Announcing the first ever FULLY AUTOMATIC and FULLY RENEWABLE chicken farm!

Version 2.1 is now uploaded and the link is updated!

Please note that even though progress is at 50%, this machine works. It just needs tons of improvement.

Description

This chicken farm was built from the bottom up to prove that it IS possible to get something out of nothing. In this machine, there is no user-suppled input at all.

It works by using four different structures:

- A wither skeleton farm
- A "seed chicken" pit
- A chicken farming pit..
- A hopper sorting mechanism

First, the seed chickens lay eggs. The eggs are automatically collected and passed to the main chicken pit. In the main pit, these eggs are hatched into chicks. Ocelots in the main pit kill the chickens, dropping feathers and meat. The feathers go to a chest on the surface. The meat goes to a furnace filled with coal from the wither skeleton farm (WIP, you currently need to be near the wither skeles [out of range] to make coal). The cooked meat then gets transferred up to a chest for enjoyment. In the event of the ocelots killing all of the chickens, the seed chickens will bring new eggs in, starting the process all over again.

You can also select whether to produce eggs or not. You can also select whether to produce cooked or raw chicken now. (Version 2.1 and above)

Build Notes

This device is impossible very very very hard to build without creative mode. The coal that is produced is supposed to be renewable, so it needs wither skeletons. As wither skeletons do not spawn in the Overworld, I used spawners. It is theoretically possible to create such a device in the Nether, but it would be insanely hard to do as you need lots of resources and lots of luck. You can build it in the overworld, but then you need to manually get coal (breaking the fully automatic piece of the puzzle). 

I am no redstone expert so this will have many problems. I am (probably) aware of them and will fix them ASAP. If you see any bugs and know of a way to fix them, please tell me.

Also, this device is none too compact. It is HUGE. Minification is another thing I will try to do soon (read never). 

Until I edit the spawners, you will need to be relatively near to the spawner to make it work. I have included a platform where wither skeletons cannot spawn so you can go AFK and produce coal.

The bones from the skeletons SHOULD THEORETICALLY filter out, but I'm, not sure if it does. You might have to go down to the furnace and un-jam it. The bones (if they filter out) go into a lava pit for seamless disposal. I have no immediate plans for creating a bone chest.

Not much is labeled, but it's not hard to figure it out. The entire Redstone/Hopper mechanism is (on the other hand) labeled and marked.

Credits

While this device is my own creation, there were some sources/tools/tutorials I used:

WorldEdit (Impossible withot W/E)
Compact Item Sorter Tutorial (YouTube, great video for learing about hoppers!)
Countless mob grinder tutorials
And you for downloading and supporting this! If you like it, please diamond it!



If there is user demand, I will make a scematic of this. But for now, the world save should work. If you're stuck in something, tell me. If you are nowhere near it, also tell me.

Previous Versions:



Version 2.0