Panda

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. They do not spawn on podzol despite that bamboo jungles are covered by it.
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 , unaffected by Looting.
* 0-2 , increased 1 per level of Looting.
* , if killed by a tamed wolf or the player.
Baby pandas have a chance to drop 1 after they sneeze.
Upon successful breeding, 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. Pandas follow any player that 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 chance (0.01666%) of sneezing every tick. Weak baby pandas are more likely to sneeze with a (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.
Pandas can be ridden by baby zombie variants.
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. However, it does not affect the popularity of the player.
=== Personalities ===
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. , if a player is holding bamboo, a lazy panda stops lying on its back and starts following that player.
* 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.
* 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 into other environmental hazards.
* 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, 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. , pandas enter love mode when fed with bamboo, but will only breed if there is at least one bamboo block (not including shoots) within a five-block radius; otherwise the pandas will briefly shake their heads and not breed until that requirement is met.
, there must be at least 8 bamboo blocks 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 nearby, it sits and eats the bamboo instead of entering love mode.
Once pandas successfully breed, they produce a panda cub which remains passive instead of neutral toward that player.
==Genetics==
Each panda has two hidden values called "" or "alleles", as found in . 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 will present 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 only relevant in 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 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 	
Aggressive 	
Lazy 	
Worried 	
Playful 	
Weak 	
Brown 	
Panda Personality	Panda Personality	Hidden Gene	Hidden Gene	Hidden Gene	Hidden Gene	Hidden Gene	Hidden Gene	Hidden Gene
Panda Personality	Panda Personality	Normal 	Aggressive 	Lazy 	Worried 	Playful 	Weak 	Brown
Main Gene 	Normal 	Normal 	Normal 	Normal 	Normal 	Normal 	Normal 	Normal
Main Gene 	Aggressive 	Aggressive 	Aggressive 	Aggressive 	Aggressive 	Aggressive 	Aggressive 	Aggressive
Main Gene 	Lazy 	Lazy 	Lazy 	Lazy 	Lazy 	Lazy 	Lazy 	Lazy
Main Gene 	Worried 	Worried 	Worried 	Worried 	Worried 	Worried 	Worried 	Worried
Main Gene 	Playful 	Playful 	Playful 	Playful 	Playful 	Playful 	Playful 	Playful
Main Gene 	Weak 	Normal 	Normal 	Normal 	Normal 	Normal 	Weak 	Normal
Main Gene 	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 : or using third-party NBT editors.
== Sounds ==
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Pandas use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.
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== Data values ==
=== ID ===
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=== Entity data ===
Panda have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.
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: See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.
== Achievements ==
== Advancements ==
== History ==
PandaMinecon.png|The first image of pandas, from MINECON Earth 2018.
PandasEatingMinecon.jpg|A group of pandas eating bamboo shown at MINECON Earth 2018.
Aggressive panda.png|An aggressive panda with its old texture.
== Issues ==
== 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. 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.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qinling_panda
*The lazy panda is the slowest land mob in the game (not counting status effects such as Slowness).
*The rarest mob 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.
*Pandas were originally a bit slimmer.
== Gallery ==
Panda.png
Lazy Panda.png
Aggressive Panda.png
Worried Panda.png
Playful Panda.png
Weak Panda.png
Brown Panda.png| 
Sitting Panda.png
Sitting Lazy Panda.png
Sitting Aggressive Panda.png
Sitting Worried Panda.png
Sitting Playful Panda.png
Sitting Weak Panda.png
Sitting Brown Panda.png| 
Panda.png|Lazy Panda.png|
Aggressive Panda.png
Worried Panda.png
Playful Panda.png
Weak Panda.png
Brown Panda.png| 
Sitting Panda BE.png
Sitting Lazy Panda BE.png
Sitting Aggressive Panda BE.png
Sitting Worried Panda BE.png
Sitting Playful Panda BE.png
Sitting Weak Panda BE.png
Sitting Brown Panda BE.png
Baby Panda.png
Lazy Baby Panda.png
Aggressive Baby Panda.png
Worried Baby Panda.png
Playful Baby Panda.png
Weak Baby Panda.png
Brown Baby Panda.png
Sitting Baby Panda BE.png
Sitting Lazy Baby Panda BE.png
Sitting Aggressive Baby Panda BE.png
Sitting Worried Baby Panda BE.png
Sitting Playful Baby Panda BE.png
Sitting Weak Baby Panda BE.png
Sitting Brown Baby Panda BE.png
==== Animations ====
Panda Rolling.gif|A panda rolling.
Panda Lying.gif|A panda lying.
Panda Unhappy.gif|A panda unhappy.
==== Event servers ====
File:Panda Mask (Trails and Tales Summer Event) Render.png|The Panda Mask, an item featured in the Trails & Tales Event.
File:Panda (Trails & Tales Event).png|Secret Panda, featured in the Trails & Tales Event.
=== Concept Art ===
Panda Old Design.jpg|Panda with a slimmer model.
=== Screenshots ===
Pandas Eating BE.png|Two pandas sitting up, eating bamboo.
Playful panda on back.png|A panda lying on its back.
WorriedPandaScreen.jpg|A worried panda on a beach.
Worried Panda in Thunderstorm.png|A worried panda in a thunderstorm.
Panda eat a cake.png|Panda eating a cake.
Panda eating a spyglass.png|A panda eating a spyglass. This results in missing texture particles being produced.
LazyPandaCloseUp.png|A close up of a lazy panda in a bamboo forest.
V1.8.0 panorama 1.png|A panda featured on a Bedrock Edition panorama.
File:Bamboo Galore.jpg|A panda with several bamboo blocks.
=== Official artwork ===
Zuri Chopping Bamboo Pixel Art.png|A panda eating bamboo while Zuri chops bamboo.
Zuri on Bamboo Raft Pixel Art.png|A panda on a bamboo raft with Zuri.
Zuri By Bamboo House Pixel Art.png|A panda sitting atop a bamboo house.
Cats & Pandas.jpg|Pandas in promotional artwork for Bedrock Edition 1.8.
=== In other media ===
MinecraftChinaVote.png|The vote in which the Panda was chosen over other Chinese animals.
File:Pandas (Dungeons).png|Pandas as they appear in Minecraft Dungeons.
File:Panda Plateau.png|Panda Plateau, a mission in Minecraft Dungeons centered around pandas.
File:Diamond Level Panda.jpg|The Diamond Level Panda, a premium action figure created for San Diego Comic Con 2023. https://twitter.com/Minecraft/status/1681018879974440960?s=20
File:Panda Packaging.jpg|The Diamond Level Panda'’’s packaging.
LEGO Panda.jpg|Lego Minecraft Panda.
Never Ending Adventure.png|"Never Ending Adventure," an officially licensed cup featuring a panda.
Panda Shirt.png|An officially licensed panda T-Shirt.
File:Minecraft X UniQlo Green T-shirt Exclusive.jpg
=== Textures ===
File:Panda (texture).png
File:Lazy Panda (texture).png|Lazy Panda
File:Worried Panda (Texture).png|Worried Panda
File:Playful Panda (texture).png|Playful Panda
File:Aggressive Panda (texture).png|Aggressive Panda
File:Weak Panda (texture).png|Weak Panda
File:Brown Panda (texture).png|Brown Panda
== References ==
Category:Neutral mobs
Category:Animal mobs
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