocle or Light of Eggendil, depending on whether you're on an Enlightenment Farm or not.
• Gusset, so you can actually fill up the extra space it provides.
• Quantum Metronome, as one of the most common reasons to use this set is on a Contract, and you might as well ship as many eggs as possible while boosting. Note that in practical terms you are likely to be using very short-duration boosts for your IHR, so this may not have a significant impact over using one of the artifacts below instead.

Here are the remaining legendary artifacts with a third slot for an extra Life Stone:

• Aurelian Brooch
• Demeters Necklace
• Neodymium Medallion
• Puzzle Cube
• Tungsten Ankh, both T3 and T4. T3 Tungsten Ankhs are one of the most common legendaries to have a surfeit of.
• Lunar Totem

Prestige Set

Use this fanmade tool to easily work out which artifacts with which stones you actually own will constitute the best set for prestiging. The tool assumes your primary source of bocks is from running chickens. As a practical matter, it is highly likely to choose from the following:

• Phoenix Feather is functionally mandatory, as its bonus is so much higher than anything else you can equip.
• Demeters Necklace is quite commonly your best directly money-earning artifact.
• Tungsten Ankh is quite commonly your second-best directly money-earning artifact.
• Book of Basan is quite commonly your third-best directly money-earning artifact.
• Vial of Martian Dust is also quite commonly your third-best directly money-earning artifact (it depends on things like Prophecy Eggs and how many Terra Stones you have slotted).
• Shell Stones are very good when your set of available stones is very bad. At higher tiers, Terra Stones, Soul Stones, and Prophecy Stones come to the fore.

Money Set

If you just want to earn money from running chickens without prestiging - e.g. for setting up a contract without using drones for income - take your prestige set and drop the feather from it, instead taking your next best moneymaker.

Shipping

If you're on a contract and have already filled your habs, you need the right set to then fulfill the contract. This is generally Tachyon Stones and Quantum Stones in some combination (largely based on how many deflectors your team-mates have equipped) slotted into:

• Tachyon Deflector, because assuming everyone in the contract is contributing, it is usually better to make everyone else ship faster than just yourself. This also maximizes your teamwork bonus.
• Quantum Metronome and Gusset, to lay as many eggs as possible.
• Interstellar Compass to cope with other artifacts raising your lay rate above your ship rate.

Demoting and Consuming

The "Consume" button is accessible by viewing an item (Artifact, Eggfinity Stone, or Ingredient) and then pressing the recycle symbol. In other words, the game makes sure you really want to consume the artifact by making you press multiple times before consumption happens.

• If you want to consume multiple items, you can either repeatedly press the consume button, or press and hold the consume button, which accesses a menu that asks if you want to consume 50% or 100% of that stack (expressed as integers rather than percentages).
• When consuming an item for Golden Eggs, the item generally gives a certain decimal amount (rather than a whole number) of Golden Eggs, which is then totalled and rounded down. This is only noticeable when consuming multiple items at one time, as the first item consumed always gives the same amount. For example, the Tiny Gold Meteorite gives around 5.43 Golden Eggs when consumed. Consuming 1 will give ~5.43, rounded down to 5, consuming 2 will give ~10.86, rounded down to 10, but consuming 3 will give ~16.29, rounded down to 16.
• More specific instructions about multi-consume: You can consume multiple of an item at a time by pressing the recycle button and then holding down the red button that appears (which you would usually just tap to recycle 1 of the item). This brings up the Multi-Consume menu. From there, the red button will Cancel the multi-consume, the yellow button will consume 50% of the that type of item (the amount CONSUMED is rounded down if it is not an integer), and the green button will consume 100% of that type of item. Multi-Consume does not work with items of which you have less than 10.

Pressing the recycle symbol also enables the minus sign button next to the Artifact's rarity, which allows you to demote a rare / epic / legendary artifact to Common, in exchange for a very tiny reward as described in the formula below.

• Multi-demote rare / epic / legendary artifacts. It will consume 100% or 50% of the artifacts you have of that exact type, tier, and rarity (excluding any equipped artifacts or artifacts slotted with stones.
• If you want to demote multiple items, press and hold the demote button, which accesses a menu that asks if you want to demote 50% or 100% of that stack. You must have 4 or more of that same unslotted shiny for this prompt to appear.

Demotion Value Formula

Formula found by discord user @zippyh

$${\text{GE}}\sim 10\times ({\textit {Quality}}-1.6)^{2}+4.5$$

Artifacts Intro Message

The following message is displayed when a player unlocks Artifacts:

Due to recent discoveries beyond Earth, egg farms have begun to look to the stars.

Evidence is building that we were not the first to unlock the secrets of the egg.

Artifacts from lost civilizations appear to enhance egg farming in ways both technological, and mystical...

Trivia

• If you try to deactivate a Gusset while the extra capacity is being used by a Habitats, the game will give you a "Cannot Be Removed" message. However, you can still deactivate the Gusset as long as the extra capacity is not in use by any Habitats.
  • If you have a Gusset that offers a greater increase in capacity, you can replace the current Gusset with the new one by dragging it from the list to the spot the current Gusset is occupying.
  • If you have a Gusset equipped and craft another Gusset of a higher tier, the higher tier one will automatically replace the current Gusset.
• If you receive artifacts (or other items) from a Spaceship or from an Artifact Crate reward on a Contract but accidentally tap somewhere else on the screen before pressing the final Collect button on the list of items, don't worry; you still received the items.
• Lunar Totems are the only type of Artifact to not require any other Artifacts or Ingredients to craft Tier 3.
• Artifacts that claim to give a 100% chance for Bocks/Golden Eggs will not always give a box with Bocks/Golden Eggs. Since there is a ratio for Golden Egg boxes to Bocks boxes, a 100% chance will only double the ratio number for Bocks/Golden Eggs.
• You can only have 1 Artifact of each type active at any time on any given farm.
  • For example, you cannot have 2 Puzzle Cubes active at the same time on your main farm, even if they are of different tiers and/or rarities.
• The "Soul Egg collection rate" mentioned in the Phoenix Feather description can confuse some people. The examples below help explain how it works.
  • A +100% increase to Soul Egg collection rate is saying that any particular number of Soul Eggs that you wish to collect while under this effect can be collected "100% faster". This does NOT mean that you will earn 100% more Soul Eggs in the same amount of time; it means that it will take half the time to earn each individual Soul Egg compared to how long it would normally take. This is effectively equivalent to earning the Soul Eggs you would earn if you were earning Bocks 100% faster, so some people refer to this increase as a phantom Bocks multiplier of 2. Since the formula for Soul Eggs as a function of Bocks is a power function with p=.21, your Soul Egg earnings (assuming the effect is active for your entire prestige or at least the part where you earn the vast majority of your Bocks) will be multiplied by 2^.21 = 1.1567, which is only a 15.67% increase.
  • A +400% increase to Soul Egg collection rate is saying that any particular number of Soul Eggs that you wish to collect while under this effect can be collected "400% faster". This doesn't mean a 400% increase in Soul Eggs; it means you'll take 1/(1+4.00) = 20% of the time to earn each individual Soul Egg compared to how long it would normally take. This is effectively equivalent to a phantom Bocks multiplier of 5. Since the formula for Soul Eggs as a function of Bocks is a power function with p=.21, your Soul Egg earnings (assuming the effect is active for your entire prestige or at least the part where you earn the vast majority of your Bocks) will be multiplied by 5^.21 = 1.4021, which is only a 40.21% increase.
  • Soul Beacons behave similarly to how Phoenix Feathers behave.
• The first time you craft an Artifact (as part of the game's tutorial) it is free. You still need to spend the component Artifacts, but you don't need to spend any Golden Eggs.
• The number of Artifacts of each type you have in the Hall of Artifacts will turn blue (white number in blue circle) when you have enough Ingredients to upgrade it to the next tier. If you tap on the Artifact with the blue circle, then the blue circle will go away regardless whether or not you perform the upgrade. However, the blue circle may return the next time you collect new Ingredients.
• Note that not all rarities of each tier of each artifact exist. For example, a Tier 2 Gusset can be Epic but cannot be Rare.
• Smart Crafting was introduced in Version 1.21. If you would be able to craft a new item by first crafting various intermediate items, Smart Crafting will be able to detect that. You will see the missing materials colored in blue (for example, "1/3" under "Reggference Quantum Metronome" would be colored blue if you have 1 of them but could make another 2) rather than green (when you already have the materials) or red (when you can't make the materials). Smart Crafting does not offer the chance of intermediate items being rare/epic/legendary. Smart crafting reduces the Golden Egg cost of crafting future instances of intermediate items just as direct crafting of those intermediate items does.

Hints at Artifacts (pre-1.20)

Before Version 1.20, there were several hints at the Artifacts update.

Contracts mentioning Artifacts

• Restoration
• Tachyon Deflector
• Lost Civilizations

Images of Artifacts

• An Artifact hint. Tachyon Deflector
• An Artifact hint. Demeter's Necklace
• An Artifact hint. Ornate Gusset
• An Artifact hint. Vial of Martian Dust
• "Did anyone watch SpaceEggs launch the Chicken Heavy today?"

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Artifacts Update Trailer

Egg, Inc. Update Teaser

Artifact Teaser!