Domesticated chickens should drop feathers along with eggs.

[Broccoli Clock]

As it says on the tin. I realise feathers are not hard to come by, and when you kill a chicken you tend to get a decent amount, but in terms of passive farming I think it's reasonable to assume domesticated chickens will drop feathers. This happens IRL.

I don't think this would mess with balance, as I'm talking just a couple of feathers every so often, not the amounts you get from killing a chicken.

Looked at the mod database, didn't see anything there. Unsure how easy this would be to mod, I guess you could extend the henbox class to somehow store the feathers but that's just a guess as the henbox at this moment is like loot on the ground rather than a storage container.

 

 

 

 

[Thorfinn]

Wouldn't be too terribly hard, no. Thought about doing it several times. If you wanted to keep things easy, they could ground-stack a single feather in the middle of an otherwise empty tile to encourage the use of larger enclosures. I've considered even a small rewrite so that they go after insects with preference, as in real life, and ignore the grain, so produce something closer to free-range eggs. As a kid, we used to run them in the garden, where they would keep the potato bugs and cutworms in check.

[Tom Cantine]

Certainly would've appreciated this for the months I went with only a couple of hens. I appreciated the fresh eggs, but I had nothing to write with.

[Maelstrom]

Speaking about feathers, I'd like to see feathers used in making higher tier beds.