Hoglin

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The hoglin is a boar-like hostile mob in the Nether that was announced at Minecon Live 2019. It will be released in the 1.16 update.^[1]

Behavior

Hoglins will attack the player with their two tusks. Piglins will attempt to hunt and kill hoglins. Hoglins will also be hostile towards piglins. They are able to breed like other animals, using Crimson fungi^[2].

Damage

• On Easy, an adult Hoglin does 1 - 2.5 hearts of damage.
• On Normal, an adult Hoglin does 1.5 - 4 hearts of damage.
• On Hard, an adult hoglin does 2 - 1 x 6 hearts of damage.
• On every difficulty a Hoglin piglet does 0.5 hearts of damage.

Drops

• Upon death, a hoglin will drop leather and cooked porkchop as of 20w07a.

Trivia

• They are the 4th mob to be derived from pigs (including the unreleased pigman).
• They used to be called "piglin beasts" before being named hoglins.
• Hoglins are the first hostile mobs to be able to breed.
• They spawn in the crimson forest biome.
• They will spawn in packs or groups of 4.
• Henrik Kniburg has confirmed on Twitter that there will be baby hoglins in the future.^[3]
• They are also scared of warped fungi.

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References

Mobs in Minecraft
Passive Mobs
Bat	Cat	Chicken	Cow
Fish (various)	Horse	Mooshroom	Brown Mooshroom
Parrot	Pig	Rabbit	Sheep
Snow Golem	Squid	Turtle	Villager
Wandering Trader	Fox
Neutral Mobs
Dolphin	Enderman	Iron Golem	Llama
Polar Bear	Wolf	Zombie Pigman	Piglin (upcoming JE 1.16)
Bee
Hostile Mobs
Blaze	Cave Spider	Creeper	Ender Dragon
Endermite	Evoker	Ghast	Husk
Magma Cube	Pillager	Shulker	Silverfish
Skeleton	Slime	Spider	Spider Jockey
Witch	Wither	Wither Skeleton	Wither Skeleton Jockey
Zombie	Drowned	Stray	Vex
Vindicator	Ravager	Phantom	Guardian
Illager Captain	Elder Guardian	Zombie Villager	Hoglin (upcoming JE 1.16)
Unused/Removed/Unimplemented Mobs
Beast Boy	Black Steve	Giant	Illusioner