How to Make a Rainbow Sheep in Minecraft

Written by Nicole Levine, MFA

Last Updated: December 22, 2024 Fact Checked

This wikiHow teaches you how to make a Minecraft sheep cycle through rainbow colors. This can be done by naming the sheep "jeb_" (with an underscore at the end) using a name tag and an anvil.

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Find a sheep. If you don’t already have a sheep, you can look for any color of sheep in forest and plains biomes.^{[1]
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- If you're having a hard time finding sheep, you can summon them using this cheat in the console: /summon sheep [spawnPos].
Lure them to an enclosed area of your farm with wheat and they'll happily follow you through the gate.^{[2]
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Research source} If you prefer, you can transport the sheep in a boat.

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Find a name tag. This is the hard part. There are three ways to find a name tag:^{[3]
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- Fishing: Each time you catch a fish, it has a 0.8% chance of being a name tag.^{[4]
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- Loot chests: Name tags can be found inside chests in dungeons, abandoned mineshafts, and woodland mansions.
- Trading with a librarian: Complete lower-tier trades with a librarian until you've unlocked the 6th tier. At that point, you can buy a name tag for 20 to 22 emeralds.
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Stand in front of an anvil. This opens the Repair & Name menu.^{[5]
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- If you don't have an anvil, see How to Craft an Anvil in Minecraft.
This is the box to the left of the plus (+) sign.
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Type jeb_ into the "Name Tag" field. It's the brown box at the top of the menu. A nametag called "jeb_" will appear in the third box (after the arrow).^{[6]
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- Make sure not to forget the underscore. If you do, the sheep won't turn rainbow.
Renaming the tag will cost 1 experience level.
Now that the sheep is named jeb_, it will start cycling through the Minecraft color spectrum.^{[7]
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Why does naming it jeb_ give it rainbow colors?

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Jeb_ is one of the original developers of Minecraft. He added it in as an Easter Egg.

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How do you make a sheep a specific color (like green) so that it drops that color wool (so if you shear it, you would be getting green wool if it was green and not white)? I'm on Minecraft PE.

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You can either: Breed a blue and yellow sheep and then shear the baby's skin once it has grown. Find a white sheep and right click it with green dye and then shear it.

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Why do you have to call it jeb?

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Jeb is the name of one of the developers of Minecraft, so they used it for this feature. As such, you must name a sheep "jeb_" for it to change colors.

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Don't shear it. You won't get rainbow wool. If you did shear it, let it graze in some grass to bring back its shimmering rainbow wool.

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There are many other Easter eggs in minecraft, too. Naming a rabbit Toast will give it a cool fur color, and naming any mob Dinnerbone will flip it upside down!

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Build a throne or pedestal worthy of displaying the majesty of your rainbow sheep.

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