Zombified Piglin

Zombified piglins (formerly called Zombie Pigmen) are undead variants of piglins and piglin brutes that inhabit the Nether. A zombified piglin becomes hostile when it or another nearby zombified piglin is attacked.

Spawning
Zombified piglins can spawn in nether wastes and crimson forests, nether portals, from pigs struck by lightning or from piglins or piglin brutes in the Overworld or in the End. They have a 5% chance of spawning as baby zombified piglins. Zombified piglins and piglins do not spawn on top of nether wart blocks or shroomlights.

A baby zombified piglin has a 5% chance of spawning as a chicken jockey. An adult zombified piglin can also spawn riding a Strider above lava, holding a Warped Fungus on a Stick.

All zombified piglins spawn with a golden sword, which has a small chance of being enchanted in Normal or Hard modes, up to 25%. This chance varies depending on the regional difficulty as the sword's enchantment is from 5 to 23 levels.

On Halloween (October 31), zombified piglins have a 22.5% chance of spawning with a carved pumpkin or a 2.5% chance of spawning with a jack o'lantern equipped as headgear.

Nether
$$ zombified piglins spawn in groups of 4 in the Nether at light level 11 and below on most blocks other than nether wart block; $$ they spawn in groups of 2-4 at all light levels. They spawn most commonly in nether wastes, and nether fortresses, uncommonly in crimson forests and are sometimes found riding a strider in lava oceans.

Nether portals
When a nether portal block in the Overworld receives a block tick, there is a chance of $$ (0.05%) on Easy, $$ (0.1%) on Normal and $1/2000$ (0.15%) on Hard for it to spawn a zombified piglin.

$1/1000$, they appear inside one of the portal blocks on the bottom.

$3/2000$, they spawn one block to the east or south of the portal (depending on which direction the portal is facing). Neither slabs nor lighting prevents this. "Portal ticking" can be used to increase the rate of zombified Piglin spawning by repeatedly lighting and breaking a nether portal.

Zombified piglin spawning via this process is completely independent of the mob cap, similar to the spawning of phantoms $$, which means they can still spawn if there are a sufficient number of hostile mobs in the world.

Zombified piglins who spawn in this way cannot travel to the Nether for a preset amount of time, whether they walk through the portal they spawned in or through nearby portals.

Pigs
A zombified piglin spawns when lightning strikes within 4 blocks of a pig. If the pig is a piglet, it then transforms into a baby zombified piglin.

Piglins
A piglin or piglin brute that enters the Overworld or The End transforms into a zombified piglin after 15 seconds. When baby piglins transform into zombies, they do not have weapons, unlike baby zombified piglins that naturally spawn, and when piglin brutes transform into zombies, they keep their axes.

The newly zombified piglin gets the nausea effect.

A zombified piglin keeps any armor or weapons collected before being zombified.

Baby zombified piglins also have a 5% chance of becoming a chicken jockey.

If a piglin is in the middle of bartering and gets zombified while inspecting a gold ingot, it drops the ingot when it turns into a zombified piglin.

Drops

 * 0–1 . The maximum amount is increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 0-4 with Looting III.
 * 0–1 s. The maximum amount is increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 0-4 with Looting III.
 * There is a 2.5% chance to drop a if killed by a player or tamed wolf, or upon death when angry at a player. The chance is increased by 1% per level of Looting, for a maximum of 5.5% with Looting III.
 * There is an 8.5% or 25% chance to drop their original weapon if killed by a player or tamed wolf, or upon death when angry at a player. The chance is increased by 1% or 5% per level of Looting, for a maximum of 11.5% or 40% with Looting III.
 * if zombified from a
 * if zombified from a
 * Zombified Piglins have an 8.5% chance to drop their if spawned on a  and killed by a player, killed while angered by a player, or killed by a tamed wolf. This chance is increased by 1% per level of Looting, for a maximum of 11.5% with Looting III.
 * After a Piglin transforms into a Zombified Piglin, it drops any acquired armor and held weapons upon death.
 * for adults or for babies if killed by a player, killed while angered by a player, or killed by a tamed wolf.
 * for adults or for babies if killed by a player, killed while angered by a player, or killed by a tamed wolf.

If a Zombified Piglin wearing a or  is killed using a tool enchanted with Looting, there is a chance equivalent to the level of Looting used to drop the pumpkin or jack o'lantern, up to a maximum of 3% at Looting III.

Behavior
Zombified piglins move at 2.28 m/s and are immune to fire and lava. When provoked, their speed increases to 3.38 m/s or faster for babies.

$$, like zombies, zombified piglins bang on wooden doors and may break them on Hard difficulty.

In Normal and Hard difficulties, up to 55% or 25% of zombified piglins pick up any armor pieces and swords better than their golden one, which they always drop when killed. This also prevents them from despawning.

Zombified piglins may pick up an illager banner next to it as pillagers do.

Zombified piglins try to destroy any turtle eggs they see within 23 blocks away horizontally and 3 blocks away vertically (10 blocks horizontally and 2 blocks vertically on Bedrock Edition), not counting the block they are standing in. When a zombified piglin is first spawned, it always detects nearby turtle eggs after exactly 2 seconds, as long as there are two blocks of air above it. However, if the turtle egg is placed after the zombified piglin spawned, the zombified piglin takes some time to notice the turtle egg and try to break it.

Zombified piglins avoid walking near magma blocks and cannot jump over magma blocks one block high. If a zombified piglin is surrounded by magma block wall one block height or higher, it gets near those surrounding magma blocks surrounding them. If a zombified piglin spawns on or is pushed onto magma blocks, it pathfinds normally on the magma.

Zombified piglins do not retreat from zoglins, soul torches/lanterns, soul fire or soul campfires.

Zombified piglins are not distracted by gold, and cannot barter, unlike piglins. They also do not follow players that are holding a gold ingot or another gold item.

Villagers and wandering traders run away from zombified piglins, despite them being passive to villagers and wandering traders.

Iron golems attack zombified piglins, as attacking a zombified piglin causes other zombified piglins to attack the iron golem. Zombified piglins are neutral to every mob that can attack, as it attacks only the mob that attacks it, while calling other zombified piglins to attack that mob.

Mob type
Undead, they are:
 * Damaged by the status effect Instant Health and healed by the status effect Instant Damage. Throwing a instant damage splash potion does not anger them, since it heals them.
 * Unaffected by the status effects Regeneration and Poison.
 * Ignored by the wither and affected by Smite.

Hostility
Zombified piglins are not initially hostile, but all zombified piglins within a 67×21×67 to 111×21×111 area or a 20-block radius centered on the attacked zombified piglin become aggressive and converge on the attacker (another mob or player, except goats) if any individual is attacked, unless the zombified piglin attacked is killed in one hit. In addition, some zombified piglins have the ability to spawn reinforcements when attacked (similar to zombies and which can rarely include actual zombies). This applies to any hit registered as coming from the player or other mobs, whether its accidentally or purposefully, which includes deflected ghast fireballs, sweep attacks, snowballs and eggs, TNT, or a skeleton arrow. This does not include fireworks shot from crossbows, or dispenser-shot arrows. Throwing a splash potion of harming at a zombified piglin does not anger them, since the potion heals them, despite the potion being a negative potion.

Duration: A zombified piglin can remain hostile indefinitely if it is both within entity processing areas, and has has a direct line of sight with the player. However, breaking direct line of sight causes a hostile zombified piglin to return neutral after a "forgiveness timer" expires. On Java Edition, this timer ranges from 20 seconds to 27 minutes, on Bedrock Edition it is always 25 seconds. The forgiveness timer does not advance for zombified piglins in unloaded chunks. Therefore, if the player enters a Nether portal and returns, any provoked zombified piglins in the area remain aggressive (unless another player was nearby to keep the chunks loaded). A player's death causes zombified piglins to become neutral toward the player if the gamerule  is true.

A hostile zombified piglin can also "sound an alarm", spreading the aggro to all zombified piglins in a 40-block or 20-block radius. A hostile Zombified piglin does this whenever the targeted player comes within their "player follow range" (35 blocks +/- 5%). Outside this range, if it has a constant line-of-sight with the player it is targeting, then it does the same every 4-6 seconds (80-120 game ticks), recruiting any formerly-neutral peers. They pursue players even if they have the Invisibility effect.

In Bedrock Edition, a nearby neutral zombified piglin prevents a player from sleeping, as if it were a hostile mob.

Hostile zombified piglins have slightly different path finding than when they are neutral. For example, they would fall off edges that would cause them fall damage in attempt to reach the attacker where most other mobs would otherwise not do.

When a zombified piglin is angered, the normal piglins do not get aggressive, and vice versa.

Unlike other zombie variants, zombified piglins do not attack villagers and wandering traders, though on Bedrock edition through the use of addons, if a Zombified piglin was to attack a Villager, it would turn the villager into a zombie villager.

Zombification
Zombified piglins can also spawn if a piglin or a piglin brute enters the overworld or the end. The piglin or piglin brute turns into a zombified piglin after fifteen seconds after the piglin or piglin brute enters and gets the nausea effect. Piglins or piglin brutes that are zombified has the same amount of damage output as a normal zombified piglin. They also get the same health as a normal zombified piglin. Piglins or piglin brutes that are zombified cannot turn back to a piglin or piglin brute, meaning once a piglin or a piglin brute is zombified, it stays zombified until killed or despawned.

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Entity data
Zombified piglins have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.




 * See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.
 * See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Trivia

 * The pre-Texture Update zombie pigman texture file has "THX XAPHOBIA" written on the unused section as a credit by Notch to the skin's original creator.
 * Deaths of hostile zombified piglins always register as kills by the player they are targeting, regardless of whether that player ever touched that zombified piglin.
 * The Zombified piglin's angry sound is played twice the speed of the original sound file in the game.
 * Applying the Classic Texture Pack changes the zombified piglin's model and texture back to a zombie pigman.
 * Baby zombified piglins can be jockeys upon chickens and striders. Uniquely on more than one mob (other than the player).
 * There is a glitch where the zombified piglin texture appears as the zombie pigman even without the Classic Texture Pack.