🐔 The Complete Guide to Resource Chickens in Minecraft

Welcome to the ultimate guide to Resource Chickens — a mod that lets you turn chickens into renewable sources of nearly any material you can imagine. From snowballs to slime to experience orbs, these clever cluckers can automate your resource needs in creative and fun ways.

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🐥 Chapter 1: Finding and Capturing Chickens

Before you can start breeding or farming resources, you’ll need to find your first chickens.

Locating Chickens

Some chickens spawn naturally in the world, while others need to be bred or converted from existing types.

If you have the Just Enough Items (JEI) mod installed, click on a chicken on the right of your screen and press R to see its details — including whether it spawns naturally.

For example:

Lapis Chicken – Spawns Naturally: False (must be bred)
Duck (technically a chicken in this mod) – Spawns in Beach, Plains, River
Sand Chicken – Spawns in Beach and Desert

Capturing Chickens

You have two main tools for catching them:

Animal Capture Net – works on all animals, not just chickens.

Chicken Basher – captures / drops chickens directly as items.

Simply right-click the chicken with your chosen tool:

The Animal Capture Net stores the chicken inside the net.
The Chicken Basher drops the chicken as an item, ready to pick up.

Now that you’ve got your feathered friends, it’s time to put them to work!

🏠 Chapter 2: The Chicken Stasis Chamber

Once you’ve caught a chicken, you’ll need a place for it to live and produce resources.

Building the Chamber

Craft a Chicken Stasis Chamber and place it above a chest.

That chest will collect all drops produced by your chicken.

Right-click your captured chicken onto the chamber — either by:

Using the Animal Capture Net (to release it), or
Right-clicking directly with the chicken item from your Basher.

You should now see your chicken inside the chamber interface.

Feeding the Chicken

Feed your chicken Seeds (right-click them into the chamber or pipe them in via hoppers or item ducts).

You’ll see a food level and a countdown timer — for example, “Next drop in 7 minutes.”

That’s when your chicken will produce its next batch of resources.

📈 Chapter 3: Understanding Chicken Stats

Each chicken has three key attributes:

Gain – how much the chicken produces each drop.
Growth – I believe affects either breeding maturity or drop speed.
Strength – believe controls the chicken’s health or durability.

While the mod doesn’t fully document these stats, my testing suggests:

Higher Gain = more resources per drop.
Higher Growth = faster drop rate or quicker baby growth.
Higher Strength = possibly affects survival or durability in automation setups.

🧬 Chapter 4: Breeding for Better Stats

To improve your chickens’ attributes, breed them just like in vanilla Minecraft — with seeds.

Example Breeding Setup

Place two Snowball Chickens (Gain 1 / Growth 1 / Strength 1).
Feed each with seeds to make them breed.
The baby will inherit and improve upon the parents’ stats.

For instance:

Two 1/1/1 chickens might produce a Gain 2 / Growth 3 / Strength 3 chick.

Breed that chick with another 1/1/1, and you’ll soon have 3/4/3 or higher.

Repeat the process and you’ll quickly get high-stat chickens producing faster and in greater quantities.

To raise the chick, place it in a new Stasis Chamber with a chest beneath — you’ll see a growing timer until it matures.

🎁 Chapter 5: Chicken Drops and Byproducts

Every chicken produces resources specific to its type:

Snowball Chicken → Snowballs
Slime Chicken → Slime Balls
Experience Chicken → Solidified XP
Water Chicken → Water Eggs
Lava Chicken → Lava Eggs

You may also get Chicken Poo, which is surprisingly useful:

Compost it for Bone Meal like effects.
Use it on grass to spawn flowers.
Use it on dirt to make Manure Blocks — a type of farmland that:

Can’t be trampled.
Doesn’t need water.
Works great for automated farms.

🎨 Chapter 6: Dye Chickens & Color Conversion

Many chickens are dye-based and can be created by converting normal chickens using dyes.

Converting to a Dye Chicken

Throw a few Eggs to spawn a normal chicken.
Right-click it repeatedly with a Dye (e.g., Green Dye). A progress bar will appear — the more dye you use, the higher it fills.
Once full, you’ll hear a TNT explosion sound.
The chicken transforms into a Yellow Dye Chicken!
You can repeat this for any color using the corresponding dye.

🔥 Chapter 7: Advanced Chickens & Resource Chains

Some chickens can’t be found in the wild — they must be bred from others. (I highly recommend using JEI to check breeding compatibility). Type U for uses.

Breeding Examples

Slime Chicken = Green Dye Chicken + Clay Chicken

Clay Chicken = Sand Chicken + Snowball Chicken
Snowball Chicken = Water Chicken + Orange Dye Chicken
Orange Dye Chicken = Yellow + Red Dye Chickens

Each step builds toward more advanced chickens that unlock higher-tier resources — from XP Chickens that generate solidified experience, to Energy Chickens that produce RF power eggs.

Once you understand the chain, you can breed your way to nearly any material in the game!

⚡ Chapter 8: Special Chickens & Power Eggs

Some rare chickens provide unique drops:

Lava Chicken → Lava Eggs (craft into Lava Buckets)
Water Chicken → Water Eggs (Water Buckets)
Energy Chicken / Electro Fuzz Chicken → Energy Eggs for Redstone Flux (RF) power systems.

These are great for tech mod integration or as renewable power sources in automation builds.

🐓 Chapter 9: Scaling Your Chicken Empire

Once your chickens are producing, breeding, and growing stronger, your farm becomes nearly self-sufficient.

With enough Stasis Chambers, Seed Automation, and Item Storage, you can create:

Renewable energy farms
Dye factories
Material processors
And even XP farms

Every chicken can be part of your automation network — a truly modular resource ecosystem.