What Does Minecraft Cows Eat

Cows, like many other mobs inMinecraft, swallow Wheat. When you feed a Moo-cow some Wheat, cherry-red hearts will appear above its caput. This means that information technology is in love mode, and can be bred to make baby Cows.

How to Go Wheat to Feed Cows

A brown and white cow standing in the rain.

You tin can find Wheat normally growing in Villages. If you harvest information technology, the Villagers won't mind, as they've got tons of Wheat Seeds to institute more. You also have fairly loftier chances of finding Wheat in Hamlet Chests. As such, be certain to loot Villages thoroughly. You tin can also find Wheat in the Chests of other locations:

Type of Structure	Possible Corporeality of Wheat	Appearance Rate
Dungeon	1 to iv	34.1%
Igloo	two to 3	55.3%
Pillager Outpost	3 to 5	72.5%
Shipwreck	viii to 21	42.1%
Underwater Ruins	2 to 3	81% to 85%
Woodland Mansion	i to 4	34.1%

On top of finding Wheat, you can easily abound information technology yourself. Simply use a Hoe on some Clay to turn it into Farmland and constitute Wheat Seeds in it. If this block is inside 4 blocks of some h2o, it will eventually grow into Wheat if it gets enough sunlight during the twenty-four hour period.

Notation that in the Boulder Edition of Minecraft, Wheat Seeds are merely called "Seeds."

What Happens When You Feed Wheat to Cows

When you feed Wheat to an adult Cow, it volition enter beloved manner. If there are 2 adult Cows close to each other, they will breed if they are both in beloved fashion. This will cause the Cows to nuzzle briefly before separating. A few seconds later, a babe Cow will spawn next to ane of the parent Cows.

Y'all can also feed Wheat to baby Cows to brand them abound faster. Every time you feed a baby Moo-cow i Wheat, they will grow x% closer to adulthood. Commonly, information technology would take a infant Cow 20 existent-world minutes to fully grow. However, this time can be drastically reduced by feeding them Wheat. This is too something that is true about feeding many other animate being mobs that eat Wheat.

Where to Notice Cows

If you lot're playing the Java Edition ofMinecraft, you can find Cows pretty much anywhere with grass and open space. Specifically, Cows will spawn in all biomes except Snowy Plains, Meadows, and Wooded Badlands. They will only spawn if the light level is in a higher place 7 and if there are at least 2 blocks of free space to suit their bodies. When these criteria are met, between ane to four Cows tin spawn on grassy Dirt blocks. Well-nigh 5% of Cows will spawn as babe Cows.

In the Boulder Edition, there are some differences to Cow spawning. While the biome and concrete infinite parameters are the aforementioned, Cows volition only spawn if the light level is above 9. Furthermore, Cows will just spawn in groups of 2 or three. However, the chance of Cows spawning as babies remains at 5%.

Yous tin also potentially find Cows in the pens of Villages. If you lot take a Atomic number 82, you can fifty-fifty leash penned Cows and bring them to your farm. Furthermore, if you utilize a pair of Shears on a Mooshroom, it will turn into a regular Cow.

What Cows Are Good For

There are a couple of resource that yous can get from Cows, which makes them a great pick for farming. Firstly, each adult Cow drops 1 to 3 Raw Beef as well as 0 to 2 Leather. Raw Beefiness can be cooked into Steak, which is ane of the best food items in the game. Additionally, Leather is needed to make Books and other important items. To make Bookshelves to enhance your enchanting, yous'll need a ton of Books, therefore a Cow subcontract could be a dandy solution.

Alternatively, you can also use empty Buckets on Cows to get Milk Buckets. Milk, when consumed, will remove negative status effects, then having some on mitt tin be a real life-saver if yous get poisoned. On height of that, you can also use Milk Buckets to make a Cake, which is another fantabulous food detail.