A monster egg is a block that masquerades as a typical stone-type block, but which spawns silverfish when broken.
They are named <Block> Monster Egg in the computer and Pocket editions, and Silverfish <Block> in Console Edition, where <Block> is the name of the block they are disguised as.
Obtaining
Breaking
Monster eggs take the same amount of time to break with any tool. When the block is broken, whether by a player or by an explosion, a silverfish spawns where it was broken.
| Block | Monster Egg | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardness | 0.75 | |
| Breaking time (secs) | ||
| Default | 1.15 | |
Mining a monster egg with a Silk Touch tool drops the block that the monster egg is disguised as, and does not spawn the silverfish.
A silverfish will not drop if the block is destroyed by the ender dragon.
Natural generation
Stone brick, cracked stone brick, and mossy stone brick monster eggs are found in Strongholds and igloo basements, occasionally in place of normal stone bricks. Chiseled stone bricks monster eggs also spawn in igloos.
Stone monster eggs are rarely found in the Extreme Hills biome, generating below sea level in veins similar to ores.
Cobblestone monster eggs do not generate naturally, and must be made artificially.
Creative mode
Monster eggs are available in the Creative inventory in the computer edition and pocket edition [upcoming: edition 0.16.0]
When a monster egg is destroyed by a player in Creative mode, a silverfish is not spawned.
Usage
When mined, monster eggs will spawn a silverfish which will instantly attack the player. If the player attacks a silverfish directly with a sword, bow or potion of Harming, or when a silverfish takes poison damage, nearby monster eggs will break, spawning other aggressive silverfish. If the silverfish is killed in one hit, nearby monster eggs will not break, and no silverfish will spawn from them.
Data values
Block data
| DV | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Infested Stone | |
| 1 | Infested Cobblestone | |
| 2 | Infested Stone Bricks | |
| 3 | Infested Mossy Stone Bricks | |
| 4 | Infested Cracked Stone Bricks | |
| 5 | Infested Chiseled Stone Bricks |
Block state
Bedrock Edition:
Infested Deepslate:
| Name | Metadata Bits | Default value | Allowed values | Values for Metadata Bits |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pillar_axis | Not Supported | y
| x | Unsupported | The deepslate is oriented east–west. |
y | Unsupported | The deepslate is oriented vertically. | |||
z | Unsupported | The deepslate is oriented north–south. |
Others:
| Name | Metadata Bits | Default value | Allowed values | Values for Metadata Bits |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| monster_egg_stone_type | 0x10x20x4 | stone
| stone | 0 | Infested Stone |
cobblestone | 1 | Infested Cobblestone | |||
stone_brick | 2 | Infested Stone Brick | |||
mossy_stone_brick | 3 | Infested Mossy Stone Brick | |||
cracked_stone_brick | 4 | Infested Cracked Stone Brick | |||
chiseled_stone_brick | 5 | Infested Chiseled Stone Brick |
Video
Infested Block/video
History
| beta | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.8 | 1.8-pre1 | Added Block 97. | |||
| release | |||||
| 1.3.1 | 12w17a | Block 97 is now labeled as stone monster egg, cobblestone monster egg, or stone brick monster egg depending on what kind of block it is. | |||
| 12w21b | Monster eggs are now available in the Creative mode inventory. | ||||
| 1.4.2 | 12w38a | Stone monster eggs will now rarely generate in extreme hills biomes. | |||
| 1.6.1 | 13w17a | Silverfish will not cause monster eggs to break when gamerule "mobGriefing" is set to false. | |||
| 1.7.2 | 13w36a | Added mossy stone brick monster egg, cracked stone brick monster egg and chiseled stone brick monster egg variants. | |||
| ? | Silverfish are now spawned when a monster egg is destroyed by an explosion. | ||||
| 1.8 | Silverfish are no longer spawned when mining a monster egg with a Silk Touch tool. | ||||
| Silverfish are no longer spawned when destroying a monster egg in creative mode. | |||||
| 1.9 | 15w43a | Monster Eggs now generate among the stone bricks of igloo basements, with either regular, cracked, mossy or chiseled stone brick appearance. | |||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.9.0 | Added monster eggs; the only way to create them in-game is with the help of silverfish. | ||||
| 0.11.0 | build 1 | Monster eggs now generate in extreme hills biomes. | |||
| pocket upcoming | |||||
| 0.16.0 | build 1 | Monster eggs are now available in the Creative inventory. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| ? | ? | ? | Patch 1 | Added monster eggs. | |
Issues
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