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 cakes. (As discussed at the forums )

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 tweet here In response to this

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, and this might also create a use for milk.

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. As are snowballs, the only other throwable item.
 * Eggs may spawn more than one chicken (up to four)
 * Eggs were made throwable at the request of a fan, as a result of this Twitter conversation.

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