I've been using xisumavoid's automatic cooked chicken farm, and as far as I know I've built it correctly, but to date I have never seen a chicken hatch (from egg dispenser). The little guy in the video below was there when I came back from doing something else. I'm wondering if it has to do with the way I placed the half slab, or maybe I was supposed to use a dropper?
That looks like the way I used to build them, though that was a few versions ago.
I'm sure I used dispensers.
Does it produce a good number of eggs?
(Only 1 egg in 8 hatches on average.)
I'd suggest turning off the dispenser for a while so if fills up with eggs and then stand there counting the eggs as they are shot out and seeing what happens to them.
I've been using xisumavoid's automatic cooked chicken farm, and as far as I know I've built it correctly, but to date I have never seen a chicken hatch (from egg dispenser). The little guy in the video below was there when I came back from doing something else. I'm wondering if it has to do with the way I placed the half slab, or maybe I was supposed to use a dropper?
Dispenser is correct (droppers will throw, but not hatch, eggs).
Given the machine has worked once, it ought to work repeatedly.
How many layers (egg producing chickens) do you have? [Few eggs thrown >> few chicks hatched]
You could also rig the lava to a second dispenser and trigger it manually or by timer.
I built a similar chicken farm but hatched chicks were getting stuck in a slab or hit by other eggs or flying a bit up on hatch and contacting lava. Oh when a chick is hit by egg it will often jump too. Either way, dying early. So I modified the design.
Dispenser fires eggs into a wall across a water stream. So chicks fall into water and and are carried to a two block drop into a 5 block long fire chamber. The chamber uses dispensers and redstone timer to deploy lava once every 2 minutes for about 1 second. So there is a 1/120 chance an arriving chick will burn. I considered adding a piston to block the water channel while lava is deployed, but figured it would be overkill.
Figured it out, thanks to you. I didn't have enough chickens, and the farm was also located outside my spawn chunks, so if I left, nothing was happening.
I've been using xisumavoid's automatic cooked chicken farm, and as far as I know I've built it correctly, but to date I have never seen a chicken hatch (from egg dispenser). The little guy in the video below was there when I came back from doing something else. I'm wondering if it has to do with the way I placed the half slab, or maybe I was supposed to use a dropper?
That looks like the way I used to build them, though that was a few versions ago.
I'm sure I used dispensers.
Does it produce a good number of eggs?
(Only 1 egg in 8 hatches on average.)
I'd suggest turning off the dispenser for a while so if fills up with eggs and then stand there counting the eggs as they are shot out and seeing what happens to them.
Just testing.
Dispenser is correct (droppers will throw, but not hatch, eggs).
Given the machine has worked once, it ought to work repeatedly.
How many layers (egg producing chickens) do you have? [Few eggs thrown >> few chicks hatched]
You could also rig the lava to a second dispenser and trigger it manually or by timer.
[ Minecraft: 8 Micro Farms YOU WILL NEED! @5:30 & Minecraft 1.12 Chicken Cooker - Automatic Compact Lossless Tutorial both use timers.
This would prevent losses from chicks being hit by subsequently fired eggs and jumping high enough to contact the lava.
I built a similar chicken farm but hatched chicks were getting stuck in a slab or hit by other eggs or flying a bit up on hatch and contacting lava. Oh when a chick is hit by egg it will often jump too. Either way, dying early. So I modified the design.
Dispenser fires eggs into a wall across a water stream. So chicks fall into water and and are carried to a two block drop into a 5 block long fire chamber. The chamber uses dispensers and redstone timer to deploy lava once every 2 minutes for about 1 second. So there is a 1/120 chance an arriving chick will burn. I considered adding a piston to block the water channel while lava is deployed, but figured it would be overkill.
Figured it out, thanks to you. I didn't have enough chickens, and the farm was also located outside my spawn chunks, so if I left, nothing was happening.