Earth:Midnight Chicken
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Midnight Chicken

| Health points |
4HP |
|---|---|
| Behavior |
Passive |
| Mob type | |
| Hitbox size |
Height: 0.7 blocks |
| Spawn | |
| Rarity |
Uncommon |
| Player journal description Darker than a block of coal, this chicken can be hard to see in shadows. Keep your eyes peeled! | |
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A midnight chicken was a passive mob and a dark-colored variant of the chicken found in Minecraft Earth.
Behavior
Main article: Chicken ยง Behavior
Midnight chickens had the same AI behavior as ordinary chickens. They wandered aimlessly, avoiding lava and cliffs that were enough to cause fall damage.
Obtaining
Midnight chickens were an uncommon mob drop from chicken tappables, with a 4.6% chance to get one. They were also obtainable as a reward in Season 17.
Drops
Midnight chickens laid an
egg every five to ten minutes.
When killed, midnight chickens dropped:
- 0-2
Feather - 1
Raw Chicken (
Cooked Chicken if killed while on fire)
Sounds
| Sounds | ||
|---|---|---|
| Sound | Description | Resource location |
| Randomly | mob | |
| Death | mob | |
| Hurt | mob | |
| Laying | mob | |
| Walking | mob | |
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID |
|---|---|---|
midnight_chicken | 5031 |
Challenges
| Challenge | Description | Reward | Rarity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Building a farm | Place 5 mobs on buildplates | 50XP | Common |
| Cluck! | Collect 5 chickens | 25XP | Common |
| Start a zoo | Place 15 mobs on a buildplate | 150XP | Uncommon |
| Zoo keeper | Collect 25 mobs | 150XP | Rare |
| Cluck cluck | Collect 1 chicken | ||
| On the farm | Collect 1 mob | ||
| Eggs and ham | Collect 1 chicken or pig | ||
| Adding life | Place 1 mob on a buildplate | ||
| Home farm | Collect 1 mob | ||
| Not so common | Collect 1 uncommon mob | ||
| New feathers | Collect 1 uncommon chicken | ||
| Mob booster | Collect 1 mob while xp boosted | ||
| Mob coaster | Place 1 mob in a minecart on a buildplate | ||
| Fire attack | Defeat 1 mob in an adventure with fire | ||
| Molten doom | Defeat 1 mob in an adventure with lava | ||
| Boom box | Defeat 1 mob with tnt | ||
| Hide and Seek | Collect 1 uncommon mob |
History
| Minecraft Earth | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.18.0 | |||||||
Trivia
- Midnight chickens were featured in the Season 3 prize map. The quest to get them was "Get a cluckshroom to lay 3 mushrooms on a buildplate."
- The real-life Ayam Cemani chicken is a dark chicken similar to the midnight chicken.
Gallery
-
Concept art of uncommon chickens including a Midnight Chicken. -
Concept art of uncommon chickens including a Midnight Chicken. -
Midnight chicken artwork.[1] -
Midnight Chicken journal icon. -
Midnight chicken texture file.
References
- โ "Most Chickens are early risers, but this new Mob is a bit of a night fowl. Welcome the Midnight Chicken in the latest update, along with:
๐ Epic Adventure Crystals
๐ Collectible stickers for your Player Journal
๐ Improvements & bug fixes
โฃ http://redsto.ne/earthclog โข" โ @minecraftearth on X (formerly Twitter), May 21, 2020
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