Piglin

Health points	16 × 8‌^{[JE only]} 24 × 12‌^{[BE only]}
Behavior	Hostile (adult) Neutral (adult, if the player wears gold armor) Passive (baby and adult in Peaceful difficulty)
Attack strength	Java Edition: Ranged 3 to 6 Melee Easy: 2 to 5 Normal: 3 to 8 Hard: 5 to 12 × 6 Bedrock Edition: Ranged 1 to 5 Melee Easy: 5 Normal: 9 Hard: 13 × 6.5
Size	Height: 1.95 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks
Spawn	Nether Wastes Crimson Forest
Natural equipment	See § Naturally-spawned equipment
Usable items	Gold Ingot

For zombified variant, see Zombie Pigman. For passive Overworld pig mob, see Pig. For hostile pig-like nether mob, see Hoglin. For zombified hostile pig-like nether mob, see Zoglin.

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Piglins are hostile mobs that spawn in the Nether. They are equipped with crossbows or golden swords. While they are normally hostile toward the player, they become neutral if the player wears golden armor. The player is capable of bartering with them.

Spawning[edit]

In Java Edition, piglins spawn commonly in groups of 1–3 in crimson forests and uncommonly in the nether wastes biomes. Each piglin has a 25% chance of spawning as a baby.

In Bedrock Edition, piglins spawn in groups of 1–5 in crimson forests and nether wastes. Piglins have a 5% chance to spawn as babies.

Adult piglins spawn with either golden swords or crossbows and sometimes wearing golden armor. Baby piglins spawn without any equipment.

Piglins do not despawn in peaceful mode.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Unlike zombie pigmen, piglins cannot spawn on magma blocks.

Drops[edit]

Piglins have an 8.5% chance of dropping their naturally-spawned equipment and drop it with random durability. Each level of Looting increases the chance by 1 percentage point (11.5% chance with Looting III).

Any picked-up equipment or other picked items have a 100% chance of dropping and drop without changing the damage that has accumulated on it. In Java Edition, a piglin who is hit while inspecting a gold ingot during bartering puts the ingot in its inventory. This gold ingot is dropped upon death. If killed in one hit while inspecting, the gold has the same chance to drop as any other held item.

In Bedrock Edition:

0–2 Arrows, dropping more with the presence of Looting, up to 5.

Naturally-spawned equipment[edit]

Experience[edit]

Adult piglins drop 5 experience and an extra 1–3 experience per equipment if killed by player or tamed wolf.

Baby piglins drop 1 and an extra 1–2 per equipment if killed by player or tamed wolf.

Behavior[edit]

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Piglins are hostile to players, unless they wear at least one piece of gold armor. With it, they become neutral, but still attack if provoked. Piglins are also provoked by breaking or opening a chest, trapped chest, ender chest, barrel, or a shulker box in their sight. They become hostile if a player mines a gold block, but not if they mine other golden-type blocks like nether gold ore.

Piglins attack wither skeletons and withers. Additionally, adult piglins also attack adult hoglins, but keep a distance of 6 blocks if outnumbered by hoglins. Adult piglins may group together within radius 32 blocks and attack in hordes like zombified piglins.

A baby piglin riding a baby hoglin in Bedrock Edition.

Baby piglins are passive and never attack anything, they play with baby hoglins, running with them and mounting them. In Bedrock Edition, only 10% of baby piglins mount baby hoglins, but in Java Edition, any piglin can, and up to 3 piglins stacked on top of each other may ride a baby hoglin. Iron golems attack both adult and baby piglins; adults do not attack an iron golem until it attacks first.

When attacking with a crossbow, it shoots arrows every 2 seconds and in Java Edition, walks backward (stopping if at the edge of a drop) as soon as the enemy is close. Unlike bow-armed mobs, they do not strafe from left to right while shooting. Piglins with swords and other equipable items rush towards the player.

Piglins willingly downgrade to golden armor if they are wearing higher tier armor, or armor that has higher durability than gold, such as iron, chainmail, diamond, or netherite armor.

Piglins that are not currently attacking retreat from zombified piglins, zoglins, soul fire, soul fire torches, and soul fire lanterns.

Piglins drown in water, they do not swim. They are capable of opening doors.

Despite being a nether mob, piglins are not naturally immune to fire damage.

Bartering[edit]

Main article: Bartering

A piglin looking at a gold ingot.

The item the piglin throws may be one of the following:

Bartering items
Item given	Quantity	Chance	Weight
Netherite Hoe	1	¹⁄₄₂₄ (~0.24%)	1
Enchanted Book with Soul Speed (random level)	1	⁵⁄₄₂₄ (~1.18%)	5
Iron Boots with Soul Speed (random level)	1	⁸⁄₄₂₄ (~1.89%)	8
Iron Nugget	9–36	¹⁰⁄₄₂₄ (~2.36%)	10
Splash Potion of Fire Resistance	1
Potion of Fire Resistance	1
Nether Quartz	8–16	²⁰⁄₄₂₄ (~4.72%)	20
Glowstone Dust	5–12
Magma Cream	2–6
Ender Pearl	4–8
String	8–24
Fire Charge	1-5	⁴⁰⁄₄₂₄ (~9.43%)	40
Gravel	8–16
Leather	4–10
Nether Brick	4–16
Obsidian	1
Crying Obsidian	1–3
Soul Sand	4–16

Picking up items[edit]

Any piglin can pick up and equip any gold related item, regardless of their ability to pick up other items. A piglin inspects any gold-related item for a moment after picking it up.

Piglins have eight‌^{[JE only]}/three‌^{[BE only]} hidden inventory slots in which they can stack items. When a piglin with a full inventory encounters another item, it picks up the item and then throws it on the floor after contemplating it, leading to a cycle of continuously picking up and discarding the item. Baby piglins attempt to pick up any item and can steal from players. Adult piglins can pick up any golden item and porkchops, but they don't actively seek out and contemplate porkchops and gold nuggets; instead, if either of those items is nearby, they instantly place it in their inventory. Piglins drop any of these items upon death aside from gold ingots, raw porkchops and cooked porkchops.

Like other mobs capable of picking up items, piglins pick up armor and weapons. However, unlike other mobs, they prefer items in the gold tier of armor material, and throw away stronger items to equip these.

Items that piglins want:
- Bell
- Block of Gold
- Clock
- Gold Ingot (will barter something else in return, see § Bartering)
- Gold Nugget
- Gold Ore
- Nether Gold Ore
- Glistering Melon Slice
- Golden Carrot
- Light Weighted Pressure Plate
- Powered Rail (only baby piglin)
- Golden Apple
- Golden Horse Armor
- Golden Helmet
- Golden Chestplate
- Golden Leggings
- Golden Boots

Items crafted with gold, but piglins are not interested in:
- Firework Star (Star shape)
- Netherite Ingot

Zombification[edit]

A piglin turning into a zombified piglin.

When in the Overworld, piglins transform into zombified piglins after 15 seconds and will start burning under direct sunlight.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} When they transform, they retain their armor (but drop held items) and gain a golden sword. Upon transformation, the spawned zombified piglin has the Nausea effect for 10 seconds. This does not occur in the End.‌^{[Java Edition only]} In Bedrock Edition, piglins in the End also transform into zombified piglins.

Sounds[edit]

Java Edition:

Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Subtitle key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Piglin snorts	?	?	`entity.piglin.ambient`	`subtitles.entity.piglin.ambient`	0.7	?	?
Piglin snorts angrily	?	?	`entity.piglin.angry`	`subtitles.entity.piglin.angry`	0.7	?	?
Piglin celebrates	?	?	`entity.piglin.celebrate`	`subtitles.entity.piglin.celebrate`	0.8	?	?
Piglin converts to Zombified Piglin	?	?	`entity.piglin.converted_to_zombified`	`subtitles.entity.piglin.converted_to_zombified`	1.0	?	?
Piglin hurts	?	?	`entity.piglin.hurt`	`subtitles.entity.piglin.hurt`	0.7	?	?
Piglin dies	?	?	`entity.piglin.death`	`subtitles.entity.piglin.death`	0.7-0.8	?	?
Piglin retreats	?	?	`entity.piglin.retreat`	`subtitles.entity.piglin.retreat`	0.7	?	?
Piglin steps	?	?	`entity.piglin.step`	`subtitles.entity.piglin.step`	0.75	?	?
Piglin snorts enviously	?	?	`entity.piglin.jealous`	`subtitles.entity.piglin.jealous`	0.8	?	?
Piglin admires item	?	?	`entity.piglin.admiring_item`	`subtitles.entity.piglin.admiring_item`	0.8-0.85	?	?

Data values[edit]

ID[edit]

Name	Namespaced ID	Translation key
Piglin	`piglin`	`entity.minecraft.piglin`

Entity data[edit]

Advancements[edit]

Main article: Advancements

Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Namespaced ID
Not Today, Thank You	Deflect an arrow with a shield	Suit Up	Deflect any projectile with a shield.	`story/deflect_arrow`
Adventure	Adventure, exploration, and combat	—	Kill any entity, or be killed by any entity.	`adventure/root`
Monster Hunter	Kill any hostile monster	Adventure	Kill one of these 25 mobs. ‌In Java Edition 1.16, elder guardians, ender dragons, endermites, hoglins, piglins, vexes, withers, and zoglins can also be killed for this advancement. Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for the advancement.	`adventure/kill_a_mob`
Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Monster Hunter	Kill each of these 25 mobs. ‌In Java Edition 1.16, elder guardians, ender dragons, endermites, hoglins, piglins, vexes, withers and zoglins are also required for the advancement. Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for the advancement.	`adventure/kill_all_mobs`

History[edit]

Upcoming Java Edition
October 26, 2010		Miclee suggests the concept of pigmen, the predecessor to piglins, resulting in him receiving the Bacon Cape as a reward.
April 25, 2011		It is suggested that pigmen may be the inhabitants of the then-to-be-implemented villages.
September 28, 2019		Piglins are announced at MINECON Live 2019.
September 28, 2019		Footage shown at MINECON Live shows that piglins which are angered raise their arms in a manner similar to zombies, a behavior not reflected in the final version.
December 5, 2019		A video shows a piglin with a baby hoglin.
December 14, 2019		An image of a hoglin and piglins is released.
January 14, 2020		A video shows piglins picking up gold thrown by the player and throwing back a placeholder diamond.
March 4, 2020		An official post on Crowdin^[1] explains the naming of the piglin as a gender-neutral term as opposed to pigman, confirming that piglins are indeed a reworked pigman concept.
1.16	20w07a	Added piglins and baby piglins.
		Piglins can hold crossbows.
		Piglins can be converted into zombie pigmen in the Overworld.
		The player can barter with Piglins (see Bartering/Before 20w09a)
	20w09a	Piglins now have an `IsImmuneToZombification` data value that, when set, prevents them from zombifying in the Overworld.
		The loot table of items that can be bartered from piglins has been modified (see Bartering/Before 20w10a).
		Baby piglins can now ride on the back of baby hoglins.
	20w10a	The loot table of items that can be bartered from piglins has been modified again (see Bartering/Before 20w11a).
	20w11a	Enchanted books and iron boots with Soul Speed have been added to the items that can be bartered from piglins.
	20w12a	Baby piglins can now ride on top of each other on a baby hoglin, up to three baby piglins can climb on at once.
	20w14a	Now avoid zoglins, the same way they avoid zombified piglins.
		The baby piglins no longer has a weapon when it turns into a zombie.
		The texture size has been changed from 128x64 to 64x64, and the layout of the parts of the ears has been changed.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.16.0	beta 1.16.0.51	Added piglins and baby piglins.
		Piglins can hold crossbows.
		Baby piglins can ride on the back of baby hoglins.
		Currently, piglins can drop only flint and steel and obsidian while bartering as a placeholder.
		Piglins currently drop 0-2 arrows, even if the piglin is not armed with a crossbow.
		Piglins currently use the player's hurt sound.

Issues[edit]

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

Trivia[edit]

Adult piglins cannot ride on other entities; if summoned as a passenger they immediately dismount.‌^{[Java Edition only]}
Baby piglins never grow up.^[2]