Slow day at work, so while I'm spamming the forums I might as well post something useful.
Want eggs, but don't feel like shadowing the chickens all around? Here's a way to have eggs delivered right in your castle. (Note: this is just a twist on the old Minecraft egg farm)
First of all, pick a spot near your castle. If you have a village nearby, that'll work fine: it'll simply look like an obelisk between the buildings.
I apologize for no pictures, bear with me.
Build yourself a 4x4 stone area as a base, and stack up the stone 3 high. Leave yourself a 2-square doorway for now.
On the third block, put signs all around the inside.
Build one more block high all around.
Empty water into the thing. The signs should stop it from dropping into the bottom two squares.
Keep building up about 3 more blocks.
Garnish the top with turrets to make it look cool.
Drop down then place a ladder on the side so you can get up top again.
Go get a bunch of eggs and start throwing them against the inside lip. Eventually you'll get two chickens. They'll be trapped and swim around endlessly.
Go back to the tower base and go back inside.
Now clear out the central four blocks.
Dig a hole two deep, two across, and then start digging toward your castle. Drop down two squares every six steps.
When you reach your castle, build a little well for collection.... about 4x4.
Go back to the tower, and dump water in the underground hole.
Leave the tower then plug up that hole.
Periodically go back and toss more eggs against the lip, and stand on the edge and feed your chickens wheat seeds until you get 10-20 of em.
Viola! You now have fresh eggs around the clock, and you don't have to listen to the clucking. Just keep checking the collection well every few minutes. I usually get 5-10 eggs each time I check. You can also periodically slaughter half of them and get some chicken meat and feathers, again delivered to your doorstep.
You CAN also create an aqueduct and deliver the eggs above ground, but I think it looks tacky.
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On Topic: This was hard to understand without colorful pictures.
When you get a chance edit it. And ill +1
I use creative just to get ice, its tooooo bloody useful, with it you don't need to 'drop' at all as well, and can push items on the same level for as long as you wish.
If you place the water source resting on the signs behind a piston, you can shut it off and the chickens will drop out. Build a second system below to help sort the normal egg drops from the chickens dropping and you can combine your egg collector and a chicken cooker.
I built mine in a giant man made tree. It usually has a dozen or so chickens in it. I grab 7-9 eggs twice a day. One (hidden) switch will kick all of the chickens out to a nearby cooking pen (built to be 100% efficient - they all cook, nothing is burned to the point of destruction).
I can post pictures if anyone wants more details on building better chicken coops.
I have a similar setup with 4 pens, each pen feeds into a central drop and collection area, click one of the leavers and it will move that pen to a kill floor and cook the chickens. I am using flaming neither rack to cook but I loose some chickens in the process, be interested in seeing how you did a '100% fool proff cooker', as i've tried tons and tons of configurations and they fail sometimes with some loss.
On my PC world I cook them using fire charges fired from a dispenser, light the floor on fire then open the floor and they all cook with no loss but we don't have those yet.
I've also hooked up a rapid pulse to dispensers to hatch eggs in each pen separately.
I have a similar setup with 4 pens, each pen feeds into a central drop and collection area, click one of the leavers and it will move that pen to a kill floor and cook the chickens. I am using flaming neither rack to cook but I loose some chickens in the process, be interested in seeing how you did a '100% fool proff cooker', as i've tried tons and tons of configurations and they fail sometimes with some loss.
An automatic chicken fryer? I never thought of that! Awesome.
Back in TU7 I had a big chicken slaughterhouse with up 40 chickens, it was a beautiful mess. Now in my new world i've made a smaller one with about a dozen chicken in it, I now use water to kill my chicken and only cook them with pure oak charcoal. You're a foody or you're not i guess!
I have a similar setup with 4 pens, each pen feeds into a central drop and collection area, click one of the leavers and it will move that pen to a kill floor and cook the chickens. I am using flaming neither rack to cook but I loose some chickens in the process, be interested in seeing how you did a '100% fool proff cooker', as i've tried tons and tons of configurations and they fail sometimes with some loss.
My 100% cooked chicken cooker:
The Tree Coop holds the chickens with an attached cooker:
Here is a vertical shot. The netherrack is at the bottom of the chicken drop chute. This forces them to slowly drop down onto the fire. Once lit, they jump down a block, and run the entire U shaped trench (towards the sticky piston on the left) then they turn around. There is just enough distance for them to burn up before they can freak out and jump back on the netherrack, which would destroy any drops.
From the front. (In Cook Mode)
From the front (In Flush mode)
I don't have any chickens in there right now, and after throwing 10 stacks and getting nothing, I decided just to take screenshots as-is. If anyone wants a closer look or more details let me know. This is probably build 50 something of this particular design, and I'm quite happy with it. All the "flaming chicken research" paid off.
Ok I've just tested your setup and its not 100% fool proff, pretty close to the same results as mine which is about 70%. Some chickens are just stupid and stay on the neither rack and burn to death destroying the drops in the process.
I've actually gotten rid of my chicken coop and moved to a brand new farm setup which requires 'NO' maintenance and gives me around a stack and half of pork chops/steak/leather/wool and about 10 to 15 chicken/feathers per hour. It was very very easy to make, required little resources, however preparation to maximize farm efficiency was a pain as the team and i had to make sure all blocks within 128 radius from the farm was covered with glass/half slabs, water or changed to something other then grass.
We didn't need to to the grass stuff but it ensures that our farm produces max goods. I can post pictures or do a tutorial if anyone is interested.
Want eggs, but don't feel like shadowing the chickens all around? Here's a way to have eggs delivered right in your castle. (Note: this is just a twist on the old Minecraft egg farm)
First of all, pick a spot near your castle. If you have a village nearby, that'll work fine: it'll simply look like an obelisk between the buildings.
I apologize for no pictures, bear with me.
- Build yourself a 4x4 stone area as a base, and stack up the stone 3 high. Leave yourself a 2-square doorway for now.
- On the third block, put signs all around the inside.
- Build one more block high all around.
- Empty water into the thing. The signs should stop it from dropping into the bottom two squares.
- Keep building up about 3 more blocks.
- Garnish the top with turrets to make it look cool.
- Drop down then place a ladder on the side so you can get up top again.
- Go get a bunch of eggs and start throwing them against the inside lip. Eventually you'll get two chickens. They'll be trapped and swim around endlessly.
- Go back to the tower base and go back inside.
- Now clear out the central four blocks.
- Dig a hole two deep, two across, and then start digging toward your castle. Drop down two squares every six steps.
- When you reach your castle, build a little well for collection.... about 4x4.
- Go back to the tower, and dump water in the underground hole.
- Leave the tower then plug up that hole.
- Periodically go back and toss more eggs against the lip, and stand on the edge and feed your chickens wheat seeds until you get 10-20 of em.
Viola! You now have fresh eggs around the clock, and you don't have to listen to the clucking. Just keep checking the collection well every few minutes. I usually get 5-10 eggs each time I check. You can also periodically slaughter half of them and get some chicken meat and feathers, again delivered to your doorstep.You CAN also create an aqueduct and deliver the eggs above ground, but I think it looks tacky.
On Topic: This was hard to understand without colorful pictures.
When you get a chance edit it. And ill +1
Ah. Good tip!
You could also use a Silk Touch pick to collect the ice.... just gotta be careful about those torches.
I built mine in a giant man made tree. It usually has a dozen or so chickens in it. I grab 7-9 eggs twice a day. One (hidden) switch will kick all of the chickens out to a nearby cooking pen (built to be 100% efficient - they all cook, nothing is burned to the point of destruction).
I can post pictures if anyone wants more details on building better chicken coops.
On my PC world I cook them using fire charges fired from a dispenser, light the floor on fire then open the floor and they all cook with no loss but we don't have those yet.
I've also hooked up a rapid pulse to dispensers to hatch eggs in each pen separately.
An automatic chicken fryer? I never thought of that! Awesome.
My 100% cooked chicken cooker:
The Tree Coop holds the chickens with an attached cooker:
I've actually gotten rid of my chicken coop and moved to a brand new farm setup which requires 'NO' maintenance and gives me around a stack and half of pork chops/steak/leather/wool and about 10 to 15 chicken/feathers per hour. It was very very easy to make, required little resources, however preparation to maximize farm efficiency was a pain as the team and i had to make sure all blocks within 128 radius from the farm was covered with glass/half slabs, water or changed to something other then grass.
We didn't need to to the grass stuff but it ensures that our farm produces max goods. I can post pictures or do a tutorial if anyone is interested.