Bonuses / Friday to Sunday, every week

Hatch Haste

Hatch Haste is the standing weekend bonus: from Friday 04:00 to Monday 04:00 on your server clock, every qualifying Hatchinator runs at double speed.

Do it todayLoading the Hatchinator before Friday 04:00 halves an egg you were going to hatch anyway.
A row of Hatchinators working through a shelf of Aniimo eggs

When it runs

Sep 18 – Sep 20 to Dec 4 – Dec 6

Friday to Sunday, every week

Aniimo-America runs on UTC-4, fixed all year. Windows open and close at 04:00 server time.

What Hatch Haste is

The client stores this one as a weekday rule rather than a dated event, which is why it has no announced end. It opens on weekday 5 and closes at the end of weekday 7, every week.

It applies to Hatchinators in the Outpost, in Astra and at Home. An egg already incubating when the window opens has its remaining time halved on the spot, and an egg that received the speed-up keeps it after the window closes.

Halving matters most at the top of the ladder. A Rare egg takes 10 minutes and a Prismatic egg 10 hours, so the same weekend turns a 10-hour wait into 5 and a 10-minute wait into 5 minutes.

Every window

DatesRoundWhat changes
Sep 18 – Sep 20Friday to SundayFriday to Sunday, every week
Sep 25 – Sep 27Friday to SundayFriday to Sunday, every week
Oct 2 – Oct 4Friday to SundayFriday to Sunday, every week
Oct 9 – Oct 11Friday to SundayFriday to Sunday, every week
Oct 16 – Oct 18Friday to SundayFriday to Sunday, every week
Oct 23 – Oct 25Friday to SundayFriday to Sunday, every week
Oct 30 – Nov 1Friday to SundayFriday to Sunday, every week
Nov 6 – Nov 8Friday to SundayRunning now
Nov 13 – Nov 15Friday to SundayFriday to Sunday, every week
Nov 20 – Nov 22Friday to SundayFriday to Sunday, every week
Nov 27 – Nov 29Friday to SundayFriday to Sunday, every week
Dec 4 – Dec 6Friday to SundayFriday to Sunday, every week

How to take part

  1. Fill every Hatchinator slot before Friday 04:00Eggs already running get their remaining time halved the moment the window opens, so loading early is strictly better than loading late.
  2. Start the longest eggs firstHalving a long timer saves more real hours than halving a short one.
  3. Start a cycle before the window closesRemaining time on an egg that already received the event speed-up is not clawed back on Monday.
  4. Stack the Monthly Pass correctlyWith the Monthly Pass, the event halving applies first when hatching begins and the pass benefit, a flat 2-hour reduction, is applied after it.

What it pays

  • Halved hatch timeOutpost, Astra and Home Hatchinators
  • Legendary egg in 2 h 30Down from 5 hours
  • Prismatic egg in 5 hoursDown from 10 hours

The best line of play

  • Treat Thursday night as the deadline. Every slot you leave empty until Saturday wastes half of the bonus it could have collected.
  • Queue the Prismatic and Legendary eggs first. Halving a 10-hour timer saves 5 hours; halving a 10-minute Rare egg saves 5 minutes.
  • Check what an egg actually hatches before you queue it. The Egg Almanac reverse lookup finds the pool for an exact form.

Go deeper