Hatchery Mod (1.12.2, 1.11.2) – Build a Real Chicken Farm

Hatchery Mod changes how you farm chickens in Minecraft. This mod adds new blocks, items, and a different breeding system to help you raise your own chickens. You can use Nests to hatch chicks and Nesting Pens to house adult chickens, which makes them lay eggs faster. Instead of a new chick appearing right away, breeding now creates a special egg that you must hatch yourself. The mod also provides items to help your eggs hatch more successfully and quickly.

Features:

• Introduces a new breeding system where chickens lay eggs that need to be hatched.
• Adds Roosters to your world.
• Includes Nests, special blocks for hatching eggs into chicks.
• Use Nesting Pens to house adult chickens, collect their drops, and automatically breed them with chickens in nearby pens.
• Capture passive mobs with the Animal Net, which is also used to put chickens into Nesting Pens.
• Craft Fertilized Dirt and Farmland to make your crops grow faster.
• Build a Chicken Feeder to speed up the growth of baby chickens.
• Use a Sprayer with Liquid Fertilizer to quickly upgrade large areas of farmland.
• Generate RF power using the Methane Digester Engine.
• Create Lucky Eggs with the Lucky Egg Machine for special prizes.
• Works with other mods like Chickens, Waila, and JEI for more features and information.

How to Use:

1. Craft an Animal Net to catch chickens and other passive mobs.
2. Use the net to place chickens inside a Nesting Pen. The pen will automatically collect drops like feathers and eggs.
3. Place Nesting Pens next to each other to make the chickens inside breed automatically.
4. Put the eggs laid by the chickens into a Nest block to begin hatching.
5. To make eggs hatch faster, you can place a redstone lamp above the Nest.
6. Use a Chicken Feeder filled with seeds to make baby chickens in the area grow up more quickly.

Screenshots and Crafting Recipes:

Egg Nest

• Egg Nest are used to hatch eggs dropped from chickens.
• Currently its a 100% chance to spawn chicken. But to add more realism there will be a survival chance that can be modified to increase it or speed.

• Adding a redstone lamp acts as a heat lamp above the eggs. It will currently increase the speed of the egg hatching
• Standing on the nest will allow eggs to hatch faster.

Nesting Pen

• Nesting pen will hold chickens that can hold inventory of drops.
• Drops feathers, manure & every so often Hatchery Eggs based of the parent.
• Items can be piped/hoppered out of.
• They will also capture drops from the chickens now.
• Nesting Pens look in (N,W,S,E) for other pens, and will breed with chickens dropping eggs 100% of the time every 7 mins.

Chicken Feeder

• Fill the feeder with seeds
• Feeder has a visual representation on when its full.
• The Feeder will increase the growth rate of baby chickens in a 4×4 block radius
• The Feeder also increases slightly the drop rate of chickens
• Feeders have inventory support and will accept inputs.
• Feeders will eventually have a visual support for the amount of seeds inside the feeder.

Fertilized Soil

• Fertilized Dirt.
• Fertilized Farmland.
• Cause random bonemeal updates.. increases growth time of crops and trees.

Nursery Monitor

• Used to sort babys from adults.
• Can be used to go from an egg pen > baby pen > adult > your mouth.
• One side has an Egg icon for Baby, other side is a feather for adult.

Adult Side:

Baby Side:

Liquid Fertilizer

• Combine a block of Manure with a bucket of water for liquid fertilizer.

Methane Digester Generator

• Turns Liquid Fertilizer into RF. Buckets do not work yet. only pipes from other mods.
• Methane Digester is the only block that currently has upgrades to increase the ticks per seconds.

Fertilizer Mixer

• Add manure & Water ,and out comes Liquid Fertilizer. Buckets do work in the GUI but are currently buggy.
• Mixer doesn’t need power to mix, but works very slow with out power.

Shredder

• Dropping feathers in or on this machine will shred the feathers into feather meal and feather fibers.
• This block will eventually have (CraftTweaker/MineTweaker) support.

Lucky Egg Machine

• Feeding the lucky egg machine plastic and eggs, than supplying it power will produce lucky eggs.
• This new machine is likely to change slightly into a coin operated machine.. feeding it gold nuggets/ coins…
• Lucky Eggs will give your prizes when you open them. (right clicking)

Hatchery Egg

• Hatchery eggs are dropped from chickens when they are mated. No longer will mating give you an instance chicken.
• Option in config.

Chicken Manure

• Acts like bonemeal.
• dropped by chickens in the nesting pen.
• Used to craft Fertilized dirt.
• Possibly use to make liquid fertilizer to turn dirt/farmland into fertilized dirt.

Animal Net

• Lets you grab passive mobs to move them to a new area.
• Animal Nets are needed to add chickens into the nesting pens.
• Now stack-able up to 16 when empty.

Fertilizer Sprayer

• Fill sprayer from a liquid tank, or fertilizer liquid placed in world, or new crafting recipe.
• Sprayer will convert dirt/farmland to fertilized dirt/farmland.
• Sprayer also will give bonemeal effects to plants (Works with Mystical Agriculture).

Refill Recipe

Screenshots and Crafting Recipes:

Egg Nest

• Egg Nest are used to hatch eggs dropped from chickens.
• Currently its a 100% chance to spawn chicken. But to add more realism there will be a survival chance that can be modified to increase it or speed.

• Adding a redstone lamp acts as a heat lamp above the eggs. It will currently increase the speed of the egg hatching
• Standing on the nest will allow eggs to hatch faster.

Nesting Pen

• Nesting pen will hold chickens that can hold inventory of drops.
• Drops feathers, manure & every so often Hatchery Eggs based of the parent.
• Items can be piped/hoppered out of.
• They will also capture drops from the chickens now.
• Nesting Pens look in (N,W,S,E) for other pens, and will breed with chickens dropping eggs 100% of the time every 7 mins.

Chicken Feeder

• Fill the feeder with seeds
• Feeder has a visual representation on when its full.
• The Feeder will increase the growth rate of baby chickens in a 4×4 block radius
• The Feeder also increases slightly the drop rate of chickens
• Feeders have inventory support and will accept inputs.
• Feeders will eventually have a visual support for the amount of seeds inside the feeder.

Fertilized Soil

• Fertilized Dirt.
• Fertilized Farmland.
• Cause random bonemeal updates.. increases growth time of crops and trees.

Nursery Monitor

• Used to sort babys from adults.
• Can be used to go from an egg pen > baby pen > adult > your mouth.
• One side has an Egg icon for Baby, other side is a feather for adult.

Adult Side:

Baby Side:

Liquid Fertilizer

• Combine a block of Manure with a bucket of water for liquid fertilizer.

Methane Digester Generator

• Turns Liquid Fertilizer into RF. Buckets do not work yet. only pipes from other mods.
• Methane Digester is the only block that currently has upgrades to increase the ticks per seconds.

Fertilizer Mixer

• Add manure & Water ,and out comes Liquid Fertilizer. Buckets do work in the GUI but are currently buggy.
• Mixer doesn’t need power to mix, but works very slow with out power.

Shredder

• Dropping feathers in or on this machine will shred the feathers into feather meal and feather fibers.
• This block will eventually have (CraftTweaker/MineTweaker) support.

Lucky Egg Machine

• Feeding the lucky egg machine plastic and eggs, than supplying it power will produce lucky eggs.
• This new machine is likely to change slightly into a coin operated machine.. feeding it gold nuggets/ coins…
• Lucky Eggs will give your prizes when you open them. (right clicking)

Hatchery Egg

• Hatchery eggs are dropped from chickens when they are mated. No longer will mating give you an instance chicken.
• Option in config.

Chicken Manure

• Acts like bonemeal.
• dropped by chickens in the nesting pen.
• Used to craft Fertilized dirt.
• Possibly use to make liquid fertilizer to turn dirt/farmland into fertilized dirt.

Animal Net

• Lets you grab passive mobs to move them to a new area.
• Animal Nets are needed to add chickens into the nesting pens.
• Now stack-able up to 16 when empty.

Fertilizer Sprayer

• Fill sprayer from a liquid tank, or fertilizer liquid placed in world, or new crafting recipe.
• Sprayer will convert dirt/farmland to fertilized dirt/farmland.
• Sprayer also will give bonemeal effects to plants (Works with Mystical Agriculture).

Refill Recipe

Requirements:

Chickens Mod Required

Hatchery Mod Download Links

For Minecraft 1.10.2

Download from Server 1

For Minecraft 1.11.2

Download from Server 1

For Minecraft 1.12.2

Download from Server 1