Piglin

Piglins are neutral mobs found in the Nether. Unless wearing a piece of golden armor, players are attacked by them on sight. Players can barter using gold ingots to receive 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 $$, or 7 or less $$, even in Peaceful mode. 5% of piglins spawned are babies.

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

Babies spawn without equipment.

A picked up item always drops without changing the durability.

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

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

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

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

Piglins can open and close wooden doors.

Piglins cannot swim, and drown if submerged, despite being living mobs; 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 cannot barter anything.

Baby piglins never grow up; this is intentional behavior.

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.
 * A nearby piglin brute is hit by a player or mob. This happens even if the player is wearing golden armor and has not provoked the piglins.
 * A nearby, , , , , or  is opened or broken.
 * A nearby, , , or is broken.

Piglins remain hostile for 30 seconds if the player provokes a piglin in these ways.

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 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, , , , or. Opening or breaking a does not provoke the piglins, which is intended. Breaking a 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 just hunted). 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 group together within 16 blocks and attack in hordes.

When attacking with a crossbow, piglins shoot arrows every two seconds. $$, they walk backward (stopping if at the edge of a drop) as soon as the target is close. Their crossbow 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.

Iron golems attack both adult and baby piglins; however, piglins do not attack an iron golem 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 if given a gold ingot. 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, so long as they continue to have a piece of gold armor equipped, the piglin cease hostility entirely.

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 or eight 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 prefers gold-related items by 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.

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.

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•  (equipped if piglin is using a non-gold weapon or crossbow, or does not already have one)

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 * Gold-related items not wanted by piglins
 * Netherite tools, weapons, and armor.
 * Netherite tools, weapons, and armor.
 * Netherite tools, weapons, and armor.

Zombification
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 and only melee-fight the player with it. 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.

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

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.
 * 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.