Summon Hollow Egg
Summon Hollow Egg is a projectile spell that creates a hollow egg and flings it in an arc. The egg will crack open when it hits an enemy or surface with anything above a very gentle impact. Upon breaking, it triggers (casts) the next spell in the wand. The egg itself has only a small, weak explosion which is not usually large enough to damage enemies or you; the damage shown when the egg breaks is the damage the egg itself took which caused it to break.
Uses
Eggs have a number of special properties which makes this spell quite useful. Eggs can be carried directly in your inventory like potions or other objects, which allows them to be created ahead of time and then thrown like a customisable grenade.
Being rigid-body physics objects, eggs can be summoned in large numbers without releasing their payload, if they are handled carefully, making them useful for preparing particularly potent traps. Additionally, when you die or are polymorphed, any eggs being carried in your inventory are automatically cracked open. The Lukki Mutation perk can climb on the eggs allowing you to traverse open spaces with eggs.
Launching
Throwing the egg normally usually will give it sufficient impact force to break, but it may not always, depending on the direction you need to fire it. Instead of lobbing them normally, eggs can be fired more directly by double-casting the Summon Hollow Egg spell alongside Burst of Air to turn them into something more like traditional trigger spells. It's also possible to pack the Summon Hollow Egg spell inside another trigger spell as a delivery mechanism.
If shot directly with sufficient force, such as with Burst of Air, the egg may bounce back when shot towards a body of liquid. Eggs also bounce off shields without breaking, with an unusual rubber-banding ricochet after passing through the shield a short distance.
Storing Eggs
Spells can be 'stored' within an egg, by casting the wand and catching the egg (picking it up into item inventory) before it hits anything. This can be done most easily by casting into water, or just aiming directly up and catching it as it falls.[1]
Piles of eggs can be prepared ahead of time, and then detonated more or less all at once with an explosion, creating quite violent combination attacks.
Emergencies
When you are polymorphed, any eggs held in the inventory get dropped and release their spell, potentially allowing for you to hold an egg that automatically casts defensive spells to protect you from a swift death. Chunk of Soil or Circle of Shielding tend to be particularly helpful spells for this use.
Explosives
If Explosive Projectile is applied to Summon Hollow Egg, the egg itself will violently explode for 325 damage when it breaks open. This can be used to create highly effective grenades, although the explosion can damage you very easily. This will work even if the egg itself has no additional payload.
This combination of spells causes trick kills, and enemies killed this way will drop double the Gold.
Return
This spell combines well with Return, allowing travel in/out of the Holy Mountain without its collapse, and other more complicated maneuvers.[2]
Upwarping
If cast in the right way, the egg can be forced into the ceiling, and so into the closest open-space above. This enables upwards travel with the use of a Return spell. (techniques vary and are somewhat inconsistent). See this short recording for examples.
Caster unknown trick
By dragging and dropping an egg filled with spells from your inventory, you can release magic of unknown casters.
This technique has synergy with Boomerang Spells, which normally homing on you but will home-in on the enemy if the caster is unknown. Boomerang spells have a wider range, more inductive power, and more damage than homing, so they can be used in combination with wall-piercing circle spells and other spells to wipe out creatures.
It also works well with spells like Summon Swarm, which have homing capabilities towards you by default.
In the case of Summon Omega Sawblade, it prevents homing against you, but does not home-into enemies.
- It will always be a trick kill due to unknown caster. More Gold/Guaranteed Blood Money
- Will not swap with Vaihdosmestari (swapper) due to unknown caster.
- Eat Your Vegetables damage boost does not apply.
- Some Perks such as Homing Shots do not apply.
- Hit effect will not be applied such as Water (Spell) will not apply
Wet.
Exploit
Trivia
- Prior to Patch #8 (Dec 19 2019), this spell had a charge limit of 3, similar to the other Summon Egg spell.
See Also
History
- Apr 8 2024:
- Removed the spawn probabilities for tiers 3 and 4.
- Changed the spawn probabilities on tiers 0, 2, and 6 from 0.8 to 0.6, 0.7, and 0.3 respectively.
- Dec 19 2019:
- Decreased its base shop price from 190
to 140 . - Decreased its mana usage from 70 to 30.
- Increased its max uses from 20 to unlimited.
- Decreased its cast delay from +0.2s to -0.2s.
- Decreased its base shop price from 190
- Nov 5 2019: Added to the game.
Notes
- ↑ Eggs will only retain their stored spells for the current session. Saving and reloading the game will cause the game to "forget" which spells were in the egg, and it will behave the same way a completely empty egg would.
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/noita/comments/xbfdvd/the_hell_orb_heist_with_just_hollow_egg_return/
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