Description (From Recipaedia)
Spawner egg. Bird eggs are occasionally laid by adult birds. If you look carefully, you may find and eat them. Cooking an egg will increase its nutritional value.
Collecting Eggs
See also: Egg Farms
A bird must be on soft ground to lay an egg. It will not lay eggs on granite or other hard surfaces. If you disturb a bird while it lays eggs, it will cancel the process. A noise is created when a bird lays an egg. Some birds may lay eggs more frequently, like ravens and ostriches.
Egg types
- Seagull
- Duck
- Raven
- Sparrow
- Pigeon
- Ostrich
- Cassowary
- Cooked variants of all of them restore much more hunger.
Hunger restored from eggs
- Raw small eggs - +20% Food (0.2 Nutritional Value) (Not Recommended to Eat)
- Raw large egg - +40% Food (0.4 Nutritional Value) (Not Recommended to Eat)
- Cooked small eggs- +30% Food (0.3 Nutritional Value)
- Cooked large egg - +60% Food (0.6 Nutritional Value)
Cooking eggs
Cooked eggs provide more hunger points than raw eggs. To cook an egg, a raw egg and a bucket of water must be placed in a furnace, giving the effect of boiling.
It is not a safe idea to eat raw eggs, given that eating too much raw food will make the player sick.
It's wasteful to cook eggs one at a time because it will use up one fuel item for each egg. But each egg cooked moves the water bucket and the process then stops.
There are two ways to avoid this. Either have enough water buckets to allow all the eggs to cook unattended (11 per coal chunk), or have at least 2 water buckets (3 is better). Then you have to watch the furnace constantly and every time a water bucket moves, place it back in the BATCH area before the final bucket is used.
A third option is to use smaller fuel units such as sulfur (each item requires a total of 7 fuel value, and one sulfur chunk has 10) to cook each individual egg, though this does mean you would have to supervise the furnace where you would be cooking the eggs.