Do chicken eggs already hatch chickens on their own? I know thrown eggs can hatch them, but I was completely surprised tonight when I ran into a huge flock of hundreds of chickens in the wild:
No, this isn't a joke, and no eggs were thrown. I was just on my way to build a new outpost to the west of my base, and ran into this randomly on the way.
My inventory (already partially full due to resources intended for the new outpost) filled up before I could kill half of them:
That's over 200 chicken killed, and there were still at least another 200 in the area.
I figured it would be likely that people wouldn't believe me, but no skin off my back.
This is single-player, by the way. Been playing for a year, and never had any interest in playing on a server. No tricks involved, and nobody else in my household but my girlfriend (who has never played and doesn't have any interest) to set me up.
I'm guessing it is a bug. Never seen anything remotely like this in all the time I've played, but it instantly reminded me of the screenshot with all the sheep.
The chickens (at least most of them) were still there when I came back by the area on my way back from building the new outpost. Lots of eggs around too.
Encountered my first mushroom biome near the new outpost too, but it only consisted of two very small islands of mycelium. No giant mushrooms, but several mooshrooms wandering around the surrounding water.
Back on topic, bug or not, I can imagine any sort of animal breeding that isn't somehow initiated by the player would always run the risk of huge populations of animals eventually taking over the world. Kinda like mushrooms did, when they started multiplying, but at least that was limited to dark caves and the nether.
Seriously? Nobody else has run into anything like this?
No, this isn't a joke, and no eggs were thrown. I was just on my way to build a new outpost to the west of my base, and ran into this randomly on the way.
My inventory (already partially full due to resources intended for the new outpost) filled up before I could kill half of them:
That's over 200 chicken killed, and there were still at least another 200 in the area.
Has anybody else encountered this sort of thing?
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This is single-player, by the way. Been playing for a year, and never had any interest in playing on a server. No tricks involved, and nobody else in my household but my girlfriend (who has never played and doesn't have any interest) to set me up.
I'm guessing it is a bug. Never seen anything remotely like this in all the time I've played, but it instantly reminded me of the screenshot with all the sheep.
The chickens (at least most of them) were still there when I came back by the area on my way back from building the new outpost. Lots of eggs around too.
Encountered my first mushroom biome near the new outpost too, but it only consisted of two very small islands of mycelium. No giant mushrooms, but several mooshrooms wandering around the surrounding water.
Back on topic, bug or not, I can imagine any sort of animal breeding that isn't somehow initiated by the player would always run the risk of huge populations of animals eventually taking over the world. Kinda like mushrooms did, when they started multiplying, but at least that was limited to dark caves and the nether.
Seriously? Nobody else has run into anything like this?