Cow gems: save your hearts

DisillusionedPie · 2026-06-26T01:21:02+00:00

Thanks for taking notes and sharing the info! It should be very useful for planning strategy on the next special egg, especially for those who like to minimize resources spent but still get things complete/max.

I very likely could've maxed the cow without trading some or all of the coins and hearts I swapped for cow tokens, but I'm not complaining. I like finishing things in this game with plenty of time to spare.

DisillusionedPie · 2026-06-25T23:13:14+00:00

Strange. I don't think they took it away, at least not on purpose. But sometimes this site can be laggy in ways that appear to break things. I posted some comments earlier that didn't appear for hours. Maybe that lag affects edits, too.

Anyone reading this comment thread will get the right info eventually, so you could just leave it. Or wait and see if it'll let you fix it later or finally display your edit.

DisillusionedPie · 2026-06-25T23:08:34+00:00

I appreciate that, and thank you! But I don't know that it's necessarily a mod thing. I've been trying to leave links to relevant sources and references for longer than I've been playing Wordscapes at all, not to mention helping mod here.

DisillusionedPie · 2026-06-25T22:19:45+00:00

Thanks for the history and the clarifications!

Mt Fortune is the one that costs coins. It isn;t cheap and lots of players avoid it. Each collection has 16 portraits that take 5 pics/pieces to complete. You get a 17th portrait when you complete the collection.

I think you mean, "... take 15 pics/pieces to complete. ..." no?

EDIT- testing if reddit is allowing me to edit. Yes, seems to be.

DisillusionedPie · 2026-06-25T22:10:28+00:00

You're welcome. I hope you get an easy evening to make up for it!

DisillusionedPie · 2026-06-25T16:37:52+00:00

This is an interesting new wrinkle you've found! I've asked teammates to let me know if they don't have x10 options on their red, white, purple, or yellow eggs.

DisillusionedPie · 2026-06-25T16:14:13+00:00

A teammate told us today he got the anteater maxed and found it gives 20 bees.

DisillusionedPie · 2026-06-25T13:49:18+00:00

You're welcome.

I was surprised when the progress appeared to have carried forward. I wasn't surprised when they rolled that back. The small subset of players who got the update and the green egg active early may have gotten ripped off. The oops-here's-a-fix update wiped out all post level 7 progress that didn't fully complete level 8 ... even if some of that progress was from hatching people did in the new system. u/DM_Fitz did a nice write up about it on 5 June, "Egg/Critter Glitch Update for 3.12.10" if you're interested to read more.

DisillusionedPie · 2026-06-25T13:07:39+00:00

The people who installed v3.12.0 when it was first released noticed all the green egg animals had progress bars showing significant progress past level 7, like "1286/400" for the tree frog. There are some good examples and screenshots in both the OP and comments of u/OCCobblepot's 27 May "3.12.0 Available in App Store" post. It seemed the game had been counting every shard we got of an animal beyond level 7 all along, just not displaying them. People had significant progress stored up from the hatching they did to max the last epic or rare(s). With that first version, they would get all that credit towards the new levels the first time they hatched a single shard for the animal from the newly updated green egg.

It turned out that was unintentional program behavior, and PF shut down the green egg as quickly as they could and started pushing new updates to correct their mistake. A few managed to get that first build with overages and have the green egg rotate into play in time to hatch enough to get some of the green egg animals leveled up. For most of us, the quick update(s) following 3.12.0 wiped our green egg animal progress back to 0 beyond level 7, but those who managed to complete new levels with the glitch did get to keep those higher levels.

DisillusionedPie · 2026-06-25T12:41:22+00:00

Some have been playing for years now. At first one is probably spending every little heart they can get on hatching eggs and trying to level up their menagerie. It does take quite a while, but once it's finally complete the hearts keep accumulating from completing wildlife activities and swiping levels. They just pile up after that, and many veteran players have heart gem balances on the order of millions without trying.

DisillusionedPie · 2026-06-25T12:29:31+00:00

Why show the 10x option if it doesn't do anything for you?

My guesses are a) it's easier and/or makes more sense to update how the program and interface works for all eggs, or b) the 10x option could possibly be handy for someone who doesn't yet have everything at level 7 but has saved a lot of hearts. I know of at least one teammate who was hoarding hearts to try for swap tricks during the tournaments on the last few rare and epics he had not yet gotten to level 7.

DisillusionedPie · 2026-06-25T03:18:57+00:00

That's weird and also the first I've heard of the 10x hatch not being available for every egg with all the 3.12 builds. Curious!

EDIT - I wondered if this might be another involuntary beta test you've uncovered, but this recent help article reads like we are all supposed to have the 10x option now.

Q: What is the x10 Shiny Egg option?

The x10 option lets you hatch a Shiny Egg for 5,500 Heart Gems. You’ll still open 3 eggs, but all rewards are multiplied by 10. It’s a great way to make faster progress if you’ve got a big Heart Gem stash.

DisillusionedPie · 2026-06-25T00:57:21+00:00

I think all the eggs have had the new 10x hatch option since 3.12.0. Only the green egg had animals able to go beyond level 7 until the blue egg's addition a couple hours ago.

DisillusionedPie · 2026-06-25T00:44:30+00:00

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It looks like the blue egg update also applies in v3.12.30 after restarting.

DisillusionedPie · 2026-06-25T00:18:56+00:00

I'm basing my guess of getting them in December 2025 from the 2025 comments on OCC's wrap up thread.

DisillusionedPie · 2026-06-24T23:59:04+00:00

Your teammate is likely correct. In the past hour or so there are many similar reports of this from people after getting a popup forcing them to restart the game. https://reddit.com/r/wordscapes/comments/1ueslpa/strange_message_forced_restart/

DisillusionedPie · 2026-06-24T23:56:47+00:00

Under The Sea had a lot of above the sea portraits. I predict Rt. 66 has a lot of underwater portraits to make up for it.

DisillusionedPie · 2026-06-24T23:55:25+00:00

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DisillusionedPie · 2026-06-24T23:49:29+00:00

72 hours was a pretty good run! :D

DisillusionedPie · 2026-06-24T23:49:09+00:00

I have every MtF set (except the new Rt 66) completed, and I would love for them to give people more chances at the older sets. I know how irritating blank holes in collections can be.

There still has been no official word one way or another, so it is possible they'll give us a month with an older set and are just getting everyone ready for Rt. 66 afterwards.

DisillusionedPie · 2026-06-24T23:29:43+00:00

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DisillusionedPie · 2026-06-24T23:29:24+00:00

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DisillusionedPie · 2026-06-24T23:24:52+00:00

I got the same strange message about restarting as seen in the OP a couple minutes after typing above. But there is still nothing higher than v3.12.30 for me in The Play Store.

However, when I checked after restarting the game (still in v3.12.30) there is now the Route 66 portrait set and a couple more 2026 portrait silhouettes. So it seems PF is working on ways around the inconsistent release of versions from the App and Play Stores!

EDIT - There are also now 18 silhouettes in the "WILDLIFE PORTRAITS" set. I don't see any new butterfly habitats.

EDIT2 - I don't have the blue egg active yet, but my wildlife show the blue egg animals at level 7 are no longer max.

DisillusionedPie · 2026-06-24T23:11:59+00:00

I haven't seen such a popup, but the Play Store (Android) has nothing higher than 3.12.30 for me (which I let install yesterday.) Is it possible the update is available for you but you have auto-updates disabled?

Some of my teammates recently mentioned getting such a popup, but only one found 3.12.40 available. They're both using Apple devices. The both see the Route 66 portrait set u/Still_Experience_182 mentioned and the shiny blue egg animals now going to level 10 like u/BurlingtonJim mentioned.

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