Abomination Egg

Abomination eggs are, as the name implies, the eggs from which Abominations are hatched. Each egg is spawned into the world when an Abomination kills another living creature, which can be a mob or player alike. The egg has a internal hatching time of about 6,000 ticks, or five minutes. This is the same amount of time that it takes items to de-spawn from the world.

The primary purpose of these eggs, as far as our scientists can tell, is to increase the population of their species at a frightening pace. Be warned all who dare to create this entity, if you let it escape your base there is a very high probability that it will destroy your world.

After this hatching time has completed the egg acts like a mob spawner, only activating when it detects the presence of a player within a five-block radius of it. You can tell if you are within the ‘activation zone’ for an egg when you see the glowing purple "portal particles" that you normally see radiating off of Nether portals and Endermen.

If an Abomination egg is broken before it is internal hatching time is reached or the monster can spawn, it will gib and create a source block of mutant DNA that you can collect. Beware, this DNA is toxic to humans, so do not let it come into contact with your skin!