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Java Edition:Spawn Egg

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Spawn eggs normally are unobtainable in survival mode. They are useful items to obtain, as one can spawn nearly any mob in the game and change spawners to spawn that mob indefinitely, allowing for the creation of unique and fast mob farms. They can be obtained in snapshot 11w49a (1.1 snapshot), 22w13oneBlockAtATime, and 23w13a_or_b.

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Obtaining

B Creative Mode

Main page: B Creative Mode

In snapshot 11w49a, pressing the letter "B" on your keyboard would put you in creative mode, allowing you to obtain many discontinued items, such as spawn eggs. Spawn eggs were a different color than current spawn eggs, and could only stack via the usage of understacked items.

11w49a Available Spawn Eggs

Since the creative toggle ability was in such an early version, only these spawn eggs were available:

Obtainable Spawn Eggs
  • Creeper
  • Skeleton
  • Spider
  • Zombie
  • Slime
  • Ghast
  • Pig Zombie[1]
  • Enderman
  • Cave Spider
  • Silverfish
  • Blaze
  • Magma Cube
  • Pig
  • Sheep
  • Cow
  • Chicken
  • Squid
  • Wolf
  • Mooshroom
  • Villager


22w13oneBlockAtATime Enderman Spawning

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Main page: Enderman Holding Invalid Block#22w13oneBlockAtATime Spawning

In the April Fools' snapshot 22w13oneBlockAtATime, Endermen spawn with random blocks with random block states. Spawn egg cannot be directly spawned because it is an item, not a block. However, the generic_item_block that exists exclusively in this version has a block state for every single item in the game, including each spawn egg.

This means that the chance for an Enderman spawning with a spawn egg is very rare. There are 902 equally likely blocks, and generic_item_block is just a 1/902 chance. Then, there are 1105 different values that the generic_item_block can be set to. For a specific desired spawn egg, the chance is 1/902 * 1/1105 = 1/996710 (≈0.0001%) of it spawning. In total, there are 67 different spawn eggs they can spawn with, giving a 1/902 * 67/1105 = 67/996710 (≈0.0067%) chance of any spawn egg spawning.

22w13oneBlockAtATime Obtainable Spawn Eggs
  • Axolotl
  • Bat
  • Bee
  • Blaze
  • Cat
  • Cave Spider
  • Chicken
  • Cod
  • Cow
  • Creeper
  • Dolphin
  • Donkey
  • Drowned
  • Elder Guardian
  • Enderman
  • Endermite
  • Evoker
  • Fox
  • Ghast
  • Glow Squid
  • Goat
  • Guardian
  • Hoglin
  • Horse
  • Husk
  • Llama
  • Magma Cube
  • Mooshroom
  • Mule
  • Ocelot
  • Panda
  • Parrot
  • Phantom
  • Pig
  • Piglin
  • Piglin Brute
  • Pillager
  • Polar Bear
  • Pufferfish
  • Rabbit
  • Ravager
  • Salmon
  • Sheep
  • Shulker
  • Silverfish
  • Skeleton
  • Skeleton Horse
  • Slime
  • Spider
  • Squid
  • Stray
  • Strider
  • Trader Llama
  • Tropical Fish
  • Turtle
  • Vex
  • Villager
  • Vindicator
  • Wandering Trader
  • Witch
  • Wither Skeleton
  • Wolf
  • Zoglin
  • Zombie
  • Zombie Horse
  • Zombie Villager
  • Zombified Piglin

=== 23w13a_or_b Votes ===

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The April Fool's snapshot 23w13a_or_b introduces a plethora of ways to obtain every block and item in the game, including nearly any spawn egg. These include:

  1. The egg_free vote, when applied, will allow chickens to lay any block or item in the game (without NBT). This means all chickens have the chance of laying nearly any spawn egg.
  2. The fish_anything vote, when applied, will allow any item from the creative menu (not the operator tab, with NBT) to be fished (combine with the buff_fishing vote to greatly increase fishing speed). What this means is that there is a chance that nearly any spawn egg can be randomly fished.
  3. The give_item vote, when applied, will give every online player a random amount of any block or item in the game (without NBT), meaning that you could have nearly any spawn egg randomly given to you.
  4. The replace_items vote, when applied, will replace all items in online players' inventories with any block or item in the game (NBT of the original replaced item is preserved). This allows for nearly any spawn egg with Any NBT.
  5. The replace_loot_drop vote, when applied, will replace all loot drops of a random block or item with any block or item in the game (if the original item that is being dropped has NBT, it will be preserved). This is also another method for nearly any spawn egg with Any NBT.
  6. The replace_recipe_output vote, when applied, will replace all recipes for the given item with any block or item in the game (NBT is preserved if the original output item is supposed to have NBT.) This is yet another method for nearly any spawn egg with Any NBT.
  7. The villager_gem vote, when applied, will replace all emeralds in all loaded villager's trades with any block or item in the game (without NBT). This means that you can get a villager that trades nearly any spawn egg, allowing for infinite amounts of nearly any spawn egg.
  8. The basalt_gen_replace, cobblestone_gen_replace, obsidian_gen_replace, and stone_gen_replace votes, when applied, replace the block of their respective fluid interaction with any block in the game, allowing for blocks in invalid positions and the placement of operator-only blocks such as the Command Block.

Uses

Impossible Spawners

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From, 14w28b to 24w38a (present), right clicking on a spawner will cause the spawner to become of that mob type. This allows for many usually impossible spawners.

Spawners Not Found Naturally Anywhere
  • Axolotl
  • Bat
  • Bee
  • Cat
  • Chicken
  • Cod
  • Cow
  • Creeper
  • Dolphin
  • Donkey
  • Drowned
  • Elder Guardian
  • Enderman
  • Endermite
  • Evoker
  • Fox
  • Ghast
  • Glow Squid
  • Goat
  • Guardian
  • Hoglin
  • Horse
  • Husk
  • Llama
  • Mooshroom
  • Mule
  • Ocelot
  • Panda
  • Parrot
  • Phantom
  • Pig
  • Piglin
  • Piglin Brute
  • Pillager
  • Polar Bear
  • Pufferfish
  • Rabbit
  • Ravager
  • Salmon
  • Sheep
  • Shulker
  • Skeleton Horse
  • Slime
  • Squid
  • Stray
  • Strider
  • Trader Llama
  • Tropical Fish
  • Turtle
  • Vex
  • Villager
  • Vindicator
  • Wandering Trader
  • Witch
  • Wither Skeleton
  • Wolf
  • Zoglin
  • Zombie Horse
  • Zombie Villager
  • Zombified Piglin
Spawners Not Found In Certain Dimensions
  • Skeleton (In Nether or End)
  • Spider (In Nether or End) *can be used to get wither spider skeleton jockeys
  • Zombie (In Nether or End)
  • Cave Spider (In Nether or End)
  • Silverfish (In Nether or End)
  • Blaze (In Overworld or End)
  • Magma Cube (In Overworld or End)

Wither Skeleton Jockey

Main page: Wither Skeleton Spider Jockey

Spiders don't normally spawn in the Nether, but using spawn eggs has a rare chance to create a wither skeleton spider jockey.

Skeleton Jockey in End/Nether

Main page: Skeleton Spider Jockey in The Nether/End

The spider egg can be used to get skeleton jockeys in the end or nether, which is normally impossible due to the inability of jockeys to use portals.

Wool Headed Mob Jockey in End/Nether

Main page: Wool Headed Mob

The spider spawn egg is the only way to get the wool-headed mob skeleton-spider jockey combo.

Weaponless Mobs

Main page: Weaponless Mob

Due to different bugs, in versions 18w10a to 18w10d (1.13 snapshots) and 20w07a to 20w12a (1.16 snapshots), you could spawn in weaponless mobs with spawn eggs.

Invalid Dimension Mob

Main page: Invalid Dimension Mob

Before 12w34a (1.4 snapshot), mobs could not travel through portals. The spawn eggs can be used to get many mobs in dimensions that are normally impossible.

Gallery

  • Spawn Egg Textures From 11w49a

    Spawn Egg Textures From 11w49a

  • Spawn Eggs inside the 11w49a B Creative Mode inventory.

    Spawn Eggs inside the 11w49a B Creative Mode inventory.

See also

References

  1. ↑ From 1.2 "Zombie Pigman", from 20w09a "Zombified Piglin".
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