Polar Bear

Polar bears are neutral mobs that live in icy biomes.

Spawning
Polar bears spawn above grass or ice in snowy tundra, snowy mountains, ice spikes, regular and deep frozen ocean biomes in groups of up to two at light level 7 or higher. If there is a group, the second polar bear is a cub.

They can also spawn in frozen rivers and legacy frozen oceans in Bedrock Edition.

Drops
An adult polar bear drops one of the following when killed: Dropped fish is always raw, even if the polar bear is on fire when killed.
 * from player or tamed wolves kills.
 * There is a $$ chance of dropping 0 to 2 . The maximum amount can be increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 0 to 5 with Looting III.
 * There is a $$ chance of dropping 0 to 2 . The maximum amount can be increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 0 to 5 with Looting III.

Killing a baby polar bear yields no items or experience.

Behavior
Polar bears can exist in a passive or hostile state. The cubs are passive; adults are hostile when with cubs or provoked.

If a cub is attacked, all adults within a 41×21×41 area become hostile toward the player or mob, regardless of difficulty, although in Peaceful difficulty their attacks do zero damage to players.

Attacking an adult who is within a 16×8×16 area of a cub also provokes other adults within a 21×21×21 area of the attacked adult.

Polar bears also attack foxes.
 * $3/4$, adult polar bears attack any fox that stays near it for a while, hitting it once every few seconds. Cubs are more aggressive and attack foxes within 16 blocks.
 * $1/4$, adult polar bears attack foxes within 16 blocks. Cubs do not attack foxes.

Polar bears attack by rearing on their back legs and mauling down with their front paws. Their swimming speed is equal to the player's, making them difficult to get away from if they are attacking in water.

Polar bears cannot breed and cubs' growth cannot be sped up.

Despite being acclimatized to snowy places they still take freezing damage from powder snow, which is not a bug.

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Entity data
Polar bears have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

Trivia

 * According to Jeb, polar bears were added after his son Björn was born. Coincidentally, "björn" is Swedish for "bear".
 * Unlike most other baby mobs, polar bear cubs have a unique sound effect that is not just a sped-up version of the regular polar bear sound effects; this is also reflected in subtitles.
 * Polar bears are the first bears added into the game, later followed by pandas.
 * During the development of the new frozen ocean, polar bears were removed from spawning, due to being deemed too "sad". They were added back in because it is more accurate to the polar bear's real life status.