A steal works when the other base is unlocked. If a shield or lock timer is up, you wait or you burn it down with gear. Touch the brainrot and return to your own base before the owner stops you.
Timing
Player write-ups tell you to act in the last few seconds of the owner's lock, around 4 or 5 seconds, because that is when they are most likely to be outside or still reacting. That is a timing tip, not a hidden timer the game prints for you. Watch their lock.
If they rebirth while the unit is in your hands, the unit disappears. Do not start a long carry on a player who is standing on the rebirth button.
Gear that public strategy pages actually name
These are normal shop tools from rebirth rows, not external programs.
- Invisibility Cloak is on the rebirth 4 row. One stealth write-up says to drop it as the lock hits 4 seconds, place an All Seeing Sentry, and grab. The sentry is on the rebirth 7 row.
- Medusa's Head is on the rebirth 5 row. Strategy pages use it to stone the owner, then trap them. A listed trap combo uses two traps, Web Slinger from rebirth 6, Medusa's Head, and the cloak, and it says to use it on a base next to yours.
- Quantum Cloner is on the rebirth 7 row. One page tells you to send the clone in, swap to it near 4 seconds, stone the owner, and trap them. It fails more often if a friend is defending or your base is far away.
- Body Swap Potion is on the rebirth 10 row. The published combo places a trap behind the base, stands on that trap while invisible, and swaps as the timer ends so the owner is trapped outside for about 7 seconds. The same page says Flying Carpet lets the owner skip that trap.
Prices printed by one gear guide are in the rebirth article on this site. Confirm them in the shop.
What this page will not walk through
Joining a private server to body-block the owner until they error out is described by players as a scam and as bannable. There is no step list for that here. The same goes for any executor, auto-farm, or loadstring. Use the gear your rebirth row already unlocked.
After the grab
Lock as soon as you are home. Put the unit you cannot afford to lose on the highest floor you have. Second floor arrives at rebirth 2. Third floor arrives at rebirth 10. The rebirth article says a higher floor is harder to steal from.