Diamond Chicken

This article documents an April Fools' joke.

This feature was exclusively part of a joke version and is not currently planned for addition to regular Minecraft.
It is documented here on the wiki due to being officially-released content by Mojang Studios, even if not present in a final version.

Diamond chickens were a rare joke variant of chicken present in the April Fool's Java Edition 2.0 that lays Lapis Lazulis or Diamonds instead of eggs.

Spawn

Diamond chickens spawn under normal chicken spawning conditions, but only with 7% chance.

Behavior

As chickens were modified in 2.0 to display neutral behavior, diamond chickens are also neutral.

Diamond chickens lay diamonds and lapis lazuli instead of eggs like normal chickens. They also have a 5% chance to explode instead of laying an item.

Data values

ID

Name	Savegame ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Diamond Chicken	`Chicken`	`93`	`entity.Chicken.name`

Entity data

Diamond chickens share their ID with chickens, with an additional DiamondChicken boolean to determine if a specified chicken is a diamond chicken.

History

Java Edition
2.0					Added the diamond chicken.

Entities