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 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 will spawn 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 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
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.14 | Added eggs. | ||||
| beta | |||||
| 1.0 | Eggs are now throwable at the request of a fan as a result of 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 | Egg throw sound was changed. | ||||
| release | |||||
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9-pre2 | Breeding added, making eggs easier to obtain. | |||
| 1.4.2 | 12w37a | Eggs are now used to craft pumpkin pie. | |||
| 1.9 | 15w32a | No longer damage the Ender Dragon. | |||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.7.0 | Added eggs. They 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. | ||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | Added 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.