Let's build an expandable chicken and egg farm in Valheim: build guide

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7 ай бұрын

This farm is not very expensive and fairly easy to build. You need a bit of iron and a bit of stone, bot mostly just wood. The best part - it is really simple to expand to the sides if you need more. Technically, you can't buy eggs until you've fought Yagluth, but maybe you're luckier than others and just... find them?
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@BrentDnD 7 ай бұрын

Nice! This is a very useful and efficient setup. I'm definitely saving this one to my "Valheim Builds" playlist.

@splashopain 7 ай бұрын

Glad you found it useful! 😁

@Aliisza 3 ай бұрын

Nice! This is a very useful and efficient way to find all my favorite builds. I'm definitely creating a "Valheim Builds" playlist....and adding this to it! Thank you both! :D

@gerryantogerryanto1675 2 ай бұрын

To move the chicken, try using wooden windows (the one with bronze nail). Just move the window. And the chicken will get push to your desire location

@splashopain 2 ай бұрын

Yes, that is a great tip! 😃

@zanesurrette7474 7 ай бұрын

First one I've found that's relatively easy to build, makes sense, and WORKS.

@splashopain 7 ай бұрын

Oh, that's some nice words right there, thanks a lot! 😄

@user-qt8yo7gs7i 6 ай бұрын

Mine is working too!!!

@splashopain 6 ай бұрын

@@user-qt8yo7gs7i Awesome!

@user-hh1ll1qt2e 5 ай бұрын

Hello, thanks for the video :) I did everything exactly according to the guide, the chickens grew up, stood in the right place, I threw food at them, they ate once, laid a few eggs and didn’t eat anymore. Kida moved them from place to place in different ways, but nothing helped. After I destroyed the roof under them and they fell through with their food, they finally ate. I guess they didn't have enough space. Update: Just try to build again if something doesn't work. If the chickens sat on top of each other, place a wooden gate behind the wall and open it - the door will move the top chicken down to the right place, as of 01/08/2024 this build works perfectly :)

@splashopain 5 ай бұрын

Glad you found a good solution, and thanks for sharing it! I saw that @ThreadMenace pushed the hens further down into the hole with a little help of a door, and that worked too 🙂

@user-hh1ll1qt2e 5 ай бұрын

@@splashopain I tore down the breeding module and built it again. Threw the eggs inside, waited for the chickens to grow, used the wooden gate method (from @ThreadMenace's video) to move the chickens to the right places, closed them, threw in the food and it worked! Now everything is fine :)

@splashopain 5 ай бұрын

@@user-hh1ll1qt2e I am so glad to hear that it's working! Also, thanks for posting about it here, more people may have the same issues you did 😃

@Edcognito 5 ай бұрын

Nice to know this works as of 2024 - thanks m8

@splashopain 5 ай бұрын

@@Edcognito you can't have them automatically k*lled anymore, which I think is unfortunate, but other than that it's all good 😎

@michaelknightmustdie 7 ай бұрын

I appreciate the design (and you're not the only one who needs to make things look nice or "correct" ;) )

@splashopain 7 ай бұрын

Thanks, and glad to hear it😆 Edit: The word "thansk" didn't look nice or correct 🤣

@OG_Agrivar 2 ай бұрын

Watched this video last night, then followed your plan nearly exactly (minor changes for aesthetics only) and I just had to come back to thank you! It works flawlessly!! Seriously, I'm not sure what to do with all the eggs and chickens I'm now rolling in on my solo world!!

@splashopain 2 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it! Yeah, a chicken farm like this one is a bit too much on a solo world perhaps, lol, but it's great when you are 2-4 players 😄 Thank you for your feedback, I love to hear both the good and the bad.

@jarlaxlegaming81 7 ай бұрын

Jurassic Park all over again 😱 Someone didn't pay attention in history class. The end is near☠️

@splashopain 7 ай бұрын

The fence is electrified, it's safe! 🤣

@antonvlassenko7418 6 ай бұрын

Beautiful and efficient and I appreciate efficiency! I definitely going to try it for myself! Thanks for the great job in creating this guide! =)

@splashopain 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for your kind words! Happy building 😄

@jarlaxlegaming81 7 ай бұрын

That's a good looking and compact feather farm👌 So glad you didn't leave holes down to the ground😆

@splashopain 7 ай бұрын

You should see how dumb the eggs look when they fly out of that shoot like a canon 😆

@TheGolferguy71 6 ай бұрын

Wow, didn't realize how complicated the chicken thing was. Haven't played since they introduced them. Very nice!

@splashopain 6 ай бұрын

Thanks! If you play alone, this might a bit over the top; you will get enough food from just keeping them in a small hatchery. If you play as a group you never have enough of them. And also, they are so cute that it's hard to do anything but keep them as pets if there isn't some kind of industry around it all 😆

@flosse89 Ай бұрын

Got this working today. Thanks for the great guide.

@splashopain Ай бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

@Jonny-zj9nh 5 ай бұрын

Really awesome guide, still works to this day!

@splashopain 5 ай бұрын

Thanks! Great 😁

@davidschoen9181 3 ай бұрын

Elegant and efficient! Thank you

@splashopain 3 ай бұрын

Glad you liked! 😁

@KaydianBladebreaker 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the build, very helpful.

@splashopain 6 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it! 😁

@jayadinesh8602 2 ай бұрын

I have gone through all the chicken farms on online, your's is the simple and most efficient one out there. Thanx a lot for your efforts. One minor adjustment that I did is I lowered the egg collecting floor by 1 meter. Before that the hens above that area stops breeding after 5 eggs. Rest of the farm works flawlessly.

@splashopain 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for your kind words, that is a really good idea! 😃

@Trailminer Ай бұрын

Created a world with my friends for the Ashlands update and needed more eggs, now we've got more than we know what to do with. Great build and great guide.

@splashopain Ай бұрын

Glad you found it useful, thank you for the kind words!

@brigandboy1425 6 ай бұрын

I love it. I'm going to take this and turn it into a windmill for the heck of it. Very much appreciate the build :)

@splashopain 6 ай бұрын

Thanks, and cool idea! That I'd love to see 😃

@Chris1J1Marx 4 ай бұрын

Great video and great farm. Thanks a bunch!

@splashopain 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for your nice words, and happy you liked it! 😄

@kano165 7 ай бұрын

Going to try this out thanks!

@splashopain 7 ай бұрын

Glad you found it useful! 😀

@TheLohoc 5 ай бұрын

Great design and video. Please keep sharing your ideas as they provide inspiration to many :)

@splashopain 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for your very kind words, and I'm glad you found this useful 😄

@wardaddyplays 7 ай бұрын

The chicken tower of doom lol Love this one 🙌

@splashopain 7 ай бұрын

Hehe, that sounds like a title to a metal band

@Kyydon 23 күн бұрын

nice video, thanks for this!

@splashopain 23 күн бұрын

Thanks for your nice words!

@devilmaycry2283 5 ай бұрын

Awesome video!!! And it’s works thank you!!!

@splashopain 5 ай бұрын

Awesome! If you have any problems whatsoever, please come back and mention it in the comments - it helps everybody 😁

@reszort 4 ай бұрын

I built it and it works very well. Very efficient 👍 Big thanks and dont worry i have the same "complications" with adding additional beams :P

@splashopain 4 ай бұрын

Glad to hear that you found it useful! And that I'm not alone in my struggles 😝

@colinhawkins8265 5 ай бұрын

This setup works great. During setup with the eggs/chicks I had a couple escape, so I built up their enclosures a bit. Once they became hens, the two on one side were stacked so I had to use the wooden shutter trick to move the one on top.

@splashopain 5 ай бұрын

Nice! Glad to hear that 😃 Yeah, those hit boxes are massive for such small animals, glad you made it work with the help of the shutters!

@ChuckHaney 7 ай бұрын

I love this. It's crazy looking ... but it has a strong farm vibe.

@splashopain 7 ай бұрын

It's function and nothing more 😆 I bet you could fancify it easily 🙂

@ChuckHaney 7 ай бұрын

@@splashopain It is fancy! I love the look of it. It looks sort of like a silo attached to a farmhouse. Very unique.

@splashopain 7 ай бұрын

@@ChuckHaney It really looks like a silo, yeah 😂

@LauriHuu 4 ай бұрын

An absolute banger of a farm! Happy to have implemented this to my own base. One modification I did though: for the hatchery side I also added the egg collector so I could change the output by turning the 45 degree roof tile. I ended up lacking eggs while swimming in chicken breast so the adjustability was a nice addition. I'll just scale this 3:1 later on when I remake a base but still, something you can do to balance the output if need be :)

@splashopain 4 ай бұрын

Nice! Glad you found the build useful, and it's always interesting to hear about people's additions to the build - glad you posted it here, so that others can read about it too 😃

@LauriHuu 4 ай бұрын

@@splashopain Absolutely! The design shuold allow pretty easy funneling of multiple columns too so like you mentioned, easily expandable too!

@paolobonsignore2813 5 ай бұрын

"I just think they re cute" what a wholesome channel. Suscribed!

@splashopain 5 ай бұрын

Aaw, thanks 🥰

@TheChriton Ай бұрын

I like your building design, it looks effective too. I sub for your ocd details, I also do that!!

@splashopain Ай бұрын

OCD Details for the WIN! 😆 Thanks for your kind words, and thanks for the sub 😄

@itranscendencei7964 Ай бұрын

Very solid design that has both function and a little bit of form. I used the Carved Darkwood Dividers for window pieces instead of the iron cage pieces to save on iron, and I think the build looks pretty good. Oddly enough, I had one of each of my Chickens from each chute disappear the first attempt. Can't for the life of me figure out why, but thankfully the second attempt went fine. Thanks for the video! Update: After expanding by 2 (needed more eggs for omelettes) I've learned that the place where you hatch the first 2 eggs is slightly too small. Maybe there was an update to their hitbox size. One chicken got pushed out of the chute and is now walking around the top of where the eggs sit at the bottom to be collected. Another one I watched take damage from the fire. So both times I lost 1 of the 2 chickens in the chute. If you wait until 1 is fully grown into a hen then put the other egg in after, the second chicken should grow fine. Takes longer, but safer if you don't have enough money to go buy more eggs.

@splashopain Ай бұрын

Oh, that must look really pretty! The chickens just disappeared like that?! Annoying! And thanks for your kind words :)

@itranscendencei7964 Ай бұрын

Sorry didn't refresh and didn't see your reply. I updated my original comment. The chutes might be just a tad too small to fit 2 chickens. Possible that they updated the hitboxes.

@splashopain Ай бұрын

@@itranscendencei7964 They might have! Also, the chicks have larger hitboxes than the hens, which causes a bit of a problem setting up a farm 😄 Edit: Really good observation, and thank you for adding your experiment here in the comment section, other people will find that useful to know.

@itranscendencei7964 Ай бұрын

Of course. Hopefully someone finds it helpful. I now have 3 sets that are making eggs to be collected, and the last set making eggs to be hatched. Need all the stamina you can get in the Mistlands!

@splashopain Ай бұрын

@@itranscendencei7964 Oh, you are absolutely right about that! 😁

@dnd6075 5 ай бұрын

Nice one I'm trying it out right now.

@splashopain 5 ай бұрын

Awesome! If you encounter any problems, don't be a stranger - it helps everyone 😁

@suzekward 4 ай бұрын

Built this super chicken breeding tower tonight... One side is working really well, producing eggs for the incubator. The other side is being a royal pain. The chicks keep hatching and glitching through the wall. Fingers crossed I'll sort it on the current pair of eggs! Thanks for the design it's super!

@splashopain 4 ай бұрын

Yeah, chicks can be really annoying like that. Glad you found the breeder useful though 😄

@Trogzilla 6 ай бұрын

I built it with crystal windows to save iron. Thanks for this!

@splashopain 6 ай бұрын

That must look gorgeous 🤩

@Jalbesbe 2 ай бұрын

The iron in the middle is no longer needed with Hildir's fire pit.

@splashopain 2 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thank you for mentioning that!

@inecronomicsi4285 Ай бұрын

Elaborate please?

@splashopain Ай бұрын

@@inecronomicsi4285 The iron in the middle of the tower is needed for the fire to stand on something while you hatch the eggs, while also adding some stability to the tower. You can't place a campfire on wood floor, but with a tiny bit of iron you cheese past that issue. Hildir's fire pit, on the other hand, can be placed on wood floor without an issue. It also burns longer. The only downside with using this firepit instead of having a campfire up there is that you actually have to find Hildir before you can make the breeder. Only once have I found Hildir before I've found eggs, and funnily enough it's in the recorded let's play on this channel 😆

@simpy3651 4 ай бұрын

theye can eat CARROT SEEDS! i didnt know that. I've been feeding them my barley and taking a hit to my food storage.

@splashopain 4 ай бұрын

The can eat all seeds, AND dandelions! I usually have a greydwarf spawner going, giving me lots of wood and stone - and dandelions. I threw them all away before I knew!

@simpy3651 4 ай бұрын

@@splashopain ive been doing it wrong the whole time! haha. great video its produced me a tooon of eggs!

@splashopain 4 ай бұрын

@@simpy3651 Glad to hear you've found it useful! 😀

@Anubi42 5 ай бұрын

I tried building this tower for the first time and I think it's not quite tall enough. You build the iron support 6 high (12m). The chickens need to be more than 10m away from the eggs to keep laying. Seems fine so far. But in the design the chickens end up being about 1m below the top of the iron support. Then the collection area for the cold eggs is 1m above the ground. Now we are right at 10m seperation between the chickens and the eggs. What I found was I would quickly get 2-4 eggs, then didn't seem to get anymore in the cold collection area. I lowered the collection platform to ground level so now it's a solid 11m from the chickens and am getting many more eggs.

@splashopain 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the update! Haven't had that problem myself, but it certainly is a possibility - well spotted! 😄

@Anubi42 5 ай бұрын

Similarly if you get too many Hens in the hatchery area and they start to stack a 2nd layer on top of each other it completely stops all breeding as well. If I feel like rebuilding I'll definitely make it 7 iron grates tall. That should make it a lot less finicky.

@splashopain 5 ай бұрын

@@Anubi42 That is a good observation, thanks for mentioning that 😃 I never had that problem, since I started to remove the hens when they reached over the stone border at the bottom.

@user-qt8yo7gs7i 5 күн бұрын

@@splashopain hah you are too diligent ;) i just dig out the floor more as well

@splashopain 5 күн бұрын

@@user-qt8yo7gs7i Yeah, that should do the trick! 🤪

@fuba1 3 ай бұрын

No matter what i try to do, some of the Hens do not eat. Pushed them around with doors, re-positioned them and also replaced with "new" Hens. They get pushed upwards a bit and stop eating and stop breeding as a result! Nice design but it's not working 100% "bug free" -> sadly 😢 Also chicken food below 1/2 stack is merging all the the time! Means you can not use anything below half a stack 😢

@splashopain 3 ай бұрын

Glad you're posting the issues you have had here, so that others can see. The first problem you had with the hens not eating - try placing the food a bit further towards you with the help of some half walls to get it better centered. The other thing with half stacks I have never encountered, thanks for mentioning it!

@keans53 7 ай бұрын

Can you show us more detail on how to build where the chickens sit? Kinda hard to see

@splashopain 7 ай бұрын

You mean those up top? They are pushed downwards and stand in a hole more or less. You will have to wait for a couple of minutes once you have removed the floor under them. I'll see what I can do 🙂

@splashopain 7 ай бұрын

Post up now about your question, hope I was clear enough 😉

@keans53 7 ай бұрын

Going to try it tonight as soon as I do the corps run lol

@splashopain 7 ай бұрын

@@keans53 Oh, no! Good luck with your corpse run 😅

@FriedBananas642 5 ай бұрын

Very cool build, do you stream?

@splashopain 5 ай бұрын

Thanks! Do not stream yet, but intend to start within the year 😁

@FrostekFerenczy 6 ай бұрын

No use of the E key to aid placement of building blocks?

@splashopain 6 ай бұрын

I forget about those keys all the time 😂

@estlandian2432 6 ай бұрын

is this iron frame in the middle for the fire too? cuz if i build it withou it i cant place the fire on top.

@splashopain 6 ай бұрын

The iron in the middle is there only for the fire, yes 😃

@estlandian2432 6 ай бұрын

Yeah, though so, i got my farm done too now. Looks sexy. Changed few looks

@splashopain 6 ай бұрын

@@estlandian2432 Nice!

@user-qt8yo7gs7i 6 ай бұрын

how often do you need to go up and get eggs that are stuck?

@splashopain 6 ай бұрын

Haven't had to do that even once yet, but sometimes they fall through the roof pieces and land outside of the tower.

@user-qt8yo7gs7i 6 ай бұрын

@@splashopain wonderful

@NorthernChev 5 ай бұрын

UPDATE: It is Jan 2023 as of this writing. This chicken farm, as built, does NOT keep bats out of the TOP during a "You Stirred The Cauldron" Raid on your base. I confirmed this by running TO the farm and standing inside the very moment the raid started. I lost three of the four chickens at the top. I have no idea HOW the Bats get in. They just appear inside. It looks like they're "glitching" in, which is weird in itself. But this farm, as designed has now cost me many thousands in Gold re-buying Eggs over and over just trying to get it up and running to begin with. EDIT: As well, the chicks sometimes glitch through the lower upright wall and into the fire as soon as they hatch. This is driving me nuts.

@NorthernChev 5 ай бұрын

As a fix to the bat problem I'm thinking about simply doubling the wall around the top part. Essentially building a room inside a room so the bats can't get to the inner room. ...unless they're coming in the triangle at the top of the X at the peak on both sides.

@splashopain 5 ай бұрын

@@NorthernChev Hi! Thanks for telling me! It worked fine when I summoned a raid just after it all was built, but I think you're right about where they could get in. One could put up doors to the small spaces where the hens are, perhaps? Never experienced that glitch through the wall and into the fire that you described, and that must have been very frustrating!

@NorthernChev 5 ай бұрын

@@splashopain So, last night I think I've solved the problem. The Hens, as designed, have the tendency to clip through the walls, so the bats can hit them. I took your exact build and then just built an additional room around the top part with a space between the walls wide enough to walk around. Basically a box inside a box. And, instead of Xs at the peaks, I switched them to Wood Wall 45s and integrated them into the two roofs. this seems to have solved the problem. As well, instead of putting the campfire (at the top) on the divider wall near the eggs I added an additional temporary divider wall underneath and put the campfire on the floor that you were sitting on farther back instead of up close. That solved the hatching and glitching into the fire problem. Hope that helps.

@splashopain 5 ай бұрын

@@NorthernChev Great, thanks for sharing! 😃

@HandyHanderson 7 ай бұрын

Do eggs also prevent hens from breeding? Or is it just chicks and other hens? I'm interested in just egg collection, and wouldn't want to make a tower if not needed.

@splashopain 7 ай бұрын

There is a limited space for eggs, so if you have your eggs close by the hens, the hens won't lay more eggs when the space is full. If you pick them up straight away the hens can lay more eggs, of course, but then you'll have to be there to pick up eggs quite regularly. If there are no eggs around the hens, however, they lay new eggs more often. That is the only reason for the tower really 😃

@HandyHanderson 7 ай бұрын

Ok, thanks for the clarification. I think I'll dig a hole to reduce the height of the tower then.

@splashopain 7 ай бұрын

@@HandyHanderson I like that solution, and now I wish I had thought of that first 😆

@user-qt8yo7gs7i 5 күн бұрын

@@HandyHanderson i have dug a hole to solve this problem as well. :)

@sethmadore4127 6 ай бұрын

Is this still a valid method? I think I've followed your video well, but the chickens just don't eat 😕

@splashopain 6 ай бұрын

If the food isn't centered and if there isn't a small slit at the back end of the coop, the chickens can't reach the food. Try to place the smaller wall tiles in a V-shape to force the seeds towards the middle, I've had to do that once. Hope it helps! 😁 Edit: saw @ThreadMenace build the same coop on stream just a couple of days ago, it worked for him - it worked then, so I think it should still work.

@NeoIsTaken Ай бұрын

My chickens keep turning face down in the chamber and wont eat. any tips?

@splashopain Ай бұрын

Face down? Strange! The only tip I have is to use a door to make them move in the right position.

@NeoIsTaken Ай бұрын

@splashopain OK so not sure what the issue was. I used the shingled roof and thought that may be the reason why. So I removed the angled piece on the left and used thatch as the vid shows. As soon as I finished the left(including newly placed chickens), the right started working. The right side is shingle and left is thatch. Both work!!. The door trick came in handy as well. Thank you for the guide

@splashopain Ай бұрын

@@NeoIsTaken So weird! Glad you got it working 😄

@augustocultochico177 6 ай бұрын

muy lindo, saludos

@splashopain 6 ай бұрын

¡Muchas gracias! No hablo mucho español, pero estoy aprendiendo 😆

@NorthernChev 5 ай бұрын

As soon as I see a builder require a ton of iron for structural on a “simple” build, I instantly “swipe LEFT”…

@splashopain 5 ай бұрын

I see what you're saying - it usually isn't an easy build when you need iron 🤣

@Edcognito 5 ай бұрын

it's not a "ton", it's not even that much....

@splashopain 5 ай бұрын

@@Edcognito Not in my opinion either, but to each their own 😄

@user-qt8yo7gs7i 5 күн бұрын

but by the point you need chickens 14 iron should not be a burden? i did get my last chickens early so i did have to sacrifice a bit to get this started but it was totally worth it to me, but of course no one has to build this.