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This article is about chicken eggs. For other uses, see Egg (disambiguation).

Eggs are items that can be used to craft food items, or used as a throwable entity.

Obtaining

Chickens

Chickens lay eggs every 5–10 minutes and these can be collected while on the ground.

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 and other players, but no damage will be dealt. Throwing eggs at neutral mobs will provoke them. Eggs can also be fired from dispensers and are affected by gravity.

Spawning chickens

When thrown, an egg has a 18 chance of spawning a chick. If this occurs, there is a 132 chance of spawning three additional chicks (on average, 1 out of every 256 eggs will spawn 4 chicks). In other words, whenever an egg is thrown, there is a 31256 chance of spawning 1 chick and a 1256 chance of spawning four chicks.

The expected value of the number of chicks an egg produces is 35256 or 0.137. This means that on average, spawning a single chicken requires 7.3 eggs, a stack of 16 eggs will spawn 2.1875 chicks, and a full inventory including the hotbar (36*16=576 eggs) will spawn approximately 78.75 chicks.

Data values

See also: Chunk format

Thrown eggs have entity data which define various properties of the entity. Their entity ID is ThrownEgg.

  • 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

Video

Egg/video

History

alpha
1.0.14Added eggs.
beta
1.0Eggs are now throwable at the request of a fan as a result of Twitter conversation about a man eating his if notch added egg throwing[1]
1.2Eggs are now used to craft cake.
Sound UpdateEgg throw sound was changed.
release
1.0.0Beta 1.9-pre2Breeding added, making eggs easier to obtain.
1.4.212w37aEggs are now used to craft pumpkin pie.
1.915w32aNo longer damage the Ender Dragon.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.7.0Added eggs. They can be used to craft cake.
0.8.0build 2Eggs are now used to craft pumpkin pie.
build 3Thrown eggs now have a chance of spawning baby chickens.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1CU1 1.0 Patch 1Added eggs.

Issues

Issues relating to "Egg" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

  • Eggs will break midfall if hit by another projectile; the chance of spawning a baby chicken is not affected.
  • Throwing an egg at a nether portal will break the egg when it hits the portal.

References

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