How to Breed Cows in Minecraft (Easy Guide)

Your interactions with passivemobs in Minecraftare much more straightforward than the hostile ones since they don’t fight back. Though, it’s not always easy to make them do what you want, especially in the case ofMinecraft villagers. Some of those passive mobs are necessary, especially in the early game. Some mobs grant you access to good-quality food items and other rather helpful drops, likewool in Minecraft. Therefore, several players opt to breed these mobs to multiply their numbers and therefore their drops. One such useful passive mob is the cow in Minecraft, and you can breed them easily.

For that reason, we will be looking at how to breed cows in this article and why you should even do that in Minecraft. We have included a list of items and drops you can get from cows at the end. So, without further ado, let’s moo.

Cow Mob in Minecraft: Basics

Cows are very common passive mobs. They spawn in pretty much all grassy biomes and all look the same, both as adults and as babies. Killing these mobs can yield a great source of food, beef that can be cooked and turned into steak. Also, they drop leather, which is mostly used as a crafting ingredient. Using a bucket on a cow will fill the bucket with milk and drinking it will remove all status effects.

Resources Requires to Breed Cows

The only resource you are going to need to breed cows iswheatin Minecraft. You can stumble upon matured, ready-to-be-harvested wheat in village farms. But, you can also get wheat by growing it yourself easily. We have a detailed guide onhow to plant seeds and grow crops in Minecraft, so feel free to check it out.

With this knowledge, you will be able to get wheat in no time. To breed cows, you need a single wheat per cow, so if you’ve got a whole herd of them, make sure to bring a bunch of wheat.

Where to Find Cows in Minecraft

Cows are common passive mobs. You will find grazing the pastures in pretty much every grasslandbiome in Minecraft. Usually, they spawn in herds of 2-4 cows, depending on the game version you’re playing. However, the cows don’t spawn in the following biomes:Snowy Plains, Meadows, Mangrove Swamps, andWooded Badlands.

Another place where you will find cows is villages. Learnhow to find villages in Minecraftvia the linked guide. Sometimes, villages can generate animal pens, where you can find cows in addition to some other passive mobs. Furthermore, they may spawn in the butcher’s house pen as well.

If you’d like to transport cows from one location to another, you can justhold wheatin your hand in front of them and they will follow you. Alternatively, you can useMinecraft boatsor minecarts to do the same action more quickly.

Breed Cows in Minecraft: A Step-by-Step Guide

With the basics out of the way, you are now ready to breed cows and give birth to a calf in your Minecraft world. Here are the steps you need to follow:

Small green particles will appear above its head, indicating the wait time for it to grow into an adult cow was shortened a bit. Furthermore, all mobs have a certain cooldown between breeding sessions. So, you will need to wait for a few minutes to breed the cows again.

Why Are Cows Useful in Minecraft

1. Raw Beef & Leather

After you kill a cow in Minecraft, it candrop beef and leatheras well as XP. Using the looting enchantment on your sword in Minecraft will increase the number of drops to up to 6 beef (or steak if you also have a fire aspect on your sword) and 5 leather.

Beef can becooked in afurnaceor even a smokerand it becomes steak, one of the best food items in the game. Whereas, leather is a crafting ingredient in several useful recipes. You can also sell it to leatherworker villagers and make a ton ofemeralds, so you can buy other goods.

2. Cow’sMilk

Apart from their drops, cows can yield milk. To milk a cow, you will need tomake a bucketin Minecraft. Then, simply right-click the mob with the bucket, and it willfill up with milk. Milk can be incredibly useful, especially whileraiding an ocean monumentor when fighting pillager patrol captains.

Drinking milk will immediately remove all the status effects one has applied at the time. However, keep in mind that all effects count, both positive and negative. So, choose the right time to drink milk. Also, milk is a necessary ingredient for making a cake, food item, and a sweet decorative block.

So, there you go. Now you know how to breed cows and get mi9lk in Minecraft. Would you like cows to have some more variants or maybe have other functions? Let us know in the comments below!

Radojka Travar

I’m a gaming enthusiast with a strong passion for writing. My expertise lies in creating simple, to the point and clear content teaching you about various features, mechanics and community-based inventions related to Minecraft. In spare time, I love flying around in my Minecraft world and exploring stories of other pixelated games.

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