Free Range Chickens

[Peren]

Everyone knows free range chickens are better than battery chickens. They taste better.
In H&H we keep chickens locked up in a coop and feed them seeds. We can't even feed them earth worms!

I propose a new type of fence: 'Chicken Proof Fence' that these animals cannot pass through.
Using this fence, players could build an enclosure around a coop. Chickens placed in the coop or simply dropped in the enclosure would lay eggs in the coop.

Quality of chickens (and eggs) would increase at a rate affected by:

• the area of the enclosure (up to a cap of 5 tiles per chicken)
• the quality of the soil
• the type(s) of tiles in the enclosure with forest being the best.

Or not? Just an idea.

[Riou1231]

I like this, but maybe at night the chickens go inside the coop to sleep and then go outside when it's day?

[SacreDoom]

Cool idea! I like it. Riou is right, trough. also, i think heath or grasslands would be better for the chickens than forest terrain.

[Darkren]

This would require a way to distinguish chickens from player-owned (tamed) chickens; the reason that cows remain after a server restart is that they're permanent, unlike aurochs. Chickens would need a permanent version that wouldn't get lost on restart/crash, meaning more to save on shutdown and more to load on startup.

[peri]

I think this is a great idea! Also the eggs could be laid randomly within the enclosure and it is up to the farmer to find them.

[SilverWolf]

+1 for this idea

[Sarge]

Surely the only reason why chickens and rabbits can currently run through walls and fences is just that collision events are missing in the code?

[Lordofdragonss]

+ 1