Chicken - Revision history

Haxihoovis: Added tips on managing chickens, along with extra info (chickens neither float nor drown)

2025-05-24T20:17:15Z

Added tips on managing chickens, along with extra info (chickens neither float nor drown)

Daro: tiny typo fix

2025-04-25T13:27:33Z

tiny typo fix

Daro: updating the details to reflect "new" egg system

2025-04-25T13:26:58Z

updating the details to reflect "new" egg system

MyPickle: Fix to match game code and egg page

2025-03-03T03:42:41Z

Fix to match game code and egg page

MyPickle: Update incubation temp per stationpedia

2025-01-18T04:56:30Z

Update incubation temp per stationpedia

Wildlore at 22:00, 6 May 2024

2024-05-06T22:00:45Z

Wark at 12:44, 20 January 2024

2024-01-20T12:44:15Z

Smodd: clearance

2024-01-02T13:22:21Z

clearance

Jimmy1509: tested temperature and changed it

2021-03-24T15:20:43Z

tested temperature and changed it

72.199.138.89 at 21:24, 31 December 2020

2020-12-31T21:24:05Z

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 Chickens will *only* eat [[Corn]], [[Wheat]] and [[Soybean]]s.
 A chick or chicken is much like a plant and will display a life bar when in need of something.
 '''Warning:''' Chickens will eat items contained in closed storage boxes, lockers and stored on your character. They will also consume live vegetation so be very careful about where you let them go.

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 == Description ==
-Chickens are hatched by dropping a [[Fertilized Egg]] in the right conditions (35C-40C). The chick will hatch out of the egg after a few minutes and later grow into a Chicken. The chicken will lay around 1 [[Egg]] per day {{verify}}. (numbers may very depending on conditions '''Needs more research'''). The egg will remain *viable* unless exposed to below 10c temperatures.
+Chickens are hatched by dropping a [[Fertilized Egg]] in the right conditions (35C-40C). The chick will hatch out of the egg after a few minutes and later grow into a Chicken. The chicken will lay around 1 [[Egg]] per day {{verify}}. (numbers may vary depending on conditions '''Needs more research'''). The egg will remain *viable* unless exposed to below 10c temperatures.
 Chickens will *only* eat [[Corn]], [[Wheat]] and [[Soybean]]s.
 A chick or chicken is much like a plant and will display a life bar when in need of something.

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 == Description ==
-Chickens are hatched by dropping a [[Fertilized Egg]] in the right conditions (35C-40C). The chick will hatch out of the egg after a few minutes. The chicken should lay a Fertilized Egg and some [[Unfertilized Egg]]s before it dies (numbers may very depending on conditions '''Needs more research''').
+Chickens are hatched by dropping a [[Fertilized Egg]] in the right conditions (35C-40C). The chick will hatch out of the egg after a few minutes and later grow into a Chicken. The chicken will lay around 1 [[Egg]] per day {{verify}}. (numbers may very depending on conditions '''Needs more research'''). The egg will remain *viable* unless exposed to below 10c temperatures.
-Chickens do not appear to eat [[Potato]]es or [[Fern]]s but will eat [[Corn]], [[Wheat]] and [[Soybean]]s.
+Chickens will *only* eat [[Corn]], [[Wheat]] and [[Soybean]]s.
 A chick or chicken is much like a plant and will display a life bar when in need of something.
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 | Crops Consumed Per Day || 40
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-| [[Fertilized Egg]]s laid || 1 ?
+| [[Egg]]s laid || 1 {{verify}}
 |}
 Chicken Stats

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 == Description ==
-Chickens are hatched by dropping a [[Fertilized Egg]] in the right conditions (35C-45C). The chick will hatch out of the egg after a few minutes. The chicken should lay a Fertilized Egg and some [[Unfertilized Egg]]s before it dies (numbers may very depending on conditions '''Needs more research''').
+Chickens are hatched by dropping a [[Fertilized Egg]] in the right conditions (35C-40C). The chick will hatch out of the egg after a few minutes. The chicken should lay a Fertilized Egg and some [[Unfertilized Egg]]s before it dies (numbers may very depending on conditions '''Needs more research''').
 Chickens do not appear to eat [[Potato]]es or [[Fern]]s but will eat [[Corn]], [[Wheat]] and [[Soybean]]s.
 A chick or chicken is much like a plant and will display a life bar when in need of something.

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 == Description ==
-Chickens are hatched by dropping a [[Fertilized Egg]] in the right conditions (20C-30C). The chick will hatch out of the egg after a few minutes. The chicken should lay a Fertilized Egg and some [[Unfertilized Egg]]s before it dies (numbers may very depending on conditions '''Needs more research''').
+Chickens are hatched by dropping a [[Fertilized Egg]] in the right conditions (35C-45C). The chick will hatch out of the egg after a few minutes. The chicken should lay a Fertilized Egg and some [[Unfertilized Egg]]s before it dies (numbers may very depending on conditions '''Needs more research''').
 Chickens do not appear to eat [[Potato]]es or [[Fern]]s but will eat [[Corn]], [[Wheat]] and [[Soybean]]s.
 A chick or chicken is much like a plant and will display a life bar when in need of something.

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-[[Category:Creature]]
+[[Category:Animal]]
 {{Infobox | decat = yes
   | title = Chicken

← Older revision		Revision as of 12:44, 20 January 2024
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	Chickens require much more food than your player will usually need		Chickens require much more food than your player will usually need
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		+	Another set of observations done at normal difficulty on Mars got the following results:<br>
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		+	chickens...<br>
		+	...need an oxygen ratio of 10% or more, lowest allowed pressure is around 1.5kPa at 20°C (but this could also be a "mol per grid" kind of value)<br>
		+	...consume a tiny amount of oxygen (approximately 0.001 mol per second) but doesn't produce any CO2<br>
		+	...will fall unconscious when suffocating which stops them from laying eggs<br>
		+	...eat only when they are hungry (eating 1 corn added 2.5 to the <Nutrition> parameter in world.xml, when taking starvation damage it could eat 2 corns at once)<br>
		+	...take damage from suffocation (very slowly), starvation, storms, explosions and catching on fire (when the atmosphere is burning)<br>
		+	...take no damage from temperature (tested with -200°C and 400°C)<br>
		+	...lay an egg every 400 seconds on average (the <LayEggTimer> parameter in world.xml appears to be in game-ticks)<br>
		+	...are paralyzed when inside a 1x1 area (will not walk or jump), but will still lay eggs and eat (railings makes eggs easy to reach)
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		+	fertilized eggs...<br>
		+	...can only hatch when the temperature is 15.15°C or above (at any pressure in any gas) (very useful to prevent overpopulation)<br>
		+	...will hatch after 2 minutes on the floor, after approximately 2.5 more minutes the chick mature into an adult<br>
		+	...will not hatch when stored in lockers<br>
		+	...are laid randomly 10-20% of the time

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-[[Category:Animals]]
+[[Category:Creature]]
-<!--T:1-->
+{{Infobox | decat = yes
-{{Itembox
+  | title = Chicken
-  | name        = Chicken
+  | image = [[File:NpcChicken.png]]
-  | image       =  [[File:{{#setmainimage:Chicken.png}}]]
+  | header2 = Temperature
-  | stacks = No (It is a chicken)
+   {{Infobox | decat = yes | child = yes
 }}
-== Description == <!--T:2-->
+{{Infobox | decat = yes
 Chickens are hatched by dropping a [[Fertilized Egg]] in the right conditions (20C-30C). The chick will hatch out of the egg after a few minutes. The chicken should lay a Fertilized Egg and some [[Unfertilized Egg]]s before it dies (numbers may very depending on conditions '''Needs more research''').
 Chickens do not appear to eat [[Potato]]es or [[Fern]]s but will eat [[Corn]], [[Wheat]] and [[Soybean]]s.

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 | Pressure || Normal Human should be good 50kPa-100kPa
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-| Temperature || Around 20c-30c ?
+| Temperature || On Europa (100% o2) it survives at the harsh -150°C
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 | Atmosphere || >10% o2 at 50kPa ?

← Older revision		Revision as of 21:24, 31 December 2020
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	My 1st Chicken Batch: 6 chickens ( Unfed ) lasted about half a day producing 3 eggs each. 4 Fertilized Eggs and 14 Unfertilized Eggs. '''Need to replay tests to check results'''		My 1st Chicken Batch: 6 chickens ( Unfed ) lasted about half a day producing 3 eggs each. 4 Fertilized Eggs and 14 Unfertilized Eggs. '''Need to replay tests to check results'''
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		+	Chickens require much more food than your player will usually need