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Hen are passive creatures that can only appear when an Egg hatches. They are the grown stage of Chickens.

Description[]

Hen are tameable birds that can reproduce and will lay eggs under certain conditions, including being fed with any of: Dandelion, Barley (not Barley flour), Beech seeds, Birch seeds, Carrot seeds, Onion seeds, or Turnip seeds.

Obtain[]

Hens are grown up chickens. A chicken will grow up after a certain amount of time (approximately two days) after an egg has hatched. Eggs can be bought for 1500 Coins from Haldor, or found as loot in Sealed Towers.

Drops[]

Item 0 Star
Feathers Feathers 1-2
Chicken meat Chicken meat 1


Notes[]

  • As Hens are tameable animals, they can be damaged by players only with a Butcher knife.
    • Despite this, players can indirectly damage both Hens and Chickens by using an Obliterator's lightning strike AoE[1] or by placing pufferfish in contact with them.
  • Chicken meat is used for Honey glazed chicken, one of the most potent HP-boosting foods in the game as of the Mistlands update.
  • Hens have 3 different colors: white, brown, white and brown. The probability of each color to appear seems to be 33% each.
  • Hens are unique among tameable animals in that they do not directly reproduce a young version; they lay an Egg instead, which must be warmed near a heat source in order to hatch into a Chicken.

See also[]

Gallery[]

  1. Chicken Breeder + Bulk Euthaniser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw7MIj3wWL4