Egg

An Egg is a food item added in the 7 Seecret Friday Update. Chickens lay eggs every 4–5 minutes.

During the Beta update (20 of December, 2010), eggs were made throwable at the request of a fan as a result of this Twitter conversation. When thrown, eggs have the same on-hit effect as snowballs and have a 1/8 chance of spawning one to four chickens, with a 1/32 chance of four chickens appearing from a single egg.

Eggs are a critical component of Cake - a single egg is required to craft each one.

Trivia

 * Like arrows and snowballs, when placed into a dispenser and then activated, eggs are fired from the dispenser and have the same effects as a thrown Snowball.


 * There is a glitch where it will sometimes spawn five chickens. It may spawn more, though there have been no reports of more than five chickens coming from one egg.


 * If an egg is thrown through lava, it will catch on fire.


 * If an egg is thrown through water, it will leave a trail of bubbles, much like snowballs and arrows.


 * Although eggs hurt mobs when hit, if the player throws them straight up, they will not hurt the player if they come back down and hit them.

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