




Modern Chickens Mod brings back the classic resource farming gameplay from the old Chickens and Roost mods. It lets you breed special birds that lay eggs made of ores, fluids, and energy instead of normal items. You can start with basic chickens found in the wild and combine them to unlock higher tiers. The mod gives you machines to automate the whole process, so you never have to mine for basic materials again. It also connects with many other popular mods to add even more resource types to your farm.
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Features:
- Resource Automation: Lets you farm wood, ores, magic items, and energy just by collecting eggs from special birds.
- Smart Breeding: Allows you to crossbreed different types of chickens to unlock brand new species with better drops.
- Machine Support: Adds blocks like roosts, collectors, and incubators to run your farm without extra redstone.
- Players can use an analyzer tool to check each bird’s growth speed, item drop rate, and strength.
- Changes natural world generation to spawn basic resource birds in normal biomes.
- Includes a fluid converter that turns liquid eggs into usable fluids for your tanks and pipes.
- Generates special eggs that store energy, which you can extract to power your machines.
- Reads your game files to automatically create new bird types for ingots and liquids added by other mods.
Commands:
/chickens spawn multiplier <value>: changes how often birds spawn in the world./chickens spawn debug: turns spawn testing messages on or off./chickens spawn summon <chickenNameOrId>: spawns a specific bird right next to you./chickens spawn summon_random [normal|snow|end|hell]: spawns a random bird from a specific biome group./chickens custom list: shows all the custom birds loaded in the game./chickens export breeding: saves a list of all current breeding combinations.
Configuration:
config/chickens.cfg: adjusts egg drop rates, machine speeds, and natural spawn rules.config/chickens_custom.json: lets you create your own custom birds without writing code.
How to Use:
- Walk around the world to find and catch basic Tier 1 chickens, or use colored dyes on thrown eggs to get dyed variants.
- Hold the Analyzer and right-click a bird to check its stats.
- Place two different birds inside the Breeder block to mix them and get higher-tier eggs.
- Put your best birds inside a Roost block.
- Place a Collector nearby to automatically gather all the dropped items and eggs into a chest.
- Use machines like the Avian Fluid Converter to turn liquid eggs into real fluids for your factory.
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Modern Chickens Mod Download Links
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21.11, 1.21.1
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: In MC Java Mods, or directly above on this page.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
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- Downloads as 393362.mcaddon
- Download size: 2.0 MB
- Download link checked 23 Sept 2026 — working
- Mirrored on our own servers — the download does not depend on the original host
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