New patch! You never asked for it but you will still have it! You're welcome!
Hello everyone!
And we have the solution for you! No more holidays for theses Gallus gallus domesticus! Put the chickens to work to provide energy to your cogs and pipes!
This is the new era of automation and this is only the beginning, many other possibilities will soon come in the next patches!

Oni made a guide to help you to understand how the new feature work!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1701258960
Adds: A new craft station: "Engineering Workbench" to access the new crafts
Cogs: allows you to carry mechanical energy from one point to another.
You can connect cogs with belts, you can use cogs of different sizes,
so you can controle the gear reduction.
Be careful not to make them turn too fast!
Handcrank: generate energy by the force of your arms.
Chicken wheel: generator of mechanical energy, allow you to produce
energy without having to lift a finger.
Mechanical craft stations: uses mechanical energy to craft new items:
Crusher: recycle some items
milling machine: transforms your wheat into flour
Milk separator: produces cream from milk
Pipes conveyors: pipes that allows you to transport items. You can
connect a pipe under a chest or a craft station to output items,
or above to set an input.
Mechanical conveyors: allows you to defy gravity and to move items
faster!
Changes: Chests have changed internally to allow pipes connexions (and future
additions with a new GUI/features...), so if you encouter a new problem
warn us.
Chickens jump at different heights depending on their rarity
This patch is the first of a serie of updates relative to energy and
automation. It's only the core of the first energy tier (mechanical energy)
that can be used directly at the beginning of the game.
Next updates will introduces new machines based on mechanical systems,
and new game mechanics.
Two next tiers will come later: steam and electricity.
Have a nice week!
We know!
We know what really upsets you until today...these chickens, noisy and invasive chickens which only know how to contemplate the emptiness of their existence through the prism of their perfidious eyes.And we have the solution for you! No more holidays for theses Gallus gallus domesticus! Put the chickens to work to provide energy to your cogs and pipes!
This is the new era of automation and this is only the beginning, many other possibilities will soon come in the next patches!

Oni made a guide to help you to understand how the new feature work!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1701258960
Changelog
Adds: A new craft station: "Engineering Workbench" to access the new crafts
Cogs: allows you to carry mechanical energy from one point to another.
You can connect cogs with belts, you can use cogs of different sizes,
so you can controle the gear reduction.
Be careful not to make them turn too fast!
Handcrank: generate energy by the force of your arms.
Chicken wheel: generator of mechanical energy, allow you to produce
energy without having to lift a finger.
Mechanical craft stations: uses mechanical energy to craft new items:
Crusher: recycle some items
milling machine: transforms your wheat into flour
Milk separator: produces cream from milk
Pipes conveyors: pipes that allows you to transport items. You can
connect a pipe under a chest or a craft station to output items,
or above to set an input.
Mechanical conveyors: allows you to defy gravity and to move items
faster!
Changes: Chests have changed internally to allow pipes connexions (and future
additions with a new GUI/features...), so if you encouter a new problem
warn us.
Chickens jump at different heights depending on their rarity
This patch is the first of a serie of updates relative to energy and
automation. It's only the core of the first energy tier (mechanical energy)
that can be used directly at the beginning of the game.
Next updates will introduces new machines based on mechanical systems,
and new game mechanics.
Two next tiers will come later: steam and electricity.
Have a nice week!