Sheep

Sheep

• Unshorn
• Sheared
• Baby

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Health points	8HP
Behavior	Passive
Mob type	Animal
Hitbox size	Adult: Height: 1.3 blocks Width: 0.9 blocks Baby: Height: 0.65 blocks Width: 0.45 blocks
Speed	0.23
Spawn	Grass blocks with at least two blocks of space above in most Overworld biomes.
Usable items	Lead Shears Wheat Dye

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A sheep is a common passive mob that supplies wool and raw mutton and is found in many of the grassy biomes.

Spawning

The sheep color is determined by the type of biome the sheep spawns in.

Sheep Colors

Biome Type	Common (81.836%)	Uncommon (5%)	Uncommon (3%)	Rare (0.164%)
Temperate	White	Light Gray Gray Black	Brown	Pink
Cold	Black	White Light Gray Gray	Brown	Pink
Warm	Brown	White Light Gray Gray	Black	Pink

If a monster spawner is set to spawn sheep, the sheep model spinning inside appears with one of the six naturally spawning colors. Independently from the displayed color, all six variants are able to spawn, the usual chances apply. To guarantee that sheep always spawn with the desired color, additional NBT tags can be applied to the monster spawner, utilizing the Color tag.

Natural generation

In Java Edition, 4 sheep may spawn above grass blocks, at a light level of 9 or higher, even in snowy taigas, but not in pale gardens.

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 pale gardens, snowy plains, ice spikes or wooded badlands. They later spawn individually on grassy biomes.

Two sheep sometimes spawn in shepherd houses, butcher houses and animal pens in villages.

Drops

On death

Item		Roll Chance	Quantity (Roll Chance)
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Wool	100%	1	1	1	1
	Raw Mutton	100%	1–2	1–3	1–4	1–5

1–3XP experience orbs if killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Killing a baby sheep yields no items nor experience.

Shearing

When sheared, sheep give 1–3 wool and do not take any damage. This is not affected by Fortune or Looting.

Breeding

Upon successful breeding, 1–7XP is dropped.

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 do not usually interact with players or other mobs, but follow a player holding wheat within a six blocks radius. Adult sheep cannot fit through a gap of the 90-degree intersection of two fences when the corner fence is removed, whereas the player and most other mobs can fit through easily (although mobs won't path-find through this gap).

A sheared sheep eating grass and regrowing its wool.

Sheep graze short grass, short dry grass, tall dry grass, and ferns (but not tall grass or large ferns), making it disappear, and grass blocks, changing them into dirt blocks. Baby sheep graze grass much more often than adults and mature 1 minute faster when grazing. Sheep can eat grass through blocks that are lower than a full block, 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 every other game tick (¹⁄₅₀ for baby sheep). If /gamerule mobGriefing is set to false, grass blocks remain, but the sheep still regrow their wool.

Dyeing

A sheep's wool can be dyed by pressing the use key or the interact button while holding any dye. A sheared sheep cannot be dyed until its 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 are inherited by baby sheep.

If a sheep is dyed and then sheared, it retains its new dyed wool color after the wool regrows.

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.

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, 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 a baby sheep can be slightly accelerated using wheat. Each use takes 10% off the remaining time to grow up. A baby sheep can also accelerate its own growth by eating grass.

Easter eggs

Evoker changing sheep's wool color

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

A sheep named “jeb_”.

If a sheep is named jeb_, its wool cycles through all dye colors in order. This is purely a visual effect. A sheep named jeb_ can still be dyed without changing the rainbow effect, and any wool obtained from one of these sheep has the most recent color as if the sheep was not named.

Sounds

Java Edition:
Sheep use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Sheep baahs	Friendly Creatures	Randomly	entity.sheep.ambient	subtitles.entity.sheep.ambient​	1.0	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)	16
	​Sheep dies	Friendly Creatures	When a sheep dies	entity.sheep.death	subtitles.entity.sheep.death​	1.0	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)	16
	​Sheep hurts	Friendly Creatures	When a sheep is damaged	entity.sheep.hurt	subtitles.entity.sheep.hurt​	1.0	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)	16
	​Footsteps	Friendly Creatures	While a sheep is walking	entity.sheep.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16
	​Shears click	Players(player) Blocks(dispenser)	When a sheep is sheared	entity.sheep.shear	subtitles.item.shear​	1.0	1.0	16
	​Block broken	Blocks	When a sheep grazes grass	block.grass.break​​	subtitles.block.generic.break​​​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Dye stains	Friendly Creatures	When a sheep is dyed	item.dye.use	subtitles.item.dye.use​	1.0	1.0/0.9/0.95/1.1	16

Bedrock Edition:

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Friendly Creatures	Randomly	mob.sheep.say	1.0	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
	Friendly Creatures	When a sheep dies	mob.sheep.say	1.0	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
	Friendly Creatures	When a sheep is damaged	mob.sheep.say	1.0	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
	Friendly Creatures	While a sheep is walking	mob.sheep.step	0.4	1.0
	Friendly Creatures	When a sheep is sheared	mob.sheep.shear	1.0	1.0
	Blocks	When a sheep grazes grass	dig.grass	0.7	0.8-1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	[hide]Translation key
Sheep	sheep	entity.minecraft.sheep

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	[hide]Translation key
Sheep	sheep	13	entity.sheep.name

Entity data

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

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Java Edition:

• [NBT Compound / JSON Object] Entity data
  • Additional fields for mobs that can breed see Template:Nbt inherit/breedable/template[show]
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template[show]
  • Tags common to all mobs see Template:Nbt inherit/mob/template[show]
  • [Byte] Color: The color of the sheep. Default is 0.
  • [Byte] Sheared: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if the sheep has been shorn.

Sheep color[show][edit]

Color values

In Java Edition, non-white sheep colors are 25% darker as the respective dye color values; white is separately defined as
 #E6E6E6. Non-white sheep colors are applied to the sheep_wool.png and sheep_wool_undercoat.png textures, while white is applied exclusively to the sheep_wool.png texture (the wool undercoat texture is not rendered for white sheep).

In Bedrock Edition, sheep colors use the same values as the base dye colors. The fur textures of white sheep are not tinted.

ID	Name	Java Edition color code		Bedrock Edition color code
		Dec	Hex	Dec	Hex
0	white	15132390	#E6E6E6	-
1	orange	12214293	#BA6015	16351261	#F9801D
2	magenta	9779853	#953A8D	13061821	#C74EBD
3	light_blue	2852515	#2B86A3	3847130	#3AB3DA
4	yellow	12493357	#BEA22D	16701501	#FED83D
5	lime	6329623	#609517	8439583	#80C71F
6	pink	11954303	#B6687F	15961002	#F38BAA
7	gray	3488573	#353B3D	4673362	#474F52
8	light_gray	7697777	#757571	10329495	#9D9D97
9	cyan	1078645	#107575	1481884	#169C9C
10	purple	6694282	#66258A	8991416	#8932B8
11	blue	2962303	#2D337F	3949738	#3C44AA
12	brown	6438693	#623F25	8606770	#835432
13	green	4611344	#465D10	6192150	#5E7C16
14	red	8659484	#84221C	11546150	#B02E26
15	black	1381656	#151518	1908001	#1D1D21

Achievements

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Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Have a Shearful Day	Use Shears to obtain wool from a sheep.	—	15	Bronze
		It Spreads	Kill a mob next to a catalyst	—	10	Bronze
		Overkill	Deal nine hearts of damage in a single hit.	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have nine hearts of health overall.	30	Bronze
		Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	—	20	Silver
		Rainbow Collection	Gather all 16 colors of wool.	All the colors of wool do not have to be in the inventory at the same time, but must have been picked up by the player at least once.	30	Silver

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	A Throwaway Joke	Throw a Trident at something. Note: Throwing away your only weapon is not a good idea.	Hit a mob with a thrown trident.
	Adventure	Adventure, exploration and combat	Kill any mob, or be killed by any living entity.
	Arbalistic	Kill five unique mobs with one crossbow shot	Armor Stand also counts for this advancement. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.
	It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Kill one of these 73 mobs near a sculk catalyst:[show] Mobs that drop no experience as well as the ender dragon are ignored for this advancement.
	Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	–
	Take Aim	Shoot something with an Arrow	Using a bow or a crossbow, shoot a mob with an arrow, tipped arrow, or spectral arrow.
	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed two animals together	Breed a pair of any of these 26 mobs:[hide] 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.
	Two by Two	Breed all the animals!	Breed a pair of each of these 25 mobs:[hide] 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.

History

[hide]Java Edition Classic
October 25, 2009							First showcase of sheep on The Word of Notch. Red cloth 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 cloths and mushrooms when killed.
							Sheep eat grass, turning them into dirt. After eating a random amount of blocks, they regrow their cloth.
[hide]Java Edition Indev
0.31			20091223-0040				Sheep no longer spawn naturally.
			20100202				Sheep now spawn again.
							Sheep now spawn without cloth.
							Sheep now drop either 1 flint and steel, or 1-3 string, sulphur, or feathers. These drops were the same for the other mobs.
							Sheep no longer drop mushrooms.
							Sheep no longer eat grass.
20100211-2327							Sheep now have unique idle and hurt sounds. Previously, they have no idle sounds, and use the player's hurt sound.
							Sheep now spawn with cloth again.
							Sheep now drop 1-3 white, dark gray and light gray cloth upon being hit.
20100219							Sheep now do not drop anything when killed.
20100223							Sheep now drop only light gray cloth when hit.
[hide]Java Edition Infdev
20100624							Sheep now drop white instead of light gray cloth.
[hide]Java Edition Alpha
v1.2.2							In Survival multiplayer, hitting a sheep drops unobtainable cloth. However, casting a fishing rod drops obtainable cloth, while the sheep still appears to have cloth.
[hide]Java Edition Beta
1.2							Sheep can now be dyed - players can now dye sheep to make light gray, gray, black, brown, red, orange, yellow, lime, green, cyan, light blue, blue, purple, magenta, and pink sheep.
							Colored sheep now drop their corresponding wool color.
							Sheep can now spawn in the color gray, light gray, or black.
1.4							Sheep can now rarely spawn in the color pink or brown.
1.7							Sheep now drop 2-4 wool when sheared.
							Sheep no longer drop wool when hit.
							Sheep now drop one wool block when killed while not sheared.
1.8			Pre-release				Sheep now flee when attacked.
[hide]Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3				Added baby sheep.
							Sheep can now breed.
							Sheep now have 4 hearts of health (formerly 5 hearts).
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6				Baby sheep from dyed parents are now born dyed instead of always being white.
1.1			11w49a				Sheep now eat grass blocks and short grass in order to re-grow their wool again.
							Shearing a sheep now yields 1-3 wool blocks instead of 2-4.
							Spawn eggs are available for sheep in creative mode.
			11w50a				Baby sheep now eat more than adult sheep.
1.2.1			12w07b				The sheep eating animation in multiplayer has been fixed.
							Sheep now have a new AI.
1.4.2			12w32a				Sheep from spawn eggs can now spawn naturally-colored sheep (white, gray, brown, pink, etc.)
			12w38a				Added new step sounds to sheep.
							Added a sound for shearing sheep.
							Sheep idle sounds now play entirely. Previously, say3 was cut.
1.4.4			1.4.3				Baby sheep now have a mix of the parents' colors, if the parents' colors are 'compatible' (able to be crafted together as dyes).
							Changed the color of sheep except for white.
1.7.4			13w48b				Sheep named as 'jeb_' cycles now through all possible sheep colors in a fading rainbow effect. They still drop the color wool they were dyed last.
1.8			14w02a				Baby sheep's growth can now be accelerated using wheat.
			14w05b				Sheep's wool is no longer visible when they have the Invisibility effect.
			June 30, 2014				Ryan Holtz announces that he's adding mutton as a new drop from sheep.
			14w27a				Sheep now drop raw mutton and—if killed with fire—they drop cooked mutton.
1.10			16w20a				Sheep no longer spawn in ice plains biomes.
1.11			16w39a				Added evokers which automatically turn blue sheep into red sheep.
1.12			17w06a				Sheep now look different when dyed to comply with the wool color changes.
							Changed the color of baby sheep.
1.14			18w43a				Changed the texture of sheep.
							Changed the texture of sheep named "jeb".
							Changed the texture of baby sheep.
							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.
1.18			experimental snapshot 2				Sheep now spawn in meadows.
			21w39a				Sheep now eat half as often, due to the chance to start eating being evaluated every other game tick rather than every game tick.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20			23w07a				Sheep now spawn in cherry groves.
1.21.2			24w35a				Sheep's default death loot table is no longer controlled by entities/sheep/<color> and is now controlled by entities/sheep.
1.21.5			25w02a				Sheep can now spawn in wooded badlands. Technically, they are also allowed to spawn in badlands and eroded badlands, but cannot spawn there naturally as these biomes do not generate grass blocks.
			25w06a				Sheep can now graze on short dry grass and tall dry grass.
			25w07a				Changed the rules for sheep coloring to be based on which biome they spawn in.
							In temperate biomes, the common sheep color is white, while uncommon sheep colors are black, gray, light gray and brown.
							In cold biomes, the common sheep color is black, while uncommon sheep colors are light gray, light blue, blue and cyan.
							In warm biomes, the common sheep color is brown, while uommon sheep colors are gray, yellow, orange and red.
							In all biomes, the rare sheep color is pink.
			25w08a				The undercoats of sheep are now colored when dyed, to match Bedrock Edition.
							Light blue, blue, cyan, yellow, orange, and red sheep no longer spawn naturally.
							White, black, brown, gray, and light gray sheep spawn in all biomes again. White, black, and brown remain the common sheep colors in temperate, cold, and warm biomes respectively.
							Sheep can now eat ferns.
							Changed the texture of sheep spawn eggs.
			25w10a				Its wool texture has been tweaked to remove the stark line at the back.
[hide]Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.2.0							Added sheep.
							Sheep can be sheared.
							Baby sheep have also been added, though there is currently no way to get them to spawn.
v0.6.0							Added the overlay part of the sheep with wool on its head and body.
							Sheep now display their colors and can be dyed.
							Baby sheep now spawn naturally.
v0.6.1							The model of the sheep's fur has been changed.
v0.7.0							Sheep spawn eggs are now in creative mode.
v0.8.0			build 1				If a sheep is dyed a color other than white, the wool color on its face also changes to match the rest of its body.
							When a sheep is sheared, the spots on its body now also change color (currently an exclusive feature).
							Sheep can now breed.
							The sheep's AI has been improved.
v0.9.0			build 3				Sheep can now graze on short grass.
v0.9.2							The health of sheeps has been reduced from 16HP × 8 to 8HP.
v0.11.0			build 1				Sheep's coloration is now applied through shaders, rather than different textures.
v0.12.0							Sheep are no longer bred using a Feed button as of the release of the Windows 10 Edition.
v0.14.0			build 1				Baby zombie jockeys now check for a nearby sheep to mount prior to attacking the player, villager or golem.
							Sheep no longer spawn in the snowy plains biome and its variants.
v0.15.0			build 1				Sheep now drop 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 effect. They still drop the color wool they were dyed last.
							Baby husks can now mount sheep.
[hide]Pocket Edition
1.0.0			alpha 0.17.0.1				Sheep are now dyed using a Dye button.
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				The textures of sheep have been changed. Sheep now look different when dyed to comply with the wool color changes.
							The textures of baby sheep have been changed.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				Changed the texture of sheep.
							Changed the texture of sheep named "jeb_".
							Changed the texture of baby sheep.
							Sheep now spawn in desert village shepherd houses.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1				Sheep can now spawn in plains, savanna, taiga, snowy taiga and snowy tundra village shepherd houses, butcher houses, and animal pens.
1.18.30			Preview 1.18.20.28				Sheep no longer spawn in snowy taigas.
			release				Reverted the sheep spawning change made in Preview 1.18.20.28.
1.21.60			Preview 1.21.60.21				Baby sheep now have a mix of the parents' colors, if the parents' colors are 'compatible' (able to be crafted together as dyes).
1.21.70			Preview 1.21.70.22				Sheep now graze on short dry grass and tall dry grass.
			Preview 1.21.70.23				Changed the rules for sheep coloring to be based on which biome they spawn in.
							In temperate biomes, the common sheep color is white, while uncommon sheep colors are black, gray, light gray and brown.
							In cold biomes, the common sheep color is black, while uncommon sheep colors are light gray, light blue, blue and cyan.
							In warm biomes, the common sheep color is brown, while uommon sheep colors are gray, yellow, orange and red.
							In all biomes, the rare sheep color is pink.
			Preview 1.21.70.25				Sheep wool texture has been tweaked to remove stark line at the back.
							Light blue, blue, cyan, yellow, orange, and red sheep no longer spawn naturally.
							White, black, brown, gray, and light gray sheep spawn in all biomes again. White, black, and brown remain the common sheep colors in temperate, cold, and warm biomes respectively.
[hide]Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added sheep.
							Sheep can be sheared.
TU3							Sheep now drop 2-4 wool when sheared.
							Sheep no longer drop wool when hit.
							Sheep now drop one wool block when killed while not sheared.
TU5							Sheep now run away when attacked.
TU7							Added baby sheep.
							Sheep can now be bred using wheat.
TU9							Sheep now eat grass blocks and short grass in order to re-grow their wool. As a counterbalance, shearing a sheep yields 1-3 wool blocks instead of 2-4.
							Spawn eggs are now available for sheep in Creative mode.
TU14		1.04					Baby sheep can now be spawned by using on that mob using its spawn egg.
TU24	CU12	1.16	1.16	1.16			Sheep named as 'jeb_' cycles now through all possible sheep colors in a fading rainbow effect. They still drop the color wool they were dyed last.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Sheep now drop raw mutton. If killed with fire, they drop cooked mutton.
							Baby sheep's growth can now be accelerated using wheat.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Added evokers which automatically turn blue sheep into red sheep.
			1.90				Sheep can now be sheared using dispensers.
[hide]New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added sheep.
							Added baby sheep.

Prior colors[show][edit]

Spawn rules before Spring to Life

The color of a sheep is determined by the values in the table below. One in every 500 white sheep (0.2%) is instead pink, making pink the rarest of the six naturally spawning colors. 5% of all sheep (regardless of color) spawn as baby sheep.

Sheep Colors

Color	Chance	Percent	Adult	Baby
Total	-	100%	95%	5%
White	82/100 × 499/500	81.836%	77.7442%	4.0918%
Black	5/100	5%	4.75%	0.25%
Gray	5/100	5%	4.75%	0.25%
Light gray	5/100	5%	4.75%	0.25%
Brown	3/100	3%	2.85%	0.15%
Pink	82/100 × 1/500	0.164%	0.1558%	0.0082%

Data history

[hide]Java Edition
1.11			16w32a				The entity ID has been changed from Sheep to sheep.
1.13			17w47a				Numeric IDs for entities were presumably deprecated in this version.​

Issues

Issues relating to "Sheep" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Java Edition

• MC-278734 – [Fixed] Sheep's heads stutter when they look up or down
• MC-257540 – Sheep eat half as often as they did before 21w39a
• MC-280336 – Sheep can't eat dry grass (and short grass) when placed on farmland/mud
• MC-76490 – Sheep can eat grass through non-full blocks
• MC-242398 – Unused pixels in sheep.png UV texture map
• MC-272095 – Wool items from shearing sheep do not account for the scale attribute
• MC-273774 – The cooldown state of evokers turning blue sheep into red sheep isn't saved to NBT
• MC-221398 – Colored sheep's head is always white
• MC-108254 – Evokers don't change sheep color with the mobGriefing gamerule disabled
• MC-149838 – Baby sheep walk while eating grass
• And 7 other open issues.

Bedrock Edition

• MCPE-190809 – Sheep texture does not match Java Edition
• MCPE-71476 – Sheep skin/sheared texture is the old and not the new

Gallery

Renders

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Screenshots

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  A dying sheep.

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  White, brown, light gray, gray, pink and black are 6 of the naturally spawning colors of a sheep.

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  A large flock of sheep, along with some chickens.

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  A baby sheep and an adult sheep.

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  The sheep grass-eating animation.

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  The baby sheep grass-eating animation.

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  Sheep that have been dyed by the player.

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  The relative probabilities of naturally spawned sheep colors.

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  A sheared baby sheep next to its parent. (sheared baby sheep are available only via commands).

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  Snowy grass next to a patch of dirt that a sheep has eaten.

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  A sheep with a blue head.

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  Four different colors of naturally spawning sheep: light gray, gray, brown, and black.

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  Z-fighting in the sheep's legs while invisible, in Spectator mode.

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  Rare occurrence of a pink sheep.

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  Sheep bugged in a tree. This is on an old version of Minecraft.

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  Flock of sheep in a swamp biome.

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  The foot of a sheep.

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  The sheep's color around their face and overlay when sheared corresponds to their wool color.

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  A sheep before Pocket Edition Alpha 0.6.0.

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  Pink sheep before Pocket Edition Alpha 0.8.0.

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  All of the possible sheep wool colors (dyed by the player.) Sheep have dyed wool remnants.

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  A yellow sheep during Pocket Edition Alpha 0.7.1.

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  A white baby sheep that has been sheared (sheared baby sheep are available only via commands).

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  A pink sheep seen in Java Edition Beta 1.7.3

Mojang screenshots

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  The first screenshot on breeding released by Notch.

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  Dyed sheep in separate pens.

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  A pink sheep in the wild.

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  An edited photo of sheep in the desert.

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  Baby sheep grazing.

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  A group of sheep.

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  Zuri shearing sheep.

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  Some sheep in a pasture.

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  Warm colored sheep in Java Edition 25w07a.

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  Sheep variants in Java Edition 25w07a.

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  Wandering trader and cartographer in front of the cold sheep variants in Bedrock Edition Preview 1.21.70.23.

Textures

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  A sheep's texture file.

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  A sheep's fur texture file.

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  A sheep's wool undercoat texture file.

In other media

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  Artwork of a sheep alongside Steve and a pig.

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  Various dyed sheep as shown in the World of Color Update artwork.

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  Artwork of a sheep.

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

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  A sheep in official artwork for the Education Edition.

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  Sheep pictured in the Mobestiary.

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  LEGO minifigure of cyan sheep.

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  LEGO minifigure of purple baby sheep.

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  A "Super Cute" Sheep from the 18th line of Minecraft Mini-Figures.

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  Baby sheep plush made by JINX.

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  "My Base is Your Base," an official T-Shirt design featuring a build of a red sheep.

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

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  Sheep Man, a skin included in the second Legacy Console skin pack.

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  A sheared version of Sheep Man from the same pack.

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  Top Hat Sheep, a skin featured in the 1st Birthday skin pack.

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  The "Mummy Sheep," featured in the Halloween Edition mash-up pack and Minecraft Mini-Series.

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  A baby sheep looking upwards.

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  Orange sheep Flippin' Figs figure

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  Cyan sheep Flippin' Figs figure