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A piglin brute is a hostile, stronger variant of piglin that appears in all types of bastion remnants.

Spawning

A small amount of piglin brutes spawn in bastion remnants only upon generation and in some rooms, not having a baby variant.

A piglin brute has a chance of spawning holding an enchanted golden axe, without armor, and never equips armor from the ground.

Drops

  • A piglin brute has 8.5% chance of dropping a golden axe with a random item durability.
  • 20 experience points are dropped upon death if killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Behavior

Piglin brutes attack players, wither skeletons and withers within 16 blocks and are not distracted by golden items or blocks.

In Peaceful difficulty, piglin brutes become passive but only to players.‌[BE only]

They despawn in Peaceful.‌[JE only]

Behaviors shared by both piglins and piglin brutes:

  • Open wooden doors.
  • Detect players through walls when they open containers such as chests or break gold-type blocks.
  • Call nearby piglins and other piglin brutes once attacked, no matter whether the player wears golden armor or not.
  • Are not naturally immune to fire or lava.

Behaviors specific to piglin brutes:

  • Piglin brutes do not retreat from soul fire items nor from zoglins or zombified piglins.
  • Piglin brutes do not hunt adult hoglins.
  • Piglin brutes do not do a "victory dance."
  • Piglin brute pick up regular or enchanted golden axes only if walking over them. Unlike piglins, piglins brutes ignore all other golden items.

Piglin brutes do not swim, and they sink in water (intentional).[1]

Zombification

Piglin Brute being zombified

A piglin brute turning into a zombified piglin.

When in the Overworld or 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. When turned into a zombified piglin, they keep their axes.‌[JE only][upcoming: BE 1.16.100]

Sounds

SoundSubtitlesSourceDescriptionResource locationTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
Piglin Brute snortsHostile Creatures?entity.piglin_brute.ambientsubtitles.entity.piglin_brute.ambient0.9??
Piglin Brute snorts angrilyHostile Creatures?entity.piglin_brute.angrysubtitles.entity.piglin_brute.angry0.9??
Piglin Brute diesHostile Creatures?entity.piglin_brute.deathsubtitles.entity.piglin_brute.death0.8??
Piglin Brute hurtsHostile Creatures?entity.piglin_brute.hurtsubtitles.entity.piglin_brute.hurt0.64??
Piglin Brute stepsHostile Creatures?entity.piglin_brute.stepsubtitles.entity.piglin_brute.step0.75??
Piglin Brute converts to Zombified PiglinHostile Creatures?entity.piglin_brute.converted_to_zombifiedsubtitles.entity.piglin_brute.converted_to_zombified1.00.9?

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

NameIdentifierTranslation key
Piglin Brutepiglin_bruteentity.minecraft.piglin_brute

Bedrock Edition:

NameIdentifierNumeric ID Translation key
Piglin Brutepiglin_brute127entity.piglin_brute.name

Entity data

See also: Chunk format

Piglin brutes have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

  • Entity data
    • Tags common to all entities
    • Tags common to all mobs
    •  IsImmuneToZombification: 1 or 0 (true/false) – if true, the piglin brute does not transform to a zombified piglin when in the Overworld.
    •  TimeInOverworld: The number of ticks that the piglin brute has existed in the Overworld; the piglin brute 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-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

Java Edition
June 25, 2020Piglin brutes are mentioned to come to Java Edition in a 1.16.x release.
1.16.220w27aPiglin Brute Added piglin brutes.
Bedrock Edition
1.16.20beta 1.16.20.50Piglin Brute Added piglin brutes.
beta 1.16.20.53The axe that is wielded by piglin brutes may be enchanted now.
beta 1.16.20.54The attack animation of unarmed piglin brutes has been changed.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.16.100beta 1.16.100.54Piglin brutes no longer spawn with enchanted axes.
Piglin brutes now drop 20 experience points.

Issues

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

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.[2]
  • The golden arm guard is meant to work as a "protection" and is the reason behind their high health.[3]
  • Piglin brutes along with the vindicator do the third-highest melee damage of all the non-boss mobs, first being the giant at 75♥ × 37.5, second being the iron golem at 32.25♥ × 16.125 (max damage) and fourth being the ravager at 18♥ × 9 on hard difficulty.
  • Piglin brutes have no pupils, unlike Overworld pigs.
  • Piglin brutes drop the highest number of experience points out of any non-boss mob, along with the ravager.

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References

See also

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