I have this farm with chickens, half wall half fence, started with about 10 down to 3, bred some more..... They keep dying! There is plenty dirt with tall grass on it, do they need anything else to survive? Could th st be glitching through walls and dying?
Thanks for help, this has been annoying me for ages.
Yeah, the mob AI is weird, and in PoC, mobs can take suffocation damage from fences and walls and die. I think just having the walls a full block might prevent them from suffocating themselves to death, but Solverlabs needs to fix their fences
ok how to have chike stop dieing
so u need plant seed so they eat have fence whole block and ur chickens will be good
Hi guy- Eskip leader, so they eat wheat?
Kieranb,planted seeds it works for me
I don't think animals actually eat other than when you're breeding them. Animals will spawn, despawn, or possibly die in an inclosed space depending on the conditions(animal mobs spawn in lit up areas, and supposedly all mobs spawn more often the closer to bedrock their spawn area is, as well as if there's less spaces for them to spawn in around a certain range, if it's mob spawning mechanics are the same as MineCraft, as a lot of PoC mechanics are),and size(in smaller spaces, I would recommend 16×16 as the animal pen's size, they'll less likely to despawn, in areas with fences or cobblestone wall/fence things as the walls instead of full blocks, the mobs have a higher chance of suffocation damage) of the place you chose to put your animals in. It would be nice if you could feed animals certain dropped items on the ground, and that would have a chance of breeding them, or better yet, they could break grass and stuff to drop their food items(such as seeds, wheat, beetroot, carrots, potatoes, etc.), making them interact with the world more naturally, but sadly that's not a current PoC Feature.
BlueTangs Rock3,well you're the guy with the ideas for this sort of thing, you should definitely think of something where animals graze and maybe help fertilize plants and grow them quicker, thanks for info, I'll try make pen bigger and see what happens :3 so far 190 eggs from chickens in under 2 days xD
No Problem! :D make sure not to make the pen too big though, since if the animals in PoC are similar to the MineCraft ones (which they seem to be very similar to), if an animal walks less than 20 blocks in a single direction while you're at a certain range from it, then they will most likely not despawn, however if the animal moves 20 blocks or more in a single direction at a certain distance from you or other players, then they will most likely despawn.
Also you might want to use something like glass as the pen's walls, and doors as the pen's entrance to minimalize the risk of animals taking suffocation damage until Solverlabs fixes their fences, cobblestone/mossy cobblestone wallls, and gates to not cause suffocation damage.
Animals despawn if there's no one within 10 chunks
oh, so animals are really broken in PoC?
Could be the space needed to be bigger depending on the farm size
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