Minecraft, but You Can Craft Spawn Eggs

Finding the mob you need is the slowest part of any farm build. This pack adds 48 vanilla shapeless crafting recipes that turn a single chicken egg plus a themed ingredient into that mob's spawn egg: leather and wheat for a cow, three gunpowder for a creeper, a bone and packed ice for a stray, an emerald block and a book for a villager. Everything is a real recipe, so it appears in your recipe book, works in any crafting table, and never touches vanilla loot tables. Type /trigger byces_help in chat for the full colour-coded ingredient list.

Runs on every Java Edition release from 1.21.2 to 26.3.

How it works

• Every recipe is a plain vanilla shapeless craft: put 1 egg plus that mob's signature items anywhere in a 3x3 grid and pull the spawn egg out.
• 48 mobs are covered - 7 livestock, 8 mounts and pets, 6 water and swamp mobs, 4 traders and helpers, 15 Overworld hostiles and 8 Nether mobs.
• Costs are themed and self-balancing: a cow wants leather and wheat, a creeper wants three gunpowder, a villager wants an emerald block and a book.
• A hidden advancement grants all 48 recipes the first time your inventory changes, so they show up in the recipe book - just search 'spawn egg' in a crafting table.
• Run /trigger byces_help in chat for the full ingredient list, grouped and colour-coded, and it re-grants every recipe in case a world reset lost them.
• Nothing vanilla is overwritten - no loot tables, no existing recipes, no mob behaviour - so the pack stacks safely with other data packs and with servers.

Installing it

1. 1.Download the zip below. Do not unzip it — Minecraft reads the zip directly.
2. 2.In Minecraft, click your world, then Edit, then Open World Folder.
3. 3.Drop the zip into the datapacks folder inside that world.
4. 4.Load the world. Run /datapack list to confirm it is enabled.

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