Panda

Panda

Health points	20 × 10 10 (Weak panda)
Behavior	Neutral
Attack strength	6
Size	Adult: Width: 1.3 Height: 1.25 blocks
Spawn	See Spawning
Common drops	§ Drops
Usable items	Bamboo Cake
Experience	Killing Adult: 1–3 Breeding: 1–7
Sounds	Idle Hurt Death Worried Aggressive Attacking Can't breed Sneeze
Internal ID	BE: 113
Namespaced ID	panda

A panda is an animal mob that resides in jungles.

Spawning

Pandas spawn in groups of 1–2 in jungle biomes at the surface on grass blocks with a (minimum) two-block space above them at a light level of 9 or more, but are rarer than other jungle mobs. They spawn with a randomized personality, with the normal one being the most common and the brown variant being the rarest.

In Bedrock Edition pandas can spawn at light level 7 or above in jungle biomes and have a higher spawn rate in bamboo jungle biomes. 5% of pandas spawn as babies.

Behavior

Pandas act similarly to other passive mobs; they wander aimlessly, avoiding falling off cliffs high enough to cause fall damage, and stay out of water or lava, unless they roll over an edge. They also move faster in water than other land mobs, similarly to polar bears. Pandas follow any player who is carrying bamboo and stop following if the player moves beyond approximately 16 blocks away. They also randomly whimper. Adult pandas seek out bamboo and cake items to eat.

Baby pandas sometimes sneeze, which rarely drops a slime ball and makes nearby adult pandas jump. They also occasionally roll over and jump around.

Pandas become aggressive when hurt. When hit, a panda panics for few seconds before trying to attack the attacker only once, similar to llamas.

Pandas can be ridden by baby zombie variants.‌^{[Bedrock and PlayStation 4 editions only]}.

Personalities

Pandas have different personalities: either normal, lazy, worried, playful, aggressive, weak, or brown.

• Normal pandas:
  • Do not have unique personality actions.
• Lazy pandas:
  • Lie on their backs.
  • Are slower than normal pandas, making them the slowest land mob in the game.
  • Do not follow a player who is holding bamboo while they're lying on their back.
• Worried pandas:
  • Avoid the player and most hostile mobs, except slimes, magma cubes, ghasts, shulkers, phantoms and the ender dragon.
  • Shake and hide their faces during thunderstorms.
  • Do not eat bamboo or cake items on their own.
• Playful pandas:
  • Roll over and jump around even as adults.
• Aggressive pandas:
  • Unlike other pandas, when hit, aggressive pandas attack the player and other mobs continuously until the target dies or goes beyond detection range. It also doesn't panic when harmed.
  • When nearby pandas are attacked, aggressive pandas become hostile toward the attacker.
  • Are very slow, but have reach rivaling that of the player.
• Weak pandas:
  • Tend to sneeze more often as babies than regular baby pandas.
  • Have 10 health instead of 20.
• Brown pandas:
  • Do not have unique personality actions, but are brown and white instead of the usual black and white.

Breeding

The panda is the only animal to have extra breeding conditions. To enter love mode, there must be at least eight bamboo blocks within a five-block radius of both pandas. Once that requirement is met, feeding them bamboo causes them to mate, producing a baby panda. If a panda is fed without a sufficient amount of bamboo nearby, it sits and eats the bamboo, but does not enter love mode.

Genetics

Each panda has two hidden values called "genes" or "alleles"; similar to biology, there is a main gene and a hidden gene. Normal, aggressive, lazy, worried, and playful personalities are dominant traits, and weak and brown personalities are recessive traits. A dominant trait always has priority over a recessive trait. If both the main and hidden genes are dominant, the main gene has priority and presents itself as the panda's personality. Being recessive, weak and brown personalities occur if both the main and hidden genes of a panda are recessive genes. However, if the main gene is recessive and the hidden gene is not the same gene, then a normal personality results. To get a brown or weak panda, both the main and hidden gene must be both brown or weak.

When two pandas breed, each one passes one of their genes to their children, who then randomly mix both obtained genes as their respective main and hidden gene. There is also a ¹⁄₃₂ chance for each gene of the baby to mutate into another gene. Mutations have different probabilities to mutate into the different genes, these probabilities can be found in the table underneath. These mutation probabilities also apply to spawned (not bred) pandas for their main and hidden genes.

Mutated Gene	Probability
Normal	5⁄16
Aggressive	1⁄16
Lazy	1⁄16
Worried	1⁄16
Playful	1⁄16
Weak	5⁄16
Brown	2⁄16

Panda Personality		Hidden Gene
		Normal	Aggressive	Lazy	Worried	Playful	Weak	Brown
Main Gene	Normal	Normal	Normal	Normal	Normal	Normal	Normal	Normal
	Aggressive	Aggressive	Aggressive	Aggressive	Aggressive	Aggressive	Aggressive	Aggressive
	Lazy	Lazy	Lazy	Lazy	Lazy	Lazy	Lazy	Lazy
	Worried	Worried	Worried	Worried	Worried	Worried	Worried	Worried
	Playful	Playful	Playful	Playful	Playful	Playful	Playful	Playful
	Weak	Normal	Normal	Normal	Normal	Normal	Weak	Normal
	Brown	Normal	Normal	Normal	Normal	Normal	Normal	Brown

Appearance

The different variations of pandas – from left to right: brown, lazy, worried, playful, weak, aggressive and normal.

The appearance of pandas depends on their personality:

• Aggressive pandas have angry eyebrows.
• Lazy pandas have a smiling face.
• Weak pandas have teary eyes and snotty noses.
• Worried pandas have 'puppy' eyes similar to tamed wolves.
• Playful pandas have their tongues out.
• Normal pandas have a frowning face.
• Brown pandas have brown and white fur, and a frowning face.

Pandas are usually black and white, but there is a rare brown and white variant.

Drops

Upon death, adult pandas will drop:

• 1 bamboo‌^{[Java Edition only]}
• 0-2 bamboo, increased 1 per level by Looting.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}
• 1–3 experience orbs, if killed by a tamed wolf or the player.

Baby pandas have a chance of dropping 1 slimeball when they sneeze.

Like other baby animals, killing a baby panda yields no items or experience.

Data values

See also: Chunk format

Pandas have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the mob.

• Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
  • Tags common to all mobs see Template:Nbt inherit/mob/template
  • Additional fields for mobs that can breed see Template:Nbt inherit/breedable/template
  •  MainGene: The primary gene this panda has, that can transfer to the child.
  •  HiddenGene: The secondary gene this panda has, that can transfer to the child.

Genes

Main article: Panda/DV

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Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Availability				Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
				Xbox	PS	Bedrock	Nintendo
	Zoologist	Breed two Pandas with bamboo.		No	PS4	Yes	No	40G	Gold

Advancements

Main article: Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Internal ID
	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed two animals together	Husbandry	—	minecraft:husbandry/breed_an_animal
	Two by Two	Breed all the animals!	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed pairs of each of these 14 mobs. In Java Edition 1.15‌[upcoming], bees are also required for the advancement. Other breedable mobs, if any, are ignored for the advancement.	minecraft:husbandry/bred_all_animals

History

April 9, 2012					Dinnerbone states that he wants to add pandas into the game once he is "used to skinning and animating things".
December 18, 2013					Dinnerbone again states that he wants to add pandas into the game.
September 26, 2018					Pandas win a community vote to be the next mob added to Minecraft China.
September 29, 2018					Pandas are announced at MINECON Earth 2018.
Java Edition
1.14		18w43a			Added pandas.
		19w08a			Pandas can no longer have armor equipped onto them with a dispenser.
					Naturally spawned pandas now have a 5% chance of being a baby.
Bedrock Edition
1.8.0		beta 1.8.0.8			Added pandas.
		beta 1.8.0.10			Added sounds for pandas.
					Pandas can now directly be given bamboo to breed them.
					Aggressive pandas now deal more damage.
					Pandas now sit and snack, even if they're scared or angry at the player.
		beta 1.8.0.11			The aggressive panda texture has now been changed from to .
					All default pandas now bite once when attacked.
					Aggressive pandas now defend other pandas.
					Pandas now broadcast their anger to aggressive pandas.
					Aggressive pandas now have more attack damage when killing nearby players.
		beta 1.8.0.13			Pandas now more quickly return to their normal behavior after following a player holding bamboo.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.83					Added pandas.

Issues

Issues relating to "Panda" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• To create the in-game sounds for pandas, Mojang's lead sound designer, Samuel Åberg, went to Guangzhou, China, to record real-life pandas.
• Brown pandas are a real subspecies of the giant panda, known as the Qinling panda.
• Pandas are the second type of bear to be added into the game, with the first being the polar bear.
• The lazy panda is the slowest land mob in the game (not counting status effects such as slowness).
• The rarest mob in Bedrock Edition is a baby husk riding a brown panda, which has a 2.88×10⁻¹³ chance (one in 3.472 trillion) of spawning.

Gallery

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  The first image of pandas, from MINECON Earth 2018.

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  A group of pandas eating bamboo shown at MINECON Earth 2018.

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  Two pandas sitting up, eating bamboo.

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  An aggressive panda with its old texture.

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  A weak panda.

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  A playful panda.

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  A baby worried panda.

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  A panda lying on its back.

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  A brown panda.

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  A large group of pandas.

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  A worried panda.

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  A worried panda, covering its eyes during a thunderstorm.

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  Panda eating a cake.

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  In Bedrock edition, the baby panda model is different. Body is shorter than Java edition.

References

Entities

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