[2.7.8] - 17/10/2026

New

• Thaumaturge chickens. Thaumium, Void Metal, Alchemical Brass, Quicksilver, Amber, Alumentum, Salis Mundus and Cinnabar chickens, plus one chicken for each of the seven crystals you find in the mines: Air, Water, Fire, Earth, Order, Entropy and Flux. They only appear if Thaumaturge is installed.
• Astral Sorcery chickens. Stardust, Starmetal, Rock Crystal, Celestial Crystal, Aquamarine, Resonating Gem and Lumen Crystal chickens. They only appear if Astral Sorcery is installed.
• Ultimate Armoury chickens. JoanFoite and Mushashite chickens, with their own textures. They appear if Ultimate Armoury: Tools And Weapons is installed.
• Allthemodium chickens. Allthemodium, Vibranium and Unobtainium, plus the three alloys that mix them.
• Ender IO Evolution chickens. Construction Alloy, Crude Steel, Crystalline Alloy, Crystalline Pink Slime, Energetic Silver, Melodic Alloy, Stellar Alloy and Vivid Alloy.
• Five new Henhouses: Mangrove, Cherry, Bamboo, Crimson and Warped. Same recipe as the others, just with the matching planks.

Improved

• All metal chickens now look like the Bronze Chicken, with the stacked-ingot body, each in its own colours. This covers Copper, Tin, Steel, Aluminium, Uranium, Iridium, Draconium, Manasteel, Elementium and the rest, and the new Thaumaturge and Astral Sorcery metals.
• The vanilla metal chickens too. The Iron, Gold and Netherite chickens use the same Bronze Chicken style, coloured like their ingots. The Netherite Chicken finally has its own texture.
• The item looks like the chicken you place. The chicken in your inventory now matches the chicken in the world for every metal.
• Many modded chickens now have their own texture instead of a coloured copy of the vanilla chicken. If you want to repaint one, its PNG is in textures/entity.

Changed

• Nadienite and Steel chickens now use the Ultimate Armoury ingots. Those ores moved from Ultimate Foods to Ultimate Armoury: Tools And Weapons, and the two chickens follow them, with colours taken from the new ingots.

Fixed

• Henhouse recipes. Every wooden Henhouse recipe used to give you the plain oak Henhouse, so Spruce, Birch, Jungle, Acacia and Dark Oak could not be crafted. Each recipe now gives the Henhouse of its own wood.
• Andesite Alloy Chicken never appeared when Create and Industrial Foregoing were installed together. They were fighting over the same chicken id, and the Andesite Alloy Chicken now has its own. Worlds that only had Create and already owned Andesite Alloy Chickens will lose them.
• Texture file names are all lowercase now. This avoids missing textures on Linux servers.

Removed

• Chickens created automatically from other mods. The mod no longer invents chickens for the mods you have installed: the Cobalt, Pig Iron, Manyullyn and Knightslime chickens, one chicken per Mekanism chemical, and one chicken per liquid are gone. Only chickens that are written out in the mod, in custom_chickens.toml or in KubeJS exist now. Chickens of those kinds disappear from existing worlds.