Camron Blankenship
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I redesigned the farm to use flint and steel. Here's my post on Reddit explaining my findings and how I did the work-around.
It's not a detailed blueprint for the farm, but it explains the functionality of it. A little more expensive/complicated to build, but it has the exact same output and works as well as the old lava ones used to.
I've done testing and discovered the issue. It would seem that this isn't a bug, but rather a bug fix. Looking at lava damage, it's 4 per 0.5 seconds. Chickens have 4 health. So they should die instantly to lava. Prior to 1.14, if a chicken was a half block below the lava, as in the auto chicken farms, they would incorrectly take 1 damage per 0.5 seconds instead of 4. Thus, they would only get set on fire, then die from fire damage. So this change was actually a bug fix rather than a bug itself. So yes, it breaks the auto chicken farms, but they technically shouldn't have been possible to begin with.
I've done testing and discovered the issue. It would seem that this isn't a bug, but rather a bug fix. Looking at lava damage, it's 4 per 0.5 seconds. Chickens have 4 health. So they should die instantly to lava. Prior to 1.14, if a chicken was a half block below the lava, as in the auto chicken farms, they would incorrectly take 1 damage per 0.5 seconds instead of 4. Thus, they would only get set on fire, then die from fire damage. So this change was actually a bug fix rather than a bug itself. So yes, it breaks the auto chicken farms, but they technically shouldn't have been possible to begin with.
That's an easier change to the existing design than mine. I added a hopper clock to mine so it only activates flint and steel and throws new eggs once every 30 minutes. That ensures all chickens are fully grown. It's roughly twice the size of the old lava-style farm and at least twice the complexity. Anyway, try to spread that word that this in't a bug, it's actually working as intended now lol. Kinda sad, but we'll adapt.
GL HF