Feathers & Golden Eggs
by notblue
Feathers & Golden Eggs changes what chickens drop, so a chicken can shed feathers and lay gold nuggets alongside its eggs.
What it does
Once added to a world, chickens lay an egg with a 75 percent chance per laying cycle and shed a feather with a 10 percent chance, and a gold nugget comes from a small share of those cycles. The drops are defined through a newer vanilla loot system, so the mod fits the game without changing how chickens behave.
The mod is a server-required, client-optional mod: the server must run it so the drops happen, while players may add it to their own game. It is published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, plus a Data pack option, with files for 1.21.2 – 26.3 and 1.5+mod for 26.3 as the latest build.
The code is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 license, so the mod is not open source. Modified copies may be shared under the same license, and the pack may not be used to make money.
Key features
Feather drops
Chickens can shed a feather in addition to their usual egg output, adding a small extra loot source to chicken farms.
Gold nugget drops
A rare share of chicken laying cycles produces a gold nugget, a drop that vanilla chickens do not give.
Loot table based drops
The drops are defined through a loot table, so server owners can adjust them with a data pack.
Egg output kept
Egg laying remains the main drop, at 75 percent per laying cycle, so the mod adds to the chicken's output instead of replacing it.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
26.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.21.x10 of 10 versions with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Survival chicken farms
A chicken farm gains a second material source, with feathers and occasional gold nuggets collected alongside eggs.
Modpacks and servers
Pack makers and server owners can include the mod as a small drop change, provided they follow the license conditions.
Who it’s for: Server owners who want a modest change to chicken drops, and players on those servers who want a small extra loot source from chicken farms.
Questions
Does Feathers & Golden Eggs need to be on the server?
Which loaders does the mod support?
Can the pack be used commercially?
In the catalog
Feathers & Golden Eggs is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,189 Mobs mods for Fabric. 8,071 mods support Minecraft 26.3.
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What the author says
This pack takes advantage of the chicken_lay loot table, added in Minecraft 1.21.2+, to give chickens a little more variety in their drops. Once added to a world, chickens in that world will have a 75 percent chance of laying an egg, a 24.5 percent chance of shedding a feather, or a half percent chance of laying a…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/feathers-golden-eggs
- Owner
- notblue
- Published
- 2025-02-22
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-10-12
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15