Suggested recipe: Using wheat, following either the bucket or the boat pattern.
Effect: Like cats that love beds and chests, chickens would like to hang around in straw nests! Maybe they could tend to want to go into a nest when they are ready to lay an egg, so that when you go collect eggs you only need to do the rounds of your straw nests because most eggs would end up in there.
Perfect for that good "ye old farmer" style chicken coop!
Alternative: If not straw nests, then maybe hay bales could have that function so you can still build a chicken coop and collect chicken eggs like in old farms that we all know.
ZekeZakKaz: Not Minecrafty you say? Personally I think "medieval style chicken coops" are just as Minecrafty as castles, swords and iron armor, for example. Currently, a chicken farm is quite often just a fenced area with chickens inside. It is NOT a "chicken coop" at all.
Marhiin: I tend to agree, having a simple straw nest item/block, with a "bucket shaped" crafting recipe using 3 Wheat items, is also my preferred choice and I think it would be the most logical one and the most versatile design to make too.
moosemunchee: I agree that chickens are not hard to farm currently. In fact, currently it's way too easy, and personlly I'd lower the chickens "egg dropping" rate a lot.
This suggestion however is much less for the "convenience" of farming eggs, and much more for the builds and the simple looks of a chicken coop. Think of it like the flower pot: the flower pot is not necessary at all, because you could just use a dirt blok and plant your flower directly in that, right? But it looks better. Straw nests would mainly make many "chicken coops" build, just look a lot better, especially for "indoor" use. So the same way, you could make a barn and put a few straw nests on a shelf or two in there, for that good old "chicken coop" look. The parts of the suggestion making chickens like to hang around in those straw nests, again, are there mainly for the looks, so that the chicken coop would look more lively and "really used".
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Suggested recipe: Using wheat, following either the bucket or the boat pattern.
Effect: Like cats that love beds and chests, chickens would like to hang around in straw nests! Maybe they could tend to want to go into a nest when they are ready to lay an egg, so that when you go collect eggs you only need to do the rounds of your straw nests because most eggs would end up in there.
Perfect for that good "ye old farmer" style chicken coop!
Alternative: If not straw nests, then maybe hay bales could have that function so you can still build a chicken coop and collect chicken eggs like in old farms that we all know.
Examples :
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Marhiin: I tend to agree, having a simple straw nest item/block, with a "bucket shaped" crafting recipe using 3 Wheat items, is also my preferred choice and I think it would be the most logical one and the most versatile design to make too.
moosemunchee: I agree that chickens are not hard to farm currently. In fact, currently it's way too easy, and personlly I'd lower the chickens "egg dropping" rate a lot.
This suggestion however is much less for the "convenience" of farming eggs, and much more for the builds and the simple looks of a chicken coop. Think of it like the flower pot: the flower pot is not necessary at all, because you could just use a dirt blok and plant your flower directly in that, right? But it looks better. Straw nests would mainly make many "chicken coops" build, just look a lot better, especially for "indoor" use. So the same way, you could make a barn and put a few straw nests on a shelf or two in there, for that good old "chicken coop" look. The parts of the suggestion making chickens like to hang around in those straw nests, again, are there mainly for the looks, so that the chicken coop would look more lively and "really used".
I don't like it because the nest will likely spawn 100 ender dragons. Sorry, just a joke
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Maybe make it so it increases egg production.
Chicken coops would be a practical and decorative idea.
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