Egg

An egg is an item that can be used to craft food items, or as a throwable entity to spawn chicks.

Mob loot
A chicken drops an egg item every 5–10 minutes. The theoretical average would be expected at 1 egg every 7.5 minutes, or 0.1333 eggs per minute.

A fox sometimes spawns holding an egg, which it always drops upon death. Alternatively, a player dropping a food item causes the fox to drop the egg.

Combat
Players are able to throw eggs and deal knockback to mobs or other players, but no damage is dealt, similar to a snowball. Likewise, throwing eggs at neutral mobs provokes them. Eggs can also be fired from dispensers and are affected by gravity.

Spawning chickens
When thrown by a dispenser or by pressing the button, an egg has a $1⁄8$ (12.5%) chance of spawning a chick. If this occurs, there is a $1⁄32$ (3.125%) chance of spawning three additional chicks (on average, 1 out of every 256 eggs spawns 4 chicks). In other words, whenever an egg is thrown, there is a $31⁄256$ chance of spawning 1 chick and a $1⁄256$ chance of spawning four chicks.

The expected value of the number of chicks an egg produces is $35⁄256$ or 13.7%. This means that on average, spawning a single chick requires 7.3 eggs, a stack of 16 eggs spawn 2.192 chicks, and a full inventory including the hotbar and off-hand ( eggs) can spawn approximately 81 chicks.

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Entity Data
Thrown eggs have entity data that define various properties of the entity.




 * See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.
 * See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Trivia

 * Eggs break mid-fall if hit by another projectile; the chance of spawning a baby chicken is not affected.
 * Throwing an egg at a nether portal breaks the egg when it hits the portal.
 * A thrown egg faces toward the player in first-person view while it appears rotated horizontally in third-person view. This is the case for all throwable items (ender pearls, eggs, snowballs, and all type of throwable potions).
 * Due to a bug, it is possible to kill baby chickens that hatched from an egg less than ten seconds ago by throwing four eggs at them.