Spawn Egg

A spawn egg is an item used to instantly spawn mobs.

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. In Java Edition, spawn eggs have their own tab in the Creative inventory, while in Bedrock Edition, they are grouped at the bottom of the Nature tab. There are 87 spawn eggs in Java Edition and 91 spawn eggs in Bedrock Edition.

Wither and ender dragon spawn eggs can only be obtained with commands such as /give @s ender_dragon_spawn_egg. In Bedrock Edition, the agent and NPC spawn eggs may be obtained with an alias ID (see the table below), spawn_egg amount 56 and spawn_egg amount 51 respectively. Invalid alias IDs yield a generic item.spawn_egg.name instead, which uses the old chicken spawn egg texture and has no effect.