Egg

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

It is theorized that eggs could be used in future updates for making food items such as omelets or hatch into chicks. (As discussed at the forums )

Notch has announced that if Minecraft wins the Indie game developer contest he will add cake to Minecraft, egg will likely be a baking ingredient.

On the 6th of December 2010, Notch stated on his twitter that eggs would be throwable and that when they hit something they have a 1/8 chance of spawning a chicken. See tweets here: http://twitter.com/notch/status/11773078791000065 In response to: http://twitter.com/Wyld/status/11772816642805760

From the Minecraft Beta Update (December 20 2010) eggs are now throwable.

Notch confirmed that if he wins the indiedb "Indie Game of the Year" award he will add cake to the game, eggs will possibly become one of the ingredients.

Trivia

 * Thrown eggs will spawn chickens 1/8th of the time.
 * Eggs have the same on-hit effect as snowballs.
 * As of the update to beta, eggs are stackable only up to 16.

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