How To Get Milk In Minecraft

What Do You Need to Get Milk?

First of all, let’s talk about different things you need to get milk in Minecraft. You’ll need one easy-to-make item and one of the mobs listed below that can provide milk.

Bucket Cow Mooshroom Goat

How to Get Milk in Minecraft

Once you’re done gathering the bucket and are near any of the above mobs, follow the steps below to get milk in Minecraft.

Approach the mob and select the empty bucket on your hot bar. Right-click the mob with it or use it on the mob and your bucket will be filled with milk.

You can use another bucket to milk the same mob again, as this action has no cooldown. You cannot place milk like you can water and lava, but you can remove it from the bucket by drinking it or crafting with it.

An alternative way to get milk is by looting Minecraft 1.21 trial chambers. You have a 20.4% chance of finding it inside supply chests. Moreover, on the Java edition, you can also kill a wondering trader who’s holding a milk bucket to obtain it.

Uses of Milk in Minecraft

Milk in Minecraft allows you to completely remove all current status effects. This means that once you drink it, which you do just like eating an item, all positive and negative effects will be disabled. These include strength, night vision, hunger, poison, weakness, etc. The same goes for the beacon and conduit effects, but they are restored soon after you drink milk if you’re in their range. Furthermore, milk is needed to make a cake in Minecraft, which our linked guide will help you with.
That said, that was a very simple guide on how to get milk in the blocky game if you’re new to it. It’s pretty useful to carry a milk bucket with you, especially if you’re planning on interacting with a bunch of different mobs.