Let's build an expandable chicken and egg farm in Valheim: build guide
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- Опубліковано 26 лис 2023
- This farm is not very expensive and fairly easy to build. You need a bit of iron and a bit of stone, bot mostly just wood. The best part - it is really simple to expand to the sides if you need more. Technically, you can't buy eggs until you've fought Yagluth, but maybe you're luckier than others and just... find them?
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Nice! This is a very useful and efficient setup. I'm definitely saving this one to my "Valheim Builds" playlist.
Glad you found it useful! 😁
Nice! This is a very useful and efficient way to find all my favorite builds. I'm definitely creating a "Valheim Builds" playlist....and adding this to it! Thank you both! :D
Watched this video last night, then followed your plan nearly exactly (minor changes for aesthetics only) and I just had to come back to thank you! It works flawlessly!! Seriously, I'm not sure what to do with all the eggs and chickens I'm now rolling in on my solo world!!
Glad you liked it! Yeah, a chicken farm like this one is a bit too much on a solo world perhaps, lol, but it's great when you are 2-4 players 😄
Thank you for your feedback, I love to hear both the good and the bad.
Jurassic Park all over again 😱 Someone didn't pay attention in history class. The end is near☠️
The fence is electrified, it's safe! 🤣
First one I've found that's relatively easy to build, makes sense, and WORKS.
Oh, that's some nice words right there, thanks a lot! 😄
Mine is working too!!!
@@user-qt8yo7gs7i Awesome!
Hello, thanks for the video :) I did everything exactly according to the guide, the chickens grew up, stood in the right place, I threw food at them, they ate once, laid a few eggs and didn’t eat anymore. Kida moved them from place to place in different ways, but nothing helped. After I destroyed the roof under them and they fell through with their food, they finally ate. I guess they didn't have enough space.
Update: Just try to build again if something doesn't work. If the chickens sat on top of each other, place a wooden gate behind the wall and open it - the door will move the top chicken down to the right place, as of 01/08/2024 this build works perfectly :)
Glad you found a good solution, and thanks for sharing it! I saw that @ThreadMenace pushed the hens further down into the hole with a little help of a door, and that worked too 🙂
@@splashopain I tore down the breeding module and built it again. Threw the eggs inside, waited for the chickens to grow, used the wooden gate method (from @ThreadMenace's video) to move the chickens to the right places, closed them, threw in the food and it worked! Now everything is fine :)
@@user-hh1ll1qt2e I am so glad to hear that it's working! Also, thanks for posting about it here, more people may have the same issues you did 😃
Nice to know this works as of 2024 - thanks m8
@@Edcognito you can't have them automatically k*lled anymore, which I think is unfortunate, but other than that it's all good 😎
That's a good looking and compact feather farm👌 So glad you didn't leave holes down to the ground😆
You should see how dumb the eggs look when they fly out of that shoot like a canon 😆
Wow, didn't realize how complicated the chicken thing was. Haven't played since they introduced them. Very nice!
Thanks! If you play alone, this might a bit over the top; you will get enough food from just keeping them in a small hatchery. If you play as a group you never have enough of them. And also, they are so cute that it's hard to do anything but keep them as pets if there isn't some kind of industry around it all 😆
I appreciate the design (and you're not the only one who needs to make things look nice or "correct" ;) )
Thanks, and glad to hear it😆
Edit: The word "thansk" didn't look nice or correct 🤣
Created a world with my friends for the Ashlands update and needed more eggs, now we've got more than we know what to do with. Great build and great guide.
Glad you found it useful, thank you for the kind words!
I like your building design, it looks effective too. I sub for your ocd details, I also do that!!
OCD Details for the WIN! 😆 Thanks for your kind words, and thanks for the sub 😄
I have gone through all the chicken farms on online, your's is the simple and most efficient one out there. Thanx a lot for your efforts. One minor adjustment that I did is I lowered the egg collecting floor by 1 meter. Before that the hens above that area stops breeding after 5 eggs. Rest of the farm works flawlessly.
Thanks for your kind words, that is a really good idea! 😃
Beautiful and efficient and I appreciate efficiency! I definitely going to try it for myself! Thanks for the great job in creating this guide! =)
Thanks for your kind words! Happy building 😄
"I just think they re cute" what a wholesome channel. Suscribed!
Aaw, thanks 🥰
I love it. I'm going to take this and turn it into a windmill for the heck of it. Very much appreciate the build :)
Thanks, and cool idea! That I'd love to see 😃
The chicken tower of doom lol
Love this one 🙌
Hehe, that sounds like a title to a metal band
This setup works great. During setup with the eggs/chicks I had a couple escape, so I built up their enclosures a bit. Once they became hens, the two on one side were stacked so I had to use the wooden shutter trick to move the one on top.
Nice! Glad to hear that 😃 Yeah, those hit boxes are massive for such small animals, glad you made it work with the help of the shutters!
Got this working today. Thanks for the great guide.
Awesome, thank you!
Thanks for the build, very helpful.
Glad you liked it! 😁
Great design and video. Please keep sharing your ideas as they provide inspiration to many :)
Thanks for your very kind words, and I'm glad you found this useful 😄
To move the chicken, try using wooden windows (the one with bronze nail). Just move the window. And the chicken will get push to your desire location
Yes, that is a great tip! 😃
Really awesome guide, still works to this day!
Thanks! Great 😁
An absolute banger of a farm! Happy to have implemented this to my own base.
One modification I did though: for the hatchery side I also added the egg collector so I could change the output by turning the 45 degree roof tile. I ended up lacking eggs while swimming in chicken breast so the adjustability was a nice addition. I'll just scale this 3:1 later on when I remake a base but still, something you can do to balance the output if need be :)
Nice! Glad you found the build useful, and it's always interesting to hear about people's additions to the build - glad you posted it here, so that others can read about it too 😃
@@splashopain Absolutely! The design shuold allow pretty easy funneling of multiple columns too so like you mentioned, easily expandable too!
Great video and great farm. Thanks a bunch!
Thanks for your nice words, and happy you liked it! 😄
Elegant and efficient! Thank you
Glad you liked! 😁
I love this. It's crazy looking ... but it has a strong farm vibe.
It's function and nothing more 😆 I bet you could fancify it easily 🙂
@@splashopain It is fancy! I love the look of it. It looks sort of like a silo attached to a farmhouse. Very unique.
@@ChuckHaney It really looks like a silo, yeah 😂
Going to try this out thanks!
Glad you found it useful! 😀
I built it and it works very well. Very efficient 👍 Big thanks and dont worry i have the same "complications" with adding additional beams :P
Glad to hear that you found it useful! And that I'm not alone in my struggles 😝
Built this super chicken breeding tower tonight... One side is working really well, producing eggs for the incubator. The other side is being a royal pain. The chicks keep hatching and glitching through the wall. Fingers crossed I'll sort it on the current pair of eggs! Thanks for the design it's super!
Yeah, chicks can be really annoying like that. Glad you found the breeder useful though 😄
nice video, thanks for this!
Thanks for your nice words!
Very solid design that has both function and a little bit of form. I used the Carved Darkwood Dividers for window pieces instead of the iron cage pieces to save on iron, and I think the build looks pretty good. Oddly enough, I had one of each of my Chickens from each chute disappear the first attempt. Can't for the life of me figure out why, but thankfully the second attempt went fine. Thanks for the video!
Update: After expanding by 2 (needed more eggs for omelettes) I've learned that the place where you hatch the first 2 eggs is slightly too small. Maybe there was an update to their hitbox size. One chicken got pushed out of the chute and is now walking around the top of where the eggs sit at the bottom to be collected. Another one I watched take damage from the fire. So both times I lost 1 of the 2 chickens in the chute. If you wait until 1 is fully grown into a hen then put the other egg in after, the second chicken should grow fine. Takes longer, but safer if you don't have enough money to go buy more eggs.
Oh, that must look really pretty! The chickens just disappeared like that?! Annoying!
And thanks for your kind words :)
Sorry didn't refresh and didn't see your reply. I updated my original comment. The chutes might be just a tad too small to fit 2 chickens. Possible that they updated the hitboxes.
@@itranscendencei7964 They might have! Also, the chicks have larger hitboxes than the hens, which causes a bit of a problem setting up a farm 😄
Edit: Really good observation, and thank you for adding your experiment here in the comment section, other people will find that useful to know.
Of course. Hopefully someone finds it helpful. I now have 3 sets that are making eggs to be collected, and the last set making eggs to be hatched. Need all the stamina you can get in the Mistlands!
@@itranscendencei7964 Oh, you are absolutely right about that! 😁
Awesome video!!! And it’s works thank you!!!
Awesome! If you have any problems whatsoever, please come back and mention it in the comments - it helps everybody 😁
Troll cave is the best. Problem solved. Fire with signs protecting lil chickens from the fire. Plus u can build around the cave
Yeah, troll caves are great, the only problem is that you can only fit so many chicks in there before the hens stop breeding 😅
@@splashopain true. But that is hitting the limits of spawns
The iron in the middle is no longer needed with Hildir's fire pit.
Awesome! Thank you for mentioning that!
Elaborate please?
@@inecronomicsi4285 The iron in the middle of the tower is needed for the fire to stand on something while you hatch the eggs, while also adding some stability to the tower. You can't place a campfire on wood floor, but with a tiny bit of iron you cheese past that issue.
Hildir's fire pit, on the other hand, can be placed on wood floor without an issue. It also burns longer.
The only downside with using this firepit instead of having a campfire up there is that you actually have to find Hildir before you can make the breeder. Only once have I found Hildir before I've found eggs, and funnily enough it's in the recorded let's play on this channel 😆
Nice one I'm trying it out right now.
Awesome! If you encounter any problems, don't be a stranger - it helps everyone 😁
No matter what i try to do, some of the Hens do not eat.
Pushed them around with doors, re-positioned them and also replaced with "new" Hens.
They get pushed upwards a bit and stop eating and stop breeding as a result!
Nice design but it's not working 100% "bug free" -> sadly 😢
Also chicken food below 1/2 stack is merging all the the time!
Means you can not use anything below half a stack 😢
Glad you're posting the issues you have had here, so that others can see. The first problem you had with the hens not eating - try placing the food a bit further towards you with the help of some half walls to get it better centered. The other thing with half stacks I have never encountered, thanks for mentioning it!
I built it with crystal windows to save iron. Thanks for this!
That must look gorgeous 🤩
Very cool build, do you stream?
Thanks! Do not stream yet, but intend to start within the year 😁
theye can eat CARROT SEEDS! i didnt know that. I've been feeding them my barley and taking a hit to my food storage.
The can eat all seeds, AND dandelions! I usually have a greydwarf spawner going, giving me lots of wood and stone - and dandelions. I threw them all away before I knew!
@@splashopain ive been doing it wrong the whole time! haha. great video its produced me a tooon of eggs!
@@simpy3651 Glad to hear you've found it useful! 😀
Can you show us more detail on how to build where the chickens sit? Kinda hard to see
You mean those up top? They are pushed downwards and stand in a hole more or less. You will have to wait for a couple of minutes once you have removed the floor under them. I'll see what I can do 🙂
Post up now about your question, hope I was clear enough 😉
Going to try it tonight as soon as I do the corps run lol
@@keans53 Oh, no! Good luck with your corpse run 😅
No use of the E key to aid placement of building blocks?
I forget about those keys all the time 😂
Do eggs also prevent hens from breeding? Or is it just chicks and other hens?
I'm interested in just egg collection, and wouldn't want to make a tower if not needed.
There is a limited space for eggs, so if you have your eggs close by the hens, the hens won't lay more eggs when the space is full. If you pick them up straight away the hens can lay more eggs, of course, but then you'll have to be there to pick up eggs quite regularly. If there are no eggs around the hens, however, they lay new eggs more often. That is the only reason for the tower really 😃
Ok, thanks for the clarification.
I think I'll dig a hole to reduce the height of the tower then.
@@HandyHanderson I like that solution, and now I wish I had thought of that first 😆
is this iron frame in the middle for the fire too? cuz if i build it withou it i cant place the fire on top.
The iron in the middle is there only for the fire, yes 😃
Yeah, though so, i got my farm done too now. Looks sexy. Changed few looks
@@estlandian2432 Nice!
UPDATE: It is Jan 2023 as of this writing. This chicken farm, as built, does NOT keep bats out of the TOP during a "You Stirred The Cauldron" Raid on your base. I confirmed this by running TO the farm and standing inside the very moment the raid started. I lost three of the four chickens. I have no idea HOW the Bats get in. They just appear inside. It looks like they're "glitching" in, which is weird in itself. But this farm, as designed has now cost me many thousands in Gold re-buying Eggs over and over just trying to get it up and running to begin with. EDIT: As well, the chicks sometimes glitch through the lower upright wall and into the fire as soon as they hatch. This is driving me nuts.
As a fix to the bat problem I'm thinking about simply doubling the wall around the top part. Essentially building a room inside a room so the bats can't get to the inner room. ...unless they're coming in the triangle at the top of the X at the peak on both sides.
@@NorthernChev Hi! Thanks for telling me! It worked fine when I summoned a raid just after it all was built, but I think you're right about where they could get in. One could put up doors to the small spaces where the hens are, perhaps? Never experienced that glitch through the wall and into the fire that you described, and that must have been very frustrating!
@@splashopain So, last night I think I've solved the problem. The Hens, as designed, have the tendency to clip through the walls, so the bats can hit them. I took your exact build and then just built an additional room around the top part with a space between the walls wide enough to walk around. Basically a box inside a box. And, instead of Xs at the peaks, I switched them to Wood Wall 45s and integrated them into the two roofs. this seems to have solved the problem. As well, instead of putting the campfire (at the top) on the divider wall near the eggs I added an additional temporary divider wall underneath and put the campfire on the floor that you were sitting on farther back instead of up close. That solved the hatching and glitching into the fire problem. Hope that helps.
@@NorthernChev Great, thanks for sharing! 😃
I tried building this tower for the first time and I think it's not quite tall enough. You build the iron support 6 high (12m). The chickens need to be more than 10m away from the eggs to keep laying. Seems fine so far. But in the design the chickens end up being about 1m below the top of the iron support. Then the collection area for the cold eggs is 1m above the ground. Now we are right at 10m seperation between the chickens and the eggs. What I found was I would quickly get 2-4 eggs, then didn't seem to get anymore in the cold collection area. I lowered the collection platform to ground level so now it's a solid 11m from the chickens and am getting many more eggs.
Thanks for the update! Haven't had that problem myself, but it certainly is a possibility - well spotted! 😄
Similarly if you get too many Hens in the hatchery area and they start to stack a 2nd layer on top of each other it completely stops all breeding as well. If I feel like rebuilding I'll definitely make it 7 iron grates tall. That should make it a lot less finicky.
@@Anubi42 That is a good observation, thanks for mentioning that 😃 I never had that problem, since I started to remove the hens when they reached over the stone border at the bottom.
how often do you need to go up and get eggs that are stuck?
Haven't had to do that even once yet, but sometimes they fall through the roof pieces and land outside of the tower.
@@splashopain wonderful
Is this still a valid method? I think I've followed your video well, but the chickens just don't eat 😕
If the food isn't centered and if there isn't a small slit at the back end of the coop, the chickens can't reach the food. Try to place the smaller wall tiles in a V-shape to force the seeds towards the middle, I've had to do that once. Hope it helps! 😁
Edit: saw @ThreadMenace build the same coop on stream just a couple of days ago, it worked for him - it worked then, so I think it should still work.
My chickens keep turning face down in the chamber and wont eat. any tips?
Face down? Strange! The only tip I have is to use a door to make them move in the right position.
@splashopain OK so not sure what the issue was. I used the shingled roof and thought that may be the reason why. So I removed the angled piece on the left and used thatch as the vid shows. As soon as I finished the left(including newly placed chickens), the right started working. The right side is shingle and left is thatch. Both work!!. The door trick came in handy as well. Thank you for the guide
@@NeoIsTaken So weird! Glad you got it working 😄
muy lindo, saludos
¡Muchas gracias! No hablo mucho español, pero estoy aprendiendo 😆
As soon as I see a builder require a ton of iron for structural on a “simple” build, I instantly “swipe LEFT”…
I see what you're saying - it usually isn't an easy build when you need iron 🤣
it's not a "ton", it's not even that much....
@@Edcognito Not in my opinion either, but to each their own 😄