Chicken

Natural generation

Chickens are passive overworld animals. The variant registry selects temperate chickens by default, warm chickens in warm biomes such as deserts, jungles, savannas and badlands, and cold chickens in snowy, frozen, taiga, windswept, End and Deep Dark biome groups.

• DesertBiome
• JungleBiome
• SavannaBiome
• Snowy PlainsBiome
• TaigaBiome
• Deep DarkBiome

Obtaining

Adults provide raw chicken and feathers when killed. A burning kill applies the furnace-smelt function to the chicken drop. Eggs are produced by an adult gift table while the mob is alive, not by the death loot table.

• Raw ChickenItem
• Cooked ChickenItem
• FeatherItem
• EggItem

Drops

The chicken loot table rolls one feather pool and one chicken pool. Each uses a uniform 0–2 or 0–1 count respectively; Looting increases both rolls, and the chicken pool smelts when the entity or attacker satisfies the smelting condition.

• FeatherItem
• Raw ChickenItem
• Cooked ChickenItem

Breeding

Feed two adult chickens an item from the chicken-food tag to produce a chick. The chick chooses one parent’s variant, and additional food can accelerate its growth.

• Wheat SeedsItem
• Beetroot SeedsItem
• Melon SeedsItem
• Pumpkin SeedsItem

Sounds

Ambient, hurt, death, step, and egg-lay events come from the selected chicken sound variant. The registry currently includes classic and picky sound sets.

Behavior

An idle chicken wanders, flaps while falling, and is immune to fall damage. It follows items in the chicken-food tag, can be leashed, and a chick follows an adult. Foxes and ocelots are hostile predators in the chicken AI context.

• Wheat SeedsItem
• Beetroot SeedsItem
• Melon SeedsItem
• Pumpkin SeedsItem
• SavannaBiome
• FoxMob
• OcelotMob

Data values

The entity stores a chicken variant and a separate sound variant. Its persistent egg timer and variant are saved with the entity; the normal adult has 4 health and movement speed 0.25.

Data: Data values

Identifier	minecraft:chicken
Version	Minecraft 26.2
Entity ID	Raw Chickenchicken
Entity id	Raw Chickenchicken
Variant registry	minecraft:chicken_variant
Sound registry	minecraft:chicken_sound_variant
Egg timer	6000–12000 ticks after each gift
Health	4
Movement speed	0.25
Saved timer field	EggLayTime
Jockey field	IsChickenJockey

Gallery

See also

• Mob catalogue
• Minecraft Wiki overview
• Chicken itemItem
• Cooked chickenItem
• EggItem
• FeatherItem
• Wheat SeedsItem
• FoxMob
• OcelotMob

References

Data: References

Local source	Chickenchicken

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