Complete guide to Chicken variants in Minecraft and how to find them

Minecraft updates 1.21.5 (Spring To Life) has officially brought a new look to the animal ecosystem. After pigs and cows, it is now the turn of chickens to be upgraded with variations according to different climate zones. Let’s find out the location and characteristics of each type of chicken below!.

1. Things to know before catching chickens

To tame or lure chickens, keep the following seeds in your inventory:

• Wheat Seeds
• Beetroot Seeds
• Pumpkin Seeds

Hybridization mechanism: When you mate two different types of chickens, the chicks will randomly receive a variation from one of the parents.

2. Chicken variations in Minecraft 1.21.5

Warm Chicken

This variant possesses plumage earth brown color characteristic, helping them camouflage well in deserts and forests.

Characteristic: Lays eggs with brown tones similar to the plumage.

Where found:

• Savanna (Steppe), Savanna Plateau, Windswept Savanna.
• Jungle, Sparse Jungle, Bamboo Jungle.
• Badlands, Wooded Badlands, Eroded Badlands.

Cold Chicken

The Cold Zone Chicken gives an icy look to its feathers blue grayextremely in harmony with the snow-white environment.

Characteristic: They produce fruits blue eggs unique.

Where found:

• Taiga, Snowy Taiga, Old Growth Pine/Spruce Taiga.
• Windswept Hills, Windswept Forest, Windswept Gravelly Hill.

Temperate Chicken

This is the traditional white chicken that we are familiar with. In the new update, they are officially named Temperate Region Chickens.

Characteristic: White plumage, yellow beak and red crest. They lay white eggs and provide raw chicken meat and feathers when harvested.

Where found: Occurs in most other temperate climates, including:

• Forest, Flower Forest.
• Birch Forest, Old Growth Birch Forest.
• Dark Forest, Swamp.

“Colored Egg” system – A turning point for interior decoration

The fact that the new chicken variants lay different colored eggs (dark brown and blue) is more than just an item to throw. In the future, players can expect to be able to use these colored eggs to:

• Displayed in item frame (Item Frame): Create rare egg collections to decorate the base.
• Making dyeing materials: Maybe this will be a new source of natural dyes if Mojang updates the feature of extracting color from eggshells.

“Camouflage” strategy for the farm

Instead of building a boring open-air chicken coop, take advantage of their colors to design a farm in a style that harmonizes with nature:

• Cold Region Chicken Farm: Let’s combine with blocks Blue Ice and Snow. The color similarity between blue-gray chicken feathers and the environment will create a very “feng shui” and cool looking space.
• Warm Region Chicken Farm: Use blocks Mud or Fired bricks for background. Brown chickens will hide and appear, creating the feeling of a true wildlife sanctuary.

Minecraft “Geneticist” Challenge

A new entertainment activity for gamers is the breeding challenge. You can experiment with bringing chickens from the snowy area (Cold Chicken) to the desert area (Warm Chicken) to build a “Multi-climatic chicken zoo”.

Summary

The addition of chicken variations makes the Minecraft world more vivid and realistic than ever. Do you love warm brown fur, cool blue-gray or classic white? Please leave your comments below in the comments section!