Egg

Egg
Obtaining the Egg in the Forest.
Short Name	Egg
Type	Key Item
Effects	Disables PS Trophy
Source	Forest (Hidden Area) Cyber City (Tree Room)
Key Item ID	2
Flavor Text
Check	Not too important, not too unimportant.
Use	(You used the Egg.)

Egg
Type	Light World item
Effects	Can be placed in Hometown.
Light World item ID	8

The Egg is a secret key item. It can be acquired from a man in the hidden area in Forest that the party may randomly encounter in each chapter, as well as a hidden area in Cyber City from the same man behind the tree. It can be "used" at any time, but with no effect.

If acquired, the Egg remains in Kris's inventory when returning from the Dark World. The Egg disappears from the inventory regardless of its use at the end of the Chapter.

Kris is presumably unaware or forgets the egg as indicated in the dialogue when the player attempts to drop it.

Accquiring the egg in Chapter 3 requires a number of specific steps, starting with after the party can explore the rest of the TV World:

1. Following the first cowboy shootout minigame, head upwards and obtain at least one Lancer controller from the various playable game consoles.
2. From the Lancer controllers room, continue down two screens, then head left one screen to find another console. Upon solving its puzzle using Lancer, use Susie to throw the block across the river, landing it between two sets of bushes on the far right side of the screen.
3. From the Green Room Warp Door, head down one screen, right one screen, and down once more to reach a lone spotlight. Get caught by the spotlight, then tell the Zapper who shows up that you're a CHEATER, and that you're headed NOWHERE.
4. Immediately after being transported to a new room by the Zapper, head right to find a game console puzzle. Push the same block that was thrown across the river in a different puzzle earlier onto the switch to solve it.
5. Head right from the freshly solved puzzle to find a Bibliox using a game console. Use the game console next to him, and talk to his character in-game until it mentions a wardrobe. Within the game, head right one screen, then back left to make the wardrobe appear. Look inside the wardrobe, then talk to Bibliox's in-game character once more to have a TripTicket added to your key items. Leave this area by talking to the Zapper in the far left room.
6. From the Goulden Sam Warp Door, head right, then up, and enter a battle with a Ribbick. Navigate to the act menu with Kris, and place the menu cursor on "CroakOnX." Instead of selecting it, hold left to have the cursor walk offscreen and escape the fight.
7. In this new area, head upwards two screens and speak to the Man behind the tree. Answer "NO" when asked twice if Kris will forget him, and answer "YES" when asked if they want to meet him again. The other choices are inconsequential.

• If the Shadow Mantle has already been obtained before acquiring the TripTicket, the game console in the room with Bibliox will be unusable. Rather than using the game console, talk to Bibliox, who will instruct Kris to head back to the B-rank chamber in the Green Room.
  • Once there, insert "1225" points into the ball machine to be transported to a maze-like room, where a miniature ball machine can be found. Interact with it to return to the B-rank chamber, where the original ball machine has now disappeared. Collect the TripTicket off of the ground from where the ball machine used to be.

The Egg forfeits the Chapter completion trophy/achievement on PlayStation, this is intentional for the secret dialogue at the end of Chapter 4.

Additional Uses

• In Chapter 1, the Egg can be put in Asgore's refrigerator. Checking the fridge again reveals there are "two Eggs inside the fridge."
  • If the Egg is dropped, one egg appears in Asgore's refrigerator instead. This egg also appears if the refrigerator is inspected a second time without having the Egg.
• In Chapter 2, the Egg can be placed in the basket of eggs in Sans's store. Susie also jokes about Kris "reverse-stealing" the egg.
  • The Egg also disappears from the inventory after interacting with the top-right rack or bell in the store. Checking the "eggpile" shows that there are "more eggs than usual."
• The Egg can be dropped, which results in the unique text: "What Egg?"
  • However, the Egg reappears in Kris's inventory if they reenter the Dark World.
• After speaking with Temmie in the classroom at the end of Chapter 2, if the egg is still in the inventory, she places an egg on the table if the Egg in Cyber City was found. Interacting with this egg displays the number of Eggs found in the game, regardless of what has been done with them.

Trivia

• Unlike other items in the party's inventory, the Egg does not disappear or change into something else after Kris leaves the Dark World.
• Kris puts the Egg in Asgore's fridge or the basket of eggs without a prompt upon inspecting these objects.
• Pipis are occasionally referred to as eggs. At the Fangamer FAQ during the Spamton Sweepstakes event, when asked if Pipis are eggs, Spamton says that only he can refer to them as such, but that "A WHITE ONE, THAT'S SURELY [another man's treasure]."

• The Egg is possibly referencing Easter eggs, which are hidden objects or references within a game.

• The text that appears when the Egg is disposed of is likely a reference to the recurring phrase "What pumpkin?," a running gag throughout the MS Paint Adventures webcomic series, which Toby Fox made music for.
• In the PlayStation version of Deltarune, completing any chapter unlocks a trophy for that corresponding chapter with the description "COMPLETE WITHOUT ISSUE" for each of them. However, beating any chapter with a save file where you collect that chapter's Egg will not unlock the trophy for that chapter.
• During the Spamton Sweepstakes event, one of Noelle's blog posts talks about a "SPECIAL" egg pet she received in the game "Cat Petterz 2" that would make a weird noise when clicked and, unlike the actual Egg item in-game, was impossible to delete. After treating it like a normal pet, it would eventually leave on its own "due to happiness." Additionally, the egg also had an actual name, but Noelle could not remember it.
• The Man Behind the Tree, is where you get the Egg. The existence of the egg is potentially a nod to how putting the word "EGG" Into a Wingdings font Gives you: "☜︎☝︎☝︎" Which is how a knight moves in chess. It is also worth noting that Windings is the language in which Gaster speaks in.