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Everything you need to know about playing Hatchlings — the rules, the math, and the risks. Plain language, no fine print.
Contents
1. Overview
Hatchlings is a pixel-pet game running on Solana mainnet. You buy an egg with real SOL, hatch it into a creature, and keep it alive by feeding, playing, and cleaning. Healthy pets earn a share of a shared SOL treasury.
2. Connecting a wallet
You need a Solana wallet (Phantom is recommended). Click Connect Walletin the top right. We never see your seed phrase or keys — you sign every transaction yourself and can disconnect at any time.
3. Buying an egg
- Each egg costs 0.05 SOL (plus a tiny network fee).
- Maximum of 2 eggs per wallet, ever.
- Payment goes to the game treasury. Sales are final — no refunds.
4. Hatching
After purchase, your egg appears in your Dashboard. You have 24 hours to hatch it. If you don't, it expires and can't be used. Hatching reveals your creature's rarity — that's decided at hatch time, not at purchase.
5. Rarity & odds
Every hatch rolls one of these five tiers. Base accrual is 0.00005 SOL/second for Common (≈4.32 SOL/day); rarer pets earn more:
- Common — 55% chance · 1.00× base · ≈4.32 SOL/day
- Rare — 25% chance · 1.50× base · ≈6.48 SOL/day
- Epic — 12% chance · 2.00× base · ≈8.64 SOL/day
- Legendary — 5% chance · 2.75× base · ≈11.88 SOL/day
- Mythic — 3% chance · 3.50× base · ≈15.12 SOL/day
Odds and rates are fixed and never change without notice.
6. Caring for your pet
Your pet has three stats: hunger, happiness, and hygiene. All three drop over time.
- Feed to restore hunger.
- Play to restore happiness.
- Clean to restore hygiene.
A pet with all stats healthy earns rewards. A neglected pet earns nothing and eventually dies.
7. Death & memorials
If health hits zero, you get a 6-hour grace period to revive the pet by getting its stats back up. If you don't act in time, the pet dies permanently and moves to the Memorials. Dead pets can't earn or be sold. Solana records are permanent — there's no delete button.
8. Rewards & withdrawals
- Happy living pets accrue SOL daily from the treasury.
- Rarer pets earn more (see the multipliers above).
- Once your unclaimed balance passes the minimum, you can withdraw to your wallet.
- Withdrawals pay a small network fee.
- Rewards depend on treasury health — they can pause or change at any time.
9. Marketplace
List a living pet on the Market for a SOL price. When someone buys it, care of the pet transfers to them along with any future rewards. The game takes a small fee on each sale.
10. In-game shop
The shop sells food, toys, and cleaning supplies with treasury SOL or in-game currency earned from care streaks. Premium items may offer temporary stat boosts, but no item makes a pet immortal.
11. Fees & limits
- Egg price: 0.05 SOL.
- Eggs per wallet: 2 max.
- Hatch window: 24 hours.
- Revive window: 6 hours after death.
- Full breakdown of fees and treasury numbers on the Rules page.
12. Safety & risks
- This is real money on Solana mainnet. Only spend what you can lose.
- SOL prices move up and down — reward value follows.
- Blockchain transactions can't be reversed once signed.
- Some jurisdictions restrict crypto play — check your local rules.
- We never ask for your seed phrase. Anyone who does is a scammer.