What's up with chickens not laying eggs?

Discussion in 'Empire Help & Support' started by Fred_TWK, Aug 4, 2023.

  1. So, according to the wiki:

    1. chickens "that were not part of chicken jockeys lay an egg every five to ten minutes" "The theoretical average would be expected at 1 egg every 7.5 minutes, or 0.1333 eggs per minute." (second quote from the egg page)
    2. "When thrown by a dispenser or by pressing the use button, an egg has [...] a 31⁄256 chance of spawning 1 chick and a 1⁄256 chance of spawning four chicks"
    So:
    1/450 eggs/s * 35/256 spawns/egg = 35/115200 spawns/s = 35/1920 spawns/min = 35/32 spawns/hour (per chicken laying eggs)
    I have a setup where ~270 adult chickens lay eggs that are automatically picked by hoppers and then shot by dispenders. If a chicken spawns, is quickly moved/killed and does not affect the mobcap.
    I have been afk for 7/3 hours at this place
    So I would have expected
    35/32 spawns/hour * 270 * 7/3 hours = 66150/96 spawns ~ 689 spawns
    I got 63, less than 1/10th of what I was expecting.
    I tried to look into the drops, and to me it looks like there's way less eggs than expected.

    The EMC-wiki does not mention anything about eggs, exept in the context of spawn eggs, that's not the topic here.

    So what's going on? Were are my eggs? o.(o)
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  2. bump
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  3. We aren't doing anything to specifically change the egg dropping rate. I would imagine it is just a consequence of EAR (Entity Activation Range) and other general server performance changes to ensure the server can operate reasonably
  4. right, forgot about EAR there
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  5. You mean chickenEar obviously...
  6. we shut add car
    ( chickeneer activation range )
    note about the wiki i tink it cinda lacks spesific info about drops and oder important invormation
    but for the rest its ok
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