Chickens Shed Reforged

Non-lethal feather shedding for every bird in your world, not just chickens.

Chickens Shed Reforged is a from-scratch reimplementation of the original ChickensShed concept, letting birds periodically shed a feather while alive so players never have to kill one just to restock arrows and quills. Where the original required manually configuring which entity drops which item, this version auto-detects any bird, vanilla or modded, by scanning its own loot table for a feather item at world load. No config to maintain, nothing to declare, nothing that breaks when a new bird mod is added or removed.

Lineage

This project is a full standalone rebuild inspired by ChickensShed by llumina (also on Modrinth), the mod that brought the "shed a feather instead of dying for one" idea to 1.21.1. Chickens Shed Reforged does not share code with the original and is not affiliated with its author; it's a clean-room rewrite built to solve a persistence bug found in the original's config system, while extending the underlying idea to any bird rather than a hand-maintained list of mobs.

Features

• Automatic, per-entity detection, any bird whose death loot table contains a feather-named item sheds it while alive.
• No declared mob list anywhere in the mod or its config.
• Independent per-bird shed chance, adjustable via a simple two-value config.
• Supplementaries Mob Jar/Cage compatibility, generated automatically for whatever birds are present at build time.
• Designed to fully replace the original ChickensShed, with a built-in warning if both are accidentally installed together.

License: GPL-3.0-or-later Requires: NeoForge 21.1.215+, Minecraft 1.21.1

This will not be actively maintained! Please, if you need another version just unpack this and have at the code! Please do not sell or change licenses downstream, though.