Egg

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An egg is an item that is dropped by chickens and can be used to craft food items, such as cake, and can be thrown for a chance to spawn baby chickens on impact. They have three variants based on the variant of the corresponding chicken: the standard egg for temperate chickens, brown egg for warm chickens, and blue egg for cold chickens.

Every adult chicken lays an egg item every 5–10 minutes, except for those that are or were part of chicken jockeys. The theoretical average would be expected at 1 egg every 7.5 minutes (9000 game ticks). The type of egg being laid depends on the chicken variant; temperate chickens lay normal eggs, cold chickens lay blue eggs, and warm chickens lay brown eggs.

A fox has a 3% chance of spawning with a normal egg in its mouth, which it drops upon death. Alternatively, a player dropping a food item causes the fox to drop the egg.

{ "item": "Egg", "stacksize": "4–8", "chance": 0.06896551724137934, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Chamber dispenser" }

{ "item": "Egg", "stacksize": "1–3", "chance": 0.23252875118681526, "structure": "Village", "container": "Fletcher's chest" }

Players are able to throw eggs and deal knockback to mobs (but not other players‌^{[JE only][1]}), 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. Eggs thrown through fire or lava in Bedrock Edition catch fire, and set fire to entities they hit.

When thrown by a dispenser or by pressing the use button, an egg has a ¹⁄₈ (12.5%) chance of spawning a chick. If this occurs, there is a ¹⁄₃₂ (3.125%) 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 chick variant depends on which egg variant was thrown; regular eggs hatch temperate chicks, blue eggs hatch cold chicks, while brown eggs hatch warm chicks.

The expected value of the number of chicks an egg produces is ³⁵⁄₂₅₆ or 13.7%. This means that on average, a chick is spawned every 7.3 eggs, a stack of 16 eggs spawns 2.188 chicks, and a full inventory including the hotbar and off-hand (37 × 16 = 592 eggs) is expected to spawn approximately 81 chicks.

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When thrown straight up, eggs travel 27.68993 blocks‌^{[Java Edition only]} or about 45 blocks‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} on average. They travel up to ~51.5 blocks horizontally on even ground when thrown at the optimal launch angle of ~40°.

Since the thrower's velocity influences the throw, timing a throw with a jump towards the target can increase the throwing range. It increases to about 42 blocks when thrown straight up and 64 blocks forward at a 35° angle. When sprint-jumping and throwing at a 35° angle, the range increases to about 90 blocks. For the same reason, throwing while falling significantly decreases the range.

A thrown egg experiences initial speed of about 1.5 blocks per tick. Its movement follows acceleration, drag, position (in subtick order); these variables can be simulated to predict the overall trajectory. Below is a calculator to predict the initial conditions in order to hit a desired coordinate:

Eggs shot by dispensers behave in the exact manner as when they were thrown by a player, with the only difference in their initial conditions. The initial position of eggs when shot by a dispenser offsets exactly 0.7 blocks forward and 0.1 blocks higher from the center of the block. Their initial speed is slightly randomized, which averages to about 1.1 block/tick.

Thrown eggs collide with blocks according to their collision box. They also collide with entities, but with the entities' collision box inflated to about 0.3 blocks in every direction. They collide with all living entities, including minecarts, boats, end crystals, falling blocks, and TNT.

Java Edition:
Thrown eggs use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

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

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Issues relating to "Egg" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• 👁 An egg as seen in Minecraft Earth
  
  An egg as seen in Minecraft Earth
• 👁 An egg as it appears in A Minecraft Movie
  
  An egg as it appears in A Minecraft Movie

• Eggs break mid-fall if hit by another projectile; the chance of spawning a chick is not affected.
• 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 such as ender pearls, snowballs, and all throwable potions.