Stupid Chickens...

[AHrubik 5]

Dunk made the change so that chickens/pheasants must be familiar before you can pluck them. It doesn't make much sense imo, but it was a change that was made.

 

I can see that though where a person "familiar" to a chicken would have an easier time getting close to it whereas an "unfamiliar" person might not be able to catch it. He should make it so that plucking lowers familiarity regardless.

[Kittychanley 1,002]

I can see that though where a person "familiar" to a chicken would have an easier time getting close to it whereas an "unfamiliar" person might not be able to catch it. He should make it so that plucking lowers familiarity regardless.

 

Yes, but if you can get close enough to feed it to increase familiarity, you are close enough to get some feathers.

[Thrainn 2]

Yes, but if you can get close enough to feed it to increase familiarity, you are close enough to get some feathers.

True XDI'm wondering, if a chicken offspring can be fully familiarized too, since the breeding mechanic does work differently than with mammals ...

[Draco_X 4]

Towing chickens (or any animal) home is actually decently easy/quick if you just go by boat.

You can ride full speed, dosn't have to worry about mobs and since there is no terrain for them to get stuck on

not a single rope broke for me using that method.

Took me maybe an hour to move a bunch from 3k to 11k and since they multiply like crazy.. ^^

 

Btw i'm quite impressed by the roosters, they manage to fertilize eggs from another fenced off area about 5 blocks away.

[LiesTech 11]

_{Chickensies tis the bestest food source for servers.... No input and massive output after a couple of days.}

 

 

_{Plus with the chicken you are granted the ability to crash the server whenever you want by just giving them more nest boxes.}

 

 

_{Chickengeddon is real and the metallic death screams of a thousand roosters oh so satisfying.}

 

 

_{The power of the chicken is unrivaled in the lands of TFC. And if you doubt it; leave one rooster and one hen in a pen with nest boxes in SMP and watch the miracle and disaster of exponential population expansion in an undying world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!}

[enenra 5]

Pheasants will always be the wild bird that you cannot breed and will not lay eggs.

 

Is this a balance / gameplay decision or a "historic" decision? (as in, because it didn't really happen)

 

Because I personally really like the idea of the players being able to breed deer instead of, say, pigs, and pigs (boars, really) staying a wild animal instead. After all, today's pigs, cows, chickens, etc. were all once wild animals themselves and only through generations of breeding did they become "farm animals". It's an awesome "what-if" scenario that I think would be worth enabling.

[Kittychanley 1,002]

Is this a balance / gameplay decision or a "historic" decision? (as in, because it didn't really happen)

 

Because I personally really like the idea of the players being able to breed deer instead of, say, pigs, and pigs (boars, really) staying a wild animal instead. After all, today's pigs, cows, chickens, etc. were all once wild animals themselves and only through generations of breeding did they become "farm animals". It's an awesome "what-if" scenario that I think would be worth enabling.

 

Balance / Gameplay decision. Chickens are an incredibly OP animal in that they require little to no player interaction to breed and infinitely provide food. Because of this, we have made chickens rare in that they only spawn in jungle-like climates. However, players are still going to need feathers for other reasons. This is where the pheasant comes into play. It's a common, wild source of feathers for those who do not wish to make the long trek to the jungle, but it cannot be exploited to the degree at which Chickens can.

[Udary 20]

Nice to understand why pheasant exist, I did always wonder.

 

Oh and some advice for people breeding chickens and then they suddenly stop breading. Check the next boxes for unfertilised eggs. My 2 roosters are obviously too lazy to do their job, what seems like, most of the time. Once I realised, and cleared the nest boxes of eggs, they started breeding again, and I have lots of little yellow chicks running around, ready to be slaughtered! I mean, pretty fluffy yellow, chicks...flowers, sun-rays and stuff...

[Peffern 94]

Chickens are a fantastic source of food. Once you set up 6 or so nest boxes and leave them for a while, you will have a ridiculous number of chickens, as well as as many eggs as you want, which almost never decay. It took me a while to realize this, but you don't have to be in the equator to find them : I found same at z = -6000 the other day - it was, as kitty describes, a plains-y biome that was hot and wet.