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Polar Bear

Mobs & entity

The polar bear is a passive animal that spawns naturally in four biomes: Deep Frozen Ocean, Frozen Ocean, Ice Spikes, and Snowy Plains. It can be found roaming the cold, icy parts of the world.

Players kill polar bears to collect the Raw Cod and Raw Salmon they drop. A spawn egg for the polar bear also exists, allowing players to place one directly into the world.

Contents (7)
  1. Animations
  2. Sounds
  3. Stats
  4. History
  5. Registry entry
  6. Related items
  7. See also

Animations

5 of these were recorded inside the running game, so the movement is the animation Mojang shipped rather than an imitation of it. Transparent background, free to download.

Polar Bear, walking
WalkingDownload
Polar Bear, running
RunningDownload
Polar Bear, idle
IdleDownload
Polar Bear, baby
BabyDownload
Polar Bear, taking damage
Taking damageDownload
Polar Bear, death
DeathDownload

Sounds

6 sound events for this mob, 23 files in all. Where an event lists more than one file the game picks one at random. Volume, pitch and attenuation are the values the game declares in its own sounds.json.

EventSoundClosed captionIdentifierTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
ambientPolar Bear groansentity.polar_bear.ambientsubtitles.entity.polar_bear.ambient1116
ambient babyBaby Polar Bear humsentity.polar_bear.ambient_babysubtitles.entity.polar_bear.ambient_baby1116
deathPolar Bear diesentity.polar_bear.deathsubtitles.entity.polar_bear.death1116
hurtPolar Bear hurtsentity.polar_bear.hurtsubtitles.entity.polar_bear.hurt1116
stepFootstepsentity.polar_bear.stepsubtitles.block.generic.footsteps1116
warningPolar Bear roarsentity.polar_bear.warningsubtitles.entity.polar_bear.warning10.9–116

Stats

Mojang publishes these numbers in the Bedrock behaviour pack (bedrock-samples); the Java edition keeps them in code, not in any data file. Most values match across editions, but not all — treat them as the Bedrock figures.

Health points30
Movement speed0.25
Hitbox size1.4 blocks wide, 1.4 blocks tall
Mob typepolarbear, mob

History

Worked out by reading the registry of every Minecraft build Mojang has published, in release order.

VersionDateWhat the files show
before 18w50a—Already in the game when Mojang’s data generator first shipped, in 18w50a (12 December 2018). The files do not say which earlier version added it.

Registry entry

Identifierminecraft:polar_bear
Registryminecraft:entity_type

See also