Returning to Adopt Me After a Year or Two: What Your Old Pets Are Worth

Some of your old pets may be worth a lot more now

A retired pet is one the game doesn't hand out anymore: its egg got swapped out or its event ended. No new copies appear, so the only ways to get one are trading or hatching an old egg somebody held on to.

If you played in 2019–2020, odds are you own at least one of these:

The values in this table update every day. Treat them as a starting point for negotiating, not a price anyone owes you.

The original egg pets moved to the Retired Egg

On July 21, 2022 the Cracked, Pet and Royal Eggs got new pets. The originals, including Dragon, Unicorn, Red Panda and Shiba Inu, moved into the Retired Egg. It's sold in the Nursery's VIP room for 600 Bucks, with a 3% legendary chance.

Don't rush to hatch old eggs

Old eggs in your inventory still hatch. Owl and Crow, for example, still come only from a leftover Farm Egg or a trade. Before you hatch one, check what the egg itself trades for and decide whether the gamble is worth it: a Farm Egg rolls a legendary 3% of the time, and an Owl 1.5%.

What retired while you were gone

If your break covered 2026, here's what became trade-only:

• February 28: the Aztec Egg, replaced by the Endangered Egg;
• August 29: the Endangered Egg, replaced by the Fairytale Egg;
• September 11: the Golden and Diamond Eggs from Star Rewards. Their pets moved into the new Gemstone Egg, except Diamond Unicorn, which left the game;
• November 2: the Halloween 2026 pets and items.

Every event's pets also retired when the event ended. The full list is in Retired Pets and Eggs in Adopt Me — Everything That Left in 2026.

How to value an old inventory before your first trade

Returning players mostly get burned the same way: they remember rarity, not value. The classic is giving up a common Chicken for an uncommon Canadian Goose because "uncommon is better." That chicken came from the 2019 Farm Egg and is retired, so the in-game rarity tells you nothing here.

Go in this order:

1. Gather everything in one place. Since August 21, 2026 the game has Storage outside your backpack, with up to 25 tabs. Check both.
2. Note each pet's variant. Normal, neon or mega neon, plus potions: Fly, Ride or both (FR). Age barely moves value, potions move it a lot.
3. Add it all up in inventory value calculator. Enter your pets with their variants and get a total. Check single pets in value list.
4. Don't take quick offers in your first week. See what your pets get in the Trading Hub and run every offer through the trade calculator.

We'd skip the first offers entirely. Until you know values, a generous-looking offer can easily be an L.

Keep old pets away from the Pet Releaser

Since September 12, 2025 the Nursery has a Pet Releaser: you release pets for tickets and spend tickets on Basic and Crystal Eggs. A released pet is gone forever, no undo. A legendary is worth 900 tickets, a neon legendary 18,000. Compare that with what the pet trades for before you let it go.

What changed in trading and the game

These are the changes returning players notice first:

If the new rarity colors throw you off, old and new are compared in Adopt Me Rarities and Their New 2026 Colors. How the Trading Hub works, and why "Decline didn't work," is in Adopt Me Trading Servers, Korean Servers and the Trading Hub.

If your pets are missing

Check Storage first, since some items may have landed there. Then make sure you're on the same account you used to play on.

If pets left through trades, your Trade License history shows them, but only for the last 30 days. If the account was hacked recently, press Report on each of those trades. Change your Roblox password and turn on two-step verification first; the rest is in Adopt Me Scams in 2026: Every Trick and How to Avoid It.