Deepwing Egg Clump

Deepwing Egg Clumps are laid by Deepwing Brooders. They can be easily identified by their distinct texture and significantly larger size compared to their smaller counterparts, which will dissolve upon approach.

The Deepwing Egg Clump can also be used in the Bioreactor for power.

Upon consumption, the Deepwing Egg Clump will provide the user with +40 Food and +40 Water, making it one of the best sources for nutrition in the entire game, especially considering that it is one of the few food sources that does not need any further processing in a fabricator to be viable. It can also be processed into Pavlova, providing +80 Food, +70 Water and +10 Health.

Uses in Crafting

• Pavlova

Databank Entry

Deepwing Egg Clump

An egg cluster laid by the deepwing brooder, Titanotagmatapterya amalthea. Unfertilized eggs swimming in a bath of nutritious fatty acids and organoleads. These clusters are an excellent meal for organisms that can tolerate heavy metals.

The brooder's fat-rich diet produces a surplus of oils. The most nutritious oil is loaded into the yolk sac of egg clusters and filled with all the proteins and lead that brooder larvae need.

The remainder forms decoy bubbles filled with saline. The clean serum in these decoys is an ideal breeding and feeding ground for microfauna, who race to enter the bubble and pillage the safe interior before the competition arrives.

Deepwing brooders are a major contributor to the 'marine snow' that makes life in the deeper ocean possible. It is conceivable (though not certain) that the Axum may have bred or engineered the brooders to increase their egg yield.

Assessment: ideal food source.

Source: Scan a Deepwing Egg Clump

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In Game

Trivia

• The current sprite for the Deepwing Egg Clump item is a distorted version of the Lucifer Rotsac coloured blue.