Hi all. In my world I made an automatic chicken farm but I made it far away from my home so it wouldn't create lag. Will my farm still work even when I am very far away from it?
Depends how far away it is. Think about this, however:
Spawn chunks (look them up on the minecraft wiki) are constantly loaded even on singleplayer when you're in the overworld. There's tricks to keeping it loaded even if you're in the nether but that's a different discussion.
Put the chicken farm at spawn, which is loaded anyway, and you should notice better fps and maybe suffer some cpu performance loss if your pc isn't great or you have a super-loaded chicken farm. That and you do not need to have over 50-80 chickens in the farm at one time. If it's going to be loaded, either in your main area or at spawn in the spawn chunks, it will run a lot of the time and you can eventually stockpile a ton of resources from it.
Another option would be to let it sit for a Minecraft day per harvest and remove the lava option, then manually kill them all using a Looting 3 sword. This will get you more out of your time spent waiting, as well as some experience. The only real cost you have is cooking the food yourself.
I have made an egg factory with only 3 chickens, and the yield is far more than I can use. It would be a simple thing to connect the output chest to a dispenser for pushbutton chickens - and that way there's no lag at all.
Thanks for the reply.
Spawn chunks (look them up on the minecraft wiki) are constantly loaded even on singleplayer when you're in the overworld. There's tricks to keeping it loaded even if you're in the nether but that's a different discussion.
Put the chicken farm at spawn, which is loaded anyway, and you should notice better fps and maybe suffer some cpu performance loss if your pc isn't great or you have a super-loaded chicken farm. That and you do not need to have over 50-80 chickens in the farm at one time. If it's going to be loaded, either in your main area or at spawn in the spawn chunks, it will run a lot of the time and you can eventually stockpile a ton of resources from it.
Another option would be to let it sit for a Minecraft day per harvest and remove the lava option, then manually kill them all using a Looting 3 sword. This will get you more out of your time spent waiting, as well as some experience. The only real cost you have is cooking the food yourself.