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Raise an Anomaly Beginner Guide

Worldview and first-session order before you chase Merge or a new zone.

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Official lab artwork for a first-session Raise an Anomaly beginner guide
Your first home is the lab. Everything else is a steal you have to return from.

Raise an Anomaly beginner guide: the world

This Raise an Anomaly beginner guide starts with the fiction the store page actually prints. You are not raiding a dungeon. You run a small SCP-styled lab, steal eggs from monsters, hatch them, feed the babies, and spend the money on the lab.

The Roblox listing title is Raise an Anomaly (SCP). Servers hold 5 players. There are 0 badges. There is no official weapon list and no official boss list. If a thumbnail promised a raid, ignore it.

The loop you must feel once

Do these four things in order before you open Merge or a New Zone: steal one egg, hatch it, feed the baby, collect lab cash. That is the whole official description, turned into a checklist.

Codes are optional. FAIRY gives a Fairy Cake, which is food, but a cake does not teach you the steal. Learn the steal first.

  • Steal one egg and make it home.
  • Hatch it in the lab.
  • Feed it at least once.
  • Spend the first cash on the limiter you actually felt (Speed or food), not on Luck.
Official crib-steal artwork
The first skill is the grab, not the shop.

What the lab is for

The lab is a tycoon plot with containment art: baby on the floor, food crates, red moon. Park the hatch here. If the plot is empty, you are playing a stealth game with no income.

Community machines (treadmill, Luck, Plot, Toy Roller, Merge) live in this room. You do not need their formulas on day one. You need one paying body.

What not to do in the first hour

Do not dump your only anomaly into Merge. Recipes are unpublished. Do not buy Luck because a wiki said it helps rares. Do not leave the starting crib for the New Zone until one loop is stable.

Do not paste random “anomaly codes” from other games. Animal Hospital and Anomaly Cafe collide on the same search. Only FAIRY is source-checked here.

How this guide connects to the rest

Controls, steal, hatch, and feed are the next four guides. First zone is the starting-map walkthrough. New zone is the 16 September addition. Admin Abuse is the Saturday event.

The wiki pages behind those guides (eggs, speed, lab, food, levels) are reference. Use guides when you need a route; use wiki when you need a definition.

If you are stuck on…Open
Keys / HUDControls guide
The grab and the chaseSteal eggs guide
Egg sitting unusedHatch guide
Baby not growingFeed guide

First-session success test

You are done with this beginner guide when a hatched anomaly is in the lab, has been fed, and you know where the next egg would come from. Everything after that is optimisation.

If you failed the steal, do not buy a gamepass. All four passes were not for sale on the 16 September 2026 API snapshot anyway.

Official feeding artwork as the beginner success picture
A fed baby is the first-session win condition.

FAQ

Raise an Anomaly Beginner Guide FAQ

What should I do first in the Raise an Anomaly beginner guide?

Steal one egg, hatch it, feed it, collect cash. Redeem FAIRY after that loop works once.

Is Raise an Anomaly a horror combat game?

It is a Simulation Tycoon with SCP art and occasional/mild fear tags. The published loop is steal, hatch, feed, upgrade — not a weapon loadout.