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This article is about the neutral mob native to the Nether. For the zombified variant, see Zombified Piglin. For the brute, see Piglin Brute. For other pig-like mobs, see Pig (disambiguation).

Piglins are neutral mobs that spawn in the Nether. Initially, they are hostile toward the player, but they become neutral mobs if the player wears at least one piece of gold armor. They are equipped with crossbows or golden swords. Players can barter with piglins using gold ingots to receive various items.

Spawning

Piglins spawn in groups of 4 in crimson forests, bastions and nether wastes. 5% spawn as babies. Piglins do not despawn in peaceful.

Drops

Adults have an 8.5% chance of dropping their held item (a golden sword or crossbow with random durability). Each Looting tier increases this chance by 1%.

Babies always spawn without anything.

A picked up item always drops without changing the durability.

Armor

Adults sometimes spawn with three or four pieces, which are normal or enchanted and may be:

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

Experience

Adult piglins drop five points and more 1–3 per armor piece if killed by a player or tamed wolf. Baby piglins drop 1.

Behavior

File:Henrikkniberg2.jpeg

The reason why we added piglins was because we wanted to bring more life to the Nether, and also to add a bit of culture and humor.

Henrik Kniberg on Meet the piglins in the Minecraft website

Baby piglins play with baby hoglins, running around and mounting them. Up to 3 piglins may stack on top of each other while riding a baby hoglin.

Idle adults retreat from zombified piglins, zoglins, soul fire, soul torches, soul lanterns, and non-extinguished soul campfires.

Piglins cannot swim and drown if submerged. They are not naturally immune to fire or lava.

Like villagers, piglins can open wooden doors.

Hostility

The adults are hostile, but if the player wears at least one piece of gold armor, they become neutral. Piglins are provoked when players attack them, similar to iron golems and endermen. Piglins are also aggravated when a nearby chest, trapped chest, ender chest, barrel or shulker box is opened or broken; however, they are not when another container such as a hopper, furnace, or brewing stand is opened. Hence, hoppers can be used to extract items from chests without aggravating.[1] They are also provoked by a player breaking gold blocks, gold ore, gilded blackstone, and nether gold ore. Piglins will remain hostile for 30 seconds if the player provokes them in any of 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 invisibility effect). The block interacted with does not require a line of sight to anger the piglins.

Adults attack wither skeletons and withers. Also, they attack adult hoglins but keep a distance of 6 blocks if outnumbered. After defeating a hoglin, piglins have a 10% chance to do a "victory dance" by bobbing their heads and sticking out their arms.

Adult piglins group together within 16 blocks and attack in hordes.

When attacking with a crossbow, piglins shoot arrows every 2 seconds. In Java Edition, they walk backward (stopping if at the edge of a drop) as soon as the player is close. Unlike bow-armed mobs, they do not strafe from left to right while shooting. Piglins with swords and other equipable items rush at the player.

Iron golems attack both adult and baby piglins; adults do not attack an iron golem until it attacks first.

Piglins can briefly stop attacking the player if they are given gold items; bartering then takes place as it normally would if given a gold ingot. However, they resume attacking once the barter is complete. The only exception is if a piglin is attacking a player because the player isn't wearing any gold armor. If the player distracts them with a gold ingot and then equips a piece of gold armor while the piglin is examining the gold ingot, then the piglin will give the player an item in return and then end hostility, until the player does something else to provoke the piglin.

Bartering

Main article: Bartering

Picking up items

Any piglins can pick up and equip any gold related item, regardless of their ability to pick up other items. A piglin inspects any gold-related item for 6 seconds after picking it up. However, piglins will 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. When a piglin with a full inventory encounters another item, it picks up the item and then throws it on the floor after contemplating it, leading to a cycle of continuously picking up and discarding the item. Baby piglins attempt to pick up any item and can steal from players. Adult piglins can pick up any golden item and porkchops, but they don't actively seek out and contemplate porkchops; instead, 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.

Like other mobs capable of picking up items, piglins pick up armor and weapons. However, unlike other mobs, they prefer items in the gold tier or armor material and throw away stronger items to equip these.

Dancing

Piglin celebrate hunt

A piglin "dancing".

A piglin has a 10% chance of "dancing" if they defeat a hoglin.

Zombification

Piglin being zombified

A piglin turning into a zombified piglin.

When in the Overworld or the End, piglins transform into zombified piglins after 15 seconds, retaining their armor and held items. However, they can not shoot a crossbow and will only melee the player with it. Upon transformation, the spawned zombified piglin has the Nausea effect for 10 seconds.

Sounds

SoundSubtitlesSourceDescriptionResource locationTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
Piglin snorts??entity.piglin.ambientsubtitles.entity.piglin.ambient0.7??
Piglin snorts angrily??entity.piglin.angrysubtitles.entity.piglin.angry0.7??
Piglin celebrates??entity.piglin.celebratesubtitles.entity.piglin.celebrate0.8??
Piglin converts to Zombified Piglin??entity.piglin.converted_to_zombifiedsubtitles.entity.piglin.converted_to_zombified1.0??
Piglin hurts??entity.piglin.hurtsubtitles.entity.piglin.hurt0.7??
Piglin dies??entity.piglin.deathsubtitles.entity.piglin.death0.7-0.8??
Piglin retreats??entity.piglin.retreatsubtitles.entity.piglin.retreat0.7??
Piglin steps??entity.piglin.stepsubtitles.entity.piglin.step0.75??
Piglin snorts enviously??entity.piglin.jealoussubtitles.entity.piglin.jealous0.8??
Piglin admires item??entity.piglin.admiring_itemsubtitles.entity.piglin.admiring_item0.8-0.85??

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

NameIdentifierTranslation key
Piglinpiglinentity.minecraft.piglin

Bedrock Edition:

NameIdentifierNumeric ID Translation key
Piglinpiglin123entity.piglin.name

Entity data

See also: Chunk format
  • Entity data
    • Tags common to all entities
    • Tags common to all mobs
    •  CannotHunt: 1 or 0 (true/false) – if true, the piglin does not attack hoglins. Set to true for piglins spawned as a part of bastion remnants.
    •  Inventory: Each compound tag in this list is an item in the piglin's inventory. It can hold a maximum of 8 items.
      • An item in the inventory, excluding the Slot tag.
        • Tags common to all items
    •  IsBaby: 1 or 0 (true/false) – true if the piglin is a baby. May not exist.
    •  IsImmuneToZombification: 1 or 0 (true/false) – if true, the piglin does not transform to a zombified piglin when in the Overworld.
    •  TimeInOverworld: The number of ticks that the piglin has existed in the Overworld; the piglin converts to a zombified piglin when this is greater than 300.


Advancements

Icon Advancement In-game description Parent Actual requirements (if different) Resource location
Advancement-plain-rawSuit Up
Protect yourself with a piece of iron armor Acquire HardwareHave any type of iron armor in your inventory.story/obtain_armor
Advancement-plain-rawNot Today, Thank You
Deflect a projectile with a Shield Suit UpBlock any projectile with a shield.story/deflect_arrow
Advancement-plain-rawIce Bucket Challenge
Obtain a block of Obsidian Hot StuffHave a block of obsidian in your inventory.story/form_obsidian
Advancement-plain-rawWho is Cutting Onions?
Obtain Crying Obsidian NetherHave a block of crying obsidian in your inventory.nether/obtain_crying_obsidian
Advancement-plain-rawOh Shiny
Distract Piglins with gold NetherWhile aggravated, give a piglin one of these 25 gold-related items in the #piglin_loved item tag: Other gold-related items do not distract the piglin and do not trigger this advancement.nether/distract_piglin
Advancement-plain-rawAdventure
Adventure, exploration and combat Kill any entity, or be killed by any entity.adventure/root
Advancement-plain-rawMonster Hunter
Kill any hostile monster AdventureKill one of these 34 mobs: Only the riders of the chicken jockeys and skeleton horsemen are counted in this advancement. Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.adventure/kill_a_mob
Advancement-fancy-rawMonsters Hunted
Kill one of every hostile monster Monster HunterKill each of these 34 mobs: Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement. Only the riders of the chicken jockeys and skeleton horsemen are counted in this advancement.adventure/kill_all_mobs

History

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The specific instructions are:
  • Bedrock 1.16.0.63 - "Gold ingots now render properly in piglin's hands at all times." (Before and After)
October 26, 2010Miclee suggests the concept of pigmen, the predecessor to piglins, resulting in him receiving the Bacon Cape as a reward.
alpha
v1.2.0previewFile:Pigman Texture.png The texture of pigmen has been added to mobs/pigman.png.[2]
beta
April 25, 2011It is suggested that pigmen may be the inhabitants of the then-to-be-implemented villages.
Java Edition
1.6.2Pigman's texture file has been removed.
September 28, 2019Piglins are announced at MINECON Live 2019.
Piglin targeting BE Footage shown at MINECON Live shows that angered piglins raise their arms in a manner similar to zombies, a behavior not reflected in the final version.
December 5, 2019A video shows a piglin with a baby hoglin.
December 14, 2019An image of a hoglin and piglins is released.
January 14, 2020A video shows piglins picking up gold thrown by the player and throwing back a placeholder diamond.
March 4, 2020An official post on Crowdin[3] explains the naming of the piglin as a gender-neutral term as opposed to pigman, confirming that piglins are indeed a reworked pigman concept.
1.1620w07aPiglin Baby Piglin Added piglins and baby piglins.
Piglin with Crossbow Piglins can hold crossbows.
Piglins can be converted into zombie pigmen in the Overworld.
The player can barter with Piglins.
20w09aPiglins now have an IsImmuneToZombification data value that, when set, prevents them from zombifying in the Overworld.
The loot table of items that can be bartered from piglins has been modified.
Baby Piglin Riding a Baby Hoglin Baby piglins can now ride on the back of baby hoglins.
20w10aThe loot table of items that can be bartered from piglins has been modified again.
20w11aEnchanted books and iron boots with Soul Speed have been added to the items that can be bartered from piglins.
20w12aFile:Hoglin Rider Tryglin.png Baby piglins can now ride on top of each other on a baby hoglin, up to three baby piglins can climb on at once.
20w14aPiglins now avoid zoglins, the same way they avoid zombified piglins.
Baby piglins no longer have a weapon when they turn into a zombie.
The texture size has changed from 128x64 to 64x64, and the layout of the parts of the ears has changed.
20w16aPiglins now spawn in bastion remnants.
20w19aPiglins now become zombified piglins when in the End.
20w21aPiglins no longer walk around when admiring gold.
If a piglin is hurt while admiring an gold ingot, the ingot now disappears.
20w22aPiglin celebrate hunt Piglins now occasionally dance after defeating a hoglin.
Piglin Attacking with melee weapon Piglins now have the vindicator attacking animation when melee attacking.
pre6Adults now may spawn with enchanted gears.
Bedrock Edition
1.16.0beta 1.16.0.51Piglin BE Baby Piglin Added piglins and baby piglins.
Piglin with Crossbow BE Piglins can hold crossbows.
Hoglin Rider BE1 Baby piglins can ride on the back of baby hoglins.
Piglin targeting BE Piglins raise their arms in a manner similar to zombies when attacking enemy.
Currently, piglins can drop only flint and steel and obsidian while bartering as a placeholder.
Piglins currently drop 0-2 arrows, even if the piglin is not armed with a crossbow.
Piglins currently use the player's hurt sound.
Piglin celebrate hunt Piglins dance after they finish hoglin hunting.
beta 1.16.0.57 Piglins now have their own sounds.
Piglin bartering has been properly added.
Piglins can no longer drop arrows when killed.
The health of piglins has been reduced from 24 to 16.
Piglins now spawn in bastion remnants.
Baby piglins can now ride on top of each other on a baby hoglin, up to three baby piglins can climb on at once.
beta 1.16.0.59Piglins now avoid zoglins, the same way they avoid zombified piglins.
Piglins now spawn in the nether wastes.
Piglins now properly sit in boats and minecarts.
Piglins no longer despawn in Peaceful mode.
beta 1.16.0.63Piglins now avoid soul campfires.
Gold ingots now render properly in piglin's hands at all times.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.16.20beta 1.16.20.50Adult piglins drop gold ingots if killed with one hit while contemplating them and no longer spawn with enchanted weapons or armor.

Issues

Issues relating to "Piglin" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

  • Baby piglins never grow up.[4]
  • 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.
  • If a piglin drops a charged crossbow, the dropped crossbow includes the loaded arrow.

Gallery

Piglin with Crossbow standby JEPiglin with Crossbow targeting JEPiglin with Crossbow standby BEPiglin with Crossbow targeting BE
The differences of piglins targeting with crossbows between Java Edition.

Renders

Other

Official artwork

References

  1. MC-178973
  2. The texture was added in the preview, as the texture dates from October 27, 2010 and the preview released at October 29, 2010
  3. for users without accounts: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/449243256849563648/690754756938825748/image0.png
  4. MC-172618

See also

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