The Great Bloom is the first major event in Steal An Egg. It takes over the Cherry Blossom zone on a short loop and pays out Sakura Crystals, which are the only resource the Sakura Incubator accepts when it applies exclusive mutations to eggs.
Quick answer: Be in Cherry Blossom when The Great Bloom starts, hit the special Sakura trees with your baseball bat for Sakura Crystals, then charge an egg in the unlocked Sakura Incubator to at least 100 percent for a Bloom or Spirit Bloom roll.
Great Bloom spawn time in Cherry Blossom
Cherry Blossom is the last zone on the map and the only place The Great Bloom appears. The event returns every 30 minutes on server time. A message shows up on screen when it begins, so you do not have to guess whether the window is open.
The live window is short. The Great Bloom lasts about three minutes, then the special trees disappear until the next cycle. If you are still crossing the map when the message pops, you will lose most of the harvest. Sit in Cherry Blossom before the timer hits zero.
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Zone | Cherry Blossom |
| Repeat | Every 30 minutes |
| Length | About 3 minutes |
| Start signal | On-screen message |
After the Sakura Incubator is unlocked, a timer sits on top of the machine and shows the next Great Bloom spawn. Use that clock instead of counting from memory if you are already set up in the zone.
Unlock the Sakura Incubator with a Crane
The Sakura Incubator sits at the back of Cherry Blossom. It stays sealed until you offer it a Crane. That pet is an Epic unit from Cherry Blossom eggs and it generates $4K per second, so you need enough speed to steal eggs in that last zone before you can open the machine.
If the incubator still refuses eggs, the Crane was not submitted. Walk back to the machine at the rear of Cherry Blossom and complete the offer. The trees in The Great Bloom also stay unbreakable until this unlock is done.
Farm Sakura Crystals during Great Bloom
Sakura Crystals only come from the special Sakura trees that spawn around Cherry Blossom while The Great Bloom is active. Those trees are not part of the normal zone layout. When the event starts, equip the baseball bat you have had since the start of the game and hit the trees.
The bat is the whole interaction. There is no second tool and no separate crystal node. Each hit on a live Sakura tree is what produces the crystals you later dump into the incubator.
The trees will not break if the Sakura Incubator is still locked. Showing up for the three-minute window without a submitted Crane wastes the cycle. Unlock the machine first, then treat every later spawn as a crystal farm.
Because the event is so brief, the useful habit is positional. Stand in Cherry Blossom before the 30-minute mark, watch for the on-screen message or the incubator timer, then spend the whole window on trees. The same loop comes back half an hour later if you need another stack of crystals.
Charge the Sakura Incubator for Bloom mutations
The incubator applies two mutations that exist only on this machine, Bloom and Spirit Bloom. You place an egg, spend Sakura Crystals to charge it, and the roll happens after the charge crosses the mutation line.
| Charge or roll | Result |
|---|---|
| Below 100% | No mutation |
| 100% | Mutation unlocks |
| Up to 150% | Extra charge allowed |
| Bloom | 97.5% chance |
| Spirit Bloom | 2.5% chance |
You know the unlock worked when the incubator accepts an egg and shows a charge value. You know the mutation worked when the processed egg comes back with Bloom or Spirit Bloom. If charge sits under 100 percent, the egg will not mutate and you need more Sakura Crystals from the next Great Bloom.
The loop stays the same after the first Crane. Wait in Cherry Blossom, hit Sakura trees for three minutes, then push the next egg to 100 percent charge and take the Bloom or Spirit Bloom roll.
