Cats & Pandas: A Minecraft Fable of Friendship

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Cats & Pandas: A Minecraft Fable of Friendship is an animated^{[note 1]} trailer, claiming to tell the origins of the Holiday Update. The video was produced by twofifteenmccann^[1] and Partizan Studio.^[2][3][4]

Summary

The video begins with a narrator recounting several cats and pandas sleeping in a sparse jungle biome. The leaders of two tribes (the Bamboo Forest and the "Meh, Whatever" tribe) are fast asleep in a contest, the winner claiming the jungle while the other is banished to the ocean. The rivals had slept for "an extraordinarily long time," with the pandas ultimately winning. The cats, furious, accused the pandas of hibernating instead of sleeping, instigating a feud that would persist for many centuries.

Over the years, the two kept their distance, the pandas ruling over the jungle biomes, while cats spent the centuries "meandering in alleyways, starring in internet videos, and sneaking into places disguised as ocelots." As their hatred grew and grew, the two animals became increasingly beloved among humans, with several suggesting pandas be added to Minecraft. The video then pivots to the office of a "Cat-and-Panda Expert," who offers several puns.

Returning to the conflict, it is established that there were many summits held over the feud, however few could ever come to an agreement. This culminated in a summit in Winnipeg, the "Paws and Claws Summit." Tensions were high, so high that they nearly reverted to fighting, until suddenly a Mojang Studios employee appeared outdoors and pitched them Minecraft. The two clans were finally on speaking terms, making sounds they hadn't made in hundreds of years, agreeing to peace because of the existence of Minecraft.

In the final seconds of the video, the camera pans out of the set, revealing the Paws and Claws Summit to be nothing more than a box in the biome the feud began, as a cat and panda hold up a sign promising they'll come to the game.

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	“	A nap-off gone wrong leaves cat and panda relations in shambles. After many failed attempts at peace, the two sides find common ground. When they’re not sneezing or snacking on bamboo, pandas can be found rolling around the jungle. Cats are curious but kind, chasing other mobs and bringing "gifts" to their masters. And of course, both lounge and laze as they please. Revamped cats and precious pandas are coming to Minecraft soon!	„
		— Video description, Minecraft

	“	As announced at X018, revamped cats and precious pandas are coming to Minecraft soon! A nap-off gone wrong leaves cat and panda relations in shambles. After many failed attempts at peace, the two sides find common ground.	„
		— Video description, Xbox

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Trivia

• Several of the puppets are actually modified Mattel action figures, most noticeable during Steve and Alex's cameo.
• The claim that cats pose as ocelots is a reference, if not explanation, for older versions of the game where the two were one and the same. Instead of taming an ocelot, taming it would transform it into a cat. This factors into the supposed feud with pandas; once it was resolved, there would be no reason to sneak into the jungles, they could just go inside.

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See also

• Catastrophic Pandamonium, another promotion for the Holiday Update

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