The state of Automated Animal Breeding
Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2021 11:12 am
As you may be aware, breeding isn't as easy as it used to be. You used to be able to dig a hole and stuff some cows in it. If you were really fancy, water flows and saws could automate the killing. Now that animals need to eat, the process is a lot more involved.
I am really curious to know if anybody has cracked the code. On the Vioki discord, we've realized that "grass conveyors" that utilize grass growing mechanics and slabs can be used to sustain animals while holding them in a single spot. I built one on my world to keep chickens alive and automatically harvest eggs:
AUTOMATED EGGS!
It's a circle of slabs covered in floating grass blocks to encourage downward grass growth.
The chickens are locked in while pistons loop the ring of grass slabs around and around. A daylight timer feeds them every morning.
The pistons are hooked up to a simple turntable timer.
I played with the idea of having eggs automatically shoot out of a dispenser into a grassy underground space, but the chickens would always disappear. I suspect some kind of suffocation glitch because there was certainly enough grass down there. My next project (besides like 50 other projects) is an attempt to automate leather, but I'll need a water tower first.
Anyway, what solutions have you come up with? How far have you been able to push the grass conveyors?
I am really curious to know if anybody has cracked the code. On the Vioki discord, we've realized that "grass conveyors" that utilize grass growing mechanics and slabs can be used to sustain animals while holding them in a single spot. I built one on my world to keep chickens alive and automatically harvest eggs:
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AUTOMATED EGGS!
It's a circle of slabs covered in floating grass blocks to encourage downward grass growth.
The chickens are locked in while pistons loop the ring of grass slabs around and around. A daylight timer feeds them every morning.
The pistons are hooked up to a simple turntable timer.
Anyway, what solutions have you come up with? How far have you been able to push the grass conveyors?