Talk:Chicken

Anywhere grass?
Since chickens spawn at an 1/8 rate when you throw an egg at a grass tile, does that mean they can spawn anywhere at grass when an egg is thrown?


 * You can throw eggs to spawn chickens anywhere, but I'm not sure about slabs/glass. --Troagador 20:23, 15 January 2011 (UTC)


 * What about tall-grass? The stuff you gets seeds from? I have a base on a huge plain (grassland biome?) with acres of tall grass and loads of cows and sheep and few pigs but no chickens for quite some playing time. Forrest nearby.. nothing. Where do chickens come from? Bart --86.80.116.169 23:47, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Hates Pits
Chickens seem to hate being stuck in a pit. An example would be this video (specifically from 1:35 to 1:42), in which it seems as though the troop of chickens were racing to get out of the pit. I've also seen this behavior in a couple of other post-Beta Youtube videos. I also tried this in my own game. However, I don't know if it applies to any other mobs. --Myuzi 00:20, 26 December 2010 (CST)
 * Wow that is a new behaviour mob behaviour. Someone's gotta' check it out. :o --Scykei 10:11, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

I have a death hole type set up, with a small hole for some redstone to get through. It seems to me that the chickens landing in the death pit are anxious to go through this 1 block whole to get to the more expansion cavern for wiring, but I've not really seen enough of this to confirm anyting. --Troagador 20:25, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Actually, from what I can tell, this is normal. It just looks unnatural because all the chickens' pathfinders are tracing through one block. I believe I've seen this with other mobs as well. When a mob comes to the side of a block, it will attempt to jump over it. if there are no 1-block ledges available, it will constantly attempt to find a better path. When he removed the block, all the chickens registered a jumpable ledge, and all decided it was a usable path. Mobs (for the most part) do not consider other mobs when tracing a path, so while they all appeared to swarm the opening, in reality, it was just each chicken detecting a better path at once. So there isn't an actual piece of code for "Escape from pit, ASAP", but if you'd like to interpret this function as a dislike of pits, go on ahead. I'm no coder, and my understanding of mob AI is based on observation and reading this wiki. My knowledge is rudimentary at best, but I hope this helped, anyway! --Technoman7 16:58, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Timer?
Im trying to farm eggs but my chickens keep vanishing. I am not sure if this is on a timer or what. Could this possibly be El Chupacabra? haha =P Anyone know if ther is a timer on farm or passive animals?


 * Like all other passive mobs chickens disappear when you walk away from them. If you want your chickens to stay you have to stay close to them. --Taurentius 22:47, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Chickens = enemy spies?
I heard that when chicken encounters a hostile monster, it then leads that monster to the player. Is that true? I must say that I saw chickens during daylight creeper fights quite often. Xeoxer 14:50, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

That's not true. Hostile mobs will ignore chickens, and chicken's pathfinding has nothing to do with the player. The fact that you saw chickens during a fight with a creeper doesn't really mean anything, because chickens spawn in the daylight, anyway. --Technoman7 15:58, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

That would be super creepy if they did! Milkman9 16:01, 28 August 2011 (CTD)

chickens dieing form overcrowding
It says in the article that chickens will die when crowded in a small space. I think this only applies when the walls are made from a solid block and is due to it being forced to clip into the block and take suffocation damage. I've seen a great number of chickens in a very small farm using fence for the walls and none of them will die. --Wriggle255 02:34, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Chickens in caves (1.8)?
I've been playing 1.8 for a day now, exploring some caves, and have come across two chickens while underground. One had even laid an egg. I could also hear a chicken while in a very large underground ravine, probably about 30 layers deep. Is this happening to anyone else, or just me?
 * Considering chickens take no fall damage, it would make sense to find some in a ravine that opens up to the surface somewhere. 174.32.68.85 00:58, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Spawn rate change?
Is it me, or have chickens become a lot rarer since 1.8? It's been days since I last saw one... heck, I actually haven't had any new passive mobs spawn near my home. Is that normal now? Cobalt32 02:09, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Did you killed animals near your home? because now less animals spawn if you kill them... --Gil2455526 02:20, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Actually, I did... so now you need to leave some alive if you want more to spawn? Cobalt32 01:09, 15 October 2011 (UTC)