Panda

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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.

Pandas spawn rarely in groups of 1–2 in jungle biomes on grass blocks with at least a two-block space above them. They are slightly ‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} or way ‌^{[Java Edition only]} more common in bamboo jungles and have a 5% chance to spawn as a baby. They do not spawn on podzol.^[1]

Pandas spawn with a randomized personality, with the normal personality being the most common and the brown variant being the rarest. The personality depends on genes. Each gene has the same distribution on spawn as the mutated gene. So the probability of each personality is:

Upon successful breeding, 1–7XP experience orbs are dropped.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

• 1–3XP experience orbs are dropped if killed by a tamed wolf or the player.

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

Baby pandas have ¹⁄₇₀₀ chance to drop 1 👁 Image
slimeball after they sneeze. This means that, on average, a weak baby panda produces a slimeball every 4 hours, 51 minutes and 40 seconds, and any other baby panda produces 1 every 58 hours and 20 minutes.

A panda tends to roll off cliffs while playing around. Pandas act similarly to other neutral mobs and attack when hurt but only once (similar to llamas and bees) except on Peaceful difficulty, in which pandas are passive. Attacking pandas are far more vicious in Java Edition.

Pandas follow any player that is carrying bamboo and stop following if the player moves beyond approximately 16 blocks away. Pandas produce a whimper sound effect if a thunderstorm is happening in the area.

Adult pandas seek out bamboo and cake to eat.

Baby pandas have a ¹⁄₆₀₀₀ chance (0.016%) of sneezing every game 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 slimeball. Baby pandas also occasionally roll over and jump around.

Pandas have one private inventory.

A lead cannot be used on a panda by normal means.^[2] However, a panda can be leashed using a map editor or NBT editor.

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

Unlike other neutral mobs, pandas don't count towards the AngryAt tag.^[3][4][5]

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

• 👁 EntitySprite panda.png: Sprite image for panda in Minecraft
  Normal pandas:
  • Identifiable by their frown.
  • Do not have unique personality actions.

• 👁 EntitySprite lazy-panda.png: Sprite image for lazy-panda in Minecraft
  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.

• 👁 EntitySprite worried-panda.png: Sprite image for worried-panda in Minecraft
  Worried pandas:

  👁 Image
  

  • Identifiable by their worried expression.
  • In Java Edition, they avoid the player and most monsters except ghasts, hoglins, magma cubes, phantoms, shulkers, slimes, skeleton horses, zombie horses, zombie nautiluses, camel husks and the ender dragon.^[6] In Bedrock Edition, they avoid all non-panda mobs, including passive mobs.
  • Shake and hide their faces during thunderstorms.
  • Do not eat bamboo or cake items on their own.‌^{[JE only]}

• 👁 EntitySprite playful-panda.png: Sprite image for playful-panda in Minecraft
  Playful pandas:

  👁 Image
  

  • Identifiable by their tongues that 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 into other environmental hazards.^[7]

• 👁 EntitySprite angry-panda.png: Sprite image for angry-panda in Minecraft
  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 become hostile toward the attacker.
  • Are slow, but have reach rivaling that of the player.

• 👁 EntitySprite weak-panda.png: Sprite image for weak-panda in Minecraft
  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.

• 👁 EntitySprite brown-panda.png: Sprite image for brown-panda in Minecraft
  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.

The panda is the only animal to have extra breeding conditions. In Java Edition, pandas enter love mode when fed with bamboo, but breed only if there is at least one bamboo plant (not including shoots) within a 7×7×3 area; otherwise the pandas briefly shake their heads and do not breed until that requirement is met. If only one panda is close to a bamboo plant, the other panda shakes its head, but a baby is born.

In Bedrock Edition, there must be at least 8 bamboo plants within a five-block radius of each panda in order for them to enter love mode. If a panda is fed without a sufficient amount of bamboo plants nearby, it sits and eats the bamboo instead of entering love mode.

Once pandas successfully breed, they produce a baby panda that remains neutral toward that player.

Cake cannot be used to breed pandas.

15% of nearby baby zombies, husks, or drowned may ride an adult panda to form a jockey. Pandas can still sit, sneeze, and even lie down and roll, if ridden.

Additionally, if a worried panda is mounted, and the baby zombie variant doesn't have a target, the worried panda keeps running as if trying get away from its passenger, since it avoids all mobs, including monsters.

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. If the main gene is a dominant gene, then it presents as the personality regardless of the hidden gene. If the main gene is recessive and the hidden gene is not the same trait, then a normal personality results. As recessive traits, weak and brown personalities occur if both the main and hidden genes of a panda are weak or brown, respectively. The hidden gene is relevant only for determining the panda's personality if the main gene is recessive.

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.

The only way to directly observe the hidden gene of a panda (if they are not weak or brown, in which case the genes are certain) is to use the command : /data get entity @e[type=minecraft:panda,limit=1] HiddenGene‌^{[Java Edition only]} or using third-party NBT editors.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Panda 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:

• 👁 The first image of pandas, from MINECON Earth 2018.
  
  The first image of pandas, from MINECON Earth 2018.
• 👁 A group of lazy pandas eating bamboo shown at MINECON Earth 2018.
  
  A group of lazy pandas eating bamboo shown at MINECON Earth 2018.
• 👁 An aggressive panda with its old texture.
  
  An aggressive panda with its old texture.

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

• To create the in-game sounds for pandas, Mojang Studios' lead sound designer, Samuel Åberg, went to Guangzhou, China, to record real-life pandas.^[9] This was also done with dolphins.
  • The fourth bleat sound is the first aggressive ambient sound, but slightly modified.
• The brown panda, known as the Qinling panda, is actually a subspecies of the giant panda discovered in the 1960s.
• On September 21, 2018, the panda won a popularity poll teasing the announcement of a Chinese "national treasure" at MINECON Earth 2018. Other options included the Chinese alligator, the golden snub-nosed monkey, the white-lipped deer, and the baiji.^[10]
• The lazy panda is the slowest land mob in the game (not counting status effects such as Slowness).
• The rarest jockey in Bedrock Edition is a baby zombie with full enchanted diamond armor with an enchanted iron spear riding a baby brown panda.
• Pandas were originally a bit slimmer.^[11]

• 👁 A normal panda
  
  A normal panda
• 👁 A lazy panda
  
  A lazy panda
• 👁 An aggressive panda
  
  An aggressive panda
• 👁 A worried panda
  
  A worried panda
• 👁 A playful panda
  
  A playful panda
• 👁 A weak panda
  
  A weak panda
• 👁 A brown panda
  
  A brown panda
• 👁 A sitting normal panda
  
  A sitting normal panda
• 👁 A sitting lazy panda
  
  A sitting lazy panda
• 👁 A sitting aggressive panda
  
  A sitting aggressive panda
• 👁 A sitting worried panda
  
  A sitting worried panda
• 👁 A sitting playful panda
  
  A sitting playful panda
• 👁 A sitting weak panda
  
  A sitting weak panda
• 👁 A sitting brown panda
  
  A sitting brown panda
• 👁 A sitting normal panda in Bedrock Edition
  
  A sitting normal panda in Bedrock Edition
• 👁 A sitting lazy panda in Bedrock Edition
  
  A sitting lazy panda in Bedrock Edition
• 👁 A sitting aggressive panda in Bedrock Edition
  
  A sitting aggressive panda in Bedrock Edition
• 👁 A sitting worried panda in Bedrock Edition
  
  A sitting worried panda in Bedrock Edition
• 👁 A sitting playful panda in Bedrock Edition
  
  A sitting playful panda in Bedrock Edition
• 👁 A sitting weak panda in Bedrock Edition
  
  A sitting weak panda in Bedrock Edition
• 👁 A sitting brown panda in Bedrock Edition
  
  A sitting brown panda in Bedrock Edition
• 👁 A normal baby panda
  
  A normal baby panda
• 👁 A lazy baby panda
  
  A lazy baby panda
• 👁 An aggressive baby panda
  
  An aggressive baby panda
• 👁 A worried baby panda
  
  A worried baby panda
• 👁 A playful baby panda
  
  A playful baby panda
• 👁 A weak baby panda
  
  A weak baby panda
• 👁 A brown baby panda
  
  A brown baby panda
• 👁 A normal baby panda sitting (pre-Tiny Takeover)
  
  A normal baby panda sitting (pre-Tiny Takeover)
• 👁 A lazy baby panda sitting (pre-Tiny Takeover)
  
  A lazy baby panda sitting (pre-Tiny Takeover)
• 👁 An aggressive baby panda sitting (pre-Tiny Takeover)
  
  An aggressive baby panda sitting (pre-Tiny Takeover)
• 👁 A worried baby panda sitting (pre-Tiny Takeover)
  
  A worried baby panda sitting (pre-Tiny Takeover)
• 👁 A playful baby panda sitting (pre-Tiny Takeover)
  
  A playful baby panda sitting (pre-Tiny Takeover)
• 👁 A weak baby panda sitting (pre-Tiny Takeover)
  
  A weak baby panda sitting (pre-Tiny Takeover)
• 👁 A brown baby panda sitting (pre-Tiny Takeover)
  
  A brown baby panda sitting (pre-Tiny Takeover)

• 👁 A panda rolling.
  
  A panda rolling.
• 👁 A panda lying on its back.
  
  A panda lying on its back.
• 👁 A panda unhappy.‌[Java Edition only]
  
  A panda unhappy.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

• 👁 Two pandas sitting up, eating bamboo.
  
  Two pandas sitting up, eating bamboo.
• 👁 A panda lying on its back.
  
  A panda lying on its back.
• 👁 A worried panda on a beach.
  
  A worried panda on a beach.
• 👁 A worried panda in a thunderstorm.
  
  A worried panda in a thunderstorm.
• 👁 Panda eating a cake.
  
  Panda eating a cake.
• 👁 A panda eating a spyglass before Java Edition 24w45a. This resulted in missing texture particles being produced.[12]
  
  A panda eating a spyglass before Java Edition 24w45a. This resulted in missing texture particles being produced.^[12]
• 👁 A close up of a lazy panda in a bamboo forest.
  
  A close up of a lazy panda in a bamboo forest.
• 👁 A lazy panda featured on a Bedrock Edition panorama.
  
  A lazy panda featured on a Bedrock Edition panorama.
• 👁 A panda with several bamboo blocks.
  
  A panda with several bamboo blocks.
• 👁 A naturally spawned brown panda.
  
  A naturally spawned brown panda.

• 👁 "A house built out of bamboo with a hanging bamboo sign that says "Welcome!" next to a Panda riding a raft made of bamboo."[13]
  
  "A house built out of bamboo with a hanging bamboo sign that says "Welcome!" next to a Panda riding a raft made of bamboo."^[13]

• 👁 Early version of the panda
  
  Early version of the panda
• 👁 Panda with a slimmer model.
  
  Panda with a slimmer model.

• 👁 Panda texture file.
  
  Panda texture file.
• 👁 Lazy panda texture file.
  
  Lazy panda texture file.
• 👁 Worried panda texture file.
  
  Worried panda texture file.
• 👁 Playful panda texture file.
  
  Playful panda texture file.
• 👁 Aggressive panda texture file.
  
  Aggressive panda texture file.
• 👁 Weak panda texture file.
  
  Weak panda texture file.
• 👁 Brown panda texture file.
  
  Brown panda texture file.
• 👁 Baby panda texture file.
  
  Baby panda texture file.
• 👁 Baby lazy panda texture file.
  
  Baby lazy panda texture file.
• 👁 Baby worried panda texture file.
  
  Baby worried panda texture file.
• 👁 Baby playful panda texture file.
  
  Baby playful panda texture file.
• 👁 Baby aggressive panda texture file.
  
  Baby aggressive panda texture file.
• 👁 Baby weak panda texture file.
  
  Baby weak panda texture file.
• 👁 Baby brown panda texture file.
  
  Baby brown panda texture file.

• 👁 Pandas in promotional artwork for Bedrock Edition 1.8.
  
  Pandas in promotional artwork for Bedrock Edition 1.8.
• 👁 Lego Minecraft Panda Nursery set.
  
  Lego Minecraft Panda Nursery set.
• 👁 Lego Panda Haven set
  
  Lego Panda Haven set
• 👁 A panda eating bamboo while Zuri chops bamboo.
  
  A panda eating bamboo while Zuri chops bamboo.
• 👁 A panda on a bamboo raft with Zuri.
  
  A panda on a bamboo raft with Zuri.
• 👁 A panda sitting atop a bamboo house.
  
  A panda sitting atop a bamboo house.
• 👁 Animated panda artwork.
  
  Animated panda artwork.
• 👁 The Panda Mask, an item featured in the Trails & Tales Event.
  
  The Panda Mask, an item featured in the Trails & Tales Event.
• 👁 Secret Panda, featured in the Trails & Tales Event.
  
  Secret Panda, featured in the Trails & Tales Event.
• 👁 The results of a popularity poll held in China teasing the announcement of a Chinese animal at MINECON Earth 2018.
  
  The results of a popularity poll held in China teasing the announcement of a Chinese animal at MINECON Earth 2018.
• 👁 Panda image from the poll page.
  
  Panda image from the poll page.
• 👁 Two pandas appearing in the opening for Minecraft Live 2020.
  
  Two pandas appearing in the opening for Minecraft Live 2020.
• 👁 Pandas as they appear in Minecraft Dungeons.
  
  Pandas as they appear in Minecraft Dungeons.
• 👁 Panda Plateau, a mission in Minecraft Dungeons centered around pandas.
  
  Panda Plateau, a mission in Minecraft Dungeons centered around pandas.
• 👁 A secret statue of a panda in Minecraft Dungeons.
  
  A secret statue of a panda in Minecraft Dungeons.
• 👁 The Diamond Level Panda, a premium action figure created for San Diego Comic Con 2023.[14]
  
  The Diamond Level Panda, a premium action figure created for San Diego Comic Con 2023.^[14]
• 👁 The Diamond Level Panda's packaging.
  
  The Diamond Level Panda's packaging.
• 👁 The Diamond Level Panda holding a cake.
  
  The Diamond Level Panda holding a cake.
• 👁 Lego Minecraft Panda.
  
  Lego Minecraft Panda.
• 👁 "Never Ending Adventure," an officially licensed cup featuring a panda.
  
  "Never Ending Adventure," an officially licensed cup featuring a panda.
• 👁 An officially licensed panda T-Shirt.
  
  An officially licensed panda T-Shirt.
• 👁 Officially licensed panda desktop toy.
  
  Officially licensed panda desktop toy.
• 👁 Panda figure of Flippin' Figs
  
  Panda figure of Flippin' Figs
• 👁 Pandas as seen in A Minecraft Movie.
  
  Pandas as seen in A Minecraft Movie.
• 👁 Image
  
• 👁 Two pandas looking at the cake for Minecraft's 17th birthday being eaten with the text saying they told the viewer that 'guests' were coming
  
  Two pandas looking at the cake for Minecraft's 17th birthday being eaten with the text saying they told the viewer that 'guests' were coming
• 👁 A brown panda in the Plastic Texture Pack
  
  A brown panda in the Plastic Texture Pack
• 👁 Image
  
• 👁 A panda as seen in Minecraft Dungeons.
  
  A panda as seen in Minecraft Dungeons.
• 👁 An action figure of a panda and a cartographer.
  
  An action figure of a panda and a cartographer.
• 👁 The same figures, but unboxed.
  
  The same figures, but unboxed.

• "Mob Menagerie: Panda" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, June 16, 2025.