Finding Rare Golden, Platinum, and Diamond Animals

Warm, temperate, and cold farm animals have a 1 in 8192 spawn chance to appear as a super rare variant. If you get lucky, you can find special golden, platinum, and diamond versions of cows, pigs, sheep, and chickens.

Search Open Biomes at Night

Some of the rare variants have glowing textures that light up in the dark, making nighttime scouting an effective way to spot them from afar.

1. Check your Entity Texture Features settings first to confirm glowing textures are enabled.

2. Travel through grassy biomes across warm, temperate, and cold climates after sunset where passive herds have already spawned.

3. Scan dark fields and hillsides for livestock textures that stay illuminated despite zero block light.

4. Trap any glowing golden, platinum, or diamond animal inside a boat or temporary fence right away, then attach a Name Tag or bring it home safely.

Increase Odds Through Mass Breeding

Relying only on natural world generation takes a long time, so scaling up your own pens gives you far more rolls at the 1 in 8192 chance.

1. Plant large crop farms for Wheat, Carrots, and Seeds next to your livestock pens.

2. Breed large herds of cows, pigs, sheep, and chickens regularly.

3. Inspect new spawns in dim lighting to quickly spot glowing textures or metallic golden, platinum, and diamond coats.