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Marsh Davies Mojang avatar

Bears: adorable at a distance. This is true in Minecraft, just as it is in real life. They may look huggable and furry, but they are full of teeth, and not too fussy about what, or who, constitutes a meal.

Marsh Davies[1]

Polar bears are neutral mobs.

Spawning

Polar bears are found in ice plains, ice mountains and ice spikes biomes, in groups of up to two. If there is a group of two there is always only one parent, and the other one is a cub.

Drops

When killed, a polar bear has a 34 chance to drop 0–2 raw fish, and a 14 chance to drop 0–2 raw salmon. These are always raw, even if the polar bear is on fire when it is killed.

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

Behavior

Polar bears can exist in a passive, neutral, or hostile state. The cubs are passive; adults are neutral, but they will become hostile if attacked. They will also become hostile towards the player if they get too close to their cubs. If a cub is attacked by a player under the effects of Invisibility, all adults within a 41×21×41 cuboid will become hostile towards the attacker, regardless of difficulty (although in peaceful difficulty, their attacks will do zero damage to players). Attacking an adult who is within a 16×8×16 cuboid of a cub will also provoke other adults within a 21×21×21 cuboid of the attacked adult.‌[Java Edition only] Polar bears can be accidentally provoked by other mobs.

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

Polar bear cubs' growth cannot be sped up.

Data values

See also: Chunk format

Polar Bears have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the mob. Their entity ID is polar_bear.

  • Entity data
    • Additional fields for mobs that can become angry
    • Additional fields for mobs that can breed
    • Tags common to all entities
    • Tags common to all mobs

Advancements

Icon Advancement In-game description Parent Actual requirements (if different) Resource location
Advancement-plain-rawAdventure
Adventure, exploration and combat Kill any entity, or be killed by any entity.adventure/root
Advancement-plain-rawMonster Hunter
Kill any hostile monster AdventureKill one of these 34 mobs: Only the riders of the chicken jockeys and skeleton horsemen are counted in this advancement. Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.adventure/kill_a_mob
Advancement-fancy-rawMonsters Hunted
Kill one of every hostile monster Monster HunterKill each of these 34 mobs: Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement. Only the riders of the chicken jockeys and skeleton horsemen are counted in this advancement.adventure/kill_all_mobs

History

release
1.10March 7, 2016Jeb hints at a neutral mob with a light grey "base texture" color.
April 8, 2016Jeb tweets a picture of the polar bears.
16w20aPolar bears added.
1.10-pre1Adult polar bears will jump in water if on fire.
1.10-pre2Now have sounds: entity.polar_bear.baby_ambient, entity.polar_bear.ambient, entity.polar_bear.death, entity.polar_bear.hurt, entity.polar_bear.step, and entity.polar_bear.warning.
1.1116w32aThe entity ID is changed from PolarBear to polar_bear.
Pocket Edition
1.0build 1Added polar bears.
1.1build 1The entity ID is changed from polarbear to polar_bear.
Polar bears no longer hurt players in Peaceful difficulty.
Legacy Console Edition
TU43CU33 1.36 Patch 13Added polar bears.

Issues

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

Trivia

  • According to Jeb, polar bears were added after his son, Björn, was born. Coincidentally, "björn" is Swedish for "bear".[1]

Gallery

References

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