Minecraft Wiki

The Minecraft Wiki has moved from Fandom; see the linked discussion page for details.

READ MORE

Minecraft Wiki
Advertisement

Notchface-twitter

You know what would be fun? If every single animal in minecraft came from eggs. Breeding would involve moving egg blocks around.

Notch [1]

A spawn egg is an item used to spawn mobs directly.

Obtaining

Spawn eggs can only be obtained in Creative mode, or by commands. In Creative mode, the player can press pick block on an existing mob to obtain their respective egg. Spawn eggs are also available in the Creative inventory. There are 43 eggs available in all editions (51 in Java Edition[upcoming: Lua error in Module:Version_link at line 112: attempt to concatenate local 'text' (a nil value).]).

Commands

Spawn eggs can be obtained by ops using /give. See here for all available spawn eggs and commands.

Any spawn eggs not listed in the table below cannot spawn entities. They will instead make a sound as though an arrow has been shot. These eggs will be the default color, white with gray spots. When a player hovers over the image with their mouse the name of the egg is "Spawn ". This egg has no specific properties and can not spawn any mob, except for Bedrock Edition in which some "hidden" spawn eggs obtained from commands that spawn other entities like primed TNT and wither skulls.

Usage

A spawn egg is used by pressing use on any surface (top, bottom or side) with the egg. When used on a top surface, the egg's mob will appear with its feet immediately adjacent to the surface. The egg will be consumed in the process in Survival mode, but will not be consumed in Creative mode.

Spawn eggs are not thrown (unlike normal eggs); the player must be within normal range of the block to use the spawn egg. Hostile and neutral mobs (except wolves, polar bears and llamas) spawned while on Peaceful difficulty will be created, but then instantly deleted from the world.

Dispensers

A spawn egg fired from a dispenser will spawn the mob directly in front of the dispenser.

Baby mobs

If a passive mob has a baby form, and the player uses its spawn egg on an adult, it will spawn a baby version of that mob, rather than an adult.

Monster spawners

Any spawn egg can also be used on a monster spawner to change the mob the spawner spawns.

Renaming

Spawn eggs can be renamed on an anvil, and when used will spawn mobs with that name appearing over their head. Their names can only be seen if they are aimed at from four or fewer blocks away. This name will also appear in death messages from the mob killing a player. If you rename a spawn egg by the names described below, the mob will appear described below.

In-Game Description

In most versions, spawn eggs are described as, "Spawns a mob of the type indicated."

List of spawn eggs

Egg Spawns Notes Java Edition Bedrock Edition Legacy Console Edition
Hostile and neutral Mobs
Blaze Yes Yes Yes
Cave Spider Yes Yes Yes
Creeper Creepers can never spawn charged. Yes Yes Yes
Dolphin[upcoming: Lua error in Module:Version_link at line 112: attempt to concatenate local 'text' (a nil value).] Upcoming Yes Upcoming
Drowned[upcoming: Lua error in Module:Version_link at line 112: attempt to concatenate local 'text' (a nil value).] Drowned can spawn holding tridents, fishing rods or nautilus shells. Upcoming Yes Upcoming
Elder Guardian Yes Yes Yes
Enderman Endermen are spawned neutral without any block held by them. Yes Yes Yes
Endermite Yes Yes Yes
Evoker Yes Yes Yes
Ghast Yes Yes Yes
Guardian Elder guardians cannot be spawned with this egg. Yes Yes Yes
Husk Husks have a 5% chance of spawning as a baby husk. Baby husks have a 5% chance of spawning as a chicken jockey. There is also a chance of them holding tools, weapons or armor. Yes Yes Yes
Llama Yes Yes Yes
Magma Cube Magma cubes are spawned with random sizes. Yes Yes Yes
Phantom[upcoming: Lua error in Module:Version_link at line 112: attempt to concatenate local 'text' (a nil value).] Upcoming Upcoming Upcoming
Polar Bear Yes Yes Yes
Shulker Yes Yes Yes
Silverfish Yes Yes Yes
Skeleton Skeleton eggs used in the Overworld and the End will always spawn regular skeletons.
Eggs used in the Nether spawn wither skeletons 80% of the time.
In the Java edition this egg will not spawn wither skeletons in the Nether.
In the Bedrock and Console Editions, eggs used in ice plains, ice plains spikes and ice mountains biomes have an 80% chance to spawn strays, if spawned with a clear view of the sky.
Yes Yes Yes
Slime Slimes are spawned with random sizes. Yes Yes Yes
Spider Spiders have a 1% chance to spawn spider jockeys. Yes Yes Yes
Stray Yes Yes Yes
Vex Yes Yes Yes
Vindicator If the spawn egg is renamed ''Johnny'', the vindicator will become hostile to all mobs, except other illagers. Yes Yes Yes
Witch Yes Yes Yes
Wither Skeleton Yes Yes Yes
Wolf Wolves are spawned untamed and neutral. Yes Yes Yes
Zombie Zombies have a 5% chance of spawning as a zombie villager.
In the Java edition, they will not spawn zombie villagers.
They also have a 5% chance of spawning as baby zombies. There is also a chance of them holding tools, weapons or armor. A baby zombie or baby zombie villager has a 5% chance to spawn as a chicken jockey.
In the Bedrock and Console Editions, eggs used in desert, desert hills and desert M biomes have an 80% chance to spawn husks, if spawned with a clear view of the sky.
Yes Yes Yes
Zombie Pigman Zombie pigmen are spawned neutral, and have a 5% chance of spawning as a baby zombie pigmen. A baby zombie pigman has a 5% chance to spawn as a chicken jockey. Yes Yes Yes
Zombie Villager Zombies' professions are randomized. Yes Yes Yes
Passive Mobs Java Edition Bedrock (Pocket) Edition Legacy Console Edition
Bat Bats will hang upside down on a block if you stay off a certain distance and use the spawn egg underneath an opaque block. Yes Yes Yes
Chicken Yes Yes Yes
Cod[upcoming: Lua error in Module:Version_link at line 112: attempt to concatenate local 'text' (a nil value).] Upcoming Yes Upcoming
Cow Yes Yes Yes
Donkey Yes Yes Yes
Horse Horses will spawn 90% of the time, and donkeys 10% of the time.
In the Java Edition the horse egg will not spawn donkeys.
The horse or donkey will be a foal 20% of the time.
Mules, skeleton and zombie horses never spawn.
Yes Yes Yes
Mooshroom Yes Yes Yes
Mule Yes Yes Yes
Ocelot Ocelots are spawned untamed.
1/7th of the time (14.3% chance) an ocelot is spawned with two ocelot kittens. Tamed ocelots will never spawn.
Yes Yes Yes
Parrot Yes Yes Yes
Pig Pig are spawned without a saddle on the back. Yes Yes Yes


Pufferfish[upcoming: Lua error in Module:Version_link at line 112: attempt to concatenate local 'text' (a nil value).] Upcoming Yes Upcoming
Rabbit Skins are random, and are biome-dependent just as in normal rabbit spawning. The black-and-white rabbit is only spawned when the spawn egg is renamed Toast. Yes Yes Yes
Salmon[upcoming: Lua error in Module:Version_link at line 112: attempt to concatenate local 'text' (a nil value).] Sizes are randomized. Upcoming Yes Upcoming
Sheep Sheep are spawned with the colors that can spawn naturally. See sheep page for details.

Renaming the spawn egg jeb_ causes the sheep's wool to cycle in all colors, like prismarine.

Yes Yes Yes
Skeleton Horse Yes Yes Yes
Squid Yes Yes Yes
Tropical Fish[upcoming: Lua error in Module:Version_link at line 112: attempt to concatenate local 'text' (a nil value).] Shapes, colors and sizes are randomized. Upcoming Yes Upcoming
Turtle[upcoming: Lua error in Module:Version_link at line 112: attempt to concatenate local 'text' (a nil value).] Upcoming Upcoming Upcoming
Villager Villagers' professions are randomized. Yes Yes Yes
Zombie Horse Yes Yes Yes

Data values

File:Spawn Null.png

A spawn egg without colors

Java Edition

The data value of a spawn egg has no effect; instead, the {EntityTag:{id:"<Savegame ID>"}} data tag is used. For example, /give <playername> spawn_egg 1 0 {EntityTag:{id:"minecraft:creeper"}} would cause the spawn egg to create creepers.

If, for the entity tag 'id', a SaveGame ID is used for a mob or other entity that is not listed in the table above, such as minecraft:villager_golem (iron golem), the result would be a spawn egg with the expected name ("Spawn Iron Golem"), but will be the default color (white with grey spots). These eggs cannot be used to spawn mobs directly, but can be used to program a mob spawner.‌[upcoming]

Bedrock Edition

When using the /give command to give a spawn egg, it requires the numeric ID of an entity; for example: /give <playername> spawn_egg 1 33 would give an egg that spawns a creeper. For reference, see Bedrock Edition data values#Entity_IDs for a complete list of entity IDs.

Eggs can be given not just for mobs listed in the table above, but for a few other entities. These eggs will be uncolored (white with grey spots), and will be called by unlocalized placeholder names, or simply, "Spawn".

  • The snow golem (21), iron golem (20) and item (64) spawn eggs can be given, but will spawn nothing.
  • The ender crystal spawn egg (71) produces an end crystal.
  • The boat (90) egg will place a boat on the ground.
  • Using any other entity ID will fail to give the egg.

History

release
1.111w49a Added spawn eggs for creeper, spider, skeleton, zombie, slime, ghast, zombie pigman, enderman, cave spider, silverfish, blaze, magma cube, pig, sheep, cow, chicken, squid, wolf, mooshroom and villager. At this point the spawn egg had a single texture file which was tinted different colors.
12w01a The egg and its markings had their textures separated, allowing them to have entirely different colors. This allowed their colors to better match the colors of the mobs themselves. The colors established in this version continue to the present day.
1.2.112w03aEggs can be placed into a dispenser. Activating the dispenser will spawn the mob instead of dispensing the egg as an item. Also in this version, spawn eggs became stackable, which allows dispensers to hold more than nine of them at one time.
12w04a Added ocelot spawn eggs with the addition of the ocelot itself.
Before 1.2, edited eggs for snow golems, ender dragons and giants (and other "unspawnable" mobs) produced mobs of their types. Now this is restricted to those eggs available in the Creative inventory.
1.3.112w18aVillagers spawned from eggs were always farmers before 12w18a; in 12w18a and later their profession is randomized.
1.4.212w32aZombie villager can be spawned using zombie spawn eggs.
Sheep from spawn eggs can now spawn naturally-colored sheep (white, gray, brown, pink, etc.)
12w36aWither skeleton has a high chance to spawn from an skeleton egg if the player is in the Nether.
Skeleton on spider jockey also can be replaced with wither skeleton when using spider spawn egg in the Nether.
12w38a Added witch and bat spawn eggs.
1.4.4?Baby mobs now are spawn-able by right-clicking a mob with a corresponding mob egg. This doesn't work with zombies.
1.5January 7, 2013Dinnerbone tweeted the first image of a renamed mob appearing in a death message.
13w02aMobs spawned from renamed eggs have the name of the egg and the names will appear in death messages.
Mobs can now display their custom name as nametag using an NBT tag.
1.6.113w16a Added horse spawn eggs.
13w24aSpawn eggs now work on water.
1.6-preRenaming a spawn egg "Dinnerbone" or "Grumm" will cause the mob to spawn upside-down.
1.7.413w48bRenaming a sheep or sheep spawn egg "jeb_" will give it a rainbow wool changing effect. This does not affect the wool dropped after death or shearing, however.
1.814w11a Added endermite spawn eggs.
14w25a Added guardian spawn eggs.
14w27a Added rabbit spawn eggs.
14w28bEggs can be used to program monster spawner blocks.
1.915w31a Added shulker spawn eggs.
15w33aSpawn eggs can no longer be addressed by numeric data id, like: give @p spawn_egg 1 50. The spawnable item from a spawn egg is now addressed by a datatag: give @p spawn_egg 1 {EntityTag:{id:"Creeper"} }
1.1016w20a Added spawn eggs for polar bear, wither skeleton, stray, husk, elder guardian, cat, donkey, mule, skeleton horse and zombie horse.
pre2Removed spawn eggs for wither skeleton, stray, husk, elder guardian, cat, donkey, mule, skeleton horse and zombie horse that were added in 16w20a.
1.1116w32aRe-added the spawn eggs that were removed in 1.10-pre2, except cat spawn egg for unknown reasons.
Added a zombie villager spawn egg. It can only spawn zombie farmers.
Using a spawn egg on top of a block such as a fence will no longer cause the spawned mob to fall inside the fence.[2]
16w32bThe zombie villager spawn egg now spawns different zombie professions.
16w39a Added spawn eggs for evoker, llama, vex and vindicator.
1.1217w13a Added spawn egg for parrot.
upcoming
1.1317w47aThe different EntityTag entity IDs for the spawn_egg ID have been split up into their own IDs.
18w07a Added spawn eggs for phantom and turtle.
18w08b Added spawn eggs for the 3 fish mob variants: cod, salmon, and "puffer fish".
18w10aAdded a spawn egg for the new tropical fish.
18w11aAdded drowned spawn egg.
18w15aAdded dolphin spawn egg.
18w19aPhantom spawn egg changed to look more like mob's updated texture.
18w20aChanged from "Spawn x" to "x Spawn Egg".
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.7.0 Spawn eggs added. These were chicken, sheep, pig, and cow.
?Default spawn egg texture is now , instead of having a completely blank texture.
0.9.0build 1 Added more spawn eggs including mooshroom, creeper, enderman, silverfish, skeleton, slime, spider, zombie, zombie pigman, and wolf.
Spawn eggs now have the correct name in the inventory.
build 2 Added villager spawn egg.
The eggs can be used to program monster spawner blocks.
0.11.0build 1 Added squid and bat spawn eggs.
Added ghast, magma cube and cave spider spawn eggs, which at this point were unobtainable.
build 3Added cave spider spawn eggs to the Creative mode inventory.
build 8Added magma cube spawn eggs to the Creative mode inventory..
0.12.1build 1 Added blaze and ocelot spawn eggs.
Added ghast spawn eggs to the Creative mode inventory.
Wither skeleton has a high chance to spawn from an skeleton egg if the player is in the Nether.
build 9Mobs spawned from renamed eggs have the name of the egg and the names will appear in death messages.
build 12Zombie villagers can be spawned using zombie spawn eggs.
0.13.0build 1 Added rabbit spawn eggs.
0.14.0build 1 Added witch spawn eggs .
0.15.0build 1 Added horse, mule, donkey, zombie horse, skeleton horse, stray, husk and wither skeleton spawn eggs to the Creative inventory.
0.15.1build 1Changed default spawn egg texture from to File:Spawn Null.png.
Now has the Empty Spawn Egg named "Spawn ", available through inventory editing, but will crash the game.
0.16.0build 1Added guardian spawn egg.
File:Spawn Null.pngAdded elder guardian spawn egg without colors. Not available in Creative inventory.
Added non-functional "NPC" spawn egg.
build 2Removed NPC spawn egg from Creative inventory.
build 4Removed NPC spawn egg completely.
build 5 Added elder guardian spawn egg to the Creative inventory.
Pocket Edition
1.0alpha 0.17.0.1 Added spawn eggs for shulker, endermite and polar bear.
1.1alpha 1.1.0.0 Added spawn eggs for llama, vindicator, evoker and vex.
alpha 1.1.0.9 Updated the egg texture for husk, shulker, silverfish, stray and zombie horse; probably due to MCPE-18348.
Bedrock Edition
1.2beta 1.2.0.2 Added parrot and zombie villager spawn eggs.
1.4beta 1.2.13.8 Added drowned spawn egg.
beta 1.2.14.2 Added spawn eggs for the fish, which have different textures compared to the Java Edition.
beta 1.2.20.1 Made the spawn egg textures less unique.
Added dolphin spawn egg.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.5beta 1.5.0.4 Added spawn eggs for turtles.
1.6beta 1.6.0.1 Added spawn eggs for phantoms.
Legacy Console Edition
TU9CU1 1.0 Patch 1Patch 1 Added spawn eggs for creeper, skeleton, spider, zombie, slime, ghast, zombie pigman, enderman, cave spider, silverfish, blaze, magma cube, pig, sheep, cow, chicken, squid, wolf, mooshroom and villager.
Eggs can be placed into a dispenser. Activating the dispenser will spawn the mob instead of dispensing the egg as an item.
TU11Added a message when the user tries to spawn a hostile mob from a spawn egg in Peaceful difficulty.
TU12 Added ocelot spawn egg.
TU19CU7 1.12 Added horse, witch and bat spawn egg.
Also added donkey and mule spawn egg.
TU31CU19 1.22 Patch 3 Added endermite, guardian and rabbit spawn eggs.
TU46CU36 1.38 Patch 15 Added shulker spawn egg.
Donkey and mule spawn eggs now match the textures of their Bedrock and Java edition counterparts.
TU54CU44 1.52 Patch 24Patch 4 Added spawn eggs for skeleton horses, zombie horses, elder guardians, strays, wither skeletons, husks, zombie villagers, parrots, llamas, vindicators, evokers, and vexes.

Issues

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

Trivia

  • Data values differ between platforms. However, the ID is the same.‌[upcoming]

Gallery

References

  1. https://twitter.com/notch/status/117870458904387585
  2. MC-88096 – "When using spawn eggs on fences the mobs fall through" resolved as "Fixed"


Advertisement