So basically, every configuration of chicken coop that I have tried has ended up with more than half of my chickens dying, sometimes dropping from 8 to 2. I've tried water moats around the edge of the enclosure, varying depths, I even had them in a 8x9 and 5 deep pit at one point. Somehow, they're managing to kill themselves. I think they're pressing themselves into blocks and suffocating or something... I'm at kind of a loss here. Does anybody have any info on how to prevent this? Because harvesting eggs from the survivors now and then and hoping to rebuild my flock every day is getting old. :sad.gif:
I've encountered the same problem. I managed to fix it by lining the enclosure walls with glass, which isn't counted as a solid block so they won't suffocate even if they momentarily glitch inside it. I assume fences would work as well.
You don't need the cobblestone fence. Fences count as 1.5 blocks high, so no animals can jump out (and no mobs can get in ). Do that and you're sweet. Putting a fence gate helps a lot too
First I built a chicken coop with a single wooden fence surrounding it. They were escaping. Someone told me that they occasionally fly over the fence.
So I made the fence double-height. At the same time, I made double-height fences around several other pens for cows, pigs, and sheep. Animals kept escaping from those too.
So I made the fences triple-height and included a fence overhang around the inside of the pens. Animals *still* escaped. Someone said that fences were buggy, and because they only occupy a portion of the block animals sometimes teleported through them.
So I rebuilt all my pens with double-height glass walls all the way around. THEY'RE STILL ESCAPING.
I'm about to put all-glass ceilings over all the pens. Will that work???
First I built a chicken coop with a single wooden fence surrounding it. They were escaping. Someone told me that they occasionally fly over the fence.
So I made the fence double-height. At the same time, I made double-height fences around several other pens for cows, pigs, and sheep. Animals kept escaping from those too.
So I made the fences triple-height and included a fence overhang around the inside of the pens. Animals *still* escaped. Someone said that fences were buggy, and because they only occupy a portion of the block animals sometimes teleported through them.
So I rebuilt all my pens with double-height glass walls all the way around. THEY'RE STILL ESCAPING.
I'm about to put all-glass ceilings over all the pens. Will that work???
What version of MC do you have? I had the same problem, but it turned out my fence hadn't joined to the nearby blocks properly.
If you can't see fence posts between a normal block (ie dirt) and the fence block, the chickens can squeeze through that gap (try pushing them through it! it's easy to do). You can fix this by getting 1.5 (which binds fences to blocks) or alternatively just adding more fences to the corners or whatever.
Chickens can get through this:
Weird. I have all my animals in underground pens at the moment, and have never had a problem with them escaping/dying. Herding them however, that's something else...
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I just pictured escaping a hoard of screeching endermen on a minecart holding some medallion or something while the Indiana Jones theme plays.
With cows, you have to target the rectum, not the udder. The hit box for the juice machine is a little too high. Occasionally you get a cow that just won't milk. I call these "male cows". Even though they have udders.
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Well, the glass blocks have worked like a charm and I now have at least a dozen cluckers. I can't even leave the pen without needing to go back in and grabbing an egg I missed. :biggrin.gif:
Click on the cows udder or ears under the horns (pink parts in original texture) to milk them. Standing one block below them makes clicking the udder much easier. Make a milking stall to keep them in place with a hole you can stand in outside and look up and in to milk them.
My chicken coop has water at the sides flowing to a hole in the middle. Chickens float and eggs sink. I don't loose any chickens and the eggs are funneled into one place, so I can afk and fill my inventory with eggs.
Well, the glass blocks have worked like a charm and I now have at least a dozen cluckers. I can't even leave the pen without needing to go back in and grabbing an egg I missed. :biggrin.gif:
I think I win
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it was white, its arms were flailing around in a derpish manner
Of course, sorry.
Nothing in the way of elaborate automation or anything, just a surface level pen, with one cobblestone block perimeter with fence on top.
So if I remove the cobblestone layer and just keep the fence, or replace the stone with glass it won't happen?
Everytime i log on, i expect to see my warn status go up.
On another note, it seems that I am unable to milk my cows. o,o
First I built a chicken coop with a single wooden fence surrounding it. They were escaping. Someone told me that they occasionally fly over the fence.
So I made the fence double-height. At the same time, I made double-height fences around several other pens for cows, pigs, and sheep. Animals kept escaping from those too.
So I made the fences triple-height and included a fence overhang around the inside of the pens. Animals *still* escaped. Someone said that fences were buggy, and because they only occupy a portion of the block animals sometimes teleported through them.
So I rebuilt all my pens with double-height glass walls all the way around. THEY'RE STILL ESCAPING.
I'm about to put all-glass ceilings over all the pens. Will that work???
What version of MC do you have? I had the same problem, but it turned out my fence hadn't joined to the nearby blocks properly.
If you can't see fence posts between a normal block (ie dirt) and the fence block, the chickens can squeeze through that gap (try pushing them through it! it's easy to do). You can fix this by getting 1.5 (which binds fences to blocks) or alternatively just adding more fences to the corners or whatever.
Chickens can get through this:
But not this:
Punching trees gives me wood.
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I tried it with terrible results. I gave my wife my glasses for a second, a creeper showed up and now my wife is pregnant.
Stupid 3D..
I think I win