How to tame a Panda in Minecraft

The adorably clumsy panda is now a tameable mob in Minecraft. Interested in learning how to tame a panda in Minecraft? Well, you’ve come to the right place.

In this article, you’ll find a comprehensive step-by-step guide to taming pandas, including what materials you need to do so. Now, let’s get right to it!

How to tame a Panda in Minecraft

Follow these steps and you, too, can have your very own furry panda pal in Minecraft!

Step 1: Find a Panda

Naturally, the first thing you have to do before you can tame a panda is to find one! Pandas appear in two biomes: Jungle and Bamboo Jungle. Hopefully, you can find one nearby.

If not, we recommend looking for a Bamboo Jungle, as the Jungle biome can be hard to find. Another plus to the Bamboo Jungle is that you can find Bamboo there, which is a food you’ll need to tame pandas.

Pandas have different temperaments, ranging from aggressive to lazy. Lazy pandas are ideal for taming since they’re much easier to approach. You can identify a lazy panda by their activities; they’re usually found lounging about, playing, and rolling around.

Pandas typically spawn in pairs, so you can tame more than one panda at a time. You can even tame both and breed them for an endless supply of cuteness.

Step 2: Find Panda Food

Bamboo is the most common food used for taming pandas. As mentioned above, if you’re already in a Bamboo Jungle, you’ll find bamboo everywhere. Grab as much Bamboo as you can; you’ll need it to tame the panda.

You can also use cake to tame pandas, but we don’t recommend it because it requires a lot of ingredients to make. To make a cake, you’ll need 3 Milk Buckets, 2 Sugar, 1 Egg, and 3 Wheat.

Step 3: Feed the Panda

Now comes the fun part: feeding the panda. Pull out your Bamboo or Cake and approach the panda. Now click to feed the panda the food.

Take care not to accidentally attack the panda! Some pandas will hit you right back, and they can do a fair bit of damage.

Keep feeding the panda until a heart sign appears above its head. It likes you! Now, keep some panda food in hand and it will follow you wherever you go.

Don’t walk too quickly, though. If you move more than 16 blocks away from the panda, it will stop following you. We recommend building some sort of cage for the panda to keep it from wandering away.

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How to breed pandas in Minecraft

You can also breed pandas and have tons of baby pandas frolicking about your backyard. However, unlike most breedable mobs in Minecraft, it’s not as simple as putting two pandas together and feeding them.

Pandas will only mate if there are at least 8 Bamboo blocks within a radius of 5 blocks. To make breeding them easier, try planting some Bamboo around their enclosure. Now you can feed them Bamboo and they will mate!

That’s it for our guide on how to tame a panda in Minecraft. Now that you know how to tame them and breed them, the obvious next step is to make a huge panda zoo. Have fun!

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