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Eggs · Article 3

Huge Frozen Egg hatch time and incubator setup

A Huge Frozen Egg takes ~2 hours 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.

Updated for the current Palworld patch

Two Palworld Pals together in a blossom-filled breeding area
Breed compatible Pals to hatch a target species and inherit useful traits. Image: Pocketpair / Steam.
Key takeaways
  • Base hatch time
  • Temperature matters
  • Parallel incubation
  • Offline progress

Base hatch time

A Huge Frozen Egg needs ~2 hours 30 minutes at PalEggDefaultHatchingTime = 1.0 — that is the huge frozen timer specifically, and setting the value to 0 in server settings hatches it instantly.

Temperature matters

Frozen eggs want a cooled incubator — place a Cooler Box or a Cooling Pal nearby or the timer stalls.

Parallel incubation

Each Egg Incubator holds one egg. Build six to eight of them in a dedicated hatch room — they cost only Paldium Fragments, Cloth and Stone.

Offline progress

On dedicated servers timers advance while you are offline; in single-player they only advance while the save is loaded.

Upgrade path

Electric Egg Incubators (Ancient Technology) cut the effective wait further and are the correct end-game investment for Huge eggs.

Official sources
Palworld Trading Card Game — official site

Official Palworld TCG card lists, rules and release schedule.