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The Sims 4: Cottage Livingsees your Sims able to live out a peaceful life in the countryside surrounded by nature. They can grow crops, raise cows, llamas and chickens, build up a supply of milk, wool, and eggs, and even show off their produce and animals at the village show.
Henford-On-Bagley is an idyllic place with winding rivers, rolling fields and rabbits and birds that are as wild as the village gossip. However, there are a few minor issues, the wild foxes being one. These creatures will stalk your chickens, and won’t leave them alone. Unless, of course, you have an evil chicken. What could possibly go wrong?
What Does An Evil Chicken Do?
An evil chicken is aspecially bred farmyard companionwhich won’t tolerate threats to your lot. It willward off foxes, vampires, and other intruders, including Grim.While you have to really upset a regular chicken for it to fight you, the evil chicken is much more easily swayed, so beware.
Make sure tokeep on its good sideand your home will be free from intruders, and itcould even save your lifeif Grim comes calling. However, upset the evil chicken at your peril, sincean evil chicken scorned is liable to start setting things on fire…
How To Set Up A Chicken Coop For Breeding
There are afew steps to go before you can breed an evil chicken, but they are simple enough to follow. First, you need to get abasic chicken breeding setup.
Set Up A Chicken Coop
To breed an evil chicken, you must first have chickens. The two options here are topurchase a Chicken Coop from Build/Buyfor $320, ormove into a lot with onealready there, such as theCordelia’s Secret Cottagestarter home.
Now you have a chicken coop, simplyclick on the coop in live mode and select ‘Purchase Chickens’.You can purchase up toeight chickens, which is the capacity of the coop, but if you want to breed them, you’ll need tomake sure there’s room for new chicks.
We recommendone hen and one rooster.This is just so you can keep track easily of the chicken treats and eggs. If you want to speed run, youcan have up to three pairs,but you’llneed more spicy treats.
Look After Your Chickens
Make sure tobuild a good relationship with your chickensby feeding them each day and socialising with them. You can click on the individual chickens tosocialise and hand feed themusing the menu. You can alsoclick the coop and select ‘scatter food nearby’to ensure they have extra food if required.
Your chickens need to be kept happy, sincehappy chickens are more likely to stick aroundand lay eggs. However, regular eggs aren’t going to give you evil chickens. You needobsidian eggs.
How To Get A Chicken To Lay Obsidian Eggs
Evil chickens grow fromhatchable obsidian eggs. In order to get these, you’ll need tofeed your chicken a spicy treat.
There are13 types of animal treatand you can get them by:
Once you’vefed an animal treatto one of your livestock, you’lllearn the recipeand can produce more in the future. The recipe you’ll need for spicy treats is:
If you feed these to a cow you’ll getfire milk, a llama will turn red and give youred wool,and a hen will lay anobsidian egg.
The game currently has a bug whereany animal you take to the Finchwick Fair will get permanently stuck in your inventory!We recommend only taking animal produce and crops until this is fixed.
You’ll need to make sure you havea rooster present in the coopin order to have a chance to gainhatchable obsidian eggs.This could take a few days, so you need tokeep feeding the chickens spicy treatseach day.
Where To Find Spicy Mushrooms
to make enough spicy treats to get a hatchable obsidian egg, you’ll needspicy mushrooms. However, youcannot just purchase or harvest themlike regular mushrooms.
You’ll need toharvest strange mushrooms,which yieldseveral different types of mushroom.These can be found inHenford-On-Bagley.
If you haveSeasonsinstalled, you’llonly be able to harvest spicy mushroomsfrom these clumps duringSummer and Winter.
Thefour locationsare all inThe Bramblewood neighbourhood.We usedCordelia’s Secret Cottageas our base andmarked this on the mapbelow, along with the approximate locations.
Marked Right to Left: Cordelia’s Secret Cottage, Bench By Waterfall, Snail Maze, Gazebo, Ruins.
From the house, walkdown the winding pathand head towards the waterfall. You’ll see apark benchoverlooking where the waterfall hits a flat area before cascading to the bottom. The mushrooms arejust to the left of the bench.
Continuefollowing this path straight downand keep to the main path until you hit thepublic bathroom. Here you may turn right andgo over the bridge.
On the other side,turn left, before heading immediately rightand going up the stepstowards the ruinsin the centre of the island. The mushroom patch here is between the ruined walls to theleft of the largest tree.
After this, head back down the stairs andretrace your steps.When you get tothe bridge, keep goingaround the edge of the island.You’ll soon seeanother bridge, this time a fallen tree, on the right-hand side, and aGazeboon your left. Themushroom patch is between these.
Once you’ve gathered these,head across the fallen tree bridge.On the other side,turn right, and you’ll see the mushroom patch,just before the entrance to Sophie Snail’s maze.
When you have the spicy mushrooms, you’ll also needany vegetable. You can grow vegetables in your garden, order them from the grocery delivery service, purchase from the food stall, or order a packet of starter veg. They can also be found around the world.
You’ll likely find a few regular mushrooms among your spicy mushroom harvest which you can use, so don’t get rid of these.
To craft the treats, select your fridge then navigate toMore Choices - Make Animal Treat.You’ll then get a pop-up menu and can choose from the list. Anything you can’t make yet will be greyed out.
How To Use Animal Treats To Turn A Chicken Evil
Once you have thespicy treats in your inventory, head over to your chickens. Make sure toselect a hen, and thenGive Feed - Spicy Treat.This will place a pile ofred seedon the ground and the hen should begin eating it.
If the chicken doesn’t eat the treat, try clicking on the pile of seed and using the call chicken to eat option.
A chicken which eats a spicy treat will lay an Obsidian Egg when it is next due to lay. However,it can take a few attempts to get an egg which is hatchable.
As long as there is aRooster in the coop, and thehen keeps eating spicy treatsyou will get one eventually. The happier the hen and rooster both are, the faster the process will be.
Hatching An Evil Chick
Once you have ahatchable eggsimply click on it in your inventory and selectIncubate In Coop.This will start the hatching process, which takes2-3 Sim days.
As long asa fox hasn’t disturbed the process,you will get an evil chick when the egg hatches. You can tell it’s evil due to both the notification and thefire in its eyes.
After a further 2-3 Sim days it willgrow up into an evil chicken.
Speeding Up The Process With Midnight Treats
If you want to skip the hatching process, you can do this with aMidnight Treat.The midnight treat willturn any chicken instantly into an evil chicken. However, it’s not as simple as you may think.
Crafting a Midnight Treat will require:
Theobsidian eggyou can get fromfeeding a hen a Spicy Treat, as detailed above, but the Cowberry Jam requires more effort.
You’ll need acowberry,which you canfish up fromthe locations in our Cow Plant guide. After this, you’ll need touse the newto make it into jam.
Once you’ve made the treatfeed it to any chicken to instantly turn them evil.
When a chicken eats a midnight treat, it becomes a completely new chicken, literally. Its name will be reset and so will your relationship with it.
How To Cheat To Get An Evil Chicken
If this all seems too time-consuming, you can alsocheat an evil chicken.To do this, follow these steps:
Ctrl + Shift + C (PC)
testingcheats on
Followed by:
bb.showhiddenobjects on
Once this is done, go into the search box in build mode andtype Debug then hit enter.You should seeDEBUGappear on the menu above the bar.Click on one of these.
This last step is not always necessary, but if the hidden objects don’t show straight away, this forces them.
You can now apply theCottage Living filterand in the build menu you will find the following:
You can simply takewhichever items you want to speed up the process, from egg right up to chicken. Once you have your evil chicken or rooster, simply click on it and select’Ask For Evil Chicken Help’and your home will be protected.
Thehigher your relationship with the chicken, the more fiercely it will guard your home.If your relationship turns sour, it willstart setting fire to things.So make sure to keep it fed and give it lots of attention!
