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A panda is a mob that resides in jungles whose behavior is normally passive, but can sometimes be neutral.

Spawning

Pandas spawn in groups of 1–2 in bamboo 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.

5% of pandas spawn as babies.

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.

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, similar 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 whimper if a thunderstorm is happening in the area. Adult pandas seek out bamboo and cake 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.

Non-aggressive pandas become angry when hurt. When hit, a panda panics for few seconds before trying to attack the attacker only once, similar to llamas, and bees. Pandas have one private inventory.

Pandas can be ridden by baby zombie variants.‌[Bedrock Edition only]

If a panda is being attacked by a player near a villager, that villager displays angry particles.‌[Java Edition only]

Personalities

Panda Rolling

A Playful panda rolling.

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:
  • Playful pandas:
    • Roll over and jump around even as adults. The ability to roll may sometimes cause harm or kill the panda as it can accidentally roll off a cliff or another high altitude.
  • Aggressive pandas:
    • Are neutral, 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 will become hostile toward the attacker.
    • Are 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. Also, if the player feeds two pandas too close, they instead bleat and become hostile towards the player.

Genetics

Each panda has two hidden values called "genes" or "alleles"; similar to biology, there is the 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 genes 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 genes. There is also a 132 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 516
Aggressive 116
Lazy 116
Worried 116
Playful 116
Weak 516
Brown 18


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
The only way to know the hidden gene of a panda is to use the command : /data get entity @e[type=minecraft:panda,limit=1] HiddenGene[Java Edition only] or using third-party NBT editors.

Appearance

PandaVariants

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. This is the rarest variant.

The baby brown panda is the rarest.

Drops

Upon death, adult pandas drop:

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

Upon successful breeding, 1–7 is dropped.

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

Sounds

SoundSubtitlesSourceDescriptionResource locationTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
Panda's nose tickles??entity.panda.pre_sneezesubtitles.entity.panda.pre_sneeze1?16
Panda sneezes??entity.panda.sneezesubtitles.entity.panda.sneeze1?16
Panda dies??entity.panda.deathsubtitles.entity.panda.death0.82?16
Panda eats??entity.panda.eatsubtitles.entity.panda.eat5 = 0.85; !5 = 1?16
Panda steps??entity.panda.stepsubtitles.entity.panda.step1?16
Panda bleats??entity.panda.cant_breedsubtitles.entity.panda.cant_breed1?16
Panda huffs??entity.panda.aggressive_ambientsubtitles.entity.panda.aggressive_ambient4 = 0.8; !4 = 1?16
Panda whimpers??entity.panda.worried_ambientsubtitles.entity.panda.worried_ambient1?16
Panda hurts??entity.panda.hurtsubtitles.entity.panda.hurt0.82?16
?Panda bites??entity.panda.bitesubtitles.entity.panda.bite1?16

Data values

See also: Chunk format

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

  • Entity data
    • Additional fields for mobs that can breed
    • Tags common to all entities
    • Tags common to all mobs
    •  HiddenGene: The secondary gene this panda has, that can transfer to the child.
    •  MainGene: The primary gene this panda has, that determines the behavior and appearance of the panda and that can transfer to the child.

Genes

Main article: Panda/DV
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Achievements

Icon Achievement In-game description Actual requirements (if different) Gamerscore earned Trophy type (PS4)
PS4 Other
ZoologistBreed two pandas with bamboo.40GGold

Advancements

Icon Advancement In-game description Parent Actual requirements (if different) Resource location
Advancement-plain-rawThe Parrots and the Bats
Breed two animals together HusbandryBreed a pair of any of these 25 mobs: A mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breedable together. Other breedable mobs are ignored for this advancement.husbandry/breed_an_animal
Advancement-fancy-rawTwo by Two
Breed all the animals! The Parrots and the BatsBreed a pair of each of these 24 mobs: A trader llama does not count as a llama, and a mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breedable together. Other breedable mobs can be bred, but are ignored for this advancement.husbandry/bred_all_animals

History

April 9, 2012Dinnerbone states that he wants to add pandas into the game once he is "used to skinning and animating things".
December 18, 2013Dinnerbone again states that he wants to add pandas into the game.
September 26, 2018Pandas win a community vote to be the next mob added to Minecraft China.
September 29, 2018Pandas are announced at MINECON Earth 2018.
Java Edition
1.1418w43aPanda JE1 BE1 Lazy Panda JE1 BE1 Aggressive Panda JE1 BE2 Worried Panda JE1 BE1 Playful Panda JE1 BE1 Weak Panda JE1 BE1 Brown Panda JE1 BE1 Added pandas.
Baby Panda JE1 Lazy Baby Panda JE1 Aggressive Baby Panda JE1 Worried Baby Panda JE1 Playful Baby Panda JE1 Weak Baby Panda JE1 Brown Baby Panda JE1 Added baby pandas.
19w08aPandas can no longer have armor equipped onto them with a dispenser.
Naturally spawned pandas now have a 5% chance of being a baby.
1.1519w39aBaby Panda 19w39a Baby Lazy Panda 19w39a Baby Aggressive Panda 19w39a Baby Worried Panda 19w39a Baby Playful Panda 19w39a Baby Weak Panda 19w39a Baby Brown Panda 19w39a Due to a bug, the baby panda model is currently broken.
19w40aThe baby panda model has been fixed.[1]
Bedrock Edition
1.8.0beta 1.8.0.8Panda JE1 BE1 Lazy Panda JE1 BE1 Aggressive Panda BE1 Worried Panda JE1 BE1 Playful Panda JE1 BE1 Weak Panda JE1 BE1 Brown Panda JE1 BE1 Added pandas.
Baby Panda BE1 Lazy Baby Panda BE1 Aggressive Baby Panda BE1 Worried Baby Panda BE1 Playful Baby Panda BE1 Weak Baby Panda BE1 Brown Baby Panda BE1 Added baby pandas.
beta 1.8.0.10Added 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 1.8.0.11The textures of aggressive pandas have been changed from Aggressive Panda BE1 Aggressive Baby Panda BE1 to Aggressive Panda JE1 BE2 Aggressive Baby Panda BE2.
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 1.8.0.13Pandas now more quickly return to their normal behavior after following a player holding bamboo.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.83Panda JE1 BE1 Lazy Panda JE1 BE1 Aggressive Panda JE1 BE2 Worried Panda JE1 BE1 Playful Panda JE1 BE1 Weak Panda JE1 BE1 Brown Panda JE1 BE1 Added pandas.
Baby Panda BE1 Lazy Baby Panda BE1 Aggressive Baby Panda BE2 Worried Baby Panda BE1 Playful Baby Panda BE1 Weak Baby Panda BE1 Brown Baby Panda BE1 Added baby 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.[2]
  • The brown panda, known as the Qinling panda, is actually a subspecies of the giant panda.
  • 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 with equipment and armor riding a brown panda, which has a 2.88×10−13 percent (one in 3.472 trillion) chance of spawning.

Gallery

References

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