Piglin Brute

Piglin brutes are hostile mobs found in bastion remnants.

Spawning
Piglin brutes spawn in bastion remnants only upon generation.

Piglin brutes spawn holding a golden axe, but without armor and never equip armor from the ground.

Drops

 * A, which has an 8.5% chance of dropping.
 * It has random durability.
 * in Java and in Bedrock experience points are dropped upon death if killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Behavior
Piglin brutes harm players, wither skeletons, withers within 16 blocks and are not distracted by golden items or blocks. On peaceful difficulty, piglin brutes do not attack you, but still get back at wolves, snow or iron golems. They despawn in peaceful difficulty in Java.

Piglin brutes do not retreat from soul fire related items nor from zoglins or zombified piglins. If piglins are hunting a hoglin, they join, otherwise do not naturally attack. The "victory dance", the ability of getting items from the ground and bartering from regular piglins are missing.

Players are saw through walls when a container is open or golden blocks are broken, this does both piglins and piglin brutes to be exasperated.

Like piglins, piglin brutes are not naturally immune to fire or lava and open wooden doors.

Zombification


When in the Overworld or the the End, piglin brutes transform into zombified piglins after 15 seconds. Upon transformation, the spawned zombified piglin has the Nausea effect for 10 seconds. This Nausea effect is purely cosmetic and has no impact on the behavior. $$, they keep their axes when turned into a zombified piglin. Besides wielding said axe, these zombified piglins behave the same as normal.

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Trivia

 * Piglin brutes were created late in 1.16's development so they were pushed to a minor release as the developers did not want to add a new feature so close to release.
 * The golden arm guard is meant to work as a "protection" and is the reason behind their high health.
 * When a Bedrock Edition 1.16.0 client joins a Bedrock Edition beta 1.16.20.50 server, any piglin brutes in the world will be present. The piglin brutes will be invisible once spawned and have the same drops as normal.