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

Things to Do with Cows

Here are some activities that you can do with cows in Minecraft:

 How to Milk a Cow
How to Breed Cows

Command Examples

Here are some game command examples for a cow in Minecraft:

How to Summon a Cow
How to Summon a Cow with Custom Name

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:

NBT Tags for Cow

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:

Spawn Events for Cow

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
Wandering Trader
Warden
Witch
Wither Boss
 Wither Skeleton
Wolf
Zoglin
Zombie
Zombie Horse
Zombified Piglin (Zombie Pigman)
Zombie Villager
NPC