Polar Bear

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Polar bears are large neutral mobs that live in icy biomes. Adult polar bears are protective of their babies, attacking players that get too close or attack any babies near them.

Polar bears spawn in snowy plains, ice spikes, frozen and deep frozen ocean biomes, and additionally/sometimes in frozen river, legacy frozen ocean, snowy slopes, jagged peaks, and frozen peaks biomes in Bedrock Edition. They spawn in groups of up to two, above ice. In Java Edition, polar bears don't spawn on ice in snowy plains and ice spikes biomes. If there is a group, the second polar bear is a baby.

On Java Edition, one of cod or salmon is selected. On Bedrock Edition, both drops are rolled.^[1]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

• 1–3XP from player or tamed wolves kills.

Killing a baby polar bear yields no items or experience.

Polar bears can be passive, neutral, or hostile depending on the situation. Baby polar bears are passive, and adults are neutral; becoming hostile when a player either directly attacks it or when the player comes close to or attacks any baby polar bears near it (unless killed in one hit‌^{[JE only]}).

If a baby polar bear is attacked, unless killed in one hit‌^{[JE only]}, 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.

In Java Edition, 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.

Adult polar bears also 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 are immune to freezing damage from powder snow.

Unlike most animal mobs, polar bears cannot breed. Baby polar bears can only be found when they naturally spawn. A baby polar bear eventually turns into an adult after 24000 ticks (20 minutes), and their growth cannot be sped up. However, their growth can be stopped by using a golden dandelion on them.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

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

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements that apply to all mobs:

Advancements that apply to all mobs:

Issues relating to "Polar Bear" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• Adding polar bears to Minecraft was a request by Jeb's wife. Jeb answered they'd be added "if they ever had a bear of their own". Once their son was born, he was named "Björn" (Swedish for "bear"), and polar bears were added.^[8]
• During the development of the frozen ocean biome, 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.^[9]

• 👁 A polar bear standing on ice.
  
  A polar bear standing on ice.
• 👁 A polar bear on its hind legs, attacking the player.
  
  A polar bear on its hind legs, attacking the player.

• 👁 A screenshot of two polar bears standing on ice in a snowy flat world
  
  Two polar bears standing on ice in a snowy flat world.
• 👁 Development teaser screenshot by Jeb.
  
  Development teaser screenshot by Jeb.
• 👁 Polar bears featured on 16w20a banner.
  
  Polar bears featured on 16w20a banner.
• 👁 Image from Rockenroll4life of a "Polar Beary Bush".
  
  Image from Rockenroll4life of a "Polar Beary Bush".
• 👁 Image promoting the remodeled baby polar bear
  
  Image promoting the remodeled baby polar bear
• 👁 A baby polar bear and its parent in an ice spikes biome
  
  A baby polar bear and its parent in an ice spikes biome

• 👁 Polar bear texture file
  
  Polar bear texture file
• 👁 Baby polar bear texture file
  
  Baby polar bear texture file

• 👁 Image from 16w20a blog post.
  
  Image from 16w20a blog post.
• 👁 Artwork
  
  Artwork
• 👁 Polar Bear attacking artwork.
  
  Polar Bear attacking artwork.
• 👁 Artwork of a polar bear chasing a villager.
  
  Artwork of a polar bear chasing a villager.
• 👁 Lego Minecraft polar bear.
  
  Lego Minecraft polar bear.
• 👁 Lego Minecraft Baby Polar Bear.
  
  Lego Minecraft Baby Polar Bear.
• 👁 An official T-shirt design featuring a polar bear and two baby polar bears.
  
  An official T-shirt design featuring a polar bear and two baby polar bears.
• 👁 Sunny looking at polar bears in 15 Year Journey.
  
  Sunny looking at polar bears in 15 Year Journey.
• 👁 A polar bear on artwork for the Season of Giving promotion.
  
  A polar bear on artwork for the Season of Giving promotion.
• 👁 A polar bear as seen in Minecraft Dungeons.
  
  A polar bear as seen in Minecraft Dungeons.
• 👁 A polar bear as seen in Minecraft Earth.
  
  A polar bear as seen in Minecraft Earth.
• 👁 A polar bear as seen in Minecraft: Story Mode.
  
  A polar bear as seen in Minecraft: Story Mode.

• Polar bear article on Wikipedia
• "Meet the Polar Bear" by Marsh Davies – Minecraft.net, January 10, 2017.
• "Mob Menagerie: Polar Bear" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, February 9, 2023.