Farming is one of the least exciting things to do in Minecraft doing it by hand. Most players would much rather spend their time mining, exploring, fighting, and creating than mindlessly raising animals and growing wheat. How about cooked chicken? Why not just farm it automatically?
Although farming is a necessary part of Minecraft as it provides you with the necessary food to survive, wouldn't it be nice if you could farm without all the wasted effort? With this automatic cooked chicken farm, you can do just that.
How to Build an Auto-Cook Chicken Farm in Minecraft
The speed at which this automatic farm produces cooked chicken is 1,64 pieces per chicken per hour on average. With 100 chickens in the machine, you should never have to worry about food again. The machine is quite inexpensive, requiring the following items:
- A safe
- Two hoppers
- A distributor
- A redstone comparator
- A piece of redstone dust
- 14 glass blocks
- Three strong building blocks
- One from
- Chickens
To start, create the base of the farm as shown below. The chest will be the food collection point, so start there.
You're going to want a hopper behind the chest, leading into it, with a half slab above it. Make sure this slab is not made of flammable material, as you will be adding lava shortly. Items that fall on this slab will be sucked through it into the hopper, collecting the chicken.
Next, place the dispenser facing the slab, with a hopper above it and three blocks behind it in a chevron shape.
Place your comparator so that it comes out of the hopper into the solid block. Next, place your single redstone dust on the bottom solid block. Each time a chicken lays an egg in the hopper at the top, the comparator carries a pulse to the feeder and pulls the egg (it actually pulls the previous egg, but the same difference).
There is an 1/8 chance of a baby chicken hatching and appearing on top of the plate, and adult chickens lay eggs once every five minutes on average. You're also going to want to surround the top hopper with glass so the chickens can't escape.
Similarly, also wrap the slab with glass walls of two heights, but place a lava block on the block above the slab. It should float in place with half a block of air underneath. Because you are using glass, a transparent block, the trunk should always be able to be opened.
The baby chickens are only 0,4 blocks tall, so they can safely stand on the slab without being burned, but after 20 minutes they will grow into an adult chicken (0,7 blocks tall) and will be instantly killed by lava. When an adult chicken is cremated, it drops a single piece of already cooked chicken.
Finally, it's time to load your machine with chickens. The best way to do this would be to drag two chickens straight into the top compartment with leashes and start breeding.
It's a bit tedious, as the chickens can only spawn once every five minutes, but the spawning rate will increase exponentially as the number of chickens increases. Alternatively, you can throw all your spare eggs straight into the machine and hope you get lucky with a few spawns.
Another way to increase your chicken total is to put the machine in "egg mode". This can be done by sticking a lever on the side of the block next to the screen and sliding it down. This will prevent the dispenser from firing more eggs, thus they will pile up in the dispenser.
You can then use these eggs to populate the upper compartment by throwing them, but you must also spawn when you can. Either way, you should be able to increase your chicken population by the dozens in no time.
Once you are happy with the number of chickens you have in your machine, you can leave it to run on its own and collect the supply from the chest at your leisure. You don't need to take care of your chickens, nor raise them, unless you want to increase your production rate. Breeding them all will still result in a 50% increase in chicken count, which means 50% more cooked chicken, so keep that in mind.
Now you know how to build an automatic Minecraft cooked chicken farm! This machine is one of the most practical contraptions you can build, and you'll be ready to live on food. To learn more about Minecraft, consider heading to our huge list of Minecraft guides, which includes everything from raising llamas to building things like a castle portcullis.
