Cow

Health points	10
Behavior	Passive
Hitbox size	*In Java Edition:* Adult: Height: 1.4 Blocks Width: 0.9 Blocks Baby: Height: 0.7 Blocks Width: 0.45 Blocks In Bedrock Edition: Adult: Height: 1.3 Blocks Width: 0.9 Blocks Baby: Height: 0.65 Blocks Width: 0.45 Blocks
Spawn	Grass blocks with at least two blocks of space above them. After shearing a mooshroom.
Items usable on	Bucket Wheat Lead

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

Spawning

Natural generation

Herds of 2 to 3 cows spawn on grass blocks at a light level of 9 or higher with at least 2 blocks of 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 Leather. The maximum amount is increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 5 with Looting III.
1–3 Raw Beef (Steak if killed while on fire). The maximum amount is increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 6 with Looting III.
1–3 when killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Upon successful breeding, 1–7.

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

Milking

An adult cow can be milked by using a bucket on it, yielding a milk bucket. Players can use the milk bucket to consume the milk, which removes any status effects and returns an empty bucket to the player's inventory.

Behavior

A cow wanders around, mooing and huffing 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.

Baby cows follow adult cows.

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. 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.

Sounds

Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Cow moos	Friendly Creatures	Randomly from adult	`entity.cow.ambient`	`subtitles.entity.cow.ambient`	0.4	0.8 - 1.2	16
Cow moos	Friendly Creatures	Randomly from baby	`entity.cow.ambient`	`subtitles.entity.cow.ambient`	0.4	1.3 - 1.7	16
Cow dies	Friendly Creatures	When adult cow dies	`entity.cow.death`	`subtitles.entity.cow.death`	0.4	0.8 - 1.2	16
Cow dies	Friendly Creatures	When baby cow dies	`entity.cow.death`	`subtitles.entity.cow.death`	0.4	1.3 - 1.7	16
Cow hurts	Friendly Creatures	When adult cow takes damage	`entity.cow.hurt`	`subtitles.entity.cow.hurt`	0.4	0.8 - 1.0	16
Cow hurts	Friendly Creatures	When baby cow takes damage	`entity.cow.hurt`	`subtitles.entity.cow.hurt`	0.4	1.3 - 1.7	16
Cow gets milked	Players	When a player milks a cow	`entity.cow.milk`	`subtitles.entity.cow.milk`	1.0	1.0	16
Footsteps	Friendly Creatures	When cow walks	`entity.cow.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.15	1.0	16

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Translation key
Cow	`cow`	`entity.minecraft.cow`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Cow	`cow`	`11`	`entity.cow.name`

Entity data

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

Entity data
- Additional fields for mobs that can breed
- Tags common to all entities
- Tags common to all mobs

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
		Cow Tipper	Harvest some leather.	Pick up leather from the ground.	15G	Bronze
		Repopulation	Breed two cows with wheat.	Breed two cows or two mooshrooms.	15G	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Namespaced ID
	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed two animals together	Husbandry	Breed a pair of any of these 21 mobs:‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.17]} Axolotl‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.17]} Bee Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Goat‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.17]} Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Strider Turtle Wolf A trader llama does not count as a llama, and a mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breed-able together. Other breed-able mobs, if any, can be bred, but are ignored for this advancement.	`husbandry/breed_an_animal`
	Two by Two	Breed all the animals!	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed pairs of each of these 21 mobs:‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.17]} Axolotl‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.17]} Bee Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Goat‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.17]} Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Strider Turtle Wolf A trader llama does not count as a llama, and a mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breed-able together. Other breed-able mobs, if any, can be bred, but are ignored for this advancement.	`husbandry/bred_all_animals`

History

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The specific instructions are: 12w05a changes

Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.8					Added cows.
					Cows are currently black and white.
					Cows exhibit strange sounds.
v1.0.9					Cows now emanate a new and realistic bovine sound.
v1.0.14					Added horns to cows. Cows now have a new look, brown with white spots, instead of black with white spots and have a 3D udder.
Java Edition Beta
1.3					The position of the cow's horns has been changed.
1.8		Pre-release			Cows now run away when attacked.
1.8		Pre-release			Added raw beef and steak, which are now dropped from cows.
Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3			The cow's horns have been moved, once again.
					The cow udder's model has been changed from to .
					Added calves.
					Cows can now be bred with wheat.
		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6			The texture of the cow's back has been changed from to .
1.2.1		12w07a			The cow AI has been updated.
1.2.1		12w07a			Cows can no longer be bred with mooshrooms.
1.4.2		12w38a			Cow's sounds has been changed.
1.8		14w02a			Calf growth can now be accelerated using wheat.
1.9		15w39a			Cows are now slightly taller (1.4 blocks tall rather than 1.3, with babies 0.7 blocks tall rather than 0.65).
1.9		15w50a			Added a sound when the player milks a cow: `entity.cow.milk`.
1.10		16w20a			Cows no longer spawn in snowy tundras.
1.11		16w32a			The entity ID for cows have been changed from `Cow` to `cow`.
1.14		18w43a			The textures of the cow and calf have been changed.
1.15		19w37a			Five percent of cows now spawn as babies.
1.15		19w39a			The models of the calves have been changed.
1.16		pre1			Cows can now be milked in Creative mode.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.3.0					Added cows with old sounds.
v0.6.0					Added calves that spawn naturally 25% of times.
v0.6.0					Cows can now drop leather.
v0.7.0					Cow spawn eggs have been added to creative.
v0.8.0		build 2			Cows are now attracted to wheat and can now be bred.
v0.8.0		build 2			The cow AI has been improved, cows now avoid falls, fire, water, cactus and lava.
v0.12.1		build 1			The cow sounds have been updated.
v0.14.0		build 1			Baby zombie jockeys now check for nearby cows to mount prior to attacking the player, villager or golem.
v0.14.0		build 1			Cows no longer spawn in snowy tundra biomes and variants.
v0.15.0		build 1			Baby husks can now mount cows.
?					The chance of baby cows spawning instead of adults has been reduced to five percent.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The textures of the cow and calf have been changed.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Cows spawn in animal pens in villages.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added cows.
TU1					Cows do not run away when attacked.
TU5					Cows now run away when attacked.
TU7					Added calves.
TU7					Cows can now be bred with wheat.
TU14		1.04			Using a cow spawn egg, calves can now be spawned by using on an adult cow.
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		Calf growth can now be accelerated using wheat.
TU43	CU33	1.36	Patch 13		The baby cow's sounds have been updated.
		1.90			The textures of the cow and calf has been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added cows and calves.

Historical sounds:

Sound	From	to	Pitch
Idle	Alpha v1.0.8	Alpha v1.0.9	?
Hurt	Alpha v1.0.8	Alpha v1.0.9	?
Idle	Alpha v1.0.9	1.4.2	?
Hurt/Die	Alpha v1.0.9	1.4.2	?

Issues

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Trivia

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.^[1] This applies to cows as they have horns and give milk (although, in some breeds, female cows also have horns).