Egg

An egg is a food object added in the 7 Seecret Friday Update. They are randomly laid by chickens.

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.

A single egg is required in the crafting of Cake, which was added in the 1.2 update.

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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