Palworld Dark Egg Guide & FAQ
Where to find the Dark Egg in Palworld, its hatch time, every Pal it can hatch, and how to farm it fast.
Updated for the current Palworld patch

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Where to find the Dark Egg in Palworld
The Dark Egg spawns on the ground in Night spawns, Bamboo Groves and Deep Bamboo Thicket. It is a common common-size egg that hatches Dark-leaning Pals such as Depresso, Daedream, Cawgnito.
- ✓Primary spawn region
- ✓Respawn behaviour
- ✓Route efficiency
What hatches from a Dark Egg
A Dark Egg hatches from the Dark-aligned pool: Depresso, Daedream, Cawgnito, Hoocrates, Killamari. Wild-found eggs roll randomly from that pool, while bred eggs are deterministic based on the parents' breed power.
- ✓Full hatch pool
- ✓Wild vs bred
- ✓Passive skills on hatch
Dark Egg hatch time and incubator setup
A Dark Egg takes ~30 minutes to hatch at the default 1.0 server rate, and the timer only advances while the egg sits in a placed Egg Incubator inside your base radius.
- ✓Base hatch time
- ✓Temperature matters
- ✓Parallel incubation
Fastest way to farm Dark Eggs
The fastest Dark Egg farm is a two-part loop: a fixed flight circuit across Night spawns, Bamboo Groves and Deep Bamboo Thicket for wild nodes, plus a Breeding Farm running Dark-type parents on Cake so you always have eggs banked.
- ✓Build the flight circuit
- ✓Bank Cake first
- ✓Weight management
Dark Egg FAQ
Short answers to the most common Dark Egg questions: it hatches in ~30 minutes, spawns in Night spawns, Bamboo Groves and Deep Bamboo Thicket, and its pool is Depresso, Daedream, Cawgnito and more.
- ✓How long does a Dark Egg take to hatch?
- ✓Where do Dark Eggs spawn?
- ✓Can you get Depresso from it?
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