Hatch an egg!

Click on the Hatchery button on the toolbar to view the 6 eggs you start with:


THE HATCHERY

The Hatchery will appear after a second or two. You have a total of 6 eggs initially, 3 containing female Norns and 3 containing male Norns. When you run out, you will be prompted and asked if you'd like additional eggs.

If you move your mouse pointer over the eggs, you can see if they are female or male.

Male egg Female egg
Male Egg Female Egg

Double click on an egg to transfer it into Albia . For the purposes of this guide, we'll hatch a female.

Pick the egg up by moving your hand over it and clicking once with the right mouse button. Then move the hand over the Incubator object and click on the right mouse button once more to release the egg. If the egg doesn't drop into the incubator, try again paying careful attention to where you release the egg.

The egg will take about 30 seconds to hatch, which is the time it takes for Creatures 2 to work through the Digital DNA and build a new creature from scratch.

Your Creature will be unique, its DNA taken from a combination of two parent DNA strands that we include on your CD-ROM. Soon, she'll pop out of the egg. You'll see a BIRTH event appear on the event toolbar. You can double click on this to accept the event - but don't do that just yet!

When she is born, she won't know how to eat, how to breed or how to protect herself. She will feel pain, feel scared, bored and hungry, only she won't know why at first. By experimenting, playing, trying things and exploring - and with your help - she'll gradually learn how to survive.

Click here to register your Norns birth

Will eggs hatch in the wild?

Yes, but it will take some time. It is always quicker to put eggs into the incubator object to hatch them - however, if you just leave the eggs around, they will eventually hatch in the wild unless you touch them. Once you've touched them, though, they go into a state of suspended animation until they are placed in the incubator! TIP: This can be used to store eggs and prevent them from hatching until you want them to!