Minecraft:Chicken
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Template:For Template:Infobox entity A chicken is a Minecraft:passive mob found in most grassy Minecraft:biomes, and the main source of Minecraft:raw chicken, Minecraft:feathers and Minecraft:eggs. They have three variants based on the Minecraft:temperature of the biome they spawn in.
Spawning
Chickens spawn naturally in the Minecraft:Overworld in most grassy biomes except Minecraft:snowy plains, Minecraft:meadows, Minecraft:cherry groves, Minecraft:mangrove swamps, and Minecraft:pale gardens.
Each chicken has a 5% chance of spawning as a Minecraft:baby.
Template:IN, chickens spawn in groups of 4 on Minecraft:grass blocks in any light level. Individual chickens rarely may spawn after Minecraft:world generation.
Template:IN, chickens spawn in groups of 2-4 on grass blocks in a light level of 7 and more. Individuals regularly spawn after world generation.
Template:IN, chickens are more common in Minecraft:sparse jungles.
Template:IN, chickens may be found in Minecraft:the Nether when a baby Minecraft:zombified piglin spawns as a Minecraft:chicken jockey. This can also happen with every other baby variant of the Minecraft:zombie. Minecraft:Leader zombies and Minecraft:reinforcements can cause a chicken jockey to spawn in the End.
Variants
Chickens have 3 variants: temperate, cold, and warm. The variant is determined by the biome the chicken spawns in.
If a chicken is spawned via Minecraft:spawn egg, command or jockey in any biome not listed, a temperate chicken is spawned.
Sound variants
Chickens have 2 sound variants: Classic and Picky.
A sound variant is chosen randomly upon the mob spawning, and is not related to the mob's temperature variant. These sound variants have no effect on the mob's behavior.
For the sounds of each sound variant, see Template:Slink.
Chicken jockey
Java Edition
Template:Main All baby Minecraft:zombie variants and baby Minecraft:zombified piglins have a 5% chance to check for an existing chicken within a 10×6×10 box centered on the baby's spawn location and spawn riding one of those chickens if there are any. If it fails that 5% chance, there is an additional 5% chance of the baby zombie spawning mounted on a new adult chicken. If a jockey spawns riding a new chicken, the variant of the chicken depends on the biome it spawns in.
Because a baby zombie occurs from 5% of zombie spawns, the chicken jockey spawns consist of 0.2375% of all zombie spawns in a chicken-free environment; if chickens are present, the chance increases to 0.4875%. A chicken jockey can also be spawned by using the following command:
Chicken jockeys may spawn with items equipped. Baby zombified piglin versions of the chicken jockey always wield a Minecraft:golden sword. Harming or killing the chicken does not cause the zombified piglin to attack.
Bedrock Edition
Baby zombie jockeys do not spawn riding chickens, but check for nearby adult chickens to mount prior to attacking a player, Minecraft:wandering trader, adult Minecraft:villager, Minecraft:snow golem, or Minecraft:iron golem.
Drops
Adult chickens that were not part of chicken jockeys lay an Minecraft:egg every five to ten minutes.
Breeding
Template:Xp experience orbs upon a successful Minecraft:breeding.
On death
Template:DropTable Template:Xp Minecraft:experience orbs are dropped when a chicken is killed by a player or tamed Minecraft:wolf or Template:Xp if it was part of a Minecraft:chicken jockeyTemplate:Only.
Killing a chick yields no Minecraft:items or Minecraft:experience.
Killing a Minecraft:zombie riding a chicken will result in the music disc "Lava Chicken" dropping.
Behavior
A chicken normally wanders aimlessly when idle. Sometimes they remain in a small area, even if it's just a 1 block space. They follow players holding various seeds within a 6×4×6 cubic area. Chicks follow adult chickens.
Chickens avoid falling off cliffs (>3.5 blocks). They flap their wings when they are in midair and fall slowly, thus chickens are immune to fall damage.
Chickens can be attached to Minecraft:leads.
When harmed, chickens flee around for a few seconds.
Unlike other mobs, chickens attempt to jump up to climb stairs instead of climbing them normally.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
Minecraft:Ocelots and Minecraft:foxes pursue and attack chickens. While chickens do flee when attacked, they otherwise make no attempt to avoid foxes.
While in a loaded Minecraft:chunk, an adult chicken lays an Minecraft:egg every five to ten minutes (6000–12000 Minecraft:ticks), unless it is, or was, a part of a Minecraft:chicken jockey. If the player is close enough to a chicken when it lays an egg, a pop sound is heard.
Chickens can stay underwater for 15 seconds or can swim, visibly flapping their wings and staying on the water surface. While swimming, a chicken needs only one block of air above its head.
Breeding
Chickens follow players holding Minecraft:wheat seeds, Minecraft:beetroot seeds, Minecraft:melon seeds, Minecraft:pumpkin seeds, Minecraft:torchflower seeds, or Minecraft:pitcher pods but stop following when separated from the player by at least 10 blocksTemplate:Only / 16 blocksTemplate:Only. Additionally, chicks follow adults.
A player can Minecraft:breed chickens by using Minecraft:seeds. After breeding, a chick spawns and 1–7 Minecraft:experience is generated. The parents cannot be bred again for 5 minutes. The variant of the offspring is inherited from one of the parents and does not depend on the biome they are bred in.
Chicks take 24000 ticks (20 minutes) to grow up, but the growth time can be accelerated Template:Control seeds. Each use takes 10% off the remaining time to grow up. A chick fed a seed once per second grows up in approximately 48 seconds using 47 seeds.
Chicks are smaller than a half-block and can unwillingly pass through openings smaller than a full block, but do not walk through half-block-tall spaces. A chick riding a Minecraft:minecart cannot be hit because it is completely inside the minecart's Minecraft:hitbox.
Eggs
Template:See also Chickens are the only Minecraft:Overworld mob that can repopulate without breeding. Adult chickens lay eggs every 5-10 minutes and an Minecraft:egg thrown at the ground by a player or a Minecraft:dispenser has a Template:Frac chance of spawning a chick. If a chick spawns from a thrown egg, there is a further Template:Frac chance to spawn three extra chicks, or Template:Frac overall. It is theoretically possible for a stack of 16 eggs to yield 64 chickens if all spawn chances succeed for all eggs.
Different variants of chickens lay different types of eggs:
- Template:EntitySprite Temperate chickens lay regular eggs
- Template:EntitySprite Warm chickens lay brown eggs
- Template:EntitySprite Cold chickens lay blue eggs
If the Minecraft:player throws an Minecraft:egg at a Minecraft:glass pane, the chick can spawn on the far side of the pane.
Sounds
Adult
Generic
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Classic
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Picky
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Chick
Data values
ID
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Entity data
Chickens have entity data associated with them that contain various properties.
<section begin="entity data"/>
- Template:Nbt Entity data
- Template:Nbt inherit/breedable
- Template:Nbt inherit/entity
- Template:Nbt inherit/mob
- Template:Nbt: Number of ticks until the chicken lays its egg. Laying occurs at 0 and this timer gets reset to a new random value between 6000 and 12000.
- Template:Nbt: 1 or 0 (true/false) - Whether or not the chicken is a jockey for a baby zombie. If true, the chicken can naturally despawn, drops 10 experience upon death instead of 1-3 and cannot lay eggs. Baby zombies can still control a ridden chicken even if this is set false.
- Template:Nbt: The variant of the chicken. Represents the Template:DCL component.
<section end="entity data"/>
Chicken variants
Template:JE: Template:Main Chicken variants can be configured using Minecraft:JSON files within a Minecraft:data pack in the path Template:Cd.
Achievements
Achievements that apply to all mobs: Template:Collapse
Advancements
Advancements that apply to all mobs: Template:Collapse
Videos
History
Java Edition
Bedrock Edition
Legacy Console Edition
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
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An automatic chicken farm.
Data history
Issues
Trivia
- When a chicken is killed off a ledge, the corpse also falls more slowly than normal and the wings continue flapping.
- Chickens can "hide" within Minecraft:hoppers due to their small size, which protects them from dangers like Minecraft:lava on top of the hopper.
- A few weeks before the end of Minecraft:Java Edition Beta, Minecraft:Notch tweeted that he had changed the chickens to ducks,<ref>Template:Tweet</ref> causing a turmoil on Twitter. A few days later, Minecraft:Jeb, still receiving feedback on the idea, stated that it was just a joke.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref> Later on, Mojang rejected the idea of adding ducks to Minecraft.<ref>Template:Cite </ref> However, ducks were added into Minecraft Dungeons.
- The changelog for Minecraft:Pocket Edition v0.3.0 alpha referred to chickens as ducks.<ref>Template:Cite</ref>
- Minecraft:Notch later referred to chickens in a blog post as "the Chicken/duck/whatevers".<ref>Template:Tumblr</ref>
- During Template:MCSM, Template:MCSM at one point questions whether Template:MCSMs are ducks.
- In Minecraft: The Island, Minecraft:Guy refers to chickens as "chick-ducks."
- In Template:AMCM, Template:AMCMs are designed with webbed feet closer to a duck.
- In the first chapter of Minecraft:Overworld Adventures, Minecraft:Sofia Dankis remarks she crafted a Minecraft:Nether portal near a lake "in case [her] chickens one day wanted to see what the life of a duck was."<ref>Template:Mcnet</ref>
- In the game code, the wattles of the chicken are called "red_thing".
Publicity
- In the game Minecraft:Choplifter HD, players can find a hidden island in the mission "Operation Charlie Takedown," where several chickens appear.
- A picture of a chicken appears on a stringboard during Minecraft:The Game Awards 2024, during a conversation between Template:Wikipedia and Minecraft:Muppets star Template:Wikipedia.
- Chickens are a frequently used minifigure in Minecraft:Lego Minecraft. A common fixture of sets are giant builds of mobs, chickens included.<ref>Template:Citation</ref><ref>Template:Citation</ref>
- For the Minecraft:BigFigs wave a scale figure of a chicken was also produced.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
- A temperate chick can be found in front of the creeper face in a Minecraft social media profile picture.
Gallery
Renders
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Animation of a temperate chicken floating, flying, or sitting.
Mojang screenshots
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A chicken enjoying the sunset.
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Chicken variants in a desert.
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Chickens in the sunset.
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A cold chicken lays an egg.
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Warm chickens on a grassy ledge.
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A bunch of chickens in water.
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Baby zombies riding chicken variants.
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Chicken variants with their eggs.
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Two temperate chickens leading their chicks.
Screenshots
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A chicken looking at the player.
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A dying chicken and its item drops when killed.
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A chicken next to an egg.
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A chicken riding a minecart.
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A chicken compared to a tiny slime.
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A chicken on fire.
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A chicken swimming.
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A group of chickens following a player.
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A chicken being attacked by an ocelot.
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A chicken flapping its wings while falling from a high place.
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All the chicken variants and their respective chicks
Textures
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Chicken texture file.
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Cold Chicken texture file.
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Warm Chicken texture file.
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Chick texture file.
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Cold Chick texture file.
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Warm Chick texture file.
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In other media
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Artwork of a chicken
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Artwork of a chicken by Mojang
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Ditto
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A chicken in promotional artwork for the Minecraft:Horse Update
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A chicken in promotional artwork for the first Minecraft:Caves & Cliffs update
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Minecraft:Efe clutching a chicken in an Minecraft:ancient city
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Minecraft:Sunny discarding an egg in front of a chicken
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A chicken startling Sunny and Efe
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The Secret Chicken, featured in the Minecraft:Trails & Tales Event
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Chicken Body, sold as part of the Minecraft:Community Celebration event
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Chicken Hat, also sold as part of the Community Celebration event
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Chicken in a Suit, a skin featured in the Battle & Beasts skin pack
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Chickens covering the Minecraft:Minecraft website during April Fools 2023
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A chicken and chick as they appear in Template:WSC
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Social media
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Minecraft:Noor among chicken variants
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A giant chicken be warded off, parodying a scene from Minecraft:Jurassic Park<ref>Template:YouTubeLink</ref>
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Chicken but with pants on
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A demotivational poster of a chicken with sunglasses
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A chicken waving hello
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Cold animal variants in real life snow
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Cats taking photos of a chicken
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Chickens in a real life farm
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A chicken calling in a phone
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A boxtrap of a chick and other baby animals
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A chick reminding that the feed has been cleansed
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A chick hiding amongst the flowers
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Several chicks taking over Instagram
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Someone holding a notebook with a doodle of a chick
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A baby chicken fading into a post-Minecraft:Tiny Takeover chick
Merchandise
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Minecraft:LEGO Minecraft chicken
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Flower Chicken, an official T-Shirt design
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Jolly Mobs Chicken, an official T-Shirt design
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Wavy Chicken, an official T-Shirt design
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Acid Duck, an official T-Shirt design. Note the inverted feet
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Evolution of the Chicken, a design featured on an official water bottle
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Blue Chicken Family, an official tote bag
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Chicken figure of Flippin' Figs
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Lego baby chicken (chick).
Other appearances
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A Template:MCD as it appears in Template:MCD
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A Template:MCL as it appears in Template:MCL
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A Template:MCSM as it appeared in Template:MCSM
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A Template:AMCM as it appeared in Template:AMCM
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A chicken as it appears in Minecraft:Minecraft Blast
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Ditto
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References
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External links
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