Cow Mob – Wiki Guide
This Minecraft tutorial explains all about cows with screenshots and step-by-step instructions. Let’s learn about cows in Minecraft.
Background
The following is a picture of what a cow looks like in Minecraft:
| Hostility Level | Passive Mob |
|---|---|
| Health Points | 10 health points x 5 |
| Where to Find | In the Overworld on land |
| Weapon | None |
| Attack Method | Will never attack you |
| Drops |  0-2 Leather 1-3 Raw Beef 1-3 Steak (if killed with fire) Milk (use bucket) |
| Experience Points | 1-3 experience points |
Hostility Level (Passive)
A cow is a passive mob. The term mob is short for mobile and is used to refer to all living, moving creatures in the game such as chickens, creepers, and cows. Because a cow is a passive mob, it will never attack you in the game (Creative or Survival mode).
Health Points
In Minecraft, a cow has 5 hearts for health. This gives a cow 10 health points (because 1 heart = 2 health points). To kill a cow, you need to inflict 10 points of damage to the cow.
Where to Find Cows
In Minecraft, cows can be found in most Overworld biomes on land. If you are having trouble finding a cow, you can summon a cow using a cheat or you can use a spawn egg.
Weapon
A cow does not carry a weapon.
Attack Method
You are safe to walk near a cow and it will not attack or cause you any damage. And if you attack a cow, it will just try to run away. It will not attack you back.
Drops
When you kill a cow in Minecraft, it may drop one or more of the following items: raw beef or leather.
Make sure you pick up any dropped items before they disappear. They are useful and should be kept in your inventory to be used later.
TIP: If you kill the cow with fire, it may drop steak.
Experience Points
As you play the game, you will gain experience. The most common way to gain experience is by killing mobs. When a mob is killed you will see tiny green and yellow balls appear and move towards you.
These orbs represent experience points. When you kill a cow, you will gain 1-3 experience points.
Spawn Egg for Cow
You can spawn a cow using the following spawn egg:
Cow Spawn Egg
Cow Spawn EggThings to Do with Cows
Here are some activities that you can do with cows in Minecraft:
How to Breed CowsCommand Examples
Here are some game command examples for a cow in Minecraft:
NBT Tags for Cow (Java Edition)
Here are the NBT tags (formerly called data tags) that you can use in game commands for a cow in Java Edition:
Spawn Events for Cow (Bedrock/Education)
Here are the spawn events that you can use in game commands for a cow in Bedrock Edition and Education Edition:
Other Mobs
Here are some of the other mobs in Minecraft:
Allay
Axolotl
Bat
Bee
Blaze
Camel
Cat
Cave Spider
Chicken
Cod
Creeper
Dolphin
Donkey
Drowned
Elder Guardian
Ender Dragon
Enderman
Endermite
Evoker
Fox
Frog
Ghast
Giant
Glow Squid
Goat
Guardian
Hoglin
Horse
Husk
Illusioner
Iron Golem
Killer Bunny
Llama
Magma Cube
Mooshroom
Mule
Ocelot
Panda
Parrot
Phantom
Pig
Piglin
Piglin Brute
Pillager
Polar Bear
Pufferfish
Rabbit
Ravager
Salmon
Sheep
Shulker
Silverfish
Skeleton
Skeleton Horse
Slime
Snow Golem
Spider
Squid
Stray
Strider
Tadpole
Trader Llama
Tropical Fish
Turtle
Vex
Villager
Vindicator
Warden
Witch
Wither Boss
Wither Skeleton
Wolf
Zoglin
Zombie Horse
Zombified Piglin (Zombie Pigman)
Zombie Villager
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