Spawn Egg

Spawn Eggs
Type:	Item, creative
Stackable:	Yes, 64
Found naturally:	No
Identifier:	spawn_egg

Spawn Eggs are items that can spawn mobs.

Obtaining

Creative Mode

Spawn Eggs can be found in the Miscellaneous Items tab of the Creative Mode inventory, they are distributed between the second and third page.

Commands

The player can use the give command to add Spawn Eggs to their inventory, determining which mob it will spawn with the type data tag and the mob's name in between quotation marks or apostrophes:

give spawn_egg 1 0 {type:'zombie'}

The default data tag of Spawn Eggs is the pig's, so not entering a data tag in the command will result in a pig egg. The player can also use the give command to obtain Spawn Eggs of mobs absent in the Creative Mode menu, such as the Ender Dragon and Snow Golem, which use the default grayscale texture.

Usage

Spawn Eggs are used to spawn their corresponding mob. The player can right-click to use a Spawn Egg or activate a dispenser containing one. A Spawn Egg renamed in an anvil will spawn a mob with the same name.

List of Spawn Eggs

There are 23 different spawn eggs in Mine Blocks, with 2 of them only avaliable through commands, listed below:

	Bat Egg
	Blaze Egg
	Cactus Cow Egg
	Chicken Egg
	Cow Egg
	Creeper Egg

	Enderman Egg
	Ghast Egg
	Magma Cube Egg
	Mooshroom Egg
	Nethereye Egg
	Pig Egg

	Rabbit Egg
	Sheep Egg
	Slime Egg
	Skeleton Egg
	Spider Egg
	Squid Egg

	Wolf Egg
	Zombie Egg
	Zombie Pigman Egg
	Ender Dragon Egg (commands only)
	Snow Golem Egg (commands only)

History

Version	Date	Changes
Unknown	Unknown	Different buttons spawened different mobs in Creative Mode (unknown source)
1.25	May 11, 2013	Added Spawn Eggs
1.26	May 31, 2014	Added Slime Spawn Egg
1.27	Nov 13, 2015	Added Rabbit Spawn Egg
1.28	Oct 8, 2016	Added Ghast Spawn Egg Added Squid Spawn Egg Added Zombie Pigman Spawn Egg
1.29	Sep 29, 2019	Added Bat Spawn Egg Added Cactus Cow Spawn Egg

Trivia

• In the give command, typing "dog" in the type data tag will give the player a wolf Spawn Egg. give spawn_egg 1 0 {type:"dog"}
• Not all Spawn Egg textures are the same but recolored, as the Cactus Cow egg has thorns and some eggs have slightly different spot patterns, mostly different by one or two pixels.
• The Miscellaneous Items tab of the Creative Mode inventory has a chicken egg as its icon

Gallery

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  A skeleton being spawned with a skeleton spawn egg.

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  15/23 spawn eggs.

See Also

• Egg
• Mobs
• Spawn point