Goat mob in Minecraft
The Goat is a mountain climber that leaps high and rams anything in its way, including you, sometimes right off a cliff. It gives milk, breeds with wheat and is the main source of goat horns, which it loses when it charges into the right blocks.
- Health
- 105 hearts
- Behavior
- Neutral
- Food
Wheat- Found in
- Frozen Peaks+2 more
Goat stats
- Health
- 10 5 hearts
- Behavior
- Neutral
- Spawns in
- 3 biomes
- Size
- 0.9 × 1.3 blocks
- XP when killed
- 1 to 3none as a baby
- Speed
- 0.2
- Detection range
- 16 blocks
- Tempt range
- 10 blocks
// Experience drops only when a player kills it. Speeds are the game’s internal values, not blocks per second.
How much damage Goat deals
Damage to a player without armor, by world difficulty. 1 ♥ = 2 damage points.
// Armor, Protection and Resistance reduce these values. Base values read from the game code (26.3).
Where to find Goat
Biomes where it spawns naturally, with its share of the spawns in each group.
- Group size
- 1 to 3
- Light level
- 9 or more
Goat drops
Nothing.
Health compared
Goat
Food and breeding
Items it eats, follows or breeds with.
What you can do with Goat
Items to use on it and what happens.
MilkBucketUse a Bucket on it to fill a Milk Bucket. Baby Goat
Bred with Wheat All baby mobs → Gear and tools
Items it can wear, and items you use on it.
Use on itBucketAdvancements with Goat
Advancements whose criteria involve this mob, from the game files.
Command
/summon minecraft:goat ~ ~ ~Where goats live
Goats spawn high up, on Snowy Slopes, Jagged Peaks and Frozen Peaks. They jump from ledge to ledge and take less fall damage than most mobs, so they are comfortable in places where you are not.
Why goats ram you
Every now and then, a goat lowers its head, stares at a target and charges. The hit knocks you back a long way, and on a mountain that often means a fall. Screaming goats, a rare kind that makes loud screaming noises, charge far more often. To stay safe up there:
- Do not stand with your back to a drop when a goat is staring at you.
- Step aside when it lowers its head: the charge goes in a straight line.
- Build or mine with a wall between you and the herd.
How to get goat horns
When a goat charges and slams into a solid block instead of its target, it can break off a horn, which drops as a goat horn. Only some blocks do this: stone, packed ice, logs from Overworld trees, and iron, coal, copper or emerald ore. A goat has two horns, so it can drop two at most.
The trick is to stand in front of one of these blocks, wait for the charge and step aside at the last moment. The sound of the horn depends on the goat: regular goats give Ponder, Sing, Seek or Feel, screaming goats give Admire, Call, Yearn or Dream. Chests in a pillager outpost can also hold a horn, but only with one of the regular sounds.
Milk and breeding
Use a bucket on a goat to fill a milk bucket. Drinking it clears all your status effects, good and bad, which makes it a handy cure for poison or the effects of a witch's potion. Goats breed with wheat. A small pen at your base, with a stone wall at one end, is the safest way to collect horns without climbing a mountain each time.
✓ Checked in Java Edition 26.3 · updated 1 November 2026
Goat — FAQ
How do you get a goat horn?
Make a goat ram into stone, packed ice, an Overworld log or iron, coal, copper or emerald ore. The horn breaks off and drops. Each goat has two.
What is a screaming goat?
A rare goat that makes screaming sounds and rams much more often. Its horns play Admire, Call, Yearn or Dream.
Can you milk a goat?
Yes. Use an empty bucket on it to get a milk bucket, just like with a cow.
Where does the Goat spawn?
In Frozen Peaks, Jagged Peaks and Snowy Slopes.
What does a Goat drop?
Nothing.
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