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Zombie Pigmen are mobs added in the Halloween Update on October 31st 2010. They are found only in The Nether, and serves 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 the player travels a sufficient distance away from the pack. This lengthening 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 immune to fire and lava. 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, it instead deals 2½ damage to the player.
- Before the 10th of November 2010 update, Zombie Pigmen never forgives the players and will continue to hunt them even if the leave The Nether.