Aurochs
| Health Points |
3500 |
| Spawn |
Plains |
| Can Despawn |
No |
| Drops |
|
| Offspring |
1 |
Contents
Appearance
Aurochs are large mobs. They have dark brown coats with white spots and black hooves. Their eyes are larger than those of most mobs and appear somewhat unfocused. They resemble Norwegian Red Cattle. Female cows have a short horn on either side of their head and a pink udder. Male cows have more pronounced horns and no udder.
Usage
Aurochs provide more types of useful resources than all other neutral mobs and can be used to provide the player with meat, milk, bones, and hide. Female cows can be milked once a day by the player. This is done by holding a Wooden Bucket and right-clicking on the cow’s udder. Milking a cow also increases its familiarity rating.
Behavior
Aurochs are neutral mobs. Like other wild animals they try to avoid being out in the rain and sleep at night, even though they currently lack a sleeping animation. If a player attacks an aurochs it will fight back by headbutting the player, dealing a large amount of damage and knocking them back. Aurochs will not continue attacking after the first retaliatory strike. Aurochs will follow players holding all grains.
Breeding
- Main article: Animal Husbandry
Aurochs can be bred with all grains. Aurochs require at least four days of familiarization to be bred. Pregnancy lasts for nine months, after which a single calf is born.
Unless they are separated, calves will follow their parents or other adult cows until they become adults themselves. A calf looks similar to an adult cow, but its body is smaller and it does not have any horns. Calves also move more quickly and make higher-pitched noises than adult cows. They take 3 years (36 months) to fully grow into adulthood.
Horn
Adult male aurochs have a 25% chance of dropping two Horns, which can be crafted into the Blowing Horn and is part of the recipe for the Composite Bow.
