Found my answer. Nvm.

Hello, how can I get more astral bricks? I want to have more pet rooms but socialization isn't giving me any, and summoning used to give some but I just did two summonings with 100 materia and essence each and didn't get a single astral brick ): I'm stuck at 72 out of 125 to build new rooms for the new eggs

@Foxfire Astral bricks are the lowest-rarity summonable item, so if you want to get more bricks you should do a low-rarity summon (avoid putting in gleaming essence or the essences of the four Higher Aspects).

Thanks that worked!

Anyone have a guide on how to get certain eggs by summoning? I haven't gotten any of the new ones + normal egg yet.

@ToraQ

Normal egg is only available during the April fools event (coming in two days!)

I've done summons using purely one element, I can confirm:

Summons
Summons
Summons

Is the april fools event happening yet? I want to get the normal eggs Also where are the guides to food in the kitchen?

@Foxfire

I think April Fools will go live in 10 minutes during rollover!

Jet made a handy recipe guide image! But if you'd prefer a guide written in a room description, Avain made a really nice one!
(There is no official guide to encourage player made guides!)

@Hypercube34
Is there a place in the forums for these guides? I remember people talked about it when Epi mentioned forums were under development to keep it all in one place

Edit: I used up all my prima materia and gleaming essence and didn't get a single Normal Egg =_=

@Foxfire

I just realized there isn't a guide section in the forums (I guess someone could make one in Dopcom Discussion, because as Gameplay Mechanics and Help gets larger, it increases the odds of the answer being out there but not easy to find without a forum search feature)

I think normal eggs will show up in serendipity events, I don't remember if they can be summoned.

@Foxfire Hypercube is right; Normal Eggs come from random events rather than from summoning.

Questions Attack Time...

1. How can I get This Egg to be the little cat laying down one? It's very cute and i dont wanna miss it

2. I know the capsule machine will be here past today but will the egg events and weird colors be around longer too?

@Cometcats i'm not sure about question 1( i'm not sure if the normal eggs have set affinities, tbh? last year the april fools event was a couple weeks after the public beta opened, and there was a lot less strategy to raising pets then. could be that they've since been given set affinities, but it's hard to tell what they are since there were very few new ones being raised. looking at people's scrapbooks, maybe try heart affinity??)

to answer question 2, yes!! the whole event is 2 weeks long, so there should be plenty of time to get more normal eggs :)

okay asking this here since i'm not sure if it's an actual bug or if i'm just confused on how this works — twice now since the new update i've had a pet get to the final stage of growth, and gotten a "Your pet grew! Factors influencing this pet's growth include:" message. that's been the whole message both times, without anything after the colon to say what factors influenced growth?
do we only get specifics if we do something beyond feeding pets affinity/power boosting foods?? idek what that would really be...

@wit This is actually a bug. When a pet grows from one form to another, if you have equipped a Clarity Charm, you will see what factors influenced the growth (most commonly, affinity to a specific aspect). But if a pet is already in its final stage and it becomes marked as "fully grown", that message shouldn't be showing up at all.

(If you're seeing the empty message when a pet's sprite actually changes, then that would be a different bug, one that is more serious! I'll take a look and see what's going on here.)

@EpiglottalAxolotl okay good to know ksldfj;sld to be clear, i'm getting this message when the pet grows up & changes sprites, not when they're already in the final stage or switching to fully grown.

in my experience, prior to the update, when a pet grew, the message would be "your pet grew! x items were produced in the process." post-update, it's now "your pet grew! factors influencing this pet's growth include:" with a separate message of "when your pet grew, x items were produced." both variations put the onus on the clarity charm + player interpretation to determine what affinities ultimately influenced the pet's form, but the new message seems to imply it's going to explicitly say what aspects play into certain forms, and then just doesn't 😅

also, if it helps, the most recent pet growth that inspired me to ask about this is my chilly pet in the endless tower of sanity

@wit Yeah, it looks like that was a bug. It should be fixed now: this pet grew in both of the two most recent rollovers, and the log says "random chance" on one and "high affinity to frost" on the other.

what texture does the normal egg fall under? in relation to the grooming system and items that are meant for specific textures like fur or smooth (feather duster, comb)
like do they count as smooth or something else or do they not have a texture assigned? Not super important but just a silly question I had for a while lol

does grooming a pet with one item 'overwrite' a previous grooming? like, yesterday i used conditioner on all my pets because i'm gonna be super busy for a bit. so i think they should have 6 days til they need grooming again. but if i find the time and decide to groom them, would that reset the timer back to 3 days?

@toybox That's actually part of a "traits" system that is going to be used for a lot of things in the future. (It was supposed to be used for determining the message you get when socializing with a pet, but I just realized that wasn't actually working quite right—I'm fixing that now.) The pets that have the "fur" trait are all forms of the Small, Blue, Yellow, and Sneaky eggs, as well as the two "standing" fully-grown outcomes of the Normal Egg. The pets that have the "feather" trait are all forms of the Chilly egg.

@dinsfire24 It will use whichever number is larger. So if you have 6 days left from the conditioner on one day and then you use a cleansing shampoo, you'll still have 5 days left on the next day, but if you have only 1 day left from the conditioner and you use a brush it will go back up to 3.