The technique of gathering a significant quantity of chicken eggs is known as egg farming. With the addition of egg-dispensing and chicken-killing technologies, a chicken farm that produces additional end products like raw/cooked chicken and feathers may be built from an automated source of eggs.

In Minecraft, the chicken is the most farmable animal. It does not require food to develop or breed, unlike cows and sheep. Everything happens automatically, regardless of where the chicken is housed. Prepared chicken is also almost as good as other cooked meats for satisfying hunger.

How to Get an Egg from a Chicken in Minecraft

Catching or hatching a chicken

In general, you should start by making a pen to hold them in. Single-height wooden fences (or a small cave) can suffice, but in any case, a “entrance lock” should be included: a gated area with gates going both to the pen and to the outside. This will help prevent escapees since the hens’ pathfinding will never see an escape route to the outdoors if one of the gates is constantly closed.

The most common method of capturing chickens is to hold any type of seed, which will cause any surrounding chickens to follow you over the terrain and into the pen. If you already have slime balls and string, you may drag them along with leads; this will keep them from going too far. Each bird will require a different lead. Chickens may even be taken over water if handled carefully, since they will follow your boat.

Another approach is to gather eggs and toss them into your sealed enclosure. When you throw an Egg, you only have a 1 in 8 chance of producing a chicken, so strive to accumulate at least one stack. It will take some time for them to mature into adults, but once you have at least one adult chicken, it will begin to lay eggs, and after you have two or more adults, you may breed them with any seeds. Each mature chicken will lay 8 eggs each hour on average.

When hatching a large number of chickens, a decent rule of thumb is that the chicks will require well over an hour in actual time to replace the eggs that were used to hatch them. This time does not include nights spent in bed, and the chunk(s) containing the chicken must stay loaded (that is, near a player or in the spawn chunks). This also implies you’ve collected all of the eggs; keep in mind that loose things such as eggs despawn after 5 minutes.

Setting up the farm

You can farm chicken eggs the traditional manner, which entails constantly running around collecting chicken eggs.

Alternatively, you may establish an egg-channeling farm by following one of the techniques listed below. Most of them will do the same thing with chicken flesh, feathers, and even orbs.

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This is a simple egg farm made out of 8 blocks, a hopper, and a chest that was extremely efficient in versions previous to 1.11, allowing hundreds of hens to be housed in a 1×1 space. The value has decreased to 24 after the introduction of the maxEntityCramming gamerule in Java Edition 1.11. Before deciding on this farm option, double-check your server’s cramming settings (this is not a problem on bedrock edition). You may also plant a single vines block in the space occupied by the hens to protect them from entity crowding damage.

The top aperture can be utilised as either a one-way entry or simply shut. To get the system going, lure a chicken in or throw eggs at the inner walls.

Building up

This system might be expanded to include a bigger living area, with all hoppers eventually leading to a chest. When the system becomes vulnerable to mob spawns, slabs can be placed over hoppers to prevent monsters from spawning. (Hoppers may retrieve eggs that have been fallen through a slab.) In the next version, water flow is employed instead of the initial collection since employing several hoppers becomes too costly.

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The hopper egg farm is a straightforward device that does not need nether quartz: Chickens are kept confined by water on the main floor as they mature and lay eggs, which wash into a hopper and then return to the system’s supply chest. After a harvest, this chest feeds an automated hatcher, which may replenish the main floor. A despawn timer controls the hatcher, preventing the system from generating chicks indefinitely (or at least until the server crashes).

On the surface, this farm will be encircled by a 11*11 fence or wall, with entrances or gates in the middle of each side. In the middle, there’s a pillar and (at least) a partial roof, as well as a 3-block-deep “egg chamber.” Other farm layouts can benefit from the egg chamber and its pillar. You’ll also need a tunnel going to the egg room, with enough area to reach the chest and other retrieval devices (such as meat and feathers), as well as the switches that enable or disable the hatcher. Because the chickens are mostly confined by water, the farm is partially immune to difficulties with birds wandering through walls and fences. The gold and stone-brick bricks both symbolise “any whole block,” however gold blocks must be opaque, whereas stone-brick blocks can be opaque, transparent, or even air in some situations.

Materials Required

Three droppers, a dispenser, three hoppers, a chest, a pair of switches, two redstone repeaters, two redstone torches, and six redstone dust make up the foundation machinery. It will take at least 6 smooth stone, 15 iron, 29 cobblestone, 10 “logs” of wood (with some fragments left behind), 18 redstone dust, and 3 thread to make such equipment from scratch. 7 solid opaque blocks plus many that can be opaque or translucent are also required. The chest may be doubled (another 2 wood), and you may want another chest for general storage elsewhere in the egg chamber.

The room’s 9th floor will require 78 extra blocks or slabs (if the optional second chest is used, then at least the space above it needs to be a slab). You could wish to install a trapdoor between the chicken floor and the egg chamber; the water will not only not flow through the trapdoor, but it will also keep birds from falling through.

A slab and two more blocks will form the pillar, one of which should be a jack-o-lantern or other light source. Even a block with four torches will suffice, but there must be some light to prevent the chicks from drowning at the margins.

To intercept eggs, the roof will require at least ten solid blocks (33 over the dispenser, and one over the pillar). Slabs can be used to fill in the rest of the ceiling.

Solid blocks, at least two high, should be used for the walls (the ceiling layer will usually be a third) This will cost around 80 stone and/or glass blocks (or 20 wood “logs” converted to planks). Doors should be positioned in the centre of any wall, or on all four. Given the creepers, it’s far safer to use blast resistant blocks for at least the floor and bottom row of the wall: Any stone, such as brick or hardened clay, or even obsidian, will suffice.If it does get blasted, this will reduce the mess and make cleanup much easier. The use of glass blocks in the top row allows you to see in and out of the farm, which helps you avoid creeper blasting in the first place. You can even surround it with other barriers, like as a moat, to keep creepers from causing damage to the blocks even if they explode.

If you’ve gone to the Nether, a comparator and redstone light can be added, along with some dust and possibly a repeater to link them. This allows you to set up a handy display outside the building to indicate when the egger has enough eggs for a full run.

Building it

It’s best to construct the egg chamber from above after the walls are in place. Make sure the input hopper is in the centre of the floor and that the egg chamber is well lit. Consider where you want the access tunnel to go while orienting the room. An access corridor at the lower left of the diagram gives access to all of the containers and both switches, as depicted.

The hatcher is made up of two droppers pointing upwards and a dispenser on top of them. These are powered by a 3-clock and fed by hoppers, with the chest offering extra storage. From the block with the lever southwards and downwards, the clock is on the right edge of the figure. That lever allows you to entirely deactivate the hatcher—place it and switch it on as soon as the clock is finished to avoid clicking noises while you finish the rest.

A dropper pointing down over the pressure plate serves as the despawn timer (top edge of figure). It operates by placing an object on the pressure plate, which disables the torch and activates the clock until the item despawns. The block in front of the pressure plate helps prevent you from picking up the object as you pass by, but you can still pick it up and stop the timer if you get close enough. You may turn the lever off after you’ve created and linked the despawn timer, since the inactive timer will keep the clock deactivated.Any disposable object, such as extra seeds or eggs, can be placed into the despawn timer’s dropper. The block in front of the pressure plate is only to make it a bit more difficult to pick up the object by accident—the glass will show you if the item is on target or has slipped past the pressure plate.

Continue with the centre pillar once the egg chamber has been created and covered over: Place a top slab above the hopper, then two blocks above that. Make the lower one into a jack-o-lantern for easy lighting. Extend a roof out over the dispenser and at least one square surrounding it in every direction from the top block of the pillar. To prevent monster spawns, place a torch on the roof. It’s worth noting that if you utilise slabs, you can end up with chicks on the roof. They’ll just fall into the water if you only have the bare minimum roof, but if you wish to extend the roof to the edges, use non-transparent blocks to prevent escapees.

To allow for the dispenser’s varied aim, the dispenser is purposefully isolated from the collection hopper/central pillar. The slab (or other transparent block) between them is only required if the optional chest is included; otherwise, an opaque block will prevent the chest from being opened. You may now put the optional chest without linking it to the main chest in version 1.14. It will continue to feed into the egger, but it may be helpful for storing excess eggs, especially if you are ready to harvest and need the main chest for feathers and meat.

Finally, fill buckets with water and position them in each corner; the water will flow to the central pillar. Simply fill your chest with eggs and/or hens, then press the button. Then wait until you have enough eggs for a full run to begin (at least a dozen stacks in the chest). (If you’re starting with a small number of chickens and/or eggs, a brief run with only a few stacks will help you fill the system faster.) If you have a lot of eggs, you can either disable the despawn timer (add a lever on the block for its output torch) or do a second run right after the first one ends.

You may add a few of top slabs on level one, adjacent to the hoppers, if you have glowstone and nether quartz. A comparator looking out from the main chest and something to produce an 8-bit comparison signal should be placed atop these. This translates to 13 chest stacks, which is plenty for a full run. It will enough if three slices of cake are consumed. The comparator may then be connected to a redstone lamp through a redstone route. If you embed the lamp in the ground near the entrance, you can reach it with 8 or less dust; if you go any farther, you’ll need a repeater.

Steps to Get an Egg from a Chicken

1. Discover a Chicken

In Minecraft, you can collect eggs from a chicken if you find one.

2. Watch the Chicken Lay an Egg

In the game, a chicken will lay an egg every 5-10 minutes. When you pause the game, the chicken will pause as well, and no egg will materialise. Before the chicken lays the egg, you must keep the game active for 5-10 minutes.

The chicken will make a distinct “egg-laying” noise when it lays the egg, and an egg should appear next to the fowl.

3. Obtain the Egg

Make sure you grab the egg immediately away since it will vanish after a few moments.