I'm pretty sure it's rare to find one, but in this field I seen one, and then another... and another and just kept seeing them! I believe there is around 20. I was the first person at the coordinates I believe - since this is a realm word, but only have
one other person playing currently. There are also white and black horses in the field and a birch forest, roofed forest, and
I think a flower forest because there were A LOT of flowers in one area lol
-7622804934012478984 || -181 76 -1145
Attached picture shows four of the sheep, to find the rest keep traveling the way I'm
facing in the photo.
Also if I typed the seed wrong, there are actually no pink sheep and I've been trolled, or if this is a
normal spawn of pink sheep and it's not impressive.... I'm sorry lol never found pink sheep before!
Here's another seed with pink sheep spawing everywhere: 1911986966306231400
Earlier today I created a new world in 1.7.10 to do a challege and kept coming across pink sheep, so figured I'd share it
Edit:After my challenge attempt, I re-created the world in creative mode and flew around. It looks like all the 'pink' herds (1 pink and 3 white) are only around the spawn area though, after that the coloured sheep are black and grey.
Basically, this was caused by some bad programming practices; for whatever reason they made structures use the random number generator within the "world" object which was normally used for purely random events, but in this case structures set it to a specific seed when a chunk was generated, and since this seed was the same within 32x32 chunk regions due to the way villages (and temples) set it (basically, they divide the world into a 32x32 chunk grid and a single location within each region is chosen as a potential structure location), and sheep also used the "world" RNG to determine their wool color, thus they were set to the same colors for every chunk within 32x32 chunk areas, with variations across different biomes within the region due to decorations (trees, tall grass, flowers, cactus, etc) using the same RNG that chooses which passive mobs to spawn, thus affecting its sequence.
Interestingly, this bug actually made it much harder to find pink sheep because while you'd often find multiple sheep within a small area the variation across larger areas is greatly reduced as 32x32 (1024) chunk regions have the same colors as opposed to each individual chunk being different (i.e. 1024 times more variation over a 32x32 chunk region) - after I fixed this bug in my own mod I started finding them fairly often, if only one at a time (in 1.6.4 sheep have a 30% of being chosen per chunk, which in turn has a 10% chance of a pack of 4 passive mobs, averaging one sheep every 8.33 chunks; since one in 610 sheep are pink this means one pink sheep every 5083 chunks, or an area about 1140x1140 blocks, excluding biomes like desert. They are somewhat rarer in newer versions due to the addition of more mobs).
Also, it is likely that "pink sheep seeds" no longer exist in modern versions* - if you recreate the world they will be different colors every time, just like other mobs with variants, excluding ones which are explicitly set, like villagers (even then villagers have different first trades each time).
*I can't be certain if this bug no longer occurs but I have not seen any reports of it happening since 1.13; the bug report mentioned above is marked as "awaiting response" with no replies confirming it since the release of 1.13 (they may have unintentionally fixed it as part of the refactoring of world generation in 1.13, thus they didn't mark it as closed).
I believe there is around 20. I was the first person at the coordinates I believe - since this is a realm word, but only have
one other person playing currently. There are also white and black horses in the field and a birch forest, roofed forest, and
I think a flower forest because there were A LOT of flowers in one area lol
-7622804934012478984 || -181 76 -1145
Attached picture shows four of the sheep, to find the rest keep traveling the way I'm
facing in the photo.
Also if I typed the seed wrong, there are actually no pink sheep and I've been trolled, or if this is a
normal spawn of pink sheep and it's not impressive.... I'm sorry lol never found pink sheep before!
I think this might be a glitch because it seems every patch of sheep at that location have two white sheep, one pink sheep, and one brown sheep.
Here's another seed with pink sheep spawing everywhere: 1911986966306231400
Earlier today I created a new world in 1.7.10 to do a challege and kept coming across pink sheep, so figured I'd share it
Edit:After my challenge attempt, I re-created the world in creative mode and flew around. It looks like all the 'pink' herds (1 pink and 3 white) are only around the spawn area though, after that the coloured sheep are black and grey.
He broke my heart, I broke his Xbox. Guess who cried harder.
Wait, WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!
This was not actually that unusual due to a bug in the game which was fixed in 1.13:
MC-2788 Sheep wool color doesn't generate/randomize properly; generating villages resets world RNG
Basically, this was caused by some bad programming practices; for whatever reason they made structures use the random number generator within the "world" object which was normally used for purely random events, but in this case structures set it to a specific seed when a chunk was generated, and since this seed was the same within 32x32 chunk regions due to the way villages (and temples) set it (basically, they divide the world into a 32x32 chunk grid and a single location within each region is chosen as a potential structure location), and sheep also used the "world" RNG to determine their wool color, thus they were set to the same colors for every chunk within 32x32 chunk areas, with variations across different biomes within the region due to decorations (trees, tall grass, flowers, cactus, etc) using the same RNG that chooses which passive mobs to spawn, thus affecting its sequence.
Interestingly, this bug actually made it much harder to find pink sheep because while you'd often find multiple sheep within a small area the variation across larger areas is greatly reduced as 32x32 (1024) chunk regions have the same colors as opposed to each individual chunk being different (i.e. 1024 times more variation over a 32x32 chunk region) - after I fixed this bug in my own mod I started finding them fairly often, if only one at a time (in 1.6.4 sheep have a 30% of being chosen per chunk, which in turn has a 10% chance of a pack of 4 passive mobs, averaging one sheep every 8.33 chunks; since one in 610 sheep are pink this means one pink sheep every 5083 chunks, or an area about 1140x1140 blocks, excluding biomes like desert. They are somewhat rarer in newer versions due to the addition of more mobs).
Also, it is likely that "pink sheep seeds" no longer exist in modern versions* - if you recreate the world they will be different colors every time, just like other mobs with variants, excluding ones which are explicitly set, like villagers (even then villagers have different first trades each time).
*I can't be certain if this bug no longer occurs but I have not seen any reports of it happening since 1.13; the bug report mentioned above is marked as "awaiting response" with no replies confirming it since the release of 1.13 (they may have unintentionally fixed it as part of the refactoring of world generation in 1.13, thus they didn't mark it as closed).
TheMasterCaver's First World - possibly the most caved-out world in Minecraft history - includes world download.
TheMasterCaver's World - my own version of Minecraft largely based on my views of how the game should have evolved since 1.6.4.
Why do I still play in 1.6.4?