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| - Version 1.27 has a new feature with chests - gathering behavior. We now can create fully automated egg farms. The flightless big birds are best suited for this idea. Plus, their cooked eggs are probably the most nutritional food in the game. Here is a picture of a working egg farm: To keep it simple, it's only 5 by 5 blocks inside. This keeps the water effect simple and only one water bucket is necessary. The walls may be any block. To build it, first build the walls 5 blocks high, making an open area of 5 blocks square. Leave one space 3 blocks high, to put a door in. It should be at the corner where the chest will go. The bottom block under where the door will go has to be a type that you can place a door on. (It's diamond in this picture.) Set the door in place. In the corner by the door, place your chest. Place one bucket of water in the corner opposite from the chest. Place fencing just above the water level. Iron fence seems to work best. You will need 25 fence pieces. Close the door and go to where the chest is. Break the block in front of the chest to give you access to it from outside. (Not the one the door sits on.) It seems that Ostriches won't lay eggs on fence so only Cassowaries will work in this design. Once you have gathered some Cassowary eggs, open the door and throw them onto the fence to break them. Don't miss. If you aren't using glass, you can throw them at the wall. Hope that a lot of them spawn birds. Close the door and leave the farm. The birds can't pass through the door, but you want to close it so wolves won't get in and eat your birds. This farm will continue to operate as long as you don't stay too far away from it for too long. Animals will despawn if you neglect them too long. Return to the farm occasionally to collect the eggs from the chest. NICE!
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