Sheep are common passive mobs that supply wool and mutton and are found in many of the grassy biomes. Show Spawning[]The majority of sheep are white, with an 81.836% chance of spawning. The light gray, gray and black sheep each have a 5% chance of spawning, or a 15% chance collectively. Brown sheep have an uncommon 3% chance to spawn. Pink sheep have a rare chance of 0.164% of spawning naturally.
If a sheep spawner is placed via Natural generation[]In Java Edition, 4 sheep may spawn above grass blocks, at a light level of 9 or higher, even on snowy taigas. In Bedrock Edition, 2 to 3 sheep spawn during the world generation on grass blocks at the surface at a light level of 7 or higher with at least a 2 block space above, except in snowy taigas, snowy plains, ice spikes or wooded badlands. They later spawn individually on grassy biomes. 5% spawn as baby sheep. Two sheep sometimes spawn in shepherd houses, butcher houses and animal pens in villages. Drops[]An adult sheep drops:
When sheared, sheep give 1–3 wool and do not take any damage. This is not affected by Fortune or Looting. Upon successful breeding, 1–7 is dropped. Killing a baby sheep yields no items nor experience. Behavior[]Sheep wander aimlessly and individually or in small flocks of two to four. Sheep avoid cliffs and hazardous areas if it warrants damage. Sheep emit hoarse bleats in mostly random patterns and especially when attacked. If harmed, sheep flee for a few seconds, but make no special attempt to avoid wolves. Sheep are nonchalant to players or other mobs, but follow a player holding wheat within a six blocks radius. Adult sheep cannot fit through a gap if the 90-degree intersection of two fences is removed whereas the player and most other mobs can get through easily. Sheep graze
grass blocks, changing them into dirt blocks. In Bedrock Edition, they can also eat the grass or
fern on a block, making it disappear. Baby sheep graze grass much more often than adults and mature 1 minute faster when grazing. Sheep can eat grass through blocks that are less than a full block thick, including extremities such as
honey blocks, as well as from inside minecarts. A sheared sheep regrows its wool after grazing. Therefore, if no grass is available, a sheep cannot regrow its wool after being sheared. If an adult sheep has the opportunity, the chance of eating grass is 1⁄1000 per game
tick (1⁄50 for baby sheep). If Dyeing[]Sheep's wool can be dyed by pressing the use key or the interact button while holding any dye. Sheared sheep cannot be dyed until their wool grows back after eating a grass block. Dyeing changes the color of the sheep's wool permanently or until the sheep is dyed again. The new wool colors will be inherited by baby sheep. If a sheep is dyed and then sheared, it retains its new dyed wool color after the wool regrows. In Java Edition, the wool patches that are seen on a sheared sheep always appear white regardless of their actual color. Easter eggs[]An evoker can also change a
sheep's wool color if the evoker isn't engaged in combat and A sheep named “jeb_”. If a sheep is named Breeding[]An example of how a bred sheep inherits a mixture of its parents' colors when possible. Sheep can be bred using wheat, after which they spawn a baby sheep. They cannot breed for five minutes after the baby sheep appears. In Java Edition, if the parents have compatible wool colors (meaning that the corresponding dye items could be combined into a third dye color), the resulting baby sheep inherits a mix of their colors (e.g., blue sheep + white sheep = light blue baby sheep). If the dye colors cannot normally be mixed, and also always in Bedrock Edition, the baby sheep spawns with the same color as one of the parents, chosen randomly, regardless of whether one or both parents have been sheared. The 20-minute growth of baby sheep can be slightly accelerated using wheat. Each use takes 10% off the remaining time to grow up. It can also accelerate its own growth by eating grass. Sounds[]Java Edition:
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Entity data[]Sheep have entity data associated with them that contain various properties. Bedrock Edition: See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.Java Edition:
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What is the 3rd rarest sheep in Minecraft?The majority of sheep are white, with an 81.836% chance of spawning. The light gray, gray and black sheep each have a 5% chance of spawning, or a 15% chance collectively. Brown sheep have an uncommon 3% chance to spawn. Pink sheep have a rare chance of 0.164% of spawning naturally.
How rare is a natural pink sheep?Pink Sheep is the rarest with only a 0.164% chance of naturally spawning.
Is blue sheep rare in Minecraft?A sheep that spawns has a 75% chance of being white then a 9% being light gray 3% light gray 3% to be brown 9% to be black and 1% pink. But if you some blue sheep despawn near you the chart changes. Lets say 10 blue despawn and the 75% white is now 74% and now theres a 1% chance of it being blue.
Can Yellow sheep spawn naturally?The most colors of naturally spawning sheep is White, Black, Brown, Light and Dark Gray, and a chance of pink, red, yellow, blue, or dark green in certain worlds. Often, certain worlds have larger spawn rates of a certain color; seeds can regulate this.
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