Sheep

Sheep are common passive mobs found in grassy biomes that supply wool and mutton.
== Spawning ==
The majority of sheep are white, with an 81.836% chance of spawning. The light gray, gray and black sheep each have a 5% chance of spawning. This means using a spawn egg to get one of these sheep is about 15%. Brown sheep have an uncommon 3% chance to spawn. Pink sheep have a rare chance (0.164%) of spawning naturally. 5% of all sheep spawn as babies.
Sheep 	Chance
Adult Sheep	95%
 	77.7442%
 	14.25% (4.75% each)
 	2.85%
 	0.1558%
Baby Sheep 	5%
 	4.0918%
 	0.75% (0.25% each)
 	0.15%
 	0.0082%
=== Natural generation ===
2 to 3 sheep spawn on grass blocks at the surface at a light level of 7 or higher with at least 2 block space above, except in snowy tundras and wooded badlands plateaus during the world generation. They later spawn individually on grassy biomes. 5% spawn as lambs.
2 sheep may spawn in shepherd houses, butcher houses, and animal pens in villages.
== Drops ==
An adult sheep drops:
* 1 of the corresponding color. Sheep that have not regrown their wool do not drop wool.
* 1–2 ( if killed while on fire). The maximum amount is increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 1–5 with Looting III.
* if killed by a player or tamed wolf.
When sheared, sheep give 1–3 wool and do not take any damage. A sheared sheep regrows its wool after eating from a grass block.
Upon successful breeding, is dropped.
Killing a baby sheep yields no items nor experience.
== Behavior ==
Sheep wander aimlessly, but avoid falling off cliffs high enough to cause damage and hazards. They can be heard bleating within 16 blocks. If harmed, sheep flee for a few seconds, but make no special attempt to avoid wolves. Sheep follow a player holding wheat within 6 blocks but stop following the player when out of this radius.
== Dyeing ==
Sheep's wool can be dyed by pressing the key or the interact button while holding any dye. Sheared sheep cannot be dyed until their wool grows back.
Dyeing changes the color of the sheep's wool permanently or until the sheep is dyed again. The new wool color can be inherited by lambs. (see #Breeding)
If a sheep is dyed and then sheared, it retains its new dyed wool color after the wool regrows. The wool patches that are seen on a sheared sheep always appear white regardless of their actual color. 
The patches keep the original dye color.
=== Grazing ===
Sheep eat grass blocks, changing them into dirt blocks. When a sheared sheep eats a grass block during the daytime, its wool grows back. Therefore, if no grass is available, a sheep cannot regrow its wool after being sheared. They are unable to eat a grass block with tall grass on it but can eat the tall grass, making it disappear. If an adult sheep has the opportunity, the chance of eating grass is per game tick ( for lamb). If is set to false, grass blocks remain, but the sheep still regrow their wool.https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-147444
=== jeb_ sheep easter egg ===
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; the sheep still drops wool in its original color when sheared or killed.
== Breeding ==
Sheep can be bred with wheat, after which they spawn a lamb. They cannot breed for about 5 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 lamb inherits a mix of their colors (e.g., blue sheep + white sheep = light blue baby sheep). 
Otherwise, 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 use takes 10% off the remaining time to grow up.
== Sounds ==
== Data values ==
=== ID ===
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=== Entity data ===
Sheep have entity data associated with them that contain various properties.
== Achievements ==
Main Article: Achievements
== Advancements ==
== History ==
== Issues ==
== Trivia ==
* If a sheep spawner is placed via , 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 spawner, utilizing the Color tag.
* Sheep can eat grass through partial blocks, as well as from inside minecarts.
* Sheep cannot fit through the gap if the 90-degree intersection of two fences is removed whereas the player (and most other mobs) can get through easily.
* While an evoker is not engaged in combat and is set to true, it changes 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.
== Gallery ==
File:NotchAnimalBreedingFirst.png|The first screenshot on breeding released by Notch.
File:Sheep Death.png|Dying sheep mob.
File:Natural Sheep.png|Brown, light gray, gray, pink and black are 5 of the naturally spawning colors of a sheep.
File:SheepLand.png|A large flock of sheep.
File:Adult and Baby Sheep.png|A lamb with an adult.
File:Sheep Eating Grass.png|The sheep grass-eating animation.
File:BabySheepAni.png|The lamb grass-eating animation.
File:DyedSheep.png|Sheep that have been dyed by the player.
File:Baby Jeb Sheep.gif|A jeb_ lamb.
File:Sheep probabilities.png|The relative probabilities of naturally spawned sheep colors.
File:ShearedBabySheepAndParent.png|A sheared lamb next to its parent. Sheared lambs are available only via commands.
File:Snowy Grass vs Snowy Dirt.png|Snowy grass next to a patch of dirt that a sheep has eaten.
File:Blueheadsheep.png|A sheep with a blue head.
File:Sheared Baby White Sheep.png
File:Coloured-sheep.png
File:Z-fighting shep.png|Z-fighting in the sheep's legs while invisible, in Spectator mode.
=== Bedrock Edition ===
File:Insidesheepsleg.png|The foot.
File:Sheep Color Overlay.jpg|The sheep's color around their face and overlay when sheared corresponds to their wool color.
File:AncientSheep.jpg|A sheep before Pocket Edition Alpha 0.6.0.
File:pink sheep mcpe.jpg|Pink sheep before Pocket Edition Alpha 0.8.0.
File:All sheep color.png|All of the possible sheep wool colors (dyed by the player.) Sheep have dyed wool remnants.
File:Sheep Revision 1 BE.png|Render of an early version sheep.
File:OldSheepPE0.7.1.png|A yellow sheep during Pocket Edition Alpha 0.7.1.
=== Official Artwork ===
File:World_of_Color_Update.png|Sheep as shown in the World of Color Update artwork.
File:Sheep Mobestiary.jpeg
== References ==
Category:Passive mobs
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it:Pecora
ja:ヒツジ
ko:양
nl:Schaap
pl:Owca
pt:Ovelha
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