Dino Run Eggs, DNA and Super Eggs: What Each One Does

Dino Run tracks several kinds of progress: eggs, DNA, bones, super eggs and trophies. They are easy to mix up because the game rarely explains them during a run. Here is what each one does, with the numbers taken from the game itself.

Eggs: continues and DNA

The How to Play screen says eggs preserve your species and earn continues. Regular eggs sit in nests along the route. A dactyl egg that drops from the sky counts as 10 regular eggs. Eggs and eaten critters also slowly turn into DNA. The help screen says you get 1 DNA for every 8 eggs and every 8 critters, and that this gets easier on harder difficulties. The game code matches: the step is 10 on Easy, 8 on Medium, 6 on Hard and 4 on Insane.

DNA: four abilities, five levels each

DNA buys ability upgrades. Every new dino starts at level 1 in all four, and the Stats screen shows five dots for each one.

Ability	What it changes	Cost of levels 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
Speed	Top speed	50 / 100 / 150 / 200 DNA
Accel	How fast you reach top speed	10 / 20 / 40 / 80 DNA
Jump	Maximum jump height	20 / 40 / 80 / 120 DNA
Strength	How easily you move boulders and meteorites	30 / 60 / 90 / 120 DNA

The upgrade screen opens between levels once you have more DNA than the cheapest remaining upgrade costs. There is a trade-off. Unspent DNA also powers the Shift boost: above 250 it adds a jump, and above 500 it adds strength. Spending everything at once gives up that extra.

The ten super eggs

Super eggs are rare eggs hidden in the levels. The Swag page (Stats, then Eggs + Awards) shows a silhouette for each one until you find it. Each egg adds Player Score, DNA and bones:

Super egg	Player Score	DNA	Bones
Spino	2,500	10	50
T-Rex	3,000	15	80
Gigano	4,000	25	50
Alien	5,000	30	100
Oloro	5,000	30	80
Iguanodon	6,000	25	100
Diplodo	7,500	80	200
Rinchenia	7,500	75	150
Magno	10,000	100	300
Bronto	25,000	100	2,000

Finding all ten gives the Chief Headdress hat and another 100,000 Player Score.

Bones

Bones come from milestones and super eggs. The help screen says they unlock new speedruns and downloadable extras. Both are in the Options menu: speedruns on the Speedrun mode list, and extras such as desktop wallpapers, icons and the soundtrack in the Shop.

Milestones and trophies

Milestones are counted across every game played on one saved dino. Bronze, Silver and Gold tiers include 250, 1,000 and 2,000 eggs saved, 100, 250 and 500 runners eaten, boulder rides of 3, 6 and 10 seconds, and doom surfs of 10, 30 and 60 seconds. Earn enough trophies of one tier and the game adds hats:

• All bronze trophies: Schtroumpf Masks and 50,000 Player Score.
• All silver trophies: the Death Head helmet and 100,000 Player Score.
• All gold trophies: Warrior Helmets and 250,000 Player Score.

Colours and hats

You don't have to earn your dino's look. In this web build the arrows under the dino on the title screen cycle through a long list of colour schemes and more than 40 hats from the start. Holding Shift while you click jumps ten colours at a time. The trophy hats above are extras on top of those.

Everything is stored per saved dino in this browser. Create New Dino starts over with fresh stats, and Load Saved Game switches between dinos. Dino Run is made by Pixeljam.