How to Get Milk in Minecraft

Getting Milk

Find or craft a bucket. Buckets may appear in dungeon chests, or you can craft them yourself. They have a wide variety of uses, including gathering milk from Cows and Mooshrooms. To craft a bucket, you'll need 3 Iron Ingots. Open your Crafting window. Place an Ingot in the middle square of the left column, the bottom square of the middle column, and the middle square of the right column. This will create a bucket.

Find some Cows or Mooshrooms. Cows spawn in most environments, except deserts and ocean. Mooshrooms only spawn on Mushroom Islands. Both Cows and Mooshrooms give the same amount of Milk. You can lead Cows and Mooshrooms by holding Wheat. You can also give two adult Cows or Mooshrooms Wheat to breed them. Click here for more instructions on breeding cows and Mooshrooms. You can only milk adult cows and Mooshrooms. Babies will need to grow into adults in order to get milk from them.

Equip your bucket. You'll need to be holding the Bucket in your hands in order to get milk from the cow or Mooshroom.

Right-click on the cow or Mooshroom. Your Bucket will fill, and the icon in your action bar will change to indicate that it is full. If you're playing Minecraft PE, tapping the Cow will attack it, so press and hold on the Cow or Mooshroom to get milk. Some users report difficulty getting milk from the Cow. Try aiming for the lower half of the Cow when milking, or try to milk while standing a level below the Cow. Some users report problems getting milk in Creative mode. This is a bug from earlier versions of Minecraft, recent versions should have this fixed.

Using Milk

Drink your milk to remove status effects. Milk will remove all potion and status effects that you may be currently experiencing. Hold the right mouse button with the milk bucket equipped to drink it. You cannot currently drink milk in Minecraft PE. The ability to drink milk is scheduled to come with Minecraft PE 0.11.0.

Create a cake. Milk's other uses besides drinking is as an ingredient for Cakes. You'll need 3 Milk Buckets, along with 3 bushels of Wheat, 2 Sugars, and an Egg. Place the 3 Milk Buckets along the top row of the Crafting window. After crafting, your empty buckets will be left behind. Place the Sugar and Egg in the center row, with the Egg in the middle. Place the 3 Wheat in the bottom row. The cake will need to be placed on a surface before it can be eaten.