Hi! I recently made a cooked chicken farm so I wouldn't have to worry as much about food when surviving. Although there were some problems with it only producing raw chicken for a little while, I believe that it fixed itself. The question I have now is, what rate am I supposed to be getting cooked chicken at? I've made a chicken farm on bedrock with about the same amount of chickens and I feel like it went much faster. Also, I feel like I have WAY more feathers than cooked chicken. Are some of my chicken getting completely burnt in the lava and not making it to the hopper of something?
If anyone could help me with this that would be greatly appreciated, Thanks!
I can't clearly rem, and i'm not playing the latest java version (I play 1.13.2) but there was an issue with the standard auto chicken farms a few releases before this when they changed the water mechanics (which affected uncooked farm variants), but I think there was also something else that changed ... i have no experience of bedrock edition and how it differs, but as for trying things, i'm wondering if the half slab the chickens grow up on is meaning a certain percentage of your chickens do get burnt up in the lava as your surmise ... what about changing the half slab for an iron trap door, which has a lower profile but should still be high enough for the adult chicken to burn ...
I can't clearly rem, and i'm not playing the latest java version (I play 1.13.2) but there was an issue with the standard auto chicken farms a few releases before this when they changed the water mechanics (which affected uncooked farm variants), but I think there was also something else that changed ... i have no experience of bedrock edition and how it differs, but as for trying things, i'm wondering if the half slab the chickens grow up on is meaning a certain percentage of your chickens do get burnt up in the lava as your surmise ... what about changing the half slab for an iron trap door, which has a lower profile but should still be high enough for the adult chicken to burn ...
An iron trapdoor may not be high enough, and I can't think of anything other than snow that would work well.
An iron trapdoor may not be high enough, and I can't think of anything other than snow that would work well.
I did consider a daylight sensor block, but wasnt sure if that would screw up the redstone by locking the hopper ...
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I do now remember having to change my Chicken Farm when a certain version of MC came out a few years ago, but its in a part of my world i havent visited for a while, so maybe i'll take a trip over and see what i did and see its relevant ...
Maybe the lava burns the chicken itself. Try making a chicken farm that uses fire, which are next to the chickens, on some netherrack. Then, make a redstone loop using redstone and repeaters, and a piston in front of it that pushes the chickens into the fire. I haven't tested this, but if the chicken can run out in time, out of the fire, then the chicken will die. I will test this out later today, and I will edit when I find out if this works. Note that this might not work, it is just a suggestion.
I did consider a daylight sensor block, but wasnt sure if that would screw up the redstone by locking the hopper ...
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I do now remember having to change my Chicken Farm when a certain version of MC came out a few years ago, but its in a part of my world i havent visited for a while, so maybe i'll take a trip over and see what i did and see its relevant ...
doesn't a sensor require direct daylight or am I wrong?
doesn't a sensor require direct daylight or am I wrong?
Probably ....
Anyway, after a trip thru to my farm, I found I did indeed use a Daylight Sensor instead of a half slab. My collection point was two blocks wide, i think it was to give the chicks a bit more space as the egg firing tended to damage the chicks that were in the line of fire, but i dont think it was damaging enough to kill a chick before it grew.
Anyway, after a trip thru to my farm, I found I did indeed use a Daylight Sensor instead of a half slab. My collection point was two blocks wide, i think it was to give the chicks a bit more space as the egg firing tended to damage the chicks that were in the line of fire, but i dont think it was damaging enough to kill a chick before it grew.
Throw the eggs at a water conveyor leading to this lava pit and that solves your problem of them being bumped up into the lava.
Eggs and snowballs cannot damage most mobs, except snowballs hitting blazes, and either hitting enderdragon before 1.9.
Throw the eggs at a water conveyor leading to this lava pit and that solves your problem of them being bumped up into the lava.
Eggs and snowballs cannot damage most mobs, except snowballs hitting blazes, and either hitting enderdragon before 1.9.
If I were making a new one, that would be a useful suggestion. However, the farm in the screenshot is a bit of a beastie and has seperate sections for cooked chicken, raw chicken and eggs, which are then funnelled up 20 layers or so by a water elevator to a collection point on the ground floor of the particular outpost its at. I really only built it as I didnt have one in that part of my world, and I like to try automated farms, but i don't really eat chicken, can't even rem if i can trade with villagers with raw chicken (i'm playing 1.13). The other thing, and why I mined out an undergroud space 20 levels down from the ground floor to build it, is i can't stand the racket those chickens make!
If I were making a new one, that would be a useful suggestion. However, the farm in the screenshot is a bit of a beastie and has seperate sections for cooked chicken, raw chicken and eggs, which are then funnelled up 20 layers or so by a water elevator to a collection point on the ground floor of the particular outpost its at. I really only built it as I didnt have one in that part of my world, and I like to try automated farms, but i don't really eat chicken, can't even rem if i can trade with villagers with raw chicken (i'm playing 1.13). The other thing, and why I mined out an undergroud space 20 levels down from the ground floor to build it, is i can't stand the racket those chickens make!
Hi! I recently made a cooked chicken farm so I wouldn't have to worry as much about food when surviving. Although there were some problems with it only producing raw chicken for a little while, I believe that it fixed itself. The question I have now is, what rate am I supposed to be getting cooked chicken at? I've made a chicken farm on bedrock with about the same amount of chickens and I feel like it went much faster. Also, I feel like I have WAY more feathers than cooked chicken. Are some of my chicken getting completely burnt in the lava and not making it to the hopper of something?
If anyone could help me with this that would be greatly appreciated, Thanks!
I can't clearly rem, and i'm not playing the latest java version (I play 1.13.2) but there was an issue with the standard auto chicken farms a few releases before this when they changed the water mechanics (which affected uncooked farm variants), but I think there was also something else that changed ... i have no experience of bedrock edition and how it differs, but as for trying things, i'm wondering if the half slab the chickens grow up on is meaning a certain percentage of your chickens do get burnt up in the lava as your surmise ... what about changing the half slab for an iron trap door, which has a lower profile but should still be high enough for the adult chicken to burn ...
Mintutor now works in 1.13!
MrKite & Mc_Etlam ... I salute you!
An iron trapdoor may not be high enough, and I can't think of anything other than snow that would work well.
I did consider a daylight sensor block, but wasnt sure if that would screw up the redstone by locking the hopper ...
...
I do now remember having to change my Chicken Farm when a certain version of MC came out a few years ago, but its in a part of my world i havent visited for a while, so maybe i'll take a trip over and see what i did and see its relevant ...
Mintutor now works in 1.13!
MrKite & Mc_Etlam ... I salute you!
Maybe the lava burns the chicken itself. Try making a chicken farm that uses fire, which are next to the chickens, on some netherrack. Then, make a redstone loop using redstone and repeaters, and a piston in front of it that pushes the chickens into the fire. I haven't tested this, but if the chicken can run out in time, out of the fire, then the chicken will die. I will test this out later today, and I will edit when I find out if this works. Note that this might not work, it is just a suggestion.
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doesn't a sensor require direct daylight or am I wrong?
Probably ....
Anyway, after a trip thru to my farm, I found I did indeed use a Daylight Sensor instead of a half slab. My collection point was two blocks wide, i think it was to give the chicks a bit more space as the egg firing tended to damage the chicks that were in the line of fire, but i dont think it was damaging enough to kill a chick before it grew.
Mintutor now works in 1.13!
MrKite & Mc_Etlam ... I salute you!
Throw the eggs at a water conveyor leading to this lava pit and that solves your problem of them being bumped up into the lava.
Eggs and snowballs cannot damage most mobs, except snowballs hitting blazes, and either hitting enderdragon before 1.9.
If I were making a new one, that would be a useful suggestion. However, the farm in the screenshot is a bit of a beastie and has seperate sections for cooked chicken, raw chicken and eggs, which are then funnelled up 20 layers or so by a water elevator to a collection point on the ground floor of the particular outpost its at. I really only built it as I didnt have one in that part of my world, and I like to try automated farms, but i don't really eat chicken, can't even rem if i can trade with villagers with raw chicken (i'm playing 1.13). The other thing, and why I mined out an undergroud space 20 levels down from the ground floor to build it, is i can't stand the racket those chickens make!
Mintutor now works in 1.13!
MrKite & Mc_Etlam ... I salute you!
Well, for next time then.
Well, you should expect some cooked chickens and feathers
Yeah but at what rate, was the question. A farm's gotta be fast to make sense having.