Minecraft egg farm hopper

Build a pen

You'll need enough wood to make 16 fences (6 logs, 24 planks, or 11 sticks).

Dig a hole, 5 x 5 x 1 block deep.

Place fences all around the edge.

Put a block in the middle.

Fences form a barrier that is 1½ blocks high, so that mobs (or players) can't jump over it.

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If you place a block in the centre of the pen, you will be able to stand on it to jump out of the pen, but the chickens won't.

This pen design is easy for you and the chickens to get into from any direction, but only you can get out.

Add Chickens

There are two ways to add chickens to your pen:

Collect Eggs

Each chicken will lay an egg on average every 7 minutes.

In areas where there are wild chickens, you'll find plenty of eggs. If you have 20 or so, that's enough for a good start.

Just right-click to throw eggs into the pen. They will break, and one out of every eight will hatch into a chicken.

Collect Chickens

First you need some seeds: you can get these by breaking long grass, or if you are lucky enough to find a village with wheat growing, you will get seeds wh

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