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Every time a chicken spawns in your Minecraft world, there is a 35% chance (fully configurable) that it will gain a completely random Chaos Trait! Players will never know what a chicken will do until they approach it, attack it, or try to harvest its eggs.

From simple speed boosts to massive detonations, item-stealing magnets, and rare multi-trait Boss Chickens, this mod/plugin adds action-packed gameplay to survival, faction, and adventure servers.

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🔮 Featured Chaos Traits

Icon	Trait Name	Hostility	Proximity Range	Description
💥	Explosive	⚡ High (on death)	N/A	Detonates on death. Power has configurable block damage (defaults to enabled).
🏃	Speed	⚪ Passive	N/A	Runs at a blistering 3x default speed (0.75).
🔥	Fire	🟡 Medium	N/A	Sets block underneath on fire. Completely immune to fire/lava damage.
🧲	Magnet	⚪ Passive	6.0 blocks	Pulls nearby dropped items toward itself (steals player loot!).
💎	Golden	⚪ Passive	N/A	Glows gold. Drops nuggets, gold/iron ingots, emeralds, or diamonds on death!
🎵	Disco	⚪ Passive	N/A	Spawns ✨ rings & plays note block chimes continuously.
🧟	Zombie	🔴 Hostile	8.0 blocks	Chases players, pecks for damage, and summons custom zombie reinforcements.
🔄	Teleport	⚪ Passive	5.0 blocks	Teleports away randomly when approached or taking damage.
🧊	Ice	⚪ Passive	N/A	Freezes water into Frosted Ice, places snow, and freezes a 2-block radius on death.
💀	Cursed	🔴 Hostile	6.0 blocks	Inflicts Blindness, Slowness, or Poison to players who get too close.
👑	Boss	⚡ Extreme	16.0 blocks	Apex Chicken! Combines 3+ random active traits, 3x max health, and weakness aura.

[!TIP] Need more details on trait values and custom mechanics? Head over to the Traits Encyclopedia Wiki Page!

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👹 Boss Chickens

Boss Chickens are rare (2% chance by default, rolled independently) and combine the powers of multiple chaos traits into one formidable chicken.

• Appearance: Spawns with a bold dark red custom tag: BOSS Chicken and displays a red "☠ BOSS Chicken ☠" boss bar to all nearby players.
• Rotating Particle Aura: Emits a dynamic rotating ring of purple portal particles, witch spell sparks, and soul fire flames.
• Health Pool: Has a massive 12.0 HP (3x the default chicken health of 4.0 HP).
• Weakness Aura: Emits an oppressive aura that inflicts WEAKNESS I on any player within a 16-block radius (refreshed every 2 seconds). This drastically decreases your melee damage, making it extremely difficult to defeat them quickly with swords!
• Ender Dragon Growl (Reactive Audio): Plays an Ender Dragon growl sound reactively when damaged and stands its ground (will not teleport on hit, even if it possesses the Teleport sub-trait).
• Wither Telekinesis Attack: Every 3 seconds (60 ticks), the Boss targets a nearby player, pulls a solid block from the ground under them, and launches it as a falling block projectile (playing the Wither shoot sound and explosion particles).
• Lightning Strike Attack: Every 6 seconds (120 ticks), it strikes random lightning around its targets when a player is in range.
• Guaranteed Loot: Guaranteed to drop 1 Nether Star and 2–4 (or 2-3) Diamonds on death.
• Secure Advancement: Grants the "The Golden Cluck" challenge advancement. If the Boss Chicken is killed (even by command or environmental damage), the advancement is securely granted to the nearest player within 32 blocks.
• Ultimate Death Explosion: When slain, it triggers a massive visual explosion accompanied by a rotating ring of 36 soul fire flames and witch sparks, playing a generic explosion sound and a Wither death sound.

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🔌 Supported Platforms

• Bukkit / Spigot / Paper / Purpur: ✅ Full native support (1.20 - 26.x).
• Folia: ✅ Full native support (utilizes Folia's GlobalRegionScheduler asynchronously, guaranteeing zero tick lag).
• Fabric: ✅ Full native support (1.21 - 26.x, configures via config/chaoschickens.json).
• Forge: ✅ Full native support (1.21 - 26.x, bundled with core common systems directly inside the mod jar).

Both singleplayer and multiplayer are fully supported!

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🚀 Fast Installation

Want to set up Chaos Chickens quickly? Check out our quick guides:

Bukkit / Paper / Spigot / Folia

1. Download the Bukkit mod jar from the files tab.
2. Move the JAR into your server's plugins/ directory.
3. Restart the server.
4. Edit configuration details in plugins/ChaosChickens/config.yml.
5. Run /cc reload to apply updates!

Fabric

1. Download the Fabric mod jar and make sure you have Fabric API installed.
2. Put the JAR in your mods/ directory.
3. Boot client or server. Config is at config/chaoschickens.json.

Forge

1. Download the Forge mod jar and make sure you have Forge loaded.
2. Put the JAR in your mods/ directory.
3. Boot client or server. Config is at config/chaoschickens.json.

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📊 bStats Analytics

This plugin uses bStats to collect anonymous usage data to help us track active servers, player counts, and trait statistics.

[!NOTE] Plugin-Only Metrics: These metrics are collected for the Bukkit/Spigot/Paper/Folia plugin version only. Fabric and Forge mod versions do not collect bStats data. You can opt-out of analytics at any time by setting bstats-enabled: false in config.yml.

Collected data includes:

• Active chaos chicken count in the world
• Configured chaos chance percentage
• Folia region safety detection status
• Active trait distribution percentages

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🛡️ License & Credits

Chaos Chickens is maintained by the DemonZ Development community, with lead development by Cyrus. This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.