Spawn Events for Cow in Minecraft

This Minecraft tutorial explains the spawn events that you can use for a cow in Minecraft Bedrock Edition (PE, Win10, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch) and Education Edition.

Background

In the latest version of Minecraft Bedrock Edition and Education Edition, the entity value for a cow is cow. The cow entity has a unique set of spawn events that can be used in Minecraft commands such as: /summon and /event. (The spawn event parameter is called spawnEvent in the Minecraft help for the /summon command and eventName in the Minecraft help for the /event command.)

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What is a Spawn Event?

Spawn events allow you to trigger certain in-game events for an entity in Bedrock Edition (PE, Win10, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch) and Education Edition. Currently, you can only trigger one spawn event at a time when you use the /summon or /event commands.

List of Spawn Events

Here is a list of the spawn events that you can use for a cow in Minecraft Bedrock Edition (PE, Win10, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch) and Minecraft Education Edition:

Minecraft ID Description Bedrock Edition
(Added in)
minecraft:ageable_grow_up Cow has grown up 1.12.0
minecraft:entity_born Cow has been born (which means it is a baby) 1.12.0
minecraft:spawn_adult Cow has spawned as adult 1.17.0
minecraft:entity_transformed Cow has transformed 1.12.0
minecraft:entity_spawned Cow has spawned 1.12.0

Spawn Event Example

To summon a baby cow in Bedrock Edition (PE, Win10, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch) or Education Edition:

/summon cow ~ ~ ~ minecraft:entity_born

Next, learn how to use the game commands in Minecraft.

Command Examples

Here are some game command examples for a cow in Minecraft:

Command Generators

If you need help, you can use these tools to automatically generate commands for you: