apart from looting them for eggs.. is there any other purpose to them? any unique items/lore/mines?

A few are involved in quests but other than that, not really.

Lore wise, they are a large part of the economy on Vvardenfell, since mining eggs is a very profitable industry.
The eggs are a basic food that everyone eats.

That's correct.

As for their interest to players, some egg mines are quest related, but aside from those, I haven't really found anything of particular interest in them beyond perhaps providing ingredients for potions to sell or practice alchemy, since kwama eggs are fairly heavy, I don't really bother using them in potions I actually intend to keep, if I need restore fatigue potions, I prefer lighter ingredients like saltrice. In any case, I generally don't bother exploring egg mines unless I have a quest that requires me to enter one.

I think the main reason the developers put egg mines in the game is to help create the illusion of a living world rather than to be dungeons for players to loot, after all, food is a basic requirement for people to live, so if you want to create a believable world, it's only natural that you'd adress some of the places it comes from.

Eggzactly.

Eggmines are also good for hiding in when you are a vampire and are caught out in the sun.

Well there is at least one egg mine with some decent loot, and another that's got an interesting lower level. The first is hard to find, the second incredibly easy. Can't go into specifics here though.

I C WUT U DID THAR

Food. Economy. Very well done opposed to Oblivions one tomato garden feeding an entire province.

You are eggsaggerating a bit, don't you think?

All right, you people asked for this.

What do you call a Kwama egg that goes on safari? An eggs-plorer!
What do you call a mischievious Kwama egg? A practical yolker.
Why can't you tease Kwama egg whites? Because they can't take a yolk!
What kind of Kwama egg lives by the sea? An egg shell.
What happens when you tell a Kwama egg a joke? It cracks up!
Why did the Kwama Queen lay an egg? Because it would break if she dropped it!
Why did the Kwama Queen lay her eggs on a axe? She wanted to hachet!
How can you drop a Kwama egg six feet without breaking it? By dropping it seven feet. It won't break for the first six.

:rofl: These are so (eggstremely) corny they're almost funny.

so eggscessive

@ the original poster......

So you see......another purpose of the egg mines was to inspire these jokes......


I never used to pick up eggs at all because they were too heavy.....but now I just eat them all the time because they (can) boost your Alchemy skill.

I could definitely see how egg mines could come in handy if you played a vampire.....which I have only done once for a season.

Hahaha . . . egg-related humor!

That is really funny. Too bad it is to big to sig.

Hahaha. That rymes.Rhymes. Screw it I cant spell today <_<

Dang !
I'd hate to see this thread eggspire so soon.

I have to admit, I have always felt a little bit sad whenever I killed a Kwama Queen.......No pity on the workers though.

I figured their purpose was to justify why something as annoying as a Kwama Forager hasn't been hunted to extinction.

someone should make a mod so you can loot eggs-calibur somewhere...

O I C WUT U DID THAR
Thats an eggcelent idea!

I came to this thread seeking an interesting conversation about the Vvardenfell economy and the delicately crafted ecosystem Bethesda created to accommodate it. This thread has been an eggstreme waste of time.

Your negativity eggsasperates me.

Actually, I thought it was rather Eggsgregious.

Such a greggarious lot we have here.