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What Are They?
Pinkly Eggs are one of two new items dropped by Pinkly Sheep. Yes, you read that right. One of the great mysteries of Minecraft is now solved: the great life purpose of pink sheep is to lay a very unique "egg" that players can use to their great advantage.
Unlike Pinkly Poo, the other awesome gift from pink sheep which brings you harvest abundance, rainbow snacks, and pretty flowery things, the Pinkly Egg gives you an uncompromising force of hostile mob destruction.
Throw a pinkly egg to the ground and you often get baby chickens and occasionally a cutsie pinkly lamb. Throw a pinkly egg at another player or passive mob and they get a teensy health regen buff like a quick hug. But throw a pinkly egg at a hostile mob and you get unforgiving pinkly berserker mayhem; the mob will not know what's hit it. You really need to see for yourself: try throwing a pinkly egg at any hostile mob to see it in action!
And that's just the beginning.
Corruption
By default, pinkly eggs are harmless to non-hostile mobs and all players (in-between entities like angry wolves and killer bunnies notwithstanding). To change this so pinkly eggs negatively affect whatever they're thrown at, you need to "corrupt" the egg using a few Sludge Grubs.
Sludge Grubs drop from fetid blocks like rotted logs, compost, and hay bales where the original blocks have been exposed directly to toxic Pig Slurry for a period of time to rot and eventually become fetid with these squirmy monstrosities. Rotten, fetid logs are the best source of sludge grubs followed by rotting dung blocks.
Simple way to farm sludge grubs from logs.
Mob-Zappers
Mob-Zappers are a device that you use to protect a fixed area from most hostile mob spawns and movement including teleportation. We say "most hostile mobs" because on their own mob-zappers do not affect boss mobs such as withers and dragons. Mob-zappers are not cheap and you'll have to venture into the Nether dimension to obtain a couple of the ingredients to make them.
At the core of a Mob-Zapper is a Pinkly Graser crystal: a pinkly force-field generator thingy of certain mob doom. You'll need four packs of pinkly eggs (16 individual eggs) and an Enhanced Diamond to get started. You must get some standard weight Ancient Iron from Ancient Netherrack for the enhanced diamond.
The other unusual ingredient for a mob-zapper is Pigmanosaurus Poo, the catnip of hostile mobs. You have to harvest some of these "drops" from Fossilized Pigmanosaurus Poo embedded in old soul sand and netherrack blocks. You can also find lost+found pieces of poo in nether fortress loot chests.
Also found in netherrack.
There are three(3) strengths of mob-zappers with stronger mob-zappers protecting progressively larger areas both horizontally and vertically. The strongest level-3 zapper will protect an area roughly +/- 128 blocks on the x-z axis (horizontal) and +/- 32 blocks on the y-axis (vertical). This is a huge area. Importantly, the area is protected from new spawns as well as pre-existing hostiles moving into the area from outside of it!
Least powerful mob-zapper.
To create a more powerful mob-zapper, combine two of the mob-zappers from the level below. For example, to create the 2nd tier mob-zapper, you'll need to combine two 1st tier zappers. You need several graser crystals and loads of pigmanosaurus poo to craft the most powerful zapper, but it's worth it!
Most powerful mob-zapper.
The mob-zapper looks like a colorful fence post and you place it just like you would a fence post although it will not connect to another block. Being a zapper of hostile mobs, the placed post emits the maximum light level possible and occasionally some happy particles to let you know it's on duty keeping you safe. If there are hostiles within 8 square blocks of where you initially place the zapper, they will be vaporized instantly (which makes a mob-zapper kindof a handy thing to have with you as you venture into a deep ravine or cave system).
A happy mob-zapper is a working mob-zapper!
Mob-Zapometers
The protection area of the most powerful mob-zapper is pretty big so it can be unclear whether you're still within a protected zone when you're some visual distance away from the placed mob-zapper. A mob zapometer or "Mob-Zap o' Meter" is a simple way for you to check if you're safe.
Note that you can also use a regular pinkly egg.
Like the mob-zapper, you place the zapometer down like a fence post. If it's within the coverage area of any mob-zapper, it will "turn on" at full brightness like a redstone lamp. Basically the zapometer visually answers the question "if it were a mob, would it be dead?" If the zapometer is glowing, the answer is "yes." Note that if you're in an area where other players can move the source mob-zapper, the zapometer's state may become stale as it does not auto-update. To force a zapometer to recheck you can either break and put it down again or just right-click it to force a rescan.
Partially Blinded (Filters)
Normally a mob-zapper can detect and dispatch any non-boss hostile mob. However, there are situations where you want to let particular mobs into the coverage area of a mob-zapper. For example, you've got a dark-room mob farm and you'd like the spawns limited to one or two types of mobs.
Witches shall live!
Right-click on a placed mob-zapper to open its control interface shown above. You can place up to four(4) impressed Darkened Eyes in the outer slots. Whatever mob an eye is targeted to will pass unaffected into and within the zapper's protection area. Warning: A mob zapometer does not detect whether a found mob-zapper has a filter on it!
Eggnades
Eggnades are corrupted pinkly eggs that have been enhanced with the explosive power of gunpowder and the incendiary effects of Nether Crystals. Think of a pinkly egg's effect on a single mob, but happening to every mob within the eggnade's effective range; blocks and other entities are not affected (read the spawners note below). Eggnades are very effective in enclosed areas like dungeons and mob spawner rooms where there is a high number of hostiles in a small space you need to clear.
Least powerful.
There are four(4) power levels of eggnades with each level affecting a larger horizontal area than the previous one. All eggnades affect a fixed +3/-3 vertical zone. The affected area is determined from the point where the egg lands not the position it is thrown from. The most powerful level-4 eggnade is called a "Bossnade" and is designed to help you take on the toughest hostile mobs including withers, dragons, and other boss mobs. (Note that no eggnade has a one-shot kill force against dragons...yeah I'm looking at you J-Man.)
Most powerful eggnade.
Spawner Destroyer
If a standard mob spawner is hit by an eggnade, that spawner is destroyed unconditionally-- it doesn't matter what's being spawned or what kind of eggnade was used; however, you must have a direct hit on the spawner to destroy it. The spawner hit triggers a real explosion that will do damage like a regular TnT explosion does, so beware. On rare occasion the egg-destroyed spawner will drop a single spawn egg for one of the creatures spawned from the spawner.
Squishies Slingshot
You'll want to reserve your eggnades for when you really need them. As there is only a slight cooldown on an eggnade, it's quite common to accidentally over-fire the eggs in the heat of battle. To prevent this, you can use your eggnades as ammunition in a Squishies Slingshot instead of throwing them directly. The slingshot lets you aim better, fling farther, and it has a longer cooldown that helps prevent accidental firing.
Melee Weaponry
Eggnades are great from a distance and Mob-Zappers are about as hands-off and you can get, but most of the really interesting weapons in PinklySheep are the melee weapons that use the infused mob-bashing power of Pinkly Eggs in one form or another.
Pinkly Rod
The simpliest weapon is the Pinkly Rod which is basically a handful of Pinkly Eggs but in a non-throwable, whack-a-mob stick form. On its own the pinkly rod has a mean knockback and because of the negative effects it inflicts, will give most hostiles a pretty good head-ache without any durability cost; it's even useful for breaking silverfish infested blocks as the pinkly egg residuals will vaporize the block and its critter inhabitants instantly. Ah, what fun times can be had in strongholds now!
Silverfish squishing aside, the pinkly rod's main function is as a material ingredient in the Entwined Handle used by most of the other weapons. You will need to obtain Reinforced Hide Strap or Reinforced Twine to create handles for these items.
Entwined handle from a pinkly rod.