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Someone filled my Gold farm with chickens making it useless. Don't want them banned perm, just like a 2 week as a warning. But seriously Its a small gold farm only 16 portals, why do such a thing.

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thx

Baby pigmen sometimes spawn riding chickens. When you leave the farm, the baby riders despawn but the chickens don't.

cubeguy314 wrote:Baby pigmen sometimes spawn riding chickens. When you leave the farm, the baby riders despawn but the chickens don't.

If this is true this is probably what's happening. It's impossible for players to spawn chickens on your plot unless they are a member and I doubt Fouad did it. When I did take a peak in the grinder there was a ton of baby pigmen and chickens so this might be the issue.

thank you, never new that could happen

Chickens won't render a gold farm useless. They are part of the creature cap (friendly mobs), not the monster cap (hostile mobs). And they will be originating from baby pigmen jockeys - they float down any drop kill chutes without taking damage due to the chickens being able to fly, then after 20 minutes the pigmen grow from babies into adults and jump off the chickens.

One very easy way to test is to /trade when there are a bunch of chickens there and deload the chunks. If the chickens are gone when you return then there's no question that they were zombie pigman chickens as the game engine regards them as a hostile mob for despawning purposes. Also they won't ever lay eggs if they originally had a rider.

There are ways to flood your farm with chickens despite plot protection, but I'd be reasonably confident that this isn't happening and it's just the zombie pigman jockeys that are causing the problem.