How to tame polar bear in Minecraft PE

Minecraft is a game filled with long-distance walks, hostile mobs, icy waters and more. Fortunately, there is a solution to any of the problems those things might bring to the table: polar bears. Polar bears can be ridden, tied to a post for safekeeping, ordered to attack mobs and more, but they won’t do any of that on your behalf until they’re tamed. Here’s how to tame a polar bear in Minecraft on Xbox One, PS4, PC & more.

What better way to take down spiders and other mobs in Minecraft than by having your very own polar bear do it?

Once your new pet is done with the spiders, you can hop on its back and traverse to a new biome. None of this is possible, though, without a friendly and domesticated polar bear.

Fortunately, getting one of those isn’t too difficult. Here’s how it’s done.

Here’s How to Tame a Polar Bear on Xbox One, PS4, PC & More

To tame a Polar Bear, you first need to find one of these animals. They are found in the Snowy Tundra, Snowy Mountains and Ice Spikes Tundra biomes, regular and deep frozen ocean. If you’re playing on the Bedrock versions of the game, you can also find Polar Bears in frozen rivers and legacy frozen ocean biomes.

Once you’ve found one, you’re going to need fish and you’re likely going to need a lot. To get fish, you’ll need a fishing rod, which can be crafted with two sticks and two string. They can also be found in Villages, in random chests, and in castles or underwater ruins.

Fishing can be done anywhere in Minecraft, but you want to try and fish where the water is in direct sunlight or moonlight. If the water isn’t, or if it’s raining, it’ll take longer for you to catch a fish.

Using Salmon to Tame Polar Bears

Polar Bears like Salmon the most, and you can tame one by feeding it fewer Salmon than any other fish. Salmon can be caught in any body of water, or you can kill Polar Bears to get raw Salmon.

With a Salmon or other kind of fish in hand, approach the Polar Bear and feed the fish to it with LT/ L2/ ZL/ RMB.

After so many fish, hearts will appear above the Polar Bear and this lets you know that it is now your pet which means it will fight mobs for you, allow you to ride its back (which is the same as riding a horse) and more.

How to Tame a Polar Bear on PS4

To tame one on PS4, follow the same steps listed above but instead of feeding the fish with LT, you’re going to use L2.

How to Tame a Polar Bear in Minecraft on PC

To tame one on PC, follow the same steps listed in the Xbox One section but instead of feeding the fish with LT, you’re going to right-click on the animal.

How to Tame a Polar Bear on Switch

To tame one on Switch, follow the same steps listed in the Xbox One section but instead of feeding the fish with LT, you’re going to press ZL.

More Information on Minecraft Polar Bears

Polar Bears can be found alone or in a group of up to four. If there are more than two polar bears, it’s important to note that one of those animals will always be a cub and at least one of the other animals will be a parent to that cub.

Naturally, a parent will attack you if you go after the cub so we recommend searching for one that’s alone.

If you’re struggling to find Salmon and can find another Polar Bear, you can kill this to get Raw Salmon or Raw Cod.

That’s it for our guide on how to tame a polar bear in Minecraft on Xbox One, PS4, PC & more.

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Polar Bears are one of the new mobs in version 1.0.0 of Minecraft Pocket Edition. They are neutral animals which can be found spawning in snow biomes. This addon makes it possible to tame the bears by feeding them fish and then keep them as a pet. They will follow you around and even allow you to ride them.

Select version for changelog:

I updated my Tameable Polar Bear addon to support the latest version and fixed some bugs

- Polar Bears now attack all entities that you hit or the entities that hit you

- You can now feed the polar bears fish to heal them if they lost health.

- Bug fixes

Polar bears spawn above grass or ice in snowy plains, ice spikes, regular and deep frozen ocean biomes in groups of up to two at light level 7 or higher. If there is a group, the second polar bear is a cub.

They can also spawn in frozen rivers, legacy frozen oceans, snowy slopes, also sometimes at the jagged peaks, and the frozen peaks in Bedrock Edition.

Drops[]

An adult polar bear drops one of the following when killed:

• 1–3 from player or tamed wolves kills.
• There is a 3⁄4 chance of dropping 0 to 2 raw cod ̣(cooked cod if killed by fire[more information needed]). The maximum amount can be increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 0 to 5 with Looting III.
• There is a 1⁄4 chance of dropping 0 to 2 raw salmon (cooked salmon if killed by fire[more information needed]). The maximum amount can be increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 0 to 5 with Looting III.

Killing a baby polar bear yields no items or experience.

Behavior[]

A polar bear attacking.

Polar bears can exist in a passive or hostile state. The cubs are passive; adults are hostile when with cubs or provoked (unless it's killed in one hit‌[JE only]), they also attack if a player gets near them in Bedrock edition.

If a cub is attacked, unless killed in one hit‌[JE only], all adults within a 41×21×41 area become hostile toward the player or mob, regardless of difficulty, although in Peaceful difficulty their attacks do zero damage to players.

Attacking an adult who is within a 16×8×16 area of a cub also provokes other adults within a 21×21×21 area of the attacked adult.‌[JE only]

Polar bears also attack foxes.

• In Java Edition, adult polar bears attack any fox that stays near it for a while, hitting it once every few seconds. Cubs are more aggressive and attack foxes within 16 blocks.
• In Bedrock Edition, adult polar bears attack foxes within 16 blocks. Cubs do not attack foxes.

Polar bears attack by rearing on their back legs and mauling down with their front paws. Their swimming speed is equal to the player's, making them difficult to get away from if they are attacking in water.

Polar bears cannot breed and cubs' growth cannot be sped up.

They do not take freezing damage from powder snow.

Sounds[]

Java Edition:
Polar bears use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

Bedrock Edition:

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Entity data[]

Polar bears have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

Java Edition:

Main article: Entity format

• Entity data
  • Additional fields for mobs that can become angry
  • Additional fields for mobs that can breed
  • Tags common to all entities
  • Tags common to all mobs

Bedrock Edition:

Advancements[]

History[]

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Polar Bear" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia[]

• Adding polar bears to Minecraft was a request by Jeb's wife, she was told they'd be added "if they ever had a bear of their own". Once their son was born, he was named "Björn" (Swedish for "bear"), and polar bears were added.[2]
• Unlike most other baby mobs, polar bear cubs have a unique sound effect that is not just a sped-up version of the regular polar bear sound effects; this is also reflected in subtitles.
• Polar bears are the first bears added into the game, later followed by pandas.
• During the development of the frozen ocean biome, polar bears were removed from spawning, due to being deemed too "sad". They were added back in because it is more accurate to the polar bear's real life status.[3]
• in Java Edition, the polar bear is the only mob whose baby variant can grow up, but the adults cannot breed or be bred.

Gallery[]

Screenshots[]

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  Development teaser screenshot by Jeb.

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  Image from 16w20a blog post.

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  A polar bear on its hind legs, attacking the player.

In other media[]

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  Lego Minecraft minifigure

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  Artwork

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  Polar Bear attacking artwork.

References[]

1. ↑ MC-161946
2. ↑ "We have a room in our house where all polar bear-related items end up. It’s essentially the library, or a hallway, really, with all our books in it, and there are two chairs so you can sit and read if you want - but we have a polar bear tapestry on the wall, and lots of polar bear plushies. So it feels like a Polar Bear room. Jenny had been nagging me for a long time to add a bear to Minecraft. And so I told her - well, if we ever have a bear of our own, I’ll add a bear in Minecraft. And then it turned true, because our son was born and we called him Björn - which means bear in Swedish! So I had to add a bear in the game. - JENS BERGENSTEN" – Minecraft.net

   What does polar bear eat in Minecraft PE?

   Salmon and cod can be found in most ocean biomes. Meanwhile, salmon alone can be found in rivers and other water sources. This helps the idea for polar bears eating these two types of fish, due to the types of water sources that can be found in natural spawn points in Minecraft.

   Can you tame a polar bear in Minecraft bedrock edition?

   Like I said, polar bears in Minecraft cannot be tamed like horses, wolves, or cats nor give any benefits the other Mobs usually give. There is also very little worth in killing them. In Java Edition, polar bears are neutral mobs, meaning they will not attack unless they are attacked first, similar to llamas.

   How do you breed a polar bear in Minecraft?

   in Java Edition, the polar bear is the only mob whose baby variant can grow up, but the adults cannot breed or be bred.