Zombified Piglin

Zombie Pigmen are mobs added in the Halloween Update on 31st of October, 2010. They are found only in The Nether, and serve as a renewable source of food within the Nether. They wield Gold swords.

They stand idly in packs of 4-10. Zombie Pigmen are passive until attacked, upon which the entire pack will charge at the player with deadly speed. They will continue to be hostile to the player for a certain length of time, or until the player travels a sufficient distance away from the pack. This lengthy process can be skipped by changing the difficulty to peaceful and back. When killed, they drop Grilled Pork and Feathers, although the feathers are the rarer of the two.

As of version 1.2.2, they are supposedly immune to fire and lava. However, if exposed to lava long enough, the zombie pigmen will be hurt.

They do burn in sunlight, like regular zombies, but will not take damage from it. Zombie Pigmen can be killed with TNT without the player needing to worry about them swarming.

The Zombie Pigmen idea was suggested by player Miclee, though Notch changed X__x's gory texture to the current one. Notch confirmed living pigmen and a living pigman texture can be found in the .jar file, so zombies may become prefixes.

Drops

 * 0-2 Grilled Pork

Trivia

 * The original Zombie Pigmen looked like this. Or to see it in action. It was later changed to the current one because Notch didn't want to put gore in the game.


 * Despite wielding a golden sword which usually deals 2 damage, Zombie Pigmen instead deal 2.5 damage to the player.
 * Before the 10th of November 2010 update, Zombie Pigmen would never forgive players who hurt one of them, and would continue to hunt players even if they left The Nether and returned. Currently, they will stop hunting the player after some time has passed, or if they leave the Nether and come back.