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NEUTRAL PASSIVE Present since 1.14 or earlier

Panda mob in Minecraft

The Panda is a big, mostly peaceful bear of bamboo jungles whose personality changes how it behaves. It eats bamboo, only breeds when bamboo grows nearby, and its genes decide whether a cub turns out lazy, playful, worried or one of the rare brown ones.

Health: 2010 hearts
Behavior: Neutral
Food: Bamboo
Found in: Bamboo Jungle+1 more

Panda stats

Health: 20 10 hearts
Behavior: Neutral
Main drop: Bamboo
Spawns in: 2 biomes
Size: 1.3 × 1.25 blocks
XP when killed: 1 to 3none as a baby
Speed: 0.15
Detection range: 16 blocks
Tempt range: 10 blocks

// Experience drops only when a player kills it. Speeds are the game’s internal values, not blocks per second.

How much damage Panda deals

Damage to a player without armor, by world difficulty. 1 ♥ = 2 damage points.

Melee attack

Peaceful00 ♥

Easy42 ♥

Normal63 ♥

Hard94.5 ♥

// Armor, Protection and Resistance reduce these values. Base values read from the game code (26.3).

Where to find Panda

Biomes where it spawns naturally, with its share of the spawns in each group.

Bamboo Jungle

Jungle

Spawning

Group size: 1 to 2
Light level: 9 or more
Spawns on: Grass Block

Panda drops

Panda dropsFrom the loot table · chance per kill

Bamboo×1

Carried items and gearDropped on death, outside the loot table (game code)

The item it is holdingAlways dropped100%

Also gives you

SlimeballSneezes it0.14%

Health compared

Health vs other neutral mobshealth points

Polar Bear30

Trader Llama15–30

Drowned20

Panda20

Zombified Piglin20

Piglin16

Spider16

Variants

7 variants. The game picks one when the mob spawns, based on where it appears.

Normal

Lazy

Worried

Playful

Brown

Weak

Aggressive

Food and breeding

Items it eats, follows or breeds with.

Bamboo

Baby Panda

Bred with

Bamboo All baby mobs →

Advancements with Panda

Advancements whose criteria involve this mob, from the game files.

Two by TwoBreed all the animals!

Command

Summon a Panda/summon →

/summon minecraft:panda ~ ~ ~

Where to find pandas

Pandas spawn in the Bamboo Jungle and, less often, in the regular Jungle. They rarely stray far from the stalks they chew on. A panda also picks up bamboo and cake lying on the ground and eats them, so do not drop your cake near one.

What the personalities do

Every panda has a personality, listed in the variants above. Most of them change the way it acts, not how dangerous it is:

Lazy pandas lie on their back and move slowly.
Worried pandas get scared during thunderstorms.
Playful pandas roll around and tumble over.
Weak pandas have less health than the others.
Aggressive pandas keep fighting when you attack them. The others hit back once, then calm down.
Brown pandas act normally but are the rarest to come across.

How to breed pandas

Feed bamboo to two adult pandas. They only breed when enough bamboo is planted around them, so grow a patch next to your pen before you start. A lead does not work on pandas: to bring wild ones home, walk ahead of them holding bamboo, since they are slow and easily distracted by food.

The cub's personality comes from its parents' genes. Each panda carries two: one that shows and one that stays hidden. Brown and weak are recessive, which means they only show when a cub gets that gene from both parents. To breed brown pandas, start with a brown one, or with a panda hiding the brown gene, and keep pairing the brown cubs together.

Sneezing cubs and slimeballs

Baby pandas sneeze now and then, and a sneeze can push out a slimeball. The chance is very small, but a pen full of cubs is a harmless trickle of slime if no Slime spawns near your base. Killing a panda only gives bamboo, so there is no reason to hunt them.

✓ Checked in Java Edition 26.3 · updated 1 November 2026