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Cow

Mobs & entity

The cow is a passive animal that spawns naturally in 25 biomes, including Badlands, Bamboo Jungle, Birch Forest, Dappled Forest, and Dark Forest. It does not attack players, so it is a common sight across many different landscapes.

Players hunt cows for the Leather and Raw Beef they drop when killed. A spawn egg for the cow also exists, which allows one to be placed directly into the world.

Contents (8)
  1. Animations
  2. Sounds
  3. Stats
  4. Advancements
  5. History
  6. Registry entry
  7. Related items
  8. See also

Animations

5 of these were recorded inside the running game, so the movement is the animation Mojang shipped rather than an imitation of it. Transparent background, free to download.

Cow, walking
WalkingDownload
Cow, running
RunningDownload
Cow, idle
IdleDownload
Cow, baby
BabyDownload
Cow, taking damage
Taking damageDownload
Cow, death
DeathDownload

Sounds

5 sound events for this mob, 17 files in all. Where an event lists more than one file the game picks one at random.

EventSoundClosed captionIdentifierTranslation key
ambientCow moosentity.cow.ambientsubtitles.entity.cow.ambient
deathCow diesentity.cow.deathsubtitles.entity.cow.death
hurtCow hurtsentity.cow.hurtsubtitles.entity.cow.hurt
milkCow gets milkedentity.cow.milksubtitles.entity.cow.milk
stepFootstepsentity.cow.stepsubtitles.block.generic.footsteps

Stats

Mojang publishes these numbers in the Bedrock behaviour pack (bedrock-samples); the Java edition keeps them in code, not in any data file. Most values match across editions, but not all — treat them as the Bedrock figures.

Health points10
Movement speed0.25
Hitbox size0.9 blocks wide, 1.3 blocks tall
Mob typecow, mob

Advancements

Advancements whose own criteria name this entry. Recipe-unlock entries are left out — they never appear on the player’s Advancements screen.

History

Worked out by reading the registry of every Minecraft build Mojang has published, in release order.

VersionDateWhat the files show
before 18w50a—Already in the game when Mojang’s data generator first shipped, in 18w50a (12 December 2018). The files do not say which earlier version added it.

Registry entry

Identifierminecraft:cow
Registryminecraft:entity_type

See also