Talk:Egg/Archive 1

Eggs are now throw-able. And, 1/8 of the time, Chickens will spawn from the eggs you throw. --Tials 12:18, 20 December 2010 (CST)
 * Has this spawn chance increased? Recently I threw 25 eggs and got 6 chickens (~1/4 chance).  Will test more in case I was extremely lucky, but would appreciate independent confirmation. --LezChap 04:26, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

Isn't it funny how eggs went from completely useless to inanely useful is such a short time with chicken farms and now cakes. I just wanted to share my thought.Kamizushi 00:56, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

I've heard several reports from several people not prone to making stuff up of eggs spawning 5 chickens on occasion. Has anyone looked at the code to see if 4 is the actual number and they're just mistaken? NewEvolution 18:44, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Chicken farming
Can somebody add a link to a decent video that describes building a pen and farming chickens? IChrisI 15:29, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Rule #16c – Scaler (t) 15:48, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Hmm, okay. Sorry. IChrisI 15:56, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep in mind, though, if you can find avideo that describes it well enough, feel free to write a tutorial based on that video for the Tutorial section and link the video to it. Vids in tutorials are 16c friendly, after all.  Just make sure that it's necessary.-Wulfenbach (not on fire for once) 17:49, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

1/32 for 4 chickens?
Can we get a citation for this? Never seen it... Darkid 18:06, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Egg + Torch = 100% chance of chicken?
My friend discovered that if you throw an egg onto a torch, it always spawns chickens. Now, he could just be extremely lucky, so could someone else test this? Extremeasaurus 20:15, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Just confirmed it on 1.6.6, no such luck I'm afraid. Paradeoxy 11:49, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Chicken farming findings
While collecting eggs somewhat unconventionally (each chicken was confined to a single tile surrounded by fence posts), I discovered:

-If you are disconnected or log out in SMP, the mobs in your area don't count as "despawnable" and do not disappear immediately as when you walk too far away from them. Is this an indication that in SMP your player's location data (which persists after a logout) is used to determine the despawning of mobs?

-Also, if you do logout and log back in, the egg timer is reset on all of the chickens. Whereas I would normally get two or three eggs dropping out of my 48 chickens every few seconds, after a login I would have to wait at least five minutes.

Two other notes about chickens:

-In SMP they get injured because they are pushing each other into solid blocks and suffocating themselves. To alleviate this, build the walls of your coop out of glass, fences, or other transparent objects.

-Tossing a chicken into the water above a one-by-one skeleton or zombie drowner REALLY helps to keep them down and drown them more quickly. The chicken just clucks away happily while skeletons drop in past it and can't break the surface. Plus: free eggs!

--Johnklindstedt 18:01, 30 June 2011 (UTC)