I'm using 1.10.2, and I'm trying (in creative mode right now) to experiment with some automatic chicken farming ideas I saw on youtube. The basic idea is as follows:
- Have chickens lay eggs into a hopper, connected to a dispenser.
- The dispenser, with a half slab in front of it, shoots eggs into a chamber half a block high.
- Above the half slab is a water source block.
- When a chick grows into a chicken, its head is in the water, and it suffocates.
- Under the half slab is another dispenser and a chest to collect the drops.
I've tried the lava version of this, and it works great, producing lots of feathers and cooked chicken automatically. But if you want to trade with villagers, you need raw chicken.
Unfortunately, the water version just doesn't seem to work. The eggs shoot into the chamber, the chicks are less than 1/2 block high, so they're okay, and they they grow up, and I can clearly see their heads in the water source block. But they're fine. Nothing is happening, unlike what I see in all these tutorials (even those that claim to work with 1.10).
Has there been a recent change that breaks this? Am I doing something wrong here?
My guess is that the chickens aren't standing ON the slab but in it? If that's not the case then I'm not sure what could be going on.
I thought of that myself. When doing some initial testing, I loaded the hopper with chicken spawner eggs so that it would shoot fully grown chickens into the chamber. In this case, the chicken feet were down in the half-slab. But if you let them grow up from chicks, the feet are definitely on the half-slab, and the heads are definitely in the water. I filed a bug report:
Well, apparently this has been an issue for some time, although I don't know why this stuff seemed to work for people in 1.9. Apparently the eye positions are wrong on chickens and other mobs:
I'm using 1.10.2, and I'm trying (in creative mode right now) to experiment with some automatic chicken farming ideas I saw on youtube. The basic idea is as follows:
- Have chickens lay eggs into a hopper, connected to a dispenser.
- The dispenser, with a half slab in front of it, shoots eggs into a chamber half a block high.
- Above the half slab is a water source block.
- When a chick grows into a chicken, its head is in the water, and it suffocates.
- Under the half slab is another dispenser and a chest to collect the drops.
I've tried the lava version of this, and it works great, producing lots of feathers and cooked chicken automatically. But if you want to trade with villagers, you need raw chicken.
Unfortunately, the water version just doesn't seem to work. The eggs shoot into the chamber, the chicks are less than 1/2 block high, so they're okay, and they they grow up, and I can clearly see their heads in the water source block. But they're fine. Nothing is happening, unlike what I see in all these tutorials (even those that claim to work with 1.10).
Has there been a recent change that breaks this? Am I doing something wrong here?
Thanks!
My guess is that the chickens aren't standing ON the slab but in it? If that's not the case then I'm not sure what could be going on.
by c0yote
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 thought of that myself. When doing some initial testing, I loaded the hopper with chicken spawner eggs so that it would shoot fully grown chickens into the chamber. In this case, the chicken feet were down in the half-slab. But if you let them grow up from chicks, the feet are definitely on the half-slab, and the heads are definitely in the water. I filed a bug report:
https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-107183
Well, apparently this has been an issue for some time, although I don't know why this stuff seemed to work for people in 1.9. Apparently the eye positions are wrong on chickens and other mobs:
https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-50367