Egg

Items

Egg — item.

Obtaining

An egg is a timed gift from a living adult chicken, not part of the chicken's death loot. The variant follows the chicken: temperate chickens lay normal eggs, while warm and cold variants lay brown and blue eggs. A fox can also carry a normal egg and drop it when killed.

Data: Obtaining
Adult chicken interval	6000–12000 ticks
Temperate variant	Normal egg
Warm variant	Brown egg
Cold variant	Blue egg
Secondary source	Fox carrying an egg

Crafting

The egg belongs to the shared `#minecraft:eggs` ingredient tag. That tag is accepted by the cake recipe and by pumpkin pie, so normal, blue, and brown eggs can follow the same food-crafting path.

Data: Crafting
Ingredient tag	#minecraft:eggs
Cake	1 egg-tag ingredient with milk, sugar, and wheat
Pumpkin pie	1 egg-tag ingredient with pumpkin and sugar

Usage

Eggs are recipe ingredients and throwable projectiles. A thrown egg deals no damage, but it can knock mobs back and has a one-in-eight chance to hatch a chick; one of those successful hatches can produce four chicks instead of one. Dispensers use the same projectile behavior.

Data: Usage
Hatch chance	1/8 per impact
Four-chick chance	1/32 of successful hatches
Damage	0
Stack size	16
Dispenser	Can launch eggs

Sounds

Chicken gifts and thrown eggs use separate sound events: the chicken announces a newly laid egg, while the player or dispenser uses the egg-throw event when launching a projectile.

Data: Sounds
Egg laid	entity.chicken.egg
Egg thrown	entity.egg.throw
Dispenser launch	block.dispenser.launch

Behavior

The thrown egg keeps the variant stored on the item, so a blue or brown egg hatches the matching chicken variant. The projectile is affected by gravity, consumes one item on use, and disappears after impact while emitting item particles.

Data values

The normal item identifier is `minecraft:egg`; the same item family also contains `minecraft:blue_egg` and `minecraft:brown_egg`. All three variants stack to 16, and a thrown egg is represented by the `minecraft:egg` projectile entity.

Data: Data values
Identifier	`minecraft:egg`
Version	Minecraft 26.2
Item model	assets/minecraft/models/item/egg.json
Normal identifier	Egg`egg`
Blue identifier	Blue Egg`blue_egg`
Brown identifier	Brown Egg`brown_egg`
Stack size	16
Projectile entity	Egg`egg`

History

Eggs began as a throwable item and later became a food-recipe ingredient. Modern chicken variants extend the same system: the item keeps the variant metadata from the laying chicken through throwing and hatching.

Data: History
Original role	Throwable projectile
Recipe role	Cake and other food recipes
Current variants	Normal, blue, brown

26.2Item facts were published from the verified snapshot.Provenance: 918feb41c87c05a6f3e94e327fb01a82543180a2376b65610c6f0521456532a5

Gallery

Blue egg — Cold variant · Local Minecraft asset

Brown egg — Warm variant · Local Minecraft asset

Chicken — Item source · Local Minecraft asset

References

Data: References
Validated DeepMine snapshot	Validated DeepMine snapshot
Snapshot ID	918feb41c87c05a6f3e94e327fb01a82543180a2376b65610c6f0521456532a5
Digest	`d9dfe2a54a149d51c905d0528471c11111fdba59bfd53fe5ff8f3b648d315e23`

Data and provenance

minecraft:egg

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Provenance and publication

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Source set: 918feb41c87c05a6f3e94e327fb01a82543180a2376b65610c6f0521456532a5
Entity identifier: minecraft:egg
Digest: d9dfe2a54a149d51c905d0528471c11111fdba59bfd53fe5ff8f3b648d315e23
Missing locales: ru, en