Added

• Modded chicken roster from More Chickens now loads automatically when the required items or tags exist, with retry support after tag reloads so late-loading mods are handled.
• Dynamic material chickens are generated at runtime for any ingot item your pack provides, complete with sensible names, Smart Chicken parentage, and config-driven overrides.
• Runtime texture tinting for those generated chickens keeps placeholder birds visually distinct by recoloring a shared template on the fly.
• Project now bundles the ModDevGradle tooling and contributor docs to make local builds and PR workflows easier.

Changed

• Roost and breeder machines regained their classic 1.12 presentation: original GUI sheets, curtain/hay block models, full-bright roost occupants, and properly aligned inventory icons.
• Machine blocks (roost, breeder, henhouse, collector) share unified harvesting rules, requiring an axe, granting mining stats, and matching vanilla exhaustion.
• Breeder blocks render with cutout transparency and no occlusion so curtains and gaps look correct, and the breeder progress tooltip only complains about seeds when the slot is empty.
• Chicken spawn-egg tooltips now use localized entity names, matching translations, and model predicate orderings were cleaned up to guarantee each egg renders with its correct texture.

Fixed

• Generated chicken registry bookkeeping is reset each load so placeholders don’t respawn after being superseded, and More-Chickens textures are copied during the build to prevent missing assets.