What Do Panda Do When You Feed Them Bamboo in Minecraft

A panda is a rare neutral mob that resides in jungles. Certain aspects of a panda's behavior and appearance vary depending on its personality.

Spawning [ ]

Pandas spawn rarely in groups of 1–2 in jungle biomes at the surface on grass blocks with at least two-block space above them at a light level of 9 or more. They are slightly more common in bamboo jungles and have a 5% chance to spawn as cubs instead of adults.

Pandas spawn with a randomized personality, with the normal personality being the most common and the brown variant being the rarest.

Drops [ ]

Upon death, adult pandas drop:

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

Baby pandas have ¹⁄₇₀₀ chance to drop 1 slimeball after they sneeze.

Upon successful breeding, 1–7 is dropped.

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

Behavior [ ]

Pandas act similarly to other neutral mobs; they attack when hurt but only once, similar to llamas and bees. Pandas do not attack on Peaceful difficulty. 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 have a ¹⁄₆₀₀₀ chance (0.01666%) of sneezing every tick. Weak baby pandas are more likely to sneeze with a ¹⁄₅₀₀ (0.2%) chance every tick. Sneezing makes all adult pandas within 10 blocks jump and rarely drops a slime ball . Baby pandas also occasionally roll over and jump around.

Pandas have one private inventory.

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

A lead cannot be used on a Panda by normal means. However, a panda can be leashed using a map editor or NBT editor.

If a panda is being attacked by a player near a villager, that villager displays angry particles.‌^{[ Java Edition only ]} However, it does not affect the popularity of the player.

Personalities [ ]

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

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

• Normal pandas:
  • Identifiable by their frown.
  • Do not have unique personality actions.
• Lazy pandas:
  • Identifiable by their smile.
  • 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.‌^{[ JE only ]} In Bedrock Edition, if a player is holding bamboo, a lazy panda stops lying on its back and starts following that player.

A worried panda shaking and hiding its face during a thunderstorm.

• Worried pandas:
  • Identifiable by their worried expression.
  • 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.

A Playful panda rolling.

• Playful pandas:
  • Identifiable by their tongues which stick out.
  • 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:
  • Identifiable by their thick eyebrows and tight frown.
  • When hit, an aggressive panda attacks the player and other mobs continuously until the target dies or goes beyond detection range, instead of only once. It also doesn't panic when harmed.
  • When nearby pandas are attacked, unless killed in one hit,‌^{[ JE only ]} aggressive pandas becomes hostile toward the attacker.
  • Are slow, but have reach rivaling that of the player.
• Weak pandas:
  • Identifiable by their teary eyes and snotty noses.
  • Tend to sneeze more often as babies than regular baby pandas, and have half the health of other pandas.
• Brown pandas:
  • Identifiable by their brown color and frown.
  • 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 panda cub, and the panda becomes passive instead of neutral toward that player. If a panda is fed without a sufficient amount of bamboo nearby, it sits and eats the bamboo but does not enter love mode. Additionally, if the player feeds two pandas too close together, they instead bleat and become hostile toward the player.

Genetics [ ]

Each panda has two hidden values called "genes" or "alleles", as found in genetics. Pandas have a main gene and a hidden gene, each assigned to a particular trait. Normal, aggressive, lazy, worried, and playful personalities are dominant traits, while 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. As recessive traits, weak and brown personalities occur if both the main and hidden genes of a panda are weak or brown, respectively. If the main gene is recessive and the hidden gene is not the same trait, then a normal personality results.

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 ¹⁄₃₂ chance for each gene of the baby to mutate into another gene. Normal, weak, and brown traits more commonly result from mutations than other traits do. These probabilities also apply to naturally spawned 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	1⁄8

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 directly observe 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.

Sounds [ ]

Java Edition:
Pandas use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Panda pants	Friendly Creatures	Randomly	entity.panda.ambient	subtitles.entity.panda.ambient	1	?	16
	Panda's nose tickles	Friendly Creatures	Before a baby panda sneezes	entity.panda.pre_sneeze	subtitles.entity.panda.pre_sneeze	1	?	16
	Panda sneezes	Friendly Creatures	When a baby panda sneezes	entity.panda.sneeze	subtitles.entity.panda.sneeze	1	?	16
	Panda dies	Friendly Creatures	When a panda dies	entity.panda.death	subtitles.entity.panda.death	0.82	?	16
	Panda eats	Friendly Creatures	While a panda is eating an item	entity.panda.eat	subtitles.entity.panda.eat	5 = 0.85; !5 = 1	?	16
	Panda steps	Friendly Creatures	While a panda is walking	entity.panda.step	subtitles.entity.panda.step	1	?	16
	Panda bleats	Friendly Creatures	When two pandas are fed too close together	entity.panda.cant_breed	subtitles.entity.panda.cant_breed	1	?	16
	Panda huffs	Friendly Creatures	Randomly from an aggressive personality panda	entity.panda.aggressive_ambient	subtitles.entity.panda.aggressive_ambient	4 = 0.8; !4 = 1	?	16
	Panda whimpers	Friendly Creatures	Randomly from a worried panda during a thunderstorm	entity.panda.worried_ambient	subtitles.entity.panda.worried_ambient	1	?	16
	Panda hurts	Friendly Creatures	When a panda is damaged	entity.panda.hurt	subtitles.entity.panda.hurt	0.82	?	16
	Panda bites	Friendly Creatures	When a panda attacks something	entity.panda.bite	subtitles.entity.panda.bite	0.82	?	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Friendly Creatures	Randomly from an adult panda[sound 1]	mob.panda.idle	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Friendly Creatures	Randomly from a baby panda[sound 1]	mob.panda_baby.idle	1.0	1.2-1.8
	Friendly Creatures	Before a baby panda sneezes	mob.panda.presneeze	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Friendly Creatures	When a baby panda sneezes	mob.panda.sneeze	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Hostile Creatures	When a panda dies	mob.panda.death	0.82	0.8-1.2
	Friendly Creatures	While a panda is eating an item	mob.panda.eat	varies [sound 2]	0.8-1.2
	Friendly Creatures	While a panda is walking	mob.panda.step	0.4	0.8-1.2
	Friendly Creatures	When two pandas are fed too close together	mob.panda.cant_breed	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Friendly Creatures	Randomly from an aggressive personality panda[sound 1]	mob.panda.idle.aggressive	varies [sound 3]	0.8-1.2
	Friendly Creatures	Randomly from a worried panda during a thunderstorm	mob.panda.idle.worried	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Hostile Creatures	When a panda is damaged	mob.panda.hurt	0.82	0.8-1.2
	Hostile Creatures	When a panda attacks something	mob.panda.bite	1.0	0.8-1.2

1. ↑ ^{a b c} This sound only plays less often than it should due to MCPE-153559, as nosebreath and pant sounds do not exist.
2. ↑ All are 1.0, except for eat5, which is 0.85
3. ↑ All are 1.0, except for aggressive4, which is 0.8

Data values [ ]

ID [ ]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Panda	panda	entity.minecraft.panda

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Panda	panda	113	entity.panda.name

Entity data [ ]

Panda have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

Java Edition:

• Entity data
  •  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

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements [ ]

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
PS4	Other
		Zoologist	Breed two pandas with bamboo.	—	40G	Gold

Advancements [ ]

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed two animals together	Husbandry	Breed a pair of any of these 23 mobs: Axolotl Bee Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Frog Goat Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Strider Trader Llama Turtle Wolf A mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breed-able together. Other breed-able mobs, if any, can be bred, but are ignored for this advancement.	husbandry/breed_an_animal
	Two by Two	Breed all the animals!	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed a pair of each of these 22 mobs: Axolotl Bee Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Frog Goat Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Strider Turtle Wolf 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 breed-able together. Other breed-able mobs, if any, can be bred, but are ignored for this advancement.	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.
					Added baby 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 cub.
1.15		19w39a			Due to a bug, the baby panda model is currently broken.
		19w40a			The baby panda model has been fixed.[1]
Bedrock Edition
1.8.0		beta 1.8.0.8			Added pandas.
					Added baby 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 textures of aggressive pandas have 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.
					Added baby pandas.

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

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  An aggressive panda with its old texture.

Issues [ ]

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

Trivia [ ]

• To create the in-game sounds for pandas, Mojang Studios' lead sound designer, Samuel Åberg, went to Guangzhou, China, to record real-life pandas.^[2] This was also done with dolphins.
• The brown panda, known as the Qinling panda, is actually a subspecies of the giant panda discovered in the 1960s.^[3]
• 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.
• The panda that sits on the title screen of the Bedrock Edition beta uses the model of the Java Edition panda's sitting pose. Therefore, this title screen can be identified as using a Java Edition screenshot.

Gallery [ ]

Screenshots [ ]

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  Two pandas sitting up, eating bamboo.

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  A panda lying on its back.

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  A worried panda on a beach.

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  Panda eating a cake.

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  A close up of a lazy panda in a bamboo forest.

In other media [ ]

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References [ ]

1. ↑ MC-161995
2. ↑ "Recording Panda sounds for Minecraft!" – October 9, 2018
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qinling_panda
4. ↑ MC-206684

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Source: https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Panda

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