Chaos Chickens

Unpredictable. Hilarious. Deadly.

Inject chaos into your Minecraft server or client with chickens that gain random traits, combat mutations, and rare boss behaviors.

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So, every time a chicken spawns in your world, there's a 35% chance it'll get a random chaos trait. We made it configurable because some servers want mild chaos and others want absolute mayhem.

The traits range from "annoying but funny" to "why is there a chicken summoning zombies at me?" Boss Chickens are the real endgame content though — they show up about 2% of the time, combine multiple traits, and hit like a truck.

This is maintained by the DemonZ Development community. If you want to tweak values, add traits, or report broken behavior, the GitHub repo and Discord are the best places.

What the traits actually do

The Boss variant is the highlight. It combines 3+ traits, has a custom boss bar, drops a Nether Star, and grants an advancement to whoever gets the final hit. It also has a few attacks — ground block launch and random lightning strikes — so bring armor.

Boss Chicken details

• Spawns with a BOSS Chicken tag and red boss bar
• 12 HP instead of the normal 4
• Weakness aura in a 16 block radius
• Won't teleport even if it has the Teleport trait
• Drops guaranteed Nether Star + diamonds

Supported platforms

• Bukkit / Spigot / Paper / Purpur: 1.20 through 26.x
• Folia: tested with region scheduling
• Fabric: 1.21 through 26.x
• Forge: 1.21 through 26.x

Singleplayer and multiplayer both work.

Quick setup

Bukkit / Paper / Spigot / Folia

1. Drop the JAR in plugins/
2. Restart
3. Edit plugins/ChaosChickens/config.yml
4. /cc reload

Fabric

1. Install Fabric API
2. Drop the mod in mods/
3. Launch and edit config/chaoschickens.json

Forge

1. Drop the mod in mods/
2. Launch and edit config/chaoschickens.json

The default trait chance is 35% and the boss spawn chance is 2%. Both are editable in the config if you want more or less chaos.

Building from source

Requires Java 17/21, Maven 3.8+, and Gradle 8.5+.

# Bukkit plugin
mvn clean package

# Fabric mod
./gradlew :fabric:build

# Forge mod
./gradlew :forge:build

More detail is on the Building from Source wiki page.

Analytics

This plugin uses bStats on the Bukkit/Paper side only. It tracks server count, player count, and which traits are active. You can disable it with bstats-enabled: false in config.yml.

License

Chaos Chickens is licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0.

Maintained by the DemonZ Development community, with lead development by Cyrus. Contributions are welcome — open an issue or PR if you want to add a trait, fix behavior, or improve docs.