Chicken In Minecraft

This Minecraft tutorial explains all about chickens with screenshots and step-by-step instructions. Let’s learn about chickens in Minecraft.

Background

The following is a picture of what a chicken looks like in Minecraft:

Hostility Level	Passive Mob
Health Points	4 health points  x 2
Where to Find	In the Overworld on land
Weapon	None
Attack Method	Will never attack you
Drops	 Eggs  0-2 Feathers  1 Raw Chicken
Experience Points	1-3 experience points

Hostility Level (Passive)

A chicken is a passive mob. The term mob is short for mobile and is used to refer to all living, moving creatures in the game such as cows, creepers, and chickens. Because a chicken is a passive mob, it will never attack you in the game (Creative or Survival mode).

Health Points

In Minecraft, a chicken has 2 hearts

 for health. This gives a chicken 4 health points (because 1 heart = 2 health points). To kill a chicken, you need to inflict 4 points of damage to the chicken.

Where to Find Chickens

In Minecraft, chickens are found in most Overworld biomes on land. If you are having trouble finding a chicken, you can summon a chicken using a cheat or you can use a spawn egg.

Weapon

A chicken does not carry a weapon.

Attack Method

You are safe to walk near a chicken and it will not attack or cause you any damage. And if you attack a chicken, it will just try to run away. It will not attack you back.

Drops

When you kill a chicken in Minecraft, it will drop raw chicken and if you are very lucky, a feather.

Make sure you pick up any dropped items before they disappear. They are useful and should be kept in your inventory to be used later.

Experience Points

As you play the game, you will gain experience. The most common way to gain experience is by killing mobs. When a mob is killed you will see tiny green and yellow balls appear and move towards you.

These orbs represent experience points. When you kill a chicken, you will gain 1-3 experience points.

Spawn Egg for Chicken

You can spawn a chicken using the following spawn egg:

Chicken Spawn Egg

Things to Do with Chickens

Here are some activities that you can do with chickens in Minecraft:

How to Get an Egg from a Chicken

How to Grow a Chicken from Egg

How to Breed Chickens

Command Examples

Here are some game command examples for a chicken in Minecraft:

How to Summon a Chicken

NBT Tags for Chicken (Java Edition)

Here are the NBT tags (formerly called data tags) that you can use in game commands for a chicken in Java Edition:

NBT Tags for Chicken

Spawn Events for Chicken (Bedrock/Education)

Here are the spawn events that you can use in game commands for a chicken in Bedrock Edition and Education Edition:

Spawn Events for Chicken

Other Mobs

Here are some of the other mobs in Minecraft:

Allay
  Axolotl
Bat
  Bee
  Blaze
  Camel
Cat
Cave Spider
Cod
  Cow
  Creeper
Dolphin
Donkey
Drowned
Elder Guardian
  Ender Dragon
  Enderman
  Endermite
  Evoker
Fox
  Frog
  Ghast
  Giant
  Glow Squid
Goat
Guardian
Hoglin
  Horse
  Husk
Illusioner
  Iron Golem
Killer Bunny
  Llama
Magma Cube
  Mooshroom
Mule
Ocelot
Panda
  Parrot
  Phantom
  Pig
  Piglin
  Piglin Brute
  Pillager
  Polar Bear
Pufferfish
  Rabbit
  Ravager
  Salmon
  Sheep
  Shulker
Silverfish
Skeleton
Skeleton Horse
Slime
  Snow Golem
  Spider
Squid
Stray
Strider
Tadpole
Trader Llama
Tropical Fish
Turtle
Vex
Villager
Vindicator
Wandering Trader
Warden
Witch
Wither Boss
 Wither Skeleton
Wolf
Zoglin
Zombie
Zombie Horse
Zombified Piglin (Zombie Pigman)
Zombie Villager
NPC