This mod adds a whole new novelty item to Minecraft: the Chicken Launcher. Press the USE button (default: right-click) on a chicken to suck him up, and hold down and release the USE button to launch him again. The chicken will explode on impact. The launcher must be fully charged before firing a round. Max-capacity: 8.

– in-game description

Because, why not? This mod gives you the ability to craft a Chicken Launcher, a powerful (sort of) device capable of launching exploding chickens. How the chickens get that way is a mystery. Anyway, to start you have to craft the pieces of the launcher: the fore-grip, stock, and barrel (see recipes below). Then, combine the pieces with an Enderchest, and another stick for the handle. The product will be a zero-durability Chicken Launcher. To use this weapon, you have to find chickens. Right-click them to suck them up into the gun. (Don't worry, there's plenty of room due to the hyper-dimensional storage capabilities of Enderchests, they won't be crowded). The maximum amount of chickens the launcher can hold in it's magazine at one time is 8. To fire, hold down right-click (like a bow) and release to summon one of the stored chickens from out of the End and send him propelling through the air towards wherever you are aiming. BOOM – on impact. The chicken won't launch if you don't "charge" the shot all the way.

A configuration file will generate on first-use. Here you can alter the starting item ids, as well as toggle block-destruction and whether or not the gun requires ammo before firing. You can also adjust the explosion radius/strength. The default is set to 4.0, which is the same power as a TNT block. (3.0 is the strength of a Creeper blast, fyi). Have fun!

Don't shoot your eye out, kid!


Chicken Launcher by monkeyfunk26 is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.