Panda

Pandas are a rare neutral mob that can be found in jungle biomes, and are unique because pandas have a variety of personalities that will determine how they act. In this Minecraft Panda guide, we will teach you everything you need to know, such as how to find Panda, how to breed them, all the personalities a panda can have, which personalities traits are offspring most likely to have, quick tips and facts that you may not have known, as well as their available loot drops. Looking for something specific about Pandas? Click the links below to jump to…

What Are Pandas and What Do They Do in Minecraft

Pandas don’t serve any major purpose in Minecraft just yet. But that doesn’t mean they aren't cute to look at and make for fun pets. Players can provoke a panda by hitting them. Listed below is the amount of damage a Panda will do depending on the difficulty.

Easy: 4 hearts.
Medium: 6 hearts.
Hard: 9 hearts.

Where to Find a Panda

Pandas are a rare mob to find, but they can be found in the jungle biome. Listed below are all the biomes you can find a panda in.

Bamboo Jungle
Jungle
Sparse Jungle‌ (Bedrock Only)

To learn more about the different types of Biomes that are available to find across Minecraft, be sure to check out our Biomes guide for more details.

How to Breed a Panda

Breeding pandas require a little more steps than other animals. You’ll need to find bamboo which can only be found in the jungle biomes. But for the pandas to enter love mode, they must be within a five-block radius of an eight-block height of bamboo.

Once you've done that, make sure that you’ve built a secure animal farm that the pandas can’t escape from.

Now that you’ve built the farm and have all the requirements, make sure to feed the pandas the bamboo. Once you do the pandas will enter love mode and a baby panda will spawn within a few seconds.

Now that you've learned how to breed pandas, why not check out our Taming Guide that details everything you need to know about Taming Animals in Minecraft.

All Panda Personalities

Pandas are also unique because they come in a variety of personalities. The panda will act differently depending on which personality it has.

Aggressive Panda

They tend to have angry faces.

Aggressive Pandas will attack any mob and won’t rest until one of them is dead, or it escapes its zone. These kinds of pandas will not run away or panic when it’s hit.

If you're on Java, pandas will become aggressive towards a player if another panda is hit. Unless the panda is killed in one hit. They are slow but have a similar range to players.

Brown Panda

Brown Pandas have brown and white fur and are the rarest pandas. These pandas don’t have any personalities like the other ones.

Lazy Panda

Lazy Panda will have a happy faces.

Lazy Pandas like to lay on their backs and are the slowest mobs in the game.

If a Lazy Panda is laying on its back on java, it won’t follow you. Even if you’re holding bamboo, if you’re on bedrock the panda will follow you.

Normal Panda

A normal panda will have a sad face.

Just like the brown panda, they don’t have any personality either.

Playful Panda

Playful Pandas have their tongues out.

You’ll often find a playful panda rolling and jumping around as an adult. But be careful because when it does roll, they have the ability to kill whatever they run over. It’s also not uncommon for a playful panda to roll itself off a cliff and kill itself by accident too.

Weak Panda

A weak panda will cry and have snot running down its nose.

Weak Pandas tend to sneeze more than a baby panda would, and have half the health of all the other pandas.

Worried Panda

A worried panda will have big eyes.

Worried Pandas will avoid all hostile mobs, except the Ender dragon, ghasts, magma cubes, phantoms, shulkers, and slimes.

Dominant Personalities vs Recessive Personalities

Once a baby panda spawns, it’ll get one of the two-parents personalities. Listed below are the dominant personalities.

Aggressive
Lazy
Normal
Playful personalities

Listed below are the recessive personalities.

Weak
Brown

There is also a 1/32 chance that the babies will have their own personalities different from the parents.

Quick Tips and Facts

Baby Pandas have a 1/700 chance of sneezing up a slimeball.
Pandas are faster in water than they are on land.
Pandas can be ridden by Baby Zombies (Bedrock Only)

All Panda Loot

When a panda is killed by a player or a tamed wolf, it can drop anywhere from one to three XP orbs. Listed below are the items pandas are known to drop upon death.

Bamboo: 1 (Java Only)
Bamboo: 0-2 (Bedrock Only)