How Rare Is A Blue Sheep In Minecraft

Sheep are common passive mobs that supply wool and mutton and are found in many of the grassy biomes.

Spawning [ ]

The majority of sheep are white, with an 81.836% chance of spawning. The light gray, grey and black sheep each have a v% gamble of spawning, or a 15% risk collectively. Brown sheep have an uncommon three% chance to spawn. Pinkish sheep take a rare take chances of 0.164% of spawning naturally.

Sheep	Chance
Adult Sheep	95%
Adult White Sheep	77.7442%
Developed Black Sheep Adult Gray Sheep Adult Light Gray Sheep	14.25% (4.75% each)
Adult Brownish Sheep	2.85%
Adult Pink Sheep	0.1558%
Baby Sheep	5%
Baby White Sheep	4.0918%
Baby Blackness Sheep Infant Gray Sheep Baby Light Gray Sheep	0.75% (0.25% each)
Babe Brown Sheep	0.15%
Baby Pink Sheep	0.0082%

If a sheep spawner is placed via /setblock, the sheep model spinning inside appears with one of the six naturally spawning colors . Independently from the displayed colour, all half-dozen variants are able to spawn, the usual chances apply. To guarantee that sheep always spawn with the desired color, additional NBT tags tin can exist applied to the spawner, utilizing the Color tag.

Natural generation [ ]

In Coffee Edition, 4 sheep may spawn above grass blocks, at a lite 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 vii or higher with at least a 2 cake 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:

1 wool of the respective colour. Sheep that take not regrown their wool do not drib wool.
1–2 raw mutton ( cooked mutton if killed while on fire or when in water using a sword with burn down aspect). The maximum amount is increased by one per level of Looting, for a maximum of 1–5 with Looting Iii.
i–3 experience orbs if killed by a player or tamed wolf.

When sheared, sheep give ane–3 wool and practice not take whatever harm.

Upon successful convenance, 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 information technology warrants damage. Sheep emit hoarse bleats in mostly random patterns and especially when attacked. If harmed, sheep abscond for a few seconds, just make no special attempt to avoid wolves.

Sheep are nonchalant to players or other mobs, but follow a player belongings 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 too consume the grass or fern on a block, making it disappear. Baby sheep graze grass much more often than adults. Sheep can eat grass through blocks that are less than a total cake thick, including extremities such as honey blocks, as well equally from inside minecarts. A sheared sheep regrows its wool after grazing. Therefore, if no grass is bachelor, a sheep cannot regrow its wool subsequently being sheared. If an developed sheep has the opportunity, the chance of eating grass is ¹⁄_g per game tick (^one⁄_fifty for baby sheep). If /gamerule mobGriefing is set to false, grass blocks remain, but the sheep nonetheless regrow their wool.^[1]

Dyeing [ ]

Sheep's wool can be dyed by pressing the use key or the collaborate button while holding whatsoever dye. Sheared sheep cannot be dyed until their wool grows back subsequently eating a grass block. Dyeing changes the colour of the sheep's wool permanently or until the sheep is dyed once again. The new wool colors will be inherited past baby sheep.

If a sheep is dyed and and then sheared, information technology retains its new dyed wool colour after the wool regrows. In Java Edition, the wool patches that are seen on a sheared sheep always appear white regardless of their actual colour.

Easter eggs [ ]

An evoker can as well change a sheep'southward wool color if the evoker isn't engaged in combat and /gamerule mobGriefing is fix to true. Then it can alter the wool color of any blue sheep within 16 blocks to red. It signals the spell past producing orange color particles () and making a "wololo" sound. This is a reference or easter egg to the priest unit of the 1997 game Age of Empires.

If a sheep is named jeb_, its wool cycles with interpolation through all dye colors in a similar manner to prismarine. This is purely a visual effect. A sheep named jeb_ can still be dyed without irresolute the rainbow upshot, and any wool obtained from i of these sheep has the almost recent color as if the sheep was not named.

Convenance [ ]

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 afterward the baby sheep appears.

In Coffee Edition, if the parents have uniform wool colors (meaning that the respective dye items could be combined into a tertiary 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 Boulder 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 employ takes 10% off the remaining fourth dimension to grow upward. It can also accelerate its ain growth by eating grass.

Sounds [ ]

Subtitles	Source	Description	Resources location	Translation central	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Sheep baahs	Friendly Creatures	Plays randomly.	`entity.sheep.ambient`	`subtitles.entity.sheep.ambient`	?	?	xvi
Sheep dies	Friendly Creatures	Plays when information technology dies.	`entity.sheep.death`	`subtitles.entity.sheep.death`	?	?	16
Sheep hurts	Friendly Creatures	Plays when information technology takes impairment.	`entity.sheep.hurt`	`subtitles.entity.sheep.hurt`	?	?	16
Shears click	Players	Plays when a player shears its wool off.	`entity.sheep.shear`	`subtitles.item.shear`	?	?	16
Footsteps	Friendly Creatures	Plays when it walks.	`entity.sheep.pace`	`subtitles.cake.generic.footsteps`	?	?	sixteen
Dye stains	Friendly Creatures	Using dye on the sheep	`detail.dye.use`	`subtitles.item.dye.use`	?	?	xvi

Data values [ ]

ID [ ]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Sheep	`sheep`	`entity.minecraft.sheep`

Bedrock Edition:

Proper noun	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Sheep	`sheep`	`13`	`entity.sheep.name`

Entity data [ ]

Sheep take entity data associated with them that comprise various backdrop.

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Java Edition:

Entity data
- Colour: The colour of the sheep. Default is 0.
- Sheared: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if the sheep has been shorn.

Sheep color

Achievements [ ]

Main Article: Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
PS4	Other platforms	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
		Rainbow Collection	Gather all 16 colors of wool.	All the colors of wool do non have to be in the inventory at the aforementioned time, but must accept been picked upwards past the player at least once.	30G	Silver

Advancements [ ]

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed two animals together	Husbandry	Brood a pair of any of these 23 mobs: Axolotl Bee Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Frog Caprine animal Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Ocelot Panda Hog Rabbit Sheep Strider Trader Llama Turtle Wolf A mule must be the result of breeding a equus caballus and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breed-able together. Other breed-able mobs, if whatever, can be bred, but are ignored for this advocacy.	`husbandry/breed_an_animal`
	Two past Ii	Breed all the animals!	The Parrots and the Bats	Brood a pair of each of these 22 mobs: Axolotl Bee Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Play tricks Frog Goat Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Ocelot Panda Hog Rabbit Sheep Strider Turtle Wolf A trader llama does not count every bit a llama, and a mule must exist the effect of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement every bit they are non brood-able together. Other breed-able mobs, if any, can be bred, but are ignored for this advancement.	`husbandry/bred_all_animals`

History [ ]

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History of jeb infant sheep.

Jeb sheep for 17w06a and Pocket one.1.0 Alpha 1.ane.0.0.

Coffee Edition Classic
October 25, 2009					Showtime showcase of sheep on The Word of Notch. Reddish wool as a drop can be seen.
October 25, 2009					Notch uploaded a video to YouTube of a sheep test.
0.28					Added sheep.
					Sheep currently drop mushrooms when killed.
					Sheep eat grass blocks, turning them into dirt. After eating a random amount of blocks, they regrow their wool.
Java Edition Indev
0.31		20091223-one			Sheep no longer spawn naturally.
		20100203			Sheep at present spawn again.
					Sheep at present spawn without wool.
					Sheep no longer drib mushrooms.
					Sheep no longer swallow grass.
20100211					Sheep now have unique idle and hurt sounds. Previously, they take no idle sounds, and use the player'south hurt sound.
20100212-1					Sheep at present spawn with wool again.
20100212-1					Sheep now drop i-3 greyness wool upon being hit.
20100219					Sheep now do not drop anything.^{[ verify ]}
Java Edition Infdev
20100627					Sheep at present drop white instead of grey wool.
Java Edition Blastoff
v1.two.2					In survival multiplayer, hit sheep drops unobtainable wool. Even so, casting a fishing rod drops obtainable wool, while the sheep withal appears to accept wool.
Coffee Edition Beta
1.2					Sheep can now be dyed - players tin now dye sheep to brand orange, magenta, light blue, yellow, lime, pink, gray, low-cal gray, cyan, regal, bluish, green, brown, red and black sheep.
					Colored sheep at present drop their corresponding wool color.
					Sheep can now spawn in the color gray, calorie-free greyness, or blackness.
i.iv					Sheep can at present rarely spawn in the colour pinkish or brown.
i.vii					Sheep now drop two-4 wool when sheared.
					Sheep no longer drop wool when hit.
					Sheep now driblet i wool cake when killed while not sheared.
1.viii		Pre-release			Sheep now flee when attacked.
Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta ane.ix Prerelease 3			Added baby sheep.
					Sheep tin at present brood.
					Sheep at present take 4 hearts of health (formerly five hearts).
		Beta 1.9 Prerelease vi			Baby sheep from dyed parents are now born dyed instead of always being white.
1.1		11w49a			Sheep at present consume grass blocks and alpine grass in lodge to re-grow their wool again.
					Shearing sheep now yields 1-3 wool blocks instead of 2-4.^[2]
					Spawn eggs are available for sheep in creative mode.
		11w50a			Babe sheep now eat more than than adult sheep.
one.2.1		12w07b			The sheep eating animation in multiplayer has been fixed.
one.2.1		12w07b			Sheep now have a new AI.
1.4.2		12w32a			Sheep from spawn eggs can now spawn naturally-colored sheep (white, grayness, brown, pink, etc.)
		12w38a			Added new step sounds to sheep.
		12w38a			Added a sound for shearing sheep.
1.four.4		one.4.3			Babe sheep now have a mix of the parents' colors, if the parents' colors are 'compatible' (able to be crafted together equally dyes).
1.four.4		one.4.3			The colors of sheep take been changed.
1.7.4		13w48b			Sheep named as 'jeb_' cycles at present through all possible sheep colors in a fading rainbow effect. They all the same driblet the color wool they were dyed terminal.
1.viii		14w02a			Baby sheep growth tin can now be accelerated using wheat.
		14w05b			Sheep's wool is no longer visible when they have the Invisibility effect.
		June xxx, 2014			Ryan Holtz announces that he's adding mutton as a new drop from sheep.
		14w27a			Sheep now drib raw mutton and—if killed with burn down—they drib cooked mutton.
1.ten		16w20a			Sheep no longer spawn in ice plains biomes.
one.xi		16w32a			The entity ID has been changed from `Sheep` to `sheep`.
1.12		17w06a			Sheep now look unlike when dyed to comply with the wool color changes.
1.12		17w06a			The colors of baby sheep accept been inverse.
ane.fourteen		18w43a			The textures of sheep take been changed.
					The textures of sheep named 'jeb_' have been changed.
					The textures of babe sheep have been changed.
					Sheep can now be sheared using dispensers.
1.15		19w37a			5% of sheep now spawn as babies.
1.17		21w03a			Added a sound for dyeing sheep.^{[ is this the correct version? ]}
1.18		experimental snapshot two			Sheep now spawn in mountain meadows.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.2.0					Added sheep.
					Sheep can be sheared.
					Baby sheep accept also been added, though there is currently no way to get them to spawn.
v0.six.0					Added the overlay part of the sheep with wool on its caput and trunk.
					Sheep at present display their colors and can be dyed.
					Baby sheep now spawn naturally.
v0.6.ane					The model of the sheep fur has been changed.^[3]
v0.7.0					Sheep spawn eggs are now in creative mode.
v0.8.0		build 2			If a sheep is dyed a color other than white, the wool color on its face also changes to match the rest of its trunk.
					When a sheep is sheared, the spots on its body at present also change colour (currently an exclusive feature).
					Sheep can now brood.
					The sheep AI has been improved.
v0.9.0		build 3			Sheep at present graze on tallgrass.
v0.xi.0		build one			Sheep coloration is at present applied through shaders, rather than dissimilar textures.
v0.12.0					Sheep are no longer bred using a Feed button equally of the release of the Windows 10 Edition.^{[ verify ]}
v0.14.0		build 1			Infant zombie jockeys now check for nearby sheep to mount prior to attacking the player, villager or golem.
v0.14.0		build 1			Sheep no longer spawn in the snowy plains biome and its variants.
v0.15.0		build 1			Sheep at present driblet raw mutton and if killed with fire, they drop cooked mutton.
					Sheep named as 'jeb_' cycle now through all possible sheep colors in a fading rainbow issue. They withal drop the color wool they were dyed concluding.
					Baby husks tin can now mount sheep.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.1			Sheep are now dyed using a Dye push button.
1.1.0		alpha i.1.0.0			The textures of sheep accept been changed. Sheep at present look unlike when dyed to comply with the wool color changes.
1.1.0		alpha i.1.0.0			The textures of baby sheep have been changed.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.iii			The textures of sheep have been changed.
					The textures of sheep named 'jeb_' have been changed.
					The textures of infant sheep have been changed.
					Sheep now spawn in desert village shepherd houses.
1.11.0		beta one.11.0.ane			Sheep tin now spawn in plains, savanna, taiga, snowy taiga and snowy tundra village shepherd houses, butcher houses, and animal pens.
1.18.30		beta 1.18.xx.27			Sheep no longer spawn in snowy taigas.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added sheep.
TU1					Sheep tin be sheared.
TU5					Sheep now run abroad when attacked.
TU7					Added baby sheep.
TU7					Sheep can now exist bred using wheat.
TU9					Sheep now consume grass blocks and tall grass in order to re-grow their wool. Equally a counterbalance, shearing sheep yields ane-iii wool blocks instead of 2-4.
TU9					Spawn eggs are now available for sheep in Artistic mode.
TU14		1.04			Baby sheep tin can at present be spawned past using on an adult form of that mob using a spawn egg.
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch iii		Sheep now drib raw mutton and—if killed with burn—they drop cooked mutton.
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch iii		Babe sheep growth can now exist accelerated using wheat.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added sheep.
0.1.0					Added baby sheep.

Prior colors

Issues [ ]

Issues relating to "Sheep" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Gallery [ ]

A dying sheep mob.
Brown, light gray, grayness, pink and black are 5 of the naturally spawning colors of a sheep.
A big flock of sheep, along with some chickens.
A babe sheep and an adult sheep.
The sheep grass-eating animation.
The baby sheep grass-eating animation.
A jeb_ sheep.
A jeb_ baby sheep.
The relative probabilities of naturally spawned sheep colors.
A sheared babe sheep next to its parent. (sheared babe sheep are available only via commands)
A sheep with a blueish head.
A white baby sheep that has been sheared (sheared baby sheep are but available through commands)
Z-fighting in the sheep'due south legs while invisible, in Spectator style.
Rare occurrence of a pink sheep.
Sheep bewitched in a tree. This is on an old version of Minecraft.
Flock of sheep in a swamp biome

Bedrock Edition [ ]

The pes of a sheep.
The sheep's color around their face and overlay when sheared corresponds to their wool color.
All of the possible sheep wool colors (dyed by the player.) Sheep take dyed wool remnants.

Official artwork [ ]

Artwork of a sheep alongside Steve and a pig.
A chocolate-brown sheep in promotional artwork for the commencement Caves & Cliffs update.
LEGO minifigure of white sheep.
Baby sheep costly made by JINX

References [ ]

↑ "[MC-147444] Sheep eating grass does not turn grass into dirt when mobGriefing is disabled - Jira" – Mojira, April 4, 2019.
↑ "I decreased the amount of wool from ii-four to ane-three since wool regrows over again" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on Twitter, December eight, 2011
↑ "[MCPE-1376] Sheep anxiety texture missing - Jira" – Mojira, January 31, 2013.