chicken soul shard tier 2

[nate5899]

so i have a soul shard tier 2 chicken and it seems to not work. could someone help? thx

 

[Fuzzlewhumper]

I think they need to spawn on grass? Put down some dirt blocks near it and let grass grow. Don't know if it needs to be dark, don't think so.

 

[YX33A]

You'll get more help with some pictures of your setup, but here's some basic tips:

• T2 spawners still need you to be close to them, so make sure you are close enough to it for them to spawn
• Chickens are passive mobs. Ergo, you need dirt/grass, high light levels, and I think you only can have so many passive mobs spawned on a map at a time.
• If this is SMP, you may have encountered a different problem; douches who leave T5 spawners running 24/7 but can't kill all the mobs fast enough, meaning nothing spawns on the server until this issue is addressed.(preferably with a Antimatter Missile. Or twenty. And banning said douche)
• Last, Chickens aren't as tasty or useful as cows. Unless you're stockpiling feathers. In which case they are very handy, if sub-par otherwise.

My closing notes: MFR is my go to choice for killing things automatically, not just because of the Grinder(which is pretty sweet) but also the somewhat recently added Slaughterhouse block. Kind of like a Grinder in of that things get killed by it and you get some basic stuff for your trouble, but in this case you get raw "meat", waiting to be processed into bricks and eventually eaten. Also makes for a very cool building material.

 

[TangentialThreat]

Feathers and eggs are awesome for Thaumcraft, in which case you'll want a steady source of both cows and chickens. I do support violence against people who build poorly-designed T5 spawners and then leave them running 24/7 though. That reminds me, I need to build some sort of system that allows me to naga the site from orbit.

Chickens do indeed need grass at lower tiers. If you need just a few chickens then place just a few grass blocks.

 

[Kocyk]

T2 shard doesn't work for chickens, every creature that doesn't have "natural" spawners require at least T4 shard to spawn.

From Soul Shards thread:

Tier 4
- Requires 512 Kills
- Mobs from other worlds and that could not otherwise be found as spawners can be spawned.
-example: Blaze spawner in the overworld, enderman spawners, creeper spawners, etc.
- Mobs spawn whether player is near or not
- Mobs can spawn 4 at a time
- Mobs spawn 5 seconds apart