Roost Ultimate

Catch, Breed, get Rich!

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StoneBlock 4 has a chicken for most of its resources: with Roost Ultimate an Iron Chicken lays iron ingots, a Diamond Chicken diamonds and a Nether Star Chicken nether stars. You catch chickens with a Chicken Stick, breed new kinds in a Breeder and put each one in a Roost with seeds of its tier. Start with an egg and a feather, which make the stick.

On this page

Your first chickens on StoneBlock 4
The Roost: seeds in, resources out
Souls and chicken seeds
Levels and the Chicken Trainer
Breeding chickens: the rules and tiers 2 and 3
Tiers 4 to 7: gold, diamonds, uranium and netherite
Chickens you craft: water, lava, certus, nether star and the endgame
Feeder, Collector and moving your machines
Water eggs, lava eggs, essences and enderium
Questions

Your first chickens on StoneBlock 4

Chickens that spawn on their own drop eggs and feathers. The pack's Loot Bee event can drop eggs too, and with luck the Chicken Jockey event lays one.

Craft a Chicken Stick: an egg, a stick and a feather in a column.
Right-click an adult chicken with the stick. It drops as an item you can carry, with its level kept. A vanilla chicken becomes a plain Chicken, which lays eggs in a Roost.
Right-click a vanilla chicken while holding a feather. It turns into a Feather Chicken, a tier 2 chicken, and the feather is used up.
Craft dyed eggs, an egg next to a dye of one colour, such as a Red Chicken Egg. Throw them: one egg in eight hatches a chicken of that colour, now and then four at once. The sixteen colour chickens are tier 1, and every bred chicken traces back to them.
Build a Roost, then a Soul Extractor and a Breeder, then a Chicken Trainer. The quests ask for them in that order.

Right-click a block with a chicken item to let it out again. A chicken in the world lays its item about every 5 minutes; a Roost is far faster.

The Roost: seeds in, resources out

A Roost is planks across the top and down both sides, with three Composters along the bottom. It takes one chicken and a stack of chicken seeds. The seeds must be the chicken's tier or higher: an Iron Chicken is tier 3, so it needs tier 3 seeds or better and ignores tier 1 and 2.

Every cycle uses one seed and gives the chicken's item. On our server a cycle lasts 0.25 seconds per tier of the chicken, so 1.25 seconds at tier 5 and 2.25 at tier 9. A Roost therefore eats seeds quickly; keep the slot filled from a Feeder, a hopper or a pipe.

A cycle gives one item plus one for every two levels of the chicken: six at level 10, and a full stack of 64 from level 126. The cycle waits until the output slot has room for all of it.

The Water Chicken lays a Water Egg every 5 seconds and the Lava Chicken a Lava Egg every 50 seconds, both on tier 2 seeds or better.

Open the Roost to rename it, which helps once a Feeder or Collector lists many. Switch Output on, or give the Roost a redstone pulse, and it pushes what it makes into the inventory directly below. Hoppers and pipes can also put seeds and chickens in and take the output from any side.

Souls and chicken seeds

Every chicken has a tier from 1 to 9, and seeds of each tier are made from souls of the same tier. A Soul Extractor is two crafting tables, two glass bottles, two bones, two furnaces and a Chicken Stick in the middle. Put chickens in: each one is used up and becomes a soul of its tier, 5 seconds apiece on our server. Keep a pair of every chicken you extract.

The seed recipes on StoneBlock 4:

Tier 1: One Tier 1 soul and eight wheat seeds make 8.
Tier 2: One Tier 2 soul and eight tier 1 seeds make 4.
Tier 3: One Tier 3 soul and six tier 2 seeds make 2.
Tier 4: One Tier 4 soul and six tier 3 seeds make 1.
Tier 5: Two Tier 5 souls and seven tier 4 seeds.
Tier 6: Three Tier 6 souls and six tier 5 seeds.
Tier 7: Four Tier 7 souls and five tier 6 seeds.
Tier 8: Four Tier 8 souls, a Block of Diamond and four tier 7 seeds.
Tier 9: Four Tier 9 souls, four Nether Stars and one tier 8 seed.

Seeds are crops. Plant them on farmland like wheat: a grown plant drops its seed back plus up to three more. The quests point out that one seed of each tier is enough to start a field, and that crouching next to crops makes them grow. A Garden Cloche grows any tier and gives three seeds of it each harvest.

The World Engine also turns three souls and a catalyst into one soul of the next tier. The catalysts, from tier 1 up: a Clay block, a Block of Redstone, a Block of Black Quartz, a Block of Diamond, a Block of Emerald, a Block of Platinum, a Nether Star and an Awakened Draconium Ingot.

Levels and the Chicken Trainer

A Chicken Trainer is two blaze rods and a clock along the top, three Breeders across the middle, and two golden carrots and an anvil along the bottom. Give it one chicken and seeds of any tier. Every 15 seconds on our server it eats a seed and gives the chicken that seed's XP. On StoneBlock 4 a chicken gains no XP inside a Roost, so the Trainer is the only way to level it. The top level is 128.

XP a chicken needs for each level, by its tier, and XP a seed gives, by the seed's tier:

Tier 1: 500 XP a level. A tier 1 seed gives 50.
Tier 2: 2,000 XP a level. A tier 2 seed gives 200.
Tier 3: 3,000 XP a level. A tier 3 seed gives 300.
Tier 4: 6,250 XP a level. A tier 4 seed gives 500.
Tier 5: 12,500 XP a level. A tier 5 seed gives 700.
Tier 6: 25,000 XP a level. A tier 6 seed gives 1,000.
Tier 7: 32,500 XP a level. A tier 7 seed gives 1,500.
Tier 8: 40,000 XP a level. A tier 8 seed gives 2,500.
Tier 9: 50,000 XP a level. A tier 9 seed gives 5,000.

XP left over when a chicken levels up is lost. An Iron Chicken (tier 3) needs ten tier 3 seeds a level, 150 seconds in the Trainer; a single tier 9 seed would level it as well. Every two levels add one item to each Roost cycle.

Breeding chickens: the rules and tiers 2 and 3

A Breeder is crafted from a Roost, a Chicken and a Chicken Stick. Put two chickens in the side slots and seeds in the middle. The parents stay; each child uses one seed, takes 15 seconds on our server and goes into one of nine output slots. Which side a parent sits on does not matter.

A new chicken of tier N needs seeds of tier N minus 1 or higher: tier 1 seeds for a tier 2 chicken, tier 2 seeds for an Iron Chicken.
Two of the same chicken make a third with seeds of their own tier or higher. That is how you copy any chicken, crafted ones included.
Two chickens let out in the world and fed seeds of their own tier also breed, and the chick follows the same pairs.

Tier 2, bred with tier 1 seeds or better:

Stone Chicken: Water + Gray. Lays Stone Essence.
Gravel Chicken: Stone + Gray. Lays gravel.
Flint Chicken: Gravel + Gray. Lays flint.
Sand Chicken: Stone + Yellow. Lays sand.
Oak Chicken: Brown + Green. Lays Wood Essence.
Feather Chicken: White + Chicken, or a feather on a vanilla chicken. Lays feathers.
Bone Chicken: Feather + White. Lays bones.
Ink Chicken: Water + Black. Lays ink sacs.
String Chicken: Ink + Oak. Lays string.
Clay Chicken: Water + Light Blue. Lays clay balls.
Snow Chicken: White + Water. Lays snowballs.
Netherrack Chicken: Stone + Red. Lays netherrack.
Tuff Chicken: Flint + Stone. Lays tuff.
Apple Chicken: Oak + Red. Lays apples.
Glow Berries Chicken: Apple + Bone. Lays glow berries.
Honeycomb Chicken: Glow Berries + Yellow. Lays honeycomb.
Dust Chicken: Stone + White. Lays Dust.

Tier 3, bred with tier 2 seeds or better:

Iron Chicken: Flint + Bone. Lays Iron Ingots.
Copper Chicken: Brown + Yellow. Lays copper ingots.
Coal Chicken: Flint + Oak. Lays coal.
Redstone Chicken: Red + Sand. Lays redstone.
Lapis Chicken: Blue + Stone. Lays lapis lazuli.
Nether Quartz Chicken: Stone + Iron. Lays nether quartz.
Glowstone Chicken: Nether Quartz + Yellow. Lays glowstone dust.
Nickel Chicken: Bone + Green. Lays nickel ingots.
Basalt Chicken: Coal + Nether Quartz. Lays basalt.
Leather Chicken: String + Brown. Lays leather.
Rotten Chicken: Pink + Bone. Lays rotten flesh.

Tiers 4 to 7: gold, diamonds, uranium and netherite

Tier 4, bred with tier 3 seeds or better:

Gold Chicken: Yellow + Iron. Lays gold ingots.
Glass Chicken: Coal + Sand. Lays glass.
Osmium Chicken: Iron + Nether Quartz. Lays Osmium Ingots.
Silver Chicken: Iron + Bone. Lays silver ingots.
Tin Chicken: Iron + Gray. Lays tin ingots.
Lead Chicken: Iron + Cyan. Lays lead ingots.
Aluminium Chicken: Flint + Iron. Lays aluminum ingots.
Zinc Chicken: Bone + Clay. Lays zinc ingots.
Silicon Chicken: Clay + Sand. Lays Silicon Gems.
Sulfur Chicken: Coal + Yellow. Lays Sulfur Dust.
Black Quartz Chicken: Nether Quartz + Black. Lays black quartz.
Rubber Chicken: Oak + Orange. Lays Dry Rubber.
Netherwart Chicken: Brown + Glowstone. Lays nether wart.
Soul Sand Chicken: Nether Quartz + Sand. Lays soul sand.
Soul Soil Chicken: Soul Sand + Rotten. Lays soul soil.
Spider Eye Chicken: Rotten + String. Lays spider eyes.
Fluorite Chicken: Blue + Nether Quartz. Lays Fluorite Gems.

Tier 5, bred with tier 4 seeds or better:

Diamond Chicken: Glass + Gold. Lays Diamonds.
Obsidian Chicken: Water + Lava. Lays obsidian.
Blaze Rod Chicken: Gold + Lava. Lays blaze rods.
Slime Chicken: Clay + Lime. Lays slimeballs.
Endstone Chicken: Stone + Light Gray. Lays end stone.
Prismarine Shard Chicken: Water + Lapis. Lays prismarine shards.
Niter Chicken: Sand + Sulfur. Lays niter gems.

Tier 6, bred with tier 5 seeds or better:

Emerald Chicken: Diamond + Green. Lays emeralds.
Ender Pearl Chicken: Diamond + Netherwart. Lays ender pearls.
Ghast Tear Chicken: Bone + Blaze Rod. Lays ghast tears.
Chorus Fruit Chicken: Purple + Endstone. Lays chorus fruit.
Breeze Chicken: Snow + Feather. Lays Breeze Rods.
Quartz Enriched Iron and Copper Chickens: Certus Quartz + Iron and Certus Quartz + Copper. They lay Refined Storage's quartz enriched iron and copper.

Tier 7, bred with tier 6 seeds or better:

Netherite Chicken: Diamond + Gold. Lays Netherite Scrap.
Uranium Chicken: Redstone + Ender Pearl. Lays Uranium Ingots.
Platinum Chicken: Nickel + Silver. Lays Platinum Ingots.
XP Chicken: Green + Emerald. Lays Bottles o' Enchanting.
Prismarine Crystal Chicken: Diamond + Nether Quartz. Lays prismarine crystals.
Amethyst Shard Chicken: Ghast Tear + Magenta. Lays amethyst shards.
Otherrock Chicken: Skystone + Stone. Lays Otherrock.

Chickens you craft: water, lava, certus, nether star and the endgame

These chickens are made, then copied in the Breeder like any other.

Water Chicken and Lava Chicken: Tier 2. Four water buckets (or lava buckets) in the corners, four tier 1 chickens on the sides and a Tier 1 soul in the middle. On StoneBlock 4 the tier 1 chickens are the sixteen colours and the plain Chicken.
Certus Quartz Chicken: Tier 5. Four sand in the corners, four Flawless Budding Certus Quartz on the sides and a Tier 5 soul in the middle. Lays Certus Quartz Crystals.
Nether Star Chicken: Tier 8. Four Netherite Chickens in the corners, four nether stars on the sides and a Tier 7 soul in the middle. Lays nether stars on tier 8 seeds.
Skystone Chicken: Tier 6, from the World Engine: a tier 6 seed, eight Awakened Feathers, four Otherrock and four Sky Steel Blocks, with 180 mB of liquid meat. Lays Sky Stone Dust.
Draconium Chicken: Tier 8, from the World Engine with its advanced machine upgrade at 625 °C or hotter: a tier 8 seed, eight Awakened Feathers, a Refined Soulstone and four Draconium Blocks, with 180 mB of liquid meat. Lays draconium ingots.
Awakened Draconium Chicken: Tier 9, by fusion crafting: a Draconium Chicken in the Fusion Crafting Core, and on the injectors two tier 9 seeds, two Tier 9 souls, two Small Chaos Fragments, two Awakened Feathers and four Awakened Draconium Blocks. Lays awakened draconium ingots.
Chaos Chicken: Tier 9. Fused from an Awakened Draconium Chicken with awakened draconium, Draconic Cores and Large Chaos Fragments. Lays tiny chaos fragments.
Timey Wimey Chicken: Tier 9, from the World Engine: a tier 9 seed, a Fortron infused block, eight Awakened Feathers, four Time Crystals, 36 Time Steel and a Cuckoo Clock, with liquid meat and 4,000 mB of time fluid. Lays time crystals.
Neutronium Chicken: Tier 9, from the World Engine with its machine block, advanced machine, draconic, resonant void and dark void upgrades: a tier 9 seed, eight Awakened Feathers, a Heavy Core and four Neutronium Blocks, with liquid meat. Lays neutron piles.
Antimatter Chicken: Tier 9. A Neutronium Chicken and 10,000 mB of antimatter in the Antiprotonic Nucleosynthesizer. Lays Antimatter Pellets.

Feeder, Collector and moving your machines

Roost Feeder: Seven blocks of redstone around an ender pearl at the top and a block of diamond in the middle. It holds 54 stacks of seeds and sends them to the Roosts you tick in its screen. For each Roost you can drop a seed in a filter slot so it only gets that tier, send one seed, half a stack or a full stack at a time, and take turns between Roosts.
Roost Collector: Seven logs around an ender pearl at the top and a block of gold in the middle. It holds 54 stacks and pulls the output out of the Roosts you tick.

Both reach Roosts from 5 to 30 blocks away; set the range with the plus and minus buttons. They serve Roosts only, so Breeders and Trainers are filled by hand, hopper or pipe.

Shift-right-click any Roost Ultimate block with the Chicken Stick to pick it up. A Roost, Breeder, Trainer or Collector keeps what is inside and carries on when you place it again.

StoneBlock 4 removes the Ultimate Chicken Storage, so there is no recipe for it on our server.

Water eggs, lava eggs, essences and enderium

Water Egg and Lava Egg: Each holds 1,000 mB. Right-click to pour it as a source block, craft it with a bucket for a full bucket, or empty it in Create's Item Drain. On StoneBlock 4 they count as water and lava buckets in recipes that take any.
Stone Essence: Three craft six stone, cobblestone, andesite, diorite or granite. The shape you lay them in picks which.
Wood Essence: Three craft six logs of acacia, birch, cherry, dark oak, jungle, mangrove, oak or spruce, again by shape.
Enderium Ingot: StoneBlock 4 uses this one as its enderium. The Enderic Infuser makes 18 from eight ender pearls, a Dragon Egg and 1,000 mB of Fortron, and molten enderium casts into it with an Ingot Cast.

Questions

How do I get chickens in StoneBlock 4?

Craft a Chicken Stick from an egg, a stick and a feather, then right-click an adult chicken with it to pick it up. For the colour chickens, craft an egg with a dye and throw it: one egg in eight hatches. A feather used on a vanilla chicken turns it into a Feather Chicken.

How do I get an Iron Chicken in StoneBlock 4?

Breed a Flint Chicken with a Bone Chicken on tier 2 seeds or better. Flint comes from Gravel + Gray, Gravel from Stone + Gray, Stone from Water + Gray, and Bone from Feather + White. Craft the Water Chicken from four water buckets, four tier 1 chickens and a Tier 1 soul. In a Roost the Iron Chicken needs tier 3 seeds.

How do I get a Diamond Chicken in StoneBlock 4?

Breed a Glass Chicken (Coal + Sand) with a Gold Chicken (Yellow + Iron) on tier 4 seeds or better. It is tier 5, so it lays diamonds on tier 5 seeds. Diamond + Gold on tier 6 seeds then gives the Netherite Chicken.

How do I make tier 2 seeds and higher?

Put a tier 2 chicken in a Soul Extractor for a Tier 2 soul and craft it with eight tier 1 seeds into four tier 2 seeds. The quests suggest the crafted Water and Lava chickens for this. Each tier works the same way from souls of that tier, and the seeds can be planted to multiply.

Why is my Roost not producing?

The seeds must be the chicken's tier or higher: an Iron Chicken is tier 3 and ignores tier 1 and 2 seeds. The output slot also needs room for a whole cycle, so empty it, pipe it out, or switch Output on to push into a chest below.

How do I level up chickens on StoneBlock 4?

Only in the Chicken Trainer, because on our server chickens gain no XP inside a Roost. A seed gives 50 XP at tier 1 up to 5,000 at tier 9, and a level costs 500 XP for a tier 1 chicken up to 50,000 for tier 9. Every two levels add one item to each Roost cycle, up to level 128.

How do I get the Nether Star Chicken?

Craft it from four Netherite Chickens in the corners, four nether stars on the sides and a Tier 7 soul in the middle. The Netherite Chicken is a Diamond Chicken bred with a Gold Chicken on tier 6 seeds.

Can I breed two chickens of the same kind?

Yes. Two of the same chicken in a Breeder make a third on seeds of their own tier or higher, and both parents stay. This also copies chickens you can only craft, such as the Water, Nether Star or Draconium chickens.

Written from Roost Ultimate 4.1.0, the jar the server runs, and its server config, the Roost Ultimate wiki and the Roost Ultimate source code, and checked against this world’s recipes on 23 October 2026.