Talk:Spawn Egg

Baby villagers can spawn from eggs in PE –Preceding unsigned comment was added by RobustGlimt2907 (talk • contribs) at 15:55, 12 December 2015 (UTC). Please sign your posts with ~~~~

I right clicked a sheep spawn egg but it gave me zombie instead.

CreeperSlimeEnderman (talk) 03:21, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

There seems to be an issue with this page's quote, can someone please fix it? -75.179.18.235 00:13, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

Can you take a screenshot of what you see? The quote looks fine from here. – Sealbudsman ^talk/_contr 01:10, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

CrustySaturn23, you listed Blaze, Cave Spider, Ghast and Magma Cube eggs for Console Edition. Can you, or anybody who plays console, let us know what update these were added? – Sealbudsman ^talk/_contr 01:10, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

I don't play console, so I decided to check the version history. It appears every single spawn egg of the mobs listed were added in TU9. -BDJP ^(t|c) 09:08, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

Oh good, thanks for pointing me in that direction; just found an Xbox 360 video, showing TU9 spawn eggs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aWCSOltPvk#t=2m25s and it shows those four, plus the squid, which is literally all the 1.1 spawn eggs, as you said. – Sealbudsman ^talk/_contr 17:16, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

Can someone find and upload individual images of the 11w49a spawn eggs for use in the History section? - MinecraftPhotos4U (talk) 09:37, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

Well I have the images now, but can someone add them to Template:InvSprite? - MinecraftPhotos4U (talk) 12:21, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

It's not protected, you can do it yourself. Just open the sprite editor, and drag the images into the outdated section. –Majr ᐸ Talk
Contribs 12:24, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

can't do that. My computer isn't connected to the Internet yet and I don't know any ways to edit the file on mobile without irreversibly turning it into a jpg. - MinecraftPhotos4U (talk) 12:42, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

The sprite editor kind of works on phones. The interface isn't optimal, but it should work unless your browser is too old. –Majr ᐸ Talk
Contribs 12:08, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

As of 0.16.0, Spawn Eggs in Pocket Edition can spawn more than just mobs. Spawn eggs obtained using the /give command can also spawn the following entities:

To obtain these eggs, use the command:

/give playername spawn_egg 1 id

Also, the Player (Id 63) and WitherBoss (Id 52) spawn eggs are technically valid, but don't spawn anything when used because of a lack of data when spawning.

However, I don't know where to place this info on the page; what would be a good section, and should the table be formatted to match the existing list? Jocopa3 (talk) 02:53, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks! I'd forgotten to grab a few of those new mob entity IDs as well, so I filled those in as well ... – Sealbudsman ^talk/_contr 05:42, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

The article said that you use spawn eggs on the surface of a block, however they can also be used on any of the other sides, including the bottom, spawning mobs successfully. This is at least true in PE, I don't know about PC version. JackAlpha26 (talk) 16:14, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

Well, the term "surface" already means any surface, not "the top" -- but if it's unclear, yeah, it could be changed – Sealbudsman ^talk/_contr 16:37, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

These two spawn eggs are using Grid_Spawn_Phantom.png and Grid_Spawn_Turtle.png. a20001017^Talk 05:02, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

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Madminecrafter12^{T • C} 12:45, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

Cat spawn eggs look different. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by 101.228.73.205 (talk) at 04:34, 20 October 2018‎ (UTC). Please sign your posts with ~~~~

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 Done. – ItsPlantseed ⟨₰|₢⟩ 06:48, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

But nothing changed...58.35.127.122 09:17, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Yes it did change, see Cat again. --Giorgosarv18 (^talk/_contribs) 09:21, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

The is a new spawn egg? 180.190.51.222 11:12, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

It’s from the bedrock beta, appearently. FVbico (talk) 11:25, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

How to get it? 180.190.51.222 13:36, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

From the creative inventory maybe? HaydenBobMutthew ^{(talk, contribs)} 13:38, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

I think is wrong....what effect? 180.190.51.222 13:41, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

mask spawn egg is from the game files and you cannot spawn mask egg Onute (talk) 16:06, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

Hi, I'm the dev who made and added that texture. The mask texture isn't for any one mob; it's for data-driven entities. In add-ons, you can specify custom spawn egg colors for entities, and the mask texture is used to apply those two colors. In the texture, the red channel is the base spawn egg texture, while the green channel is the spawn egg spots/overlay texture. In shaders, we apply the base egg color to the red channel, and the spots/overlay color to the green channel to give the correct appearance. If you see the mask texture at all in-game, then there's a bug somewhere that's not applying the two egg colors correctly. --Jocopa3 (talk) 21:39, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

If you want to spawn eggs in MCBE, you need a Blocktopograph. Then change player's inventory id, change the spawn egg name is exist. Go back the game and spawn the egg, it should work. Onute (talk) 16:05, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

In Bedrock, it doesn't actually seem that the eggs are sorted alphabetically. Now, for me, the Bug Tracker servers are down, so I can't check to see if it's been reported yet. The order as of 1.14.30 is: Chicken, Bee, Cow, Pig, Sheep, Wolf, Polar Bear, Ocelot, Cat, Mooshroom, Bat, Parrot, Rabbit, Llama, Horse, Donkey, Mule, Skeleton Horse, Zombie Horse, Tropical Fish, Cod, Pufferfish, Salmon, Dolphin, Turtle, Panda, Fox,Creeper, Enderman, Silverfish, Skeleton, Wither Skeleton, Stray, Slime, Spider, Zombie, Zombie Pigman, Husk, Drowned, Squid, Cave Spider, Witch, Guardian, Elder Guardian, Endermite, Magma Cube, Ghast, Blaze, Shulker, Vindicator, Evoker, Vex, Villager, Wandering Trader, Zombie Villager, Phantom, Pillager, Ravager. -FezEmerald (T|C) 15:16, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

-Alright, I'm reporting it now. -FezEmerald (T|C) 04:08, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

Unlike all pages, here, sprites are used in the History section. Can someone render these files? --dr03ramos 👁 Image
(talk) Admin wiki[pt] 10:30, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

What is that question mark thing that says Iron golden spawn egg? 111.88.15.200 11:02, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

I removed it now. Don't know what the user was referring to, who added that. Maybe vandalism. ---- Elite hog (talk) 11:14, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

The 1.17 update (Caves & Cliffs) will add the Warden. There is a spawn egg shown in a picture shown by @kingbdogz on Twitter, showing a spawn egg for the Warden. Should this be here? --Universespy (talk) 14:32, 13 October 2020 (UTC) 👁 Image

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Per MCW:FUTURE, no, not until it appeared in snapshots/betas. Dhranios (talk) 15:36, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

It's so messed up and my internet is so bad the edit won't register and it will say the edit happended 1 hour later Anyways, "Minecraft: Story Mode Season 2 Spawn Eggs are cameras used to spawn tnts directly" who did this umm

And some pictures and some links are broken

The reasons to have spawn egg redirects are:

1. curious / less experience readers who don't understand how generic spawn eggs really are
2. editors using Template:BlockLink (it's better to have the redirects, since otherwise you get cluttered block links)
3. editors insisting IGNs are accounted for
4. people using the wiki to look up items w/o considering whether those items should have specific pages

The order of the list items is my opinion on how important they all are. Anyways, the 1st reason justifies not having a section link, while the latter reasons justify ign for the Redr/Reason but do not necessitate se or subtopic. Spawns eggs are essentially 1 generic topic.

This 1st reason also a reason to keep this page merged. --Simanelix ^(T|C) 04:57, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

The article states that the "old" (V1) Villager and (V1) Zombie Villager mobs do not have spawn eggs. Technically, they do, they're the ones with the aliases spawn_egg:15 and spawn_egg:44 respectively. The article also states that these spawn eggs have been removed, but they're still in the game and under the right circumstances will replace the "new" spawn eggs in Creative inventory. What are the circumstances? In a world created before 1.11.0, or created from a world template locked to a release before 1.11.0, the "new" mobs and their spawn eggs are replaced with the "old" ones in the loaded assets when the world is loaded. (I'm not sure, but I think if the old world is loaded without being locked to a release, the old villagers/zombie villagers will be updated to new ones.)

I won't presume to edit the article with this information because it's very debatable whether it would be useful, but just in case somebody proposes to delete all references to the old assets from the article I think it's useful to preserve these facts. Auldrick (talk) 22:27, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

The 3 spawn eggs listed above are missing from the textures list. It may be worked on right now though. WearyEagle77054 (talk) 00:51, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

NPC spawn eggs still use the old texture, and spawn eggs with invalid data still use the old chicken spawn egg texture. The mask egg texture is also unchanged, but that isn't supposed to be an in-game item.--Capopanzo (talk | contribs) 01:13, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

I've just changed it to be the Creeper egg, before that was a wall of the new spawn eggs (not all) from a screenshot from Minecraft. We should probably decide on which to use, as the spawn egg wall is just messy and doesn't fit the infobox, and I'm not too sure how people think about us using the Creeper egg. I think that's the best one, but maybe other people have other ideas, say the Wandering Trader egg for some reason. — 3A |  T  C  10:50, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

I also think using the Creeper egg is the best choice here, as it is the one used to represent the spawn eggs tab in the creative inventory as of now. Potato3003 (talk) 11:28, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

Either the Chicken or the Creeper. The chicken Spawn Egg is item:soawn_egg.name in Bedrock Edition. But the Creeper is the Tab Icon in Java Edition WearyEagle77054 (talk) 12:14, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

I prefer the chicken because that's the spawn egg used for the group in the creative inventory in BE (chicken is also the generic but that still uses the old texture). MinecraftBedrockPlayer7 (talk)(contribs) 👁 Image
19:22, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

I think the Creeper is fine. I would not support Chicken as to not cause any confusion with Chicken's eggs. -BrianGLHF (talk) 19:30, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

Old spawn egg textures could be included in a collapsible section in the gallery. Btw, Spawn Egg colors also has a list of the old textures. MinecraftBedrockPlayer7 (talk)(contribs) 👁 Image
05:58, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

There is a link to Spawn Egg colors at the top of the history section. -BrianGLHF (talk) 01:13, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Should we add back in the section for the old colors for the spawn eggs, with the color hex codes? Maybe before the Data Values section. 216.103.96.253 15:56, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

We already have a link to Spawn Egg colors, which includes the old hex codes, at the start of the history section.--Capopanzo (talk | contribs) 16:02, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Okay 216.103.96.253 16:05, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

For some reason, the spawn eggs are not craftable. Why? Is there a reason or not? ~2026-IronSculkJungle7643 (talk) 23:47, 11 April 2026 (UTC)

This talk page is about the wiki page and not about the Miencret resource. In any case, we can consider this a criticism of the page for not making this clear.

These eggs are intentionally made to be in the creative mode and to give access to mob generation. There are alternatives similar to these eggs in Survival, such as:

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  Eggs
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  Turtle egg
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  Sniffer egg
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  Bucket of mob
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  Dried Ghast

There are also processes for generating entities such as:

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  Iron Golem
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  Snow Golem
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  Copper Golem
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  Wither
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  Ender Dragon

And effects that mobs produce

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  Infested

Perhaps in the future there will be items even more similar to the spanner eggs, but they themselves will hardly make it to survival mode.

You can customize recipes to make items craftable. Aloi4 (talk) 00:24, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

I am trying to add every addon spawn egg which takes a lot of time so please try help add them. Spodler9716 (talk) 18:55, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

We don't document add-ons apart from on their pages. This page is about vanilla spawn eggs. ‑‑MinecraftExp123^{(talk|contribs)} 23:22, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

I gess you have a point Spodler9716 (talk) 20:46, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

Actually, cant we just put them in the "other media" section of this page. Spodler9716 (talk) 20:49, 19 May 2026 (UTC)