Cow

Cow

Adult

Baby

Adult

Baby

Adult

Baby

Health points	10HP
Behavior	Passive
Mob type	Animal
Hitbox size	In Java Edition: Adult: Height: 1.4 blocks Width: 0.9 blocks Baby: Height: 0.7 blocks Width: 0.45 blocks In Bedrock Edition: Adult: Height: 1.3 blocks Width: 0.9 blocks Baby: Height: 0.65 blocks Width: 0.45 blocks
Speed	0.2
Spawn	Grass blocks with at least two blocks of space above in most Overworld biomes. After shearing a mooshroom.
Usable items	Bucket Wheat Lead

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A cow is a passive mob found in most grassy biomes and are a source of leather, beef, and milk. They have three variants based on the temperature of the biome they spawn in.

Spawning

Cows spawn naturally in the Overworld in most grassy biomes except for snowy plains, meadows, cherry groves, mangrove swamps, and pale gardens. They spawn in small herds, with a set spawn rate for each biome.

Cows also require a well-lit grass block to spawn on and at least two blocks of space above it.

In Java Edition, herds of four cows spawn on grass blocks at a light level of 9 or higher. Individual cows rarely may spawn after world generation.

In Bedrock Edition, herds of 2–3 cows spawn on grass blocks at a light level of 7 or higher. Individuals regularly spawn on grass after world generation.

Cows sometimes spawn inside animal pens, stables, and butcher house backyards in villages upon world generation.

Using shears on a mooshroom converts it into a cow.

Cow spawns in:

Category: Creature	Java Edition			Bedrock Edition
Spawn area	Spawn weight	Spawn Chance	Group size	Spawn weight	Group size
Old Growth Birch Forest	8⁄40	20%	4	8	2–3
Birch Forest	8⁄40	20%	4	8	2–3
Dark Forest	8⁄40	20%	4	8	2–3
Flower Forest	8⁄44	18.18%	4	8	2–3
Forest	8⁄45	17.78%	4	8	2–3
Windswept Hills	8⁄45	17.78%	4	8	2–3
Windswept Forest	8⁄45	17.78%	4	8	2–3
Windswept Gravelly Hills	8⁄45	17.78%	4	8	2–3
Badlands	8⁄46	17.39%	4	8	2–3
Plains	8⁄46	17.39%	4	8	2–3
Sunflower Plains	8⁄46	17.39%	4	8	2–3
Eroded Badlands	8⁄46	17.39%	4	8	2–3
Wooded Badlands	8⁄48	16.67%	4	8	2–3
Swamp	8⁄50	16%	4	8	2–3
Savanna	8⁄52	15.38%	4	8	2–3
Windswept Savanna	8⁄52	15.38%	4	8	2–3
Sparse Jungle	8⁄58	13.79%	4	8	2–3
Old Growth Spruce Taiga	8⁄60	13.33%	4	8	2–3
Old Growth Pine Taiga	8⁄60	13.33%	4	8	2–3
Snowy Taiga	8⁄60	13.33%	4	8	2–3
Taiga	8⁄60	13.33%	4	8	2–3
Savanna Plateau	8⁄68	11.76%	4	8	2–3
Jungle	8⁄91	8.79%	4	8	2–3
Bamboo Jungle	8⁄170	4.71%	4	8	2–3

Variants

Cows have 3 variants; temperate, cold, and warm. The variant is determined by the biome the cow spawns in.

Natural spawning
Temperate	Warm	Cold
Plains Sunflower Plains Forest Flower Forest Birch Forest Old Growth Birch Forest Dark Forest Swamp	Savanna Savanna Plateau Windswept Savanna Jungle Sparse Jungle Bamboo Jungle Badlands Eroded Badlands Wooded Badlands	Taiga Snowy Taiga Old Growth Pine Taiga Old Growth Spruce Taiga Windswept Hills Windswept Gravelly Hills Windswept Forest
Other[variants 1]
Warm	Cold
Warm Ocean Lukewarm Ocean Deep Lukewarm Ocean Mangrove Swamp Desert Nether Wastes Crimson Forest Warped Forest Soul Sand Valley Basalt Deltas	Snowy Plains Ice Spikes Frozen Peaks Jagged Peaks Stony Peaks Snowy Slopes Frozen Ocean Deep Frozen Ocean Cold Ocean Deep Cold Ocean Grove Deep Dark Frozen River Snowy Beach The End End Highlands‌ End Midlands‌ Small End Islands‌ End Barrens‌

If a cow is spawned via spawn egg or command in any biome not listed, it spawns as a temperate cow.

Drops

Breeding

1–7XP experience orbs upon a successful breeding.

On death

An adult cow drops:

Java Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Raw Beef[A]	1–3	100.00%	2.00	1–4	100.00%	2.50	1–5	100.00%	3.00	1–6	100.00%	3.50
	Steak[B]	1–3	100.00%	2.00	1–4	100.00%	2.50	1–5	100.00%	3.00	1–6	100.00%	3.50
	Leather	0–2	66.67%	1.00	0–3	83.33%	1.50	0–4	91.67%	2.00	0–5	94.44%	2.50

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Raw Beef[A]	1–3	1	2	1–4	1	5⁄2	1–5	1	3	1–6	1	7⁄2
	Steak[B]	1–3	1	2	1–4	1	5⁄2	1–5	1	3	1–6	1	7⁄2
	Leather	0–2	2⁄3	1	0–3	5⁄6	3⁄2	0–4	11⁄12	2	0–5	17⁄18	5⁄2

Item		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Raw Beef[A]	1	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		2	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		3	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		4	0	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		5	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		6	0	0	0	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		Average	2 (2.00)	5⁄2 (2.50)	3 (3.00)	7⁄2 (3.50)
	Steak[B]	1	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		2	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		3	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		4	0	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		5	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		6	0	0	0	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		Average	2 (2.00)	5⁄2 (2.50)	3 (3.00)	7⁄2 (3.50)
	Leather	0	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		1	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		2	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		3	0	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		4	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		5	0	0	0	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		Average	1 (1.00)	3⁄2 (1.50)	2 (2.00)	5⁄2 (2.50)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drop
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Raw Beef[A]	2.00	2.50	3.00	3.50
	Steak[B]	2.00	2.50	3.00	3.50
	Leather	1.00	1.50	2.00	2.50

Bedrock Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Raw Beef[A]	1–3	100.00%	2.00	1–4	100.00%	2.50	1–5	100.00%	3.00	1–6	100.00%	3.50
	Steak[B]	1–3	100.00%	2.00	1–4	100.00%	2.50	1–5	100.00%	3.00	1–6	100.00%	3.50
	Leather	0–2	66.67%	1.00	0–3	66.67%	1.33	0–4	66.67%	1.67	0–5	66.67%	2.00

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Raw Beef[A]	1–3	1	2	1–4	1	5⁄2	1–5	1	3	1–6	1	7⁄2
	Steak[B]	1–3	1	2	1–4	1	5⁄2	1–5	1	3	1–6	1	7⁄2
	Leather	0–2	2⁄3	1	0–3	2⁄3	4⁄3	0–4	2⁄3	5⁄3	0–5	2⁄3	2

Item		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Raw Beef[A]	1	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		2	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		3	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		4	0	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		5	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		6	0	0	0	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		Average	2 (2.00)	5⁄2 (2.50)	3 (3.00)	7⁄2 (3.50)
	Steak[B]	1	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		2	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		3	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		4	0	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		5	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		6	0	0	0	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		Average	2 (2.00)	5⁄2 (2.50)	3 (3.00)	7⁄2 (3.50)
	Leather	0	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)
		1	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		2	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		3	0	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	2⁄9 (22.22%)
		4	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		5	0	0	0	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		Average	1 (1.00)	4⁄3 (1.33)	5⁄3 (1.67)	2 (2.00)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drop
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Raw Beef[A]	2.00	2.50	3.00	3.50
	Steak[B]	2.00	2.50	3.00	3.50
	Leather	1.00	1.33	1.67	2.00

• 1–3XP experience orbs are dropped when killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Killing a baby cow yields no items nor experience.

Milking

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

Behavior

A cow moos and huffs occasionally while wandering aimlessly, but tends to stay in well lit and grassy places. They avoid water unless following a player and always avoid rails and falls that cause damage. If harmed, the cow flees for a few seconds.

Cows follow players holding wheat within a six block radius.

Breeding

Cows follow players holding wheat but will stop following when separated from the player by at least 10‌ or 16‌ blocks. Additionally, baby cows follow adults.

A player can breed cows by using wheat. After breeding, a baby cow spawns and 1–7 experience is generated. The parents cannot be bred again for 5 minutes. The variant of the offspring is inherited from one of the parents and does not depend on the biome they are bred in.

Baby cows take 24000 ticks (20 minutes) to grow up, but the growth time can be accelerated using wheat. Each use takes 10% off the remaining time to grow up. It goes to another adult cow if it is separated from its parent by more than 24 blocks. Baby cows prefer to follow adult cows instead of players holding wheat.

Sounds

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

Bedrock Edition:

Historical sounds

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:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Cow Tipper	Harvest some leather.	Pick up leather from the ground or via fishing.	15	Bronze
		It Spreads	Kill a mob next to a catalyst	—	10	Bronze
		Overkill	Deal nine hearts of damage in a single hit.	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have nine hearts of health overall.	30	Bronze
		Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.	20	Silver
		Repopulation	Breed two cows with wheat.	Breed two or two mooshrooms.	15	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	A Throwaway Joke	Throw a Trident at something. Note: Throwing away your only weapon is not a good idea.	Hit a mob with a thrown trident.
	Adventure	Adventure, exploration and combat	Kill any mob, or be killed by any living entity.
	Arbalistic	Kill five unique mobs with one crossbow shot	Armor Stand also counts for this advancement. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.
	It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Kill one of these 73 mobs near a sculk catalyst: Armadillo Axolotl Bee Blaze Bogged Breeze Camel Cat Cave Spider Chicken Cod Creeper Donkey Dolphin Drowned Elder Guardian Enderman Endermite Evoker Fox Frog Ghast Goat Glow Squid Giant Guardian Hoglin Horse Husk Illusioner Llama Magma Cube Mooshroom Ocelot Panda Parrot Phantom Pig Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Polar Bear Pufferfish Rabbit Ravager Salmon Sheep Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Skeleton Horse Slime Sniffer Stray Spider Squid Strider Trader Llama Tropical Fish Turtle Vex Vindicator Warden Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Wolf Zoglin Zombie Zombie Horse Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Mobs that drop no experience as well as the ender dragon are ignored for this advancement.
	Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.
	Take Aim	Shoot something with an Arrow	Using a bow or a crossbow, shoot a mob with an arrow, tipped arrow, or spectral arrow.
	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed two animals together	Breed a pair of any of these 26 mobs: Armadillo Axolotl Bee Camel Cat Chicken Donkey Fox Frog Goat Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Sniffer 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 breedable together. Other breedable mobs are ignored for this advancement.
	Two by Two	Breed all the animals!	Breed a pair of each of these 25 mobs: Armadillo Axolotl Bee Camel Cat Chicken Donkey Fox Frog Goat Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Sniffer 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 breedable together. Other breedable mobs can be bred, but are ignored for this advancement.

History

Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.8							Added cows.
							They drop leather when killed.
v1.0.9							The "idle" and "hurt" sounds for cows have been changed.
v1.0.14							The model of cows has been updated to have horns and a 3D udder, and their texture to have them look primarily brown instead of black.
Java Edition Beta
1.3							The position of cows' horns has been changed.
1.8			Pre-release				Cows now run away when attacked.
							Added raw beef which drops from cows, and if killed on fire, they drop steak.
Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2				Cows can now be bred using wheat.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3				Added baby cows.
							The position of cows' horns has been changed, again.
							The model of cows' udder has been changed from to .
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6				The texture of cows' 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				The "idle" and "hurt" sounds for cows have been changed, again.
1.6.1			13w16a				Added leads, which can be used to leash cows.
1.8			14w02a				Baby cow 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 for when the player milks a cow.
1.10			16w20a				Cows no longer spawn in ice plains.
1.12			17w06a				The texture of cows has been changed. Shifted the cow's udder to be aligned correctly.[1]
1.14			18w43a				The texture of cows has been changed.
1.15			19w37a				Cows now have a 5% chance to spawn as babies.
			19w39a				The model of baby cows has been changed.
1.16			pre1				Cows can now be milked in Creative mode.
1.21.5			25w02a				Cows can now spawn in wooded badlands. Technically, they are also allowed to spawn in badlands and eroded badlands, but cannot spawn there naturally as these biomes do not generate grass blocks.
			25w05a				Added cold and warm cows and their baby variants.
							The texture of cows has been changed, most notably its nose now extrudes from its model.
							The original cow variant is now considered temperate.[2]
			25w06a				Cows spawned outside of their natural biomes, such as by using spawn eggs or as part of a pack on the border of a biome, may now also be spawned as variants depending on the biome.
			25w10a				The new models have been tweaked so the horn placement and leg positioning now match the model on Bedrock Edition.
							The textures of temperate cow legs no longer have harsh borders due to a mirroring issue.
							The models of baby cows have been changed to match Bedrock Edition.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.3.0							Added cows and their baby forms.
v0.6.0							Cows can now drop leather.
							Baby cows now spawn naturally; each cow has a 25% chance to spawn as a baby.
v0.7.0							Cow spawn eggs have been added to the Creative inventory.
v0.8.0			build 1				Cows are now attracted to wheat and can now be bred.
							The cow AI has been improved: cows now avoid falls, fire, water, cacti, and lava.
v0.9.2							The health of cows has been reduced from 20HP × 10 to 10HP
v0.12.1			build 1				The sounds cows make have been updated.
v0.14.0			build 1				Baby zombies can now mount cows.
							Cows no longer spawn in snowy tundra biomes and its 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 5%.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The texture of cows has been changed.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1				Cows now spawn in animal pens in villages.
1.18.30			Preview 1.18.20.28				Cows no longer spawn in snowy taigas.
			Release				Reverted the previous change to cow spawning.
1.21.70 Experiment Drop 1 2025			Preview 1.21.70.20				Added cold and warm cows and their baby variants.
							The texture of cows has been changed, most notably its nose now extrudes from its model.
							The original cow variant is now considered temperate.
1.21.70			Preview 1.21.70.23				All features behind the "Drop 1 2025" experimental toggle have now been fully implemented.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added cows.
TU5							Cows now run away when attacked.
TU7							Added baby cows.
							Cows can now be bred with wheat.
TU12							Cows can no longer breed with mooshrooms.
TU14		1.04					Baby cows can now be spawned by using a cow spawn egg on a cow, done by pressing .
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Baby cow growth can now be accelerated using wheat.
							The sounds cows make have been updated.
TU43	CU33	1.36	1.36	1.36	Patch 13		The sounds baby cows make have been updated.
							Added a sound for when the player milks a cow.
TU56	CU47	1.55	1.55	1.55	Patch 26	1.0.6	Cows can now be milked in Creative mode.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added cows and their baby forms.
Minecraft Education
1.0							Added cows and their baby forms.
1.12.0							The texture of cows has been changed.
							Cows now spawn in animal pens in villages.
1.18.32							Cows no longer spawn in snowy taigas.
1.21.90							Added cold and warm cows and their baby variants.
							The texture of cows has been changed, most notably its nose now extrudes from its model.
							The original cow variant is now considered temperate.

Data history

Issues

Issues relating to "Cow" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• 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.^[3] This applies to cows as they have horns and give milk (although there are some cattle breeds wherein females exhibit horns).

Gallery

Mojang screenshots

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  A house for cows.
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  Lots of cows.
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  Lots more cows.
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  A cow named Bessie in the Nether.
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  A cow named Bessie in the End.
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  Six cows, including a warm cow and a cold cow, surrounded by firefly bushes.
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  Three cows following Ari.
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  Two cold cows with a baby.
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  A warm cow with its baby.
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  Cows and firefly bushes.
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  Cow variants.

Screenshots

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  A dying temperate cow.
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  A temperate cow being tempted by the player who is holding wheat.
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  A temperate cow attempting to follow the player through a fence.
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  A temperate cow that has been pushed from a water source into a cave.
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  The original black-and-white cow.
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  Cow pens inside a building.
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  A naturally spawned warm cow in a jungle.

Textures

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  Cold cow.
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  Temperate cow.
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  Warm cow.
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  Programmer Art.
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  PC Gamer demo.

In other media

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  A cow in promotional artwork for the Horse Update.
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  Artwork of a cow.
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  A cow in promotional artwork for the first Caves & Cliffs update.
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  A cow and several other animals watching Noor in the Minecraft Live 2023 reveal trailer.
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  Several cows in a cherry grove from the same trailer.
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  LEGO Minecraft cow.
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  LEGO Minecraft baby cow.
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  A cow plush made by JINX.
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  Action figure of a baby cow, lamb, and piglet.
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  An officially licensed cow hoodie.
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  Animal Tower, a T-Shirt design by JINX.
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  The cow as it appears in the PC Gamer Demo.
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  A cow from the PC Gamer Demo, with an exclusive texture.
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  The Moon Cow, a joke variant featured in Java Edition 23w13a_or_b.
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  A cow as it appears in the City texture pack.
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  A cow as it appears in the Greek Mythology mash-up pack.
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  The "Infernal Cow," featured in the Halloween Edition mash-up pack and Minecraft Mini-Series.
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  A cow as it appears in the Plastic texture pack.
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  A cow as it appears in the Natural texture pack.
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  The Cow Potato from 24w14potato.
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  Cow Man, a skin featured in the third Legacy Console skin pack.
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  Party Cow, a skin featured in the 1st Birthday skin pack.
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  A cow holding a map.
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  A crying cow. as seen in another post relating towards the model updating.
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  Cow figure of Flippin' Figs
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  A cow as seen in A Minecraft Movie.
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  Cold animal variants in real life snow.

Notes

References

External links

• Cattle article on Wikipedia
• Mob Menagerie: Cow – Minecraft.net on October 13, 2023

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