Brown Egg

Brown Egg

Rarity tier	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (16)
Size	Height: 0.25 blocks Width: 0.25 blocks

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A brown egg is an item that can be used to craft food items, or thrown for a chance to spawn baby warm chickens on impact.

Obtaining

Mob loot

Adult warm chickens lay a brown egg item every 5–10 minutes. The theoretical average would be expected at 1 egg every 7.5 minutes (9000 game ticks).

Usage

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	[hide]Description
Cake	Milk Bucket + Sugar + Brown Egg + Wheat		Empty buckets remain in the crafting grid after crafting the cake.
Pumpkin Pie	Pumpkin + Sugar + Brown Egg

Combat

Players are able to throw brown eggs and deal knockback to mobs (but not other players‌), but no damage is dealt, similar to a snowball. Likewise, throwing brown eggs at neutral mobs provokes them. Brown eggs can also be fired from dispensers and are affected by gravity. Brown eggs thrown through fire or lava in Bedrock Edition catch fire, and set fire to entities they hit.

Spawning chickens

When thrown by a dispenser or by pressing the use button, a brown egg has a ¹⁄₈ (12.5%) chance of spawning a warm chick. If this occurs, there is a ¹⁄₃₂ (3.125%) chance of spawning three additional warm chicks (on average, 1 out of every 256 brown eggs spawns 4 chicks). In other words, whenever a brown egg is thrown, there is a ³¹⁄₂₅₆ chance of spawning 1 warm chick and a ¹⁄₂₅₆ chance of spawning four warm chicks.

The expected value of the number of warm chicks a brown egg produces is ³⁵⁄₂₅₆ or 13.7%. This means that on average, a warm chick is spawned every 7.3 brown eggs, a stack of 16 brown eggs spawns 2.188 warm chicks, and a full inventory including the hotbar and off-hand (37 × 16 = 592 brown eggs) is expected to spawn approximately 81 warm chicks.

For the purposes of establishing a new warm chicken farm with brown eggs alone, the probability P for at least 2 warm chicks to spawn after throwing n warm eggs can be calculated using the following formula:

$P=1-{\left(\frac{7}{8}\right)}^n-n\times \frac{1}{8}\times \frac{31}{32}\times {\left(\frac{7}{8}\right)}^{n-1}$

When throwing 16 brown eggs, there is a 62% chance of spawning at least two warm chicks. When throwing 32 brown eggs, the probability rises to 92%

An average of 450 seconds elapses for a warm chicken to lay another brown egg. Accounting for all probabilities, the average warm chicken produces 1.09 warm chickens per hour when all the brown eggs it lays are thrown.

Sounds

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Egg flies	Players	When an egg is thrown	entity.egg.throw	subtitles.entity.egg.throw​	0.5	1⁄3-0.5	16
	​Dispensed item	Blocks	When a dispenser shoots an egg	block.dispenser.launch	subtitles.block.dispenser.dispense​	1.0	1.2	16
	​Chicken plops	Friendly Creatures	When an egg is laid by a chicken	entity.chicken.egg	subtitles.entity.chicken.egg​	1.0	0.8-1.2	16

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	[hide]Translation key
Brown Egg	brown_egg	Item	item.minecraft.brown_egg

Name	Identifier	Entity tags	[hide]Translation key
Thrown Egg	egg	impact_projectiles	entity.minecraft.egg

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	[hide]Translation key
Brown Egg	brown_egg	750	Item	item.brown_egg.name

Entity data

Thrown eggs have entity data that define various properties of the entity.

Java Edition:

• [NBT Compound / JSON Object] Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template[show]
  • Tags common to all projectiles see Template:Nbt inherit/projectile/template[show]
  • [NBT Compound / JSON Object] Item: The item to render as, may be absent.
    • Tags common to all items see Template:Nbt inherit/itemnoslot/template[show]

History

[hide]Upcoming Java Edition
1.21.5			25w06a				Added brown eggs.
[hide]Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.21.70 Experiment Drop 1 2025			Preview 1.21.70.22				Added brown eggs.
1.21.70			Preview 1.21.70.23				All features behind the "Drop 1 2025" experimental toggle have now been fully implemented.

Issues

Issues relating to "Brown Egg" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.