Too Many Chickens
by rolikdoesmc
Too Many Chickens adds 49 chicken variants to Minecraft, each laying a different resource or appearing under a special condition, from Cobblestone Chicken to Obsidian Chicken.
What it does
Vanilla chickens only lay eggs and drop feathers. Too Many Chickens expands them with a set of chicken types that lay ores, stone, and other materials, so the flock becomes a source of items. Some chickens can be crafted, and others appear only once a specific condition is met in the world, such as a particular biome or a nearby block.
Crafting follows survival rules. To get a chicken, a player goes to a forest, taiga or plains biome, finds a white chicken, and collects its first egg. That egg is hatched and bred until enough birds are available. A crafted chicken is made by placing a white egg in the middle of a chest pattern. Chickens such as Stone Chicken are produced by throwing a matching material, such as sand or netherrack, into fire or lava, which transforms the bird into its next form.
The mod is built for survival play, and its chickens can also live on a server, where the server and every player need it installed. It is released for Forge only, with eight game versions 1.9.4 – 1.12.2 and the latest file, 1.5 for 1.12.2, dated 2024-02-24. The license is All rights reserved, so the mod is not open source.
Key features
Material-laying chickens
Chickens that lay stone, cobblestone, andesite, diorite, granite and other materials, adding a resource source to the farm.
Conditional spawns
Rare chickens such as Obsidian Chicken appear only when certain conditions in the world are met.
Transformation through fire
Throwing a material into fire or lava turns the matching chicken into a glass, nether brick, brick or charcoal form.
Crafted chickens
A white egg placed in a chest pattern crafts a chicken, so the feature stays in survival progression.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
Diamond Chicken covers 1.12.2 – 1.19.4 for Forge with the same client and server environment and an All rights reserved license, so it is not open source. Exploding Chickens runs on the server alone for 1.21.6 under the MIT License, so players need nothing installed. More Chickens is open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only and covers 1.16.5 – 1.17.1, while Chicken Feather is server required with client optional, for 1.19 – 1.21.11.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Too Many Chickens | Forge | 1.9.4 – 1.12.2 | Client and server | 2024-02-24 |
| Diamond Chicken | Forge | 1.12.2 – 1.19.4 | Client and server | 2024-08-21 |
| Exploding Chickens | Forge | 1.21.6 | Server-side only | 2025-06-22 |
| More Chickens | Forge | 1.16.5 – 1.17.1 | Client and server | 2021-10-22 |
| Chicken Feather | Forge and NeoForge | 1.19 – 1.21.11 | Server required, client optional | 2026-02-01 |
Questions
Does Too Many Chickens need to be installed on both sides?
Which Minecraft versions does Too Many Chickens support?
How is a Stone Chicken obtained?
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What the author says
Do you ever thought about how vanilla minecraft chickens are booring? You can only get eggs, feathers and chickens and that's all. but why not diamonds, emerald and gold?
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/too-many-chickens-mod
- Owner
- rolikdoesmc
- Published
- 2024-02-24
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2024-02-24
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15