Piglin

For the feature in Minecraft Dungeons, see MCD:Piglin.

This article is about the neutral mob native to the Nether. For the zombified variant, see Zombified Piglin. For the hostile variant found in bastion remnants, see Piglin Brute. For other pig-like mobs, see Pig (disambiguation).

Piglin

Health points	16 × 8
Behavior	Hostile (adult, if the player does not wear golden armor) Neutral (adult, if the player wears golden armor) Passive (baby) Passive (peaceful difficulty)
Attack strength	Ranged: Bedrock Edition: 1 to 5 Java Edition: Easy and Normal: 2 to 5 Hard: 4 to 5 Melee in Java Edition: Easy: 5 Normal: 8 Hard: 12 × 6 Melee in Bedrock Edition: Easy: 5 Normal: 9 Hard: 13 × 6.5 Melee attack without weapon (If crossbow is broken): Easy: 3 Normal: 5 Hard: 7
Hitbox size	Height: 1.95 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks
Spawn	Nether Wastes Crimson Forest Bastion remnant
Natural equipment	Golden Sword Crossbow Golden Helmet (occasionally) Golden Chestplate (occasionally) Golden Leggings (occasionally) Golden Boots (occasionally)
Items usable on	Gold Ingot

Piglins are neutral mobs found in the Nether. Unless equipped with a piece of golden armor, players are attacked by them on sight. Players can use gold ingots to barter with them for various items.

Spawning

Piglins spawn in groups of 4 in nether wastes and crimson forest biomes, and within bastion remnants, at a light level of 11 or less in Java Edition, or 7 or less in Bedrock Edition, even in Peaceful mode. 5% of piglins spawned are babies.

Drops

Adults have an 8.5% chance of dropping the held item (a golden sword or crossbow with random durability). Each Looting level increases this chance by 1%.

Babies spawn without equipment.

A picked up item always drops with the same durability as when picked up. Piglins do not drop picked-up gold ingots, raw porkchops, or cooked porkchops.

Armor

Adults sometimes spawn with 1-4 pieces, which are normal or enchanted and may be:

• Golden Helmet
• Golden Chestplate
• Golden Leggings
• Golden Boots

These are dropped with an 8.5% chance and random durability.

Experience

Adults drop five points and more 1–3 per armor piece if killed by a player or tamed wolf. Baby piglins drop 1.

Behavior

Piglins snort enviously while watching players holding a gold-related item.

Piglins can open and close wooden doors, like villagers.

Piglins cannot swim and drown if submerged; this is intentional behavior. They are not naturally immune to fire or lava.

Piglins pick up raw porkchops and cooked porkchops that are within 1 block from them, unless they've done so within the last 10 seconds.

Idle piglins retreat from zombified piglins, zoglins, soul fire, soul torches, soul lanterns, and lit soul campfires. Baby piglins additionally retreat from wither skeletons and withers.

Baby piglins are passive and play with baby hoglins, running around and riding upon them. Up to 3 baby piglins may stack on top of each other while riding a baby hoglin.

Baby piglins can be given gold, but they do not give anything in return.

Baby piglins never grow up; this is intentional behavior.

Hostility

Aggravation

Adult piglins are neutral if the player is wearing at least one piece of golden armor. Piglins are provoked when:

• Approached by a player without any piece of gold armor.
• One of them (including piglin brutes) is attacked by a player, regardless if they wear golden armor or not. Piglins are aggravated even if the Piglin or Piglin Brute is killed in one hit.
• A nearby chest, trapped chest, ender chest, shulker box, barrel, minecart with chest or minecart with hopper is opened or broken.
• A nearby gold block, gold ore, gilded blackstone, or nether gold ore is broken.

Piglins remain hostile for 30 seconds after provoked.

Piglins can detect the breaking and opening of blocks within a range of 16 blocks in a straight line from the player (this can be altered with the Invisibility effect). The block interacted with does not require a line of sight to anger the piglin.

Piglins do not react to the opening or breaking of furnace, blast furnace, smoker, dropper, dispenser or brewing stand. Opening or breaking a hopper does not provoke the piglins, which is intended. Breaking a bell does not provoke them either, despite piglins admiring them as gold, which is also intended.

Attacking

When a piglin is attacking, it holds its dominant arm and sword in front of it, similar to a vindicator.

Adults immediately attack wither skeletons and withers. Adult piglins do not immediately attack adult hoglins on sight, but a piglin has a random chance to make the decision to hunt a hoglin (this decision almost never happens if the piglin recently hunted)^[verify]. Once that piglin attacks the hoglin, all other piglins become hostile to the hoglin. If outnumbered by hoglins, the piglins flee. After defeating a hoglin, piglins have a 10% chance to do a "victory dance" by bobbing their heads and sticking out their arms like a "T-pose."

Adult piglins congregate within 16 blocks and attack in hordes.

When attacking with a crossbow, piglins shoot arrows every 2 seconds. In Java Edition, they walk backward (stopping if at the edge of a drop) as soon as the target is close. Their crossbows can break if it runs out of durability, making the piglins use their fists. Unlike mobs armed with bows, they do not strafe from left to right while shooting. Piglins with swords and other items rush at the player.

If a group of Piglins successfully defeat their target, they gather at the site of their target's demise, and emit "celebration sounds". However, piglins do not have a change of dancing unless their target was a hoglin.

Iron golems attack both adult and baby piglins; however, piglins do not attack iron golems without provocation.

Being distracted

Piglins briefly stop attacking when given gold items. If the player offers a gold ingot, bartering then takes place as it normally would. They resume attacking once the barter is complete. If the player distracts them with a gold item and equips a piece of gold armor while the piglin is examining the item, then the piglin ceases hostility. They may also cease hostility if distracted enough times. If the player breaks any gold-related block and then distracts the piglin up to 5 times while being equipped with a piece of gold armor, the piglin ceases hostility entirely.

Bartering

Main article: Bartering

Piglins trade gold ingots for certain items, when a gold ingot is dropped or the player uses it while looking at them. The piglin "examines" the ingot for six‌^{[JE only]} or eight‌^{[BE only]}seconds, then drop a random item from the chart. However, baby piglins examine the ingot and then run away without dropping an item.

Picking up items

Piglins can pick up and equip any items on their way, and prefer gold-related items, actively seeking them out. A piglin inspects any gold-related item before equipping, holding or putting that item in its inventory for six seconds after picking it up. However, items not related to gold are held or equipped (if the piglin does not have any gold equipments) instantly. Piglins do not pick up any items if the MobGriefing gamerule is set to false.

Piglins have eight hidden inventory slots in which they can stack items. Piglins with full inventories do not attempt to pick up gold related items, except gold ingots. Baby piglins attempt to pick up any item and can steal from players. Adult piglins can pick up gold nuggets (which do not help to obtain better items from bartering) and porkchops (they do not actively seek out and contemplate porkchops) and 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.

If a piglin is killed in one hit while admiring a gold ingot, the ingot does get dropped upon the piglin’s death.

Piglins with crossbows can pick up normal or enchanted crossbows and equip them.

Like other mobs capable of picking up items, piglins pick up armor and weapons. Piglins pick up armor that is better than the armor they are already wearing, although they prefer gold over stronger armor. For example, a piglin does not pick up leather boots if it is already wearing diamond boots, but may discard a netherite chestplate to pick up a golden chestplate. However, they are unable to lift the Curse of Binding, if the netherite chestplate has curse of binding, the piglin is unable to discard it.

Piglins that have picked up items or equipment do not despawn naturally.

Items piglins want

These items are listed in the name:data/minecraft/tags/items/piglin_loved.json.

• Bell
• Block of Gold
• Clock
• Enchanted Golden Apple
• Gilded Blackstone
• Glistering Melon Slice
• Gold Ingot (piglins barter something else in return, see Bartering)
• Gold Nugget
• Gold Ore
• Golden Apple
• Golden Axe
• Golden Boots (worn after being examined)
• Golden Carrot
• Golden Chestplate (worn after being examined)
• Golden Helmet (worn after being examined)
• Golden Hoe
• Golden Horse Armor
• Golden Leggings (worn after being examined)
• Golden Pickaxe
• Golden Shovel
• Golden Sword (equipped if piglin is using a non-gold weapon or crossbow, or does not already have one)
• Light Weighted Pressure Plate
• Nether Gold Ore
• Powered Rail‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Gold-related items not wanted by piglins

• Firework Star (Star shape)
• Netherite Ingot
• Banner Pattern (Thing)
• Powered Rail‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Gold-like items not wanted by piglins

• Totem of Undying
• Spectral Arrow
• Glowstone Dust

Zombification

A piglin turning into a zombified piglin.

When in the Overworld or the End, piglins transform into zombified piglins after 15 seconds, retaining their armor and held items. However, they cannot shoot a crossbow, using it instead as a melee weapon. Upon transformation, the spawned zombified piglin has the Nausea effect for 10 seconds; this is just a cosmetic effect. When piglins transform into zombified piglins, they drop anything except equipped arms and armor in their inventories and their inventories disappear.

Sounds

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation 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

ID

Java Edition:

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

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Piglin	piglin	123	entity.piglin.name

Entity data

See also: Chunk format

Piglins have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

• Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
  • Tags common to all mobs see Template:Nbt inherit/mob/template
  •  IsBaby: 1 or 0 (true/false) – True if this piglin is a baby. May be absent.
  •  IsImmuneToZombification: 1 or 0 (true/false) – If set to true, the piglin does not transform to a zombified piglin when in the Overworld.
  •  CannotHunt: 1 or 0 (true/false) – If set to true, the piglin does not attack hoglins. Set to true to piglins spawned as part of bastion remnants.
  •  TimeInOverworld - The number of ticks that the piglin has existed in the Overworld; the piglin converts to a zombified piglin when this is greater than 300.
  •  Inventory: Each compound tag in this list is an item in the piglin's inventory.
    • An item in the inventory, excluding the Slot tag.
      • Tags common to all items see Template:Nbt inherit/itemnoslot/template

Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
	Oooh, shiny!	Distract a Piglin using gold.	Give a piglin a gold item while it is aggressive toward the player.	30G	Silver

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Namespaced ID
	Stone Age	Mine stone with your new pickaxe	Minecraft	Have cobblestone or blackstone in your inventory, both in the #stone_tool_materials tag.	story/mine_stone
	Suit Up	Protect yourself with a piece of iron armor	Acquire Hardware	Have any type of iron armor in your inventory.	story/obtain_armor
	Not Today, Thank You	Deflect a projectile with a shield	Suit Up	Deflect any projectile with a shield.	story/deflect_arrow
	Ice Bucket Challenge	Obtain a block of obsidian	Hot Stuff	Have a block of obsidian in your inventory.	story/form_obsidian
	Who is Cutting Onions?	Obtain Crying Obsidian	Nether	Have crying obsidian in your inventory.	nether/obtain_crying_obsidian
	Oh Shiny	Distract Piglins with gold	Nether	Give a piglin one of these 22 gold-related items in the #piglin_loved entity tag while not wearing any golden armor. If this advancement is attempted while the player is wearing golden armor but piglin(s) are still aggressive toward them, the advancement does not trigger. Other gold-related items, if any, may be used, but are ignored for this advancement and by the piglin.	nether/distract_piglin
	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 34 mobs. Other mobs, if any, may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.	adventure/kill_a_mob
	Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Monster Hunter	Kill each of these 34 mobs. Other mobs, if any, may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.	adventure/kill_all_mobs

History

See also: Bartering/Outdated loot tables

October 26, 2010					Miclee suggests the concept of pigmen, the predecessor to piglins, resulting in him receiving the Bacon Cape as a reward.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.2.0		preview			The texture of pigmen has been added to mobs/pigman.png.
Java Edition Beta
April 25, 2011					It is suggested that pigmen may be the inhabitants of the then-to-be-implemented villages.
Java Edition
1.6.2					Pigman's texture file has been removed.
September 28, 2019					Piglins are announced at MINECON Live 2019.
					Footage shown at MINECON Live shows that angered piglins 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 explains that the piglin was named such because it is a gender-neutral form of the word pigman.
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.
		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.
					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.
		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			Piglins now avoid zoglins, the same way they avoid zombified piglins.
					Baby piglins no longer have a weapon when they turn into a zombie.
					The texture size has changed from 128x64 to 64x64, and the layout of the parts of the ears of piglins has been changed.
		20w16a			Piglins now spawn in bastion remnants.
		20w19a			Piglins now become zombified piglins when in the End.
		20w21a			Piglins no longer walk around when admiring gold.
					If a piglin is hurt while admiring an gold ingot, the ingot now disappears.
		20w22a			Piglins now occasionally dance after defeating a hoglin.
					Piglins now have the vindicator attacking animation when melee attacking.
		pre3			The position of the head of piglins when they are dancing has been changed from to .
		pre6			Adult piglins now may spawn with enchanted gears.
1.16.2		Pre-release 1			Piglins now become angry with players who open or destroy a minecart with chest or a minecart with hopper.
1.16.3		Release Candidate 1			Piglins no longer have pathfinding problems.
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.
					Piglins raise their arms in a manner similar to zombies when attacking.
					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.
					Piglins follow a player who holds a gold ingot.
					Piglins dance after they finish hoglin hunting.
		beta 1.16.0.57			Piglins now have their own sounds.
					Piglin bartering has been properly added.
					Piglins can no longer drop arrows when killed.
					The health of piglins has been reduced from 24 to 16.
					Piglins now spawn in bastion remnants.
					Baby piglins can now ride on top of each other on a baby hoglin, up to three baby piglins can climb on at once.
		beta 1.16.0.59			Piglins now avoid zoglins, the same way they avoid zombified piglins.
					Piglins now spawn in the nether wastes.
					Piglins now properly sit in boats and minecarts.
					Piglins no longer despawn in Peaceful mode.
		beta 1.16.0.63			Piglins now avoid soul campfires.
					Gold ingots now render properly in the hands of piglins at all times.
1.16.20		beta 1.16.20.50			Adult piglins drop gold ingots if killed with one hit while contemplating them and no longer spawn with enchanted weapons or armor.
					The texture size has changed from 128x128 to 64x64, and the layout of the parts of the ears of piglins has been changed to match Java Edition 20w14a's.
					Piglins now have the vindicator attacking animation when melee attacking, similar to Java Edition's from to
		beta 1.16.20.53			Piglins can now spawn with enchanted weapons again.
		beta 1.16.20.54			The attack animation of unarmed piglins has been changed.

Issues

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

Trivia

• Piglins can put on any type of head or skull from the ground, including carved pumpkins.
• In the banner pattern "snout", there is a piglin snout. This is the same in the chiseled blackstone.
• Similarly to how elder guardians and guardians are found in ocean monuments, piglin brutes and regular piglins are found in bastion remnants.
• Although the Piglins have mined all the netherite in its pure form, they are not seen using the netherite, except for netherite hoes. ‌^{[Bedrock Edition only][until BE 1.16.100]}
• In Bedrock Edition, baby piglins make angry noises when any piglin gets angry.
• The piglins have no pupils unlike overworld pigs to make them look creepier.
• Although piglins don't attack players in peaceful difficulty, they might attack players when a piglin is about to shoot at a hoglin and a player blocks its way.
• Even though piglins are provoked when a barrel is opened, they do not attack fishermen villagers that work at their job site, which makes the same barrel sound.

Gallery

The differences of piglins targeting with crossbows between Java and Bedrock editions.

Renders

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  A fully armored piglin.

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  A baby piglin riding a baby hoglin.

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  Multiple baby piglins climbing a baby hoglin.

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  Old pigman texture applied to a player model

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  A celebrating piglin.

Other

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  Piglins attacking wither skeletons.

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  Piglins.

• 

  A render error causing the enchantment glint to cover the snout, fixed in 20w18a.

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  A piglin chasing a hoglin.

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  An example of a baby piglin holding a lava bucket.

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  An example of a baby piglin riding a baby hoglin.

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  A fully armored piglin examining a clock.

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  A preview of a piglin next to a hoglin in the crimson forest.

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  All of the pig-like mobs in the 1.16 Nether Update.

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  A Sitting Piglin

Artwork

• 

  Official artwork of the piglin standing next to a fire.

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  Animated artwork GIF of a piglin standing next to a fire.

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  Official artwork of a piglin.

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  Official artwork of two piglins.

See also

• Zombified Piglin
• Bartering
• Piglin Brute

Entities

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