The Stray Spawn Egg is a creative-only item that spawns a Stray — a frost-themed skeleton variant — when you use it on a block in Minecraft. The Stray Spawn Egg has a light-gray base with pale blue spots, matching the Stray's icy appearance. Strays spawn naturally in cold, snowy biomes such as Snowy Plains, Ice Spikes, and Frozen Peaks, where they replace most regular skeletons, while the Stray Spawn Egg lets you place one instantly anywhere. A Stray fires Arrows of Slowness, applying Slowness for 30 seconds to any target it hits, which makes a Stray more dangerous than a normal skeleton. The Stray Spawn Egg is available only in the Creative inventory or through the /give @s minecraft:stray_spawn_egg command, and the Stray Spawn Egg cannot be crafted or obtained in Survival mode. Using the Stray Spawn Egg on a monster spawner retargets that spawner to produce Strays. Strays were added in Java Edition 1.10 and exist in both Java and Bedrock Edition. Builders and map-makers use the Stray Spawn Egg to populate winter arenas, frozen dungeons, and custom mob farms without waiting for natural night-time spawns.