Minecraft Java Edition – Do Pandas Despawn Naturally?

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On a server I play on I went on a journey to get a panda. I breed 2 pandas and left one baby and one adult panda on a boat. I buried this boat in a 2x2x2 area underground. When I returned to get my pandas they had both disappeared and all that was left was a zombie in a boat holding bamboo. How did this happen? Did

  • someone steal my pandas
  • my pandas despawn
  • my pandas get killed by a mob
  • something else

Best Answer

Pandas can't despawn, and I see no reason that a player would take the effort to lure a zombie into a boat and put bamboo in its hand. It's likely that Minecraft just glitched and replaced the pandas. That would explain why the zombie would have a piece of bamboo in its hand: The bamboo stayed, but the panda was replaced.