Egg

An egg is a food object added in the 7 Seecret Friday Update. They are laid by chickens at some intervals, usually within 4-5 minutes of each chicken.

As of the Minecraft Beta Update (20 of December, 2010), eggs can be thrown and have a 1/8 chance of spawning a chicken. This update also gave them the same on-hit effect as snowballs and made them only stackable to 16.

A single egg is required in the crafting of Cake.

Trivia

 * Eggs may spawn more than one chicken when thrown (up to four) if a chicken will spawn, there is a 1/32 chance of four chickens spawning.
 * Eggs were made throwable at the request of a fan, as a result of this Twitter conversation.
 * Chicken farming will leave you with more eggs than you started with if you spend at least 40 minutes collecting the eggs.

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