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This article is about the regular cow mob. For the cow mob covered with red mushrooms, see Mooshroom.

Cows are passive mobs found in the Overworld.

Spawning

Natural generation

Cows spawn in herds of 4 on top of opaque blocks with at least 2 blocks of space above them, at a light level of 9 or higher. They only spawn in herds while the world is first generating, on land.

Baby cow

Minicow

A calf compared to an adult cow.

Main article: 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 delay 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 0-2 leather, 1-3 raw beef (1-3 steak if killed by fire) and 1-3 experience.

Cows can be milked by using a bucket on it.

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

Behavior

Cows are 1.6875 blocks tall, 0.625 blocks wide, and 1.5 blocks long.

Cows tend to walk around slowly and aimlessly, mooing and breathing occasionally. They will avoid walking off cliffs high enough to cause fall damage, and usually stay out of water.

A cow will follow the player if he/she is holding wheat, but will stop if the player travels too far away (approximately 10 blocks).

In the Console Editions, cows are unaware of cliffs and holes in the ground, leading them to occasionally fall and die.

Achievements

Icon Achievement In-game description Actual requirements (if different) Gamerscore earned Trophy type (PS4)
PS4 Other
The LieBake a cake using: wheat, sugar, milk, and eggs.Pick up a cake from a crafting table output.30GBronze
Cow TipperHarvest some leather.Pick up leather from the ground.15GBronze
RepopulationBreed two cows with wheat.Breed two cows or two mooshrooms.15GBronze

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History

Alpha 1.0

The original cow skin without horns.

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1.0.8Added cows. They make noise similar to a kazoo and are black and white.
1.0.9Cows now make a more realistic cow sound.
1.0.14Added cow horns. Cows have a new look, brown with white spots, instead of black with white spots.
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1.8Updated cow AI as part of the first AI update; they now run away when attacked.
Added raw beef and steak.
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1.0.0Beta 1.9-pre3Added baby cows.
Cows can be bred with wheat.
1.2.112w07aUpdated cow AI.
1.4.212w38aAdded new step, hurt, and idle sounds.
1.814w02aBaby cow growth can be accelerated using wheat.
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0.3.0Cows were added.
0.6.0Baby cows were added.
Cows can now drop leather.
0.7.0Cow spawn eggs were added to creative.
0.8.0Cows are attracted to wheat and can be bred.
Improved cow AI.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1Added cows.
TU5Cows will run away when attacked.
TU7Added baby cows.
Cows can be bred with wheat.
TU14Baby cows can now be spawned by using Left trigger on an adult form of that mob using a spawn egg.

Issues

Issues relating to "Cow" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

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 female cows have horns)

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