Spawn Egg

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 "title": "Spawn Egg",
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 "Creeper Spawn Egg.png"
 ],
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 "label": "(link to Rarity article, displayed as Rarity tier)"
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 "field": "No",
 "label": "(link to Renewable resource article, displayed as Renewable)"
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 "invimages": [
 "Chicken Spawn Egg",
 "Cow Spawn Egg",
 "Pig Spawn Egg",
 "Sheep Spawn Egg",
 "Camel Spawn Egg",
 "Donkey Spawn Egg",
 "Horse Spawn Egg",
 "Mule Spawn Egg",
 "Cat Spawn Egg",
 "Parrot Spawn Egg",
 "Wolf Spawn Egg",
 "Armadillo Spawn Egg",
 "Bat Spawn Egg",
 "Bee Spawn Egg",
 "Fox Spawn Egg",
 "Goat Spawn Egg",
 "Llama Spawn Egg",
 "Ocelot Spawn Egg",
 "Panda Spawn Egg",
 "Polar Bear Spawn Egg",
 "Rabbit Spawn Egg",
 "Axolotl Spawn Egg",
 "Cod Spawn Egg",
 "Dolphin Spawn Egg",
 "Frog Spawn Egg",
 "Glow Squid Spawn Egg",
 "Nautilus Spawn Egg",
 "Pufferfish Spawn Egg",
 "Salmon Spawn Egg",
 "Squid Spawn Egg",
 "Tadpole Spawn Egg",
 "Tropical Fish Spawn Egg",
 "Turtle Spawn Egg",
 "Allay Spawn Egg",
 "Mooshroom Spawn Egg",
 "Sniffer Spawn Egg",
 "Sulfur Cube Spawn Egg",
 "Copper Golem Spawn Egg",
 "Iron Golem Spawn Egg",
 "Snow Golem Spawn Egg",
 "Trader Llama Spawn Egg",
 "Villager Spawn Egg",
 "Wandering Trader Spawn Egg",
 "Bogged Spawn Egg",
 "Camel Husk Spawn Egg",
 "Drowned Spawn Egg",
 "Husk Spawn Egg",
 "Parched Spawn Egg",
 "Skeleton Spawn Egg",
 "Skeleton Horse Spawn Egg",
 "Stray Spawn Egg",
 "Zombie Spawn Egg",
 "Zombie Horse Spawn Egg",
 "Zombie Nautilus Spawn Egg",
 "Zombie Villager Spawn Egg",
 "Cave Spider Spawn Egg",
 "Spider Spawn Egg",
 "Breeze Spawn Egg",
 "Creaking Spawn Egg",
 "Creeper Spawn Egg",
 "Elder Guardian Spawn Egg",
 "Guardian Spawn Egg",
 "Phantom Spawn Egg",
 "Silverfish Spawn Egg",
 "Slime Spawn Egg",
 "Warden Spawn Egg",
 "Witch Spawn Egg",
 "Evoker Spawn Egg",
 "Pillager Spawn Egg",
 "Ravager Spawn Egg",
 "Vex Spawn Egg",
 "Vindicator Spawn Egg",
 "Blaze Spawn Egg",
 "Ghast Spawn Egg",
 "Happy Ghast Spawn Egg",
 "Hoglin Spawn Egg",
 "Magma Cube Spawn Egg",
 "Piglin Spawn Egg",
 "Piglin Brute Spawn Egg",
 "Strider Spawn Egg",
 "Wither Skeleton Spawn Egg",
 "Zoglin Spawn Egg",
 "Zombified Piglin Spawn Egg",
 "Enderman Spawn Egg",
 "Endermite Spawn Egg",
 "Shulker Spawn Egg",
 "Agent Spawn Egg",
 "Ender Dragon Spawn Egg",
 "Map Marker Spawn Egg",
 "NPC Spawn Egg",
 "Wither Spawn Egg",
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}

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

Spawn eggs can be obtained only in Creative mode or using commands. In Creative mode, the player can press pick block on an existing mob to obtain their respective egg. In Java Edition, spawn eggs have their own tab in the Creative inventory, while in Bedrock Edition, they are grouped at the bottom of the Nature tab. There are 87 spawn eggs in Java Edition and 91 spawn eggs in Bedrock Edition.

Wither and ender dragon spawn eggs can only be obtained with commands such as /give @s ender_dragon_spawn_egg. In Bedrock Edition, the agent and NPC spawn eggs may be obtained with an alias ID (see the table below), spawn_egg amount 56 and spawn_egg amount 51 respectively. Invalid alias IDs yield a generic item.spawn_egg.name instead, which uses the old chicken spawn egg texture and has no effect.

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 appears with its feet immediately adjacent to the surface, and its ambient sound is played.

Spawn eggs are not thrown (unlike normal eggs); the player must be within normal range of the block to use the spawn egg. All monster mobs (except undead animals, shulkers, piglins, hoglins and ender dragons) spawned while on Peaceful difficulty get created and immediately deleted from the world.

The surfaces of blocks are prioritized for spawning; if none are within reach, mobs can also be spawned in water or lava sources.

A spawn egg fired from a dispenser spawns the mob directly in front of the dispenser. The spawn egg is consumed when fired.

If the player uses a spawn egg on the type of mob it spawns, and that mob has a baby form, the egg spawns a baby version of the mob. For instance, using a sheep spawn egg on a sheep makes a baby sheep with the same wool color.

All spawn eggs can also be used on a monster spawner or trial spawner to change the mob that spawns. In Bedrock Edition, spawn eggs for any of the fish mobs spawn them only if the monster spawner is waterlogged.

A spawn egg can be renamed on an anvil, and when used it spawns a mob with that name appearing over its head, similar to a mob that has been named with a name tag. Unlike a name tag, this method of naming does not prevent hostile mobs from despawning. The mob's name can be seen only by aiming at the mob from four or fewer blocks away. This name also appears in death messages from the mob killing a player.

Certain names have special effects on mobs, and so a spawn egg with the name will spawn a mob with the effect. A rabbit spawn egg named "Toast" will spawn a rabbit with the secret skin. A spawn egg named "Dinnerbone" or "Grumm" spawns a mob that appears upside down. A vindicator from a spawn egg named "Johnny" acts hostile to all mobs except for other illagers. A sheep from a spawn egg named "jeb_" appears to change colors over time; this doesn't affect the color of the wool the sheep drops.

Players in Survival mode can use spawn eggs normally, though spawn eggs are not obtainable in Survival. They can be obtained only using the Creative menu or commands. Just like other items, spawn eggs are consumed when used in Survival mode.

There is a spawn egg for almost every mob in the game; exceptions are listed below this table. The spawn eggs are thematically sorted in the creative inventory in different categories. The categories do not affect actual mob type classifications.

Depending on the mob, spawn eggs appear as one of three sizes: small, medium or large. The spawn egg’s size is purely a visual effect and does not affect its functionality.

The following mobs do not have explicitly defined spawn eggs. Custom spawn eggs can be created with a custom data component‌^{[JE only]} or item component‌^{[BE only]} that changes the spawned entity, but no spawn egg explicitly associated with any of the mobs exist.

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  Giant‌^{[JE only][3]}
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  Elder Guardian Ghost‌^{[BE only]}
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  Illusioner‌^{[JE only][3]}
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  Old Villager‌^{[BE only]}
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  Old Zombie Villager‌^{[BE only]}

In Bedrock Edition:

• 👁 Invicon Camera Spawn Egg.png: Sprite image for Camera Spawn Egg in Minecraft
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  Camera
• 👁 Invicon Firefly Spawn Egg.png: Sprite image for Firefly Spawn Egg in Minecraft
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  Firefly
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  Old Villager
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  Old Zombie Villager

In Java Edition as part of April Fools' jokes for 23w13a_or_b and 24w14potato:

• 👁 Invicon Batato Spawn Egg.png: Sprite image for Batato Spawn Egg in Minecraft
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  Batato
• 👁 Invicon Mega Spud Spawn Egg.png: Sprite image for Mega Spud Spawn Egg in Minecraft
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  Mega Spud
• 👁 Invicon Moon Cow Spawn Egg.png: Sprite image for Moon Cow Spawn Egg in Minecraft
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  Moon Cow
• 👁 Invicon Plaguewhale Slab Spawn Egg.png: Sprite image for Plaguewhale Slab Spawn Egg in Minecraft
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  Plaguewhale Slab
• 👁 Invicon Poisonous Potato Zombie Spawn Egg.png: Sprite image for Poisonous Potato Zombie Spawn Egg in Minecraft
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  Poisonous Potato Zombie
• 👁 Invicon Toxifin Slab Spawn Egg.png: Sprite image for Toxifin Slab Spawn Egg in Minecraft
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  Toxifin Slab

When a mob is spawned, it immediately makes its ambient sound.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

When using commands to give a player a spawn egg there is an option to add custom data to said item to spawn a different mob than is normally expected i.e /give @p villager_spawn_egg[entity_data={id:"minecraft:cat"}] 1 which will take a normal villager spawn egg and turn it into a cat spawn egg.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

In Bedrock Edition, spawn eggs have no additional tags.