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This article is about the block that spawns a silverfish when broken. For the egg that spawns mobs when used, see Spawn Egg.

Monster Egg (also known as Silverfish Block; called Silverfish Stone, Silverfish Cobblestone, and Silverfish Stone Brick in the Console Edition) is a block that spawns silverfish when broken. Monster eggs have identical looks to either stone, cobblestone, or stone brick.

Obtaining

Monster eggs take the same amount of time to break with any tool. When the block is broken, 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.

If the block is destroyed by an explosion, the silverfish will die inside of the block, which gives no experience points.

Natural generation

Monster eggs are naturally found in strongholds and rarely in extreme hills biomes, among stone and stone brick blocks.

Creative

Monster eggs are available in the inventory in creative. They can also be made by placing a stone, cobblestone, or stone brick and then using a silverfish spawn egg on it. Attempting to add more silverfish into the block will result in the silverfish spawning normally. 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 ender dragon destroys a monster egg, no silverfish is spawned.


When a silverfish is not pursuing the player, the silverfish will go to the nearest stone, cobblestone, or stone brick and try to go inside it, converting the block into a monster egg. When mined, the spawned silverfish will have full health.

Data values

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:

NameMetadata Bits Default value Allowed valuesValues for
Metadata Bits
Description
pillar_axisNot Supportedy xUnsupportedThe deepslate is oriented east–west.
yUnsupportedThe deepslate is oriented vertically.
zUnsupportedThe deepslate is oriented north–south.

Others:

NameMetadata Bits Default value Allowed valuesValues for
Metadata Bits
Description
monster_egg_stone_type0x1
0x2
0x4
stone stone0 Infested Stone
cobblestone1 Infested Cobblestone
stone_brick2 Infested Stone Brick
mossy_stone_brick3 Infested Mossy Stone Brick
cracked_stone_brick4 Infested Cracked Stone Brick
chiseled_stone_brick5 Infested Chiseled Stone Brick

Video

Infested Block/video

History

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1.81.8-pre1Added Block 97.
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1.3.112w17aBlock 97 is now labeled as stone monster egg, cobblestone monster egg, or stone brick monster egg depending on what kind of block it is.
12w21bMonster eggs are now available in the Creative mode inventory.
1.4.212w38aStone monster eggs will now rarely generate in extreme hills biomes.
1.6.113w17aSilverfish will not cause monster eggs to break when gamerule "mobGriefing" is set to false.
1.7.213w36aAdded mossy stone brick monster egg, cracked stone brick monster egg and chiseled stone brick monster egg variants.
1.8Silverfish 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.

Issues

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