Cow

Cows are common passive mobs found in the Overworld.

Natural generation
Cows spawn in herds of 4 on top of grass blocks at the surface with at least 2 blocks of space above them, at a light level of 9 or higher. They spawn in herds while the world is first generating; although if there are no passive mobs in loaded chunks, a cow can spawn after world generation in normal spawning cycles.

Cows can also spawn inside animal pens in villages.

Bedrock Edition
They spawn in heards of 2-3 at light level 7 or higher. 5% of them will be calves when naturally spawned.

Breeding


If cows are given wheat, their love mode will be triggered, and they will pair off to create calves, which may grant the player a small amount of experience. The parent cows will then have a cooldown of 5 minutes before they can breed again.

The growth of baby cows can be slowly accelerated using wheat. Each use takes 10% off the remaining time to grow up.

Mooshrooms
Shearing a mooshroom will turn it into a cow.

Drops
Adult cows drop when they die (affected by looting):
 * 0–2
 * 1–3 if not killed on fire
 * 1–3 if killed on fire
 * 1–3 experience orbs

Cows can be milked by a bucket on them.

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

Behavior
Cows wander around slowly, mooing and breathing occasionally. They will avoid fire, lava and walking off cliffs high enough to cause fall damage. Like other passive mobs, they will flee around for a few seconds if harmed.

A cow will follow the player if they are holding wheat, but will stop if the player travels too far away (8 blocks).

Data values
Cows have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the mob. Their entity ID is.

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 tweet that all “breedable” peaceful mobs displayed traits of both genders and could breed with any other individual of their species. This applies to cows, since they have horns and give milk (although, in some breeds, female cows also have horns)

Gallery
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