Eggs are items that can be used to craft food items, or used as a throwable entity to spawn chickens.
Obtaining
Mob
Chickens drop an egg item every 5–10 minutes.
Foxes that are holding eggs also have a chance of 8.5%[JE only]/100%[BE only] to drop the egg they are holding upon death. Alternatively, a player dropping a food item causes the fox to drop the egg.
Natural generation
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition | ||||
| Egg | Village | Fletcher's chest | 1–3 | 23.3% |
| Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Egg | Village | Fletcher's chest | 1–3 | 23.3% |
Usage
Crafting ingredient
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cake | Milk Bucket + Sugar + Egg + Wheat |
Empty buckets remain in the crafting grid after crafting the cake. | |
| Pumpkin Pie | Pumpkin + Sugar + Egg |
Combat
Players are able to throw eggs and deal knockback to mobs, 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 use button, an egg has a 1⁄8 chance of spawning a chick. If this occurs, there is a 1⁄32 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 32⁄256 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 0.137. 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 (37 * 16 = 592 eggs) can spawn approximately 81 chicks.
Sounds
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Egg thrown | ? | ? | entity | subtitles | ? | (<1.0) | 16 |
Data values
ID
| Egg | Identifier | Translation key |
|---|---|---|
| Item | egg | item.minecraft.egg |
| Entity | egg | entity.minecraft.egg |
| Egg | Identifier | Numeric ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Item | egg | 344 | item.egg.name |
| Entity | egg | 82 | entity.egg.name |
Entity Data
Thrown eggs have entity data that define various properties of the entity.
- Entity data
- Tags common to all entities
- Tags common to all projectiles
- Item: The item to render as, may be absent.
- Tags common to all items
Achievements
| Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Gamerscore earned | Trophy type (PS4) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | Other | |||||
| The Lie | Bake a cake using: wheat, sugar, milk, and eggs. | Pick up a cake from a crafting table output. | 30G | Bronze | ||
Advancements
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Resource location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Bullseye | Hit the bullseye of a Target block from at least 30 meters away | Take Aim | Be at least 30 blocks away horizontally when the center of a target is shot with a projectile by the player. | adventure/bullseye
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Video
History
| alpha | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0.14 | |||||
| Eggs currently have no purpose. | |||||
| beta | |||||
| 1.0 | Eggs are now throwable at the request of a fan as the result of a Twitter conversation about a man eating his USB, if Notch added egg throwing.[1] | ||||
| 1.2 | Eggs are now used to craft cake. | ||||
| Sound Update | The egg's throw sound has been changed. | ||||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2 | Breeding has been added, making eggs easier to obtain. | |||
| 1.4.2 | 12w37a | Eggs are now used to craft pumpkin pie. | |||
| 1.9 | 15w32a | Eggs no longer damage the ender dragon. | |||
| 1.11 | 16w32a | The entity ID has now been changed from ThrownEgg to egg. | |||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 344. | |||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | ||||
| Upcoming Java Edition | |||||
| 1.16.2 | Pre-Release 1 | Eggs are now affected by bubble columns. | |||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.7.0 | |||||
| Eggs can be used to craft cake. | |||||
| 0.8.0 | build 2 | Eggs are now used to craft pumpkin pie. | |||
| build 3 | Thrown eggs now have a chance of spawning baby chickens. | ||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | The entity ID has now been changed from thrownegg to egg. | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | ||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Eggs can now be found in village fletcher chests. | |||
| beta 1.11.0.4 | Eggs can now be sold to farmer villagers. | ||||
| 1.13.0 | beta 1.13.0.1 | Added foxes, which can drop eggs. | |||
| 1.16.0 | beta 1.16.0.57 | Trading has now been changed, eggs can no longer be sold to farmer villagers. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | ||
| PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||
| 1.90 | |||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Egg" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
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).
