Goat

For the DLC mob in Minecraft Dungeons, see MCD:Goat.

Goat

Health points	10
Behavior	Neutral Passive (Peaceful difficulty)
Attack strength	Easy: 1 Normal: 2 Hard: 3
Hitbox size	Adult: Height: 0.9 Blocks Width: 1.3 Blocks Baby: Height: 0.45 Blocks Width: 0.65 Blocks
Spawn	Mountains‌[JE only] Snowy Slopes‌[BE only]
Items usable on	Bucket Wheat Lead

Goats are neutral mobs found in mountains.

Spawning

Groups of 2 to 3 goats spawn above opaque blocks on the mountains‌^{[Java Edition only]} or snowy slopes‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} biome at the surface at a light level of 7 or higher.

In Java Edition, when a goat is spawned or born, it has a 2.0% chance of being a screaming goat. They look identical to all other goats, the only difference being that they make screaming sounds.

Behavior

Sometimes, a goat jumps up to 10 blocks high into the air. This usually happens if the goat is trying to cross an obstacle like a small hole in the ground or powder snow.

Goats take 20 × 10 less fall damage and also avoid walking into powder snow. While avoiding walking over powder snow, they also might jump over it, sometimes even in a narrow jumping area.

Attacking

Every 10–15 seconds, if a goat has seen a mob (except for other goats) or player who has not moved during the checking interval, it attacks by ramming from up to 16 blocks away. After choosing something to ram against, the goat performs a small charging animation, then runs quickly toward the target, dealing up to 9 blocks of knockback from the collision. If the attack knocks the player off a mountain peak, the player can suffer a damaging or even fatal fall.

If the goat misses and instead hits a block, it has a chance of dropping a goat horn. If both horns are dropped, then no more goat horns are dropped when the goat charges a block. ‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Goats do not attack back if attacked by a player or mob. When attacked, they exhibit the same panicky fleeing that passive mobs exhibit.

Breeding

Main article: Breeding

Goats follow players that are within 10 blocks who are holding wheat. If goats are fed wheat, they enter love mode and breed. Like other animals that can breed, the player is granted 1–7 experience when they are bred.

Drops

Goats drop 1 goat horn when struck against a solid block, can be dropped two times per goat.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Upon successful breeding, 1–7 is dropped.

Upon death, adult goats drop:

• 1–2 raw mutton (cooked mutton if killed while on fire). The maximum amount is increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 1–5 with Looting III. ‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}
• 1–3 when killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Killing a baby goat yields no items nor experience.

Milking

A goat is milked by using a bucket on it, yielding a milk bucket.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Goat bleats	Friendly Creatures	Randomly from regular goat	entity.goat.ambient	subtitles.entity.goat.ambient	?	?	?
	Goat bellows	Friendly Creatures	Randomly from screaming goat	entity.goat.screaming.ambient	subtitles.entity.goat.screaming.ambient	?	?	?
	Goat dies	Friendly Creatures	Regular goat dying	entity.goat.death	subtitles.entity.goat.death	?	?	?
	Goat dies	Friendly Creatures	Screaming goat dying	entity.goat.screaming.death	subtitles.entity.goat.death	?	?	?
	Goat hurts	Friendly Creatures	Regular goat gets hurt	entity.goat.hurt	subtitles.entity.goat.hurt	?	?	?
	Goat hurts	Friendly Creatures	Screaming goat gets hurt	entity.goat.screaming.hurt	subtitles.entity.goat.hurt	?	?	?
	None	Friendly Creatures	Regular goat long jumps	entity.goat.long_jump	None	?	?	?
	None	Friendly Creatures	Screaming goat long jumps	entity.goat.screaming.long_jump	None	?	?	?
	Goat gets milked	Friendly Creatures	Player milks regular goat	entity.goat.milk	subtitles.entity.goat.milk	?	?	?
	Goat gets milked	Friendly Creatures	Player milks screaming goat	entity.goat.screaming.milk	subtitles.entity.goat.milk	?	?	?
	Goat eats	Friendly Creatures	Regular goat eats	entity.goat.eat	subtitles.entity.goat.eat	?	?	?
	Goat eats	Friendly Creatures	Screaming goat eats	entity.goat.screaming.eat	subtitles.entity.goat.eat	?	?	?
	Footsteps	Friendly Creatures	Walking	entity.goat.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	?	?	?
	None	Hostile Creatures	Regular goat preparing ram	entity.goat.prepare_ram	None	?	?	?
	None	Hostile Creatures	Screaming goat preparing ram	entity.screaming.goat.prepare_ram	None	?	?	?
	None	Hostile Creatures	Regular goat impacts mob after ramming	entity.goat.ram_impact	None	?	?	?
	None	Hostile Creatures	Screaming goat impacts mob after ramming	entity.goat.screaming.ram_impact	None	?	?	?

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Volume	Pitch
	Hostile Creatures	Goat prepares to ram charge	mob.goat.charge	1.0	0.8, 1.2

Data values

ID

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Goat	goat	128	entity.goat.name

Entity data

See also: Chunk format

Goats 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
  •  IsScreamingGoat:‌^{[Java Edition only]} 1 or 0 (true/false) – if true, indicates this is a screaming goat.

History

September 28, 2019					Goats are announced to be part of the Mountains biome in the biome vote at MINECON Live 2019
					Mountains wins the biome vote, including goats in the planned biome.
October 3, 2020					In-game footage of goats are shown at Minecraft Live 2020, to be released in the Caves & Cliffs update.
March 31, 2021					Goat were shown off on a tweet by Henrik Kniberg.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.17		21w13a			Added goats.
					Goats have a 2% chance of spawning as a screaming goat, they are visually indistinguishable from regular goats, but make different sounds.
					Goats are completely passive.
					Goats currently do not drop any items.
		21w15a			Goats now ram other mobs as well as armor stands.
					Goats now avoid powder snow.
Bedrock Edition
1.16.200		beta 1.16.200.52			Added goats and kids, which are available only via Experimental Gameplay.
					Goats make the sound of a player being hit.
					Goats currently use the vex's charging sound as a placeholder when preparing to ram charge.
		release			Goats have been made inaccessible in the full release.
1.16.210		beta 1.16.210.51			Goats now drop only 2 goat horns each.
					Goats now drop 1-2 mutton.
					Goats now show missing goat horns in the model.
					Baby goats now have half knockback when using a ram attack.
					Goats no longer attack armor stands.
					Goats now attack shulkers.
					Goats now produce only one baby goat at a time when breeding.
		beta 1.16.210.53			Goats now avoid walking onto powder snow while path-finding.
		release			Goats have once again been made inaccessible in the full release.
1.16.220		beta 1.16.220.50			Goats now spawn only in the Snowy Slopes mountain biome.
		release			Goats have once again been made inaccessible in the full release.
1.16.230		beta 1.16.230.54			Goats now spawn in the Extreme Hills biome instead of the Snowy Slopes biome, most likely due to a bug.

Issues

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

Trivia

• Goats are the fifth mob that were added to a Bedrock Edition beta before a Java Edition snapshot. The first four mobs this happened for were dolphins, pandas, cats and piglin brutes.
• Goats are the first neutral mob that does not fight back after being hit.
• The model for goats was made in Blockbench.
• Goats are one of the 4 mobs that were added as a result of the community voting for it, the others being the phantom, fox, and glow squid.
• Goat sounds were recorded from real goats. The same is true for pandas and dolphins.
  • Some of their sounds come from the goats in Minecraft Dungeons.^{[citation needed]}

Gallery

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  Multiple goats, showcasing jump height.

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  A goat knocking a cow away.

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  A goat when both horns are knocked down.

References

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