When Do You Feed Cows in Minecraft

For the mob in Minecraft Dungeons, see MCD:Cow.

A cow is a passive mob found in most grassy biomes and a source of leather, beef and milk.

Spawning [ ]

Cows spawn above grass blocks in small herds during world generation or individually afterwards. Their spawn rate varies per biome.

Herds of two to three cows spawn in grass blocks at a light level of 9 or higher with at least two blocks of space above in Bedrock Edition, except in snowy taigas, snowy plains, meadows, mangrove swamps and wooded badlands.

In Java Edition, herds of four cows spawn on grass blocks at a light level of 7 or higher with at least two blocks of space above, except in snowy plains, meadows, mangrove swamps and wooded badlands.

Also, a cow sometimes spawns inside animal pens and butchers' houses in villages.

Shearing a mooshroom turns it into a cow and drops five mushrooms corresponding to the type of mooshroom.

Most cows spawn as adults, but they have a 5% chance of spawning as a calf (baby cow).

Drops [ ]

An adult cow drops:

• 1 to 3 raw beef (or steak if killed while on fire), with a maximum amount is increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 6 with Looting III.
• 0 to 2 leather , with a maximum amount increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 5 with Looting III.
• 1–3 experience orbs are dropped when killed by a player or tamed wolf or 1–7 upon a successful breeding.

Killing a calf yields no items nor experience.

Behavior [ ]

A calf compared to a cow.

A cow moos and huffs occasionally while wandering aimlessly, but tends to stay on well lit and grassy places. A cow also:

• flees and remains 25% faster for a few seconds when harmed.
• looks at players within six blocks for two to four seconds sometimes.
• avoids going to water unless it is following players and always avoid traversing minecart rails and walking off cliffs high enough to cause fall damage.
• avoids environmental hazards, such as cactus, sweet berry bushes, dripstone, fire or lava, but make no attempts to avoid explosions.

An adult cow can be milked by using a bucket on it, yielding a milk bucket.

Breeding [ ]

A cow follows a player who holds wheat but stops following if separated from the player by at least six blocks.

Adult cows enter love mode and pair off to create calves after they are given wheat, granting the player one to seven experience orbs. The parent cows have a cooldown of five minutes before they can breed again and the growth of calves can be accelerated using wheat; each use reduces the remaining growth duration by 10%.

Baby cows take 20 minutes to grow up and follow adult cows, preferring them instead of a player holding wheat. The calf that results from breeding attempts to go to the nearest available block to its parent, even if no path can be found. A calf pathfinds to other adult cow if it is separated from its parent by more than 24 blocks.

Sounds [ ]

Java Edition:
Cows use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Cow moos	Friendly Creatures	Randomly from an adult cow	entity.cow.ambient	subtitles.entity.cow.ambient	0.4	0.8 - 1.2	16
	Cow moos	Friendly Creatures	Randomly from a baby cow	entity.cow.ambient	subtitles.entity.cow.ambient	0.4	1.3 - 1.7	16
	Cow dies	Friendly Creatures	When an adult cow dies	entity.cow.death	subtitles.entity.cow.death	0.4	0.8 - 1.2	16
	Cow dies	Friendly Creatures	When a baby cow dies	entity.cow.death	subtitles.entity.cow.death	0.4	1.3 - 1.7	16
	Cow hurts	Friendly Creatures	When an adult cow is damaged	entity.cow.hurt	subtitles.entity.cow.hurt	0.4	0.8 - 1.0	16
	Cow hurts	Friendly Creatures	When a baby cow is damaged	entity.cow.hurt	subtitles.entity.cow.hurt	0.4	1.3 - 1.7	16
	Cow gets milked	Players	When a cow is milked	entity.cow.milk	subtitles.entity.cow.milk	1.0	1.0	16
	Footsteps	Friendly Creatures	While a cow is walking	entity.cow.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Friendly Creatures	Randomly	mob.cow.say	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Friendly Creatures	When a cow dies	mob.cow.hurt	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Friendly Creatures	When a cow is damaged	mob.cow.hurt	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Friendly Creatures	When a cow is milked	mob.cow.milk	1.0	1.0
	Friendly Creatures	While a cow is walking	mob.cow.step	0.65	0.9-1.1

Data values [ ]

ID [ ]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Cow	cow	entity.minecraft.cow

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Cow	cow	11	entity.cow.name

Entity data [ ]

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

Java Edition:

• Entity data

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
		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)	Resource location
	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed two animals together	Husbandry	Breed a pair of any of these 23 mobs: Axolotl Bee Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Frog 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
	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 [ ]

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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.
					Added raw beef and steak, which are now dropped from cows.
Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2			Cows can now be bred using wheat.
		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.
		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.
					Cows can no longer be bred with mooshrooms.
1.4.2		12w38a			Cows' sounds have 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).
		15w50a			Added a sound when the player milks a cow: entity.cow.milk.
1.10		16w20a			Cows no longer spawn in ice plains.
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.
		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.
					Calves have also been added, but they do not yet spawn naturally.
v0.6.0					Calves now spawn naturally 25% of the time instead of adult cows.
					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.
					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.
					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.
1.18.30		beta 1.18.20.27			Cows no longer spawn in snowy taigas.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added cows.
					Cows do not run away when attacked.
TU5					Cows now run away when attacked.
TU7					Added calves.
					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 images [ ]

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  The old black-and-white cow.

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	?

Trivia [ ]

• Cows are visually based on the Norwegian Red cattle.
• Cows in the PC Gamer Minecraft Demo are branded with a 'PCG' logo on their side.
• Markus Persson 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).

Gallery [ ]

Screenshots [ ]

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  A dying cow.

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  A cow begging at the player holding a wheat.

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  A cow attempting to follow the player through a fence.

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  A cow that has been pushed from a water source into a cave.

In other media [ ]

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  A cow plush made by JINX.

Issues [ ]

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

References [ ]

1. ↑ The Word of Notch - Gender in Minecraft

mcclintockwatty1988.blogspot.com

Source: https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Cow

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