Egg
Material Stack: 16 Since Alpha v1.0.14
Quick answer: Adult chickens lay one every 5-10 minutes - build a hopper coop and forget about it.
How to get it
- Adult chickens lay one every 5-10 minutes - build a hopper coop and forget about it
- Cold chickens lay blue eggs and warm chickens lay brown ones, which hatch their own variants
- A fox sometimes spawns holding an egg and drops it when killed or bribed with food
Uses
- Throw them: a 1-in-8 chance to spawn a chick, and a legendary 1-in-256 for 4 chicks at once
- Craft cakes (3 milk, 2 sugar, 1 egg, 3 wheat) for birthdays and rapid hunger top-ups
- Craft pumpkin pie with a pumpkin and sugar - one of the best early-game foods
- Dispensers can fire eggs automatically, which is how auto-chicken farms begin
Renewability
Renewable: one chicken is all it takes to start an egg empire.
Java vs Bedrock
Identical in Java and Bedrock.