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So, every time a chicken spawns in your world, there's a 35% chance it'll get a random chaos trait. We made it configurable because some servers want mild chaos and others want absolute mayhem.

The traits range from "annoying but funny" to "why is there a chicken summoning zombies at me?" Boss Chickens are the real endgame content though — they show up about 2% of the time, combine multiple traits, and hit like a truck.

This is maintained by the DemonZ Development community. If you want to tweak values, add traits, or report broken behavior, the GitHub repo and Discord are the best places.

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What the traits actually do

Trait	Behavior	Range / Notes
Explosive	Detonates on death	Block damage can be toggled
Speed	Moves way faster	3x default movement
Fire	Lights blocks underneath	Immune to fire/lava
Magnet	Pulls nearby items	Steals loot from the ground
Golden	Drops valuable items	Nuggets, ingots, emeralds, diamonds
Disco	✨ particles + sound	Continuously
Zombie	Chases players and summons reinforcements	8 block aggro range
Teleport	Random teleport when approached or hit	5 block trigger
Ice	Freezes water, places snow	2 block freeze on death
Cursed	Applies Blindness, Slowness, or Poison	6 block proximity
Boss	Apex multi-trait chicken	2% chance, 3x health, weakness aura

The Boss variant is the highlight. It combines 3+ traits, has a custom boss bar, drops a Nether Star, and grants an advancement to whoever gets the final hit. It also has a few attacks — ground block launch and random lightning strikes — so bring armor.

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Boss Chicken details

• Spawns with a BOSS Chicken tag and red boss bar
• 12 HP instead of the normal 4
• Weakness aura in a 16 block radius
• Won't teleport even if it has the Teleport trait
• Drops guaranteed Nether Star + diamonds

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Supported platforms

• Bukkit / Spigot / Paper / Purpur: 1.20 through 26.x
• Folia: tested with region scheduling
• Fabric: 1.21 through 26.x
• Forge: 1.21 through 26.x

Singleplayer and multiplayer both work.

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Quick setup

Bukkit / Paper / Spigot / Folia

1. Drop the JAR in plugins/
2. Restart
3. Edit plugins/ChaosChickens/config.yml
4. /cc reload

Fabric

1. Install Fabric API
2. Drop the mod in mods/
3. Launch and edit config/chaoschickens.json

Forge

1. Drop the mod in mods/
2. Launch and edit config/chaoschickens.json

The default trait chance is 35% and the boss spawn chance is 2%. Both are editable in the config if you want more or less chaos.

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Building from source

Requires Java 17/21, Maven 3.8+, and Gradle 8.5+.

# Bukkit plugin
mvn clean package

# Fabric mod
./gradlew :fabric:build

# Forge mod
./gradlew :forge:build

More detail is on the Building from Source wiki page.

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Analytics

This plugin uses bStats on the Bukkit/Paper side only. It tracks server count, player count, and which traits are active. You can disable it with bstats-enabled: false in config.yml.

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License

Chaos Chickens is licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0.

Maintained by the DemonZ Development community, with lead development by Cyrus. Contributions are welcome — open an issue or PR if you want to add a trait, fix behavior, or improve docs.