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Hey man I built this farm today. Works great and I was able to make some improvements. Added a roof extending over the stairs to not worry about rain. In that roofed section put some quick storage as well as an iron pit fire. The fire at the top level there allows the eggs stuck in the chute to hatch and fall. Couldn't get them to fall down the chute so cage walled off the perimeter and added a door. Added some seeds to the bottom with no fires around for a good meat and feather farm. Best solution I could find for the chute problem
Great video! I built this as a replacement to my buddy's tower on our server bc his stopped working and he was never able to get it back up and running again. I tried to follow this video step for step, but like others I had some issues and made some changes/improvements in my version of the build... 1) My hens seem overly claustrophobic. I wasn't able to use the angled 1x1 pieces that are recommended for centering your seed throwing, but fortunately that is totally optional anyway. I also couldn't build a door and keep it shut or else they'd stop laying eggs, but FOR NOW an iron gate seems to be fine. 2) Very minor upgrade - I added another iron grate partway up the tower for troubleshooting purposes. I had some issues getting things to work initially because I screwed something up and forgot to break a half-wall which was catching eggs halfway down ... lack of visibility made it hard to realize what was happening. Now I can peek inside and take a look around if/when something ever gets funky. 3) This was the big one. The eggs WILL indeed sometimes spawn above/behind the ramp that the hens are on, but the close secondary slide was getting a lot of eggs stuck right below the hens & the system would effectively turn itself off. And if they didn't get stuck on THAT ramp, they sometimes got stuck on the ramp below THAT. I decided that I would build catch ramps as low as I could on the tower, so the LAST thing that happens is that the eggs falls and is redirected to the center where you can pick up all the eggs. This results in a much wider tower overall (since I walled it in to make sure it's still a bat-proof closed system) but it works MUCH better.
Awesome design. I did a modified version by digging down and using core wood instead of using iron bars. Chicks get trapped in the pit. Using the iron to instead set up an obliterator down there to explode all the hens at once using the AoE damage from the lightning
For anyone wondering, this 100% Works still as of 11/05/23 I followed it step by step and t started producing eggs within minutes. Had 10 within 3 minutes after the chickens started to eat. My only side advice is, when you go to push the chickens into the spot he mentions, have a door up or you risk a tricky game of pushing the chicken. Also MAKE SURE you have the feed in the spot indicated or they wont eat. If you miss throwing the feed, itll be in the opening where you collect eggs. Also i had no eggs fall out of where expected. HAIL my fellow Midgardians EDIT: The chickens will not eat unless the feed is in the exact spot, itll pay to memorize where exactly that spot is. Also, i made a walkway underneath the chickens so i can retrieve eggs that get stuck on the roof panel they lay them on. Make sure to reinforce all of the structure with iron if you can.
Made this today, 100% works.. need to play with 1x1 placement at top a bit to trap chickens. Swapped the top wood square with metal eggs roll down unbothered. Good stuff so many chickens 🐥🐥
I have my seeds and flowers right where you have them, but they arent eating. Edit: took them a while but they started eating. Don't know why they werent eating at first. Edit 2: Its working. Hens are laying loads of eggs and are falling where they should be. Thanks for the Egg farm!. Edit 3: The chickens have stopped eating for some reason. I've tried putting the seeds back in the same spots and yeah no dice. Edit 4: So I did as one of the commenters suggested, I removed the angle 1x1's above the chickens to aim the seeds at. As soon as I removed them, the Hens started eating
To fix the eggs getting stuck, simply have the lower roof snap point slightly out further than the top slope roof so that in the middle of the ramp rather than a connection of two roofs, its more of a step down onto the other ramp. works good for me anyways none have gotten stuck since that change. The lower roof is like an inch lower than the other one, you can physically see if from outside that the two roof arnt using the same snap point cuz the lower one sticks out just a bit. Idk how to describe it better i hope that makes sense
I made this chicken farm design recently. For the most part I play solo. It's so effective in fact that after a reinforced chest full of eggs i had to slaughter the hens. Easy enough to produce more eggs. Thanks for the video.
Tried it and it works great. Change I made: I killed the first batch of chickens with smoke, so I hung an iron floor on the outside of the structure four meters below the chickens on the side that doesn't have chickens above it. Put a 45 roof piece over it to keep it from going out. This forced the smoke away from the birds and kept them warm. Removed the additional roof and floor after they hatched.
On one side of the main column below the secondary egg shoot, replace the half-wall and the wall below it with a half wall then a door on top of that. If eggs stop producing due to stuck eggs, which happens frequently, you just have to remove that shoot, open the door, put down a floor to stand inside the column, and you can troubleshoot from underneath the hens....way easier than trying to poke around from above.
I didn't build the same tower as his, but I used the stalls that he has. Worked well. I had to move the food backboard closer a bit because I'm using barley instead of seeds. Eggs do sometimes get caught up on the 45 degree ceiling that the chickens are standing on. I have only that one 45 ceiling. So they are not getting caught up on the seam between the two ceilings. Still works pretty good.. Just need to temporarily remove a 2x2 sometimes to remove eggs.
I started having problems with most chicken farms that the hens started laying the eggs inside their rooms so I will definetly try this one! Great design.
SHORT: Doesnt work anymore LONG: Eggs are no longer able to roll away/down on one piece of 45degree roof everytime. So this and any other farm using roofs as base for chicken to stand on will get clogged within minute/s. In confined space of your example, one egg will stop the breeding completely, and with this design, you are not able to pick up the egg from the roof the chickens are standing on. Few hours after recent patch, i still havent found a workaround for any type of egg farm. Edit: Found a way, they need to be standing in middle of the sloped roof, so the egg travel only half the distance on the roof, and then to the ground. No catchers from roofs underneath, they get clogged much more easilly.
@@ataxias8183 I'll disagree, Eggs will get stuck on Shingles as well... at least if they have to travel the full length. If you use the half length method, it works well. In addition, not having issues with Eggs "falling through" tiles either, so the extra backup ramps aren't necessary anymore either. That being said, with ALL eggs going down a full length of the roof tile, more get caught more often. Constantly having to clean/clear out stuck eggs.
Based on your info I built one with the chickens standing in the middle of 1 45-degree tile, with a second 45-degree tile under it connected to the tower, positioned so the eggs also only rolled half of its length. Seems to work great! I just let it run for an hour and got 96 eggs in the bin and 0 stuck. And it's still pretty simple to close it off and make it look less ratty/protect from bats. Use a 26-degree roof piece to connect the original roof to the back of the ramp...
Just built one of these today and I noticed the occasional egg getting stuck, maybe 1 in 20 or so. I wonder if you replaced the 45 degree roof with 45 degree beams stacked next to each other it would fix the problem? Update: In answer to my own question, they get stuck on the 45 degree beams in the same way. Dammit.
I've been running the half ramp now for 3 days, 4 towers, and they work great(no backup ramps,), with only the VERY occasional stuck egg(1 in a few hundred). Chickens have been kicking out major quantities of eggs. As an aside one of my towers I put a Ramp on the bottom, just above a 2 meter wall(to keep chicks climbing) eggs fall into a room with a heat source, and viola... Chicken farm.
As of 12/17/2023 This design still works. Although, note that eggs will get stuck about every 5-10 times and the 45 degree slanted 1x1 wood walls you place to line the seeds up to feed the chickens blocked the hens line of sight of the seeds for me. I would recommend setting up the slanted 1x1 wood wall to place each stack of seeds and then removing them so the hens have sight of the seeds, that seemed to fix my issue.
Hi. I am relatively new to the game but have made it to Mistlands so far. I built your egg farm design and had great luck the first couple of days and then the chickens decided they wanted to face in the opposite direction. Is there a way to get them back in the correct position to feed and lay? I've put food down but no luck. I even killed them for the meat and started over with eggs. They do the same thing, not sure what to do. I've tried other designs and gotten so frustrated with their mods and flying that I find I can't follow their build. Thank you so much for posting this one which I totally followed step by step.
this farm is very fast and good, Im very impressed by your design but I also have a problem - the eggs sometimes stay under the chicken and after some time it stops the farm from working, because the limit is filled. I can go pick them up from time to time but its kinda annoying and I just wonder if theres a fix for that, I havent thought about any fix so Im going here to look for help.
I haven't tried(just reinstalled and setting up mods), but you could terrace the roof pieces so that they aren't directly connected to each other. Then again, reading the comments just now about the last update, I wonder if free-placing the roof pieces underneath each other would counteract whatever mechanic is stopping the eggs getting down. For a better mental picture, think of stacking roofs directly on top of each other, but moving each one slightly to the side as you go down so that anything that slides down the ramp this forms only has to travel down a quarter or less of that roof piece before falling to the next. This would take more resources, but if it works and they want the aesthetic no biggie.
Have watched only 50 seconds and already love your beautiful compact tower design. I also used towers, but they were much more fat. Was planning to refactor anyway, so very timely video, thanks :D Haha, the next project for you (the one I was planning to do with refactoring, and will do some day): a quad megafarm, so 4 towers are spaced enough to avoid limits, and all send eggs to one collection box via diagonal chutes.
You’d definitely need to make it tall enough to allow items enough speed to travel such horizontal distances. Ramps that are too long often slow eggs down enough to eventually stop them on the ramp. The real challenge here stems from item transportation toward a central location, really. I suspect a really tall tower might be needed to utilize shorter ramps with fall-spaces between them to recuperate lost speed. But if a design can be made to not require excess height to the tower and still prevent egg loss, that’d definitely be an accomplishment.
@@drag0neye7 Thanks for insights! Indeed, I had issues in my fat towers when guiding eggs a bit diagonally. That's why I always use one full 2 meter vertical chute between any diagonal slopes, exactly as you say, for recuperating speed (still does not help sometimes). That's why I try to inspire 04AM's bright mind to solve all the potential issues first and then use his polished solution :D :D :D
Nice design! I’ve also spent hours building chicken breeder designs, though my goal was to design a structure compact enough to allow all Hens to eat from the same singular pile of seeds, which I managed to accomplish. My current “cell” area for the Hens themselves is a 1x2x2 footprint, comprised of two 1x2x1 compartments stacked on top of each other with two hens in each. I found that the top Hens can actually eat from a seed pile placed on the floor behind the wall of the bottom Hen’s section, which allows all 4 Hens to eat from that pile. By nature, this avoids any race conditions created that could happen by chance with 6 Hens. For example, if by chance 5 Hens attempt to lay an egg simultaneously, 1 of those eggs will be denied its spawn due to the creature limit. So the ultimate goal was to create a lossless design, and that ultimately resulted in attempting to optimize 4 Hens. I also agree with you though, the standard cell design can be finicky. But I managed to create a systematic and repeatable way to build the 4 Hen system so that it always works (in addition, the design is fully bat-proof with consistent egg drop locations). Building two of these a little more than 10 meters apart results in a ludicrous amount of eggs without any seeds going to waste. In any case, thank you for the video! It was a well structured build guide.
@@dukesaru It’s honestly not hard to imagine xD. It’s just the bog-standard 2 Hen cell design (i.e. two 1x1-meter floors, surrounded by two 1x1-meter walls and two 1x2-meter walls) but with a second equivalent cell stacked on top. I replace one of the 1x2-meter walls with 2 1-meter wooden beams across the top of each cell, which allow access into the cells without giving enough room for the Chickens to escape. At that point, you just slap a roof on top, a fire nearby, and toss 4 eggs in (2 into each cell). However, I personally build two free placed temporary 2x2-meter walls behind the back walls of the cells just to thicken them, which prevents Chickens from glitching outside the box when they hatch. Those can be removed once the Hens are grown. The back wall is where you can toss the seeds, dead center on a floor. All 4 Hens can eat from it due to the top cell Hens actually being capable of reaching a stack on a 1 meter diagonal line downward. I can post an image or record a quick build of the design if you’d prefer that! You can enclose everything to bat-proof the cells (cap the top with more floors and hide the Hens with an iron wall).
4-10-23 (UPDATE/EDIT) As of this date it doesn't really work, the eggs were always getting stuck on the 45' ramp. Its better to just build a 10x10< short building using core wood for strength a roof and door. Raise four chickens inside and let them lay eggs. If you want them to hatch for the meat place a bonfire near by. No iron needed, no lame stairway winding around the tower, no having to tear the floor apart to grab the eggs that get stuck. You wont get eggs very fast but at least it works.
@Trefor Bastion The hens turned away form me too. They eventually did turn, maybe when you toss the seeds and they land on the edge they'll turn around. I just recently changed my comment on this video. Its too much of a pain to build this and 90% of the time it doesn't work. I did build something around a 10x10 short building with core wood a roof and door. Raised four chickens and let them lay eggs. Place a bonfire near by to hatch the eggs if you want the meat.
Posted this already once yesterday... not sure where it went. Anyway, fantastic design! but alas the eggs getting stuck in the shoot is a problem eventually but not unmanagable. In our game we have several mods including one that adds a floor hatch. One way we can fix it, open the hatch, place a floor tile and go in and grab the stuck eggs. The other, which will work in vanilla is to make an access port one floor below. We also did a more elaborate stair system which lends to this very well. The last Iron Grate is replaced with 2 Wood Iron beams on either side of the portal below. To be able to do the fire to hatch your initial chickens you would need a 3rd iron beam across the top. I'd post some picture links but my post keeps getting deleted...
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So for some reason about half my eggs don't roll down the 45 degree roof peices and sit where the chickens laid them which quickly shuts the farm down.
Great video, very detailed and informative. Great design! I had some difficulty with two chickens who somehow got passed the front barrier and one exploded in the fire, however was able to contain it after. Also I was curious to know if Barley would work, and it does so TY!
I tried it and it works great EXCEPT, they only seem to eat when player is near. So have to go by every now and then and go up the stairs or else they won’t eat their food… :/
OK so I got this up and it works to a point. Did you sometimes have eggs get stuck in the chutes as I sometimes notice the little stars and it's an egg or eggs caught in the chute. Doesn't always happen but sometimes!
Great tutorial, and interesting solution to get eggs :). I had two minor problems with this build that I hope you could address in a follow-up: (1) Eggs sometimes do not roll down the thatched roof ramp and down the chute, and instead just start accumulating on the roofs. Occasionally, I have to remove the 2x2 floor at the top, build a floor 2m down, and then manually collect the eggs sitting on the roofs, then remove the floor and put the floor back at chicken-level. Not the most ideal - maybe a shingled roof would work better? I have not yet tried. (2) I use barley for feed, and your blocking/guiding system works about 25% of the time - usually one hen ends up still hungry, the barley ends up on the ramp, or just ends up too far away. I ended up removing the angled 1x1s and just throw two piles directly on the 1x2 block, one for each hen to feed on. Maybe it's different for seeds? Would be good to note that the system only works for seeds if so (and sorry if I missed it if you already did).
the chickens might be too far apart, if they're right next to each other it shouldnt happen. and i was having the thatched roof problem too, i just destroyed the top wood wall and iron wall so i can pick them up from there
Worked for a short while then they stopped laying eggs. Still eating food tho. edit: The problem was the second slide. I just deleted it and they fall to the ground. I don't use flight mode so not going to bother trying to figure out the "modifications" needed.
I have a little problem. One of the hens slipped under the half floor (to the bottom part of the roof) after few days. Did this happened to anyone else?
grate video thanks for your testing, but my chickens are not eating, the food is very close, closer than you showing the rest is exactly the same, any suggestion?
Same here, just built it exactly as described. 🤷🏻♂️🥺 But it still looks good in my garden! 😉 Update: now it works like a charm! 😊 I had to stand right in the chickens in one corner, aiming in the other corner. Suddently they started eating, and I am making Omelettes already! 👍🏻 Thanks for the great informational video!
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A suggestion. Its real dark in a lot of these videos, shadowsm inside, etc can make it hard to see, It would possibly help if you and other content creators wore the diverger circlet.
I dont have this issue on my screen, everything is very bright for me all the time 😅 I'm afraid its an issue on your monitor's end where it becomes dark because of your brightness settings
Auto eggers ruined again, chickens shat out the eggs directly below them now with the new beta. They stack under the front of the chicken, apparently they puke them now.
I dont know exactly the limit but if youre talking about the farm - yes, because the eggs fall far enough for the chickens to not register them and their limit is not filled. If you just have chickens lay eggs under them they will stop after the limit is filled (I think Its something like 10-15 chickens and eggs). Sometimes the eggs get stuck under them in this farm, you have to pick them up manually from there to make the farm work again.
I want to know how I manage to get 26 hens in my chicken coop (4m x 3m) on a regular basis, then if I kill a few they don't lay anymore all the way down to 10 hens. Then if I kill 4 more of the hens I get back up to 26 lol. I go out to explore & come back to a surprise - or not, depending on how the game feels. The worst part is eggs spawing outside my coop, or worse still the chicks themselves, although I've managed to get good at pushing them back into the main coop. As a rule now I collect the eggs & kill the hens to 6 left each time.
I don't know what's going on.. was working like a charm, just every now and then have to fix the stuck eggs. However now, they get stuck every time and I'm constantly having to go up there to remove stuck eggs =(
My chicken farm no longer produces eggs with the recent patch. I hope you make an update soon.. I know how to fix this, but it will be very time consuming. Hopefully you have a better solution than mine!
will it work to make the "floor" out of iron beams and use the shift-snap control to minimize the open space above the floor down to just one chicken wide - then eggs will fall straight through?
@@Edcognito I fixed it easier than I first thought. You just take wood beams and line the sides where the chickens sit. Unfortunately, this means that you have to start new eggs.
It'll stop working if there's more than 8-10 chickens within 10 meters of each other. They'll just keep eating seeds and won't lay anymore eggs. So it's okay if you collect them every day. But I just gave my chickens in a normal coop 60 seeds, they multiplied until there was 8 of them, and then just ate all the seeds without even laying more eggs.
My chickens won't make eggs if I have the door closed. Do they need to be exposed to open air to start making eggs? Or am I experiencing some weird bug?
Instead of using iron grates or stone pillars (which would require iron to make a stonecutter bench), you could use the hoe to raise a 2x2 patch of ground up to get the fire close enough, then knock it down again with a pickaxe once the eggs hatch. However, since you can't get eggs until defeating Yagluth, this is somewhat of a moot point.
Are the chickens still eating? They need to be happy. Maybe some eggs got stuck, you can double check. If theres +- 10 eggs within 10 meters, they will stop laying eggs
Heres the question i have thou\gh, why do ALL farm buildings have to be 15 stacks tall??? Can these builds not be made lower to the ground, and more easily fit into bases without looking like shitty half built Burj Khalifas, or giant stone boxes??
There is a creature limit that stops things like breading/egg-laying/hatching if there are too many creatures/eggs in close proximity to one another. You could just let them bread/whatever naturally, but you'd have to come butcher/gather much more often and get less resources compared to something that accounts for this mechanic and breads constantly. You could do the same thing as in this video and others, but have half of it underground if you dig down as far as it will let you(8 units/meters, or 4 full walls I think). Another option would be finding a mod that lets you change this mechanic somehow, but I do not know if one exists right now, or if you want to use mods or not.
This isn't a chicken farm, it's an egg farm. The eggs are produced far too quickly and cannot be hatched at that speed. The question would be, how can you hatch the eggs automatically?
I Just built a coop at the base of the structure! I kept the bottom lip smooth(3:18 i left off the bottom lip so they can walk off/out) and I put a fire at the bottom and the chicks are moving nonstop so they walk off part where the eggs land. Its working for me at the moment. I have like 20 chicks, and I did minimal work.
Look through top comments, it's an issue with eggs not being able to roll down the full length of the roof piece, if you set it up so it rolls half way, it's fine
had to turn off my 8 chicken farm after I filled a reinforced chest with eggs, and a reinforced chest with chicken meat. Had 2 sets for eggs and 2 sets for more chickens. I built it 14 meters instead of 12 since the baby chicks hit boxes are huge, and when they stand on each other, they can easily get 2-3 meters high, and if you built 12 meters, they would kill your production. This is cool, but WAY overkill.
@@therizen4253 I just built a small pen for them and only once did they get high enough to shut everything down, but as soon as they grew everything was fine. New patch is threatening to break chicken breeders though. Won't know if they broke mine until tonight when I get home.
Hey, i could not for the life of me get the chickens to eat while the 1x1 walls on the side of the hens were there for the feeding.. took them off, and then they ate, i guess i can just put them on, throw the food and take them off again~ x3
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Do you know why my chicken wont touch any food even in this setup?
Hey man I built this farm today. Works great and I was able to make some improvements. Added a roof extending over the stairs to not worry about rain. In that roofed section put some quick storage as well as an iron pit fire. The fire at the top level there allows the eggs stuck in the chute to hatch and fall. Couldn't get them to fall down the chute so cage walled off the perimeter and added a door. Added some seeds to the bottom with no fires around for a good meat and feather farm. Best solution I could find for the chute problem
Great video! I built this as a replacement to my buddy's tower on our server bc his stopped working and he was never able to get it back up and running again. I tried to follow this video step for step, but like others I had some issues and made some changes/improvements in my version of the build...
1) My hens seem overly claustrophobic. I wasn't able to use the angled 1x1 pieces that are recommended for centering your seed throwing, but fortunately that is totally optional anyway. I also couldn't build a door and keep it shut or else they'd stop laying eggs, but FOR NOW an iron gate seems to be fine.
2) Very minor upgrade - I added another iron grate partway up the tower for troubleshooting purposes. I had some issues getting things to work initially because I screwed something up and forgot to break a half-wall which was catching eggs halfway down ... lack of visibility made it hard to realize what was happening. Now I can peek inside and take a look around if/when something ever gets funky.
3) This was the big one. The eggs WILL indeed sometimes spawn above/behind the ramp that the hens are on, but the close secondary slide was getting a lot of eggs stuck right below the hens & the system would effectively turn itself off. And if they didn't get stuck on THAT ramp, they sometimes got stuck on the ramp below THAT. I decided that I would build catch ramps as low as I could on the tower, so the LAST thing that happens is that the eggs falls and is redirected to the center where you can pick up all the eggs. This results in a much wider tower overall (since I walled it in to make sure it's still a bat-proof closed system) but it works MUCH better.
Thanks! I got the third problem!
Awesome design. I did a modified version by digging down and using core wood instead of using iron bars.
Chicks get trapped in the pit. Using the iron to instead set up an obliterator down there to explode all the hens at once using the AoE damage from the lightning
Saw a design with Obliterator, works like a charm 🤣👌
For anyone wondering, this 100% Works still as of 11/05/23
I followed it step by step and t started producing eggs within minutes. Had 10 within 3 minutes after the chickens started to eat.
My only side advice is, when you go to push the chickens into the spot he mentions, have a door up or you risk a tricky game of pushing the chicken.
Also MAKE SURE you have the feed in the spot indicated or they wont eat. If you miss throwing the feed, itll be in the opening where you collect eggs.
Also i had no eggs fall out of where expected. HAIL my fellow Midgardians
EDIT: The chickens will not eat unless the feed is in the exact spot, itll pay to memorize where exactly that spot is. Also, i made a walkway underneath the chickens so i can retrieve eggs that get stuck on the roof panel they lay them on. Make sure to reinforce all of the structure with iron if you can.
Made this today, 100% works.. need to play with 1x1 placement at top a bit to trap chickens. Swapped the top wood square with metal eggs roll down unbothered. Good stuff so many chickens 🐥🐥
Great work there. It’s so satisfying to actually see it work after much mucking about … lol. Cheers !
I have my seeds and flowers right where you have them, but they arent eating. Edit: took them a while but they started eating. Don't know why they werent eating at first. Edit 2: Its working. Hens are laying loads of eggs and are falling where they should be. Thanks for the Egg farm!. Edit 3: The chickens have stopped eating for some reason. I've tried putting the seeds back in the same spots and yeah no dice. Edit 4: So I did as one of the commenters suggested, I removed the angle 1x1's above the chickens to aim the seeds at. As soon as I removed them, the Hens started eating
To fix the eggs getting stuck, simply have the lower roof snap point slightly out further than the top slope roof so that in the middle of the ramp rather than a connection of two roofs, its more of a step down onto the other ramp. works good for me anyways none have gotten stuck since that change. The lower roof is like an inch lower than the other one, you can physically see if from outside that the two roof arnt using the same snap point cuz the lower one sticks out just a bit. Idk how to describe it better i hope that makes sense
I made this chicken farm design recently. For the most part I play solo. It's so effective in fact that after a reinforced chest full of eggs i had to slaughter the hens. Easy enough to produce more eggs. Thanks for the video.
Tried it and it works great. Change I made:
I killed the first batch of chickens with smoke, so I hung an iron floor on the outside of the structure four meters below the chickens on the side that doesn't have chickens above it. Put a 45 roof piece over it to keep it from going out. This forced the smoke away from the birds and kept them warm. Removed the additional roof and floor after they hatched.
Epic! Except for the first part xD
Helped alot! skipped a whole load of dumb stuff knowing how the eggs fall and the hole not breeding thing. Thank you!
On one side of the main column below the secondary egg shoot, replace the half-wall and the wall below it with a half wall then a door on top of that. If eggs stop producing due to stuck eggs, which happens frequently, you just have to remove that shoot, open the door, put down a floor to stand inside the column, and you can troubleshoot from underneath the hens....way easier than trying to poke around from above.
The roof piece, what I did is snap the top one and free place the bottom one having the top overlap. Works for forges and kilns
probably more humane than most chicken farms irl
Probably, it was a fun and sad comment at the same time😄
I didn't build the same tower as his, but I used the stalls that he has. Worked well. I had to move the food backboard closer a bit because I'm using barley instead of seeds.
Eggs do sometimes get caught up on the 45 degree ceiling that the chickens are standing on. I have only that one 45 ceiling. So they are not getting caught up on the seam between the two ceilings. Still works pretty good.. Just need to temporarily remove a 2x2 sometimes to remove eggs.
How much is a bit closer because I am also using Barley and whatever I do i just cant get them to eat it in those stalls.
I started having problems with most chicken farms that the hens started laying the eggs inside their rooms so I will definetly try this one! Great design.
Thanks, glad you like it!
SHORT: Doesnt work anymore
LONG: Eggs are no longer able to roll away/down on one piece of 45degree roof everytime. So this and any other farm using roofs as base for chicken to stand on will get clogged within minute/s. In confined space of your example, one egg will stop the breeding completely, and with this design, you are not able to pick up the egg from the roof the chickens are standing on.
Few hours after recent patch, i still havent found a workaround for any type of egg farm.
Edit: Found a way, they need to be standing in middle of the sloped roof, so the egg travel only half the distance on the roof, and then to the ground. No catchers from roofs underneath, they get clogged much more easilly.
i used shingle roof they roll fine on them
@@ataxias8183 I'll disagree, Eggs will get stuck on Shingles as well... at least if they have to travel the full length. If you use the half length method, it works well. In addition, not having issues with Eggs "falling through" tiles either, so the extra backup ramps aren't necessary anymore either. That being said, with ALL eggs going down a full length of the roof tile, more get caught more often. Constantly having to clean/clear out stuck eggs.
Based on your info I built one with the chickens standing in the middle of 1 45-degree tile, with a second 45-degree tile under it connected to the tower, positioned so the eggs also only rolled half of its length.
Seems to work great! I just let it run for an hour and got 96 eggs in the bin and 0 stuck.
And it's still pretty simple to close it off and make it look less ratty/protect from bats. Use a 26-degree roof piece to connect the original roof to the back of the ramp...
Just built one of these today and I noticed the occasional egg getting stuck, maybe 1 in 20 or so. I wonder if you replaced the 45 degree roof with 45 degree beams stacked next to each other it would fix the problem?
Update: In answer to my own question, they get stuck on the 45 degree beams in the same way. Dammit.
I've been running the half ramp now for 3 days, 4 towers, and they work great(no backup ramps,), with only the VERY occasional stuck egg(1 in a few hundred). Chickens have been kicking out major quantities of eggs. As an aside one of my towers I put a Ramp on the bottom, just above a 2 meter wall(to keep chicks climbing) eggs fall into a room with a heat source, and viola... Chicken farm.
As of 12/17/2023 This design still works. Although, note that eggs will get stuck about every 5-10 times and the 45 degree slanted 1x1 wood walls you place to line the seeds up to feed the chickens blocked the hens line of sight of the seeds for me. I would recommend setting up the slanted 1x1 wood wall to place each stack of seeds and then removing them so the hens have sight of the seeds, that seemed to fix my issue.
Bug issue. Changing difficulty to very hard makes ALL creatures larger so animal farms like this no longer work lol.
Hi. I am relatively new to the game but have made it to Mistlands so far. I built your egg farm design and had great luck the first couple of days and then the chickens decided they wanted to face in the opposite direction. Is there a way to get them back in the correct position to feed and lay? I've put food down but no luck. I even killed them for the meat and started over with eggs. They do the same thing, not sure what to do. I've tried other designs and gotten so frustrated with their mods and flying that I find I can't follow their build. Thank you so much for posting this one which I totally followed step by step.
remove the 1x1 wood planks that you use to guide the seeds into place, it seems to block their line of sight
Still works, thanks champ!
Glad you like it! Happy to help!
this farm is very fast and good, Im very impressed by your design but I also have a problem - the eggs sometimes stay under the chicken and after some time it stops the farm from working, because the limit is filled. I can go pick them up from time to time but its kinda annoying and I just wonder if theres a fix for that, I havent thought about any fix so Im going here to look for help.
I haven't tried(just reinstalled and setting up mods), but you could terrace the roof pieces so that they aren't directly connected to each other.
Then again, reading the comments just now about the last update, I wonder if free-placing the roof pieces underneath each other would counteract whatever mechanic is stopping the eggs getting down. For a better mental picture, think of stacking roofs directly on top of each other, but moving each one slightly to the side as you go down so that anything that slides down the ramp this forms only has to travel down a quarter or less of that roof piece before falling to the next.
This would take more resources, but if it works and they want the aesthetic no biggie.
Have watched only 50 seconds and already love your beautiful compact tower design. I also used towers, but they were much more fat.
Was planning to refactor anyway, so very timely video, thanks :D
Haha, the next project for you (the one I was planning to do with refactoring, and will do some day): a quad megafarm, so 4 towers are spaced enough to avoid limits, and all send eggs to one collection box via diagonal chutes.
Sounds like a great challenge ^^ I once made one, but didn't connect them. Maybe it is time for a new quest 😎👌
You’d definitely need to make it tall enough to allow items enough speed to travel such horizontal distances. Ramps that are too long often slow eggs down enough to eventually stop them on the ramp. The real challenge here stems from item transportation toward a central location, really. I suspect a really tall tower might be needed to utilize shorter ramps with fall-spaces between them to recuperate lost speed. But if a design can be made to not require excess height to the tower and still prevent egg loss, that’d definitely be an accomplishment.
@@drag0neye7 Thanks for insights! Indeed, I had issues in my fat towers when guiding eggs a bit diagonally. That's why I always use one full 2 meter vertical chute between any diagonal slopes, exactly as you say, for recuperating speed (still does not help sometimes).
That's why I try to inspire 04AM's bright mind to solve all the potential issues first and then use his polished solution :D :D :D
You can use a standing brazier (3 fenris claw / 5 bronze / coal) instead of a campfire, and not have to use iron gates and keep the floor.
Exactly what I needed. Thanks!
Did you manage to make it work? In mine they don't eat the seeds...
@@tothgergo484 yeah. They eat the seeds no problem. An egg or two does occasionally get stuck sometimes, though
more possible modifications: campfires walled of in the corners of the stone platform to hatch the eggs. crazy rates!
Nice design! I’ve also spent hours building chicken breeder designs, though my goal was to design a structure compact enough to allow all Hens to eat from the same singular pile of seeds, which I managed to accomplish. My current “cell” area for the Hens themselves is a 1x2x2 footprint, comprised of two 1x2x1 compartments stacked on top of each other with two hens in each. I found that the top Hens can actually eat from a seed pile placed on the floor behind the wall of the bottom Hen’s section, which allows all 4 Hens to eat from that pile.
By nature, this avoids any race conditions created that could happen by chance with 6 Hens. For example, if by chance 5 Hens attempt to lay an egg simultaneously, 1 of those eggs will be denied its spawn due to the creature limit. So the ultimate goal was to create a lossless design, and that ultimately resulted in attempting to optimize 4 Hens.
I also agree with you though, the standard cell design can be finicky. But I managed to create a systematic and repeatable way to build the 4 Hen system so that it always works (in addition, the design is fully bat-proof with consistent egg drop locations). Building two of these a little more than 10 meters apart results in a ludicrous amount of eggs without any seeds going to waste.
In any case, thank you for the video! It was a well structured build guide.
Would love to see ur design also!
@@dukesaru It’s honestly not hard to imagine xD. It’s just the bog-standard 2 Hen cell design (i.e. two 1x1-meter floors, surrounded by two 1x1-meter walls and two 1x2-meter walls) but with a second equivalent cell stacked on top. I replace one of the 1x2-meter walls with 2 1-meter wooden beams across the top of each cell, which allow access into the cells without giving enough room for the Chickens to escape. At that point, you just slap a roof on top, a fire nearby, and toss 4 eggs in (2 into each cell). However, I personally build two free placed temporary 2x2-meter walls behind the back walls of the cells just to thicken them, which prevents Chickens from glitching outside the box when they hatch. Those can be removed once the Hens are grown.
The back wall is where you can toss the seeds, dead center on a floor. All 4 Hens can eat from it due to the top cell Hens actually being capable of reaching a stack on a 1 meter diagonal line downward.
I can post an image or record a quick build of the design if you’d prefer that!
You can enclose everything to bat-proof the cells (cap the top with more floors and hide the Hens with an iron wall).
4-10-23 (UPDATE/EDIT) As of this date it doesn't really work, the eggs were always getting stuck on the 45' ramp. Its better to just build a 10x10< short building using core wood for strength a roof and door. Raise four chickens inside and let them lay eggs. If you want them to hatch for the meat place a bonfire near by. No iron needed, no lame stairway winding around the tower, no having to tear the floor apart to grab the eggs that get stuck. You wont get eggs very fast but at least it works.
@Trefor Bastion The hens turned away form me too. They eventually did turn, maybe when you toss the seeds and they land on the edge they'll turn around. I just recently changed my comment on this video. Its too much of a pain to build this and 90% of the time it doesn't work. I did build something around a 10x10 short building with core wood a roof and door. Raised four chickens and let them lay eggs. Place a bonfire near by to hatch the eggs if you want the meat.
8:10 - or hold shift to ignore snap points.
For some reason when you mentioned how the eggs wont crack upon falling out the side ,made me lol
I guess, it did crack you up xD
@@04AMofficial 😂
Posted this already once yesterday... not sure where it went. Anyway, fantastic design! but alas the eggs getting stuck in the shoot is a problem eventually but not unmanagable. In our game we have several mods including one that adds a floor hatch. One way we can fix it, open the hatch, place a floor tile and go in and grab the stuck eggs. The other, which will work in vanilla is to make an access port one floor below. We also did a more elaborate stair system which lends to this very well. The last Iron Grate is replaced with 2 Wood Iron beams on either side of the portal below. To be able to do the fire to hatch your initial chickens you would need a 3rd iron beam across the top.
I'd post some picture links but my post keeps getting deleted...
Links always get deleted on TH-cam for spam and safety reasons. Thanks for the feedback tho, youre always welcome to share them on our Discord in the dedicated Valheim chat!
my chickens are not eating the food when they are standing right on it, when it's in front of them or anywhere near
So for some reason about half my eggs don't roll down the 45 degree roof peices and sit where the chickens laid them which quickly shuts the farm down.
Made the build and was working fine, but now the eggs gets stuck on the 45 angle. Is there a way to fix this?
Is this still working?
I play on xbox, whitout cheats.
Edit: just building and it works.
But do you need to Be close in orde they drop eggs?
Not sure if they changed something about the chickens/eggs again but I built this recently and the eggs just keep getting stuck on the thatch roof.
Great video, very detailed and informative. Great design! I had some difficulty with two chickens who somehow got passed the front barrier and one exploded in the fire, however was able to contain it after. Also I was curious to know if Barley would work, and it does so TY!
barley will work, barley flour will not
I tried it and it works great EXCEPT, they only seem to eat when player is near. So have to go by every now and then and go up the stairs or else they won’t eat their food… :/
All farms work like that unfortunately
best Chicken Farm on youtube
большое спасибо за проделанную работу. главное что работает, ну и выглядит тоже неплохо )
I don't know Russian but just translated it, my pleasure! Glad you liked it ^^
Does this still work after the Ashlands update? Thanks
do you have to be close to that tower for the hens to lay eggs? or u can built this far away from ure base and just tp tp feed and collect ?
animals only eat and breed when there is a player in the vicinity.
OK so I got this up and it works to a point. Did you sometimes have eggs get stuck in the chutes as I sometimes notice the little stars and it's an egg or eggs caught in the chute. Doesn't always happen but sometimes!
I finished the original design and I should probably stop there. When doing the modif you suggested, I fall and die... like I always do :D
I heard you got it to work! Infinite Chickens! GG
Great tutorial, and interesting solution to get eggs :). I had two minor problems with this build that I hope you could address in a follow-up:
(1) Eggs sometimes do not roll down the thatched roof ramp and down the chute, and instead just start accumulating on the roofs. Occasionally, I have to remove the 2x2 floor at the top, build a floor 2m down, and then manually collect the eggs sitting on the roofs, then remove the floor and put the floor back at chicken-level. Not the most ideal - maybe a shingled roof would work better? I have not yet tried.
(2) I use barley for feed, and your blocking/guiding system works about 25% of the time - usually one hen ends up still hungry, the barley ends up on the ramp, or just ends up too far away. I ended up removing the angled 1x1s and just throw two piles directly on the 1x2 block, one for each hen to feed on. Maybe it's different for seeds? Would be good to note that the system only works for seeds if so (and sorry if I missed it if you already did).
the chickens might be too far apart, if they're right next to each other it shouldnt happen. and i was having the thatched roof problem too, i just destroyed the top wood wall and iron wall so i can pick them up from there
As soon as I removed the angle 1x1's above the hens to feed them, they started eating. Don't know why this fixed it, but nice pick up
Worked for a short while then they stopped laying eggs. Still eating food tho.
edit: The problem was the second slide. I just deleted it and they fall to the ground. I don't use flight mode so not going to bother trying to figure out the "modifications" needed.
The slides are indeed the problem, think they are no longer necessary with the latest Public Test update
I have a little problem. One of the hens slipped under the half floor (to the bottom part of the roof) after few days. Did this happened to anyone else?
I had something funny like that happen. My base is in the Plains so i suspect a deathsquito frightened them.
Thanks! I got em abundant chickens now!
Glad I was able to help 😎👌
instead of trowing the eggs. use item stands then place the eggs on it and remove the stand after ;)
grate video thanks for your testing, but my chickens are not eating, the food is very close, closer than you showing the rest is exactly the same, any suggestion?
Doesn't work anymore. Chickens won't eat while standing on the roof piece.
Thx for writing. I was about to build it now
Same here, just built it exactly as described. 🤷🏻♂️🥺
But it still looks good in my garden! 😉
Update: now it works like a charm! 😊
I had to stand right in the chickens in one corner, aiming in the other corner. Suddently they started eating, and I am making Omelettes already! 👍🏻 Thanks for the great informational video!
I'd say use the same concept, but make them hit the ground around and have fires on the outside so they hatch, full breeder :)
And use an Obliterator too, turn them into Fried Chicken instantly 🤣👌
I discovered by accident that chickens will eat dandelions. Save your seeds!
You could do that, but one might find Dandelonians more difficult to get :P Great tip though!
When we started our survival server, one of my buddies made a policy to save absolutely everything.
EVERYTHING. Including dandelions. 🙄 At times it could be tedious.
Now, After 9000+ days, I’m in no danger of running out anytime soon. 😁
@@04AMofficial If you have a greydwarf farm you get tons of dandelions.
For some reason the hens are not eating the food I throw down for them. I have tried just about every seed but they still wont eat. Any suggestions?
Edit: Just tried barley and they ate it finally
A suggestion. Its real dark in a lot of these videos, shadowsm inside, etc can make it hard to see, It would possibly help if you and other content creators wore the diverger circlet.
I dont have this issue on my screen, everything is very bright for me all the time 😅 I'm afraid its an issue on your monitor's end where it becomes dark because of your brightness settings
@@04AMofficial I have this same problem when watching on my phone with the brightness turned all the way up.
Auto eggers ruined again, chickens shat out the eggs directly below them now with the new beta. They stack under the front of the chicken, apparently they puke them now.
Once you have the chickens, and take away the fire will they still lat eggs as long as they are fed?
I dont know exactly the limit but if youre talking about the farm - yes, because the eggs fall far enough for the chickens to not register them and their limit is not filled. If you just have chickens lay eggs under them they will stop after the limit is filled (I think Its something like 10-15 chickens and eggs). Sometimes the eggs get stuck under them in this farm, you have to pick them up manually from there to make the farm work again.
I want to know how I manage to get 26 hens in my chicken coop (4m x 3m) on a regular basis, then if I kill a few they don't lay anymore all the way down to 10 hens. Then if I kill 4 more of the hens I get back up to 26 lol. I go out to explore & come back to a surprise - or not, depending on how the game feels. The worst part is eggs spawing outside my coop, or worse still the chicks themselves, although I've managed to get good at pushing them back into the main coop. As a rule now I collect the eggs & kill the hens to 6 left each time.
I don't know what's going on.. was working like a charm, just every now and then have to fix the stuck eggs. However now, they get stuck every time and I'm constantly having to go up there to remove stuck eggs =(
My chicken farm no longer produces eggs with the recent patch. I hope you make an update soon.. I know how to fix this, but it will be very time consuming. Hopefully you have a better solution than mine!
will it work to make the "floor" out of iron beams and use the shift-snap control to minimize the open space above the floor down to just one chicken wide - then eggs will fall straight through?
@@Edcognito I fixed it easier than I first thought. You just take wood beams and line the sides where the chickens sit. Unfortunately, this means that you have to start new eggs.
Why do you need to build high?
I built a chicken farm one wall height and it still works
It'll stop working if there's more than 8-10 chickens within 10 meters of each other. They'll just keep eating seeds and won't lay anymore eggs. So it's okay if you collect them every day. But I just gave my chickens in a normal coop 60 seeds, they multiplied until there was 8 of them, and then just ate all the seeds without even laying more eggs.
Is there any reason you have to build that high ?
My chickens won't make eggs if I have the door closed. Do they need to be exposed to open air to start making eggs? Or am I experiencing some weird bug?
The hens can lay eggs with the door closed. The hens won't lay eggs when you are not in the vicinity. Or something in your base is conflicting.
does this still work after hildir request update?
My chickens are facing toward the back. How can I make them face forward ???
Ask them nicely 😁
Normally they will automatically if the food is close enough
what about core wood instead of iron? for a more early game farm.
You'll have a problem getting that campfire up there but its possible if you build a loooooong pillar of stone 1x2 high pillars on top of each other
Instead of using iron grates or stone pillars (which would require iron to make a stonecutter bench), you could use the hoe to raise a 2x2 patch of ground up to get the fire close enough, then knock it down again with a pickaxe once the eggs hatch. However, since you can't get eggs until defeating Yagluth, this is somewhat of a moot point.
they don't eat, i placed everything just like you but doesn't work :\
B I had 50 eggs. After that they didn't eat anymore and therefore didn't laid any eggs
mine doesn't work they do eat food just not breed eggs
I think the latest patch made this stop working :(
it does work but it needs reset quite often at lest in my experience
Doesnt work. Eggs stuck on the roofs all the time. Even on the Tar Roofs.
I built it exactly like the video, got 8 eggs, and then now no eggs are falling. Any ideas?
Are the chickens still eating? They need to be happy. Maybe some eggs got stuck, you can double check. If theres +- 10 eggs within 10 meters, they will stop laying eggs
Anyone using thatched roofs;....... use sloped marble pieces. I have 3 on top of each other and they never get stuck. Hoping you can go higher....
😂 I love how you build in fly mode with unrestricted building I'm on xbox and we ain't got nothing like this my farms look ghetto
This is how I can show a bit better how the build is done ^^
No longer works
Does this still work?
Drink everytime he says "lets say"
Oh yes something went wrong that day 🤣👌
its not working anymore
Heres the question i have thou\gh, why do ALL farm buildings have to be 15 stacks tall??? Can these builds not be made lower to the ground, and more easily fit into bases without looking like shitty half built Burj Khalifas, or giant stone boxes??
There is a creature limit that stops things like breading/egg-laying/hatching if there are too many creatures/eggs in close proximity to one another. You could just let them bread/whatever naturally, but you'd have to come butcher/gather much more often and get less resources compared to something that accounts for this mechanic and breads constantly.
You could do the same thing as in this video and others, but have half of it underground if you dig down as far as it will let you(8 units/meters, or 4 full walls I think).
Another option would be finding a mod that lets you change this mechanic somehow, but I do not know if one exists right now, or if you want to use mods or not.
This isn't a chicken farm, it's an egg farm. The eggs are produced far too quickly and cannot be hatched at that speed.
The question would be, how can you hatch the eggs automatically?
I Just built a coop at the base of the structure! I kept the bottom lip smooth(3:18 i left off the bottom lip so they can walk off/out) and I put a fire at the bottom and the chicks are moving nonstop so they walk off part where the eggs land. Its working for me at the moment. I have like 20 chicks, and I did minimal work.
It works
My chickens are not eating food
eggs are not rolling down :(
Look through top comments, it's an issue with eggs not being able to roll down the full length of the roof piece, if you set it up so it rolls half way, it's fine
i have a farm with 8 chickens and the amount of eggs is absolutely crazy
This one could be turned into a 8 Chicken farm pretty easily, but I decided to give it a bit of accessibility at the front. 8 would be great though!
had to turn off my 8 chicken farm after I filled a reinforced chest with eggs, and a reinforced chest with chicken meat. Had 2 sets for eggs and 2 sets for more chickens. I built it 14 meters instead of 12 since the baby chicks hit boxes are huge, and when they stand on each other, they can easily get 2-3 meters high, and if you built 12 meters, they would kill your production. This is cool, but WAY overkill.
@@Draco.Invictus i built mine 12m high above an 8m deep pit because the chicks kept jumping on eachother and getting out of smaller pits
@@therizen4253 I just built a small pen for them and only once did they get high enough to shut everything down, but as soon as they grew everything was fine. New patch is threatening to break chicken breeders though. Won't know if they broke mine until tonight when I get home.
Hey, i could not for the life of me get the chickens to eat while the 1x1 walls on the side of the hens were there for the feeding.. took them off, and then they ate, i guess i can just put them on, throw the food and take them off again~ x3
worked, tyvm
Replicated piece for piece. It doesn't work, half the eggs get stuck in the slide.
You didn,t watch the end 😅
you say let's say a lot
I just decommand everything
So, an auto chicken farm, that doesn't actually WORK?