A sea run is the opened lane between the waves. It succeeds only when the egg you picked up is still with you at base. Distance, Open Time, Power, Speed, and the guardian on that lane all spend the same timer.
Set the turn-back before you charge
Choose one egg and one homeward landmark. Leave spare time for a missed jump, a collision, and the moment you stop to confirm the pickup. If the last run arrived as the water was already closing, the next run should be shorter even if a rarer egg is visible past it.
Official promo art shows the lane with walls of water on both sides, a guardian behind the runner, and an egg in hand. That is the situation the return is built for. The income numbers printed on those images, such as $9T/s, are key art. Use the Cash figure on your own animal panel.
When a guardian catches you
A hit drops the egg and flings the character back into the Safe Zone. The late September 2026 session shows the same failure against a T-Rex, then a cleaner escape after a Speed upgrade. Getting caught is a route result, not a bug by itself.
If the same guardian catches you twice:
- Stop adding eggs.
- Repeat a closer pickup, or buy Speed and test that same pickup again.
- Only go back to the guardian when the shorter trip has spare time.
A side pocket can reset the lane. In that session the player runs deep, steps into a side area, and treats the reset as a fresh opening for a rarer egg. Use that only after a normal return already works. Entering a pocket you cannot leave still loses the egg.
Carry is a second trip, not a longer one
Carry raises how many eggs you can hold. The video buys up to three. Buy it when an extra egg is already on a path you can finish. A full inventory of eggs you drop in the wave is not progress.
After the run
Place what you actually carried. If the hatch name surprises you, keep it and read its earnings. Then decide whether the next purchase is Speed, Open Time, Power, or a better placed animal. Do not change all four between two runs, or you will not know which one saved the egg.
The first trip is First Egg Run. Buy order is Speed, Carry, and What to Buy Next. Guardian notes are under Guardians.