This article is about chicken eggs. For the similar item that spawns mobs, see Spawn egg . For other uses, see Egg (disambiguation)

Egg Rarity color Common Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (16) Size Height: 0.25 Blocks

Width: 0.25 Blocks

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

Obtaining [ edit ]

Mob [ edit ]

Chickens drop an egg item every 5–10 minutes.

Foxes that are holding eggs also have a chance of 8.5%‌‌[JE only]/100%‌‌[BE only] to drop the egg they are holding upon death. Alternatively, a player dropping a food item causes the fox to drop the egg.

Natural generation [ edit ]

Usage [ edit ]

Crafting ingredient [ edit ]

Combat [ edit ]

Players are able to throw eggs and deal knockback to mobs, but no damage is dealt, similar to a snowball. Likewise, throwing eggs at neutral mobs provokes them. Eggs can also be fired from dispensers and are affected by gravity.

Spawning chickens [ edit ]

When thrown by a dispenser or by pressing the use button, 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 spawns 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 chick requires 7.3 eggs, a stack of 16 eggs spawn 2.192 chicks, and a full inventory including the hotbar and off-hand ( 37 * 16 = 592 eggs) can spawn approximately 81 chicks.

Sounds [ edit ]

Sound Subtitle Source Description Namespaced ID Translation key Volume Pitch Attenuation

distance Sound parameters Volume Pitch Attenuation

distance Stream Preload https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/File:Bow_shoot.ogg Egg flies ? ? entity.egg.throw subtitles.entity.egg.throw ? (<1.0) 16 ? ? ? ? ?

Data values [ edit ]

ID [ edit ]

Java Edition:

Name Namespaced ID Translation key Egg egg item.minecraft.egg

Name Namespaced ID Entity tags (JE) Translation key Egg egg impact_projectiles entity.minecraft.egg

Bedrock Edition:

Name Namespaced ID Numeric ID Translation key Egg egg 344 item.egg.name

Name Namespaced ID Numeric ID Translation key Egg egg 82 entity.egg.name

Entity Data [ edit ]

Thrown eggs have entity data that define various properties of the entity.

Entity data Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template Tags common to all projectiles see Template:Nbt inherit/projectile/template Item : The item to render as, may be absent. Tags common to all items see Template:Nbt inherit/itemnoslot/template

Entity data

Achievements [ edit ]

Icon Achievement In-game description Actual requirements (if different) Gamerscore earned Trophy type (PS) The Lie Bake a cake using: wheat, sugar, milk, and eggs. Pick up a cake from a crafting table output. 30G Bronze

Advancements [ edit ]

Icon Advancement In-game description Parent Actual requirements (if different) Namespaced ID Bullseye

Hit the bullseye of a Target block from at least 30 meters away Take Aim Shoot the center of a target with a projectile from at least 30 blocks away horizontally. adventure/bullseye

Video [ edit ]

History [ edit ]

Issues [ edit ]

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

Trivia [ edit ]

Eggs break mid-fall if hit by another projectile; the chance of spawning a baby chicken is not affected.

Throwing an egg at a nether portal breaks the egg when it hits the portal.

A thrown egg faces toward the player in first-person view while it appears rotated horizontally in third-person view. This is the case for all throwable items (ender pearls, eggs, snowballs, and all type of throwable potions).