Cow

A cow is a common passive mob, source of sponge, raw beef and milk. Cows are found in grassy biomes.

Natural generation
Herds of 2 to 3 cows spawn on grass blocks at a light level of 9 or higher with at least 2 block space above, except in snowy tundras and wooded badlands plateaus.

They spawn individually on grass after world generation. A cow spawns inside fowl runs and butchers' houses in villages.

5% spawn as calves.

Drops

 * 0–2 . The maximum amount is increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 5 with Looting III.
 * 1–3 ( if killed while on fire). The maximum amount is increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 6 with Looting III.
 * when killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Upon successful breeding,.

Like other baby animals, killing a baby cow yields no items nor experience.

Milking
A cow is milked by a bucket on it, yielding a milk bucket. Players can the milk bucket to consume the milk, which removes any status effects.

Behavior
A cow wanders around, mooing and breathing occasionally.

Cows avoid going to water, hazards and walking off cliffs high enough to cause fall damage. They flee for a few seconds when harmed.

Breeding
A cow follows a player who holds wheat but stops following if separated from the player by at least 6 blocks.

If cows are given wheat, they enter love mode and pair off to create calves, granting the player 1-7 experience. The parent cows have a cooldown of 5 minutes before they can breed again. Babies take 20 minutes to grow up and follow adults. The growth of baby cows can be slowly accelerated using wheat; each use takes 10% off of the remaining time to grow up.

Mooshrooms
Shearing a mooshroom turns it into a cow and drops 5 mushrooms corresponding to the type of mooshroom.

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

History
Historical sounds:

Trivia

 * Cows resemble Norwegian red cattle.
 * Cows in the PC Gamer Minecraft Demo are branded with a 'PCG' logo on their side.
 * Notch stated in a Tumblr post that all “breedable” peaceful mobs displayed traits of both genders and could breed with any other individual of their species. This applies to cows as they have horns and give milk (although, in some breeds, female cows also have horns).