Goat

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

Goat

Health points	10
Behavior	Neutral
Classification	Animal
Attack strength	Adult Easy: 1 Normal: 2 Hard: 3 Baby: 1
Hitbox size	Adult: Height: 1.3 Blocks Width: 0.9 Blocks Baby: Height: 0.65 Blocks Width: 0.45 Blocks
Spawn	Frozen Peaks Jagged Peaks Snowy Slopes
Usable items	Bucket Wheat Lead

A goat is a neutral mob found in mountainous biomes. Goats can jump especially high and ram mobs. They are a source of goat horns and milk.

Spawning

Groups of two to three goats spawn above opaque blocks on mountain biomes, such as snowy slopes, jagged peaks, and frozen peaks at the surface at a light level of 7 or higher. Goats spawn individually and more uncommonly after the world generation. 5% of all goats spawn as babies.

When a goat is spawned naturally or through breeding, it has a 2% chance of being a screaming goat‌^{[Java Edition only]} or screamer goat.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} They look identical to all other goats, but they make screaming sounds and ram more often.

Drops

Adult goats drop 1–3 when killed by a player or tamed wolf, while 1–7 is dropped upon successful breeding. Killing a baby goat yields no items or experience.

Goat horns

A goat when both horns are knocked off.

Goats drop a goat horn when they charge into a solid block. Up to two horns can be dropped per goat. There are 4 horn variants that regular goats drop ("Ponder", "Sing", "Seek", and "Feel"), and there are 4 horn variants that only screaming goats drop ("Admire", "Call", "Yearn", and "Dream").

Behavior

When left to wander, goats tend to ascend hills and mountains rather than keep to lowlands. Their behavior is marked by jumping high and by opportunistically ramming non-moving mobs.

Goats take 10 less fall damage and avoid walking into powder snow. Goats do not get hurt by pointed dripstone if they fall on it from a minimum of six blocks, and don't die from pointed dripstone if they fall on it from a minimum of ten.

Jumping

A goat usually jumps when trying to cross an obstacle like a small hole in the ground or powder snow. It lowers its head, then it leaps up to 10 blocks vertically and up to 5 blocks laterally. Once a goat jumps this way, it cannot do it again for 30 to 60 seconds. A goat also never voluntarily jumps more than 5 blocks down, although a goat can be pushed off a higher cliff by another mob or a piston.

Standing on a honey block prevents a goat from jumping.

Ramming

Every 30 to 300 seconds, a goat tries to ram a single unmoving target it can see within a range of 4–16 blocks. They can target players, armor stands, or any mob except for ghasts and other goats. A charging goat locks on to its target's position, lowers its head, stomps, and speeds toward the target. If the charge connects, it deals 1 to 3 damage (depending on difficulty) and 9 blocks of knockback to its target, possibly resulting in a damaging or even fatal fall.

As a goat lowers its head, its target has the chance to move out of the way. If a goat misses, it stops itself within a couple blocks, unless it hits a solid block first. If a goat rams a solid block that occurs naturally in its environment, it can drop one of its two goat horns.

Mobs do not retaliate when rammed by a goat.

Goats don't target players in Creative mode or any players in Peaceful difficulty. Unlike most neutral mobs, goats do not attack the player if the player attacks it, and it does not call for backup if harmed.

Baby goats deal a knockback of 4.5 blocks. A screaming goat's ramming cooldown is 5 to 15 seconds.^{[more information needed]}

Milking

A goat can be milked by using a bucket on it. Milk is used for baking cakes and for clearing status effects.

Breeding

Main article: Breeding

Goats follow players that are within ten blocks who are holding wheat. If adult goats are fed wheat, they enter love mode and breed, granting one to seven experience orbs. The growth time of a baby goat can be accelerated by 10% each time it is fed wheat.

If a standard goat is bred with a screaming goat, there is approximately a 50% chance the resulting baby is a screaming goat. If both goats are screaming, there is a 100% chance in Java Edition and a 98% chance in Bedrock Edition that the baby is a screaming goat. Otherwise, there is a 2% chance of a baby goat being a screaming goat.

Unless baby goats are summoned through commands with the HasLeftHorn or HasRightHorn tag set to 1, they do not have horns.

Sounds

• The goat's third hurt sound (screaming) and its first ramming preparation sound (also screaming) are the same, but pitched differently; the former is pitched higher than the latter.
• The goat's fourth death sound (regular) is its first ambient sound (also for regular goats) but lower pitched.
• The goat's second ramming preparation sound (screaming) is its fifth ambient sound (also screaming) but higher pitched.
• The goat's first and third ramming preparation sounds (both for screaming goats) are its first ramming preparation sound (regular goats) but heavily edited.

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	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	?	?	?
	Goat leaps	Friendly Creatures	Regular goat long jumps	entity.goat.long_jump	[more information needed]	?	?	?
	Goat leaps	Friendly Creatures	Screaming goat long jumps	entity.goat.screaming.long_jump	[more information needed]	?	?	?
	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	?	?	?
	Goat stomps	Hostile Creatures	Regular goat preparing ram	entity.goat.prepare_ram	[more information needed]	?	?	?
	Goat stomps	Hostile Creatures	Screaming goat preparing ram	entity.goat.screaming.prepare_ram	[more information needed]	?	?	?
	Goat rams	Hostile Creatures	Regular goat impacts mob after ramming	entity.goat.ram_impact	[more information needed]	?	?	?
	Goat rams	Hostile Creatures	Screaming goat impacts mob after ramming	entity.goat.screaming.ram_impact	[more information needed]	?	?	?

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Friendly Creatures	Randomly from regular goat	mob.goat.ambient	?	?
	Friendly Creatures	Randomly from screaming goat	mob.goat.ambient.screamer	?	?
	Friendly Creatures	Regular goat dying	mob.goat.death	?	?
	Friendly Creatures	Screaming goat dying	mob.goat.death.screamer	?	?
	Friendly Creatures	Regular goat gets hurt	mob.goat.hurt	?	?
	Friendly Creatures	Screaming goat gets hurt	mob.goat.hurt.screamer	?	?
	Friendly Creatures	Regular and screaming goat long jumps	component.jump_to_block	?	?
	Friendly Creatures	Player milks regular goat	mob.mooshroom.suspicious_milk	?	?
	Friendly Creatures	Player milks screaming goat	mob.goat.milk.screamer	?	?
	Friendly Creatures	Regular and screaming goat eats	mob.goat.eat	?	?
	Friendly Creatures	Walking	mob.goat.step	?	?
	Hostile Creatures	Regular goat preparing ram	mob.goat.prepare_ram	?	?
	Hostile Creatures	Screaming goat preparing ram	mob.goat.prepare_ram.screamer	?	?
	Hostile Creatures	Regular goat impacts mob after ramming	mob.goat.ram_impact	?	?
	Hostile Creatures	Screaming goat impacts mob after ramming	mob.goat.ram_impact.screamer	?	?
	Hostile Creatures	Goat horn breaking off	mob.goat.horn_break	?	?

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Goat	goat	entity.minecraft.goat

Bedrock Edition:

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

Entity data

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

Java Edition:

Main article: Entity format

• Entity data
  • Additional fields for mobs that can breed
  • Tags common to all entities
  • Tags common to all mobs
  •  HasLeftHorn: 1 or 0 (true/false) – if true, indicates this goat has the left horn.
  •  HasRightHorn: 1 or 0 (true/false) – if true, indicates this goat has the right horn.
  •  IsScreamingGoat: 1 or 0 (true/false) – if true, indicates this is a screaming goat.

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
PS4	Other platforms
		Whatever Floats Your Goat	Get in a boat and float with a goat	Use a boat and put a goat inside that boat, then ride it	20G	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed two animals together	Husbandry	Breed a pair of any of these 22 mobs: Axolotl Bee Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Goat Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Strider Trader Llama Turtle Wolf 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
	Whatever Floats Your Goat!	Get in a Boat and float with a Goat	Husbandry	Enter a boat with a goat.	husbandry/ride_a_boat_with_a_goat
	Two by Two	Breed all the animals!	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed a pair of each of these 22 mobs: Axolotl Bee Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Frog Goat 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

September 28, 2019					Goats are announced to be part of the mountains biome in the biome vote at MINECON Live 2019. The goat is the third mob added as a result of a community vote, the others being the phantom, fox, glow squid, allay and frog.
					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 was shown off on a tweet by Henrik Kniberg.
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.
					Creepers rammed by goats don't retaliate.
					Goats now avoid powder snow.
		21w18a			Screaming goats use their ram attack more often than regular goats.
					Two ear textures have been changed to mirror properly.
					Pitch for the sound of baby goats ramming into stuff has been increased.
					Baby goats now follow their parents.
					Goats can no longer make long jumps on honey blocks.
		Pre-release 3			Mobs rammed by goats no longer retaliate.
1.17.1		Pre-release 1			Breeding common goats now have a 2% chance to produce screaming goats.
					Status effects on goats now also apply when the goat is jumping or ramming.
1.18		Experimental Snapshot 1			Goats now spawn only in the added snowy slopes, jagged peaks, and frozen peaks biomes.
		Experimental Snapshot 3			Added the stony peaks biome, where goats can also spawn.
		21w40a			Goats no longer spawn in the stony peaks biome.
1.19		22w17a			Goats can now drop goat horns.
		Pre-release 2			Goat Horns now snap when a goat rams into copper ore.
Bedrock Edition
1.17.0		beta 1.16.200.52			Added goats and baby goats behind the "Caves and Cliffs" experimental toggle.
					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.
		beta 1.16.210.51			Goats now drop 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 one baby goat at a time when breeding.
		beta 1.16.210.53			Goats now avoid walking onto powder snow while path-finding.
		beta 1.16.220.50			Goats now spawn only in the Snowy Slopes mountain biome.
		beta 1.16.230.54			Goats now spawn in the Extreme Hills biome instead of the Snowy Slopes biome.
		beta 1.17.0.52			Goats are now available without enabling experimental gameplay.
		beta 1.17.0.54			Goats now have sounds.
					Added screaming goats.
					Increased chances of getting screaming goat by breeding screaming goat with non-screaming goat.
					Goats no longer drop mutton when killed.
1.17.10		beta 1.17.10.22			Mobs rammed by goats no longer retaliate.
1.17.30		beta 1.17.20.20			Baby goats no longer have horns.
1.18.0		beta 1.17.20.22			Goats now spawn only in mountain meadows.
		beta 1.17.40.20			Goats now spawn only in snowy slopes, stony peaks, lofty peaks, and snow capped peaks biome.
		beta 1.18.0.21			Goats no longer spawn in the stony peaks biome.
1.18.30		beta 1.18.20.25			Added a sound effect when a goat rams into a block and a goat horn breaks off.

Issues

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

Trivia

• Real horns cannot break away from the skull without the animal sustaining significant cranial damage. Minecraft's goat horns more closely resemble a deer's antlers, which actually fall off every year.
• The model for goats was made in Blockbench.
• Goat sounds were recorded from real domestic goats.

Gallery

Screenshots

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  Multiple goats, showcasing jump height.

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  A goat knocking a cow away.

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  Goats in 21w15a.

In other media

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  Goat concept art.

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  A Goat in promotional artwork for the first Caves & Cliffs update.

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  Goats in promotional artwork for the second Caves & Cliffs update.

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  A goat in promotional artwork for the GOAT Update.

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  Official Goat artwork.

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  Goat plushie.

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  A goat from a Nintendo Switch advert.

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