Mortal Shell 2 Ova Locations

What are Ova in Mortal Shell 2?

Ova are the oval collectible eggs you obtain throughout the game by cleansing Beacons — PowerPyx's trophy guide describes them as rewards 'always given at the end of Beacons'. They function as the currency of completion: the syphon NPC in Marrow Keep tracks your deposited total, and depositing enough unlocks Mether's Breath early in the campaign (the fast-travel ability detailed in the fast travel guide).

How many Ova are in Mortal Shell 2?

196 — and the collection is tracked by its own achievement, Bring My Ova Back to Me, which Steam records at a 15.7% unlock rate. (Ascension at 16.7% looks similar but is actually the hidden Mango-secret trophy — see our achievement guide for why the two are frequently confused.) Per community help threads the count includes only Ova obtained through Beacon cleansing; boss payouts like Magdalena's famous 26-Ova purse feed the same economy but don't add collection slots beyond what the Beacons hold. If your count stalls below 196, an uncleansed Beacon somewhere is why, not a missed field pickup.

Where to find every Ova

All 196 live inside the game's 49 Beacons — three start pre-cleansed and simply reveal their contents as you discover them, while the other 46 require a cleanse dive (which is why trackers show 46/49 until endgame). The dive order below follows the same region sweep our walkthrough uses, so you can fold cleanses into progression instead of backtracking:

• Disciple's Pass: tutorial beacons walk you through the cleanse loop on scripted dives
• Fainweald south: Widow's Overlook → Mushroom Village + gate pairings — the village area's cleanse teaches the Ova payout rhythm early
• Fainweald north: Blackridge Pass → Stonebled Gate → Hidden Keep run, plus Gloomshade Grove's side cleanes for materials on top of Ova
• Fainweald west → Nochte: Outskirts of Nochte, whose eastern-gate cleanse triggers the Mether's Breath unlock at Marrow Keep's syphon
• Ruins of Mammon outward: every post-boss Beacon from here through The Unfounded Path carries the heavy 26-Ova purses — never skip these even if you're underleveled, because the bug below makes them first-playthrough-critical

The six big payouts: post-boss Beacons pay 26 each

Payouts are not flat across the network. Per PowerPyx's tables, the six Beacons that appear behind each main boss always hold 26 Ova — roughly 156 of your 196 total sits in just those six dives. Whenever your route passes a post-boss Beacon, cleanse it before moving on; postponing them concentrates the entire late-game collection burden into the free-roam window instead of spreading it naturally across the campaign.

Boss fight specifics for reaching each of those gated nodes are mapped boss-by-boss in the boss guide, and what resting at each node does for your build loop is covered in the fast travel guide.

How to check your Ova progress

The Ova Siphon in Marrow Keep reads out your deposited total whenever you interact with it — make a habit of banking after big cleanse runs rather than hoarding, since deposited totals are what trigger both the Mether's Breath unlock and eventually the ending choice itself. There is no separate per-region breakdown anywhere in-game, which is exactly why this page's checklist expands next.

Can you still get all Ova in NG+?

Treat the answer as no until a patch says otherwise. PowerPyx warns that Bring My Ova Back to Me currently can only be earned in your first playthrough due to a bug introduced in a recent patch — entering NG+ without finishing your cleanup can lock the trophy out on that save indefinitely. Finish all 196 before interacting with the Siphon's “Send Ova” option at the end of the game; the endgame free-roam window exists precisely so you can complete this sweep before committing.

What is the Ascension trophy?

Correction from an earlier draft: Ascension is not the Ova trophy. Steam's official stats list Ascension (16.7% unlock rate) as “Discover the secret of the Mango” — the hidden sanctuary quest behind Mether's Flesh and the Outskirts of Nochte cup ritual detailed in the missable content guide. The Ova-collection achievement is the separate Bring My Ova Back to Me entry covered above (15.7%, currently bugged first-playthrough-only). Both sit in the same completion neighborhood, which is why so many guides conflate them.

Its actual sibling on this route is So Fresh, So Clean (7.8%, cleanse every Beacon) — one disciplined pass serves both, and the fuller rare-first ordering plan lives in our achievement guide.

Why don't you list all 49 Beacons individually here?

Because the exact per-node Ova counts haven't been published as clean text anywhere yet — video guides dominate this query space, and transcription without verification is how bad collectible lists spread. Rather than ship 46 guessed numbers, we shipped the verified structure (the 196 total, the 26×6 heavy nodes, the Siphon mechanics, the bug warning) now and will fill in per-Beacon figures as they're confirmed against played saves. The full Beacon locations themselves, region by region, are already catalogued in the fast travel guide.