Egg

An egg is a food object added in the 7 Seecret Friday Update. They are randomly laid by chickens. They currently cannot be eaten.

On the 6 of December 2010, Notch stated that eggs would be throwable and that when they hit something they have a 1/8 chance of spawning a chicken. The Minecraft Beta Update (20 of December, 2010) implemented this, also giving eggs the same on-hit effect as snowballs and making them only stackable to 16.

Notch confirmed that if he wins the Mod DB "Indie Game of the Year" award, which it did, he will add cake to the game. Eggs will be one of the ingredients, along with milk and sugar cane.

Trivia

 * Eggs may spawn more than one chicken when thrown (up to four)
 * Eggs were made throwable at the request of a fan, as a result of this Twitter conversation.

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