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Moth Egg

Original pale moth egg resting on a green leaf
TSR egg illustration · not the in-game texture

Creature lifecycle · Minecraft 1.21.1

Protect the clutch. Prepare the nursery.

Placed eggs can hatch into Hell Caterpillars. Choose a suitable substrate, keep traffic away, and decide whether to preserve an egg or harvest silk before breaking it.

Artifact rules checked · live lifecycle untested

Moth Egg registration, the full block class, moth breeding/laying callbacks, and block loot were inspected in Tensura 2.0.1.2. Live breeding access, AI navigation, egg recovery, incubation time, hatchling ownership, and server overrides remain untested.

Obtain and recover

Keep an egg

Recover with Silk Touch

The packaged block loot chooses Moth Egg when the tool has Silk Touch level 1 or higher. Otherwise it selects Hell Moth Silk, with a base count of 1–3 and explosion decay. This loot branch is distinct from trampling.

Laid by a moth

1–4 eggs in a clutch

The checked Hell Moth breeding callback sets a carried-egg flag. Its laying task searches for wool or leaves, checks two air blocks above the substrate, and places a clutch of 1–4 eggs once the moth is close enough. Wool-tagged items are its checked food and taming-food class.

Acquisition limits

No packaged crafting recipe

The inspected recipe resources contain no Moth Egg crafting recipe. Feeding wool is not a guarantee that a particular moth can breed or navigate to a laying site: inherited breeding conditions, the carried-egg flag, server settings, and AI still matter. Recover an existing placed egg rather than relying on an undocumented crafting conversion.

Open Hell Moth reference →

Prepare for hatching

  1. Choose wool or leaves underneath.The hatching method checks the block directly below the egg against #minecraft:wool or #minecraft:leaves. A plain stone shelf does not satisfy that checked gate.
  2. Place and group the eggs.Placement rejects a target containing fluid. Using the same egg item on an existing clutch without secondary use can increase its count up to four; the current hatch state is preserved by that placement method.
  3. Allow eligible random updates.Hatch state advances from 0 to 1, then 2. The next qualifying update removes the egg block and attempts to create one baby Hell Caterpillar per stored egg—not an adult Hell Moth.
Why there is no fixed incubation timer

Each random tick first checks the level’s getTimeOfDay(1) result. The update gate always passes when 0.65 < value < 0.69; outside that exclusive window it passes only when nextInt(300) == 0. The valid substrate gate must also pass. These are conditional code gates, not a measured real-time hatch duration or a universal dimension clock. Random-tick settings, active chunks, and server timing affect progress.

Hatchling details and placement limits

The checked hatching loop creates tensura:hell_caterpillar, assigns initial age -24,000, finalizes it with the breeding spawn type, and attempts to add it to the world. The loop does not assign a player owner here. Creation can fail; successful live spawning, maturation, ownership, and later evolution still need separate checks. The laying task requires two air blocks above its substrate; that AI condition is not the same as the item-placement method’s fluid rejection.

Meet the Hell Caterpillar

Protect the eggs

Foot traffic

Keep paths away

The step-on hook can decrement the clutch for living entities that are not stepping carefully. Its server-side random check cancels only one in 100 eligible attempts; it is not a one-percent break chance.

Exemptions

Moths and caterpillars

Hell Moths and Hell Caterpillars are excluded by the checked destruction gate. Creative players are excluded separately. Careful stepping bypasses the step-on call, but these checks do not establish protection against mining, explosions, or other damage.

Separate loot paths

Trampling is not recovery

The trampling method reduces the egg count and requests one Hell Moth Silk item. The mining loot table uses Silk Touch or a 1–3 silk branch. Do not treat stepping on eggs as a Silk Touch collection method.

Checked block and item properties
  • Registry strength argument: 0.5; wool sounds, random ticks, and noOcclusion are set.
  • The item uses SimpleBlockItem with default item properties, including a 64-item stack limit; the older article’s non-stackable label is not used here.
  • The block is in the packaged hoe-mineable tag. That classification does not by itself require a hoe for its Silk Touch loot condition.
  • #tensura:skill/unobtainable includes Moth Egg. That tag is a special-system classification, not evidence that the Silk Touch loot branch is absent or that every acquisition route is disabled.

Source and licensing

Moth Egg source article, recorded revision 7517 on the Tensura: Reincarnated Wiki. Adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0. The unfinished article is supplemented by artifact evidence rather than unknown hardness or acquisition fields.

Implementation: Tensura 2.0.1.2 · pack selection · Moth Egg evidence register. Artifact SHA-1: f6f0c8ce46b77a1996c5986d029411878142112f.

The original TSR egg illustration is conceptual artwork, not the game texture. Neither reviewed source File page established reusable image permission. See the media ledger.

Artifact evidence
  • MothEggBlock: placement, hatching, collision shape, stepping, mining, and egg-count handling
  • HellMothEntity: food, breeding callback, laying callback, and laying-site predicates; LayEggs behavior wiring
  • TensuraBlocks, TensuraMobDropItems, and SimpleBlockItem registration
  • Packaged block loot, hoe-mineable tag, and skill-unobtainable tag; relevant class/resource checksums are retained in the register

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