Pet Polar Bear
For other uses, see Bear and Pet (disambiguation).
This article documents an April Fools' Day joke.
This feature was exclusively part of a joke version and is not currently planned for addition to regular Minecraft.
Pet Polar Bear

| Health points |
30HP × 15 |
|---|---|
| Behavior |
Passive |
| Mob type | |
| Hitbox size |
Height: 1.4 blocks |
| Speed |
? |
| Spawn |
On mine start when "Pet Polar Bear" unlock is active |
| Usable items |
{
"title": "Pet Polar Bear",
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"label": "(link to Health article, displayed as Health points)"
},
{
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{
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"label": "(link to Mob type article, displayed as Mob type)"
},
{
"field": "Height: 1.4 blocks<br>Width: 1.4 blocks",
"label": "(link to Hitbox article, displayed as Hitbox size)"
},
{
"field": "?",
"label": "(link to Attribute#Movement_speed article, displayed as Speed)"
},
{
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"label": "(link to Mob spawning article, displayed as Spawn)"
},
{
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"label": "Usable items"
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"invimages": [],
"images": [
"Polar Bear.png"
]
}
A pet polar bear is a pet variant of the polar bear introduced in 25w14craftmine.
Spawning
A pet polar bear is spawned next to the player on mine start when the "Pet Polar Bear" Player Unlock is active.
Drops
| Item | Quantity / Chance / Average | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Default | Looting I | Looting II | Looting III | ||||||||||
| Raw Cod[A] | 0–2 | 50.00% | 0.75 | 0–3 | 62.50% | 1.12 | 0–4 | 68.75% | 1.50 | 0–5 | 70.83% | 1.88 | |
| Cooked Cod[B] | 0–2 | 50.00% | 0.75 | 0–3 | 62.50% | 1.12 | 0–4 | 68.75% | 1.50 | 0–5 | 70.83% | 1.88 | |
| Raw Salmon[A] | 0–2 | 16.67% | 0.25 | 0–3 | 20.83% | 0.38 | 0–4 | 22.92% | 0.50 | 0–5 | 23.61% | 0.62 | |
| Cooked Salmon[B] | 0–2 | 16.67% | 0.25 | 0–3 | 20.83% | 0.38 | 0–4 | 22.92% | 0.50 | 0–5 | 23.61% | 0.62 | |
| Item | Quantity / Chance / Average | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Default | Looting I | Looting II | Looting III | ||||||||||
| Raw Cod[A] | 0–2 | 1⁄2 | 3⁄4 | 0–3 | 5⁄8 | 9⁄8 | 0–4 | 11⁄16 | 3⁄2 | 0–5 | 17⁄24 | 15⁄8 | |
| Cooked Cod[B] | 0–2 | 1⁄2 | 3⁄4 | 0–3 | 5⁄8 | 9⁄8 | 0–4 | 11⁄16 | 3⁄2 | 0–5 | 17⁄24 | 15⁄8 | |
| Raw Salmon[A] | 0–2 | 1⁄6 | 1⁄4 | 0–3 | 5⁄24 | 3⁄8 | 0–4 | 11⁄48 | 1⁄2 | 0–5 | 17⁄72 | 5⁄8 | |
| Cooked Salmon[B] | 0–2 | 1⁄6 | 1⁄4 | 0–3 | 5⁄24 | 3⁄8 | 0–4 | 11⁄48 | 1⁄2 | 0–5 | 17⁄72 | 5⁄8 | |
| Item | Amount | Probability | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Default | Looting I | Looting II | Looting III | |||
| Raw Cod[A] | 0 | 1⁄2 (50.00%) | 3⁄8 (37.50%) | 5⁄16 (31.25%) | 7⁄24 (29.17%) | |
| 1 | 1⁄4 (25.00%) | 1⁄4 (25.00%) | 3⁄16 (18.75%) | 1⁄8 (12.50%) | ||
| 2 | 1⁄4 (25.00%) | 1⁄4 (25.00%) | 1⁄4 (25.00%) | 5⁄24 (20.83%) | ||
| 3 | 0 | 1⁄8 (12.50%) | 3⁄16 (18.75%) | 5⁄24 (20.83%) | ||
| 4 | 0 | 0 | 1⁄16 (6.25%) | 1⁄8 (12.50%) | ||
| 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1⁄24 (4.17%) | ||
| Average | 3⁄4 (0.75) | 9⁄8 (1.12) | 3⁄2 (1.50) | 15⁄8 (1.88) | ||
| Cooked Cod[B] | 0 | 1⁄2 (50.00%) | 3⁄8 (37.50%) | 5⁄16 (31.25%) | 7⁄24 (29.17%) | |
| 1 | 1⁄4 (25.00%) | 1⁄4 (25.00%) | 3⁄16 (18.75%) | 1⁄8 (12.50%) | ||
| 2 | 1⁄4 (25.00%) | 1⁄4 (25.00%) | 1⁄4 (25.00%) | 5⁄24 (20.83%) | ||
| 3 | 0 | 1⁄8 (12.50%) | 3⁄16 (18.75%) | 5⁄24 (20.83%) | ||
| 4 | 0 | 0 | 1⁄16 (6.25%) | 1⁄8 (12.50%) | ||
| 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1⁄24 (4.17%) | ||
| Average | 3⁄4 (0.75) | 9⁄8 (1.12) | 3⁄2 (1.50) | 15⁄8 (1.88) | ||
| Raw Salmon[A] | 0 | 5⁄6 (83.33%) | 19⁄24 (79.17%) | 37⁄48 (77.08%) | 55⁄72 (76.39%) | |
| 1 | 1⁄12 (8.33%) | 1⁄12 (8.33%) | 1⁄16 (6.25%) | 1⁄24 (4.17%) | ||
| 2 | 1⁄12 (8.33%) | 1⁄12 (8.33%) | 1⁄12 (8.33%) | 5⁄72 (6.94%) | ||
| 3 | 0 | 1⁄24 (4.17%) | 1⁄16 (6.25%) | 5⁄72 (6.94%) | ||
| 4 | 0 | 0 | 1⁄48 (2.08%) | 1⁄24 (4.17%) | ||
| 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1⁄72 (1.39%) | ||
| Average | 1⁄4 (0.25) | 3⁄8 (0.38) | 1⁄2 (0.50) | 5⁄8 (0.62) | ||
| Cooked Salmon[B] | 0 | 5⁄6 (83.33%) | 19⁄24 (79.17%) | 37⁄48 (77.08%) | 55⁄72 (76.39%) | |
| 1 | 1⁄12 (8.33%) | 1⁄12 (8.33%) | 1⁄16 (6.25%) | 1⁄24 (4.17%) | ||
| 2 | 1⁄12 (8.33%) | 1⁄12 (8.33%) | 1⁄12 (8.33%) | 5⁄72 (6.94%) | ||
| 3 | 0 | 1⁄24 (4.17%) | 1⁄16 (6.25%) | 5⁄72 (6.94%) | ||
| 4 | 0 | 0 | 1⁄48 (2.08%) | 1⁄24 (4.17%) | ||
| 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1⁄72 (1.39%) | ||
| Average | 1⁄4 (0.25) | 3⁄8 (0.38) | 1⁄2 (0.50) | 5⁄8 (0.62) | ||
| Killed | 1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Item | Expected Drops | ||||
| Default | Looting I | Looting II | Looting III | ||
| Raw Cod[A] | 0.75 | 1.12 | 1.50 | 1.88 | |
| Cooked Cod[B] | 0.75 | 1.12 | 1.50 | 1.88 | |
| Raw Salmon[A] | 0.25 | 0.38 | 0.50 | 0.62 | |
| Cooked Salmon[B] | 0.25 | 0.38 | 0.50 | 0.62 | |
- ↑ a b Only when not on fire and not killed with a weapon enchanted with Fire Aspect.
- ↑ a b Only when on fire or killed with a weapon enchanted with Fire Aspect.
Behavior
The behaviors between the pet polar bear and the polar bear in regular versions are almost the same, but there are still some differences:
- The player's melee attack can't damage the pet polar bear.
- The pet polar bear doesn't attack the player when he or she approaches a baby bear.
- The pet polar bear doesn't attack the fox and pet fox.
Sounds
| Sounds | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Closed captions | Source | Description | Identifier | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
| Polar Bear groans | Friendly Mobs | Randomly from an adult polar bear | entity | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8-1.2 | 16 | |
| Baby Polar Bear hums | Friendly Mobs | Randomly from a baby polar bear | entity | subtitles | 1.0 | 1.3-1.7 | 16 | |
| Polar Bear dies | Friendly Mobs | When a polar bear dies | entity | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7) | 16 | |
| Polar Bear hurts | Friendly Mobs | When a polar bear is damaged | entity | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7) | 16 | |
| Footsteps | Friendly Mobs | While a polar bear is walking | entity | subtitles | 0.15 | 1.0 | 16 | |
| Polar Bear roars | Friendly Mobs | When a polar bear attempts to attack something | entity | ? | 1.0 | 0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7) [sound 1] | 16 | |
- ↑ Except a second copy of
warning3, which is 0.72-1.08 (Baby: 1.17-1.53)
Issues
Issues relating to "Pet Polar Bear" are not maintained on the bug tracker because it is an April Fools' joke, and is therefore not in the newest stable version or snapshot. Issues reported there are closed as "Invalid".
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