How to Catch Butterflies in Steal an Egg: Butterfly Bloom (2026)

To catch butterflies in Steal an Egg, you have to finish the Wisp quests, open the hidden tree, and pick up the free Butterfly Net from its center. After that, equip the net when Butterfly Bloom starts and swing at the butterflies around you. Skip either step and nothing spawns for you at all.

It’s worth the effort. Butterflies are the only route to Enchanted Essence, the item that guarantees the Enchanted mutation on an egg. One Essence costs 240 Emerald, 115 Sapphire, 40 Amethyst and 1 Radiant Butterfly, so you’ll want a clean plan before the first bloom.

Everything here covers the Enchanted Forest biome as it launched with Update 7.

What You Need Before a Single Butterfly Will Appear

Butterfly Bloom is not open to everyone who walks into the biome. The butterfly spawns only show up for players who have opened the tree and claimed the net. If you miss one step, the event comes and goes with nothing to catch.

Requirement	What it means
Speed	50 billion Speed. Below that, the Wisp won’t spawn for you
Wisp quests	Three Grow Your Wisp quests, until Wisp reaches Stage 4
Tree access	Pick Return the Wisp, then interact with the tree behind the biome boss
Butterfly Net	Free, sitting in the center of the secret room

The three quests are simple on paper. You steal the biome’s eggs (the eight new pets hatch from these), complete one fusion with one of the biome’s pets at the base Fuse Machine, then steal any Eternal egg. Any biome counts for the last one.

If you’re stuck on a step, the full Wisp questline breakdown covers it. Once Wisp is at Stage 4, you can unlock the Enchanted Tree and walk inside.

Where to Get the Butterfly Net

Step onto the glowing circle in the middle of the tree’s interior. The net lands in your inventory for free.

Grab it before you start waiting for a bloom. Without it, the event passes you by. Equip it from your hotbar, then head out.

When Does Butterfly Bloom Start?

Most write-ups say Butterfly Bloom runs every 30 minutes, with community reports pinning it to the :15 and :45 marks of each hour. Sportskeeda’s patch-note summary, which the outlet says it took from the game’s official Discord, repeats the 30-minute figure.

There’s a catch. TechWiser describes the event as random, and StealEgg’s own update page lists the :15/:45 schedule as still needing independent confirmation. So treat the clock as a good guess, not a promise.

A sensible habit: be standing in the biome a couple of minutes before :15 and :45 with the net already equipped, and watch for the on-screen event notification. If the schedule turns out to be random, the notification still has you covered.

How to Catch Butterflies During Butterfly Bloom: Step by Step

1. Equip the Butterfly Net before the event notification fires.
2. Stay inside the biome. The butterflies appear in the biome’s event area, not back at your base.
3. Move close to a butterfly, then use the net to catch it.
4. Check the on-screen message. It names the butterfly you caught and your running total, which is the easiest way to track your butterfly count mid-bloom.
5. Keep moving. The event ends, so chase the next butterfly instead of waiting for stragglers.

Emerald Butterflies are the most common catch. The Radiant Butterfly is rare, but it can appear in the wild during a bloom, so if you spot one, drop everything and go for it. One Radiant saves you thousands of lower-tier catches (the math is below).

Emerald to Radiant: How the Butterfly Tiers Trade Up

You don’t have to catch every tier by hand. The Conversion Center inside the tree swaps lower butterflies for higher ones.

You trade	You get	Worth in Emerald catches*
10 Emerald	1 Sapphire	10
10 Sapphire	1 Amethyst	100
50 Amethyst	1 Radiant	5,000

*My own arithmetic from the conversion rates, not an in-game figure.

That last row is the whole story. Making a Radiant from scratch means grinding through 5,000 Emerald-equivalents, which is why a lucky wild Radiant is such a big deal.

What One Enchanted Essence Really Costs

Take your butterflies to the Enchanted Mutation Shrine and redeem this recipe:

Butterfly	Amount needed
Emerald	240
Sapphire	115
Amethyst	40
Radiant	1

Add it up and you need 396 butterflies if you catch every tier directly. If you convert everything up from Emerald instead, the same recipe equals roughly 10,390 Emerald Butterflies (240 + 1,150 + 4,000 + 5,000). Again, that’s my calculation from the posted rates.

Two practical takeaways follow from the numbers:

• Keep 240 Emerald untouched. Only trade the surplus above that upward, since the recipe needs Emerald and Sapphire separately.
• Don’t convert blindly. Work out what the shrine still needs before you spend anything at the Conversion Center.

Why Can’t I See Any Butterflies?

This is the most common complaint, and the cause is almost always one of these:

• You haven’t opened the tree yet.
• You opened it but never claimed the net from the center circle.
• The bloom isn’t active. Check for the event notification.
• You’re outside the biome’s event area.
• You haven’t hit the 50B Speed gate, so the Wisp quests never started.

Run through that list top to bottom and you’ll find it.

After the Essence: Applying the Enchanted Mutation

Use the Enchanted Essence on an egg before it hatches. The mutation is guaranteed (100% chance), which is the whole point of the grind. Normal mutation rolls leave it to chance.

One warning: Steal an Egg has no code system. Any site promising free Essence or butterfly codes is a scam, so ignore it and farm the bloom instead.

What’s Still Unconfirmed

A few details differ between sources, and I’d rather flag them than pick a favorite:

• Bloom timing. Every 30 minutes at :15/:45 per community reports, random per TechWiser.
• Quest 1 egg count. Some guides say 10 eggs, others say 20. Check your quest tracker.
• A “0.5% Ethereal Prism Butterfly.” One site lists this rare catch plus a 3-5 minute spawn cycle. No other source mentions either, and the numbers contradict the rest, so I’ve left them out.

Next bloom, walk in with the net equipped, keep every Emerald you can, and treat any Radiant sighting as the priority.