Cow

A cow is a passive mob found in most grassy biomes and a source of leather, beef and milk.

Spawning
Cows spawn in small herds above grass blocks. However, their spawn rate varies per biome. Most cows spawn as adults, but they have a 5% chance of spawning as a calf, or baby cow.

$$, herds of two to three cows spawn during world generation in grass blocks at a light level of 9 or higher with at least 2 blocks of space above, except in snowy taigas, snowy plains, meadows, mangrove swamps and wooded badlands. Cows commonly spawn individually above grass afterwards.

$$, herds of four cows spawn during world generation on grass blocks at a light level of 7 or higher with at least 2 blocks of space above, except in snowy plains, meadows, mangrove swamps and wooded badlands. Cows rarely spawn individually above grass after world generation.

A cow sometimes spawns inside animal pens and butchers' houses in villages. Shearing a mooshroom turns it into a cow and drops 5 mushrooms corresponding to the type of mooshroom.

Drops
Adult cows drop:
 * 0 to 2 . The maximum amount is increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 5 with Looting III.
 * 1 to 3 or  if killed while on fire. The maximum amount is increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 6 with Looting III.
 * experience orbs are dropped when killed by a player or tamed wolf.
 * experience orbs upon successful breeding.

Killing a calf yields no items nor experience.

Behavior
A cow wanders around aimlessly, mooing and huffing in small herds occasionally. An adult cow can be milked by a bucket on it, yielding a milk bucket. A cow run away for a few seconds when harmed. Additionally, cows tend to:
 * stay and go to lit and grassy places.
 * sometimes look at players within eight horizontal and four vertical blocks for two to four seconds.
 * avoid going to water unless they are following players and always avoid traversing minecart rails and walking off cliffs high enough to cause fall damage.
 * avoid environmental hazards, such as fire, lava, cactus, sweet berry bushes or dripstone, but make no attempts to avoid explosions.
 * cows can step on pressure plates, jump on dripleaves or farmland and climb ladders, stairs, vines and cave vines.

A cow follows a player who holds wheat but stops following if separated from the player by at least six blocks. Adult cows enter breeding and pair off to create calves after they are given wheat, granting the player one to seven experience orbs. The parent cows have a cooldown off five minutes before they can breed again. Calves follow adult cows and take 20 minutes to grow up. The growth of calves can be accelerated using wheat; each use reduces the remaining growth duration by 10%. A calf attempts to stay close to the nearest available block to its parent, even if no path can be found. However, if the calf is separated from its parent by more than 24 blocks, it searches for another adult cow.

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Entity data
Cows have entity data associated with them that contain various properties.




 * See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.
 * See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.