Talk:Sheep

Sheep drop 4 wool
Recently I have noticed sheep drop 4 units of wool. I don't have any mods. Anyone else have this?--Gekomees 19:18, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

Old Info
I'm not sure where to put this so I'm writing here because it's one of the relevant pages...

From what I understand, a Wiki should keep all their information up-to-date. Here we've jumble up stuff from Alpha and Survival Test. We must understand that they are all the same game, just in a different version. So putting their old drops and other old information in the main article just isn't right. But removing it won't do either, as they might serve as a memory of important milestones in the development of Minecraft.

So I propose to move all that data to a new "History" subsection in the article. I tried doing that but it was soon reverted because it was said that "History is not needed". If not, at least put it as a Trivia, and not in the Main article? --Scykei 14:11, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Reason to kill sheep
I thought I read somewhere that mobs stepping on tilled soil can also revert them to dirt, and destroy farming? If so, that would give another reason to kill sheep or pig. Please ignore if this is untrue. Meioziz 01:48, 10 November 2010 (CST)

Yes, you are correct, mobs stepping on tilled soil (farmland) will revert it to dirt, that would be a reason to kill them, but you could just place fences around. If you just HATE sheep, or you're finished with them, you could kill them. Anyways, pigs give you pork (I'm vegetarian D: so I have trouble surviving in Minecraft) so that already is a reason to kill them. Stinkbug22 22:18, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Nude sheep
Can someone please add a pic of a nude sheep?


 * I didMoonBeans 12:02, 28 November 2010 (CST)

Sheep eating
can someone add a pic of one?

Too Many Images?
With the recent update we've received a glut of new images of sheep in all colors, and I'm not entirely certain we need quite so many of them! Am I alone in this viewpoint or should we start pruning a few of them? - SoNick (Talk | Contribs) 00:51, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I just pruned two of them, since they are indeed beginning to become repetitive. I think that we should monitor this closely, and begin to remove similar pictures from the block, since one for each sheep seems alright enough by me, but more than one for each... well is getting to be a bit too much. -St. Fenix (User•Talk) 15:39, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Information about regrowing wool?
Has anyone done research about how long it takes for sheep's wool to regrow. And will a sheep that has been dyed and sheared continue to regrow wool of the dyed color? (thus saving dye and making a colored sheep farm theoretically practical for colored wool harvesting) - Londonbrig0 17:24, 14 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Sheep do not currently regrow wool. It was an aspect that Notch tested and then removed. Zephyriphoenix 15:51, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Does anyone know if the regrowth is true now that 1.8 is around? The animals seem to be persistent, as I have trapped 3 cows and 2 sheep, and have had them happily sitting in pens in my home for over a day's worth of play now.NinjaKitty

Rarity:
With the advent of different colored naturally occuring sheep, it seems to be apparent to me that some of them are rarer than others. I myself have a hard time finding Black sheep and using it to build with is fairly difficult, unless I sheer tons of White sheep that never stop spawning in my game, and dye that. So It's making me wonder, is there a way to tell if the sheep spawning is slanted towards more white than grey/black? And if we can prove it, it should be mentioned in the article. -St. Fenix (User•Talk) 15:41, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
 * The darker natural colours definitely appear with only a fraction of the frequency with which white ones do, but I've only got personal experience to go by and that's not good enough for the article. SteveZombie 10:21, 17 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I'd concur that colours other than white are much rarer, and see it as only common sense to put this in the article until somebody can come up with some hard statistics. After all, isn't the wiki built around user knowledge, the majority of which comes from playing the game itself?  Feel free to remove this if it breaches some regulation of the wiki.  (I should probably look over those.) Troagador 14:42, 19 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I'll look at the code for spawning sheep when I get the chance. And I'm almost certain there are dark grey sheep, seeing as I have dark grey wool (if I remember properly) in my chest. I'll check that tonight for sure. --Thevdude 00:41, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

White: 85% chanceLight gray: 5% chanceGray: 5% chanceBlack: 5% chance --Heldplayer 18:28, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Got this info from the server software, don't know if this is the same as in singleplayer:

triangle1: naturally spawning sheep, in order of rarity, are white (81.836% chance), black (5%), gray (5%), light gray (5%), brown (3%), and pink (0.164%). (directly from the trivia)

Stuck sheep?
I have this sheep here that will not move. It will turn around to look around and make BAAA noises, but it will not leave. Could someone explain why it is immobile? Is it because it is on the lower half of the stair?


 * Its stuck between the stair and the door, mobs do that somethimes, if you put a block with a sign on top of it and remove the block, chickens can get stuck under it at the same way as that sheep.

Brown Sheep?
Why are there no natural brown sheep? I have lots at home :P

it's not as blue as it looks 18:12, 17 March 2011 (UTC) I just found a natural brown sheep and took a screenshot...this must be new in the update

wrong trivia
I have discovered anerror at the trivia, The only naturally spawning sheep, in order of rarity, are black (5%), Gray (10%), Light Gray (15%) and White (85%). 5%+10%+15%+85%=115% I dont know what the just values are Ferry 18:52, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Never found a single pink sheep
I have found about 2 dozen brown sheep, but yet to find 1 pink sheep. ...3% to 0.164% is about 1 pink sheep for every 18 brown sheep. I've found about 24 so far, so why am I not getting any? :/ Cool12309(T 02:00, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
 * *shrug* I've found like 4 or 5 at this point.  They are really, really rare.  I'm sure I've found way more brown sheep than that though. --Warlock 02:06, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Sheep Everywhere!
I'm removing the "rapidly spawning sheep glitch" from the trivia section because the only citation is some 12-year old's youtube vid, could have very easily been done with SPC and there's no other mention elsewhere of this supposed bug. Caffeine 15:01, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Suffocating
I have recently tried suffocating sheep beneath sand, and it doesn't seem that they die. Another couple of interesting things happen e.g. they turn darkish (as if they were in nighttime). They are also hittable through the sand and die the same way as in under normal circumstances. They still jump and move as if they were trying to escape. I haven't tried out what happened to them if you shear them.

Can someone confirm this for the sake of research? --Kadinsky 19:39, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Anything that us inside a solid block looks dark because the block is blocking (excuse the unintentional pun) the light. I have noticed all of these same observations in SMP, but the block pushed the sheep out before it could even begin to suffocate.  Maybe that happened to you too?  Verhalthur (talk)(contribs) 19:51, 15 July 2011 (UTC)


 * I wouldn't seem to be doing that. The sheep is very much visible but he remains trapped. I will post a screencap some time tomorrow. Thanks for the reply! --Kadinsky 22:25, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Dimensions (mainly Height) of the mob
Pig = 1.875 blocks tall, 0.625 blocks wide and 1.25 blocks long.

Sheep = 1.25 blocks tall, 0.625 blocks wide and 1.4375 blocks long.

Where does this info come from? For me it seems to be quite the other way around. Pigs are noticeably shorter than sheep. Proof: http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s179/DeLiQuEnT013/Minecraft/01.png

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s179/DeLiQuEnT013/Minecraft/02.png

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s179/DeLiQuEnT013/Minecraft/03.png

I noticed this when pigs kept going through 1 block high holes all the time, but sheep weren't. Also I consider this somewhat important information for trap-planning. Can someone look into this and confirm the heights (all the dimensions) or correct it?

(Posted it on the Talk:Pig page too. Sorry if I shouldn't have.) Blaz 07:37, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

Are Brown Sheep more common in 1.8?
Title. I've found 6 brown sheep compared to about a two dozen white sheep, and no other colours. Has anyone else noticed this? Shellface 00:12, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't think so. You may have just gotten lucky. - Dermot Mac Flannchaidh 12:45, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Natural Sheared Sheep O_o
Hey guys, I've been playing this one map for a while now, and I've been seeing some sheep that were already sheared. I know it wasn't me because (until notch re-adds sheep wool regrowing) sheep become useless afterwards I slay them (cept the ones in my farm). I've seen at least 4-5 sheep without wool. Anyone else seen the streaker sheep? Geonightman 16:38, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Confirmed, I have had shawn sheep spawn. --Agouti 13:07, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

Sheared sheep
Sheared sheep can't be turned into Love mode, though they will still follow the player when he is holding Wheat

Some of this is false. Sheared sheep can still go into love mode and breed. I have done that before. --Amigopen The Gemini! 02:48, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

I've also turned shorn sheep into love mode, and had them breed. --NinjaKitty 22:02, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Baby sheep
The baby sheep image needs to be re-scaled to fit the other images in that infobox. --Ecksearoh 22:43, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Sheep Spawning behaviour
I've been playing in a SMP server for a while, and I'm positive of the following:

Sheep will only spawn in chunks which already contain a sheep (or if the chunk is created).

Colored sheep appear to also follow the same rules, as I have seen the same colored sheep repeatedly spawning in an area where there is one already (black, brown, light & dark grey).

For the above, sheep appear to keep their color code after being sheared.

If all the sheep are killed in a chunk, no more sheep will spawn there. I think this rule applies to other passive mobs (chickens, cows, pigs).

Sheep do spawn sheared on occasion.

While it doesn't appear that sheared sheep regrow, they can respawn as unsheared. --Agouti 13:11, 14 October 2011 (UTC)