Mob eggs are creative only, at least without hacks.
But what if there was a way to obtain the eggs in vanilla survival?
1. Make mob spawners drop a new item, called "Spawner Shard" when broken.
2. Silk Touch can collect whole spawner blocks again, but they are "dead" and are for decoration only.
3. Four Spawner Shards can be recrafted into a dead spawner, and vice versa.
4. Brewing a Spawner Shard into an Awkward Potion creates the "Potion of Immolation".
5. Drinking the Immolation potion kills you with an explosion.
6. However, when made into a splash potion, the Immolation potion will convert all mobs within its AOE into their eggs.
Because the potion uses spawners, it's not OP and broken like many of the past similar suggestions. Additionally, this is a non-stupid way to bring back Silk Touch spawner collecting.
This. Is... impressive. Except for the "dead" spawner thing,
If this were my suggestion, I would have made the spawner shards craftable with a chicken egg and the main drop of the mob to make the egg, such as:
E = egg
L = leather
S = shard
But what if there was a way to obtain the eggs in vanilla survival?
1. Make mob spawners drop a new item, called "Spawner Shard" when broken.
2. Silk Touch can collect whole spawner blocks again, but they are "dead" and are for decoration only.
3. Four Spawner Shards can be recrafted into a dead spawner, and vice versa.
4. Brewing a Spawner Shard into an Awkward Potion creates the "Potion of Immolation".
5. Drinking the Immolation potion kills you with an explosion.
6. However, when made into a splash potion, the Immolation potion will convert all mobs within its AOE into their eggs.
Because the potion uses spawners, it's not OP and broken like many of the past similar suggestions. Additionally, this is a non-stupid way to bring back Silk Touch spawner collecting.
Thoughts? Improvements?
If this were my suggestion, I would have made the spawner shards craftable with a chicken egg and the main drop of the mob to make the egg, such as:
E = egg
L = leather
S = shard
LSL
SES
LSL
Would you please point me to this thread? I did search and found nothing similar to this idea.