About Free Range Chickens
NEW PLUGIN RELEASE: FREE RANGE CHICKENS (v1.7.3)
Before Considering this Plugin Please Read the Following:
1.This Mod Turns eggs into wild chickens within your Build area.
2. Is set at 5-10 chickens default because chickens make a lot of eggs.
3. Vanilla egg hoppers do not pick up Laid eggs, only dropped ones.
4. Ai made most of this and i couldn't add an egg hopper code to this to avoid the issue without breaking the main boundary codes.. So i made EGGHOPPER
5. NOT NEEDED TO USE BUT Pair this mod with a plugin like EGG-HOPPER
(What's Egg Hopper?) It turns a box into an egg-hopper that can pick up wild laid eggs, Limits the amount that can be in a box (deleting additional eggs)
and results in making this plugin have less impact on the server and look of your area.
Brought to you by H8M3 and AI (mostly AI)
Introducing Free Range Chickens—
TURN EGGS INTO LIVESTOCK... INSTANTLY!
No more waiting around for coops. Toss or drop a standard chicken egg onto the ground inside your Tool Cupboard (TC) zone, and watch it burst into a live, fully tracked chicken right before your eyes!
RESTRAINED BOUNDARY PROTECTION
Your chickens are smart, but the server is smarter. Our background tracking matrix checks your livestock every single second. If a chicken tries to escape your compound or wander past your TC borders, the boundary system handles it instantly.
DYNAMIC SUNRISE YIELDS
Wake up to a fresh harvest! Every single morning at game sunrise, your flock runs a customized 70% rolling chance to lay fresh, harvestable eggs directly onto your base floors.
REFINED LIFECYCLE AGING
Farming isn't static! Your chickens live an interactive lifecycle. To keep your farm active and highly engaging, chickens naturally age over time and stop laying eggs once they complete the first 25% of their total lifespan. Manage your flock, harvest the elders, and keep your production lines moving!
THIEF-PROOF ANTI-GRIEFING
Keep your hard work secure. If an enemy player or roamer gets into your compound, they can't touch your flock! The plugin blocks all incoming damage from unauthorized players. Only players authorized on your base TC have permission to harvest your livestock!
FreeRangeChickens Configuration Guide
Chicken & Spawning Settings
MaxChickensPerZone
(Default: 5)
The absolute maximum number of chickens allowed to exist at one time inside a single Tool Cupboard (TC) area.
LifespanInGameDays
(Default: 50.0)
How many in-game Rust days a chicken will live before it naturally dies of old age.
RustDayLengthInMinutes
(Default: 45.0)
How long a full day/night cycle lasts on your server in real-world minutes. Ensure this matches your server's time settings so chicken lifespans calculate accurately.
SafeSpawnHeightOffset
(Default: 1.2)
How high (in meters) above the dropped egg the chicken will physically spawn. This prevents chickens from getting stuck inside the ground or floors.
BoundaryCheckInterval
(Default: 1.0)
How often (in seconds) the system checks if a chicken has wandered outside of the TC area. If they escape, they are killed instantly.
Egg Laying Mechanics
EggLayChancePercent
(Default: 70.0)
The percent chance that a chicken will successfully lay an egg when the sun rises each morning.
EggLayCutoffPercentage
(Default: 25.0)
The point in a chicken's life where it gets "too old" and stops laying eggs. For example, at 25%, a chicken that lives for 450 minutes will stop laying eggs after its first 112.5 minutes.
ItemDropAmount
(Default: 1)
The number of eggs a chicken drops at a time when it successfully lays.
Technical Prefabs & Identifiers
ChickenPrefab
(Default: "assets/rust.ai/agents/chicken/chicken.prefab")
The internal Rust file path for the chicken asset. Do not change unless you want to spawn something else (like bears).
EggShortname
(Default: "egg")
The item shortname for the item that triggers hatching and laying.
ChickenCoopPrefabSnippet
(Default: "chickencoop")
A safety check keyword. Eggs dropped inside or by a vanilla Chicken Coop will be ignored by this plugin so they don't break vanilla mechanics.
Chat & Message Customization
ChatCommand
(Default: "farmcheck")
The command players type in game chat (e.g., /farmcheck) to see their current chicken count.
MessagePrefix
(Default: "[Chicken Farm]")
The text tag that shows up at the beginning of every chat message sent by this plugin.
LayingMessage
(Default: "Your chickens cluck happily...")
The broadcast message sent to players when their chickens successfully lay eggs.
MsgNotInsideTc
The error message sent if a player tries to run the chat command outside of a TC zone.
MsgFarmStatusHeader / MsgChickensInZone / MsgAvailableCapacity
The text labels used to build the status menu when checking a farm.
Color Codes (Hex Formats)
ColorPrefix
(Default: "#ffa500" - Orange)
The color of the [Chicken Farm] tag in chat.
ColorStatusFull
(Default: "#ff4d4d" - Red)
The color the chicken counter turns when a TC zone has reached its maximum capacity.
ColorStatusAvailable
(Default: "#4df3ff" - Cyan)
The color the chicken counter turns when there is still room left for more chickens to hatch.
