Minecraft Chicken Sound Variant

Chicken Sound Variants

This content applies only to Java Edition.

Chicken sound variant definition files are the data-driven definitions of chicken sound variants in datapacks.

Definition format

Chicken sound variants use the CHICKEN_SOUND_VARIANT registry; the datapack path is chicken_sound_variant (definitions in data/<namespace>/chicken_sound_variant).

Definition files use JSON with the following structure:

• JSON file root object
  • adult_sounds (compound, required): sounds used by adult chickens. Each is a sound event (registry name or inline):
    • ambient_sound (idle), death_sound, hurt_sound, step_sound.
  • baby_sounds (compound, required): same format, for baby chickens.

Definition behavior

Chicken sound variant data is loaded only once at server startup; /reload does not reload it — a server restart is required. The CHICKEN_SOUND_VARIANT registry must have at least one element, or the game errors during sync and blocks world loading.

Chicken sound variants are independent of chicken variants; each spawned chicken randomly picks one registered sound variant.

Immediate sounds: hurt_sound, death_sound, step_sound. Random sounds: ambient_sound (idle).