Talk:Cow/Archive 1

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Image change
can someone change the image? the horn seems to be broken on this one :\/--Kizzycocoa 16:06, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
 * That's actually just the way they are, like the player skin's hat, they float next to the head. – ultradude25 ( T 03:15, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Old skin?
What was the old skin like? user:tygor97
 * In the article now. - Asterick6 (talk) 06:51, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

Three pieces of leather?
I've only seen 0, 1, and 2 pieces from a single cow. Is three pieces very rare or could it be a mistake? Pareidolon 22:16, 14 April 2011 (UTC)


 * i have recieved 3 lots many times, i guess your just unlucky (triangle1)
 * I have yet to see this happen. Confirmation (code or video) would be nice. Darkid 16:13, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Proper udders
Cows have always have those, that's why I removed it from this article. I can give you proof.  Isn't it also in the cows textures?

Tugut888 09:12, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

How often can you Milk a Cow?
Does a cow's milk regenerate? I never seem to be able to get multiple buckets off of one animal, no matter how long I wait. Am I just unlucky, or clicking poorly? --NinjaKitty 16:49, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Cows give milk randomly when you click them with a bucket, however if they are in water they will always produce milk for every click of a bucket

THE ABOVE IS A MYTH (not sure about the water bit)

If you trap a cow, immobile in a pen and stand under it, by which I mean, the cow is standing above the level of your head, you will NEVER fail to milk it. There is NO random aspect, no right place to click, there is no regeneration. To clarify: Cow stands at y:70 in an enclosed space and cannot move. You stand at y:68 bucket in hand and will NEVER fail to milk it (unless you fail to actually click the cow...)

Milking in SMP
No matter how much I try, I can't seem to milk a cow in smp. I've tried standing two blocks under it and trying to milk it away from it. Nothing's working. 76.121.162.74 17:12, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

Try milking it's ear, that's the only way i have ever got milk from a cow67.165.217.180 12:46, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Skin 'Glitch'
Not a glitch exactly, it's more of a design error. With the default skin, the bottom of the torso is not set quite right - The udder is offset by one pixel to the cow's right, making it look lopsided in relation to the 3D udder. This has been around since the cow was introduced. It's noticeable when looking at the cow from below. 131.251.252.22 02:01, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

No cows spawning
I have literally no cows at all spawning anywhere on my minecraft world, this is the same for Squid, sheep and pigs also. does anyone know why this is happening, and how I can get some to spawn? I have to use eggs just to have any chickens in my world.

As of beta 1.8 animals don't spawn anymore. Read the spawning section for more info.--
 * No, as of beta 1.8, animals don't "Despawn" anymore. Therefore once the limit has been reached in your world, no more animals will spawn unless you find where they have all wandered off to and kill them. --HexZyle 03:32, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I totally believed that animals don't despawn anymore, until I looked at my cow pen which has only ever had one cow in it (couldn't find any others except across the ocean), and found the pen empty. There's nowhere it could have gone except despawning, and hostile mobs can't get into my fortress since there's an 8-block-high stone brick wall with an overhang surrounding the whole area and the inside is well lit everywhere. 78.105.8.153 02:34, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Passive mobs can glitch through 1 block thick wall/fence when chunks are loadig — MiiNiPaaT 06:33, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
 * That explains how it got out of the pen, but how did it escape my fortress' 3-block-thick walls as well? 78.105.8.153 11:07, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Anyone else experiencing this? I haven't seen any cows on my server for weeks. I first noticed it with patch 1.4.3 and it's still the same on 1.4.5. Would be interested to find out if this is a bug. 81.149.57.143 01:55, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

I have also experienced a disturbing lack of cows on my 1.4.5 server. Starting to believe it may be a bug. 114.78.160.204 08:07, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

Same here. It's definitely a bug. Yesterday I've been flying around my world on creative for half an hour and I've encountered thousands of chickens, pigs and sheep, but no cows at all. Today I've stumbled upon a SINGLE COW, about 2k blocks from the spawn point. Never found any more cows after that. All of the other mobs seem spawning properly. 194.169.228.10 19:18, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Can confirm this behavior on SSP v1.4.6. No cows in a ridiculous radius around my spawnpoint, but heightened numbers of sheep and pigs. 188.108.121.2 11:34, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

How tall are baby cows?
I came to this article trying to find out if baby cows are less than 1 block tall (for a breeding machine I'm making), and the information isn't here. Does anyone know the dimensions of a baby cow, or how I could find out what they are? I think that information would be relevant and useful in this article.
 * I cant find the dimensions of a baby cow, but from my experience testing with them ive found out that baby animals may share the dimensions of their parents. I cant figure out a way to separate the 2, they wont even pass ladders.

Swamp biome
Currently, swamp is the only biome I've seen cows in. Do cows spawn only/mainly in swamps? (If so: If I'd have chosen, I wouldn't have picked swamp as the "home biome" of cows. A swamp is maybe one of the least likely locations of a cow herd!) Krijac98 19:52, 17 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Cows spawn almost everywhere, from deserts (rarely) to the new jungle biome. I have played in a few worlds where they only seem to spawn in swamps, however. This might be a glitch, or it might be an intentional feature that depends on the world's seed. --67.2.102.105 22:59, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

gender
hay dosent a cow male have horn and females dont. but females make milk and males do or know odd. Scarecrow1000 18:31, 29 March 2012 (UTC)


 * In real life, only females give milk (and only after they've had a calf). Some breeds have horns and some don't: I don't know of any breeds where only the male has horns, but there could be some, and in some breeds males have larger horns.


 * In Minecraft, however, there are no different sexes. 176.253.64.142 20:16, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

Cows DO climb ladders
I have an underwater breeding farm on an SMP server, and to get them underwater I had to push them down a hole. When I put ladders to climb up, the cows followed. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.141.156.4 (Talk) 05:43, 1 June 2012‎ (UTC). Please sign your posts with