Behavior
Chickens are 0.7 blocks tall and 0.4 blocks wide.
Chickens appear to wander around aimlessly, and usually swim in water. When falling they will flap their wings quickly and fall slowly, making them immune to fall damage. Despite this, they will still avoid falling off high cliffs.
While in a loaded chunk, a chicken will lay one egg Egg Type Food Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (16) Internal ID PC: 7 PE: 82 Network ID PC: 62 Entity ID egg First appearances See History Data value dec: 344 hex: 158 bin: 101011000 Name egg This every 5 to 10 minutes (6000 to 12000 ticks), unless it is (or was) a part of a chicken jockey Chicken Jockey Health points Baby Zombie: 20 () Chicken: 4 () Armor points Baby Zombie: 2 () Attack strength Chicken Jockey: Easy: 2 () Normal: 3 () Hard: 4 () Pigman Chicken Jockey: Easy: 5 () . If you are close enough to a chicken when it lays an egg, a popping sound can be heard.
They share some behaviors with other "farm animals":
- They are drawn to light Light (or lighting) in Minecraft affects visibility, mob spawning, and plant growth. Contents 1 Brightness 1.1 Spread 2 Sources of light 2.1 Blocks 2.2 Other 3 Light-filtering blocks 4 Effects of light 4.1 Mobs 4.2 when in a dark environment.
- When struck, they run around quickly and aimlessly.
- They can swim, visibly flapping their wings as they stay on the surface.
- They can be led around by holding a seed Seeds may refer to: Seeds - an item that can be planted on farmland to grow wheat. Melon Seeds - an item that can be planted on farmland to grow melon. Pumpkin Seeds - an , and are also able to breed Two villagers in "love mode", breeding “ If you hold food in your hand, they follow you around. If you feed them, they enter "love mode". Two animals in love mode = babies. „ —Notch with seeds.
Chickens are attacked by wild ocelots Ocelot Health points 10 () Attack strength Chickens Only: 2 () Size Adult: Height: 0.7 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks Baby: Height: 0.35 Blocks Width: 0.3 Blocks Spawn Ocelot: In Jungle Biomes, on Grass or leaf .
Chicks do not lay eggs. Due to their small size, they can pass through openings even smaller than a full block, though not willingly. A chick`s height is somewhere in between 0.51 to 0.80 blocks.
When swimming, chicks need only one block of air above their heads. Full-grown chickens need two blocks of air above their heads or else they will take damage when they float up and will eventually die.
Trivia
- Chickens will sometimes spawn underground, or in The Nether. This is due to the existence of Chicken Jockeys and₠Pigman Jockeys.
- Chickens are the only mobs other than bosses that can be spawned without commands or Creative Mode being active.
- When using an egg, the chick that spawns may sometimes spawn before the egg is removed, causing it to appear to take damage (aesthetic only); this is also caused when the next egg the player throws hits the chick.
Info
Chickens are egg-laying passive mobs "Monster" redirects here. For the mob called "monster" in the code, see Human. Mobs are living, moving game entities. The term "mob" is short for "mobile". 1] Contents 1 Spawning 2 Behavior 3 List of .
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Trivia
- When a chicken is killed off a ledge, the corpse also falls more slowly than normal, and the wings still make a flapping animation.
- Chickens are able to "hide" within hoppers due to their small size, protecting them from lava or water that might be directly on top of the hopper.
- A few weeks before the end of Beta, Notch tweeted that he changed the chickens to ducks, causing a turmoil on Twitter. A few days later, Jeb, still getting feedback on the idea, stated that it was just a joke.
- While you are loading/creating/exiting a world on Console Edition Console Edition Author(s) Mojang AB 4J Studios Platform(s) Written in C++ Latest version Xbox 360 - TU53 Xbox One - CU43 PS3 - 1.51 PS4 - 1.50 PSVita - 1.51 Wii U - Patch 23 , the message that appears can say "Is it a Chicken, or a duck?". Also, the summary for the mobs avatars at the end says "... and a chicken... Or is it a duck?".
- The changelog for Pocket Edition 0.3.0 referred to chickens as ducks.
Natural generation
Chickens naturally generate on grass blocks Grass Block Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 3 Tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Dirt (1) Data value dec: 02 hex: 2 bin: 10 Name grass See the dirt block with with 2 blocks of free space above it at light level of 9 or more.
Baby chicken
Chickens can be bred Two villagers in "love mode", breeding “ If you hold food in your hand, they follow you around. If you feed them, they enter "love mode". Two animals in love mode = babies. „ —Notch with seeds Seeds Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 0 Tool None Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Seeds (1) when not mature Seeds (0–3) when fully grown Wheat (1) when fully grown Data values , beetroot seeds Beetroot Seeds Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Beetroot Beetroot Seeds Data values PCPersonal Computer item: dec: 435 hex: 1B3 bin: 110110011 PE Item: dec: 458 hex: 1CA bin: 111001010 , melon seeds Melon Seeds Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 0 Tool None Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Melon Seeds (0–3) Data values Block dec: 105 hex: 69 bin: 1101001 Item dec: 362 hex: 16A bin: 101101010 Name See Data , or pumpkin seeds Pumpkin Seeds Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 0 Tool None Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Pumpkin Seeds (0–3) Data values Block dec: 104 hex: 68 bin: 1101000 Item dec: 361 hex: 169 bin: 101101001 Name See Data (and can also be bred with nether wart Nether Wart Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Nether Wart (1) (premature) Nether Wart (2–4) (fully grown) Data values Block dec: 115 hex: 73 bin: 1110011 in the Console Edition Console Edition Author(s) Mojang AB 4J Studios Platform(s) Written in C++ Latest version Xbox 360 - TU53 Xbox One - CU43 PS3 - 1.51 PS4 - 1.50 PSVita - 1.51 Wii U - Patch 23 ), producing a baby chicken.
Thrown eggs have a 1⃢₁₄8 chance to spawn a baby chicken. If successful, there is a 1⃢₁₄32 chance to spawn four baby chickens instead. If the egg was thrown at a wall at a certain angle, the chicken may spawn in the wall, suffocating the chicken.
Baby chickens will not drop anything when killed, unlike adult chickens.
Baby chickens will grow up in 20 minutes, although the growth can be accelerated by seeds; each use of seeds reduces the remaining time by 10%.
Drops
Chickens drop from 0 to 2 feathers Feather Type Raw materials Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) First appearances See history Data value dec: 288 hex: 120 bin: 100100000 Name feather Feathers are items dropped by chickens and parrots. Contents 1 Obtaining 1.1 Drops , and 1 raw chicken Raw Chicken Type Food Restores 2 () 30% chance of Hunger (0:30) Cookable Yes Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Experience Cooked: 0.35 First appearances See History Data value dec: 365 hex: 16D bin: 101101101 Name chicken Raw chicken . If a chicken dies while on fire, it drops cooked chicken Cooked Chicken Type Food Restores 6 () Cookable No Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) First appearances See History Data value dec: 366 hex: 16E bin: 101101110 Name cooked_chicken This page or section has been suggested to be merged instead of raw chicken. The amount of raw chicken (or cooked chicken) dropped is affected by the Looting enchantment.
Chickens drop 1⃢₀ₓ3 experience Experience First appearances See History Internal ID PC: 2 PE: 69 Network ID PC: none Entity ID xp_orb XP bar visible above hotbar. Experience (EXP or XP for short) can be obtained by gathering experience when killed by a player or tamed wolf.
Like other baby animals, killing a baby chicken yields no items, nor experience.
Data values
Chickens have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the mob. Their entity ID is chicken
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Entity data- Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
- Tags common to all mobs see Template:Nbt inherit/mob/template
- Additional fields for mobs that can breed see Template:Nbt inherit/breedable/template
IsChickenJockey: 1 or 0 (true/false) - Whether or not the chicken is a jockey for a baby zombie. If true, the chicken can naturally despawn and drops 10 experience upon death instead of 1-3. Baby zombies can still control a ridden chicken even if this is set false.
EggLayTime: Number of ticks until the chicken lays its egg. Laying occurs at 0 and this timer gets reset to a new random value between 6000 and 12000.
Advancements
Icon | Advancement Java Edition Only “ The system as a whole is called "advancements", which is aimed at guiding & tracking players progress through the game (in vanilla survival and any custom additions by mapmakers or mods). | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Internal ID |
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The Parrots and the Bats | Breed two animals together | Husbandry | Breed a pair of one of these 10 mobs. Other breedable mobs, if any, are ignored for the advancement. | minecraft:husbandry/breed_an_animal | |
Two by Two | Breed all the animals! | The Parrots and the Bats | Breed pairs of each of these 10 mobs. Other tamable mobs, if any, are ignored for the advancement. | minecraft:husbandry/breed_all_animals |
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Issues
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Chickens are slower than most mobs. One ability unique to chickens, is that they flap their wings when falling, safely floating down to the ground, and avoiding fall damage. Chicks also flap their wings to prevent death in water, while other baby mobs drown in water deeper than 2 blocks. Chickens will follow players who are holding Seeds. This is particularly useful when trying to corral them into a Fenced area. Adult chickens will lay an Egg every 5-10 minutes. An egg will remain on the ground for quite some time after being laid by a chicken, allowing a player time to gather it before Despawning.
Breeding
Feeding two chickens who are standing near each other wheat seeds, Beetroot Seeds, Melon Seeds or Pumpkin Seeds will produce a chick. Like other mobs, the two parent chickens cannot enter "Love Mode" for another 5 minutes after making a chick. Alternatively, chicks can be spawned 1/8 of the time when an egg is thrown.
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Attack Strength: | None |
Drops: | Raw Chicken Feather Cooked Chicken (If killed in fire or lava) |
Location: | Breeding chickens or Throwing eggs |
view ⃢₀⋘ talk Chicks are the baby counterpart of Chickens, and are the third smallest mob in the game. Any time an egg is thrown, there is a 12.5% chance that a chick will spawn, or a 0.390625% chance that 4 chicks will spawn from the same egg. You can be sure that a chick will spawn by breeding two chickens, which is why this is the preferred method. Chicks will always follow the nearest adult chicken. Like many baby mobs, chicks have an oversized head.
Drops
- - Laid by a chicken every 5-10 minutes. These items can be used as a damaging projectile, which occasionally spawns a new chick upon impact. Eggs are also one of the ingredients used to bake Cake. Egg
- - A source of food for players. Each chicken will drop 1 drumstick when killed, which must be cooked before a player can safely eat it. Raw Chicken
- - If a chicken is killed by Fire or Lava, it will drop ready-to-eat meat. Cooked Chicken
- - One feather is dropped when a chicken is killed. They can be used to craft Arrows, or a Book and Quill. Feather