How I Accidentally Became a Factory Farmer in Minecraft

A Minecraft chicken coop. It is very crowded.

I needed arrows, that was all. In Minecraft, there are monsters that come out at night. I needed to fight them off, so I needed arrows.

In Minecraft, arrows require three things: flint for the arrowhead, sticks for the shaft, and feathers for the fletching. The first two are no problem. Flint drops sometimes when you dig through gravel, and generally you have a ton of…