Collecting Resources
You've almost made it to the end of the wiki, congratulations! Fortunately, this last step doesn't need its own mini lesson in genetics to explain. 😅
The final step in producing recources with chickens is to craft an Excitation Chamber.
The Excitation Chamber is what activates these recessive genes and
allows resources to be harvested from your chicken. Each recessive allele will
play a part in how fast a resource is generated: the fewer there are, the faster
it will go. For the standard Excitation Chamber, this means that while a
BBCCDDFFSSWW feather chicken will give one feather every 2 seconds, a
bbccddffssww Netherite chicken will take a full 20 seconds per ingot. This
also affects chickens of the same type. Each heterozygous gene a chicken has
will add 2 seconds to the overall generation time. Therefore, while a
bbccDDFSSWW coal chicken will generate 1 coal every 8 seconds, a
bbccDDFfSsWW coal chicken will take 12 seconds, and a bbccDdFfSsWw coal
chicken will take 16 seconds. While having various heterozygous genes in a
chicken may be advantageous in some breeding situations, they do nothing but
hinder the recource generation process, so be sure to selectively breed your
resource chickens to avoid heterozygous genes. Below is a table of the range
of processing times for each tier of chicken in both the standard and the
Boosted Excitation Chambers:
| . | Standard | Boosted (x2) |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 0 | 2-14 | 1-7 |
| Tier 1 | 5-15 | 2-7 |
| Tier 2 | 8-16 | 4-8 |
| Tier 3 | 11-17 | 5-8 |
| Tier 4 | 14-18 | 7-9 |
| Tier 5 | 17-19 | 8-9 |
| Tier 6 | 20 | 10 |
The base processing time can be configured in the config file, it may different on your server.
See the sequence table for which resources are in each tier.
You now know everything there is to know about breeding chickens
Good luck!