A lossless one- slice wide chicken farm would be too perfect I guess.

What really matters here is that the farm is 1-wide *tileable*, even if the whole array of tiles requires special endcaps.

Mobs vanish quicker from view distance the smaller their hitbox

This is still an amazing farm for me (casual here haha), as soon as I saw the video I build it inside a villager's house. I already encountered I chicken wandering on the floor, but for a singleplayer world this is more than enough. Thanks Mango anyway for submitting this "Ok, but actually..." video.

I see some comments talking about tiling this farm but having an issue of the chickens wandering with the space between hoppers. If you tile it but flip each alternating slice horizontally, the hoppers will be surrounded by full blocks so each group of chickens will stay in range of its own minecart and not wander between hoppers along the pipe. Remember that tiling this farm would use quite a lot of chickens so make sure that lag won't be an issue if you try to tile it, every slice will need another set of chickens and the amount of entity collisions builds up quickly if you make a very large tiled farm out of this.

You could tile your new version, you would only need glass blocks on the very ends. An extreme “16 core” chicken farm would only be 18 blocks wide

i personally dont get affected but maybe it would be smart to add a flash warning around 2:30 for those who do

Which means the farm also wouldn't work without full pathfinding blocks around

Another 'Easy' fix would be to tie it's on and off switch tied too a player detector, but you're starting to get into the range of making a more complicated build akin too NimsTV's latest chicken farm design.

I knew this was too good to be true the same thing happened to me when I tried to dispense chickens into a hopper

If I were a chicken I would also only try to escape my torture when my tormentor is not around.

Thank you for adding this interesting extra information!

Fun fact: on bedrock the items through the composter still works, which is why lag reduction with them isn't possible there

the title is so ominous

I've built the slab version before, and still had chickens glitch out of it.

Hey Ilmango, loved the video! I think you could improve on it though by giving a flash warning when you did the tickwarp for people that suffer from epilepsy

Some interesting things I've learned while playing around with this concept: 1) You can fit 96 chickens into a 1x1 block space if you use glass panes or iron bars to split them 24 chickens to each corner so they don't collide and die from entity cramming. This takes a bit of patience to set up, yet is wonderfully compact 2) Dispense eggs into a waterlogged bottom slab with a lava cauldron above and hopper below. The chicks will float to the top of the water, pressing against the bottom of the cauldron, and then insta-cook when they turn into adults. So far my tests have been lossless.

It's definitely still really really good. Overall you get more efficient use out of your space the more of these farms you actually build right next to each other, just get to the entity cramming limit on each farm and tile them side by side, cap off the ends, then you're losing very minimal amounts of space. Hell, it's even silent if you use the Skulk Sensor. What a golden design.

Thank you for your dedication to farms and us. A whole video because chickens got out after 34 Minecraft days is pretty great!

So thorough! I learned at least 12 new things by watching this And I’ve been playin since 2014 Thanks Ilmango 🏆😎👍🏼

A flashing lights warning would be appreciated for the tickwarps

this downside is minor when you consider you can tile it. the baby chickens will be able to walk around, but there's always lava on top and minecarts on the bottom, so it doesn't matter.

Thanks for the follow-up!

Would there be a way to embed a boat or minecart between the hopper and the dispensor so that any chicken that are standing on the funnel of the hopper would immediately get squished into the hopper?

2:34 seizure warning ⚠

If you replace the lava source with a carpet, then put a fox with a fire-aspect looting-III iron sword on it, the farm will have the same footprint but ~triple the rates. I tested this design for 100+ hours (using carpet mod tick warp) both nearby and 200 blocks away, and it seemed to be both reliable and lossless. It was getting 64.5 cooked chicken per hour for 24 chickens laying eggs.

Thank you for this epic Farm! :)

I love how thorough you are!

Hi ilmango, I think the cauldron and carpet can be simplified to just a top slab, and the adult chickens can be trapped under it. I think the baby chicken hopper can have a wall post (or fence post) under it so that the stem of the hopper can point in a different direction. Not totally sure bc i havent tested but wanted to let you know.

Replacing the hopper with a grindstone works. It’s one block wide, tileable, and lossless (not sure about lossless).

the problem with your fix is that some of the drops burn if you put a slab and lava on top.

You have much higher standards for things like this, and I think no one else really has a problem with it! :)

PSA: Seizure warning Besides that, good video!

Can you replace the lava with a fox that is holding a sword that is enchanted with looting 3 and fire aspect?

I made a semi-fix to make this 1 wide, but it caused some problems. If you put a cauldron or composter on a wall, it will treat the mobs like they are on a half slab in the cauldron. The 2 problems I've found are that when chickens grow up, they can glitch through the cauldron. Also, the chickens that stay in the cauldron are at the perfect height where they are clipped into the lava cauldron but not in the lava, so they don't die until they jump to try to escape the cauldron. Hopefully this "half slab cauldron" trick helps, and I hope you have better luck trying to get it to work than I.

At least it's more compact than my own design. Didn't know about the lava cauldron so I used a wood slab and lit it on fire with a dispenser/flint&steel. I used a piston to squish the fire before it did anything but set the chickens on fire. Have it connected to a day sensor on a one pulse per action setup so it triggers automatically twice a day. Helps avoid tick lag.

Use wool above a sculk sensor, hold babies with trapdoor wings & beak that flap.

Thanks for the further investigation.

daylight sensors (since they're smaller than slabs) are the only block I've seen that can make it truly lossless but it requires complete darkness to work

3:03 "Aight I'm gonna do another test for five hour" *Metal machining noise*

i dont know if it works but if you replace the hopper causing trouble with a water logged stair facing the dispenser, the spawned chickens would float to the pocket of air below the cauldron and dies when they grow up. This one does not rely on the chicken pathfinding to the center of the hopper so i think it would solve the issue it may not be 1 wide, but if you put atleast 3 of them to close off the ends to stop the water flowing out then it is techically possible to tile this 1 wide

No problem with the distance. It's something to add to a TNT duper bore so I don't have to go up for food.

I think you can compact the farm even more if you would use a fox with a fire aspect sword his mouth to kill the chickens I think looting also works but would be laggier because of the path finding of the fox

too bad, but its still a sick farm and I dont quite mind the small downside!

If I tested this, a chicken even managed to push the minecart away and broke the farm entirely

Ilmango: And not reach the lava part Chicken: *intensely staring*

Light sensitivity warning at 2:31-2:40

Ah now I understand why I came back to a test farm to find chickens everywhere

ooof you might need an epilepsy warning for the tickwarp :D

FLASHING LIGHTS WARNING 2:33 - 2:38

3:07 won't some people get seizures from these ultra fast timelapses 😅

You can still use composters to hold the chickens, just need a moving minecart below. I have a somewhat "realistic" farm with rows of composters as hen houses and a track below to pick up the eggs.

Epilepsy warning at 2:30

Is it theoretically possible, that a chicken lays an egg before getting killed by the lava?

Red nomster has made one of these farms before also making a one wide design. iirc it used funky boat tech

For the killing chamber, will chickens swim in a partially filled cauldron? Not sure if either 1 or 2 water levels could keep babies consistently below the lava and adults at least sometimes inside it.

ilmango apology video??? you didn't sigh at the beginning: apology unaccepted

Hyped up for Scicraft getting updated to 1.18.

These guys build nasa level red stone builds and makes a video fixing a chicken cooker. A lot of respect.

It may not be 1 wide anymore but you should still be able to tile them together and put caps on at the end. Intresting though, MC entities are finnicky

Dude, even flawed it’s still freaking awesome

i've been noticing this i made a dual setup of it as ur vid came out, thought i'd messed it up or sumin but glad to know it not jsut me

2:50 There are 6 raw chicken so they must have died from suffication damage. Love how you test and come back with more info.

At least all the important mechanics are still in the 1-wide area. So if it was squeezed into a small space before it'd still work as long as the blocks nearby aren't flammable. I also like the idea of just packing a bunch of these together, which would still work

What if you dispensed eggs into a column of cobwebs, exactly as long as it takes for a chicken to become an adult? At the bottom is a slab with an air block above it, where lava is quickly dispensed and removed every 15 seconds or so, ensuring chickens die from burning and items are picked up before the next time lava is dispensed. It would be much larger vertically, but easily made tileable.

It still looks good. If you scale it up (adding these farms next to each other in a row) then the other farms could act as the glass protection on the side. The final farm would only need glass to cap off the ends and a row of glass for the front. So it still scales well. It's just not perfect as one unit.

Yikes, that's some pretty major flashing to not have a warning for. I know that this was just a small update video that you didn't do a ton of editing on, but cutting out flashes - or at least putting warnings before them - really means a lot for folks with photosensitive epilepsy. Thanks, as always, for sharing your testing and designs with the community!

This is the kind of quality content I am here for! Someone points out flaws: Correction video! So great!

I think the problem im having is caused by Paper.. sometimes the baby chicken will glitch out of the hopper and will drop down on the hopper minecart making it move around or drop the minecart on the ground... I, myself haven't really found a way to fix it other than putting blocks around the minecart, problem is the baby chickens will stay there and grow up, and I havent found a way to bring them back to the hopper... Just thought of something.. maybe using lots minecart to entity cram the baby chicken when they spawn on the wrong location, may cause lag tho, Im not so sure

If you want to to be one wide for the sake of tiling it, you can just tiles them without separating the lava and spot where the baby chickens stand and just make it one continuous slot

Hey Ilmango, please add a epilepsy warning for the flashing skybox at 2:33. Could be a big issue without it.

with your lava source version could you tile them together? it would make a larger area for the chickens to grow up in and would b perfectly tilable with some glass on the ends and front

I think its fine as I wouldn't expect it to work if I wasn't close anyway :) I AFK'd overnight and got 5 stacks of cooked chicken. I'm going to see If I can add two more cauldrons of chicken feeding in eggs on the other two sides and see if its output is faster. I guess you could also just dispense the eggs into a holding pen and then be able to trade raw chicken. Keep up the great work.

I built it within a wall anyway so the chickens would just stay there until I get back and then load their pathfinding or if they are forced out they will suffocate obviously not ideal but it produces plenty for me anyway.

Well it isn't fully lossless with multiple mine cards. If there are two eggs dispensed at the same time there is a 1 in 65,538 chance that both eggs produce 4 chickens. If you'd use 8 mine cards instead the chance of lost items would be at 1 in 16,777,216 if 3 eggs would be dispensed just after another.

i can still see this being tilable as 1 block wide if you flip every module 180° and use dispencer and observer part of the farm to stop the lava

I see many people are in agreement, it may not be precisely 1 block wide but it is tileable and therefore the limit of the width of a slice (which is the total length divided by the number of slices) is 1 as the number of slices approaches infinity. With 1 slice, slice width is 3/1, with 10 it's 12/10 or 1.2

Chicken cooker has always been a first build in all my worlds. Usually a 1x1 chamber but sometimes I’ll expand that to let them run around. I really love the designs that can be toggled between cook and breed. JL2579’s being the one I’ve used the most.

I wonder if hoppers were able to be water logged if they’d float up

Smallest farm is dispenser into cauldron with minecart sculk sensor above hopper

I've tried this farm on a multiplayer server and I was wondering why chickens would occasionally escape and disrupt the hopper minecart placement, good to know it's not just my problem. That being said, I also have a standard slab-lava farm on that server and I find that for some reason it's far less efficient than this slightly flawed design. This yields slightly more cooked chicken than feathers while the slab-lava farm produces substantially more feathers than chicken, so I'll still primarily use this one

the closest thing we will ever get to am apology video from Mango

Love the Intro! Keep it up!

A Setupo where u swap for a boat inside a cauldron sitting on 2 layers of snow might work (couldnt find a way so the snow wont melt :/)

Could you use the hitbox of the lava-filled cauldron to contain the baby chickens without burning them if the block they're standing on is the perfect height? Maybe if they stand on a grindstone?

could you tile a bunch of these next to each other to avoid the chickens spilling out on the middle farms?

if you tile the farm , you can use stairs in a u-shape, so long as the ends seal the farm in. meaning this farm is tilable.

hey ilmango you just *might* want to put an epilepsy warning on this video from about 2:32 to 2:38 when you do the 3-hour tickwarp, the fast flashing from the accelerated day/night cycle could be a really bad thing for anyone with epilepsy or similar photosensitive disorders who watches your videos EDIT: and another one for the 3:02 to 3:08 warp

I didnt even know that chickens could fit in such a small space

"bad news : won't be 1 wide" As if we need more than 1 of these farms anywhere at any time xD

What if you used a cauldron to hold the chickens, but put a wall or fence under it so they would be half a block below the lava cauldron? You could then put the collection hopper minecart into the fence or wall.

You could build it in between the walls of a base and the walls would stop the chickens

This could be made safe by placing a kill floor underneath to clear stray chickens and prevent entity overload crash

That title ! that reference to "God is in the details" !

Make a water area to funnel and move all the glitched chickens back up into the cauldron

I have had a lot of luck using an enchanting table underneath a lava cauldron with trapdoors or glass surrounding them. I know you mentioned you couldn't find another block to replace the hopper because of its unique shape. Have you given taller blocks a shot? I have done a few hours test with the enchanting table and it seems to work well.

Put chickens under the sculk sensor in the hopper!

That’s not the only place he is

So flawed, I'm speechless ....

Couldnt you have placed a lava cauldron or lava source below the lever so that the chickens that glitch out will die in the lava. It will ofc mean its not lossless