Goat

A goat is a neutral mob found in certain mountainous biomes. Goats can jump especially high and ram mobs. They are a source of goat horns and milk.

Spawning[]

Groups of two to three goats spawn above stone variants of opaque blocks on snowy slopes, jagged peaks, and frozen peaks at the surface at a light level of 7 or higher. Goats spawn individually and more uncommonly after the world generation. 5% of all goats spawn as babies.

When a goat is spawned naturally or through breeding normal goats, it has a 2% chance of being a screaming‌^{[JE only]}/screamer‌^{[BE only]} goat. They look identical to all other goats, but they make screaming sounds and ram more often.

Drops[]

Adult goats drop 1–3 when killed by a player or tamed wolf, while 1–7 is dropped upon successful breeding. Killing a baby goat yields no items or experience.

Goat horns[]

Goats drop a goat horn when they charge into a solid block. These include stone, coal ore, copper ore, iron ore, emerald ore, logs, and packed ice. In Java Edition, these blocks are listed under the snaps_goat_horn tag, and can be modified using a data pack.

There are 4 horn variants for normal goats ("Ponder", "Sing", "Seek", and "Feel"), and 4 horn variants that only screaming goats drop ("Admire", "Call", "Yearn", and "Dream"). Goats do not regrow their horns; therefore, up to two horns can be dropped per goat.

Behavior[]

When left to wander, goats tend to ascend hills and mountains rather than keep to lowlands. Their behavior is marked by jumping high and by opportunistically ramming non-moving mobs.

Goats take 10 less fall damage and avoid walking into powder snow. Goats do not get hurt by pointed dripstone if they fall on it from a minimum of six blocks, and don't die from pointed dripstone if they fall on it from a minimum of ten.

Jumping[]

A goat usually jumps when trying to cross an obstacle like a small hole in the ground or powder snow. It lowers its head, then it leaps up to 10 blocks vertically and up to 5 blocks laterally. Once a goat jumps this way, it cannot do it again for 30 to 60 seconds. A goat also never voluntarily jumps more than 5 blocks down, although a goat can be pushed off a higher cliff by another mob or a piston.

Standing on a honey block prevents a goat from jumping.

Ramming[]

Every 30 to 300 seconds, a goat tries to ram a single unmoving target it can see within a range of 4–16 blocks. They can target players, armor stands, or any mob except for ghasts and other goats. A charging goat locks on to its target's position, lowers its head, stomps, and speeds toward the target. If the charge connects, it deals 1 to 3 damage (depending on difficulty) and 9 blocks of knockback to its target, possibly resulting in a damaging or even fatal fall. This attack is not affected by Thorns.^[1]

As a goat lowers its head, its target has the chance to move out of the way. If a goat misses, it stops itself within a couple blocks, unless it hits a solid block first. If a goat rams a solid block that occurs naturally in its environment, it can drop one of its two goat horns.

Mobs do not retaliate to being rammed, except for piglins, piglin brutes, hoglins, zoglins, and wardens.^[2]

Goats don't target players in Creative mode or any players in Peaceful difficulty. Unlike most neutral mobs, goats do not attack the player if the player attacks it, and it does not call for backup if harmed.

Baby goats deal a knockback of 4.5 blocks. A screaming goat's ramming cooldown is 5 to 15 seconds.^{[more information needed]}

Milking[]

An adult goat can be milked by using a bucket on it, yielding a milk bucket.

Breeding[]

Goats follow players that are within ten blocks who are holding wheat. If adult goats are fed wheat, they enter love mode and breed, granting one to seven experience orbs. The growth time of a baby goat can be accelerated by 10% each time it is fed wheat.

If a standard goat is bred with a screaming goat, there is approximately a 50% chance the resulting baby is a screaming goat. If both goats are screaming, there is a 100% chance that the baby is a screaming goat.

Baby goats only have horns if they are summoned through one of two commands: /summon goat ~ ~ ~ {Age:-24000, HasLeftHorn:1} or /summon goat ~ ~ ~ {Age:-24000, HasRightHorn:1}.

Sounds[]

• The goat's third hurt sound (screaming) and its first ramming preparation sound (also screaming) are the same, but pitched differently; the former is pitched higher than the latter.
• The goat's fourth death sound (regular) is its first ambient sound (also for regular goats) but lower pitched.
• The goat's second ramming preparation sound (screaming) is its fifth ambient sound (also screaming) but higher pitched.
• The goat's first and third ramming preparation sounds (both for screaming goats) are its first ramming preparation sound (regular goats) but heavily edited.

Java Edition:
Goats use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events. Goats use the Hostile Creatures sound category for some sound events.

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Goat bleats	Friendly Creatures	Randomly from a regular goat	entity.goat.ambient	subtitles.entity.goat.ambient	varies [sound 1]	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)	16
	Goat bellows	Friendly Creatures	Randomly from a screaming goat	entity.goat.screaming.ambient	subtitles.entity.goat.screaming.ambient	varies [sound 2]	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)	16
	Goat dies	Friendly Creatures	When a regular goat dies	entity.goat.death	subtitles.entity.goat.death	0.65	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)	16
	Goat dies	Friendly Creatures	When a screaming goat dies	entity.goat.screaming.death	subtitles.entity.goat.death	0.65	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)	16
	Goat hurts	Friendly Creatures	When a regular goat is damaged	entity.goat.hurt	subtitles.entity.goat.hurt	0.65	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)	16
	Goat hurts	Friendly Creatures	When a screaming goat is damaged	entity.goat.screaming.hurt	subtitles.entity.goat.hurt	0.65	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)	16
	Goat leaps	Friendly Creatures	When a regular goat long jumps	entity.goat.long_jump	subtitles.entity.goat.long_jump	0.8	varies [sound 3]	16
	Goat leaps	Friendly Creatures	When a screaming goat long jumps	entity.goat.screaming.long_jump	subtitles.entity.goat.long_jump	0.8	varies [sound 3]	16
	Goat gets milked	Friendly Creatures	When a regular goat is milked	entity.goat.milk	subtitles.entity.goat.milk	1.0	1.0	16
	Goat gets milked	Friendly Creatures	When a screaming goat is milked	entity.goat.screaming.milk	subtitles.entity.goat.milk	1.0	1.0	16
	Goat eats	Friendly Creatures	When a regular goat eats wheat	entity.goat.eat	subtitles.entity.goat.eat	1.0	0.8-1.2	16
	Goat eats	Friendly Creatures	When a screaming goat eats wheat	entity.goat.screaming.eat	subtitles.entity.goat.eat	1.0	0.8-1.2	16
	Footsteps	Friendly Creatures	While a goat is walking	entity.goat.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16
	Goat stomps	Hostile Creatures	When a regular goat prepares to ram	entity.goat.prepare_ram	subtitles.entity.goat.prepare_ram	0.8	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)	16
	Goat stomps	Hostile Creatures	When a screaming goat prepares to ram	entity.goat.screaming.prepare_ram	subtitles.entity.goat.prepare_ram	0.8	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)	16
	Goat rams	Hostile Creatures	When a regular goat impacts a mob after ramming	entity.goat.ram_impact	subtitles.entity.goat.ram_impact	0.8	1.0	16
	Goat rams	Hostile Creatures	When a screaming goat impacts a mob after ramming	entity.goat.screaming.ram_impact	subtitles.entity.goat.ram_impact	0.8	1.0	16
	Goat Horn breaks off	Friendly Creatures	When a goat's horn breaks off	entity.goat.horn_break	subtitles.entity.goat.horn_break	0.9	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Friendly Creatures	Randomly from a regular goat	mob.goat.ambient	varies [sound 1]	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
	Friendly Creatures	Randomly from a screamer goat	mob.goat.ambient.screamer	varies[sound 2]	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
	Friendly Creatures	When a regular goat dies	mob.goat.death	0.65	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
	Friendly Creatures	When a screamer goat dies	mob.goat.death.screamer	0.65	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
	Friendly Creatures	When a regular goat is damaged	mob.goat.hurt	0.65	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
	Friendly Creatures	When a screamer goat is damaged	mob.goat.hurt.screamer	0.65	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
	Friendly Creatures	When a goat long jumps	component.jump_to_block	1.0	1.0
	Friendly Creatures	When a regular goat is milked	mob.mooshroom.suspicious_milk	1.0	varies [sound 3]
	Friendly Creatures	When a screamer goat is milked	mob.goat.milk.screamer	1.0	1.0
	Friendly Creatures	When a goat eats wheat	mob.goat.eat	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Friendly Creatures	While a goat is walking	mob.goat.step	1.0	0.8-1.2 (1.3-1.7)
	Hostile Creatures	When a regular goat prepares to ram	mob.goat.prepare_ram	0.8	1.0
	Hostile Creatures	When a screamer goat prepares to ram	mob.goat.prepare_ram.screamer	0.8	1.0
	Hostile Creatures	When a regular goat impacts a mob after ramming	mob.goat.ram_impact	0.8	1.0
	Hostile Creatures	When a screamer goat impacts a mob after ramming	mob.goat.ram_impact.screamer	0.8	1.0
	Hostile Creatures	When a goat's horn breaks off	mob.goat.horn_break	1.0	1.0

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Goat	goat	entity.minecraft.goat

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Goat	goat	128	entity.goat.name

Entity data[]

Goats have entity data associated with them that contain various properties.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements[]

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
PS4	Other
		Whatever Floats Your Goat	Get in a boat and float with a goat	Use a boat and put a goat inside that boat, then ride it	20G	Bronze

Advancements[]

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Monster Hunter	Kill one of these 70 mobs near a sculk catalyst: Axolotl Bee Blaze Camel Cat Cave Spider Chicken Chicken Jockey Cod Cow Creeper Donkey Dolphin Drowned Elder Guardian Enderman Endermite Evoker Fox Frog Ghast Goat Glow Squid Guardian Hoglin Horse Husk Llama Magma Cube Mooshroom Ocelot Panda Parrot Phantom Pig Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Polar Bear Pufferfish Rabbit Ravager Salmon Sheep Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Skeleton Horse Skeleton Horseman Slime Sniffer Stray Spider Spider Jockey Squid Strider Trader Llama Tropical Fish Turtle Vex Vindicator Warden Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Wolf Zoglin Zombie Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Mobs that drop no experience are ignored for this advancement.	adventure/kill_mob_near_sculk_catalyst
	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed two animals together	Husbandry	Breed a pair of any of these 25 mobs: Axolotl Bee Camel Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Frog Goat Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Sniffer Strider Trader Llama Turtle Wolf A mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breedable together. Other breedable mobs are ignored for this advancement.	husbandry/breed_an_animal
	Whatever Floats Your Goat!	Get in a Boat and float with a Goat	Husbandry	Enter a boat or a raft with a goat.	husbandry/ride_a_boat_with_a_goat
	Two by Two	Breed all the animals!	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed a pair of each of these 24 mobs: Axolotl Bee Camel Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Frog Goat Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Sniffer Strider Turtle Wolf A trader llama does not count as a llama, and a mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breedable together. Other breedable mobs can be bred, but are ignored for this advancement.	husbandry/bred_all_animals

History[]

September 28, 2019					Goats are announced to be part of the mountains biome in the biome vote at MINECON Live 2019. The goat is the third mob added as a result of a community vote, the others being the phantom, fox, glow squid, allay and frog.
					Mountains wins the biome vote, including goats in the planned biome.
October 3, 2020					In-game footage of goats are shown at Minecraft Live 2020, to be released in the Caves & Cliffs update.
March 31, 2021					Goat was shown off on a tweet by Henrik Kniberg.
Java Edition
1.17		21w13a			Added goats.
					Goats have a 2% chance of spawning as a screaming goat, they are visually indistinguishable from regular goats, but make different sounds.
					Goats are completely passive.
					Goats currently do not drop any items.
					Goats currently spawn in the mountains (windswept hills) biome, a placeholder until the new mountains are added.
		21w15a			Goats now ram other mobs as well as armor stands.
					Creepers rammed by goats don't retaliate.
					Goats now avoid powder snow.
		21w18a			Screaming goats use their ram attack more often than regular goats.
					Two ear textures have been changed to mirror properly.
					Pitch for the sound of baby goats ramming into stuff has been increased.
					Baby goats now follow their parents.
					Goats can no longer make long jumps on honey blocks.
		Pre-release 3			Mobs rammed by goats no longer retaliate.
1.17.1		Pre-release 1			Breeding common goats now have a 2% chance to produce screaming goats.
					Status effects on goats now also apply when the goat is jumping or ramming.
1.18		Experimental Snapshot 1			Goats now spawn only in the added snowy slopes, jagged peaks, and frozen peaks biomes.
					Goats no longer spawn in the old mountains (windswept hills) biomes.
		Experimental Snapshot 3			Added the stony peaks biome, where goats can also spawn.
		21w40a			Goats no longer spawn in the stony peaks biome.
1.19		22w17a			Goats can now drop goat horns.
		Pre-release 2			Goat Horns now snap when a goat rams into copper ore.[3]
Bedrock Edition
1.16.200		beta 1.16.200.52			Added goats and baby goats behind the "Caves and Cliffs" experimental toggle.
					Goats make the sound of a player being hit.
					Goats currently use the vex's charging sound as a placeholder when preparing to ram charge.[4]
		release			Goats are unavailable in release.
1.16.210		beta 1.16.210.51			Re-added Goats.
					Goats now drop 2 goat horns each.
					Goats now drop 1-2 mutton.
					Goats now show missing goat horns in the model.
					Baby goats now have half knockback when using a ram attack.
					Goats no longer attack armor stands.[5]
					Goats now attack shulkers.
					Goats now produce one baby goat at a time when breeding.
		beta 1.16.210.53			Goats now avoid walking onto powder snow while path-finding.
		release			Goats are unavailable in release again.
1.16.220		beta 1.16.220.50			Re-added Goats again.
					Goats now spawn only in the Snowy Slopes mountain biome.
		release			Goats are unavailable in release once again.
1.17.0		beta 1.16.230.50			Re-added Goats once again.
		beta 1.16.230.54			Goats now spawn in the Extreme Hills biome instead of the Snowy Slopes biome.[6]
		beta 1.17.0.52			Goats are now available without enabling experimental gameplay.
		beta 1.17.0.54			Goats now have sounds.
					Added screaming goats.
					Increased chances of getting screaming goat by breeding screaming goat with non-screaming goat.
					Goats no longer drop mutton when killed.
1.17.10		beta 1.17.10.22			Mobs rammed by goats no longer retaliate.
1.17.30		beta 1.17.20.20			Baby goats no longer have horns.
1.18.0		beta 1.17.20.22			Goats now spawn only in mountain meadows.
		beta 1.17.40.20			Goats now spawn only in snowy slopes, stony peaks, lofty peaks, and snow capped peaks biome.
		beta 1.18.0.21			Goats no longer spawn in the stony peaks biome.
1.18.30		beta 1.18.20.25			Added a sound effect when a goat rams into a block and a goat horn breaks off.

Issues[]

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

Trivia[]

• Real-life goats cannot have their horns break off without sustaining significant cranial damage. The behavior of Minecraft's goat horns more closely resemble real-life deer antlers, which, unlike goat horns, are not part of the animal's skull.
• The model for goats was made in Blockbench.^[7]
• The sounds for goats were recorded from real domestic goats. However, goats in Minecraft are based on mountain goats.^[8]
• In very early development versions of Bedrock Edition 1.19.0, goats could be eaten by Frogs. ^[9]

Gallery[]

Screenshots[]

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  Goats in the Minecraft Live 2020 recap video.

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  Multiple goats, showcasing jump height.

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  A goat knocking a cow away.

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  Goats in 21w15a.

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  A goat on a mountainside.

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  Ulraf getting the "whatever floats your goat" advancement.

Concept art[]

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  Render of a goat made in Blockbench.^[10]

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  Goat concept art.

In other media[]

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  A Goat in promotional artwork for the first Caves & Cliffs update.

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  Goats in promotional artwork for the second Caves & Cliffs update.

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  A Goat in promotional artwork for the GOAT Update.

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  A Goat in promotional artwork for Mobile, Multiplayer & More.

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  Artwork of a Goat with a snow block.

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  Artwork of a Goat jumping.

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  Two goats, a horse, and a sniffer.

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  Several goats following Kai, Makena, and Steve into a Cherry Grove.

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  The Secret Goat, featured in the Trails & Tales Event.

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  The Dark Baby Goat, a unique variation featured in Minecraft Dungeons.

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  Goat plushie.

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  Lego Minecraft Goat.

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  An official crewneck sweatshirt labeled "GOAT!"

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  An official T-Shirt depicting the same phrase, alongside several actual goats.

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  A goat in a commercial for the Nintendo Switch.

Notes[]

References[]

External Links[]

• Mob Menagerie: Goat — Minecraft.net on August 29, 2022
• The Legend of the Screaming Goat — Minecraft.net on May 25, 2021
• Minecraft Goat — Blockbench.net, October 2020