Spawn Egg

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A spawn egg^[a] is an item used to spawn mobs directly.

Obtaining[]

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. Spawn eggs are also available in the Creative inventory. There are 77 spawn eggs in Bedrock Edition and 75 spawn eggs in Java Edition.

Usage[]

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. Ocelot and all monster mobs (except shulkers, piglins, hoglins; and in Bedrock Edition, also include vindicators, evokers, zoglins, piglin brutes) 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.

Dispensers[]

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

Baby mobs[]

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. In mobs that can breed, the baby is created by breeding the clicked mob to itself. For instance, using a sheep spawn egg on a sheep makes a baby sheep with the same wool color.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Other mobs such as evokers, vindicators, vexes, piglin brutes, ravagers, phantoms, skeletons, pillagers, creepers and wither skeletons do not have a baby variant, so the egg still spawns an adult.

Monster spawners[]

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

Renaming[]

A spawn egg can be renamed on an anvil, and when used it spawns a mob with that name appearing over its head. The 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. If the player renames a spawn egg by the names described below, the mob appears described below. If the player renames a rabbit spawn egg "Toast", the secret skin of the rabbit appears when the egg is used. Naming a spawn egg "Dinnerbone" or "Grumm" causes the mob to appear upside down and show the given name above it. Renaming a vindicator "Johnny" causes it to act hostile to all mobs except for other illagers. Renaming a sheep "jeb_" makes the sheep's wool color cycle in a rainbow loop. This doesn't change the color of the wool the sheep drops. Renaming a spawn egg of a hostile mob with an anvil and then spawning the hostile mob with the renamed spawn egg does not prevent the hostile mob from despawning, unlike using a name tag on the mob.

Survival mode[]

Mobs can be spawned with spawn eggs in Survival mode, but spawn eggs are not obtainable in Survival without cheats; they can be obtained only using the Creative menu or commands. Unlike in creative, spawn eggs are consumed when used in survival.

List of spawn eggs[]

There is a spawn egg for almost every mob in the game; exceptions are listed below this table.

Mobs without spawn eggs[]

The following mobs do not have explicitly defined spawn eggs. Custom spawn eggs can be created with a custom NBT tag that changes the spawned entity, however no spawn egg explicitly associated with any of the mobs exist.

Education Edition spawn eggs[]

These spawn eggs exist in Minecraft Education and in Bedrock Edition:

• Agent
• NPC

The NPC and agent can both be spawned in Bedrock Edition, however, the agent is not visible or interactable in any way, though it still prevents the placing of blocks and entities.

Minecraft Earth spawn eggs[]

These unused spawn egg textures existed in Minecraft Earth:

• Cluckshroom
• Horned Sheep
• Jumbo Rabbit
• Moobloom

April Fools spawn eggs[]

• Moon Cow

Sounds[]

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

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Item data[]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

In Bedrock Edition, spawn eggs have no additional tags.

See Bedrock Edition level format/Item format.

History[]

^{[more information needed]}

Java Edition
1.1		11w49a			Added spawn eggs for creepers, spiders, skeletons, zombies, slimes, ghasts, zombie pigmen, endermen, cave spiders, silverfish, blazes, magma cubes, pigs, sheep, cows, chickens, squid, wolves, mooshrooms and villagers.
					The spawn egg has a single texture file, which is tinted different colors.
		12w01a			The spawn egg and its markings now have their textures separated, allowing them to have entirely different colors. This allows their colors to better match the colors of the mobs themselves.
1.2.1		12w03a			Spawn eggs can now be placed into a dispenser. Activating the dispenser spawns the mob, instead of dispensing the egg as an item.
					Spawn eggs are now stackable, which allows dispensers to hold more than nine of them at one time.
		12w04a			Added ocelot spawn eggs with the addition of the ocelot itself.
					Before 1.2, edited spawn eggs for snow golems, ender dragons and giants (and other "unspawnable" mobs) produced mobs of their types. Now, this is restricted to those eggs available in the creative inventory.
1.3.1		12w18a			Villagers spawned from spawn eggs were always farmers before this update and now their professions are randomized.
1.4.2		12w32a			Zombie villagers can now be spawned using zombie spawn eggs.
					Sheep from spawn eggs can now spawn naturally-colored sheep (white, gray, brown, pink, etc.).
		12w36a			Wither skeletons now have a high chance to spawn from a skeleton spawn egg, if the player is in the Nether.
					Skeletons on spider jockeys can now be replaced with wither skeletons when using spider spawn eggs in the Nether.
		12w38a			Added witch and bat spawn eggs.
1.4.4		pre			Baby mobs are now spawn-able by right-clicking a mob with a corresponding mob egg. Although, this doesn't work with zombies.
1.5		January 7, 2013			Dinnerbone tweeted the first image of a renamed mob appearing in a death message.
		13w02a			Mobs spawned from renamed eggs now have the name of the egg and the names appear in death messages.
					Mobs can now display their custom name as nametag using an NBT tag.
1.6.1		13w16a			Added horse spawn eggs.
		13w24a			Spawn eggs now work on water.
		1.6			Renaming a spawn egg "Dinnerbone" or "Grumm" now cause the mob to spawn upside-down.
1.7.4		13w48b			Renaming a sheep or sheep spawn egg "jeb_" give it a rainbow wool changing effect. This does not affect the wool dropped after death or shearing, however.
1.8		14w11a			Added endermite spawn eggs.
		14w25a			Added guardian spawn eggs.
		14w27a			Added rabbit spawn eggs.
		14w28b			Spawn eggs can now be used to program monster spawner blocks.
1.9		15w31a			Added shulker spawn eggs.
		15w33a			Spawn eggs can no longer be addressed by numeric data id, like: give @p spawn_egg 1 50. The spawnable entity from a spawn egg is now addressed by a datatag: /give @p spawn_egg 1 0 {EntityTag:{id:"Creeper"}}.
1.10		16w20a			Added spawn eggs for polar bears, wither skeletons, strays, husks, elder guardian, cats, donkeys, mules, skeleton horses and zombie horses.
		pre2			Removed spawn eggs for wither skeletons, strays, husks, elder guardians, cats, donkeys, mules, skeleton horses and zombie horses that were added in 16w20a.
1.11		16w32a			Re-added the spawn eggs that were removed in 1.10-pre2, except the cat spawn egg.
					Added a zombie villager spawn egg. It can spawn only zombie farmers.
					Using a spawn egg on top of a block such as a fence no longer cause the spawned mob to fall inside the fence.[5]
		16w32b			The zombie villager spawn egg now spawns different zombie professions.
		16w39a			Added spawn eggs for evokers, llamas, vexes and vindicators.
1.12		17w13a			Added spawn egg for parrots.
1.13		17w47a			The different  EntityTag entity IDs for the spawn_egg ID have now been split up into their own IDs.
					Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 383.
		18w07a			Added spawn eggs for phantoms and turtles.
		18w08b			Added spawn eggs for the 3 fish mob variants: cod, salmon, and "puffer fish".
		18w10a			Added a spawn egg for the new tropical fish.
		18w11a			Added drowned spawn eggs.
		18w15a			Added dolphin spawn eggs.
		18w19a			The phantom spawn egg has been changed to look more like mob's updated texture.
					The "puffer fish" spawn egg has been renamed to "pufferfish" spawn egg.
		18w20a			"Spawn x" has been changed to "x Spawn Egg".
1.14		18w43a			Added panda, pillager and "illager beast" spawn eggs.
		18w44a			Re-added cat spawn eggs.
		19w05a			The "illager beast" spawn egg has been renamed to "ravager" spawn egg.
					Added wandering trader and trader llama spawn eggs.
		19w07a			Added fox spawn eggs.
1.15		19w34a			Added bee spawn eggs.
		19w41a			The texture of the bee spawn egg has been changed.
		19w46a			Drowned, husk, zombie, and zombie villager spawn eggs can now be used on adult versions of these mobs to spawn baby variants.
		Pre-release 1			Zombie pigmen spawn eggs can now be used on adult zombie pigmen to spawn the baby variant.
September 28, 2019					Hoglin and piglin spawn eggs were shown.
1.16		20w06a			Added hoglin spawn eggs.
					Currently, the hoglin spawn egg substitutes the zombie pigman's spawn egg texture.
		20w07a			Added piglin spawn eggs.
					The texture of the hoglin spawn egg has been changed.
		20w09a			"Zombie Pigman Spawn Egg" has been renamed to "Zombified Piglin Spawn Egg".
		20w13a			Added strider spawn eggs.
		20w14a			Added zoglin spawn eggs.
1.16.2		20w27a			Added piglin brute spawn eggs.
October 6, 2020					Kingbdogz showed a warden spawn egg.
1.17		20w51a			Added axolotl spawn eggs.
		21w03a			Added glow squid spawn eggs.
		21w13a			Added goat spawn eggs.
October 16, 2021					Frog and tadpole spawn eggs were shown.
1.19		Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot 1			Added warden spawn eggs.
		22w11a			Added frog and tadpole spawn eggs.
					As with the warden itself, warden spawn eggs are not added in this snapshot.
		22w12a			Re-added warden spawn eggs.
		22w13a			Added allay spawn eggs.
1.20 (Experimental)		22w42a			Added camel spawn eggs behind the Update 1.20 experimental datapack.
		22w43a			The texture of the camel spawn egg has been changed.
1.19.3		22w44a			Added iron golem, snow golem, wither, and ender dragon spawn eggs. The wither and ender dragon spawn eggs are only available through commands to prevent accidental destruction of Creative builds.
					The texture of the polar bear spawn egg has been changed.[6]
1.20 (Experimental)		23w07a			Added sniffer spawn eggs behind the Update 1.20 experimental datapack.
		1.19.4-pre1			The texture of the sniffer spawn egg has been changed.
1.20		23w12a			Camel and sniffer spawn eggs are now available without using the "Update 1.20" experimental datapack.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.7.0					Added spawn eggs for chickens, sheep, pigs and cows.
v0.7.0					All spawn eggs with damage/metadata values 30 and higher, would display a unique texture.
v0.8.0		build 1			The texture of the default spawn egg is now , instead of having a completely blank texture.
v0.9.0		build 1			Added more spawn eggs, including mooshroom, creeper, enderman, silverfish, skeleton, slime, spider, zombie, zombie pigman and wolf.
					Spawn eggs now have the correct name in the inventory.
		build 2			Added (Old) villager spawn eggs.
					Spawn eggs can now be used to program monster spawner blocks.
v0.11.0					All spawn eggs that are obtained in this version with an invalid damage/metadata value would result in the name of that spawn egg displaying as the following: item.monsterPlacer.name.name.
v0.11.0		build 1			Added squid and bat spawn eggs.
					Added ghast, magma cube and cave spider spawn eggs, which are currently unobtainable.
		build 3			Added cave spider spawn eggs to the creative mode inventory.
		build 8			Added magma cube spawn eggs to the creative mode inventory.
v0.12.1		build 1			Added blaze, ocelot, and (Old) zombie villager spawn eggs.
					Added ghast spawn eggs to the creative mode inventory.
					Wither skeletons now have a high chance to spawn from an skeleton spawn egg, if the player is in the Nether.
		build 9			Mobs spawned from renamed eggs now have the name of the egg and the names appear in death messages.
		build 12			Zombie villagers can now be spawned using zombie spawn eggs.
v0.13.0		build 1			Added rabbit spawn eggs.
v0.14.0		build 1			Added witch spawn eggs.
v0.15.0		build 1			Added horse, mule, donkey, zombie horse, skeleton horse, stray, husk and wither skeleton spawn eggs to the creative inventory.
v0.15.1		build 1			The texture of the default spawn egg has been changed from to .
					The empty spawn egg named "Spawn" is now available through inventory editing, but crashes the game.[more information needed]
v0.16.0		build 1			Added guardian spawn eggs.
					Added elder guardian spawn egg without colors, which is currently unavailable in the creative inventory.
					Added a non-functional NPC spawn egg.
		build 2			The NPC spawn egg has been removed from the creative inventory.
		build 4			The NPC spawn egg has been removed completely.
		build 5			Added elder guardian spawn eggs to the creative inventory.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.1			Added spawn eggs for shulkers, endermites and polar bears.
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Added spawn eggs for llamas, vindicators, evokers and vexes.
		alpha 1.1.0.9			The spawn egg textures for husks, shulkers, silverfishses, strays and zombie horses have been updated; probably due to MCPE-18348.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0		beta 1.2.0.2			Added parrot and zombie villager spawn eggs.
1.4.0		beta 1.2.13.8			Added drowned spawn eggs.
		beta 1.2.14.2			Added spawn eggs for each fish, which have different textures compared to Java Edition.
		beta 1.2.20.1			The fish spawn egg textures have been made less unique; it matches Java Edition.
					Added dolphin spawn eggs.
1.5.0		beta 1.5.0.4			Added spawn eggs for turtles.
1.6.0		beta 1.6.0.1			Added spawn eggs for phantoms.
1.8.0		beta 1.8.0.8			Added spawn eggs for pandas and cats.
					The NPC spawn egg has been re-added.
					Added spawn eggs for agents.
					Unknown spawn eggs now use a completely black spawn egg as the default texture.
					Added mask spawn egg texture.
1.9.0		beta 1.9.0.0			Added pillager spawn eggs.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Added wandering trader, "illager beast", (New) villager and (New) zombie villager spawn eggs.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			The old villager and old zombie villager spawn eggs have been removed.
					"Spawn Illager Beast" has been renamed to "Spawn Ravager".
1.13.0		beta 1.13.0.1			Added fox spawn eggs.
1.14.0		beta 1.14.0.1			Added bee spawn eggs.
1.16.0		beta 1.16.0.51			Added hoglin and piglin spawn eggs.
					"Spawn Zombie Pigman" has been renamed to "Spawn Zombified Piglin".
		beta 1.16.0.57			Added strider and zoglin spawn eggs.
		beta 1.16.0.59			The textures of the piglin and hoglin spawn eggs have been changed to match Java Edition.
1.16.20		beta 1.16.20.50			Added piglin brute spawn eggs.
1.16.100		beta 1.16.100.56			The different entity IDs for the spawn_egg ID have now been split up into their own IDs.
					Unused spawn eggs (such as Iron Golem, End Crystal and Wither) are completely removed. Attempts to put such spawn eggs in an inventory gives the default spawn egg instead.
					The texture of the default spawn egg is now , instead of having a completely black texture.
1.16.200		beta 1.16.200.52			Added goat spawn eggs behind the "Caves and Cliffs" experimental toggle.
		beta 1.16.210.51			The texture for goat spawn eggs has been changed.
1.16.210		beta 1.16.210.59			Added glow squid spawn eggs.
		beta 1.16.210.60			Glow squid spawn egg is temporarily removed.
1.16.220		beta 1.16.220.50			Re-added glow squid spawn egg.
1.17.0		beta 1.16.230.52			Added axolotl spawn eggs.
		beta 1.17.0.52			Goat, glow squid and axolotl spawn eggs are now available without enabling experimental gameplay.
1.18.10		beta 1.18.10.24			Added frog and tadpole spawn eggs behind the "Wild Update" experimental toggle.
1.18.30		beta 1.18.30.22			Added allay spawn eggs behind the "Wild Update" experimental toggle.
		beta 1.18.30.32			Added warden spawn eggs behind the "Wild Update" experimental toggle.
1.19.0		beta 1.19.0.20			Both spawn eggs mentioned above are now available without enabling experimental gameplay.
1.19.10		beta 1.19.10.20			Added the trader llama spawn egg.
Next Major Update (Experimental)		beta 1.19.50.21			Added camel spawn eggs behind the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle.
		beta 1.19.50.22			The texture of the camel spawn egg has been changed.
1.19.60		beta 1.19.60.20			Added iron golem, snow golem, wither, and ender dragon spawn eggs. The wither and ender dragon spawn eggs will only be available through commands to prevent accidental destruction of Creative builds.
					The texture of the polar bear spawn egg has been changed.
		beta 1.19.60.25			The wither and ender dragon spawn eggs are no longer available in the creative inventory, only via commands.
Sniffer (Experimental)		beta 1.19.70.23			Added sniffer spawn eggs behind the "Sniffer" experimental toggle.
1.20.0		beta 1.20.0.20			Sniffer spawn eggs are now available without using the "Sniffer" experimental toggle.
		beta 1.20.0.21			Camel spawn eggs are now available without using the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle.
Legacy Console Edition
TU9	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added spawn eggs for creepers, skeletons, spiders, zombies, slimes, ghasts, zombie pigmans, endermans, cave spiders, silverfishs, blazes, magma cubes, pigs, sheeps, cows, chickens, squid, wolfs, mooshroom and villagers.
					Spawn eggs can now be placed into a dispenser. Activating the dispenser spawns the mob, instead of dispensing the egg as an item.
TU11					Added a message when the user tries to spawn a hostile mob from a spawn egg in Peaceful difficulty.
TU12					Added ocelot spawn eggs.
TU19	CU7	1.12			Added horse, witch, bat, donkey and mule spawn eggs.
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		Added endermite, guardian and rabbit spawn eggs.
TU46	CU36	1.38	Patch 15		Added shulker spawn eggs.
					Donkey and mule spawn eggs now match the textures of their Bedrock and Java edition counterparts.
TU54	CU44	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Added spawn eggs for skeleton horses, zombie horses, elder guardians, strays, wither skeletons, husks, zombie villagers, parrots, llamas, vindicators, evokers and vexes.
TU69		1.76	Patch 38		Added spawn eggs for drowned, cod, salmon, pufferfish, tropical fish, dolphins, sea turtles and phantoms.
		1.83			Added spawn eggs for pandas and cats.
		1.90			Added pillager spawn eggs.
		1.91			Added spawn eggs for ravagers and wandering traders.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added spawn eggs.
1.7.10					Added spawn eggs for endermites, polar bears and shulkers.
1.9.19					Added spawn eggs for llamas, vindicators, evokers and vexes.
Education Edition
1.0					Added spawn eggs.
1.4					Added spawn eggs for cod, salmon, pufferfish, tropical fish and dolphins.
1.7					Added spawn eggs for drowned, sea turtles, phantoms and agents.
?					Added mask spawn egg texture.
1.9					Added spawn eggs for pandas and cats.
1.12.0					Added spawn eggs for pillagers, ravagers and wandering traders.
1.14.31					Added spawn eggs for bees and foxes.
1.17.30					Added spawn eggs for piglins, hoglins, striders, zoglins, piglin brutes, goats, axolotls and glow squids.
Minecraft Earth
Release					Added cluckshroom, horned sheep and moobloom spawn egg textures.
0.4.0					Added jumbo rabbit spawn egg texture.

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Spawn Egg" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Gallery[]

Screenshots[]

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  Various spawn eggs utilizing their old color scheme before 12w01a.

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  An example of an upside-down mob by renaming the spawn egg "Dinnerbone".

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  Two mobs spawned with the names "Grumm" and "Dinnerbone," respectively.

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  First screenshot relating to a named mob shown, through a spawn egg.

Notes[]

References[]

External Links[]

• Taking Inventory: Spawn Egg – Minecraft.net on January 6, 2022